English Literature – Poetry ☆ Beyond Nirvana… ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi —an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as a Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. He was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.

We present Capt. Pravin Raghuvanshi ji’s amazing poem “~ Beyond Nirvana… ~”.  We extend our heartiest thanks to the learned author Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi Ji (who is very well conversant with Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Urdu languages) and his artwork.) 

~ Beyond Nirvana… ~ 

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With an unquenchable thirst

to know the boundless

I crossed door after door—

Many doors

Yet more doors

Endless doors

Until at last

I stood before

the gate of liberation…

Light spilled outward

vast, persuasive, complete

promising an end

to every question

But watching my thirst

dissolve into silence

I paused

Questions that still breathe

do not ask for salvation

They demand commitment

So I turned back

from Nirvana

I refuse dissolution

I choose to remain

Not peace—

but total participation

Not escape—

but the

unfinished horizon of creation

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~Pravin Raghuvanshi

 © Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM