English Literature – Poetry ☆ ‘अस्तित्व…’ श्री संजय भारद्वाज (भावानुवाद) – ‘Existence…’ ☆ 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 an English Version of Shri Sanjay Bhardwaj’s Hindi poem “~ अस्तित्व ~”.  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) for this beautiful translation and his artwork.)

श्री संजय भारद्वाज जी की मूल रचना

संजय दृष्टि – अस्तित्व 

पहाड़ की ऊँची चोटियों के बीच

अपने कद को बेहद छोटा पाया,

पलट कर देखा,

काफी नीचे सड़क पर

कुछ बिंदुओं को हिलते डुलते पाया,

ये वही राहगीर थे,

जिन्हें मैं पीछे छोड़ आया था,

ऊँचाई पर हूँ, ऊँचा हूँ,

सोचकर मन भरमाया,

एकाएक चोटियों से साक्षात्कार हुआ,

भीतर और बाहर एकाकार हुआ,

ऊँचाई पर पहुँच कर भी,

छोटापन नहीं छूटा

तो फिर क्या छूटा?

शिखर पर आकर भी

खुद को नहीं जीता

तो फिर क्या जीता?

पर्वतों के साये में,

आसमान के नीचे,

मन बौनापन अनुभव कर रहा था,

पर अब मेरा कद

चोटियों को छू रहा था..!

© संजय भारद्वाज 

☆☆☆☆☆

English Version by – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi

~ Existence… ~ 

In the midst of the skyscraping

mountain peaks

found my stature too short,

Looked back,

down the road

found some points moving,

These were the passers-by

whom I had left behind

on my way up…

I’m at the height, I’m way too high

My ego got inflated…

Suddenly met with the peaks,

Inside and outside merged in unison,

Realisation dawned,

even at the top,

smallness has not gone

Then, what has left?

Even at the peak

I couldn’t even win myself

Then what have I won…?

In the shade of the mountains,

under the sky,

Feeling of dwarfness engulfed me,

But now my height

was touching the summit..!

~Pravin