English Literature – Poetry ☆ ‘कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते!…’ श्री संजय भारद्वाज (भावानुवाद) – ‘Karma is Dharma’ ☆ 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 “कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते!”.  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 – कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते!  

भीड़ का जुड़ना / भीड़ का छिटकना,

इनकी आलोचनाएँ  / उनकी कुंठाएँ,

विचलित नहीं करतीं / तुम्हें पथिक..?

पथगमन मेरा कर्म / पथक्रमण मेरा धर्म,

प्रशंसा, निंदा से / अलिप्त रहता हूँ,

अखंडित यात्रा पर /मंत्रमुग्ध रहता हूँ,

पथिक को दिखते हैं / केवल रास्ते,

इसलिए प्रतिपल / कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते!

© संजय भारद्वाज 

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English Version by – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi

~Karma is Dharma…~ 

O’ Dear Wanderer..!

Gathering of crowd

Dispersing of crowd,

Their pricking criticism 

mounting frustrations,

Doesn’t it bother  you ..?

Treading of paths is

my Karma, –the duty… 

Endless traversing is

my Dharma, –the faith…

I am detached from praise,

censure and felicitations…

I’m perennially  embarked

on my obsessed  journey…

As traveler I’m ever fixated

with my righteous path,

That’s why every moment is resolutely followed,

as the adage goes-

“Karmanyevadhikaraste…,”

That’s ‘Keep doing your

Karma  without  any 

expectation of the results…!

~Pravin