अपनी जद्दो-ज़हद से से होकर सुर्ख़-रू,
मुद्दत बाद जब हुआ ख़ुद से रूबरू,
तो अपने अंदर इक अजनबी पाया,
ग़ज़ब उसके ढंग, अजब उसका साया,
ख़ुद से ख़ुद की दूरी का अजब ही है क़िस्सा,
कैसे इक नया ही शख़्स बन गया है मेरी रूह का हिस्सा,
मुख़्तलिफ़ उसका चेहरा, निराली उसकी चाल,
क्योंकर मैं ख़ुद ही न जानूँ ख़ुद का हाल,
कैसे बन गयीं हैं मन की नयी परतें,
नए जिनके ख़्वाब, नयी जिनकी शर्तें,
नए जिनके फ़साने, नए जिनके दर्द,
कैसी हैं ये चल रही हवाएँ जो हैं सर्द,
अंदर की दुनिया भी है बिलकुल निराली,
ख़ुद ही ख़ुद को न जानूँ, मैं बन गया सवाली!
अरुण भगत
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Thank you, Sapna dear! Good to hear from you! Stay blessed.
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Very beautifully penned sir. 😊
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Thank you very much, Jagriti dear, for your very kind and generous appreciation! God bless you!
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Very beautiful sir 😊
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Thank you very much, Rachna Ji! So good of you to say so! God bless you!
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So true, Professor Saheb! At an intellectual level, we understand a lot about wonderful values and an ideal way of living and somewhere we start believing that, that’s the way we live. But if only we carefully observe our thoughts, words and actions, we realize that reality is far from what we believe about ourselves. This happens because most of us are strangers to ourselves and barely make an attempt to deep dive and stay closer to ourselves.
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Thanks for responding so thoughtfully and wisely, dear brother! It is precisely because we do not know ourselves that Pope says in one of his poems,” Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,/ The proper study of mankind is man.”
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“This above all, to thine own self be true…” These eternal words come to my mind when I’m reading your composition, sir. Truly we have no time to introspect as we keep flowing in time, drifting away from our pristine truth!
अति सुंदर विषय 👍
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Thanks for your very enlightened response, Manjula Ma’m! All our life we keep drifting away from our own truth and that is one of the deepest ironies of life. But then life is fraught with ironies, isn’t it?
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