Firefall

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Firefall

अग्निप्रपात 

करुनि कांतिमय युगायुगांचे अमूल्य धन   

आणिला पूर्णयोग उज्वल जीवन घडविण्या;

संपले कार्य रात्रीचे, दुःखाकष्ठाचे, मृत्यूचे,

कार्यक्षम अज्ञान टाके पाऊल ज्ञानप्रान्तात;

क्षणोक्षणी निष्ठूर असे जरी युद्ध, भयानक,

संहार होई शत्रूंचा, आणि उजाडे अक्षय सकाळ;

नसे भ्रम, नसे खेळ प्रकाश-धबधब्याचा,

अग्निप्रपात हा खरा अंधारदरीत भूच्या;

दिव्य रूपात येई अग्निदेहपुत्र जन्मास,

ठेवून बाजूला अमरत्व विजय मृत्यूहीनतेत;

सार्थकता होई सिद्ध अर्थपूर्ण ह्या जगाची 

प्रशंसनीयच योजना आनंदातून वाढे आनंद. 

३० एप्रिल २०२५

अग्निप्रपात Firefall:

कॅलिफोर्नियाचा योसेमाइट फायरफॉल  : “फेब्रुवारीच्या अखेरीस सूर्य एका विशिष्ट कोनात मावळतांना त्याचा प्रकाश धबधब्याला तेजस्वी केशरी रंगाने प्रकाशित करतो. त्यामुळे धबधब्याचे पाणी जणू काही पेटले आहे असा भ्रम निर्माण होतो. केवळ काही सेकंद टिकणारा अत्यंत सुंदर असा हा अग्नि प्रपाताचा नैसर्गिक चमत्कार पाहण्यासाठी पर्यटक तुफान गर्दी करतात.”

*California’s Yosemite Firefall:* In late February, as the sun sets at a certain angle, its light illuminates the waterfall in a bright orange colour. This creates the illusion that the water in the waterfall is on fire. Tourists flock to see this beautiful natural wonder of fire, which lasts only a few seconds.


FIREFALLS – A waterfall that looks on fire at sunset

तनूनपात Son of the Body:

तनूनपात् पथ ऋतस्य यानान् मध्वा समञ्जन्त्स्वदया सुजिह्व ।

मन्मानि धीभिरुत यज्ञमृन्धन् देवत्रा च कृणुह्यध्वरं नः ॥

2) O son of the body, revealing the paths of our journeyings to the Truth make them sweet with the Wine of Delight, O thou with thy high tongue of flame; enriching with our thoughts the mantras and the sacrifice set our pilgrim-sacrifice in the gods. [Rig Veda X:110:2]

Rendering into English by Akash Deshpande:

Fire-Fall
Making radiant the priceless wealth of ages
Bringing integral yoga, creating bright life
Done is the work of night, of suffering, of death
In the realm of knowledge steps able ignorance
The war is grim and terrible at each moment
Foes slain, there dawns an undiminishing morning
There’s no mirage, no play of the light-cataract
In earth’s dark valley this is the true fire-fall
Son of the body of fire takes divine birth
Not immortality, triumphant deathlessness
This world’s meaningful worthiness thus is proven
Deserving of praise the plan that grows joy through joy


In 12 syllables per line

7 responses to “Firefall”

  1. RY Deshpande Avatar
    RY Deshpande

    अग्निदेहपुत्र, the son of the body of Agni, तनूनपात, is the new being of knowledge and light who will arrive. It is was intuited by the Rishis of the Rig Veda, some ten thousand years ago. But there is the necessary Yoga to be done, and that has now been done

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    RY Deshpande

    “Not immortality, triumphant deathlessness” is the most significant evolutionary realisation achieved by the Master-Yogi. Whereas “immortality” is of a fixed nature and character, each god having his own fixed typal existence, that which he cannot change, in “deathlessness” the form and the character can be depending upon the consciousness it wants to express in manifestation. That is the materialisation of the psychic being. The Rig Veda speaks of the Immortal in the mortal, Agni in the world of death, but did not see it as the immortal becoming deathless.

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  3. RY Deshpande Avatar
    RY Deshpande

    Sri Aurobindo wrote the following line in the early Savitri, Book One Canto Three:

    Our body’s cells must hold the Immortal’s flame. ||7.8||

    The entire yogic pursuit has been to make “must hold” a reality, that it has been done. This is the birth of Son of the Body, on a universal scale the birth of the Flame-Child”, as we have in Book Eleven.

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  4. claudechamberland Avatar
    claudechamberland

    A Marvel in the Invisible becomes a beauty when manifested by Divine Agni…

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  5. Soham Karandikar Avatar
    Soham Karandikar

    The poem describes a highly optimistic situation with phrases such as “दिव्य रूपात येई अग्निदेहपुत्र जन्मास”, “प्रशंसनीयच योजना आनंदातून वाढे आनंद” representing strength and happiness.

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  6. Soham Karandikar Avatar
    Soham Karandikar

    The poem imagines a situation full of optimism and energy with phrases such as “दिव्य रूपात येई अग्निदेहपुत्र जन्मास”, “प्रशंसनीयच योजना आनंदातून वाढे आनंद” representing energy and happiness.

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  7. RY Deshpande Avatar
    RY Deshpande

    Soham Karandikar writes:

    The poem describes a very optimistic situation with phrases such as “दिव्य रूपात येई अग्निदेहपुत्र जन्मास”, “प्रशंसनीयच योजना आनंदातून वाढे आनंद” representing happiness and strength.

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