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A Sonnet in English and Marathi — In a Tranquil Night

A Sonnet in English and Marathi — In a Tranquil Night

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A Sonnet in English and Marathi — In a Tranquil Night

In a tranquil night

In a tranquil night when the dreams were still asleep

An incredible news the voice of silence had brought;

Oh the black tiger was vanquished in an occult leap,

Of the fire, which primordial yearning had sought!

Massive hammer struck the sky with a golden blow

And rushed in paces of time waters of glad surprise;

The hour announced by long waiting hope, I know,

Is here in the miracle justly visible to seeing eyes.

Comes the splendidest youth, lustrous and strong,

By Yoga the flame-child birthed in the triple realm;

To him all topaz riches of all the worlds do belong,

Son of body, deathless, his joys earth overwhelm.

Came he with excellent vibrancy of the will,

Aureate-purple-orange hill claiming dazzle-hill.

21 September 2025

एका निःस्तब्ध रात्री

एका निःस्तब्ध रात्री अजूनही झोपलेली असताना स्वप्ने

शांततेच्या अभिव्यक्तीने आणली खूप मोठी खबर;

अहो, एका गूढ झेपेत झाला क्रूर काळा वाघ पराभूत,

दिव्यत्वाच्या प्रखरतेत उजळली फार पूर्वीची उत्कटता!

करूनी वार सोनेरी आदळला हातोडा प्रचंड आकाशात,

आश्चर्य की वाहत्या कालाच्या गतीत धावला मोद-हर्ष;

कल्पांची प्रतीक्षा बाळगून आशेने घोषित केलेली वेळ

आहे चमत्कार पाहणाऱ्या डोळ्यांच्या अगदी नजीकच;

जन्मास आले तेजोमय बहूशक्तिशाली अग्निबाळ,

हो, योगतपश्चर्येत त्रिप्रांतातील आनंदाचे वैभव ते;

सर्व जगांतील सर्व पुष्कराज आहेत मालकीचे त्याच्या,

अमृत शरीराचा गुणवंत महान टाकी व्यापून पृथ्वी.

सोनेरी-जांभळे-नारंगी शिखरावरून घेऊनि शिखर

आला तो झळकणाऱ्या श्रेष्ठ उच्चतम चैतन्यासह.

२३ सप्टेंबर २०२५

4 responses to “A Sonnet in English and Marathi — In a Tranquil Night”

  1. RY Deshpande Avatar
    RY Deshpande

    On dreaming plains, an indolent expanse,

    The death-bed of a pale enchanted eve

    Under the glamour of a sunken sky,

    Impassive she lay as at an age’s end,

    Or crossed an eager pack of huddled hills

    Lifting their heads to hunt a lairlike sky,

    Or travelled in a strange and empty land

    Where desolate summits camped in a weird heaven,

    Mute sentinels beneath a drifting moon,

    Or wandered in some lone tremendous wood

    Ringing for ever with the crickets’ cry,

    Or followed a long glistening serpent road

    Through fields and pastures lapped in moveless light

    Or reached the wild beauty of a desert space

    Where never plough was driven nor herd had grazed

    And slumbered upon stripped and thirsty sands

    Amid the savage wild-beast Night’s appeal. ||100.9||

    Savitri Book IV Canto iv

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    RY Deshpande

    For ever love, O beautiful slave of God! ||154.41||

    O lasso of my rapture’s widening noose,

    Become my cord of universal love. ||154.42||

    The spirit ensnared by thee force to delight

    Of creation’s oneness sweet and fathomless,

    Compelled to embrace my myriad unities

    And all my endless forms and divine souls. ||154.43||

    O Mind, grow full of the eternal peace;

    O Word, cry out the immortal litany:

    Built is the golden tower, the flame-child born. ||154.44||

    Savitri Book XI Canto 1

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  3. Anjali Jaipuria Avatar
    Anjali Jaipuria

    Read in a Tranquil Night several times. My Lord! This is so deep and beautiful! Needs many more readings for it to seep in… 

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      RY Deshpande

      Thanks. I think it is pretty deep and one of these days I myself will have to discover its occult depths.

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