Translated into English by Pompen Hantrakool
Explicated by Dr Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
Moon night
Putting hands on a pillow
Breathing silently and listening to a colony of bats
Flying through a cage of beaming light
After a whole days bone breaking labour the poet is left alone in the night ,his hand placed on a pillow.The hand on the pillow might mean the poets reliance on the tender things of the existence.The poets breath becomes slower . The poet breathes silently. It is the breath that keeps us in touch with the world busy getting and spending.The madding crowds ignoble strife makes us breathe fast and loud.But when breath becomes slower our emotions are soothered and our body becomes relaxed. And a time comes when breath is as it were silent. No doubt the poet with his hand on the pillow concentrates on his breath or else how can he observe that his breath becomes silent? With his breath silent the noise without and the noise within also die. His mind becomes silent. Once breath is silent and the noise of the mind quelled there is a sound within that is never heard on sea or land. It might be compared with the ultrasonic sound that the bats hear. Now the poet can hear a colony of bats flying through a cage of beaming light.Hearing is universal among the vertebrates. It connects the creatures with the vibrations that are the world.Hearing tells us much about the surrounding world and enriches us. Think of the murmuring leaves or gurgling brooks. Speech and music are however uniquely human. They are dependant on hearing only. The bats could be there without. The poet doesnot see them. The poet hears them. The bats could be there within as well. There are different kinds of bats. Quite a few of them take fruits and the nectar of flowers. Some others eat the very insects that destroy our harvests trees and plants. They keep awake throughout the night and hide in the caves during the day . Thus they are the type of the wise who keep awake during the time which is night to the common run of men. With us common men a life sans pleasures is the night. But the bats renounce pleasures in search of truth. In the light of the day differences show up and create the world of illusion. The differences are drowned in the one darkness of night enveloping the world. The darkness stands for the emptiness that sublates into it all the differences.Oedipus in Greek myth complained that Tieresias the fortune teller was blind. The blind Tiresias retorted that though he had no eyes ight he could see better than Oedipus who had eyes. Although bats can see in the night they are commonly deemed to be blind. But they do see better because of their inner light.During the winter they go in colonies or packs or sanghas to hibernate Bats are the only mammals who can fly for long. Although western cultures are not fond of bats bats stand for happiness in Chinese culture. Five bats together that is a colony of bats means five blessings in the light of Chinese wisdom. They are longevity. Wealth, health and composure, virtue and desire to die a natural death. The caves the bats inhabit are believed to be the gateways to beyond.The poet with breath slowed down relaxed in body and silent at heart can hear the colony of bats flying through the cage of beaming light.The sound of the flying could be the primordial sound Aum or the Word of the Bible which created the world. The birds are flying in a cage. The bird could be the soul and the cage could be the body. The bird could be an individual who is caged in the capitalist society forged with the wires of custom and brands. Well cages are a protection also.The reality and the infinitude cannot devour an individual if he or she is pent up in a cage. A cage is there to indicate that there is a world beyond. But here is a colony of souls or individuals flying in a cage beaming with light. It is surely moon light. The moon stands for the mind imagination wisdom soul and the like. When body becomes inert and the senses go to hibernate When no light from without could influence the mind the cage of the body becomes alight with the inner light or wisdom or the light of the soul.May be moon is not there in the physical world. What is day with the common men could be night with poets. And the poets can see the moon awake in their heart. May be he cannot see the moon , But he feels that it is there. And he can hear the primordial sound raised by the flight of a colony of souls in a cage beaming with light. It should be noted that the souls are flying after all in a cage.That is once the inner world is alight it reminds us that there are many more worlds beyond
Explicated by Dr Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
Text
Moon night
Putting hands on a pillow
Breathing silently and listening to a colony of bats
Flying through a cage of beaming light
Explicatio
After a whole days bone breaking labour the poet is left alone in the night ,his hand placed on a pillow.The hand on the pillow might mean the poets reliance on the tender things of the existence.The poets breath becomes slower . The poet breathes silently. It is the breath that keeps us in touch with the world busy getting and spending.The madding crowds ignoble strife makes us breathe fast and loud.But when breath becomes slower our emotions are soothered and our body becomes relaxed. And a time comes when breath is as it were silent. No doubt the poet with his hand on the pillow concentrates on his breath or else how can he observe that his breath becomes silent? With his breath silent the noise without and the noise within also die. His mind becomes silent. Once breath is silent and the noise of the mind quelled there is a sound within that is never heard on sea or land. It might be compared with the ultrasonic sound that the bats hear. Now the poet can hear a colony of bats flying through a cage of beaming light.Hearing is universal among the vertebrates. It connects the creatures with the vibrations that are the world.Hearing tells us much about the surrounding world and enriches us. Think of the murmuring leaves or gurgling brooks. Speech and music are however uniquely human. They are dependant on hearing only. The bats could be there without. The poet doesnot see them. The poet hears them. The bats could be there within as well. There are different kinds of bats. Quite a few of them take fruits and the nectar of flowers. Some others eat the very insects that destroy our harvests trees and plants. They keep awake throughout the night and hide in the caves during the day . Thus they are the type of the wise who keep awake during the time which is night to the common run of men. With us common men a life sans pleasures is the night. But the bats renounce pleasures in search of truth. In the light of the day differences show up and create the world of illusion. The differences are drowned in the one darkness of night enveloping the world. The darkness stands for the emptiness that sublates into it all the differences.Oedipus in Greek myth complained that Tieresias the fortune teller was blind. The blind Tiresias retorted that though he had no eyes ight he could see better than Oedipus who had eyes. Although bats can see in the night they are commonly deemed to be blind. But they do see better because of their inner light.During the winter they go in colonies or packs or sanghas to hibernate Bats are the only mammals who can fly for long. Although western cultures are not fond of bats bats stand for happiness in Chinese culture. Five bats together that is a colony of bats means five blessings in the light of Chinese wisdom. They are longevity. Wealth, health and composure, virtue and desire to die a natural death. The caves the bats inhabit are believed to be the gateways to beyond.The poet with breath slowed down relaxed in body and silent at heart can hear the colony of bats flying through the cage of beaming light.The sound of the flying could be the primordial sound Aum or the Word of the Bible which created the world. The birds are flying in a cage. The bird could be the soul and the cage could be the body. The bird could be an individual who is caged in the capitalist society forged with the wires of custom and brands. Well cages are a protection also.The reality and the infinitude cannot devour an individual if he or she is pent up in a cage. A cage is there to indicate that there is a world beyond. But here is a colony of souls or individuals flying in a cage beaming with light. It is surely moon light. The moon stands for the mind imagination wisdom soul and the like. When body becomes inert and the senses go to hibernate When no light from without could influence the mind the cage of the body becomes alight with the inner light or wisdom or the light of the soul.May be moon is not there in the physical world. What is day with the common men could be night with poets. And the poets can see the moon awake in their heart. May be he cannot see the moon , But he feels that it is there. And he can hear the primordial sound raised by the flight of a colony of souls in a cage beaming with light. It should be noted that the souls are flying after all in a cage.That is once the inner world is alight it reminds us that there are many more worlds beyond
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