Translated into English by Pompen Hantrakool
Explicated by Dr Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
The light of dawn breaking
An open young beak of a little bird
Sipping some bright clouds
The poem opens with the light of dawn breaking. It is breaking dawn.Breaking dawn is that time quantum and point quantum when the first light of the sun reaches the skies. The Sun is yet to show up. In other words breaking dawn is the hour between the first light of the Sun reaching the skies and the Sun rise. Daybreak is the hour before gods awake.To break here does not mean to separate.To break here is to burst forth or to come into being. The Bible as well as the Hebraic religion announces that God head is revealed with the daybreak.Similar instances could be put forward from different religions and cultures.The Vedas have beautiful hymns addressed to Usha or dawn. Dawn breaks out from darkness as cows break out from their enclosed pen. Dawn drives back black abyss and rains upon the liberated earth the priceless wealth of light and pure consciousness. In fact daybreak or dawn is a momentous moment when the opposites meet. It is at this line in between the opposites that one could find jouissance. It is the hour when Venus shines as the morning star and the lotus opes its eyes softly and Vietnam rejoices at the sight. Darkness dispelled, pure consciousness is diffused throughout the skies and there is a rain of light upon the earth. There are clouds of dense consciousness scattered all over the blue deep alight with consciousness.This is an an impressionist word painting that has been imported from heaven as it were. No wonder excited by the rain of consciousness a small bird has excelsiored to the dizzy heights where the clouds float and the poet finds it with its beaks parted mouth open as much as possible. The little bird is the symbol of infinite thirst. The word painting in front of us entitled A New Day depicts infinite thirst drinking in infinite manna. Is not the bird the soul of the poet himself drinking in the Niagra of light falling from pure consciousness . The poet or the bird is seated on the clouds conjured by the poets meditation . He wants to drink the purer nectar unpolluted by the fall outs from the earth. He cannot wait. He goes up to the clouds to quench his thirst. In Indian mythology there is a kind of cuckoo which has pied crest and which is known as chataka. The cha taka cannot take water from the earth. It can only drink rainwater when it drops from the skies.No better portrayal of a chataka is found in the whole range of Sanskrit literature than what Mai Van Phan does here. One thing the readers must admit. However small the bird might be drunk in the nectar from heaven the bird ( bard) showers upon mankind wonderful word pictures charged with light and pure consciousness
Explicated by Dr Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
Text
The light of dawn breaking
An open young beak of a little bird
Sipping some bright clouds
Explicatio
The poem opens with the light of dawn breaking. It is breaking dawn.Breaking dawn is that time quantum and point quantum when the first light of the sun reaches the skies. The Sun is yet to show up. In other words breaking dawn is the hour between the first light of the Sun reaching the skies and the Sun rise. Daybreak is the hour before gods awake.To break here does not mean to separate.To break here is to burst forth or to come into being. The Bible as well as the Hebraic religion announces that God head is revealed with the daybreak.Similar instances could be put forward from different religions and cultures.The Vedas have beautiful hymns addressed to Usha or dawn. Dawn breaks out from darkness as cows break out from their enclosed pen. Dawn drives back black abyss and rains upon the liberated earth the priceless wealth of light and pure consciousness. In fact daybreak or dawn is a momentous moment when the opposites meet. It is at this line in between the opposites that one could find jouissance. It is the hour when Venus shines as the morning star and the lotus opes its eyes softly and Vietnam rejoices at the sight. Darkness dispelled, pure consciousness is diffused throughout the skies and there is a rain of light upon the earth. There are clouds of dense consciousness scattered all over the blue deep alight with consciousness.This is an an impressionist word painting that has been imported from heaven as it were. No wonder excited by the rain of consciousness a small bird has excelsiored to the dizzy heights where the clouds float and the poet finds it with its beaks parted mouth open as much as possible. The little bird is the symbol of infinite thirst. The word painting in front of us entitled A New Day depicts infinite thirst drinking in infinite manna. Is not the bird the soul of the poet himself drinking in the Niagra of light falling from pure consciousness . The poet or the bird is seated on the clouds conjured by the poets meditation . He wants to drink the purer nectar unpolluted by the fall outs from the earth. He cannot wait. He goes up to the clouds to quench his thirst. In Indian mythology there is a kind of cuckoo which has pied crest and which is known as chataka. The cha taka cannot take water from the earth. It can only drink rainwater when it drops from the skies.No better portrayal of a chataka is found in the whole range of Sanskrit literature than what Mai Van Phan does here. One thing the readers must admit. However small the bird might be drunk in the nectar from heaven the bird ( bard) showers upon mankind wonderful word pictures charged with light and pure consciousness
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