संसार है इक नदिया

संसार है इक नदिया
दुःख सुख दो किनारे है
न जाने कहाँ जाए
हम बहते धारे है

चलते हुए जीवन की
रफ़्तार में एक लय है
इक राग में इक सुर में
संसार की हर शे है
इक तार पे गर्दिश में
ये चाँद सितारे है

धरती पे अम्बार की
आँखों से बरसती है
इक रोज़ यही बुँदे
फिर बादल बनाती है
इस बनने बिगड़ने के
दस्तूर में सारे है

कोई भी किसी के लिए
अपना न पराया है
रिष्ते के उजाले में
हर आदमी साया है
क़ुदरता के भी देखो तो
ये खेल पुराने है

है कौन वो दुनिया में
न पाप किया जिसने
बिन उलझे कांटो से
है फूल चुने किसने
बे दाग नहीं कोई
यहां पापी सारे है

This world (sansaar) is like a river (nadiya). Happiness (sukh) and sadness (dukh) are like their two banks. Naa jaane, not knowing, kahaa jaaye, where you are going, ham behte dhaare hai, we keep running in midstream.

With speed, this life rushes by with its own unique style and rhythm. The makeup of the universe is like the scales of harmonious music – and when the time of dissolution comes, all collapses, including the stars and moon.

We see the rain from the clouds fall onto the earth, then evaporate and go back to the clouds. This is the story of human life and of creation itself. Everything is created and is dissolved, this is the law of the world. We come and we go.

No person is his own master – nor does anyone else own you. Everyone, and all attachments – none is real, they are only for the here and now (momentous). This is God’s law.

Who is that person who has never sinned? Who can pick a rose without being pricked by its thorns? Yes, this is a sinful world. No one is without stain. But, be not attached to anything and you will cross the river of life.

Raftaar (1975); Asha Bhosle, Mukesh Chand Mathur (Mukesh)


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