Oct 2020

O Lord, we are but your slaves

Let our deeds be refined

(And all you ask us is to continue)

Walking on the path of righteousness

While shunning the evil, the guile

So that when it’s time to go, we go out with a smile!

As the darkness looms over

We are overcome by fright

We are becoming listless

Losing our senses, our sight

The sun too seems to have lost

Its splendour, glory and might.

But YOUR aura is reassuring

Making a dark night look like a full-moon one.

(And all you ask us is to continue)

Walking on the path of righteousness

While shunning the evil, the guile

So that when it’s time to go, we go out with a smile!

When we encounter the blows, the lashes

Please O Lord, hold our hands

Let them wreak their worst

Give us strength to be nice to them

No thought of revenge or rancour

Ever crossing our feeble minds.

Let each foot-step of ours be full of love

Reminding us of the futility of animosity.

(And all you ask us is to continue)

Walking on the path of righteousness

While shunning the evil, the guile

So that when it’s time to go, we go out with a smile!

We are still weak in our minds, O Lord

Thoughts waver, in an unfocused way.

But the kind sight of you standing nigh

Has held the world together in your sway.

We are in this world thanks to you

And will live through our sorrows, thanks to you.

(And all you ask us is to continue)

Walking on the path of righteousness

While shunning the evil, the guile

So that when it’s time to go, we go out with a smile!

Taaki…hanste hue nikle dum!

(Translated from the Original written by Bharat Vyas (1918-82))

ऐ मालिक तेरे बन्दे हम

ऐसे हों हमारे करम

नेकी पर चलें

और बदी से टलें

ताकि हंसते हुए निकले दम

ये अँधेरा घना छा रहा

तेरा इंसान घबरा रहा

हो रहा बेखबर,

कुछ न आता नज़र

सुख का सूरज छुपा जा रहा

है तेरी रौशनी में जो दम

तू अमावास को कर दे पूनम

नेकी पर चलें

और बदी से टलें

ताकि हंसते हुए निकले दम …

जब जुल्मों का हो सामना

तब तू ही हमें थामना

वो बुराई करे

हम भलाई भरें

नहीं बदले की हो कामना

बढ़ उठे प्यार का हर कदम

और मिटे बैर का ये भरम

नेकी पर चलें

और बदी से टलें

ताकि हंसते हुए निकले दम …

बड़ा कमज़ोर है आदमी,

अभी लाखों हैं इसमें कमी

पर तू जो खड़ा है दयालू बड़ा

तेरी किरपा से धरती थमी

दिया तूने हमे जब जनम

तू ही झेलेगा हम सबके ग़म

नेकी पर चलें

और बदी से टलें

ताकि हंसते हुए निकले दम..