The word 'though' is a bit
subtle, when it is said with a 'tho' in Hindi/urdu...
That song...
Main kaafir tho naheen...
Magar aye haseen.... (after I 'knew' you..), I understood what
Bangagi is!
It was 1973, and when this
line struck me like a bolt, I was found guilty of misinterpreting a
wonderful romantic song into a spiritual one! I heard this song
incidentally, through the DD's Rangoli, and I went back into the
memories of that allegation!... I could not counter the allegations
then, and tried to look within, if there was something really wrong
with me! Everybody around of that age, where insanity is of a unique
kind, and there I was prematurely old!
Today, even the other
stanzas seem wonderfully spiritual!..
I am not an
'enemy-by-default'... (says one couplet in that song)... but now I
know what 'friendship' means! (reference to 'unconditional love'
which becomes even a 'friendship', if the outside situation requires
us to wear that kind of a garment/role!!!
I thank that poet of the
movie, Bobby, for the wonderful theme... It does not matter that
somebody fits that song into the story, to suit it “somehow”...
...
Kaafir, I suppose is a
non-believer, or at best an athiest... but rigid religious
viewpoints tend to look at them as 'natural-enemies' of 'that'
religion! ...
'Ibaadat' is incidental to
Bandagi, but not a pre-requisite at all!
Now, a blind-believer, who
refuses to make use of,..... the unique gift of self-awareness,
coupled with the sense of discretion, .... and gloats about that
blind-belief as a capability (though knowing too well, deep within...
that it was a matter of 'convenience' or giving in to laziness,
rather than a sacrifice, or trust)... such a person, in spiritual
terms, .... is he ever going to taste “Bandagi” in “real
terms” (taste, I said, not even just 'experience'... there is a
song “pibarey Raama Rasam, rasaney...” to glorify that sense of
taste, when it comes to a Bandagi towards the personified form that
we refer to as Shri 'Ram'.... )...
...
(Nothing hampered me, or
dampened my spirits from 'also' enjoying the romance in that movie,
then... despite this peaceful coexistence of spiritual thirst
within me!)
...
Bandish-ly yours,
psn (28th
April, 2013)
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