Study of Words with the help of I.A. Richards’s Figurative Language

Study of Words with the help of I.A. Richards’s Figurative Language

Title :- Vijali Ne Chamkare

Vijali ne chamkare motida parovo panbai,
Achanak andhara thashe ji
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kand thase ji.

Janya re jevi yaado ajaan chey panbai,
Adhuriya ne no kehvay re,
Gupatras no khel chey atpato ne,
Atti re melo to samjay,
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kand thase ji,
Vijali ne..

Nirmal thai avo medan ma re panbai,
Janilyo jeev ni jat re,
Saja kevi jati ni jugti batvune,
Deepe padi dav beeji bhat re,
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kand thase ji,
Vijali ne..

Pind brahmand thi re par chey guruji panbai,
Teno dekhadu tamne desh re,
Ganga re sati amaj boliya re,
Tya nahi maya no charke lesh,
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kad thase ji,
Vijali ne..

Analysis of words :-

                     As we all know that this is Bhajan rather then any ordinally song. This Bhajan is prepared and sung by Gangasati so first of all we have to understand this person to understand this Bhajan. 

Life of  Gangasati Panbai :-

Gangasati was a medieval saint poet of bhakti tradition of western India who composed several devotional songs in Gujarati language.

નામ :- ગંગાબાઇ ફહળુભા ગોહિલ

ઉપનામ :- સોરઠનાં મીરાંબાઇ

જન્મ :- 1846 – રાજપરા – પાલીતાણા

અવસાન :- 1894

માતા :- રૂપાળીબા

પિતા :-  ભાઇજી જેસાજી સરવૈયા

ભાઇ બહેન :- ચાર ભાઇ બહેન

લગ્ન  :- 1864 – સમઢિયાળાના ગરાસદાર કહળસંગ કલભા ગોહિલ (કહળુભા) સાથે; જ્ઞાતિના રિવાજ પ્રમણે લગ્ન સાસરે જ થયા.

સંતાનો :- એક માન્યતા – બે પુત્રીઓ – બાઇ રાજબા અને હરિબા , પાનબાઇ પિયરમાંથી સાથે આવેલી ખવાસ-કન્યા અને દાસી; બીજી માન્યતા- એક પુત્ર – અજોભા અને પૂત્રવધુ પાનબાઇ

વ્યવસાય  :- ઘરકામ અને ભક્તિ

પ્રદાન :- સૌરાષ્ટ્ર માં બહુ જ ગવાતા 51 ગીતો

જીવન  :- પતિ પણ ધર્મપરાયણ, બન્ને દંપતિ ભક્તિ ભાવ અને સાધુ સંતોની સેવામાં રચ્યા પચ્યા રહેતા. ગામનું ઘર સાંકડું પડતાં વાડીમાં ઝુંપડી અને હનુમાનજીની દેરી બનાવીને રહ્ય. ચમત્કારિક ઘટના બનતાં લોકો કહળુભા ની પૂજા લોકો કરવા લાગ્યા. આથી તેમણે જીવતાં સમાધિ લીધી. પતિના મૃત્યુ બાદ ગંગાસતીએ રોજના એક લેખે 52 ભજનો પાનબાઇને ધાર્મિક શિક્ષણ આપવા સંભળાવ્યા અને 53મા દિવસે પોતે પણ જીવતા સમાધિ લીધી. આ દુઃખ સહન ન થતાં પાન બાઇ એ પણ  જીવતા સમાધિ લીધી.

Analysis Of this Bhajan :-

                          This song is highly spiritual in understanding. We cannot understand this song at first listening. Here in this song highly metaphor and personifications used for devotees and gives spiritual moral to the audiences. Like “Other Bhagwat Gita”.

1.    Vijali ne chamkare motida parovo panbai,
Achanak andhara thashe ji
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kand thase ji.

Here in this lines poet address to someone and gives indirect moral to readers or listeners.  We all know that this is impossible to make something in light of thunderbolt but here with the help of this metaphor she says that as a human being our duty is to pray Lord and make salvation but we passes our time in other west thing and suddenly our life ends so before that do something for salvation of your soul. 

2.    Janya re jevi yaado ajaan chey panbai,
Adhuriya ne no kehvay re,
Gupatras no khel chey atpato ne,
Atti re melo to samjay,
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kand thase ji,
Vijali ne..

Here we can understand that here in this stanza Gangasati says about “Real Truth Or Philosophy Of God” that we can’t understand without leaving all the things of this mortal world. That what we have to understand is not known or unknown by us or by human beings. This all the things is not understand by fool person. Only those can understand who leaves these mortal things of this world. 

3.    Nirmal thai avo medan ma re panbai,
Janilyo jeev ni jat re,
Saja kevi jati ni jugti batvune,
Deepe padi dav beeji bhat re,
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kand thase ji,
Vijali ne..

Here in very first line Gangasati says that “Nirmal thai avo medan ma re panbai,
Janilyo jeev ni jat re” means here she not says about any war or fight Medan ma means not that but she says that if we want to know all the souls or “Jeev” we have to come with pious soul in our body. We have to throw all the bad things around us. Then and only then we can understand this soul. 

4.       Pind brahmand thi re par chey guruji panbai,

      Teno dekhadu tamne desh re,
Ganga re sati amaj boliya re,
Tya nahi maya no charke lesh,
Jot re jota ma divaso vayare gaya panbaiji,
Ekvis hajar chasso ne kad thase ji,
Vijali ne..

And at the end in this last stanza Gangasati says to Pan Bai that how we get salvation that she says that “Pind brahmand thi re par chey guruji” means here she says that this Indian thinking that Guru is more important than others because he makes path for us for meeting with God or for salvation.

Metaphors :- 

                   Here Ganga sati uses metaphor of thunderbolt to explain difficulties of life. With the help of this Bhajam she wants to convey this message that our “FINAl GOAL OF HUMAN BEAINGS”  is to pray God and to achieve salvation and get rest from this circle of life or circle of life and death. 

Conclusion :- 

                At the end we may say that wide form of literature can gives us this kind of highly spiritual and moral things in this kind of little songs or in Bhajans.