Lunatic Summary (BBS Second Year)(With the Poem in Nepali "पागल")

Lunatic

- Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Point Wise Brief Summary:

 · The speaker of the poem is a common man, whom his society calls lunatic.

· He says that the people of his society think that he is mad, but he believes that he sees truth more clearly and deeply.

· He claims that he does not judge things by common sense, material goods or social rules.

· He understands this world with his emotions, imagination and heart.

· He rejects materialism and blind social conventions.

· The speaker criticizes those people, who value money, fake identity and power more than humanity.

· He claims that so-called social and rational people are real narrow minded people and mad.

· He feels closer to nature than to human society.

· He claims that nature speaks to him in a deep and spiritual manner.

· He values beauty, freedom and creativity.

· But unfortunately, his society laughs at him and calls him insane.

· He can see sound, hear sight and taste smell.

· More, he can see a flower in a stone and understand a bird's language.

· Likewise, for him, dream and imagination are real because he can interpret them meaningfully.

· In winter night, he can see the heaven in the sky. He is quite sensible man, so he feels sad seeing weak and dying people.

· He also believes in the existence of soul.

· Due to his sixth sense, the speaker feels that he is different from ordinary people.

· For him, one minus one is always one because after our death our individual soul fuses with cosmic soul and again becomes one.

· In fact, he feels pity for society’s ignorance because his society misunderstands creative and sensitive people.

· He believes true wisdom lies in feeling and imagination but not in reason and calculation.

· He even expresses that sensitivity and imagination are misunderstood.

· The speaker finds joy in simplicity and inner freedom.

· He refuses to follow artificial social masks and materialism. He knows that materialism destroys humanity and compassion.

· The poet uses many ironical contexts to show that the people of this society, who call them rational, are actually mad. He even says that those people, who consider themselves sane, actually lack true insight. 

· At the end of the poem, the speaker questions, "Who is truly sane?"

The Poem "Lunatic" in Nepali:

लक्ष्मी प्रसाद देवकोटा: पागल

जरुर साथी म पागल !

यस्तै छ मेरो हाल ।

म शब्दलाई देख्दछु !

दृश्यलाई सुन्दछु !

बासनालाई संबाद लिन्छु ।

आकाशभन्दा पातालका कुरालाई छुन्छु ।

ती कुरा,

जसको अस्तित्व लोक मान्दैंन

जसको आकार संसार जान्दैन !

म देख्दछु, ढुङ्गालाई फूल !

जब, जलकिनारका जल चिप्ला ती,

कोमलाकार, पाषाण,

चाँदनीमा,

स्वर्गकी जादूगर्नी मतिर हाँस्दा,

पत्रिएर, नर्मिएर, झल्किएर,

बल्किएर, उठ्दछन् मूक पागलझैँ,

फूलझैँ- एक किसिमका चकोर फूल !

म बोल्दछु तिनसँग, जस्तो बोल्दछन् ती मसँग

एक भाषा, साथी !

जो लेखिन्न, छापिन्न, बोलिन्न, बुझाइन्न, सुनाइन्न ।

जुनेली गङ्गा-किनार छाल आउँछ तिनको भाषा

साथी ! छाल छाल !

जरुर साथी म पागल !

यस्तै छ मेरो हाल !

तिमी चतुर छौ, वाचाल !

तिम्रो शुद्ध गणित सूत्र हरहमेशा चलिरहेको छ

मेरो गणितमा एकबाट एक झिके

एकै बाँकी रहन्छ !

तिमी पाँच इन्द्रियले काम गर्छौ,

म छैटौँले !

तिम्रो गिदी छ साथी !

मेरो मुटु ।

तिमी गुलाफलाई गुलाफ सिवाय देख्न सक्तैनौ,

म उसमा हेलेन र पद्मिनी पाउँछु,

तिमी बलिया गद्य छौ !

म तरल पद्य छु !

तिमी जम्दछौ जब म पग्लन्छु,

तिमी सँग्लन्छौ जब म धमिलो बन्छु,

र ठीक त्यसैका उल्टो !

तिम्रो संसार ठोस छ ।

मेरो बाफ !

तिम्रो बाक्लो, मेरो पातलो !

तिमी ढुङ्गालाई वस्तु ठान्दछौ,

ठोस कठोरता तिम्रो यथार्थ छ ।

म सपनालाई समात्न खोज्दछु,

जस्तो तिमी, त्यो चिसो, मीठो अक्षर काटेको

पान्ढीकीको बाटुलो सत्यलाई !

मेरो छ वेग काँडाको साथी !

तिम्रो सुनको र हीराको !

तिमी पहाडलाई लाटा भन्दछौ,

म भन्छु वाचाल ।

जरुर साथी ।

मेरो एक नशा ढिलो छ ।

यस्तै छ मेरो हाल