Happy Independence Day

Originally posted by: radev24

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In 1950 (after India's independence), the song's first two verses were given to the official status of the "national song" of the Republic of India, distinct from the national anthem of India, Jana Gana Mana.

Vande mataram meaning:

Mother, I bow to thee!
Rich with thy hurrying streams,
bright with orchard gleams,
Cool with thy winds of delight,
Dark fields waving Mother of might,
Mother free.
Glory of moonlight dreams,
Over thy branches and lordly streams,
Clad in thy blossoming trees,
Mother, giver of ease
Laughing low and sweet!
Mother I kiss thy feet,
Speaker sweet and low!
Mother, to thee I bow.
Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands
When the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands
And seventy million voices roar
Thy dreadful name from shore to shore
With many strengths who art mighty and stored,
To thee I call Mother and Lord!
Though who savest, arise and save!
To her I cry who ever her foeman drove
Back from plain and Sea
And shook herself free.
Thou art wisdom, thou art law,
Thou art heart, our soul, our breath
Though art love divine, the awe
In our hearts that conquers death.
Thine the strength that nervs the arm,
Thine the beauty, thine the charm.
Every image made divine
In our temples is but thine.
Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,
With her hands that strike and her
swords of sheen,
Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,
And the Muse a hundred-toned,
Pure and perfect without peer,
Mother lend thine ear,
Rich with thy hurrying streams,
Bright with thy orchard gleems,
Dark of hue O candid-fair
In thy soul, with jewelled hair
And thy glorious smile divine,
Lovilest of all earthly lands,
Showering wealth from well-stored hands!
Mother, mother mine!
Mother sweet, I bow to thee,
Mother great and free!

De di hamein azadi bina khadag bina dhaal

sabarmati ke sant tune kar diya kamaal

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Asha Bhonsle sang this Hemanta Mukherjee composition,

written by Kavi Pradeep - in a tribute to the Mahatma.

Song: Sabarmati Ke Sant Tu Ne Kar Diya Kamal
Movie: 1954 Jagriti

de di hame azadi bina kadg bina dhal
sabaramati ke sant tune kar diya kamal

andhi me bi jalti rahi gandhi teri mashal
sabaramati ke sant tune kar diya kamal

dharti pe ladi tune ajab dhab ki ladai
dagi na kahin topna banduk chalai
dushman ke kile par bi na ki tune chadhai
vahare pakir kub karamaat dikai

chutki me dusmanon ko diya desh se nikal
sabaramati ke sant tune kar diya kamal

sataranj bicha kar yahan baitha tha zamana
lagta tha ki mushkil hai pirangi ko harana
takkar dhi bade zor ki dushman bi tha dana
par tu bi tha bapu bada ustad purana

mara vo kaske dhav ki ulti sabi ki chal
sabaramati ke sant tune kar diya kamal

jab jab tera bigul baja javan chal pade
majdur chal pade the aur kisan chal pade
hindu ya musalman sikh pathan chal pade
kadamon pe tere koti koti pran chal pade

pulon ki sej chod ke daude jawaharalal
sabaramati ke sant tune kar diya kamal

man me thi ahimsa ki lagan tan pe langoti
lakon me gumta tha liye satya ki somti
vaise to dekne me thi hasti teri choti
lekin tuje jukti thi himalay ki bi choti

duniya me tu bejod tha insaan bemisal
sabaramati ke sant tune kar diya kamal

jag me koi jiya hai to bapu tu hi jiya
tune vatan ki rah me sab kuch luta diya
manga na koi takt na to taj hi liya
amrit diya sabi ko magar kud zahar piya

jis din teri chita jali roya tha mahakal
sabaramati ke sant tune kar diya kamal

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Edited by radev24 - 14 August 2013 at 7:36am