Jalandhar's Farewell~DKDM TEAM Msgs-Pg207,115,80 - Page 24

Originally posted by: sukhi...

haan suchii... was goin to write dat song too...

yeh lo dis is on ur behalf...😃😃

<font size="2">Meri har man maani bas tum tak
Baatein bachkaani bas tum tak
Meri nazar deewani bas tum tak
Mere sukh-dukh aate jaate saare-
Tum tak, tum tak, tum tak, sohne yar!
Tum tak, tum tak, tum tak, sohne yar!😳
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aww ! Love u sukhi fr the song

on a srs note...missing Jaanu Jallu(thnx to Anu for this NEW term)soo much...😒

btw ppl who r still left to unres...do edit tht soon...before i get this thread lockd..😆

Hi people!

Originally posted by: sashashyam

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2">My dear Nikhila,

Thank you for the special warmth of your comments about my contributions to your celebrations, for that is what they are, not a funeral! As I said, I am delighted to have been invited to join all you in this venture. And no, darling, I did not mean the introduction, but the requiem article, but the principle is the same!

I enjoyed all of the others, and however different they were one from the other, they all had that one thing in common: a tremendous affection for Jalandhar.

I think it is Anu who has perhaps summed him up the best when she wrote:

<font color="#0033CC">Jalandhar was like a tide, he rose, came to the shore, drenched us all and then swept back...to where he came from... 😭</font></font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Jalandhar.
To me, he is like a beloved child who commits unbelievable follies and is also
unbelievably unlucky. I have spent a lot of time yelling at him silently: Stop,
stop, stop! But he never listened, and when he had hurt himself mortally, I
grieved that I could not pick him up and make him well again. That is a tragedy
that cuts deep, and it will take me a while to talk myself into realising that
he is but fiction.



I hated to watch him crippled and broken at the foot of that rock, and still
hanging in there and pulling himself erect as best as he could. It hurt.



The worst was the sight of his face in that last moment of his
corporeal existence, as he is looking at his mother and Vrinda in Mahadev.



It is the face of a lost and bewildered child, too unhappy to feel any
resentment any more. A child so battered and torn, inside and outside, that he
has no will and no energy left any more to fight against the tide of dharma and
naitikta and shanti that is, willy nilly, engulfing him. No energy to question
the logic and the coherence of what is being said to him in his dying moments
by the father figure for whose caring and approval he craved.



No wonder, therefore, that the dying Jalandhar's face shows only tired
incomprehension, tinged with bewilderment, as Mahadev's sonorous peroration
washes over him, and at one point his eyelids droop visibly. </font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">No wonder that in the
end, he sees only the two persons who loved him for himself, simply,
uncomplicatedly and unconditionally. </font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">No wonder that in the very last instants of his corporeal existence, he
cries out only for his mother.</font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">I
was glad when he leaned backwards and the flames engulfed him; he had returned
to the element of which he was constituted at the beginning, Agni. And he was
finally free of the misery of his human condition. I wanted my beloved child to
be free of that at long last, and so I was glad today.</font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">As for what Mahadev said
to Jalandhar, well, God cannot be wrong, it is part of the job description. So
naturally all the faults have to be Jalandhar's, since otherwise they would end
up at Mahadev's door, and that cannot be permitted.
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But I liked it that till the end, Jalandhar was true to his sense of self. He
did not cringe and plead for mercy or understanding, and he did not call out to
anyone except his mother. He went as he had lived, wrongheadedly but proudly,
and his tears were only for the one person he missed besides his mother and
Vrinda, his guru.
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What I think about Shukracharya - and it is very negative - is not relevant here.
But the fact is that Jalandhar was emotionally very dependent on his guru -
remember that desperate pleading with Shukracharya in the mayalok, clinging to
his hands and begging his pardon? So he needed to have his guru's final
blessings before he departed forever.
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The last two episodes of the track have been painful to get thru, and
it will be a while before I can forget all that so many of them did/did not do
(I will never forgive them), which contributed in no small measure to Jalandhar
ending up at the bottom of that rock, gasping for breath as he summons up the
last reserves of his energy to voice his grief and his sense of abandonment.
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It was a relief when it ended at long last, and I was proud of him, for he was
, as the poet put it, 'bloodied but unbowed'. </font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">I wish he could have
rejoined his mother and his beloved Vrinda where he had dreamt of going after
his death, chandrama ke paar. As I wrote in my requiem, who knows? Maybe some
part of him escaped Mahadev's third eye and made it there after all.</font>

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I agree with every word you wrote Shyamala ji! Every single word reflects my thoughts for Jalandhar and his fate! 👏

I am honoured you found my random musing for Jalandhar an apt summation of his life.

Thanks a lot for your generous compliments and support to all of us! It means a lot coming from a person like you!

When Nikki first told me about this Farewell celebration plan I was excited like crazy! And the first thing I asked her was if you were also a part of the team or not - since if it's anything related to Jalandhar then it's incomplete without you - our very own Wordsmith! 👏

Sure we'll dig your posts here and on FB for Jalandhar and carry on our discussions on him through those! Our obsession with Jalandhar by no means would stop at this thread!

Thanks for everything Shyamala ji and don't say goodbye for we will always keep in touch with you if not this forum then somewhere else!

I'm glad you noticed those facts and were impressed by facts on Jalandhar's success among audiences! The praise from you means a lot!

See you again somewhere else!

I can't thnk the creatives fr giving us this track. I think abt it and wonder at my life!

Hi suchi nikki anu how are you.

Sushi no reply to my comment on you writing a short story on jalandar 😭

creatives se zyada..Indra ka dhanyavad karo...vo nahi hote...toh Jalandhar nahi hote..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hi raji!
Yo indra.. Koti koti dhanyawad unko.