RETREAT TO NAMING CEREMONY -,

RETREAT TO NAMING CEREMONY

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If post death naming rituals were in fashion

Denoting all deeds and misdeeds of a person

The list of good and bad feats should go

pretty long

And the extension of the regime of hell become inescapable

Raising problems further.

How agonizing are the people

With a habit to keep an eye on others

Sparing their own self.

When habit takeovers the imbibed traits

It becomes hard to check that habit

But to get rid of it is even harder.

Particular things are holy and the rest deemed unholy

On this earth

There is holier aspect of everything in the world

Which resolution were beneficial for the men

If the numerology of actions could teach us to fight our basic tendencies.

Or given freedom to judge the dying man's compulsion theory

If the actions against humanity could not be justified

In the name of struggle for existence

If the life reduced to Dragging, tattered invalidity

By the strong network of injustice could not be reviewed by a changed mindset

There was a possibility of the restoration of lost glory

Of the weak even after his death

It is not proper to leave all justice at the disposal of the God of Death.

I struck upon this poem during a census duty assigned to me

The person I had gone to survey was waiting his death.

The dying man said something in symbols, which suggested

Some injustice had been done

This could not be ascertained whether it was he or someone else

His family members and well-wishers misunderstood it for

The dying man's delirium.

They began to speak like successors of his legacy.

-We shall not let your legacy die

You can breathe out peacefully.

While returning from the cremation ground

I was thinking

That there should be a post death baptism

For every man to be named again.

Translation into English by Govind Prasad Bahuguna