The knock at midnight: poems of Puran Singh/ translated with an introduction by Gurbhagat Singh.

By: Purana SinghaContributor(s): Singh, GurbhagatMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi, 2005Description: xviii, 267 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 8126015853Subject(s): Panjabi poetry -- Translations into English | Panjabi poetryDDC classification: 821
Contents:
OPEN FIELDS / KHULLEH MAIDAN Part One: Glimpses of Puran Bhagat's Life -- Mother Ichran, Puran's confinement in dungeon. Mother's dhyan -- The yqga of parental love -- Mother's Heart -- The art of the mother -- Mother Ichran -- Maternal love, yoga and the ways to calm the mind -- Queen Ichran -- King Salwahan and Queen Luna -- Luna -- The moral death of king Salwahan -- Youthful Puran comes out of the dungeon -- King Salwahan and the royal son Puran -- Queen Ichran's anxiety and inner fear -- Puran goes to the palace of Luna -- Puran's inner fear while mounting the royal stairs -- Luna and Puran -- Luna's half-concealed and half-hidden' emotions -- Puran's first dialogue with Luna -- Luna harps on the same tune -- Puran's second utterance -- Luna's Madness -- Luna's Design -- Puran — a Criminal Mother Ichran's cry in the court of king Salwahan -- Puran removed for death -- Puran thrown into a well -- The condition of Puran's two gardens in Sialkot -- Jogi Gorakh nath arrives at the well of Puran -- Gorakh Nath's flock descends on the country of Sundaran -- A hillock of queen Sundaran's country becomes alive -- Puran's first holy alms -- Puran standing in the palace of queen Sundaran -- Queen Sundaran comes for the sacred meeting -- Queen Sundaran asks for a boon -- Gorakh Nath is pleased -- Sundaran takes away Puran in a reed-basket -- Conversation between Sundaran and Puran -- Puran returns to Gorakh Nath Puran Jogi -- Puran Jogi returns to Sialkot -- The arrival of Luna and King Salwahan -- King Salwahan honours Puran Jogi -- Puran's reply to king Salwahan -- Salwahan petitions for a son on behalf of Luna -- Puran Jogi's reply to the king -- Luna's repentance and sorrow -- Puran blesses Luna with a boon Mother Ichran's arrival -- Queen Ichran's sublime sorrow -- The Meeting of Puran and Mother Ichran -- Son Puran and Mother Ichran in embrace Part TWo: The Currents of Jhanan -- My Broken Sort of Song -- My Heart is Drawn -- The Dawn in the Sky -- The Grazing Animals -- The Squirming Dove -- Sassi's Sleep -- The Dream Under a Pipal Tree -- The Potter and the Potteress -- The Labourers of Punjab -- Ploughmen -- Sohani's Cottage -- On the We U -- On the Banks of a River -- Hanuman -- A Hermitess's Hamlet -- The Noble Woman at Home -- The Flaming Lights of Himalayas -- Gargi -- Krishna Ji -- You Value Yourself -- Virgin Padmani Part Three: My Patriotism for Punjab -- The Rivers of Punjab -- We Poor Folk's Blessings for the Country -- An Ahiran of Punjab Making Dung Cakes -- Heer and Ranjha -- The Youth of Punjab -- The Hustle and Busde of Bazar -- Calling the Old Punjab -- I am Screaming for the Punjab -- The Idol of Sohani Part Four: I and He -- How Beautiful is This Message -- Come, You—My God -- People Say, God Is Omnipotent, Everything -- Bow Before Saints -- People Say I am Dead -- People Say I have Come Alive -- Once, Suddenly -- He Had Left -- Several Nights Will Come -- I in the Sleep of Some Centuries -- The Spring Came for Everyone, Where Has Fled My Spring? -- The Girls' Flock Around the Spinning Wheel -- Every Moment is New -- The Beloved Passes by Me -- I Do Not Know How to Aim -- Separation Return Oh Beloved -- His Gift -- I Am Waiting on the Seashore -- If you Become Mine Part Five: A Wild Flower -- Introduction -- OPEN VEILS / KHULLEH GHUND -- Dedication -- Introduction -- I Am Asking for Name What Is My Name? -- Karma, Karma They Scream, Who Does It? -- The Creativity of the Creator -- Philosophy and Art -- The Touchstone I -- The Ever-hidden Secret of Love -- Resplendence of a Million Lamps -- Buddha's Image, Budddha in Dhyan -- A Kind of Mist of Dhyan -- Buddha—Art -- The Trinity of Elephant -- The Beloved "Sikh I" Belongs to the Creator -- Those Arrived Have Destinations to Reach Everyday -- God Was in Trouble Once -- The Silence of Art-labour Screams -- Consciousness and Ego -- The Half-closed Eye of Bhai Nand Lai -- The Guru Manifesting Surt -- The Birth-story of Ego and Surt -- OPEN SKY COLOURS / KHULLEH RANG ASM Part One: The Colours of Bar -- The Woman Whom God Loves -- My Night Lamp -- The Star-Studded Sky of the Black Night -- A Dove in the Bar of Punjab -- The Sun is Set -- The Untamed Lass -- My Heart -- The Biloch's Daughter from a Bar of Punjab -- The Black Siberian Crane That Died -- A Hardworking Village Bullock -- A Young Fowl of a Village -- Spring Festivity in the Bars -- When Will You Come Oh Beautiful! -- Philosopher All Things Are Pretty But None Is Beautiful -- The Youthful Lass of Punjab Talking to Herself -- Renunciation -- An Invisible Arm That Tilts All From Behind -- Sudden Flight Part Two: Worship of the Infinite -- The Moment of Blessing with the Spirit -- Difficult Is the Luminous Knowledge of the Revered Guru -- Love for Nature, the Sacred Sight of the Man's Disciple -- My Lord Jhilmila Metres -- Who Can Say Welcome? -- Hospitality of the Sage -- Glossary
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Poems.

OPEN FIELDS / KHULLEH MAIDAN
Part One: Glimpses of Puran Bhagat's Life -- Mother Ichran, Puran's confinement in dungeon. Mother's dhyan -- The yqga of parental love -- Mother's Heart -- The art of the mother -- Mother Ichran -- Maternal love, yoga and the ways to calm the mind -- Queen Ichran -- King Salwahan and Queen Luna -- Luna -- The moral death of king Salwahan -- Youthful Puran comes out of the dungeon -- King Salwahan and the royal son Puran -- Queen Ichran's anxiety and inner fear -- Puran goes to the palace of Luna -- Puran's inner fear while mounting the royal stairs -- Luna and Puran -- Luna's half-concealed and half-hidden' emotions -- Puran's first dialogue with Luna -- Luna harps on the same tune -- Puran's second utterance -- Luna's Madness -- Luna's Design -- Puran — a Criminal Mother Ichran's cry in the court of king Salwahan -- Puran removed for death -- Puran thrown into a well -- The condition of Puran's two gardens in Sialkot -- Jogi Gorakh nath arrives at the well of Puran -- Gorakh Nath's flock descends on the country of Sundaran -- A hillock of queen Sundaran's country becomes alive -- Puran's first holy alms -- Puran standing in the palace of queen Sundaran -- Queen Sundaran comes for the sacred meeting -- Queen Sundaran asks for a boon -- Gorakh Nath is pleased -- Sundaran takes away Puran in a reed-basket -- Conversation between Sundaran and Puran -- Puran returns to Gorakh Nath Puran Jogi -- Puran Jogi returns to Sialkot -- The arrival of Luna and King Salwahan -- King Salwahan honours Puran Jogi -- Puran's reply to king Salwahan -- Salwahan petitions for a son on behalf of Luna -- Puran Jogi's reply to the king -- Luna's repentance and sorrow -- Puran blesses Luna with a boon
Mother Ichran's arrival -- Queen Ichran's sublime sorrow -- The Meeting of Puran and Mother Ichran -- Son Puran and Mother Ichran in embrace

Part TWo: The Currents of Jhanan -- My Broken Sort of Song -- My Heart is Drawn -- The Dawn in the Sky -- The Grazing Animals -- The Squirming Dove -- Sassi's Sleep -- The Dream Under a Pipal Tree -- The Potter and the Potteress -- The Labourers of Punjab -- Ploughmen -- Sohani's Cottage -- On the We U -- On the Banks of a River -- Hanuman -- A Hermitess's Hamlet -- The Noble Woman at Home -- The Flaming Lights of Himalayas -- Gargi -- Krishna Ji -- You Value Yourself -- Virgin Padmani

Part Three: My Patriotism for Punjab -- The Rivers of Punjab -- We Poor Folk's Blessings for the Country -- An Ahiran of Punjab Making Dung Cakes -- Heer and Ranjha -- The Youth of Punjab -- The Hustle and Busde of Bazar -- Calling the Old Punjab -- I am Screaming for the Punjab --
The Idol of Sohani

Part Four: I and He -- How Beautiful is This Message -- Come, You—My God -- People Say, God Is Omnipotent, Everything -- Bow Before Saints -- People Say I am Dead -- People Say I have Come Alive -- Once, Suddenly -- He Had Left -- Several Nights Will Come -- I in the Sleep of Some Centuries -- The Spring Came for Everyone, Where Has Fled My Spring? -- The Girls' Flock Around the Spinning Wheel -- Every Moment is New -- The Beloved Passes by Me -- I Do Not Know How to Aim -- Separation Return Oh Beloved -- His Gift -- I Am Waiting on the Seashore -- If you Become Mine

Part Five: A Wild Flower -- Introduction -- OPEN VEILS / KHULLEH GHUND -- Dedication -- Introduction -- I Am Asking for Name What Is My Name? -- Karma, Karma They Scream, Who Does It? -- The Creativity of the Creator -- Philosophy and Art -- The Touchstone I -- The Ever-hidden Secret of Love -- Resplendence of a Million Lamps -- Buddha's Image, Budddha in Dhyan -- A Kind of Mist of Dhyan -- Buddha—Art -- The Trinity of Elephant -- The Beloved "Sikh I" Belongs to the Creator -- Those Arrived Have Destinations to Reach Everyday -- God Was in Trouble Once --
The Silence of Art-labour Screams -- Consciousness and Ego -- The Half-closed Eye of Bhai Nand Lai -- The Guru Manifesting Surt -- The Birth-story of Ego and Surt -- OPEN SKY COLOURS / KHULLEH RANG ASM

Part One: The Colours of Bar -- The Woman Whom God Loves -- My Night Lamp -- The Star-Studded Sky of the Black Night -- A Dove in the Bar of Punjab -- The Sun is Set -- The Untamed Lass -- My Heart -- The Biloch's Daughter from a Bar of Punjab -- The Black Siberian Crane That Died
-- A Hardworking Village Bullock -- A Young Fowl of a Village -- Spring Festivity in the Bars -- When Will You Come Oh Beautiful! -- Philosopher
All Things Are Pretty But None Is Beautiful -- The Youthful Lass of Punjab Talking to Herself -- Renunciation -- An Invisible Arm That Tilts All From Behind -- Sudden Flight

Part Two: Worship of the Infinite -- The Moment of Blessing with the Spirit -- Difficult Is the Luminous Knowledge of the Revered Guru -- Love for Nature, the Sacred Sight of the Man's Disciple -- My Lord Jhilmila Metres -- Who Can Say Welcome? -- Hospitality of the Sage -- Glossary

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