Appreciation

The sonnet uses the episode of mother suckling an infant to good effect. Here is the husband in search of the divine, wandering everywhere for its manifestation – but the divine was there all the time at home! One is reminded of the race between Ganesha and Kartikeya for going round the universe, and how Ganesha won it by just going round the parents – Shiva and Parvati – creators of the cosmos. God, says the poem, is neither nowhere or everywhere. It is right here, and now!

About The Author

Balmukund Dave, Matriculation (1916-1993) hailed from a brahmin family residing in the village of Mastupura in Vadodara district. His schooling was in Mastupura and the city of Vadodara. He shifted to Ahmedabad and took a job in a publishing house. He also had a stint as a journalist. Thereafter he worked in Navjivan, a Gandhian publishing house, from which he retired after some thirty years. After retirement he edited a periodical published by Navjivan. Dave once suffered grave tragedies: in the space of two calamitous days he lost his son and his father. Dave’s poetic sensibilities were forged by the beauties of nature, the dawn ‘bhajans’ of his grandmother, the hearing of marriage songs, and the reading of contemplative, serious, inspiring works. When he shifted to Ahmedabad, he joined Budh Sabha, a colloquium of poets. He was a close friend of Venibhai Purohit, another poet. Dave published poetry, children’s verse, sketches of people, and edited compendiums. Dave saw the mission of the poet being similar to that of the country exorcist who takes out the poison of a snake bite or exorcises spirits; like the exorcist, the poet, he felt, should eliminate poison in people. He once commented that as a poet he was enamoured of nature’s beauty, love, and devotion to God, in that order. He was recipient of Kumar Gold Medal.

જાણો આ શબ્દનો અર્થ (Meaning in Gujarati)

ગંગોદક – ગંગા નદીનું પવિત્ર પાણી. (૨) (લા.) સૌનું બોટેલું સેળભેળ પાણી

મૃદુલ – કૂણું, સુંવાળું, નરમ, મુલાયમ, કોમળ