3. Lall Dedh: Lall bu drayas...

للؔ بو درْایس لولہ رے

ژھانڈان لوٗسم دیں کیہو راتھ

 

وُچُھم پنڈت پننہ گرے

 

سُے میْے روْٹمس نیچھتُر تہ ساتھ

 

 

Transliteration:

Lalle bu draayas lol'e re,

Chhandaan loosum dyen kyoho raath.

Wuchhum Pandit pan'ni garre,

Sui mey rotmas nichhtur te saath.

 

Vocabulary:

لولہ: Passionate longing

دیں: Day

نیچھتُر: Almanac

ساتھ: Arcturus star

 

Grierson's translation:

With passionate longing did I, Lalla, go forth.

Seeking and searching did I pass the day and night.

Then, Lo, saw I in mine own house a learned man,

And that was my lucky star and my lucky moment when I laid hold of him.

 

Jiya Lal Koul's translation:

For love that would not let me be,

I, Lalla, set forth in search of Him.

And toiled and toiled for days and nights.

Then Lo! The most auspicious moment of life-

I saw the Pandit in my own home.

 

Nand Lal Koul's translation:

انتہائ جذبہ عشقِ حقیقی دور تک

لے گیا کھینچے ہوۓ مجھکو تلاش حق میں للؔ

اس کے ذوق جستجو میں جابجا پھرتی رہی

الغرض دن ڈھل گیا اور رات بھی آخر ہوئ

آہ! تب یہ کھل گیا مجھ پر کہ پنڈت کا مقام

میرا ہی گھر ہے جہاں دائم ہے اس کا مستقر

تھی میرے نزدیک بے شک اک وہی ساعت سعید

 

My translation:

I, Lalla, ventured in passionate longing,

(But) lost days and nights in His search.

Lo! I found Pandit in my own home,

(And) Laid hold of Him as my almanac and star.

 

Explanation:

This vaakh of Lall Dedh points towards وحدۃ الوجود i.e., "the Unity of Being". Lall says that she went out to search for Him but found Him inside her. And once it realised upon her that He and she are One, she laid hold of Him as her future (almanac) and guide (Arcturus star- the brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere. The constellation of which this star is part is considered auspicious constellation). Translation of ساتھ as moment is wrong in my opinion. Arcturus is called Swati in Sanskrit from which the word ساتھ seems to be derivative. Urdu/Persian word ساعت however means moment and the translators seem to have been waylaid by this word.