Possibility : Translation of “Sambhavana”

Sambhavna is an individual’s deep probing into his own psyche and his responses to various stimuli in his environment. Hence at one level it is personal and yet it’s brilliance lies in the universality of its appeal. The reader finds himself reflected in many of the poems like The Distance The Idealistic Mask Tears etc.  I felt the powerful draw to the poems as I read them in Hindi first. Mr. Murli is a prolific writer no doubt but more than that he’s is earnest and honest in his expressions. There is no guile in what he writes. The reader is not led through a labyrinth of linguistic conundrums to deceive him instead the poets forthright style endears him to the reader.  Murli Ji chooses a wide variety of subjects as the poems will reveal but the presence of the Almighty is clearly evident. A superior being a driving force revealing to him the purpose of his life as the years go by string the poems together.  The title Possibility is unique in itself for it’s like a fluid situation with no finality to it. And life is exactly so Fluid it can be moulded shaped bettered always.  The poem “Truth of the DNA” reveals the poets anathema for material gain vulgar display of wealth and the mindless race there of. He finds himself lost till his figurative death leads him back to the truth—- his DNA. This for me is his finest poem in this collection.  Amrita Chatterji Ex-Faculty English Literature St. Josephs College Allahabad