Our National Anthem

Hi Friends,

I am writing this post to just clear some myth about Our National Anthem:

Today i read one article.Here is some part of it:

" Our National Anthem "Jana Gana Mana" is sung throughout the country. Did you know the following about our national anthem? I didn't. I have always wondered who is the "adhinayak" and "bharat bhagyavidhata",whose praise we are singing. I thought it might be God!

To begin with, India's national anthem, Jana Gana Mana adhinayaka, was written by Rabindranath Tagore in honor of King George V and the Queen of England when they visited India in 1919. To honor their visit Pundit Motilal Nehru had the five stanzas included,which are in praise of the King and Queen. (And most of us think it is in the praise of our great motherland!!!)

In the original Bengali verses only those provinces that were under British rule, i.e. Punjab, Sindh,Gujarat,Maratha.. etc. were mentioned. None of the princely states were recognized which are integral parts of India now - Kashmir,Rajasthan,Andhra, Mysore or Kerala. Neither the Indian Ocean nor the Arabian Sea was included, since they were directly under Portuguese rule at that time.



The Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka implies that King George V is the lord of the masses and Bharata Bhagya Vidhata is "the bestower of good fortune". Following is a translation of the five stanzas which glorify the King:

1st stanza - (Indian) People wake up remembering your good name and ask for your blessings and they sing your glories.

2nd stanza - around your throne people of all religions come and give their love and anxiously wait to hear your kind words.

3rd stanza - Praise to the King for being the charioteer, for leading the ancient travellers beyond misery.

4th stanza - Drowned in the deep ignorance and suffering, poverty stricken,unconscious country? Waiting for the wink of your eye and your mother's (the Queen's) true protection.

5th stanza - in your compassionate plans, the sleeping Bharat (India)will wake up. We bow down to your feet O' Queen, and glory to Rajeshwara (the King). This whole poem does not indicate any love for the Motherland but depicts a bleak picture. When you sing Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka, whom are you glorifying? Certainly not the Motherland. Is it God? The poem does not indicate that. It is time now to understand the original purpose and the implication of this, rather than blindly sing as
has been done the past fifty years.

Nehru chose the present national anthem as opposed to Vande Mataram because he thought that it would be easier for the band to play. It was an absurd reason but today for that matter bands have advanced and they can very well play any music. So they can as well play Vande Mataram, which is a far better composition in praise of our dear Motherland -India.

Wake up, it's high time! Vande Mataram should be our National Anthem. "....



I don't know why people write this kind of blogs without knowing fact.


My Explanation:


Who is this “Bhagya Vidhata”?

Those of you who have read Tagore’s poetry and lyrics on “devotion” (Gitanjali for example) will know that if there was a divine entity to whom Tagore addressed many of his heartfelt yearnings for communion, it was a “Monarch” infinitely greater than any mortal King Emperor could ever aspire to be.
The Lord of India’s Destiny, to whom Jana Gana Mana is officially addressed, is in Tagore’s conception the perennial Bhagya Vidhata of India who has, from the very dawn of civilization, guided India through great triumphs and tragedies. The Lord of India in Tagore’s conception is therefore India’s “eternal guiding spirit” (a totally secular idea) and could never be merely the king of a colonial empire!
The charge that Jana Gana Mana was composed for George V actually rests on false evidence given by the pro-British press. The song was first sung in a session of the Congress in 1911. This session had decided to felicitate George V since he had announced the abrogation of the partition of Bengal, thereby conceding the success of the Swadeshi agitation, the first modern anti-colonial movement that had started in 1905. The day after the session the nationalist Indian papers normally — and accurately — reported that a Tagore composition had been sung. The Bengalee — along with other Indian newspapers as well as the report of the Indian National Congress – reported that it was a “patriotic song”. The following year the song was published as “Bharat — Vidatha”. A contemporary commentator in the vernacular Bharati described the song as one in “Praise of the Dispenser of human Destiny, who appears in every age.” He probably came closest to capturing its spirit. This song was to later become known as Jana Gana Mana.

Anyone who knows Bengali and who has read the COMPLETE song Jana Gana
Mana would realise that it is a canard that Jana Gana was written to
praise King George. In one of the later stanzas the poet refers to
"snehamoyi tumi MATA"(O affectionate MOTHER). King George could not
have been referred to as a MOTHER! It is also ironic that Hindutwavadis
are trying to promote Vande Mataram for this song was written with the
Bengali nation in mind. The later part of the poem referes to "Sapta
koti kantha" (Seven crore voices) which does not make sense as a
reference to India's population but makes perfect sense as a population
of Bengal in that time.

If you research more about our national anthem, you find that Tagore wrote the poem with God and India in mind. He was forced to write it for the British, but they could not force Tagore to think about King George when he wrote it.
Plus, only the first stanza is used in our national anthem.
Oh
and I’m pretty sure the Indian Government KNEW this when they picked out the National Anthem. They obviously did not pick out the poem to glorify the British, they had just derived the Brits out of their own country! I researched the topic and the reason they didn't pick Vande Mataram is because that poem has religious meaning and it wouldn't be fair to the Muslim leaders in India to have a religious national anthem. being a demo


"This song is in soul of Indian......"....
And we accept "Jana gan Mana"..

As our National Anthem.....!!!!.....JAI HIND