HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) the Founder of the World Prayer Day wrote about 30,000 lyrics in Urdu (Ghazals) only some of which were put to music by me as his son even though my subject was never music and I was a nuclear physicist most of my life.
.He wrote these 30,000 poems of seven verses each when he was between 80 and 90 years of age and beset upon by grave and serious illnesses.Most of his ghazals portray divine love and divine bliss at its highest.
The pristine and pure divine personality of HH Shri Bhola Nathji who gave his entire life to alleviating the ills and sorrows of mankind, never asked for anything from anyone, and instead passed through many physical travails in his lifetime.
While people making a pretense to spirituality were living in luxury and enjoying themselves at the cost of the public, here was One who lived and died for humanity calling himself in all humility "The Servant of the Earth", even though people experienced God in Him.
This mystic poem depicts how all good people, saviours and messiahs, come into this world and endure sufferings and privations while pretenders roll in wealth and luxury.
Yet, the godliness in these pure and pristine souls like that of HH Shri Bhola Nathji shines out in its brilliance the greater the sufferings that come their way.
I have tried to do justice to the lyrics by composing music to them and singing them myself, but I am sure they fall far below the sublime levels that the lyrics portrayed. I hope you will bear with me.
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