You keep on running away from the world -- Sahir Ludhianvi

You keep on running away from the world,
How can you realize the higher one?
You could not make peace with this world,
You are going to regret in the next world.
What are the sins, what are the virtues?
All rituals seem to be stamped with religions.
How will you make the evolving religions
Ideal with the changing times?

Sensual pleasures are there too to test for,
You don’t know them by abandoning the world.
You will insult the higher one
If you keep on kicking this world.

I say this world is all ours,
You say this world is a dream.
I will pass away living full life,
You will die wasting your life.


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Original in Urdu/Hindi. Now a song for the Indian
movie 'Chitralekha'.

Sansar se bhaage phirte ho
Bhagwaan ko tum kya paoge
Is lok ko bhi apna na sakye
Ush lok mein bhi pachtaaoge

Yeh Paap hein kyaa Ye punya hein kya
Reeton par dharam ki muharyen hein
Harr yug mein badalte dharmo ko
Kaise aadarsha banaoge

Ye bhog bhi ek tapasya hai
Tum tyag ke maarye kya jaano
Apmaan racheta ka hoga
Rachana ko agar thukraaoge

Hum kahete hein ye jag apna hein
Tum kehete ho jhootha sapna hein
Hum janam bitakar jaayenge
Tum janam gawaan kar jaaoge..