{"id":9657,"date":"2024-08-15T12:31:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiawilds.com\/diary\/?p=9657"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T07:10:27","slug":"original-vande-mataram-indias-national-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indiawilds.com\/diary\/original-vande-mataram-indias-national-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Vande Mataram India&#8217;s National Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=indiawilds\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<h1>Vande Mataram<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Original Vande Mataram #nationalsongofindia in 4K UHD #india #vandemataram #motherindia #wildlife\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DNeicrP_5oQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Vande Mataram was originally composed by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1882. It was part of his novel Anandamath. This iconic song had inspired many freedom fighters when India was under the British rule.<\/p>\n<p>The first two stanzas were declared as the National Song of India. The later part had compared Mother India as Durga so people of other religions were against it. Hence only the first two paragraphs were considered due to secular reasons.<\/p>\n<p>I have been inspired by the Vande Mataram song since my childhood days. So this film is my reinterpretation of Bankim Chandra&#8217;s original composition using India&#8217;s natural heritage, wildlife, water, &amp; culture.<\/p>\n<p>Water is life. Without water man can&#8217;t live. Civilizations have failed without water. So in the initial part of the film I have shown various waterfalls and waterbodies of India.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the second part, Mother India as Goddesses #Durga is self explanatory. And in the last part wildlife mother and child. Wild animals rear their kids without expecting anything in return from them. In their case, mother hood is all about giving &#8211; pure unalloyed love for their kid. So in the last part I have shown wild animal mother feeding their young ones.<\/p>\n<p>The translation of the Vande Mataram into english by Sri Aurobindo is given below:<\/p>\n<p><b>Mother, I Bow to Thee\u00a0!<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"poem\">\n<p>Mother, I bow to thee!<br \/>\nRich with thy hurrying streams,<br \/>\nbright with orchard gleams,<br \/>\nCool with thy winds of delight,<br \/>\nDark fields waving Mother of might,<br \/>\nMother free.<\/p>\n<p>Glory of moonlight dreams,<br \/>\nOver thy branches and lordly streams,<br \/>\nClad in thy blossoming trees,<br \/>\nMother, giver of ease<br \/>\nLaughing low and sweet!<br \/>\nMother I kiss thy feet,<br \/>\nSpeaker sweet and low!<br \/>\nMother, to thee I bow.<\/p>\n<p>Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands,<br \/>\nWhen the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands<br \/>\nAnd seventy million voices roar<br \/>\nThy dreadful name from shore to shore?<br \/>\nWith many strengths who art mighty and stored,<br \/>\nTo thee I call Mother and Lord!<br \/>\nThough who savest, arise and save!<br \/>\nTo her I cry who ever her foe man drove<br \/>\nBack from plain and Sea<br \/>\nAnd shook herself free.<\/p>\n<p>Thou art wisdom, thou art law,<br \/>\nThou art heart, our soul, our breath<br \/>\nThough art love divine, the awe<br \/>\nIn our hearts that conquers death.<br \/>\nThine the strength that nerves the arm,<br \/>\nThine the beauty, thine the charm.<br \/>\nEvery image made divine<br \/>\nIn our temples is but thine.<\/p>\n<p>Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,<br \/>\nWith her hands that strike and her swords of sheen,<br \/>\nThou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,<br \/>\nAnd the Muse a hundred-toned,<br \/>\nPure and perfect without peer,<br \/>\nMother lend thine ear,<br \/>\nRich with thy hurrying streams,<br \/>\nBright with thy orchard gleams,<br \/>\nDark of hue O candid-fair.<\/p>\n<p>In thy soul, with jewelled hair<br \/>\nAnd thy glorious smile divine,<br \/>\nLoveliest of all earthly lands,<br \/>\nShowering wealth from well-stored hands!<br \/>\nMother, mother mine!<br \/>\nMother sweet, I bow to thee,<br \/>\nMother great and free!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Directed, Shot &amp; Edited by: Sabyasachi Patra<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;B&#8217; Camera &amp; Aerial filming: Mrudul Godbole<\/p>\n<p>Sung by Sangeetha Srikishen and team from World Music Conservatory, Bengaluru<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Wild Tiger Productions MMXXIV<\/p>\n<p>www.indiawilds.com<\/p>\n<p>All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<div class='epvc-post-count'><span class='epvc-eye'><\/span>  <span class=\"epvc-count\"> 10,369<\/span><span class='epvc-label'> Views<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=indiawilds\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vande Mataram Vande Mataram was originally composed by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1882. It was part of his novel Anandamath. This iconic song had inspired many freedom fighters when India was under the British rule. 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