Hason
Raja - The Story
“The sky and the earth are born of my own eyes”
Hason Raja (1852-1922)
Hason
Raja is the celebrated mystical poet of Bangladesh. He is both a
have-not and a King – a rich Lord and a homeless ascetic,
both feared and loved.
In a remote village in East Bengal (Bangladesh),
on holy ground where great saints meet, a child is born wide awake
in the nest of the horizon. His name is Dewan Hasan Raja Chowdhury
– descendant of the warrior King, Babu Khan.
Hason passes his childhood on the river banks of
the Surma, the dream world of his parents shapes his whole life.
He loses his father and brother early in life and so becomes a mighty
Zeminder as a very young man.
Hason grows into a most handsome man attracting
a host of women around him. He abuses his power. Hason is cruel
as he is passionate. He adores love and is crazy for music. But
the dormant spiritual fire torments his heart beyond limit, nothing
can end his longing for divine peace.
His mother inspires him back home from his unholy
associations. For the rest of his life, Hason never ceases to live
from the perspective of divine sublimity. He works hard to discover
the glory of the Creator in his lyrics and music.
Like a river, restless and relentless, he is searching
for the truth. The truth of the inner self, the truth of mankind
as the universal being.
“Hason Raja is a village poet of East Bengal
(now Bangladesh), who in his songs preaches the philosophical doctrine
that the universe has its reality in relation to the person.”
RABINDRANATH TAGORE |