My translation attempt of Marathi Drama एकच प्याला (Only one glass) written Ram Ganesh Gadkari)
Act 1V
Episode -IV part (2)
(All go back. The next entry is on the last curtain.)
The road on which Sudhakar will be going does not need companionship along the road. Come on, wine, come on. Oh wine, why do you need a team of scholars to say that you are not a deity? Even the beast that is bewitched by your cruel magic knows that you are a monster! You are a deadly monster! You are a cruel monster! But you are an honest monster! You cut your throat only when you say you shall cut throat! You have never acted otherwise by promising to destroy the whole house! You never back down from agreeing to accompany him to the door of death!
Even if beautiful face is disfigured due to you, you can easily recognize that face! Even if you delete someone's name, you do not forget him out of ignorance! Come on, wine! Grab the neck of Sudhakar with your awesome, deadly power! Then, even if Sudhakar's throat gets chocked due to your grabbing it is better.
(Drinks plenty of glasses. Ramlal comes and goes to get the glass from Sudhakar's hand.)
Stupid fool! Get away - be careful if you take a step forward! Go Ramlal, put your hand in the hungry jaw of the tiger first to pull out the awful body of delicate sheep; And then reach out your hand to pick up this glass in front of me!
Ramlal: Oops, Sudha, after hearing Sindhutai's message about your determination, I came here with high hopes and you showed this type?
Sudhakar: I had decided it with a bigger hope than that; But-
Ramlal: But, but-but whats that? Leave, Sudha, still now give up this alcohol-
Sudhakar: Leave now? After drinking alcohol for so many days - crazy, why so many days? Quit after drinking once? Crazy, alcohol is not something that can be heard with this ear and given up with this ear! Alcohol is not a luxury, it can be added as you like today and quit it tomorrow! Alcohol is not just a toy, it can be used to get a good night's sleep and leaving at bedside by getting bored while playing! Ignorant boy, alcohol is a force, alcohol is the weapon of time. Alcohol is the breaking pin for running wheel of the world. If alcohol were such a trivial, trivial thing to play with, it would never have created so much commotion in the world! Even though thousands of benevolent men built a dams with their bodies, the flood of which has continued to flow uninterruptedly in four continents, the leaves of the Vedas went floating in that the river, the huge scepter of strong power got stuck in its neck, the liquor is not an ordinary thing!
You do not know the destructive power of alcohol! A building that withstands torrential downpours will become dust by alcohol spray! The towers that hold the chest in front of the storm of ammunition, will be destroyed by the touch of this alcohol and will fall to the ground! Whats more, the ancient magicians used to sprinkle spells on people and make them look like dogs and cats. This would be a joke to a learned pundit like you today; But Ramlal, if you want to see the magic of alcohol, bring any virtuous, learned and well qualified man and put four drops of alcohol on him; You will see that man has become a beast without even rolling his eyes! This is alcohol, you know?
Ramlal: With your restraint, with your thinking power, - Sudha, Sudha, what you can't do when you decide in your mind? No matter how strong the alcohol is, you can be sure to get out of its grip - remember your determination!
Sudhakar: What determination! If a man lying on a blanket under the influence of alcohol, at the imminent death prospect, at last glance, makes one seem to recognize him with caution, but a prudent man does not rely on such a broken basis of evidence. To this day, I felt the same way; But, brother, I am now convinced that man will never get rid of the scourge of alcohol!
Ramlal, when the limbs being numb due to cold while flowing in the flood of the river, realizing that its life will surely be lost in the river, will the drowning person be able to swim out of the river with those lame limbs? Is it possible to extinguish the fire by blowing the last breath of the burning soul, even if it is feared to be burnt while burning in the flames of the burning village? So how can death be averted even if you get the real divine power when you are drowned in the possession of alcohol, which is concentrated in the pulling and burning powers of these two great demons ( water and fire)?
Ramlal, there is only one time to get rid of alcohol and that time is before the first drinking! The first single drink - then for whatever reason - whoever took it once became a perpetual slave to alcohol! Even if just with curiosity, one tries to play with alcohol, such Diwali festival lamp can turn into all destroying great fire of Holi! Listen Ramalal, work style of alcohol once a time! Take a breath!Let me once- (Drinks a full glass. Ramlal lowers his mouth.) Just listen now!
The three stages of the life of every addicted person are: hypnosis, insanity and delirium. Each of these stages starts with a single peg in succession. Every alcoholic's first acquaintance with alcohol is always with a single peg! To get rid of fatigue, to get fit, for whatever reason, say it as to follow etiquettes’ or as an insistence on friendship, this single peg is always the first lesson of a beginner! Let he be an illiterate cooli; Or a poet of poets, and a Shukracharya, the possessor of Sanjivani Vidya; For both of these people, starting lesson is -this one peg!
Due to the intoxication of alcohol, the mental power of the mind is blurred, so that the person does not become acutely aware of the mental distress or the suffering of the body, and so in this state, alcohol is always felt as beneficial to the alcoholic. Due to the shame of the people and the fear of the mad frenzy - the idea of unconsciousness, even for a moment, seems very frightening to the person who understands it, and so at the beginning, the novice alcoholic is afraid of the impurity as much as the shame of the people! Due to such double fear, man in this state does not go to extremes to cause harm; But we always drink as much as we can to get the nausea we want. And so in a state of hypnosis, alcohol taken in moderation seems beneficial and seductive! The side effects of alcohol in the second and third cases are shown by his friends at this time, which makes him feel that they are completely false, exaggerated or at least true in the case of another.
Due to his initial restrictions, his addiction seems to be a wise caution, and the drunkard laughs at his preachers by deceiving himself into believing that his friends may be frightened or that they are shown to make him look ugly. It is not uncommon for a person to be unaware of this condition and for the next stage to occur. This unfortunate truth does not suit man at this time, and he continues his addiction! But the effect of habit on the mind and body of man is not so much tomorrow, and so to make the alcoholic as drowsy as today, we have to increase the amount of alcohol we drink today and tomorrow more than today! In the last days of this hypnosis, the rate is increasing to such a critical level that if you take more than one peg after the meeting, it should not be considered as extreme! The main sign of this state of alertness is that even at the time of falling asleep, man is fully alert. He does not dare to fall asleep in a state of intoxication. In such a situation, one day for some reason, special events come and friends start urging each other. One more peg is given to the drunkard at the end of the meeting, who is sitting at the tip ot boundary to purify himself. This is the only peg that can start the state of insanity after the end of hypnosis! Due to this excess, things like loud talking, losing balance, losing rhythm, falling somewhere, doing something start happening. Ramlal, don't get bored listening to this story. In this next stage, the sooner alcohol takes over the body of man, the sooner I take over the story of alcohol. In this state of insanity, a person does not feel at ease and does not feel satisfied unless he drinks alcohol until he gets into a lot of insanity every day. After so many days of practice, alcohol becomes more essential than food for the body and mind to survive. In this state of intoxication, the excesses of intoxication lead to incest and oppression from time to time. Out of remorse, he promises to give up alcohol thousands of times, and breaks that promise just as often as his weak body needs. Trapped in the clutches of poverty and public disgrace, he tries to give up alcohol, and in the grip of a lifeless body and a weak mind, he drinks more and more. In the first stage man does not give up alcohol; And alcohol does not leave a person in this state.
With the foresight, realizing that the terrible effects of alcoholism are possible in our future, a novice alcoholic will be able to give up alcoholism at some point in time when he is in the first stage with great determination, steely determination and compulsive thinking. But even after spending a few days in this second state, the person who gets out of the grip of alcohol must be of incarnate strength, divine power, and transcendental restraint. The iniquities increase gradually and the subsequent moments of repentance become unbearable. He doesn’t wish to experience that repentance when awake so keeps on drinking to remain in drunken state And he takes a single peg in order to keep the all time in an uninterrupted sound, determined not to let a single moment of caution squeezing out of remorse come to him; Breaks the vow not to drink alcohol; And again, no such voe again. This single cup is the beginning of the third stage( parlay-flood)!
Brother, while making a vow near Sindhu this morning, I had no idea that the third stage of my life would start today! The happy posture of Sindhu in the morning, the tears of joy, the faint luster of the last hope in my fading eyes, the redness on the baby's cheeks as we both kissed - the last joy in our twinkling world - let that joy go alone in one peg! (Drinks.) Crazy, there's no reason to feel bad now. I have been talking about theology for so long, ignorant soul, why do you feel a little hope? My theology is not about repentance; It’s toxic frustration. This is the third flood in my drunken life. In the first stage, man does not give up alcohol. In the second stage, alcohol does not leave the person, and in the third stage, the two do not leave each other. In this state, alcohol and man are so united that they are not separated till death. Remaining all time in a trance of alcohol, or due to the onset of a disease due to drinking, a trauma due to a mental trauma or a tragic accident; It leads to a final end. And to get that end closer, it's my job in this world to have a lot of alcohol. This one - another one - just one more peg! (Drinks a lot again.)
Ramlal: Sudha, Sudha, what are you doing?
Sudhakar: What am I doing? Listen, Ramlal! You are my best friend, the best of benefactors; But I have a more sincere benefactor than you , not just me, but for the whole world, a close friend of life, a benefactor. I am trying to honor him. Before whom even Dhanvantari( doctor) has laid his hands( could not succeed); Who gives a hand to the suffering of such a patient? Death! What is the end of the grief of the mother and child who are looking at each other with an apologetic look, suffering from famine and starvation? Death! Whose face does the despairing human race finally look to for the destruction of human beings who are releasing their livelihood with their oppressive force? Death! That death will come to meet you and me! If such a benevolent black man goes to take two steps, my humanity will be seen in it and so much of his suffering will be saved. In this way, I am putting alcohol in this weak body to make easy for Yama(God of death). Ramlal, we get murdered for destroying another, true; But I am committing suicide, alcohol is killing me! Good man, it is dangerous to stand in front of a murderer! (Drinks again.)
Ramlal: But what is the reason for torturing such a soul?
Sudhakar: What is the reason? The only reason - and that's the only drink!
Ramlal: One cup - one cup - in this one cup, but what is this?
Sudhakar: You ask what is in this single cup? Brother, you are so crazy! What do you think is not in this single cup? (Filling the cup) Look at this one cup! It's full of real! What do you see in it Ramlal, the last day of despair comes in the life of man, when the memory of life cannot deceive him, and with certainty of death he begins to confess the power of death over his own body. It takes. This visual cruelty begins to play even in the simple poetic spirit of the human heart. At such times, looking at the cruel poetic view of death, which is bitterly depressing, one also remembers frightening ideas about beautiful things. Looking at it from that point of view, the picture of a child breastfeeding with satisfaction on its mother's lap, that if it dies there, what will happen to that mother, the picture stands in front of such a cruel idea! When you see a new bride full of turmeric, you start thinking about what she will look like after removing her hair when she becomes widow! Ramlal, I am in that state right now and my imagination is burning with the flame of alcohol. At such times, I am talking loudly!
Now look at what is filled in this one cup from my point of view! The Saptasamudras( seven seas), agitated by the earth's desire for gems in its belly, thought of covering the earth with their vast expanse; At the time of that flood, the earth saved us on the basis of Kurmaprishta( turtle back)! Aditya (Sun)opened twelve eyes with the pride of burning the universe! In that fire, he remained aloof in the form of Chitsvarupa(essence of life) on a Vatpatra ( leaf of Bunion tree)and re-adorned the whole creation! Due to this insult of both, fire and water forgot their natural enmity and thought of the destruction of living creatures! With the envy of jealousy to take the life of the examinee, Takshaka took the form of a worm in a sack, just as the intellect of the agitated Saptasamudra also sat in a small cup; And Aditya gave his burning fire to help them! To bring the seductive charm to the eyes of man, the forehead of the floating widow was made devoid of red sign and the red light was brought to this glowing fire! This one cup is full of so much bitter wine! Have you seen this liquor? (Drinks the cup.) Now what do you see in this empty cup? Nothing? Take a closer look, that is, the miracles that Yashode may not have seen in the mouth of Lord Krishna on the occasion of विश्वरूपदर्शन Vishwarupadarshan, will be seen in your eyes in this empty cup! Look at these huts of drunken laborers hoping to get rid of exhaustion! This mansion of rich people who drink alcohol to spend idle time! This is a bunch of educated idiots who have learned to drink alcohol only as a sign of prestige! In order to accomplish something that is not possible in a simple way, one has to take a little bit of cunning by drinking with him in order to get it from someone on the floor. Those practical business people also are there.
Look at this one cup drowning all the industrialists, the poor, the lazy, the rich, the literate, the illiterate, the illiterate!
Look at the wives of drunken husbands with white foreheads! The screams of the starving children of the drunkards, the agony of the old parents who are tormented by the untimely death of their children! In exchange for the fourteen gems stolen, the Saptasamudras contained in this single cup, in the form of liquor, swallowed highly learned wise men( narratnas) prematurely!
The women have poured ten times as many pearls of tears as the pearls that came out of the belly of the sea to adorn the woman!
Harrasement of unsupported women, violence of unemployed goondas, cruel kingdoms, , fights of close friends, riots, murders - Ramlal, look at this, Emperor Alexander, who is ruling the world, is killing his close friend only by becoming a killer under the influence of alcohol! Look at that, the giant Guru Shukracharya, who revives the dead, is drowning in this one cup with his own death!
(The glass begins to fill with alcohol; Ramlal begins to hold his hand.)
Stubborn fool, you still hold my hand! What good there is holding my hand now? Do you still find this one cup a joke? Ramlal, ships sunk in the sea since time immemorial; The vast expanse of the human world, all of which is brought to mind, makes the common man think that the sea floor, which is full of them, is terrifying. Brother, you are intelligent and creative. Let this little cup in my hand grow so big in the world of your imagination, that the part of this beautiful world that sits at the bottom of that cup, will dance before your eyes. Your eyes have begun to get scared, began to flow!
Ramlal, this is the only cup in the form of a giant shape! Ramlal, take a good look at this ugly and horrible look. Don't fall into the trap of removing the glass from my hand. Benevolent man, after so long talking , in front of your imagination, this huge cup idol was erected, not for this Sudhakar. Reformer, Go, all over the world, with your glorious voice, build imaginary fierce picture of this huge cup – keep it in front of the eyes of the people in such a fierce form! If any young man is about to a puts the first single cup to his lips, , at the insistence of friends, or any temptation you show this picture to him If by seeing this he is terrified and the glass slips from his hand and gets broken spilling all the alcohol, the this Sudhakar, even if present at the bottom of saptasamudras shall get satisfied with a sigh of relief! Ramlal, from now on this is your job and this is my job! (Drinks.)
Ramlal: Sudhakar, people say that sin should not be seen by eye. but from now on-
Sudhakar: Taking voe.No. Don't keep your word; That is, breaking it will not be a sin. Brother, my alcohol addiction will go away for a while, but the craze to get rid of my addiction seems hard to get through your head. Ramlal, one cup, one experience - I did not tell you this principle only for alcohol. The same is true of temptation. Take the women's story; I have seen a woman many times - look with kindness, look with love - let her go - Ramlal, you are wise, and Sharad - she is my sister - you have considered her a girl from the bottom of your heart. Even in scoundrel's mind, the idea of sin will not come here, right? You have looked at her innocently a million times? - Go, just touch her body once unconsciously while talking! Brother, one touch- but by being the mother of humanity, you will be the beast of birth!
Ramlal: (In mind) One cup! One touch! I came here to teach you the wisdom of words! And we went back to learning the words of wisdom! One cup! One touch! One glance! The first instance of any object of temptation should be avoided at the first instance- then behaving cautiously- still is the beast of birth! One touch of Sharad! I am Animal! (Openly) Sudha, let's go home first. (Go.)
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