नियती, भास, द ग गोडसे, जीए, हॉर्हे लुईस बोर्हेस...Wyrd, Greek Sense of Fate, the Vastness of the Sea.

नोव्हेंबर २०१७ मध्ये मी हॉर्हे लुईस बोर्हेस (Jorge Luis Borges) यांचे 'Conversations, Volume 2', २०१४ पुस्तक चाळत होतो.  बोर्हेस यांच्या दीर्घ मुलाखतीचे हे पुस्तक आहे.

"...BORGES. And that brings us to the suspicion that the real hero of The Iliad—for us, and perhaps for Homer too—is Hector.

FERRARI. The Trojan.

BORGES. The Trojan, yes, and the title is proof, The Iliad, that is, it refers to Ilion.

FERRARI. To Ilion, that is, to Troy.

BORGES. Of course, because it could have been called the Achillea, like The Odyssey, but no, it’s called The Iliad. Both have a tragic destiny, since Achilles knows that he will never enter Troy, and Hector knows that he’s defending a city that’s condemned to fire and extermination. Both are tragic figures, both struggling, well, Hector for a lost cause and Achilles for what will be a vengeful cause but at a time when he’s already dead, a cause whose triumph he will never see.

FERRARI. One appreciates the Greek sense of fate there.

BORGES. Yes, and then, the vastness of the sea, because in the action of The Iliad we have the battles and also some scenes between the gods . . .

FERRARI. Yes, but it’s very interesting to see the way that each character in The Iliad submits to the fate of the gods, to the Greek sense of fate, we could say.

BORGES. Yes, well, the gods are also subject to it.

FERRARI. In their turn.

BORGES. I think the word that symbolizes fate, in Greek, is equivalent to ‘wyrd’ in Old English. That’s why the three witches at the beginning of Macbeth are also the weird sisters, that is, the fatal sisters or, rather, the Fates. Those sisters are also the Fates and Macbeth is an instrument of the Fates and of his wife’s ambition. How it affects him, well, when she says that he has too much of ‘the milk of human kindness’. That is, one feels that essentially he isn’t cruel, that he’s driven by the prophecy, by his faith in the prophecy which Banquo for his part doesn’t share, because the witches appear, they make their prophecies, they disappear, and Banquo says, ‘The earth has bubbles, as the water has, and these are of them.’ So that he sees in the witches the chance phenomena of the earth, bubbles...."

नियती (destiny) हा शब्द जीएंमुळे खरा माहित झाला... destiny म्हणजे fate (नशीब) नव्हे ....

"Most people use fate and destiny interchangeably, but they aren’t the same. Fate is the life you lead if you never put yourself in the path of greatness. That’s the direction your life moves in without any effort on your part. That’s your fate. Fate is a negative and is defined as the expected result of normal development. Normal development. Never taking a risk is your inevitable fate.

Destiny is your potential waiting to happen. It’s the top tier in the grand scheme of possibilities and where your dreams come true. You have to be willing to take that first step to reach your potential, even if it’s a risk. With great risk comes great failure."

नियती चा वापर भासांनी अतिशय प्रभावीपणे त्यांच्या 'प्रातिमा नाटकात करून घेतला असल्याचे प्रतिपादन द ग गोडसे (D G Godse, A Search शोध द. ग. गोडसेंचा) करतात...

सोबत दोन परिच्छेद - एक जीएंच्या पिंगळावेळ, १९७७ मधील आणि दुसरा गोडसेंच्या 'नांगी असलेले फुलपाखरू', १९८९ मधील....

भासांच्या महानतेची (कदाचित आणखी एक) ओळख करून घेण्यासाठी गोडसेंचा लेख जरूर वाचा... अर्थात नियती चा असा प्रभावी वापर भासांच्या नंतर (गेल्या जवळजवळ 2500 वर्षांत) भारतात कितीजणांनी केला याबद्दल मला शंका आहे ...

जीए म्हणतात तसे भासांच्या रामायणात रामाला सुद्धा नियती पासून सुटका नाही..."देवदेवतांनादेखील नियतीचे नियम" !.....

दोघांच्या साहित्याच्या कॉपीराईट होल्डर्सचे आभार....