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{{short description|Bengali song composed by Swami Vivekananda}}
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'''''Khandana Bhava–Bandhana''''',<ref group="lower-alpha">{{lang-bn|খন্ডণ ভব-বন্ধন}}</ref> or '''''Sri Ramakrishna Aratrikam''''',<ref name="Poet Swami Vivekananda">{{cite web|title=Poet Swami Vivekananda|url=http://www.milansagar.com/kobi-vivekananda.html|publisher=Milansagar (online magazine)|language=bn|access-date=17 December 2012}}</ref> or '''''Sri Ramakrishna Arati''''',<ref name="Sri Ramakrishna Arati (iitk)">{{cite web|title=Sri Ramakrishna Arati |url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/vs/downloads/stotram.pdf |publisher=Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur |access-date=17 December 2012}}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ("Breaker of this world’s chain"),<ref name="Breaker of This World’s Chain">{{cite web|title=Breaker of This World's Chain|url=http://vedanta.org/vedanta-overview/ritual-arati-vespers/breaker-of-this-worlds-chain/|publisher=Vedanta.org|access-date=17 December 2012}}</ref> is a Bengali song composed by Hindu monk [[Swami Vivekananda]].<ref name="Swami Vivekananda biography">{{cite web|title=Swami Vivekananda biography |url=http://vivekananda.gujarat.gov.in/national-visit.aspx |publisher=Gujarat Government |access-date=17 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121011020/http://vivekananda.gujarat.gov.in/national-visit.aspx |archive-date=21 January 2013 }}</ref><ref name="Dey1990">{{cite book|author=Suresh C. Dey|title=The Quest For Music Divine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__R04X3cSfoC&pg=PA100|access-date=18 December 2012|date=1 December 1990|location=New Delhi|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-7024-301-4|pages=100–}}</ref> The song, dedicated to the 19th-century mystic [[Ramakrishna]],<ref name="(Swami.)">{{cite book|author=Ranganathananda (Swami.)|title=A pilgrim looks at the world|year=1975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9d4ZAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 December 2012|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan|page=238}}</ref> was composed in 1898.<ref name="Sri Ramakrishna Stotram (Āchandālā …) by Swami Vivekananda">{{cite web|title=Sri Ramakrishna Stotram (Āchandālā …) by Swami Vivekananda|url=http://vedantadc.org/achandala-stotram|publisher=Vedanta Centre|access-date=17 December 2012}}</ref><ref name="The Vedanta Kesari">{{cite book|title=The Vedanta Kesari|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zr_WAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 December 2012|year=2006|publisher=Sri Ramakrishna Math.|page=244}}</ref> It is a prayer song, based on Raga Mishra Kalyana, Tala Ferta (Choutal, Tintal, Ektal) used in Indian classical music.<ref name="Poet Swami Vivekananda" />

Vivekananda's message through the poem was to free one self from the bondages of the world, and to make those who have freed themselves spread their knowledge of freedom widely until the whole humanity is filled with tremendous passion for freedom (from bondage and suffering).<ref name="Chattopadhyay2001">{{cite book|author=Santinath Chattopadhyay|title=Swami Vivekananda: his global vision|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nYXXAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 December 2012|date=January 2001|publisher=Punthi Pustak|isbn=978-81-86791-29-5}}</ref>

== History ==
Vivekananda, who died in 1902, was the star disciple of the holy saint Sri Ramakrishna. To follow Sri Ramakrishna's teachings, Vivekananda established [[Ramakrishna Math]] monastic order, which became part of the [[Hindu reform movements]] for regeneration to [[Hinduism]]. He became a key figure in the introduction of Indian philosophies of ''[[Vedanta]]'' and ''[[Yoga]]'' to the western world. He toured the United States and Europe. In 1898, he was in [[Calcutta]], India, taking part in the consecration of Ramakrishana Math monastery set up in the house of Nilambar Babu, a disciple of Ramakrishna. Vivekananda wrote the poem during his stay there.

This ''[[arati]]'' is sung in all Ramakrishna ''maths'' and Ramakrishna missions in their daily prayers.<ref>{{cite book|author=swami Asuthoshananda|title=belur math pilgrimage|url=http://ramakrishnamission.org/pdf_files/belurmath_pilgrimage.pdf|access-date=20 December 2012|publisher=Ramakrishna math Mylapore|page=39|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820102825/http://ramakrishnamission.org/pdf_files/belurmath_pilgrimage.pdf|archive-date=20 August 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Banhatti, G.S. |title= Life and Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda|year= 1995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jK5862eV7_EC&q=Khandana|access-date=20 December 2012 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors|page=36|isbn= 9788171562916}}</ref>

== Theme ==
Vivekananda's deliberate attempt was to free individuals and relieve them from sufferings and bondage. He dedicated his life to this work. The same passion can be found in this prayer song.<ref name="Chattopadhyay2001"/>

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In this hymn Vivekananda addresses Ramakrishna, his master and praises him. He says his master is the breaker of the world's chain who is spotless who came to this world taking human form, he is embodiment of divine knowledge. He looks at the eyes of his master and finds they are bright with the wisdom of God and feels that can wake him from ''[[Maya (illusion)|Maya]]''. Vivekananda again praises his master for his sacrifice, as he thinks his master freely chose to take birth "in this prison" to unchain men from prison. Finally, he requests his master's blessings and requests him to come to his heart's black cave and illuminate it, since his master, in his view, is "light of the light".<ref name="Breaker of This World’s Chain" />

== Lyrics ==
The Khandana Bhava–Bandhana was written by [[Swami Vivekananda]] in Bengali as a hymn to his guru, Sri Ramakrishna. The English translation by [[Swami Prabhavananda]] and [[Christopher Isherwood ]]is used by English-speaking Vedanta Centers in the evening vesper worship services:

Breaker of this world’s chain, 
We adore Thee, whom all men love. 
Spotless, taking man’s form, O Purifier, 
Thou art above the gunas three, 
Knowledge divine, not flesh; 
Thou whom the cosmos wears, 
A diamond at its heart. 

Let us look deep in Thine eyes; 
They are bright with the wisdom of God, 
That can wake us from Maya’s spell. 
Let us hold fast to Thy feet, 
Treading the waves of the world to safety. 
Oh, drunk with love, God-drunken Lover, 
In Thee all paths of all yogas meet. 

Lord of the worlds, Thou art ours, 
Who wert born a child of our time; 
Easy of access to us. 
O Merciful, if we take any hold 
Upon God in our prayer, 
It is by Thy grace alone, 
Since all Thine austerities 
Were practiced for our sake. 

How great was Thy sacrifice, 
Freely choosing Thy birth, 
In this prison, our Iron Age, 
To unchain us and set us free. 
Perfect, whom lust could not taint, 
Nor passion nor gold draw near, 
O Master of all who renounce, 
Fill our hearts full of love for Thee. 

Thou hast finished with fear and with doubt, 
Standing firm in the vision of God; 
Refuge to all who have cast 
Fame, fortune, and friends away. 
Without question Thou shelterest us, 
And the world’s great sea in its wrath 
Seems shrunk to the puddle 
That fills the hoofprint in the clay. 

Speech cannot hold Thee, nor mind, 
Yet without Thee we think not nor speak. 
Love, who art partial to none, 
We are equal before Thy sight. 
Taker-away of our pain, 
We salute Thee, though we are blind. 
Come to the heart’s black cave, and illumine, 
Thou light of the light. 

{{Hatnote|Read the original Bengali version at '''[[:Wikisource:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 4/Translation: Poems/A Hymn to the Divinity of Shri Ramakrishna|full lyrics]]''' at [[Wikiquote]]}}

The ''Hymn to the Divinity of Shri Ramakrishna'' poem/song by [[Swami Vivekananda]] was written in Bengali, Sanskritized and translated numerous times. Its English text is rendered from the Bengali original.<ref name=Dey1990 />

== See also ==
* ''[[Vaishnava Jana To]]''

== References ==
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[[Category:Bengali-language songs]]
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== External links ==
* ''[https://youtube.com/watch?v=YkY5P2QgWeM Khandana Bhava-Bandhana]'' at [[YouTube]]

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