Teree preet samajh na aaye
Posted on: November 11, 2025
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Today’s song is from an inspirational film Shri Chaitanya Maha Prabhu-1953.
The film was made by Prakash Pictures, which started as makers of C grade action and stunt films, but ended as makers of top class Religious, Mythological and Social films of merit.
This film was directed by one of the owners – Vijay Bhatt. Music was by R.C.Boral. He was probably invited because the Main character belonged to Bengal. Perhaps it was expected to create a musical semblance to the atmosphere in the film suitable for the story. The cast of the film included Bharat bhushan, Ameeta, Durga Khote, Sulochana Chaterjee, B.M.Vyas, Madan Puri, Umakant, Pinakin Shah, Raaj Kumar and a long list of smaller actors.
The film was quite successful in Eastern India from where Shri Chaitanya hailed. The film’s hero- Bharat Bhushan won the Filmfare Best Actor award for his role in the film. However, the music was below par, being a misfit in the other melodious songs of the 1953 period.
In the year 1953, 2 films that impressed the audience were by Bimal Roy. One was Parineeta. It was a classic film based on the famous novel by Sharat Chandra Chatterjee. ” Do Bigha Zameen’ , based on a short story by Salil Chaudhari was a hit film nationally and internationally. Bimal, greatly influenced by the ‘ Nehru Socialism’ and the” Italian New Wave Films” , made this film showing the pathetic story of a poor land owner of Bihar, coming to a big city like Calcutta and becoming a Rickshaw Puller, with an unrealistic hope of making enough money to get back his mortgaged piece of land. This touching story won several awards, but one American film critic wrote ” It is very strange that a filmmaker from a newly independent nation of India has such a negative picture of his own country ! How will it motivate people to be successful in life ? ”
On the positive side, there was the musical Anarkali, the biggest Hit of 1953. When the film Mughal e Azam, a film on the same story, was released in 1960, film Anarkali was also re-released and it did a very good business. Raj Kapoor’s Aah was good but the audience did not like Raj Kapoor’s ‘Dilip Kumar style’ acting as well as Pran doing the role of a good gentleman doctor, instead of his usual villain style acting. However, the songs became popular.
Other notable musical films were Boot polish, Patita, Shikast, Aas, Jeewan Jyoti, Raahi, Foot path, Jhamela, AVM’s Ladki etc. Film Mayur pankh introduced Asha Mathur and some foreign artists. Nehru’s favourite slogan ‘Vividhata mein Ekta’ was used as a theme in the film Teen batti Char Rasta, by V.Shantaram. He also presented the socialist theme of ‘ Rich-poor’ struggle in the film Surang. First Geva colour film Shahenshah was brought by G.P.Sippy.
Guru Dutt and O.P.Nayyar came together for the first time in the film Baaz. The National Film Awards started and the first award went to Marathi film ” Shyamchi Aai “, made by P.K.Atre starring Vanmala. Filmfare awards also started. Prabhat film company closed down. Music Director Ghulam Haider died in Pakistan.
During the period between the 7th century to about the 17th century, viz. a period of 1000 years was a testing time for the people in India. Outside invaders attacked India, looted it and forced conversions. Small states in India fought with each other and the invaders took full advantage of it. The rich became richer, the poor poorer. Common people were beset with serious problems such as lack of education, caste system, superstition and such other social evils. They felt directionless.
It was here that the rise of BHAKTI MOVEMENT in India came as a welcome relief for the people in distress. It started in the 7th Century, initially in the south. The peak period of this movement was from the 14th to 17th Centuries. It was a religious movement of the medieval period that promoted the belief that Salvation was attainable by everyone. The Islamic Sufism also appeared around the same time. Both advocated that a personal expression of devotion to God is the way to become one with Him.
The movement spread from South to North. In the South, it was devoted to Shiva( Shankaracharya ), Vishnu ( Madhvacharya ), and other Avatars. In the North ,it was devotion to Rama and Krishna. Several saints and religious great souls propagated and helped the common people to remove the burden of rituals and Castes. They were given a simpler approach to God by these Saints who were also social reformers. Saints like Thyagaraja, Dnyaneshwar, Tulsidas and Chaitanya MahaPrabhu tried to enlighten people and united them with awareness of a common thread of Religion. Sant Ramdas, Tukaram, Gyaneshwar, Namdev, Ravidas, Basava, Sankardeva, Vallabhacharya, Annammacharya, B.Ramdass, Thyagraja, Surdas, Kabir, Meerabai, Guru Nanak etc were some of the major contributors to Bhakti Movement.
Due to illiteracy and ignorance, people found it difficult to understand religion. During this period Devotional literature was created in the vernacular languages. To influence people, even Miracles were performed.
What is a Miracle ? ” That which causes wonder ” is the simple definition. It is something that contradicts or is beyond ordinary experience or is caused by supernatural powers. In a Miracle, the laws of Nature are suspended. Ignorant people followed the sayings of a person who did Miracles. In this way, several saints took the help of Miracles to teach people. In most cases, even the die hard opponents were floored by Miracles. Thus, we read in the Biographies of Saints about their Miracles-which was a part of attracting, influencing and teaching the masses.
The Bhakti Movement was India’s own way to combat foreign attackers, cruel rulers and the sleeping people of India. The movement from 1300 to 1600 AD produced many religious Saints and social reformers from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and from Assam to Gujarat. Indian culture is such that the advice given by a religious saint is more acceptable than that given by a social reformer. Thus, in this hour of need, India’s Saints tried to teach message of reforms such as removal of Untouchability, freedom from Varnashram lifestyles, importance of education, Women’s emancipation and other such matters,through their poems, dohas, Abhangs and writings as well as kirtans. They tried to make the masses wake up against the ill effects of social practices that were being observed those days.
Saints appeared in ALL areas of India,during this period. However,due to language problems, knowledge and information about Saints in other regions trickled down very slowly. States which shared the use of Devanagari script were aware about them in a better way. Thus,Maharashtra,Gujarat,Rajasthan and the Northern Hindi belt states exchanged their knowledge about their saints more frequently than other regions such as Bengal, the Eastern states or the southern states where the scripts were different. Andhra and Karnataka were closer as their scripts are similar, except perhaps the alphabet ‘K’. Tamil and Malayalam scripts have Dravidian origins and were not easily accessible for the rest of India.
Shri Chaitany Mahaprabhu is considered and was established by Vedic scripture as the most recent incarnation of God. The Lord always descends to establish the codes of religion. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (4.6-8) where Lord Krishna explains that although He is unborn and the Lord of all living beings, He still descends in His spiritual form in order to re-establish the proper religious principles and annihilate the miscreants whenever there is a decline of religion and a rise in irreligious activity.
Here is a short biography of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, adapted and edited from Stephen-Knapp.com – with thanks.
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (pronounced ‘चैतन्य’) (February 27, 1486 to 1534 AD) was born in Navadvipa, Bengal, on a full moon night during a lunar eclipse. It is typical for people to bathe in the Ganges during an eclipse and chant the Lord’s holy names for spiritual purification. So, everyone in the area was chanting the holy names when He was born. His parents, Sri Jagannatha Misra and Mata Shachi Devi, gave Him the name of Vishvambhara, meaning the support of the universe, because astrologers had predicted His super human qualities and that He would deliver the people of the world. He was also nicknamed Nimai because He had been born under a nima tree.
During His childhood He exhibited extraordinary qualities, even having philosophical discussions with His mother. While growing up, His brilliant intelligence began to become apparent. While still a child, He mastered Sanskrit and logic to the point of defeating local pandits, and established the truth of the spiritual and Vedic philosophy. He became so well known that many logicians of various religious and philosophical persuasions began to fear His presence and refused to debate with Him. Thus, Sri Chaitanya established the authority of the Vaishnava tradition through the process of debate and logic.
When Sri Chaitanya went to Gaya on the pretext to perform ceremonies for the anniversary of His father’s death, He received Vaishnava initiation from Shri Ishvara Puri. Thereafter, He lost all interest in debate and simply absorbed Himself in chanting and singing the names of Lord Krishna in devotional ecstasy. Upon returning to Navadvipa, He gathered a following with whom He would engage in congregational singing of the Lord’s holy names. Thus, He started the first ‘sankirtana‘ movement (congregational devotional singing), and established the importance of chanting the names of God in this age as the most elevated of spiritual processes, and the prime means for liberation from material attachments. At first, His chanting with people was for the few participants who were a part of His group, but then Sri Chaitanya ordered that the ecstasy of love of God be distributed to all people of the area. He gave no recognition for the privileges of caste, or for position, or type of philosophy a person had, or yogic asceticism. He only emphasized the devotional chanting of the Lord’s holy names, using the Hare Krishna mantra – “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare”, which has the power to bring out the natural loving sentiments for God.
It was at the age of 24 when He shaved His head and took the order of sannyasa, the renounced stage of life, when He accepted the name of Krishna Chaitanya from Shri Keshav Bharati during the initiation. He then spent four years travelling through South India, and also visited Vrindavan and Varanasi. During this time he also gave special instructions to his main followers, Shri Roop Goswami and Shri Sanatana Gosvami, who then also spread the glories of the Divine Love for Radha and Krishna. They settled in Vrindavana where they spent their years in writing many books elaborating the instructions of Lord Chaitanya and the glories of bhakti for Radha and Krishna. They also revealed the places where Radha and Krishna performed many varied pastimes in that land of Vrindavana, which have remained special spots where devotees can become absorbed in the bliss of love of Radha and Krishna.
Lord Chaitanya spent His remaining years in Jagannatha Puri. During this time He was absorbed in ecstatic devotion to Krishna in the loving mood of Radharani, in which He would lose all external consciousness. He freely distributed the divine nectar of this love for Krishna to everyone and anyone, day and night. Even His presence or mere touch could transform everyone that came near Him into the same devotional mood. He remained like this until He finally left our vision at the age of 48.
The story of the film was-
It happened in the fifteenth Century. . The tyranny of the rulers, the hypocrisy of the priests, the meaningless austerity of the pedantic Pandits who had turned away from God and the apathy of the rich towards the poor – all combined together to create a chaos in the midst of which the soul of the country prayed for a Messiah. And a Messiah was born in the house of Jagannath Mistra, in the year 1486, on the night of Lunar eclipse when the sky was rent up with the sacred name of Hari. Chaitanya was that Messiah. . After the death of eight children, Biswarup was the ninth son and Chaitanya was the tenth issue. . He was named as Vishwambhar but was called by his mother Sachi Devi as Nimai, whereas the neighbours used to call him Gouranga because he was extremely fair-looking. Nimai was very wild in his childhood and resembled the boy Krishna.
As Nimai grew up the economic condition of the family became very bad. Kalipada Basu, the money-lending neighbour, began to press hard for his dues. He was an evil-minded man who was associated with a low- spirited Tantrik named Bhairabananda and used to blaspheme and belittle the Vaishnavas. . Nimai became young and completed his education only to lose his father forever. He earned a reputation as a Pandit, won the love of all for his sacrificing, loving nature and his devotion to God. Kalipada tried to occupy his house but failed.
Nimai started a school of his own. A career being settled Nimai was now married to Vishnupriya, daughter of the Court-Pandit Sanatan Misra. The death anniversary of his father approached and Nimai went to Gaya. After having a darshan of the Vishnu-Pada-Padma in the temple and after listening to the Krishna-Leela from a Sadhu named Iswarpuri, Nimai fainted. The power that was so long waiting and lying dormant in him now broke up. Thereafter he seemed a changed man. He was lost as a husband to Vishnupriya, lost as a son to Sachi Devi. He was lost IN Krishna and was crying all the time.
Thereafter he changed totally to Krishna Bhakti. He started many keertan schools and hundreds of people became his followers. He did a lot of miracles too.
He converted the local Qazi to krishna bhakti, who had come to convert him to Islam. Chaitanya travelled to Puri and from there toured South India,upto Cape Comorin (Kanyakumari), winning many learned scholars to his following.
He came back to Puri and after 18 years in Puri, one day simply disappeared with his soul and body, while doing kirtan.
Here is a song sung by Lata Mangeshkar. Enjoy….
Song- Teree preet samajh na aaye (Shree Chaitanya Mahaprabhu)(1953) Singer- Lata Mangeshkar, Lyricist-Bharat Vyas, MD-R C Boral
Lyrics
teree preet
samajh na aaye
teree preet samajh na aaye
teree preet samajh na aaye
nirmohee
o manmohan
teree preet samajh na aaye
teree preet samajh na aaye
auron ko apnaa ke toone apne kiye paraaye
teree preet samajh na aaye
teree preet samajh na aaye
tumhre daras ke sneh sudha ko man ka chaatak tarse
it barse saawan kee badariya
it moree ankhiyaan barse barse
it moraa ankhiyaan barse
tum to shyaam naheen ghar aaye
baadal ghir ghir aaye
teree preet samajh na aaye
teree preet samajh na aaye
kab se khadee teree baat nihaaroon
path mein nain bichhaaye
beet rahee meree poojan kee bela
phool mere kumhlaaye
mohan phool mere kumhlaaye
kaanp rahee hai jeevan jyoti
deepak bujh bujh jaaye
teree preet samajh na aaye
teree preet samajh na aaye
nirmohee o manmohan
teree preet samajh na aaye
teree preet samajh na aaye
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