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Weakening legs that can’t carry too far
blurring eyes that can’t look too far
dwindling health leaving scores of bodily scars
heart pumping too fast that missing beats could any time mar
yet the burden of expectations any given moment is ever raising its bar
and the doors of desires are not shuting but are becoming more and more ajar
but no way to now know how to get free of desires and expectations’ war
and to lock them far away, where to find that chest drawer!
Bigger houses look cleaner than the smaller ones because they have more places to dump and hide garbage and obsolete or unwanted things!
Same applies to big hearts as they, without letting the garbage bags of frustration, pains, anger, hurt, humiliation to spill over, have large spaces to conceal them under the big curtains of smiles, without letting them get reflected on the faces!
Unrealistic expectations only result in frustrations and heartbreaks. Their end result is excellent excuses only!
Don’t expect seconds’ arm of the clock to tell about minutes and minutes’ arm to tell the hours that the clock has struck!
Right tools and resources at the tight place is the mantra for results and not expectations! A butcher needs butcher’s knife and not a vegetable cutter. Planes need pilots to fly and not the autorickshaw driver!
Unplanned that I am!
Life is static, thus doesn’t change and goes on in a straight path. If anything that goes a change, it’s its prefix only like good, fine, wonderful, joyful, lovely, challenging, sorrowful, lonely, bad, boring, miserable etc. As prefixes are dynamic, they keep changing forming peaks and troughs depending upon one’s circumstances and experiences coming out of one’s mindset, perceptions, beliefs, expectations.
Tearful Homage to Pahalgam Attack Victims!
Terrorists are no different from mosquitoes, always in hunt for blood and deserve to be mercilessly crushed like we give treatment to mosquitoes. Victims of both are innocent human beings who have done no harm to them. If you try to catch them, terrorists run away like the mosquitoes fly away and then attack from some other side. This cat and mouse game goes on. Despite success of your efforts to kill some, neither the mushrooming of mosquitoes nor that of terrorists ever ends. To save yourselves from mosquitoes you use nets and meshes or to kill them you use your hands, or mosquito racquets. Fed up from their increasing nuisense, you use spays to kill them or apply some ointments on your body. But the relief is temporary. The moment the effort of mosquito repellents ends, they again make a comeback. Even they try to find out holes in your nets to go deep inside to bite you without caring for their lives. Thus you have to be ever vigilant, which none can always be as sleep ultimately catches you, thus giving scope to the mosquitoes to attack you. Similar is the case with these brainwashed monsters. To stop mosquitoes from growing, you keep your area clean by keeping dustbins covered, clearing garbage, not allowing stagnant water to ever gather, by filing potholes. Lest surroundings are cleaned effectively, loopholes filled and loose ends tightened, terrorists like mosquitoes would keep growing as its in the dirty waters always are infesting grounds for larvae.
In a din of duel between religonists and aethists, sane voices of humanists are lost!
Rightly said “success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan!"
No one is interested in knowing about the challenges and difficulties you faced or the efforts you put or about your sacrifices, if you fail to deliver as you promised or as they expected of you. People take your explanations as your excuses and you face the rant of their disappointment, frustration and anger in the bargain!
Are fear and lack of trust the ultimate truth of life?
Are both of them two sides of the same coin?
There is a quote “If you want peace, prepare for war.”
Preparing for war is the outcome of both lack of trust on your adversary and the constant fear of any misadventures or attacks by your adversary, thus need to build defences as a safeguard from being uprooted, or getting defeated or being overpowered.
Not only human beings but plants and animals too suffer from this phenomenon and thus build their own defence mechanisms like thorns in the plants, or attacking or running away out of their fear by the animals.
Why King Ashoka’s birth anniversary is not celebrated?
These days a question is making headlines in many WhatsApp Groups asking
“Why King Ashoka’s birth anniversary is not celebrated in our country, when the historians view the period of his rule over India as Golden Era of India and that when India was referred as Vishwa (World) Guru because of the Universities then like Nalanda and a golden bird because of the strong economy during his rule?
At the outset I would like to say that neither Renaissance is a bad thing nor recollecting the distant past if as a student it’s from historical perspective and not for arousal of raw emotions of the masses to satiate cheap political gimmicks or for dividing the society on religious lines.
Though this is just my observation but there could be some other reasons too. Before the Battle of Kalinga Emptor Ashoka was a tyrant, who even killed many including his brothers (Mughals are not an exception) for securing his throne.
After the battle of Kalinga, there was a change of heart and Ashoka renounced his Vaidic Dharma to become a devout follower of Buddhism. Not only that his kingdom became a Buddhist Kingdom and he sent his messengers far and wide to spread Buddhism and its teachings.
As spread of Buddhism became a big threat to Vaidic Dharma, and seeing its base eroding there were conflicts between the followers of both the religions.
A Google search shows that
Early Buddhists in Southeast Asia devoted considerable attention to their competition with Hinduism for devotees and resources. In China, Hinduism never made an impact, but in Southeast Asia the two religions competed on more or less equal terms for adherents for about a thousand years.
Since the spread of Buddhism was state sponsored, being the religion of the state, therefore, with the weakening of powers of those Buddhist rulers and dynasties particularly the Gupta and Pala dynasties, the financial support from the state started to dwindle. This hampered the spread of Buddhism.
Also there were revivalist movements for revivalism of Vaidic religion. In this regard Adi Shankaracharya is credited with revitalizing Hinduism and helping to drive Buddhism out of India.
As per Wikipedia:
The practice of Buddhism lost influence in India around the 7th century CE, after the collapse of the Gupta Empire. The last large state to support Buddhism—the Pala Empire—fell in the 12th century. By the end of the 12th century, Buddhism had largely disappeared from India with the exception of the Himalayan region and isolated remnants in parts of south India.
Therefore, with the dwindling followers of Buddhism in India, Ashoka’s influence over the masses also became marginalised and with majority of India’s population being followers of Hinduism, they had their own heroes to follow and worship, instead of a king who renounced Vaidic Dharma and put his energies as well as state resources for spreading another religion.
Corporate Mantra - Deprive Employees of personal life!
बँधवा मज़दूर या आका के कठपुतली नुमा गुलाम !
सब मर्यादाएँ तो आपके लिए ही हैं बस उनमें बंधते जाते रहो
आप तो राम भजो और सिर्फ़ काम काम और बस काम करो!
चाहे वाहेगुरू का सिमरन करो या अल्लाह कहो मर्ज़ी तुम्हारी
मगर किसी से न कोई उम्मीद रखना न ही कोई फ़रियाद करो!
बकरों की तक़दीर की डोर तो अब किन्ही और ही हाथों में मथी है
वो छुरियाँ लिये घूमते हैं बकरे जो हो आप बस चुपचाप कटते रहो!
कठपुतलियों को रिश्ते नातों ऐश-ओ-आराम की ज़रूरत कहाँ
उनसे तो यही तवक़्क़ो है आकाओ इशारों पे हरदम नाचते रहो!
भूख से तड़पो या फिर प्यासे ही क्यों न रहो तुम जिओ चाहे मरो
मगर आका के लिए कमाओ पैसों से उसकी तिजोरियाँ भरते रहो॥
Life & After!
Life has its own weird ways
Always a fight with shadow
Life keeps competing with it
As life hops one to the next
so is one’s length of shadow
And one day the shadow wins
ultimately it engulfs life in it
Despite refusals and denials
one ultimate truth only prevails
As light gives way to darkness
life just passes away to where
despite claims of those cycles
none has been able to know
that dark mystery ever here!
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Gurpurab Wishes!
Wishes, blessings and prayers are an affirmation of existence of only oceans of pains, sufferings, melancholy, failures etc., everywhere, thus fearing their evil spell, they are for seeking insulation against them or for asking they be erased from the hearts, all wounds of their agony be healed, and to seek that may one be guarded against all the hatred, venom, negativity etc., brewing everywhere.
New Year Celebrations & Loudmouths!
Why this fight over whose New Year this is? Who is forcing these loudmouths to celebrate New Year Day? And who is stopping them to celebrate their own New Year Day as per their culture and traditions?
Everyone knows that it’s a Christian New Year. Still people around the world celebrate, not necessarily because of religious reasons, but more so because of the Gregorian calendar becoming a way of life practically for all purposes, whether it’s for social engagements, or it’s business purposes or it’s science & technology etc.
Like everyone has the right of choice of legally permitted food, alcohol and smoking, the same way, unless prohibited by the law of land, everyone has the right of choice to celebrate any special day like Diwali, Eid, Guru parv, Christmas or New Year etc.
I fail to understand, in a free and a democratic society of multiple faiths, Why people are trying to become self appointed monitors to intrude into others’ personal space? Why such elements are trying to force their choices on others and dictate them as to how they should conduct themselves according to their whims and fancies?
I am quoting Google about the advent of Christian New Year and celebrations associated with 01st January:
“The Christian New Year is celebrated on January 1stand is rooted in the early life of Jesus. The Anglo-Saxons adopted this date when they converted to Christianity in the seventh century. January 1st was chosen because it was the eighth day after Christmas, the day when Jesus was circumcised according to Jewish law. In Christendom, January 1st is traditionally the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ!”
Knowing all this people still want to celebrate to bid goodbye to the Last Night of the outgoing Year and welcome the First Dawn of New Year, as they want to add enjoyment to their lives on one or the other pretext. Thus they are willing to add more and more days and occasions in their lives to celebrate.
Why the loudmouths feel churning in their stomachs, it’s beyond any comprehension!
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It’s just the 2nd Morning of the New Year. Hearty Greetings & wishes are pouring in and would continue for at least one week, thus providing us with an opportunity to catch up with some lost contacts, old friends, relatives and acquaintances not in regular touch, that makes us feel good to know about their well-being and in exchange telling them that ‘All is Well’ or that despite all odds, hanging on to some firmly entrenched peg of some odd hopes or beliefs within, we are still alive and kicking.
Festivals really ice brakets as they provide a great chance to remove dust and cowebs or take out of the deep freezers, remove the frost from these contacts gathered thanks to a thaw that has come in those contacts either due to the busy schedules making both sides moving forward on the different paths and getting lost in their own worlds or some others becoming more important or some personal issues need be addressed on priority!
Despite knowing fully well that most of these contacts will not work out further and will be back in the cold storage, irrespective of all the promises from both sides, emphasising the need to be in regular touch, we still indulge in this periodic ritual, as we know our hearts are still lying in the innocence of those contacts. But oppurtunism and other considerations make any of the attempts of revivals impractical.