11. Love, Repaid!

Love, Repaid!

A few years ago, I was strolling with a friend. On our way, a tall stray dog was struggling to eat the food that was lying on the ground. I didn’t find anything unusual as I assumed he will attempt to bite and eat.

As we walked a couple of steps, she turned back and started fiddling with the food. I was like, what is she upto. I walked back and observed that she was making pieces out of a whole bread. Once she was done, the dog started eating and we recommenced the walk.

We would have hardly walked 30 steps and all I hear is a barking sound from behind. As we turned back, she received a hug from the biggie. It was a wow moment.

I was reminded of this incident few days back, while I was running on the highway. A dog was trying to get something out of a plastic bag. I stopped by and bent down. The bag was knotted and I could sense some food inside it. I untangled it and took the food outside. I ensured that he starts eating it. I sustained the run and after running around 50 meters, looked back to see if I am gonna be lucky enough. Alas! He had started walking northwards. However, I felt happy about him and continued south.

10. Expect, Yes!

Expect, Yes!

Driving in the city is fun with a baggage of a lot of things. To reduce the weight and add more fun, I did an experiment recently.

A vehicle coming from the opposite side yet in the lane that I am driving is quite typical on the internal roads. However, it does arrive and comes with a frustration on my mind. It approaches and passes by; thwarting stays. Similarly some one overtaking from left and coming parallel to the car for going straight, despite me with left turn indicators on is another common scenario that looks quite normal for everyone except me who is behind the steering. There are similar situations that many of us would have encountered.

At the end of the days, seldom anything happens to the car or the situation but a ding is created in mind. The stuff in the exterior will keep happening and is not in my control. The reaction from my interior comes out of the expecation in mind. My brain doesn’t want to expect the hindarances on the way.

What if I start asking it to expect?

Eureka! I am driving on a single lane. There is no vehicle ahead of me and there are 2 vehicles approaching me, while they are in their respective lane. The first of them is the slowest. Hence, I ask the mind to expect the vehicle #2 to pass #1 and zoom in the gap between the two of us. It does expect and is happy if the expecation fulfils and if it doesn’t, I feel elated.

Driving in the city is now more fun and the baggage has reduced. Hope the fun continues.

9. અનિત્ય.

વિદ્યુત લક્ષ્મી,
પ્રભુતા પતંગ,
આયુષ્ય તે તો,
જળ ના તરંગ...

દિલીપ જેવા મુરખાઓ,
વાંચી ને 2 સેકન્ડ રહે દંગ...

જ્યાં સુધી ના સાંભળે,
બીજો કોઈ વૈરાગ્ય પ્રસંગ...

તયાં સુધી લીલાલેહેર,
ટાઈમ પાસ અને કુસંગ...

ભવિષ્ય માં પાછું કાંઈ સંભળાય,
તો 2 સેકન્ડ ફરી રંગ માં ભંગ...

જિંદગી જાણે 2 કોડી ની છે,
મનુષ્ય પર્યાય તો જાણે વ્યંગ.

8. પુરુષાર્થ.

કોઈ પણ મોટું કાર્ય, જેને પૂરું કરવામાં દિવસો લાગવાના હોય એના પાછળ મેહનત જરૂર લાગે છે.

કેટલી પણ મેહનત કરી ને જ્યારે એ કાર્ય પૂરું થવા આવ્યું હોય અને માની લઈએ કે આવતી કાલે એનું ઉદ્ઘાટન છે તો આજ થી લઈ ને આવતી કાલ સુધી ની જે મેહનત છે તે અત્યાર સુધી ના પુરૂષાર્થ ના સરવાળા જેટલી અથવા એનાથી પણ વધારે હોય છે.

આ મનુષ્યભવ અત્યંત અત્યંત પુરુષાર્થ પછી મળ્યું છે. હવે આવતી કાલે જો આત્મજ્ઞાન અનુભવ કરવું હોય તો કેટલું પુરુષાર્થ જોઈએ!!??

હું કેટલું પુરુષાર્થ કરું છું??!!

7. Default Offers.

Default Offers
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Not so often, I put on the FM while driving. I have had a peculiar observation while I do that, probably a few others might align.

Typically, soon as the power on button is pushed on the steering wheel, the immediate next instruction that the brain gives to the left thumb is - switch over to the next channel. The normal tendecy of sequence follows. Until my last FM transaction, I had comfortably ignored this observation.

It so happened that the thumb switched on to another channel in the next fraction of the time the device was switched on. However, the subtle gap between the 2 units of time made me feel that the default channel that was playing had something really interesting.

Here goes the signal back to the thumb to switch back to the one that was playing on power on.

Why am I so scared about the default choices that are offered? - so much so that I don't want to stick on to those for a while!! It might have a great potential to offer me something incredible.

6. Love Undefined.

Love Undefined
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There are instances where I think about you. You know what, those are mere distractions because barring those moments, I simply feel you.

You exist in my breath, you dwell in my heart, you have occupied my mind and you are all over the soul.

With you next to me, I don't only exist but I live. The distance converts me into stone; dead and hard.

I may not be able to express love but I can only love. The words might pour in and will stop some day but feelings surely will go a long way.

There is no reason for me to love you but there is also no reason for not to love.

You are not a memory that flashes in my mind but you are an experience; simple pure and divine.

The world would call you a criminal for stealing my heart. However, I feel indebted as because of you I am saved from falling apart.

I can collect a bunch of evidences to prove my love for you; it's up to you to validate those lifeless proofs or simply touch my life to feel the love.

I inhale you while each moment of this life exhales out. A day will come when life will stop breathing out and you will be breathing in me for eternity, beyond the timeless.

5. Execute Higher.

Execute Higher.

Aim Higher - is an old proverb and a popular one too. There are some proverbs in the language that have a contradicting partner. I haven't heard of anything that refutes this one. However, I am experiencing it to an extent, off late.

Before the morning running regime, I have been feeling lazy these days. Initially I would pump my mind by saying Aim Higher, even if you execute less it's alright. This didn't result in any motivation. Thereafter, I attempted an opposite. I negotiated before the start and settled down with my mind for a 3km run, to which the mind agreed.

Even for 3km the mind wasn't ready to come out of inertia. I would remind it about the negotiated number. It would concur to start. Once it gained momentum, it became a little easy to initiate a bargain for an extra km. Despite subtle apprehension, it would budge.

With the support of legs, it became little less difficult to keep adding half a kilometre. It's been 6th Run of the month today and haven't done less than 7km on the tar in any of those.

Love to play tricks - Aim lower, Execute higher.

PS: No intent to damage any proverb, just exploring the other side of the coin.

4. પરોપકારી આત્મા.

પરોપકારી આત્મા

આ આત્મા ખુબ પરોપકારી છે.

એને પોતાની ચિંતા નથી, પરંતુ પોતાના સિવાય
ઘણા બધા ની ચિંતા છે.
એનું સંપૂર્ણ જીવન બીજા માટે સમર્પિત છે. દુનિયા, દેશ, સ્વજન, પરિવાર આ બધાની સેવા કરતા કરતા થોડો થાક લાગે ત્યારે શરીર ની ચિંતા સતાવે.
શરીરની સેવા નું પરોપકાર પણ વિના વિલંબ
કરતો રહે. પ્રત્યેક ની ચાકરી કરવા માટેસમય અને શક્તિ નું નિવેશ કરવામાં બિલકુલ કચાશ ના રાખે, આને મહાપરોપકાર નહિ તો શું કહીયે.

દેહ અને કુટુંબ ની જરૂરિયાતો પુરી
કરવા માટે પૈસા કમાવા જાય અને એમાં દિવસ તો ત્રીજો ભાગ વ્યતીત કરે. બાકી નોત્રીજો ભાગ શરીર ને આરામ આપવા માટે ગાળે. બાકી નો સમય પર ચિંતાઅને તૈયારી માં વિતાવે.

આ બધું કરતા કરતા એને પોતાના
માટે સમય ન મળે. પરંતુ એની એને
કોઈ ચિંતા નથી કારણકે એ કટિબદ્ધ છે સંપૂર્ણ જીવનનું બલિદાન પરોપકાર ને અર્થે કરવા માટે.

ખરેખર, આ આત્મા ખુબ પરોપકારી છે. 

3. मैं खुश रहता हूँ।

किसीने पूछ लिया, तुम क्या करते हो?

मैंने कहा - मैं खुश रहता हूँ।

फिर वे बोले - कुछ काम तो करते होंगे,

जी, ज़िन्दगी के हर मोड़ पर नदी की तरह बहता हूँ,

चलता हूँ, रुकता हूँ, थकता हूँ, गिरता हूँ, संभलता हूँ,

हर हाल में अनुभव के आनन्द में चहकता हूँ,

कई मुसाफिर मिलते है इस सफर में,

सब से यही बात मैं कहता हूं,

कुछ करना, ना करना सब क्षण का मोह है,

इस क्षण में जो जीवन है, उसमे "मैं" महकता हूँ।

किसीने कह दिया, कविता खूब करते हो!!

मैंने कहा - मैं शब्दों से चहकता हूँ, हाँ, मैं खुश रहता हूँ।

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2. माँ.

माँ की तस्वीर को लोगो ने किया प्यार से Share,
उम्मीद है जिंदगी भर होती रहे ऐसी Care,

माँ ऐसा सब कुछ करती है, जो नही कर सकता कोई Dare,
माँ पास है तो जन्नत है, चाहे वो जगह हो Anywhere,

बचपन, जवानी, बुढापा, माँ की ममता हमेशा There,
माँ की हाज़री में नही कर सकता अपने पर कोई Stare,

तस्वीर करें ना करें, माँ के साथ करें जिंदगी Share,
सारी दुनिया ख़िलाफ़ हो तब भी, माँ सदा करेगी Care.

1. Lifeless Hair, Smile for Life.

A niece of mine is in her late teens. She is full of life.

She loved her long hair. Everyone would not only adore but crave to have such a length and quality.

Wondering, what happened to her hair?

Recently, she happened to come across a salon in a suburb that had tied up with a NGO. The NGO was on a mission to collect the hair and get the wigs made out of it. These wigs were created for the cancer patients.

My niece has a heart that is lovelier than her hair. Without a moment of thought, she curtailed her hair by several inches and donated it to the salon.

Hats off to her superb gesture.

Well, now her hair appear more beautiful as she has poured in her love in it.

Greatly appreciated!!