merry christmas

With twinkling stars in sky,
With dancing waves on sea,
With cool breezes around,
I send warmth and wish...

Merry Christmas to you,
Merry Christmas to all,
Merry Merry many many
I send warmth and wish..

Musical lights fill your heart with love,
Joyful smiles free your hand with love,
Wisdom thoughts free your head with love,
I send warmth and wish...

Friendship grows, Light returns..
singing, dancing, laughing & sharing
let outer manifest inner state
I send warmth and wish..

all be blessed, all be loved
all feel the peace, all feel the grace
progressing to new year..
I send warmth and wish..

All shall unite, All be infinite
That's what I wish,
On this beautiful day
I send warmth and wish..

Sanedo...

Couple of years back I used to hate Sanedo,
a year or little more I used to enjoy but dislike Sanedo;
everything change few days back,
now I not just enjoy but love Sanedo.

Q: What brought this transformation?
Ans: Moved by Love, ' start-up services' retreat.

On very first day, first thing I heard after silent walk, welcoming greetings and soothing music. A word 'Sanedo' and how joyful it is. I said to myself, uff! Sanedo is here too, I don't like it. But when they explained origin and its meaning. Everything started moving and changing. Whole position got changed and I reached to extreme.

What is the meaning of sanedo?
The original pronunciation and word is snehdo(Gujarati: સ્નેહડો), derived from the word sneh (Gujarati: સ્નેહ), meaning love or affection. Sanedo contains couplets of four lines and has a striking resemblance to bhavai, a folk drama form from Gujarat.

I played[danced] on sanedo for thrice during retreat and effect it had was amazing. more than that tune was accompanying me till now. In such state some words were scribbled down and a new sanedo has been formed. 

let's go for snehdo...

આ નાણું મારું, બધા ગાતા આ ગાણું;
આ નાણું મારું, પાડે મોટું કાણુ;
એક ટંકના ભાણા હારું, ભાન ભુલાવે સાલું લાલ સનેડો.. સનેડો સનેડો નાણાનો સનેડો... સનેડો સનેડો

ખાણ ખોદી, ડુંગર ખડકે; માલ લાદી, જગતે ભટકે;
વાદી ભેદી જાતને કટકે, નાણા હારું જાતને પટકે.... પોતે ખોદેલી ખાણમાં... સનેડો.. નાણાનો સનેડો... સનેડો સનેડો સનેડો લાલ સનેડો

ગર્તાની નીરાશામાં, શીખરોની આશામાં,
નાણું વ્હાવે એ નાણામાં.. વ્હાણ ચલાવવાં સાગરમાં લાલ સનેડો..સનેડો.. નાણાનો સનેડો... સનેડો સનેડો સનેડો લાલ સનેડો

મુલ્ય સમજી, મુળમાં રહે; જગત જગદીશ દિલમાં રહે;
મર્મ સાથે કર્મ કરી, ફુલ-ફળ સર્વે વેરે...
નાણા ને તે નાથી લે... નાણું તેનું સાથી રે લાલ સનેડો... સનેડો.. નાણાનો સનેડો... સનેડો સનેડો સનેડો લાલ સનેડો

Translation [not word to word]
this money is mine, everyone is singing this song
this money is mine, makes big big hole
for one time of food, it makes us forget our self ... sanedo

by digging mines, it creates mountain;
imposing goods on back, it roams everywhere in world;
with isms, secrets, self divide.. it throws away self into mine for want of money... sanedo..






In deep depression of loss, to hope of reaching at top of mountain,
 spending money in a drainage[channel], to move the ship in sea... sanedo

understanding true value, who remains in root,
who keeps world and lord in his/her heart;
does all action with right attitude/understanding and gives fruits and flowers everywhere...
such human is able to kill menace of money. and money becomes true friend of those... sanedoo.


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Thank you jagdish bhai from sri arvind sadhana kendra ahmedabad for tea and wonderful conversation. from where I got this line 'આ નાણું મારું, પાડે મોટું કાણુ'.

Lots of thanks to khusmita Di and Rahul bhai for making sanedo lovely and lively part of retreat. waiting for singing & dancing, moving and spreading love everywhere.

Junglee

After spending three hours in jungle, I felt I am junglee.

I want to sing aloud,

याहू!
चाहे कोई मुझे जंगली कहे
कहने दो जी कहता रहे
हम प्यार के तूफ़ानों में घिरे हैं
हम क्या करें
याहू!

मेरे सीने में भी दिल है, हैं मेरे भी कुछ अरमान
मुझे पत्थर तो न समझो, मैं हूँ आख़िर एक इन्सान
राह मेरी वही, जिसपे दुनिया चली
चाहे कोई मुझे …

एक मुद्दत से ये तूफ़ाँ मेरे सीने में थे बेचैन
क्या छुपाऊँ, क्या छुपा है, जब मिलते हैं नैन से नैन
सब्र कैसे करूँ, क्यूँ किसीसे डरूँ
चाहे कोई मुझे …

सर्द आहें कह रही हैं, है ये कैसी बला की आग
सोते-सोते ज़िंदगानी घबराके उठी है जाग
मैं यहाँ से वहाँ, जैसे ये आसमाँ
चाहे कोई मुझे …

Even though song has been filmed as romantic and depicts romanticized Hero in its attempt to make heroine his.

Yet words are such that it moves above romantic and moving towards True Love.

few lines are perfectly telling what I want to share.

first loudly want to say, Yahoooooo....

चाहे कोई मुझे जंगली कहे - Yes, as person living in India been called Indian, in America called American and so on.. similarly why not person living in Jungle be called Junglee.. Whether jungle is natural or artificial (concrete).

हम प्यार के तूफ़ानों में घिरे हैं - Always surrounded in torrent of love.. love synonyms of Supreme, Divine.

actually each line has impact and a story... so rather than deciphering each and every line...

coming to last one..

सोते-सोते ज़िंदगानी घबराके उठी है जाग - Remove this line from the song and read aloud. So far I was sleeping, this whole life was sleeping and now it has awaken as fear has smashed me so hard. Fear of loosing my true self, getting corrupt, loosing friendship with myself. I do not want to submit and live in a rut. I don't want to be part of rat race going on in concrete jungle.  

Yahoooo.. Now I have friend, I want to keep that amity alive.. within...

[watch/listen song yahoo too on youtube. While you do, for time being just listen and forget that it is romantic song but plain listening and find what emotions it evokes in you? what kind of thoughts comes?

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDH8uzVcRds]
  

Today Taught me: 20-11-2015

Journey continues in cyclic order...



How?



Yesterday's Ideas and thoughts, generally known as 'plan' requires an action for materialization. This plan emerges out from the action taken during yesterday and previous entity of time called history, whose ideas and thoughts were seeded in previous days and history.

Today begins with execution of those plan while continuing routine work. This is where we live, as action takes place more ideas, more thoughts, more desire, more & more are generated. which becomes a seed. Seed of power, concealing within future realization. A plan for better tomorrow, of growth and evolution are there in seed.

Tomorrow remains mystry, depends how we execute, channelized those plans into action. How and where plan leads to action? How action leads to another action? Whether one is attune in a process or not? doing it consciously or just action after action? Thus mystery continues...


This cycle of history - presence - mystery goes on.


For me today, 20-11-2015 began with a conscious action of executing plan from yesterday. There was a flow, from one action emerging of plan/idea of next action. Pre-sensing them and action on it makes cycle of action moving. problem also comes and so does it solutions. one thing leads to another, good gets transformed into better with possibility of becoming best.


But what have I learned from one round of wheel, completing a circle.


1- Do not Hesitate in doing/asking something. If questions or action has emerged out from previous action and you have sensed it in present. Why? not doing/asking may leave an element of doubt, regret of not doing/asking and may left out something important for flow of cycle.


Overcoming our initial or any level of hesitation brings freedom and joy. Today, hesitation meet and dissolved into past. rate of overcoming them was more and for that grateful of the parampriya.


2 - Do not Haste. As idea/plan seizes in our mind and we start action on that line. Our efforts brings more energy, more joy. In this rushing gust of energy, we want to do everything in no time. we loose control from energy, forces become uncontrollable when we meet to factors whose control is not in our hand. We Factors which are in control or part of another system. we start felling uncomfortable, we want to realize result fast, to eat fruits of success. In such time, we become furious, we want to hasten the process. We ignore the time factor and factors associated with other system and process on which we are working. Yes, we become impatient.


Today, I was able to sense those moment, taken a pause and patiently work. Even few work remain incomplete. work remaining incomplete is fine. Things not done today will be done tomorrow. With patience, courage and trust moving on the path makes life more beautiful.


3 - Beware of Hype. Moving along we meet certain events, people, places, activities and stories. Some of them puts an impression of perfection, beauty and success. We also want to be part and be there. Our this desire for perfection, beauty and success enlarges the impression of those events, people, places, activities and stories. Creating a hype in mind, in heart. We quickly want to make this a part of our life cycle. We start envisaging plans for incorporating them, dream of actions and results it will bring in life.

Beware!



Don't get dragged into that hype.



Take a pause and observe.

You will soon realize it is just another bubble. which is becoming a froth in mind and in heart. Does that last for longer?



Yes, that's why taking a pause and observing them. Patience, working calmly, sensing current needs and future possibility, acting on them instantly.

 Integral Learning, adaptive learning continues...

 

Today taught me : 19-11-2015

Looking back on time today...

I wonder what today has taught me.


First of all, there came a question on time itself.

Whether time is a Physical quantity or Psychological entity?


I walked little further and message on reflection, taking life as a mirror came in...

and for few consecutive steps, I met to similar messages.


Journey continued with cluttered work of few sharing, posting and promoting..


In midst a call came and went without notice.

Reflecting upon that, mind says - mobile is for use mainly to communicate from anywhere,specially while traveling. No one has told, what should be done of mobile when at home?

and How does it sounds to carry mobile everywhere in home?

let mind get stop here only, before it starts on other trek..


Even though I missed the ring of call but call made something ringing within.

Rest of time till now, went behind working on those tune. Following rhythm of ideas a creation is on its verge. few distracting trek came and gone, just following beats and hitting right chords makes things simple and creative creation emerges out. Completely unplanned yet at every step planning of next work emerges out and rather thinking & creating & drafting a plan. What is required is from that emerging plan, straight away move into the action.



This requires lots of faith on source from where all this emerges out. A gratitude when it begins, during its continuous or discontinuous process and at end. Also leaving results also for that emerging rather than hunting for immediate. Life springs forth with its peace and harmony.


At the end gratitude at the lotus feet of the divine.

chappa part -2

નામ તારા હજાર કીધા, 
હજારો એના જાપ કીધા;
દિલથી ના નીકળ્યા તો ગોખી કીધા,
નિત - નવીન ક્રમ જાળવી કીધા,
સત નહિ ગુણોના ધ્યાન કીધા,
જે ચાહ્યું એ પામ્યું, દુખડા કરોડ કીધા.

Gratitude @ The Lotus feet of Parampriya

ધન્ય ધન્ય ઓ પ્યારા પ્રભુ

વંદનીય સ્મરણીય  ઓ પ્યારા પ્રભુ
ધન્ય ધન્ય....

આકાશે-પાતાળે, શૂન્યથી મનુષ્ય સુધી,
સર્વ - સર્વત્ર, ઓ પ્યારા પ્રભુ
ધન્ય ધન્ય....

વેદ તું વાણી તું, પવન ને પાણી તું,
જીવ સજીવ ને શીવ તું, ઓ પ્યારા પ્રભુ  

ધન્ય ધન્ય....

  

Offering at the Lotus feet of the Parampriya,

Grateful to live in there presence. I pray that presence of love and peace remain forever in times of smooth sailing as well as in time of sailing through catastrophe.

Above verse has impression of arvachin [ancient] gujarati sahitya [literature]. In fact one line is almost copy [from narsinh mehta's bhajan]. Not in defence, yet I want to say that 'whatever came during those intense moment of gratitude, I wrote it down. It contains those feelings which comes up spontaneously from heart and mind gives them form whatever available. Mind doesn't go in search and have to work on finding words and correct structure. In a way this is very rough, uncut draft of what is within as well as its uncut manifestation.'

Written somewhere between 4 - 10 January 2009. During my first visit to Home, pondicherry. Written in morning time, at samarpan lounge, where we were staying during national youth camp.

feeling blessed now and again & again of coming into their presence and living in it. Thank you maa, for enabling to share it today.


Google translation:

Blessed Blessed be the Lord , O Beloved

Accredited red-letter O Beloved Lord
Blessed blessed ....

Sky - abyss , from zero up to human beings ,
All - everywhere , O Beloved Lord

Blessed blessed ....

Veda speech thou art , thou wind and water ,
Animate the life of Shiva and thou, O Beloved Lord

Blessed blessed ....

chappa part-1

ગાડી લીધી કરોડની,
ડ્રાઈવર કીધો કોડીનો;

ડાબું જમણું સમજે નહીં,
એને નકશો દિધો મૂડીનો;

ગોળ-ગોળ ભમ્યા ક્રે,
જડે ના રસ્તો માડીનો.

somewhere in 2005-2006.

shall I say

એક ફુલ ખિલ્યાની વાત​, તને કહીં દ​વ​;
હૈયાના આંગણમાં, રુધીરસ સીંચ્યાની વાત​;
પ્રેમની વેલી પર, ફૂલ ખીલ્યાની વાત​;
મૌનની ભાષાથી ઉકેલાતી એ વાત​...
તને કહીં દ​વ​

I am not sure when i wrote this verse [image below]. mostly it should be while travelling and probably during first journey to pondy.

How we elect

After writing a post on status about statistical analysis based on Bihar poll data.

I found it was very superficial and more thoughts overwhelmed mind. presenting them here.

First data taken was state-wider % vote share of two different types of poll. [if we truly know what comes under state government and under central government.] so first thought was to compare previous state election. 2010 data with 2015 data, still tells many thing. on looking to it, one finds strange things. The party which has lost election is been found gaining %vote share state wise. While winning one has lost.

Still all data is deceptive in appearance, more methodical study is required. for which complete statistical report is required. like the one http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/Statisti... of 2010 election report. than one can play around with number.

Second important fact came out during yesterday’s post was about democracy as government system. which brought a question on how we elect our representative? what are biggest threat in the system?

After money power it is more about emotional black-mailing and driving on emotions rather than concrete work. To tackle both a system requires change as well as people more educated and participation in process. few ideas came to mind..

Currently, we have constituency wise candidate selection. for which equation of money, cast, religion and other factors are taken in account. all party still works for this equation. election commission had several time spoke about crushing and monitoring menace of money and muscle power during elections.

how about impersonal voting? No promotion of candidate, no candidature selection, no form filling. EC selects team of 20-30 members constituency-wise to find problems in constituency. problems figure out been put forth to party as well as candidate [represented by symbol rather than name/profile] for providing solutions. there solutions are distributed as purely selection basis among electorates. voting takes place based on it.

similarly state-wise party been asked to form a ministry with before hand mentioning person for particular portfolio. state-wise committee of 20-30 personal for each portfolio [which included experts, civil servant as well as few common people], they put forth a set of problem & questions, tasks. Based upon work they do in task, way they solve or plan to solve problem & questions - committee decides 1st representative and 2nd representative. additionally state-wise voting for ministry can be done. and on average of both winners be elected as prime representative. It might be also a good idea to put cabinet candidate to stay in Big-Boss house for at least two weeks. live telecast on national channel. people can see how they behave as well as solve problems and does task given to them. even though one can act but acting 24*7 is too difficult.

combine result of seat won constituency wise, %vote share and state-wise winning ministry [cabinet] been aggregated. this decide seats sharing in assembly. and functioning.

also rather than 5 year tenure, it can be extended to 6 years with two-term review at two year duration. there every candidate who had been given responsibility of constituency need to give report of his/her work in two year, a committee review on it. Also, response from electorate given a time-period to lodge their dissatisfaction, if count goes above some set-margin, provision to remove person and replace by other.

Plenty of thoughts, churning and more better system can emerge out. Rather than following same model of British democracy that to of 20th century, it might be time to rethink and device more better system for electing representative and curbing the menace of money, muscle and mandal power.

i have written as rather thoughts keep on playing in head its better they get silence by coming out and seat there.

We might have got political freedom, yet democracy needs to be established and new better system of government still need to be found.

hoping that will also been done in this century...

one touch.

એક સ્પર્શ તારી યાદનો,

સ્પંદિત ક્રે મારી ચાહના,
ઉર રુધિર ક્ર મન મસ્તિક્
સર્વ સંવાદિત થઇ તે ભાવમાં
આલિંગન કર​વા ઉપડે

WHERE OUR SECURITY LIE? [november 2007]

Two event or reading I came across yesterday are cause behind resurfacing of this article. Written somewhere in November 2007 and thrown somewhere in past. Before you read that article, here is a pip into those cause or Nimitah, as per terminology of Indian Scripture. If you are not interested scroll down and read small article separated by an image.

First event occurred in morning. Old friend of mine Mumbai Samachar and I spent few minutes together in morning. Like a habit after glancing at headline, I quickly turned to last page to see one of my favorite writers column 'Good morning'. Written by Saurabh Shah, good morning column brings up various issues, anecdotal records and reviews from films, novels, politics to common observation of daily life.

In a way, after my prayer and all, this article set tone of the day. 

Second event or reading occurred around noon time. This time article wasn't fresh one but little pld. What happened was, last month I had subscribed for newsletter called 'Dailygood' by Servicespace.org

One of the article I had saved on hard drive for later reading. As article was long and mind was wandering and anxious at that time, I had saved it. Yesterday, while searching some other material, I came back to that article. That article is: 

Jacob Needleman: Money and the Meaning of Life

--by awakin.org, syndicated from awakin.org, Jul 04, 2015  

I began reading this article from the point I had left it. Some electrifying thing started happening. I am not going to describe all here nor I have capacity and power to describe it. Whatever that was a wonderful experience I passed through for good interval of time. That was time this article written in 2007, resurfaced in memory. Today, I started searching for it on hard drive and cloud. Luckily, I found it on Yahoo, in one of the sent mail. There is small part attach about my current position and future action. As slowly this words are not remaining words but some experience and learning. I am sure more learning is going to follow. so may be soon and may be not, another article with same title.

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WHERE OUR SECURITY LIE?

Is it in money, in spouse, parents, and children, in having nice home and home appliances? Where exactly it lie? Oh parampriya, tell me where exactly it lie, where???

Till now in whatever thinks I was telling where our security lie is perishable, then how my security is in it. Wait a minute, but why I need to be secure? Is any need of it at any time, why am I looking and working to secure my place, work, my self and other secure by various ways?

Now, seems it’s imprudent to work to secure life, money and others. It’s like making a golden cage, like to live inside it and say self as having every luxury and enjoying freedom while remaining inside of it. If we so conscious about this relative term security then we are missing something, we are not on the right track any more. Our inherent property of independence and freedom vanishes in running behind the security. Because it’s not absolute thing to have, it always vary relative to something then why we all over and over again thinking and working for it. While our more subtle virtue of freedom lie within it, which is absolute thing everyone has.

Here most of us fail, till date I was also running to make myself secure, but when I ponder on such question again it given some real awkward answer of my question.

My security doesn’t lie in bank-account, in my nice family, nor in my home neither in career or any perishable things which one can think of. It’s deep-rooted in my parampriya, my lord a supreme-soul. Who is not perishable?  To know the real absolute virtue and happiness, an absolute freedom, if we are running for that foolish securities then we are selling our own freedom, slowly we start not living for ourselves but our self. Not working for parampriya only working to find that relative security in something isn’t it. Let me sign off, going in search of that my all hidden absolute virtue. Would you like to come with me??

Random - Quote Reflection

Few minutes back, I was wondering on what shall I write!
There was some desperate need coming out to write something.
Why to write? for whom to write? were not questions bothering at those time.

As something compelling, to seat and write.

There struck an idea to just ask google to provide link of random quotes or random quote generator. So I did went to google, and gave this keywords:random quote.

and got this as a result

two thoughts flashed on the screen of mind. First thought was to go on images and select random one.  Another one said, first link looks good go for it. I followed the later one and clicked on the link given below:


http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

And How wonderful the result !!!
first quote, resonated with on going trend of life and flow got thrust.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. -
William James (1842 - 1910)

How to use this life is a big question. Last week similar question came and stood in front of me. Instantaneously, I remembered what my friend Jonathan had said once.
“Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live!
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!”

Still, this life is lived between eating and sleeping. force, fuel which keeps me flowing is drying. All those big ideals covering social, financial, political, humanitarian all now sounds so weak and dumb. Thoughts are in riots and afraid if they are shared openly or got some force, it will stand against the current. There is scepticism too. Whatever that may be, right now something from within is coming to focus on positive. To focus on what one ought to be.
I want to fly!My tree on which I got second birth. On which, I came out of my shall. On whose branch I started learning lessons of flight. That belongingness with tree can't be obstacle on my flying. Tree of family, Tree of previous occupation, Tree of preferences, desires and so on. How many roots are required to cut, before I learn and fly. Sometime it seems roots are necessary, one needs to preserve them. They are the one, who had given all and what I am today.
No, If you want to fly. If you want a freedom. You have to cut and come out from this bondage of those roots. Only thing lies for you is sky. sky. sky.

And from that sky now on my small flight, I look down and find this.


 "I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Instantly something started rolling within. Yet I do not have such a profound experience of life and learning. Still this sounds very familiar. How much ungrateful we are to all those teachers who has taught us meaningful things in life. Like that professor in my university, who hardly came for lecture from whom I learnt that how to learn on your own. Life events and beings part of that moment and space teaches so many things. Next week, in India there will be celebration of 'Guru Poornima' giving respect and salutation to teacher who kindle the fire within. Let this be a small occasion in life, here I offer my respect and show gratefulness to all those events and beings who taught me in that strange way, as in quote.

I am yet not out from Jonathan.

“He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.

"Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?"

"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.”

What is this longing about? Why Jonathan appeared to me? I want to read that book again.

Lessons of flying are hard. sometime it looks like, you have to hanger around without any support. Oh! Wait a minute. What did I say, without any support?
Foolish! You have to learn to see beyond. There is bigger support of air, through which this life runs. there is water to in his hidden form. support is doesn't come only from unmoving and hard. It comes from subtle, moving elements, like AIR.
So far you took support of those things who are solid and not moving. You kept your trust on them. But forgot in blow of wind all gets vanish. Now you have to learn to take support from moving and unseen. Keep faith on it. Even if you don't know where they are leading you.

Now let me end this random thoughts, which now doesn't look like a random, but closely woven net.

"THOU art like the wind upon the sea, driving the boat back ashore until it is at last loaded with all the goods necessary for the long voyage. Thou wouldst not have us embark thoughtlessly. Thy servitors must be ready for all eventualities, must be capable of answering all demands, satisfying all needs." -
The Mother, November 16,1914, Prayers & Meditations, Pg No. 275

Mumbai Has a Underground Local Trains!

8:30pm in winter, station churni road of mumbai's western railway line. A family boards train toward borivali. Children soon reaches to window and stands there in awe for city and train. Train is moving fast, cutting the darkness and creating its unusual sounds.

Elder one exclaims to younger one "Hey, Now we are underground and train is below earth now!"

Small one looks at him with utter surprise, like he has no sense and heard this word first time. explanations begins, like a sermon and soon again. "Look, we are underground again!!!" "Yes and now we are out!"

Passenger around them looks at them with smile.

Soon a station comes, train halts.

"look this is an underground station." elder one explains while looking out of the window till eyes can stretch. "Yes, you are right" nodded younger one. "Have you seen lighting arrangement? Wasn't it bright?" asked elder and just got a smile from younger one. who is still trying to understand what that means.

Elder one must be 8-9 year old and 3 year elder than younger ones.

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8:30pm, elder one takes a train from Churchgate station. Accompanied by a friend who has come from delhi. showing local train and story of city of dream. Elder one has got this image of crocodile tail city from one of the poem, read during school days. While explaining map of city to friend. Train halts at station and something dawns in mind.

Eyes are now looking out. Searching for something. Simple candid joy comes to heart. smile on face. Unable to believe what is been seen and what was seen.

"Mumbai doesn't have underground train, stupid." Elder one said to himself. Younger one is not along today. At age of 28 now, Elder one recalls those days and wonders what imagination was? Hopes imagination could have grown more bigger. Can it become true? Mumbai with underground trains. 

passing and cutting through Arabian Sea. What a sight it would be? Will it be done in this lifetime or by end of century?

Ohhh!! Imagination...Can we get an underwater rail...

What do you think, Can India go for it...?

underwater train hoax image from internet

Flow

maoM ijavana huM.jaIvana ho ek Qaara.

yah Qaara kuC kh rhI hO.

yah Qaara kha jaanaa caahtI hoMÊ

yah Qaara hI kh rhI hO.

Par maoM Ê mast huM lahraomaoM.

vyast huM QaaTaomaoM.

kš baIMba—p`tIbaIMba sajaata hu^M saInao po.

PalamaoM BaIgaaota hu^M Ê plamaoM Baagata hu^M.

[na GaaTaoM ko BaID, maMo sao Ê

Gaara kuC kh rhI hO.

@yaa maoM sauna pa}^Mgaa Æ

kOsao maoM sauna pa}^Mgaa Æ

maoM lahr nahIM hu^M Ê maoM jaIvana huM.jaIvana Gaara hO.

lahro banatI hO Ê maITtI hO Ê mao tao SaaEvat hu^M Ê maoM Gaara hu^M. jaIvana Gaara ho.

lahrao kao ho AakYa^Na GaaT tk jaanao ka Ê

Gaatk hO yah iktnaa ]sao kha^ pta Æ

saovaa krnaoka naok šrada ho Ê Pyaasa bauJaayaogaa duinayaa kao calaayaogaa SaIKayaogaa.

[sa santuYTI mao vaao zhrnaa caahtI ho kaoš sauMdr jagaa²

lahr ]ztI ho AaOr SaaMt hao jaatI hO Ê

kaSa² eosaa haota Ê pr vao tao baar baar ]ztI ho Ê

daoD lagaatI ho Ê GaaT tk jaanaokI.

ero @yaa maoM lahr hu^MÆ

naa² naa² maoM lahr nahIM hu^M.

maoM jaIvana hu^M. jaIvana ho ek Gaara.

Gaara jaao bahtI ho ApnaI mastI maoM Ê

khIM jaanao kao ÊkIsaI kao panao kao Ê

kIsaI kao maIlanao kao yaa kIsaI mao maIla jaanao kao Æ

jhaM Baod naa hao ek Gaara ka dusarI sao Ê

maoM caahta hU^M saarI Gaara maoM maIla jaanaa.

@yaa yah saMBava ho BaUmaI prÆ

ABaI tao basa bahnaa ho AaOr tÊ

jahaM saarI Gaara ek hao jaatI hO.

kBaI kBaI maoM iksaI Gaara ko krIba Aa jaata hu^M Ê

kBaI hma ek dusaromaoM Gaulaimala hao jaato hO Ê

kBaI pasa Aa ko BaI ibaC,D jaato hO.

pvana saunaata ho kBaI ]nkI Kbaro.

Aaor

lahro ]maTtI ho ]sao imalanao Ê vaao dusarI lahrao kao BaI ]psaatI hO.

]sao lagata ho Ê

vah saba jaao pnap rha ho Ê ]sako caaraoM eaor

vah saba iksakI badaolat hOÆ

maorI Ê maoM lahr ]nho paoYatI ho.

hra Bara banaatI ho. sabakao jaIvana dotI hu^M maoM.

ho p`Bau² ifr sao .

kba dIla sao Ê tna sao Êmana sao yah pukar haogaI ko

maoM lahr nahIM .

maoM Gaara hu^M Ê maoM Gaara hu^M Ê maoM Gaara hu^M.

calanaa maora kama ho.

maoM jaIvana hu^M. jaIvana ek Gaara ho.

tuja sao naIklaI hu^M. tujamaoM maIla jaanaa hO.

Aba p`aNaaoM mao Ê manamaoM yahI tao GaarNa krnaa ho.

maoM Gaara hu^M.maoM bahtI hu^M.

ek AvaIrt p`vaah ho.

ijasamao iktnaI lahro ho Ê

iktnao baulabaulao vaao banaatI ho Ê

kšAao kao laokr calatI hO Ê

kšAao kao DubaaotI hO.

FIrBaI saaqa nahIM kIsaIkaÊ

e Kuda ko isavaa.

@yauMkI tuja sao haotI hu^M Sau$ tujamaoM maIla jaatI hu^M.

maoM jaIvana hu^M. jaIvana ek Gaara ho.

yah Kyaala nahIM hoÊ yao Aba samaJa AayaaÊ

jaba plaT idyaa maoMnao Gaara kaoÊ

tba imalaI ho raGaa.

maoM Gaara nahIMÊ raGaa hu^M.

baaolaao raGaa raGaa raGaa yaa

maanaao Gaara Gaara Gaara.

raGaa raGaa raGaa

maoM Aba [sa lahr kao CaoD,Ê

kIsaI Aaor lahr pr savaar.

naš lahr banaoMgaIÊ Syaama ko rMga sao rMgaogaIÊ

naa yah tao baorMgaI hO, naa vah tao Anaok rMgaI.

Gaara maoM hu^M.raGaa maoM hu^M.

saagar tuM hO.Syaama tuM hO.

ho tao saba panaI PaanaI.

ho tao saba caotnaa.

kba imalaoMgaI Gaara saagar kaoÆ

kba imalaoMgaI raGaa Syaama kaoÆ

Gaara naa AkolaI qaI kBaIÊ

Agar hao jaatI tao maIT jaatI.

raGaa maIT jaatI²

pr raGaa ijaMda ho.

maoro AMdrÊ raGaa ijaMda ho.

maoM hu^M raGaa.

maoM hu^M raGaa.

ABaI hu^M AaGaI,Ê Syaama saMga banaugaI purI.

maoM hu^M raGaa.

maoM hu^M raGaa.

આમ સાવ અચાનક

આમ સાવ અચાનક કોઇ ગમવા લાગે,

મનો-મસ્તિક્માં એના વિચારો ભમવાં માંડે,

હ્રદયનાં ખેલો એ રમવા લાગે, આમ સાવ અચાનક.

આમ સાવ અચાનક તેના પત્રો આવે,

પ્રેમનાં આનંદના અભ્યાસનાં સત્રો આવે,

હાસ્યને એના મિત્રો આવે, આમ સાવ અચાનક.

આમ સાવ અચાનક સમય વહી જાશે,

સપનાનાં યાદોનાં ભંડારો રહી જાશે,

અશ્રુમાં વ્યથાઓ વહી જાશે, આમ સાવ અચાનક.

- વેગ

[image: Bombay Samachar]

Your pen penetrates my heart,

Your pen penetrates my heart,
Transcends all the sensation, to a new high;
I don’t know How to, reciprocate thy love,
Giving you a flower as insignia of my love.

 Your words are the marvel, nectar for life;
Let me feel them, let it heal my burn;
Oh my lover, how compassionate you are.
Let’s become acquainted, want to embrace you all in all.

Distance is not the matter, thoughts are already one
No need to look back or to go through formal way;
 Why should I worry, on small assumption made?
Who knows thou, who are near and dear to all?

Give me some allusion,
Before you come down from all the way,
I don’t know how to, welcome beloved one;
I am waiting, in answer of you’re …..
In answer of…….your……

What I listen is, what I want to listen.

Yesterday night, mind started dwelling on possible topic for writing short paragraph. As mind dwell on option, few others came to join party. Soon, clashes began and continuity broken. No topic went further than link up of more than three thoughts. Why? Other thoughts of topic didn’t allowed chain to continue and grow. Before links were made between thoughts on single topic, either a thought of new topic popped up or argument against that topic. Before situation get out of my hand, I tried to paused and relaxed. After few minutes they again started moving around mind freely, with more intensity. I postponed the task itself on tomorrow. Slowly they died and only thing left is question somewhere hidden in mind, I have to write on something?

After an hour, while surfing television channel I came across DD Girnar [local Gujarati channel]. Swamiji from Swaminarayan Sect was speaking on some topic. In his address, something touched me. Essence of His saying or rather explanation of some text was simple. Here is a brief version, as I remembered, “… Problem of human life is not of current but from the past centuries and millenniums it is there. So many saints and Scripture came and went away. Some are still there, but we don’t listen to them.  Forget about listening to other and changing. Human don’t listen to their own voices. How can one expect one to listen sage and scripture. Can Change happen by listening to sages and scripture when one doesn’t listen to one’s own voices. It is mistake if I think that by listening to me I am going to change you or going to make difference in your life. In fact you listen according to what is there within you. ...”

That last sentence rang the bell in me. Thoughts started pouring and soon, I sat with pad and pen to jot them down. [! This time instead of typing, I went for writing.] I began…

Many times I wonder about working of our senses! Its way of working is complex and different from other parts and system of human machine. Whole process sounds too complex to me now. All other system is circulatory in nature, in and out, in some movement. Most of those activities happen unconsciously. While working of the senses is neither cyclic nor happens fully consciously with 100% purity, compare to common perception. Also our emotions, natural habits, previous images and experience along with other factors play a vital role in process. [! I have edited from second line onwards for final write up.]

At this point, I remembered by Master Sri Aurobindo and one of his article ‘The Training of Senses’ as part of his writing on ‘A System of National Education’. I decided to read it next day.[link of article]

Then mind was again clattered with thoughts on different senses and which one to select for illustration. Even though I had begun with listening, here came up an option and selection was to stick to old plan.

I further wrote this quote:

“What I listen is, what I want to listen.”

After that another two paragraph about process involved in listening. I am not sharing that, as it is incoherent. Also, after reading article of master, I found more depth and figured out why I have inclination to it. You can guess that. Here is a hint from Sri Aurobindo’s text.

“…This is a preliminary process of Yoga and was effected in our ancient system by various means, but would be considered out of place in a modern system of education.

It is clear, therefore, that unless we revert to our old Indian system in some of its principles, we must be content to allow this source of disturbance to remain. A really national system of education would not allow itself to be controlled by European ideas in this all-important matter. And there is a process so simple and momentous that it can easily be made a part of our system…”

 Eti Shubham