INSAAN TOA AISA HI HOTA HAI !!

Kabhi beete kal meing khota hai,
Kabhi aate lamho ke sapne sajata hai,
Par kabhi aaj mein nahi rehta hai,
Insaan toa aisa hi hota hai!!

Kabhi jo paas nahi uske liye rota hai,
Kabhi khwab pura hoga ya nahi iski chinta karta hai,
Paar jo hasil hain uss khushi mein na kabhi hansta hai,
Insaan toa aisa hi hota hai!!

Prime minister ne kya kiya isko wooh janna chahta hai,
Filmi sitaron ki jindagi mein usko ruchi hai,
Paar apne paas rehte logon ki kya wooh khabar rakhta hai?
Insaan toa aisa hi hota hai!!

Apne dukho mein wooh rota hai,
Apni khushi se jhuum uthta hai,
Par kya yeh wohi dusro ke liye mehsoos karta hai??
Insaan toa aisa hi hota hai !!

Bhagwan se dua mangne mein jab haath uthaya hai,
Uske aage jab bhi saar zukaya hai,
Tab maine insaan ko insaan banane ka vardaan manga hai…..
Par kya kare Insaan toa aisa hi hota hai !!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

With the tick of the clock,

As it struck twelve, we say the New year at the door has given a knock

It has come to give us happiness and joy,

We feel its come with new hopes and the sadness will not prevail of the days gone by...

But its not the time which can bring us joy

Nor is the new year the one who will prevent our sad cry..

It we who are going to make the New year a happy one or a sad one..

If we are busy partying and wasting our time just to welcome the new year,

Then remember we are not going to land anywhere my dear...

The new year definitely brings new hopes & we expect a lot from it,

But remember its we who can materialize these hopes & expectations and not just expecting from it..

The time will definitely change,

We will get joys of different range..

But when we wake up to see the dawn of change..

When we understand that we need to work hard and to have courage..

to face all the worries and problems and challenges..

The new year is a sign of change... change for the better..

Take up the challenge to change yourself..

Have the courage to prevent all the bad points from coming to yourself..

We all want so many things from others and give so little,

Let us today try to make a difference to improve ourselves and to preserve the life so brittle

We are here to make this world a better place,

To preserve and conserve and improve what we have got with our God's Grace..

Let us today understand the meaning of the New Year...

Its come to help us understand the meaning of life & to help us cheer..

May you work hard for you goals and you will surely acheive them..

May you strive for happiness of others and you will be blessed by them..

Just a soothing touch can heal the wounds of others,

Let your happiness spread to every mile and give joy to others...

May you do every bit of improvement from your side and you shall find the world suddenly becomes a better place..

May you stop worrying and understand that whatever happens happens for the best then you will be blessed with the gifts of peace and good grace...

WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I UNDERSTOOD!!!!

I was tired of living in the untruth,
I mapped my way towards the truth...
I wanted to flea away from this unfair world,
To seclude myself so that I could get that peace and care
I thought I would be happy only if I could be alone,
I thought that this world will not let me live in happiness unless I am alone....
I ran through the miles in my mind
In disgust just to find,
That the worries did not vanish
That the unhappiness did not vanish...
I was just alone but my mind...
Oh this mind... wandered towards the same thoughts
My mind was still clinging on to the past....
It was then that the understanding dawned on me...
The truth crystal clear I could see....
Detachment and not seclusion was the way out.
This very thought made my heart beat faster,
This simple thought had saved me from disaster...
I felt free, I felt secure,
There was nothing more for me to procure....
Living in the world I was detached, I was free....I was happy....
all this happened because,
Yes because I understood!!!!

What is the real TRUTH??

We see, we hear, we touch, we taste and all this we feel is truth. Is it really so?? We feel sugar is sweet, why does it taste bitter when burnt? Why does the property change. We feel the sky is blue, scientists don’t accept this because they have gone there up well above us and seen that its not blue. We hear a person speaking something about someone but it may not be true. We close our eyes and touch a pineapple and may disagree with someone who says that you eat this!! Then how can we say that we UNDERSTAND?? We know?? I feel its just nonsense. We have deceiving senses, which may mislead us if not used properly!!
We believe there are relations in this world. Mother, father, sister, brother, friends, son, daughter, etc etc….. We feel there is love, there is bonding, we cannot think of living without each other, is this the truth?? Well I still don’t agree!! If there is love why does a person leave another, why does a person die earlier than expected, why can’t a person fulfill promises just because he or she dies earlier than expected. We plan our lives ahead, we project ourselves somewhere…. Can we always fulfill this? Who knows who can see the future?? May be we don’t have a tomorrow written for us?? Who knows?? Can there be permanency in any relation. Not possible!! Things are meant to change, to get modified. Its we who don’t change our outlook!! We feel this is our world, this is our family, this is ours and that is ours…. Seems funny to me!!
What have we brought to this world, that we feel we are going to possess and carry back again. NOTHING!!! Our life is a temporary phase, its like a short trip we take. We sometimes go for a short trip on a beach, on the mountains, etc, may be for 15 days, we enjoy there a lot, we learn a lot from the travel, we hire a room and keep all our luggage there well arranged, we have lunch prepared for ourselves or get it from outside. We do all the normal activities that we do at our house. But do we start feeling that the guest house is our home?? Do we never remember our house?? Do we feel bad to go back home after that 15 days time period?? I am sure the answers would be NO. We long to go back home, we enjoy at that place but continuously remembering that we have to go back, this is not permanent!!! Then why do we feel this world as our home?? Its NOT!!! It’s a guest house we have come to stay. To learn, to enjoy, to make others happy, to add on to our knowledge!!! We have to go back from where we have come. Nothing is permanent in this world, nobody is really ours in this world. That does not mean that we don’t love, don’t care, don’t share. In fact we have come here to learn about love, sharing, caring and improving ourselves, in such a manner that we go back as a better person, not worse!!
All the time I have been saying we have to go back, but what is this we?? Its our soul if you call it that way. Its our breath if you call it that way!! We have not seen the soul but at least we feel and know our breath!!! Is it not permanent for us?? YES!! We cannot survive without our breath, its our companion, its our friend, its our guide….. ITS GOD!! TO UNDERSTAND THIS we have come to this world…. To understand that GOD is ours, to love GOD, to do the acts of GOD, to try to make this world better and in turn make OURSELVES BETTER!!! If we get an understanding of this we HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE TRUTH!!
ENJOY your life to the fullest, but don’t forget the purpose we are here for, we are here to understand the truth, to understand love, not to get stuck up in the mundane activities thinking that this is LIFE….. NO THIS IS NOT LIFE!! Life is understanding the higher self, which is US not understanding THIS PHYSICAL BODY!!!!!!!!! GO AHEAD AND UNHIDE THE LIGHT OF TRUTH!!!!!

HEAVEN OR HELL!!

Today my Mom during a conversation said ".....now he's done such a thing, surely if this person goes on doing such things he is bound to go to HELL"

I was drowned into thoughts. I don't know what happened to me with the mention of this word Hell... It was not for the first time that I heard this word. But this time it seemed too close to reality... Heaven and Hell... Heaven and Hell.. I was thinking for some time few minutes back...

Finally I have arrived at a conclusion....{ Before you read further I want to give you a warning that the views and Ideas expressed in the further paragraphs are totally imaginary, do not take these as confirmations ;-) }

I have read in the Great Book 'Bhagwad Gita' that a person takes rebirth till the time his or her 'Karma's ' (Actions or fruits of actions) are left unfulfilled.. So basically when a person finishes with his or her duties on this Earth, the process of rebirth of the soul stops.. it finally rests in an unknown.. mysterious peace totally united with the creator of this Universe "The Parmatma" or God...

To give you an example I shall tell you the example which has happened in front of my eyes, not of rebirth but the person getting fruits of his action... There was a person I knew quite well.. He loved to trouble other people.. The most favourite thing that this person used to love to do is to trouble the people in the building by leaving no water for them..Morning morning he used to open the taps in the house (all of them) to empty the watertank of the building.. He used to fill up water in the loft tank of theirs for their own household need... The entire tank of the building used to get empty and there used to be a Havoc due to water shortage.. The person used to feel a devilish joy when the people used to cry for water.. No one really knew the reason of this water shortage.. We tried a lot to make this person understand not to do such a thing, but this person never listened. When this person was around 50 yrs old, there was sudden kidney failure of his for no reason and he was banned from drinking water above a certain limit. He died with too much of pain and when death was near he somehow felt that this pain was due to the trouble he gave to the people... in relation to water.. So he got the fruit of his actions in that birth itself. If the fruits of his actions would not have been fulfilled in that birth he would have had to take birth anew and in that birth get the fruits of his actions..

So what I feel is this cycle of rebirth (Coming to this world again and again) signifies something.. It signifies that what we call as hell, where people are tortured for their sins, for their wrong doings, they are given punishments for their wrong doings... is nothing but this earth..Otherwise we would never see infants dying, small innocent children who have not even fully seen this world getting cancer, people being handicapped by birth, so many people are there who keep doing good but in return keep getting bad, a person whom everyone adore and like getting killed in an accident or becoming handicapped in it, people losing their loved ones at a young age, people who have lots of money for some time but become really poor, people who don't get financial success, etc etc, there are so many more examples........... What have they done to be punished by all this, don't you think there is some rebirth associated, some prior unfullfilled punishments being got by them?? As there is a Bad side of this world there is the Good one also... Some people leave their good activities incomplete and die.. to reach heaven a person I feel needs to have the specific amount of good activities in his or her account (Just like you need a specified fare to travel to a particular place!!) so they are born again in this world, to collect the stock of good deeds. Now you may feel if I am calling this world HELL then how are good people to be born here, then in that case I think the life of good people, the rebirths are for their trial, their test of patience, their life is to be for doing good to others without expecting good, a person should not stop doing good because someone has not appreciated that... leave things to God... do your good karma and GET THE TICKET TO HEAVEN!!! If you will notice or go through the life stories of great saints you will notice that they have given a lot to the world without expectation and that their whole life was a trial, people did not realise their importance when they were alive but built their temples and statues and worshipped them after they died... so that was the unfulfilled karma of these Saints that they had to go through their test and trial before they would reach heaven...
The second part of the story is Heaven
When a person dies, in the birth where he fulfills all his "Karma's" he goes to the place where there is eternal peace, a peace undiscriptive, that place is nothing but HEAVEN...

That is what according to me is HEAVEN AND HELL... of Heaven I don't know I am still in HELL undergoing trials and punishments!!! ;-)

Please tell me your views about all this.....
Why I call this earth Hell..

THE ULTIMATE TRUTH!!

It was a lovely starry night,
Was sitting in the garden in solitude that night,
Wondering and pondering of many things,
All the good and bad as we call it that life brings..
If we say something is good for a person, the same is bad for the other..
For a person having diabetes sugar is bad but the same sugar for a person who is weak acts as a boon..
A dead animal we feel is a bad sight, but for the vultures it is a delight!! They have got their food..
We say this is sin and that is virtue.. we say this is bad and that is good
But the truth of life have we understood…
A few years back something may have been said to be bad,
But today we find the same thing as good..
In India drinking tea was a no no, in the olden times,
But today tea is offered whenever at the door there are chimes,
In those times if you are Sleeping late and getting up late,
You would be shown your home’s gate!!!
But today if that was the case what would the night shift people do..??
So once upon a time what was bad is now good
& that which may have been good is now bad..
Then what is the ultimate truth of life??
When life ends, death engulfs the person…
Nothing remains of the body…
We go away to an unknown kingdom… an unknown place..
Each person who comes has to go..
Entrapped in the body the soul is then released..
Each movement of the body ceases .
No name no fame you carry..
Time and again living beings come to the world and die away…
The concept of life keeps on changing, keeps on shifting..
People change, Cultures change, geological changes occur…
Concepts change, Fashions change, Ideas change, biology of plants changes, even animals change, looks change, structures change,
Stars break, planets change directions, changes occur on the Sun’s façade….
What remains ceaselessly is DEATH…
Death never changes… It comes to everything that has life…
Over crores of years death has never changed… the concept of death has never died away.. never faded away….
Each living being faces the truth CALLED DEATH…
This is the ultimate truth of life…
This is the only IMMORTAL in the world of MORTALS
Everyone is behind what is MORTAL…
I wish to know what lies beyond or within this IMMORTAL..!!

A TRUE HUMAN

Encounter with a TRUE HUMAN being.

I was just watching the recaps of the Great Indian Laughter challenge. A sentence said by a performer caught my mind. He said “ Insaan ek ajeeb janwar hai, Kutte ko kabhi batana nahi padta ki tu kutta ban, kutte ke jaisa bartaw kar, Gaay ko kabhi batana nahi padta ki tum Gaay ke jaisa bartaw kar, Lekin… Lekin Insaan ko hamesha batana padta hai ki aree tu insaan baan tu insaniyat ko jinda rakh!!!” LOVELY ONE..

Its really true that humanity is becoming lesser and lesser in today’s mechanical world. People try not to get involved in things where they would have to go out of their way to help or they will need to take up some trouble for others.. There are people who earn lots of money by cheating others.. Monetary and mundane pleasures are on top priority for people nowadays.. But I still believe that there is lots of humanity in this world.. If you have ever been to North India, Places like Kulu, Manali, Gadhwal region, all the religious places like Badri Kedar, Gangotri.. you will agree with me completely..

I shall narrate an incident which has touched my life (perhaps all who were there when this incident took place) and whenever I feel there is no humanity or humanity is vanishing I remind myself of this incident and this feeling goes away.. I feel soothed by the feeling that atleast in some corner of this world humanity exists in full quantity!!

“We (a group of 16 people) had gone to the Northern India tour. It was the month of April. We had planned out a trip to Shimla, Kulu, Manali, Ranikhet, etc..
We finally arrived at the place. That was the day when we all were excited about having a good time at Manali. We had planned to play a lot in the snow.
It was seven in the morning. The sky was clear. The air was cool and refreshing. The whooshing river which was quite close to the rest house we were in. We could see the river from the balcony of our room. The lovely trees were swaying against the wind. Though the air was cool it was not so cold that we needed some coats etc. So we decided to go in our normal jeans and T-shirt dresses. When our cab stopped at the base of the mountain from where we were supposed to climb up we could see that there were dark clouds gathering in the sky. The air suddenly became chilled and we felt the need of overcoats, gloves, woolen caps.. Luckily there was a lady (the typical Gadhwali, one with red cheeks and fair skin) giving such clothing accessories along with gum boots on rent. We were all happy and we pounced on the warm clothes to make ourselves comfortable and to stand the wind and cold. So there we were all in different kinds of furry coats with the same kind of caps on the heads, Gloves in our hands, Gum boots worn.. I felt as if we were astronomers ready to go on our space campaign. Finally with all the preparations we started climbing up the mountain to reach our skiing camp. Hmm though it was cold, we played like mad in the snow.. The local people must be wondering from which mental hospital we all had come. But we had a great time playing in the snow, throwing snowballs at each other, making some funny shapes (which we named as snowmen) from the snow. All in all it was a great time. In the midst of this playing and enjoyment we realized that it was sunny again so since we could not remove our coat, because we would have had to carry them in our hand we removed our gloves and caps and put them in our pockets. Then we continued playing for quite some time. Finally the time came when we had to start our trek down again. Laughing and chit chatting we finally arrived at the base of the camp. We gave back the coats, gloves etc that we had taken on rent. The lady counted all of them and found that one of the pair of gloves was short. She looked quite sad. Though it was our mistake she did not even say a bad word. But then we had to make up our mistake, we paid her the cost of the gloves, apologizing to her we went to the nearby restaurant to have a nice hot cup of tea. The lady said that she has sent her son on the mountain to check whether he could find the gloves, if at all he finds it we will come and return you the money in the restaurant. We told her it was not a problem, even if she found the gloves she could still keep the money as a gift (For us Fourty Rupees was not a big amount) After the tea we even forgot about the gloves, the lady and that Rs 40. We went to the car and started our way back to the rest house. Suddenly we located a figure coming running from the mountain towards the tar road. All of a sudden that human figure came ahead of our car and spread hands in a position asking to wait. The one driving applied full breaks and some of us were on top of each other… Finally when we got to our normal positions we looked ahead, surprised to see the same lady giving the clothes on rent standing ahead of our car. !! We got down and asked her what the matter was. She said “ My son found the gloves, here are your forty Rupees!!!” We were thunderstruck, was she crazy! Running 3 kilometers along the difficult mountain path, she had come to return our money!! How Honest can a person be! I thought her to be God, because living in a city am not used to this kind of things happening. I said to her also that you must be a saint or else God… She said “No I am just a human being and I am just doing what a Human being should do, I cannot live on the money which I would have earned by cheating you’ll” We were thrilled and said that please don’t return the money keep it as a gift of your honesty, infact take this Hundred rupees also. But she nicely refused, gave the money back in our hand and vanished in the green trees running quickly back to work.. She went away but left this incident engraved in my heart as a symbol of humanity. I feel happy and satisfied when I recall this incident, because I feel I am lucky that atleast once in my lifetime I have met a true human being!!"