India the ultimate land of resting in peace

Kasab is hanged finally! 

I still remember that scary never ending night in Bombay. Surprisingly, 4 long years passed since then! We all have a definite time and day to die but neither of us would certainly like to die like that day! CST seemed hell, Hotel Taj was devastated badly and the local people were horrified. Imagine terrorists ran out of hotel in a jeep and no one knows where? 

It would have been such a difficult journey that day for all of them who were coming from CST station to their home. The sounds of gun shots were leaving describable fear in the ears time and again. I was praying all time in the train that I reach home safely and when I show the news later that night police officer Hemant Karkare (who was reached home safely) is being called back on duty to face the terrorists. He was shot dead later on the spot. That day I seriously applauded the Mumbai police and special force commando who grounded there till all such notorious young men were caged.

When I am writing this the news is covering the story how Kasab became a terrorist and with all of our surprise and disgust it was his father's refusal to buy him new clothes on Eid that forced him to quit home, take to crime and then embrace jihad, leading to his death in India. Kasab asked for mercy so that he gets hanged instead of life time imprisonment arguing he was brainwashed in the name of Allah and he is too young for life time imprisonment. I wonder what kind of religion is that which can brainstorm people like Kasab to involve in such inhuman task.

India has treated Kasab or even other terrorists quite well in the name of humanity no matter how deadliest these enemies are! He was offered number of government lawyers (who were later alleged by Kasab for not handling the case the way he wants), tight security, 4 long years to live more and what not! He kept his rude and inhuman behaviour till end (he spited on the camera specially provided to him as an appearance in Supreme Court for his own security) and wanted his case transferred to USA and on the other side India showed ridiculous patience to formally announce death sentence in his case!

Pakistan is still in denial of taking any responsibilities of these terrorists where his other plan-mates are reportedly found there wondering free. On top of it, Pakistan refused to claim the dead body of Kasab which was later grounded in India. 

Our land now comprises ashes of both Hemant Karkare and Ajmal Kasab! Both divine and devils takes rest on the same land!

A tale of Stalker

Not to be this,

not to be that.

I wanna be yours,

blossoming because of you,
wanna elapse with you.

I wish that winter come back,
shivering and some snow crack.
I walk a little to your lane,
wonder if you can see me.
Hesitating me; knock your doors,
don't know if I can face you?
You open the door and find no one,
unaware of me spying you from a zone.
Disappointing to see you close,
a happy moment for me in a second just gone.

They call me stalker, what does it matter?
I am happy how I love you, that's my chapter.

I though say nothing to you,
I still wanna dial your number.
I think about it ten times
and I end up that feeling being religious.

Your thoughts circling in my mind,
I wonder if I shall stop hiding your photo
beneath my pillow.
Will it make my mind hollow?

I am in chase of my best!

I have no one to report to except me!
Sleepless nights before the day of work.
I learn to observe my wrong doing,
scream loud inside when I fail.
I am not being self centered,
this is the way I progress!
My life is not a competition with the rest,
I am in chase of my best!

RISHI KAPOOR - Yesterday and Today

Kapoors have long list of celeb cards to flap in Bollywood. The glories and contribution still continues from them and an attempt is made here to throw a look on growing age and changes in Rishi Kapoor.

He has all reasons to perform young Raju (Little Raj Kapoor in the film "Mera Naam Joker") being a chubby but cute face all loaded with full of innocence and a little slice of Charley Champlain. Though a little but he left a very good first impression at this very early age winning National Film Award for Best Child Artist in 1971.

Any doubts why is he a father of such a chocolaty son (Ranbir Kapoor)? The makeover as a hii-main-mar-jawan-for-this-mundia was absolutely fitting in. He played his first leading role in Bobby which was an instant mega hit in Late 70's and won the Best Actor Award for the role. An unforgettable pair with Dimple Kapadia has just started.

He has that romance in his eyes that girls never used to keep eyes away. He was involved with few of the finest romantic songs of 70's to 90's and gave some memorable films to industry like "Saagar" and "Karma". Rishi Kapoor married to Neetu Singh (his co-actress) and news says this inter-caste marriage was highly objected by their parents but the story was not ended there. Eventually, both families had to agree seeing Rishi Kapoor's high fever affected due to initial refusal of their parents. Today we all know how happy the couple is!

Sardar never looked so cute at this age! Though the film didn't do so well, the dignity, the aggression and the discipline of a Sardar shown by Rishi Kapoor in the movie "Patiala House" was just remarkable. He proved his presence and excellence once again as a solo actor in "Do Dooni Chaar" by winning Critics Award for Best Performance in 2011.

The lethal, the antagonist; Rishi played a negative role (named Rauf Lala) first time in his career in "Agneepath" a 2012 remake movie. While shooting for the action sequences, Kapoor suffered several bad falls and bruises, but continued shooting and was thereby praised by co-star Hrithik Roshan for his professionalism.

Every role he played, he gave full justice to it. He has served in over 100 movies and still continues his solid screen presence with upcoming movies "Student of the Year" in 2012 and his own film remake "Chashmebudoor" in 2014. I wish a very healthy and happy life to this cute little fellow and waiting for tons of more smash hits from him. Long live Rishi Kapoor!

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Have a dragon in life!

I used to wonder in my childhood what could be China's philosophy behind "Dragon" as its representative animal.

I searched out in Wikipedia then - 

"The Chinese dragon is the highest-ranking animal in the Chinese animal hierarchy, strongly associated at one time with the emperor and hence power and majesty (the mythical bird fenghuang was the symbol of the Chinese empress), still recognized and revered. Its origins are vague, but its "ancestors can be found on Neolithic pottery as well as Bronze Age ritual vessels". Tradition has it composed of nine different animals, with nine sons, each with its own imagery and affiliations. It is the only mythological animal of the 12 animals that represent the Chinese calendar. 2012 is the Chinese year of the Water Dragon."

I wish I know what are those 12 kinds of dragons and what does it represent? 

Anyways, dragon represents power and energies and as far as energies are concerned, why not? Anything that leads to energies, happiness and courage would be certainly divine as all such values forms part of godliness and undoubtedly accepted by public at large. Have a dragon in life!

Eye to eye with Sea

You must once stand alone have an eye to eye with a vast sea which could be roaring and trying to move forward to catch you inside. Don't be scared! That will give you two thoughts simultaneously, one, you are very small and incapable against the nature and at the same time, though magically, you will feel like nothing is unachievable for you beyond your spirit and courage. Your feet must be solid enough to stick to hold gravity as well your own character!

 

Taken in July 09 Goa

On the other side, we all have a past! An unforgettable past! The philosophers have all logical reasons to say (in fact to convince you) to forget the past. However, we know we are human beings and can't run away from that fact. In fact, why should we forget past? It is also equally important part of our life, made us learnt so much, put to us the real side of ours and many who are living with us. When you stand opposite sea, you will feel like the waves of past is coming again and again to catch you and drawn you inside. Make sure, you don't get upset or loose your courage and in fact turn out with fresh thoughts as if you had a bath and left the negative thoughts inside the sea!

 

Let us carry our past in our pocket, live in present and take action for future! 

Re-cherishing Visit to Goa 2009

We and our lives - often side track each other.

After achieving a professional degree, a healthy practice, a beautiful wife, few solid friends, loving parents, we still feel life is missing something! What is that we don't know!

We go to movies, libraries, play grounds, hang out with friends but still confused about what is that we miss?

We need in fact a break! A break to see the sun not behind the buildings but roaring and full in the open sky!We need to see vast ocean instead of people and people everywhere. We need space around us for kilometers and kilometers instead of surrounded by mob. We need our legs to leave steps in sand instead of facing the concrete. We need nature! We need a fresh air!

It's been such a long time since we have visited Goa! It was almost end of summer 2009 and we friends visited Goa ending our exams and since then never got such quality time to be with. It's not that we want to leave this routine life and tired of handling the responsibilities but we need that freedom again (though for a while) to charge us back and come back hard to this ever running life.

We certainly looked back to our lives sitting on that wall that is it what actually we want our life to be or we want something else?

This next week I am going to celebrate 3 long years of one of my most memorable tour to Goa putting a pic everyday on Facebook and re-cherish all such beautiful moments! 

I can afford to forego few bucks to maintain my will.

- From the secret diaries of common man                  08/08/2012        22.43

At the age of 3

Is it what you cannt sleep on your night before birthday? Thoughts passes 24*7...It is pleasure that you and your creations grow together on the same day... 

Gautam Joshi & Co also completes 3 years. It seems the journey is just started. We at  Gautam Joshi & Co  are still ignorant about what to do further? Yes, we are unprepared for the uncertainties. However, we know we are in the jungle and cannt think of everything to take place in the right time. 

We are ignorant but not less involved, unprepared but fresh and agile. In fact, we dont know anything else than enterprising. 

We believe people and friends around are our best streanths. Living in the jungle, we know, rain showers on all and so growth of people and friends around us is the only growth of us.  We still loose opportunities, get listen from clients and we are looking for better brain to do it for us. We are aware of how many runs we can score in an over, not hurried like a Sehwag's run but passionate and determined like Dravid's stand. 

My beard gets hairy early, my hair goes white early. Something has not changed over a period of time is the constant attachment to do something big though of my own. In fact, bigger and better. Certain people have that creature of doing on its own, doing something that is never thought of and something that is yet to come. 

I am sure everyone who is attached with  Gautam Joshi & Co.  knows it and preech it.  May our ignorance continue because ignorance can only give room to knowledge. We are no less foody for knowledge!

શ્રદ્ધા

લોકો કંઈ નાસ્તિક નથી હોતા,
બધા ખુદથી ખફા છે.
પ્રભુથી અજાણ; નાદાન ખરા,
પણ એ અજાણતામાં પણ વફા છે.  

What is so courageous that only men can do?

Men will never understand true values of life unless he goes through the rituals of death. Women are more emotional and courageous as they give birth to a child, man might not be able to even see it, in fact not allowed to be present during this time. On the contrary, what is so courageous that only men can do and where women are not allowed to? Funeral!


Yes, it takes hercules courage to convince mind and stand as an eye-witness against death rituals. Only men can do it. Strange but so true that both men and women are made courageous for different reasons. Women, the most beautiful and emotional human species, becomes witness of birth and men, the most solid and logical human species, becomes witness of death. This leaves no doubts why human being needs both the species and their characters equally.


My grandfather, a truly courageous and always smiling gentleman, has left us few days back. We, young followers of him, have to receive a lot from his life. Having courage and soft heart together is a rare achievement. I have seen my grandfather standing alone in the toughest time which shows his courage and crying happily in the celebrations which shows his pure loving soul. He would have never complained about his health or life and I always found him content in whatsoever condition. I have no doubt why we are  courageous seeing his genes. Where we all are busy managing our own lives and many times get afraid of the challenges life throws, he becomes inspiration for us as he managed his own life, his brother's lives, his children's lives and grand children's lives too. He is certainly a root of this giant tree and will come back as rain from time to time to nourish our plants.

Life comes with energies, enthusiasm, powers, love and care. Life evolves with slightly less energies, enthusiasm, powers, love and care. The more we grow, the more we loose all these values and we realize life is not going to take any of energies, enthusiasm, powers, love and care. No matter you are a king or a governor, you are going to face an electric boiler which will only leave few pieces of bones and ash. We all will have to raise our standards of life to maintain and pass on the bestowed energies, enthusiasm, powers, love and care to everyone who come across in our life considering we will have only bones and ash to leave after death. 


May soul of my grandfather rest in peace and he always remain in our spirit and will.

પડઘા

તપતી રેતી પર ઉઘાડા પગે ચાલુ છું,
છું અહી જ પણ ક્યાંક ખોવાઈ જતો લાગુ છું.
દરિયો પણ મારા મનની જેમ અશાંત બન્યો છે,
જાણે અજાણે બે ઘડીનો દોસ્ત બન્યો છે.
સમયના આ થોડા પલ જ્યાં એકલા લાગતાં'તા,
મારા પગલાઓ ત્યાં છાપ ચાર છોડતા'તા.

ઉંચી ટેકરીએ સુરજને નિહાળું છું.
આંખોમાં આંખો નાખી એની ગરમીને પડકારું છું.
કેટલું ટક્યો એ ખ્યાલ નથી,
પણ આંખે અંધારા પડતા'તા.
જ્યાં ડગ્યો હું ક્ષણભાર માટે,
જોયું તો માનસ હું એક
પણ પડછાયા બે પડતા'તા.

આ ગડમથલથી થાકી જવાઈ છે.
મને મુક્ત થવું છે.
જ્યાં મેં મારા અસ્તિત્વના ઘડનારાને બુમ પાળી,
"તું તે વળી કોણ છે?"
ત્યાં બોલ્યો ફક્ત હું ને પાછળ પડઘા બે પડતા'તા.

I have to move on.

The Secret Diaries - Power of Self Belief

Today's Advertisement work

I am a big lover of television. Who is not? 

Advertisements plays a vital role in running the television world. I was wondering if now advertisement world should take a turn and think what should be served on the floor and what is not?

Though I hardly know about Ad-world, advertisement has lot to depend on choices, tastes and frequent updates in civil ideology and thinking. This weekend when I was watching television, I felt almost more than half of the advertisements of various products and services either sold through seduction or intellectual. I still wonder a powder making company is trying to sell powder by an advertisement concept based on seduction. Funny and foolish!

Take a chocolate, mango juice, cold drinks, cosmetics, deodorants and other young generation products, all are based on seduction or intellectual theme. Remember the Mentos chewing gum Ad? The tag itself is "दिमाग की बत्ती जला दे". Chewing gum is made a symbol of intelligence where as chewing gum is in public or formal places is considered as a bad manner. On the other side, Katrina Kaif eats Choc On and drinks Aamsutra i.e. Maaza and trying sell these products which are largely consumed by children below 13-14 years. 

I grown up seeing the Ads of Dhara Edible Oil with that of taste of Jalebi where a child leaves the house and return with a note "जलेबी खा के जाऊंगा"! I also recall a very strong line of NIRMA SUDDHA NAMAK "घर का सारा कम मुझे ही करना पड़ता है, सफाई भी शौपिंग भी। सुद्ध नहीं समजते क्या?". The all famous cadbory tagline too - "कोई भी काम शुरू करने से पहले कुछ मीठा खाना चाहिए, कम अच्छा होता है!"

We leave certainly an unwanted impressions and image on our children through advertisements. Censor board needs a re-look in publishing such advertisements creating a child to think on other side of his life.

Curse can make you worst, is it?

Good and bad has own cycles. One comes, another goes. Another comes, former goes. 

In this ever running cycle of good and bad, we start judging people - good people, bad people. 

"He/she should not have said this/that."

"He/she never wants me to be happy."

In fact, no one wants harm to happen. It is the harm what happens. We need to understand and learn that harm happened not because someone said. Someone's saying is one event and happening of harm is another event. Harm has its own timing, happening and it is always uninvited. 

It is unfortunate and worth to note that some people believe on curse and feel happening of bad has a strong relevance with someone else who don't like them or who envy them. Now these people who believe that curse can make you worst, have very little faith on god, divinity. The moment curse has been given undue emphasis, the other side of weighting machine where god and divinity resides goes down. The trust reduces, the devil is being worshiped unknowingly.

There is no better challenge than to be human. We have a mind and which has no stop button. We got a heart and certainly pause-less. We need lot of courage to think on how we should response to bad, in stead of who is actually behind that cause?

KKR - IPL 5 Night Riders have done it

The shouting souls were lions,

the spirits jumped high.

Riders kept it inside like a flame,

since they did not know

what is fame?

The ground looked so small

when they won and run

Gosh! I could say fly.

Buddies hugged in style,

danced, yelled and smiled.

They knew how to write the destiny

still amused, tensed

and the way it went.

Celebrations for sure

for what they procured.

Night riders have done it,

like never before.

Night riders have done it,
like never before.

When I see people winning,

cheering and claiming,

nothing seems impossible here

and suddenly everything goes divine.

God has ruled the life through out

but I can thank him

as these moments are mine.

Better something is left for intuitions

Life is really long to pass!

Thankfully, we have dreams, lust, fanaticism, craziness, wildness, eagerness, excitements, goose bumps and plenty of other feelings. Just imagine a life without all these emotions! It would be complete dull and boring. 

When I searched in Google how long a human being can live? The scientists say even for 1000 years. I wonder if that long life actually work! If yes, the only wish left in that human life would have been to die, somehow, someway. We have been told to see, right from the school, to aim high. A vision is what they call! Whereas life can be understood, enjoyed thoroughly in few micro seconds itself! Gaining and aiming is not life, else poor and beggars would have died since ages! 

Unfortunate for human species is nothing but their own intellectualism. Science has already marveled an excellence in human life. The more science will discover about human life development, the more we will lead to boredom. It is better we are not knowing everything about our life, how does it work and who run it? It is similar to fixed sports. How far are you going to enjoy? Better something is left for intuitions, real time.

Can you mark a difference between the horses who run in an open field and those who run in the race?

See on your right, the horses who run in an open field are happier as they run for themselves, without purpose, without ambitions, without a master, with no clicked directions, with nowhere to go. They enjoy their freedom, nature, nothingness! They have attitude, charm too.

Now, see on your left, the race horses are trained, they got a master with a stick to control him, with his own ambitions loaded on the horse. How can he be happy? He is always on work, he lives for others, he has mannerism but he can not be an apt which can make you laugh.  

Wish death could have been an own call. Someone might be right in saying that human birth comes every 7 years and that is nothing but a cage, I think! 

I named it YOU.

When God was busy involved in his work,
I escaped.
Somewhere down under his chair.
He was going to amaze me,
like always,
I was prepared.
He took some rose buds,
few drops of first rain.
He mixed it well
Something interesting that you can not spell.
He than added the fragrance
that of sweet peas.
He played some magic tricks,
than a fire cracked,
brown little clouds,
and I could see his eyes proud.
Though he was angry on me
but I had my credit due.
He gave that beautiful thing to me
I named it YOU.

Dedicated to my 'Unknown' close friends

कभी लगता है जैसे वो भूले ही नहीं, 

कभी लगता है जैसे हम उन्हें याद ही नहीं,

कभी लगता है हम तन्हा हुए ही नहीं,

कभी लगता है कोई साथ था ही नहीं,

कुछ अजीब सी है ये ज़िंदगी,

कभी लगता है खूब जी लिए,

कभी लगता है कुछ जिए ही नहीं....

આજે પણ હું એનો એ જ છું અને આજે પણ તું એની એ જ છો.

સમય  બદલાતા વાર નથી લાગતી

પણ  દિલમાં પડેલી સ્નેહની છાપ નથી જાતી.

ભલે વખત આવ્યે મન ના મતભેદો ટકરાય,

પણ મૂળ માં જો પવિત્રતા હોઈ તો 

ફૂલોની સુવાસ  નથી જાતી.

પહેલી વાર તારું જોવું, 

પહેલી વાર તારું હસવું.

યાદ આવે તો દિલ ને થાય કે 

સમય જતા શું લાગણીઓ ઓછી થતી જાય?

મન ને તો પ્રશ્નો ઉભા કરવાની આદત છે,

બાકી આજે પણ હું એનો એ જ છું

અને આજે પણ તું એની એ જ છો.

જીવ્યા ત્યાં સુધી જ  માનવીને ચસ્કો છે

અહી બધુ "પહેલી વખત" નો.

લાગણી તો સાચી એની ગણાશે 

જે સ્મરણ માં હશે દિલના

જયારે શ્વાસ  હશે છેલી ઘડીનો.

I may not utter thank you but I will preach.

When we get the first step on the earth, we get attached to so many things and live beings. The connection of nature and our self is something that cannot be described and cannot be left so easily. Though we often loose the track of this inherent connection while living in rapid fast life, we realize it time and again through silence, music, loneliness, game and being in love. 

We all love to get connected. Let me call it warmth, warmth received from the earth. It is so important to remember that our legs are remained connected to earth and that supreme power always remains on top of our head continuously blessing us. The day we leave this connection, we will be trapped by disappointment and grudges. Jealousy will catch us; jealousy with someone else's better connection to the earth and with the one who run this earth. 

We feel often that the god is too kind too others, people are damn lucky, things are taken care for them easily; we have unsolved questions like why we are not in the same list or why things do spoil in our case only? 

The point to think here is we have not respected the connection to the earth. We welcome happiness from this earth with open arms and when the same happiness takes a round and goes in the womb of others, we feel left, untouched and victim. God is that joker who goes on rotating the balls; balls with different colors, blue, red, yellow, dark and plenty of others. Unfortunately it covers black balls as well. When black balls come in our wing, we feel that feeling of left. 

We need to understand the cycle of life. We need to say it loud to god, "I will wait for my ball to cheer for, I will respect the black balls that you will offer, I enjoy even black color because I see you more clear when I close my eyes; I remember you the most when its dark so the connection with you is more stronger when its black. I will pass the time which is tough for me, silently and feeling your warmth. You have given me brain I will understand your supremacy and when you have given me heart I will feel your warmth. I may not utter thank you but I will preach."  

IPL is to live in moments!

Cricket again has left a thought, an impression on me.

With Rajasthan Royals, look very ordinary since the very beginning of IPL as a first impression, is shining and getting shape under the captaincy of Rahul Dravid. It is not something new that a team is bouncing back with lot of positive energies going inside be it in terms of captaincy under Rahul Dravid, Johan Botha and Amit Singh play regularly, Ajankya Rehanne being asked to open the inning and Cooper (should I write "super"?) a low budget invention really.

A season comes and goes. Plenty of matches and tough competition. If a team wants to come up, the positive energies have to feed in that is so akin in our life. As so wisely said by Rahul Dravid - "If you want to play Test Cricket well, divide the match in days, in sessions and further ball to ball." It sounds like Rajnish Osho saying live in moments.  

No matter we have 15000 runs or 800 wickets, what do matter is how we react to the moment?

This summer, live in moments!

Do you feel sitting yet absent in the class?

There's always someone ahead of us. Someone is seating right behind our thought process, which jumps and takes the driver seat of our life or is it what only I feel it?

To be in shelter or to be a slave is what all about being human.

Have you ever heard a voice of caution when you are crossing the road?

Has anybody warned you when you lie to your loved ones?

Does your heart pound when you are seating in an exam and you know you can not fail this time?

Do you feel someone somewhere is watching and guiding you when you take any moves while playing on the ground?

Do you feel sitting yet absent in the class?

We have been dominated, monitored. How many names do we give to dominance? God, time, luck, love, science etc. etc. I, you and we were not enough and that's why perhaps there is always something unknown, mysterious, undefined and unrelieved. It goes on and on till we breath here. It runs so fast that it gets converted in the past so easily and we never get time flapping pages of our past. It takes seconds for it to make us realize that we are nothing or peanuts against that supreme power. I don't know if worship really works but we need it often, so often.

That power reminds us every time we are on the wrong side. An intuition bell rings. If we don't follow that path and see failure than we understand that that intuition bell was only snoozed for a time being; snoozed to make us realize we were wrong. We though like to live or act the way we want to and boxing with the ultimate power is always going on.

We have no option left, isn't it? We don't know if we can have a second chance to live. Whatever we want, let us do it in this life. Let us take risk, get punched by the supreme power, not to surrender though. We may feel like nothing is in our control but no one can snatch our feelings, our thoughts, our will and dignity. May our supreme consciousness awake!

Night is to connect to the earth

Night is so wonderful to spend. You get your own time to judge your day before you close your eyes. All feelings and emotions gets folded in the eyes like one on the other, few recent, few from the past, few laugh and few memories not cherished. 

We sleep; we see dreams and wake up. It is the light which wakes up us and wake up to search for the energies which makes our face light up. We are driven by plenty of energies surrounding us. Our liking and dreams drives us to energies one among the many like the leaf flies with the push of the wind. The leaf never knows where it travels.

Night is to close your all supreme confidence. No matter how proudly you walk on the earth, in the night, you can relax only by lying parallel to earth, connected to earth. It proves that man is also an animal just like others as he returns home for food and sleep.

We must make a habit of being happy at the end of any day. We got to understand happiness and sadness always lie on each other side and ready to be flipped without a trigger. God has bless-fully put mind and heart at the same time. Let us take the best out of both. When heart feels hurt, let us ask our mind to play a trick to cheer it up. If mind has been deceived or fooled around, let us make our heart so mature that it can relax our mind. The balance between heart and mind can certainly improve quality of our life.

To win or loose let us leave on the one who takes it honestly. We are trustees of our life, should not leave a wrong impression for the life yet to come.

In conversation with God - III It's not easy to live like a human!

Last night, God was so happy that he asked me if I want to address the rest of the world.

I said I would love to stand on the top of the earth and applaud for everyone who is living down there.

"My dear God, it's not easy to live like a human!"

એક પારેવડાની પ્રેમકથા!

ઉડે એકલું,
ભટકતું,
ટહેકતું,
મન પારેવડું,
ફરી તારી જ છત  પર જઈને બેઠું.

ખાવાને દાણા તો ઘણા મળે છે,
પણ ભૂખ કોને લાગી છે?
નયનો ને એની જ્યાં
તારા આભાસના સંકેત જોઈએ છે.

ગુલાબી ડ્રેસ્સમાં,
ગુલાબી તારી આંખો,
નહોતી ખબર એને
કે દિલને પણ હોઈ પાંખો.
કોમળ હાથોએ ફેકેલો તારો દાણો
આહ્હા! કેવો મીઠો લાગે છે એને!
જમીન પર ઉડતું ના હોય?
જાણે કે, પીધો હોઈ એવું લાગે છે!

ખબર છે એના દિલને કે
તને કોઇ બીજું ગમે છે.
ભૂખ્યું રહી જશે
પણ બીજી છત પર નહિ જાય.
છો ને બીજા કહે એને પાગલ,
પ્રીત કરી છે પારેવડાએ તો
પાછીપાની નહિ થાય.

પ્રેમ ના મળે મરજીનો
તો ઘણા ખુદાને વખોડે છે.
કોઇ શ્વાસને તો કોઇ ઘરોને છોડે છે.
પ્રેમ ના મળી શકે
તો નફરત શા માટે?
પારેવડાને પૂછો કોઇ!
એ પ્રેમ કેવો ચુપચાપ કરી જાણે છે?

ઉડે એકલું,
ભટકતું,
ટહેકતું,
મન પારેવડું,
ફરી તારી જ છત  પર જઈને બેઠું.

એક તમારું ને મારું યે દિલ હોઈ આવું, તો કેવું સારું?

ક્યારેક દિલો બની જાય છે વ્યથા
તો ક્યારેક સખા.
કહું તોયે શું હું આ દિલોને?
બહાદુર કે પછી ચોક્ખા?

દુખોને અંદર દબાવે છે,
જાણે કે માં એના પુત્રને પંપાળે છે.
સુખોને એ મદમસ્ત થયને ફેલાવે છે,
જાણે કે મેઘધનુષના રંગ બનાવે છે.
કેવી આ બહાદુરતા કે
દુખોને એ વહેંચતા નથી?
જુઓ તો ખરી!
સુખોને આ દિલો કદી છુપાવતા નથી.

એક તમારું ને મારું યે દિલ હોઈ આવું,
તો કેવું સારું?

પ્રેમ કરે તો મારી જેમ જ કરજે.

જેમ તેમ કરીને જાય છે,
સમય પણ જો ને ધીમે પસાર થાય છે.
કોઈ દિવસ ફુરસદ મળે તો
તારી અંદર ધ્યાન દેજે.
તારો ખુદા પૂછે તને કે
"કોણ પ્રેમ કરે તને બહુ?"
તો મારું પણ નામ લેજે.

કહે છે કે અહી નામથી નામ
બધાના નથી જોડાતા,
પણ કહી શકું ખાતરીથી કે
લાગણીના સંબંધો તો ખુદ ખુદાથી પણ નથી તોડાતા.

હું કેમ છું?
શું કરતો હોઇશ?
એની તું પરવા ના કરજે.
જે પલે મળે ખુશી તને,
જી ભરીને જીવી લેજે.
ખોબો ભરીને માગીશ તો
પ્રભુ તને દરિયો આપશે,
ના માંગ મારી ખુશીયોને તો ઠીક,
મારી દુવાઓની કદર જરૂર કરજે.

તુટવા માટે તો દિલ
અહી બધાના એક વખત તૂટે છે.
ખરું કહું તો પ્રેમને સમજવાની
એમની કૈંક ધીરજ ખૂટે છે.

આ વાતને તું ફીલ્શુફી ના સમજજે
પણ ના કરે કોઈ પ્રેમ તને તો
એને તું છોકરમત સમજજે.
ના મારી કે મારા અસ્તિત્વની ફિકર કર.
તું જો આસપાસ તને કેટલા ચાહે,
છે એક વિનંતી કે એ બધાને તું
પ્રેમ કરે તો મારી જેમ જ કરજે.

For a better play what you can do is just go and play...!

Morning is such a good time to think as you have left your yesterday; a yet another past.

The only reason why we live, why we survive is perhaps to love or to be loved and when I was jogging in the Polo ground before the practice session for our next Cricket venture at Surat, I thought patience is must to achieve love in life. In fact, patience makes you achieve anything; if not at least a satisfaction that you give your best.

We must trust our patience. Patience that can turn around phases. In this fast moving world, we need patience at every moment of life as in the race of being quick and earliest we may end up hurting our patience. We may end up loosing. We will have to decide from time to time we want to be the quickest and a looser or be patient and a winner; if not at least a hope to win.

MS Dhoni says as a player you must know exactly when you should switch on and switch off. It's a game and at the end of any day, we are on the ground to PLAY and fun and not only for WIN.

How beautifully a human mind has been designed? A thought that comes early in the morning, shuffles thousand times in a day to come like washing machine shuffles the clothes and finally becomes a decision. Yes, we all do hope the pool of thoughts continue and wash out as neat and clean. In fact, we never know when we have left the negative thoughts aside when our mind was cleaning the thoughts.

At the breakfast, I was waiting for my noodles to get warmed, leaves no doubts why?

Cat-Mouse Run

At no stage of my life
I am coward
or I give a second thought
but like I say it always.
I can not say it at times.
I can not make it at times.

My past is well obsessed chasing me
like all famous cat-mouse run.
Harder...faster...!
I get tired,
get humiliated by an own evil inside.
Courage only saves me besides.

It is so often
I have to misguide my mind.
Not to be get affected by past.
The nearer it comes,
I flap it like cards.
Monster looking past suddenly
turns to a beautiful craft.
This past makes present looks so relaxing!
I am made of blood and bones finally.
I choose leaving
and start living.

Can you really live the life you dream?

It is overwhelming to see a cold morning, a stiffed, still sleepy body with a little noise of factory already started nearby at GSFC Cricket ground. The hunger to play well starts burning in the stomach like the raw had started burning in the factory. We, Baroda CAs every morning get together at the ground, practice since last 1 and half month to match the standards with Ahmedabad CAs. We desperately need a win!

Drops of dew on the newly grown grass, a compulsory full round of ground before start, few balls here and there and then a perfect pitching gives true pleasure of your breaths. In our life, we live two lives simultaneously; one that we always dream to live like and one we have chosen. We have hardly enough time to give to the life we always wanted to live as we have already chosen a different path. Time will never come again and that I always tell to myself before bowling or facing any ball. It needs no alarm to wake up early from the bad (like a spider web which always ties you tightly to catch some more sleep), your body shows no resistance to get a new routine. That happens when you are living the life you always dream to live like. 

I remember all my childhood days starving for Cricket. I used to wait for my brother to come home early from the school so that we can have a match and I can return home with a big smile ending with a big hug to my mom saying how much I scored and how did I tackle the much stronger looking brother. No matter what the performance is, my mom was always happy listening me. If I kept quiet, she knew easily that I cooked up and she will advice there's always another day.

It is important for you to decide in life what makes you happy. Please mark the difference, what makes you happy and what attracts you easily but hardly make you happy. You consult your parents, you take advice of your brothers and sisters but choose something that you would not have think of. That will make you see dreams different in night and work for different objectives in day time. Sadly, when you are grown up, you have hardly anyone to go and say "Boss! I am not happy with this life and actually I dreamed something else! I want to return." Can you really return but?

     

મોટર સાયકલ એટલે મારી મોટર સાયકલ!

મોટર સાયકલ એટલે 

મારી મોટર સાયકલ!

જેટલી જૂની એટલી ટહુકતી.

ભીડમાં એકલી

પણ સદા એ મરક્તી.

એક તો સવાર એનો 

હું શાહી અંદાજનો.

દિલથી અનોખો ને

ચટકા મિજાજનો.

રાહે મળે એ બધા મારા ભાઈબંધો,

ચ્હાની લારીએ બને મારા પ્રપંચો.

યારી ને દિલદારી 

બસ નહિ બીજા કામનો.

હું હાથી જીવું તો લાખનો

ને મૂવો સવા લાખનો.

જીગરે હું જબરો એવો,

લાગણીઓમાં ડૂબી જાવ છું.

એકવાર કહો "કેમ છો?"

તો ફના થઇ જાવ છું.

બધું મારું જ,

બધું મારું જ એ નહિ મારી નીતિમાં.

કિંમત મારી નથી કોડીની

પણ કરું રોકાણ દિલોમાં.

નથી કોઈ શત્રુ કે,

નહિ કોઈ હરીફ.

કરે કોઈ આંખ ઉંચી તો

વિનમ્રતા જ તબીબ.

મોટર સાયકલ એટલે
મારી મોટર સાયકલ!
જીદગી જેવી જ કૈંક
ચાલે એ પાગલ.
જેટલી જૂની એટલી જ ટહુકતી.
ભીડમાં એકલી
પણ સદા એ મરક્તી.

Afraid of getting converted

I wonder with whom
I share my breaths!
Much afraid of getting converted,
A dodger here, a dodger there.
What I bully is I am living in the dodger's world...!

They say my mind is not at the right place,

Against Dodgers

in fact they are prejudiced to honesty.
They want me to follow them,
the path of dodging, an immoral lodging.
They say I am arrogant,
in fact, trying to convince me.
Whatever doses of courage I embed,
they are shameless,
understand just one language of living
that is to bread.

I have an open sky,
the round loaded earth.
The nature and everything that it takes birth.
To whom shall I go and complain?
This soul will only come to curse me then.
If I don't challenge and
become one more dodger.

The closed doors and under tables
are the home of devils.
The size and colors are so alike,
when you get disguised,
it's always a surprise.
It blows your mind off,
evaporates your sleep.
Do you believe in god?
Check out, meet dodgers but take care.
Take care of your trust.
Make sure then you don't weep.

I have a story to tell to the next breed,
stay away from the ugly greed.
If you think you are victim of a system,
take a lead.
This is not about being happy on calling a war,
it's just to get relaxed
from our own wrong deeds.
A dodger here, a dodger there.

What I bully is I am living in the dodger's world...!

I wonder with whom
I share my breaths!
Much afraid of getting converted.

ઢીલ દઉં કે ખેંચી લઉં?

કહે છે કે આકાશની કોઈ વીશાત નથી,
તો ઉમંગોની પણ નહિ જ હોઈ.
ઉત્તરાયણ આવે એટલે ધડકનો વધે,
જાણે કે પતંગો નહિ
દિલો ઉડાન ભરે.

પવનની સંભાવના કદાચ ઓછી,
પણ પ્રયત્નોની નહિ.
રંગ બદલે ત્વચાનો,
પણ મસ્તીનો નહિ.
ઉડાનો નો શોખ તો હું પણ રાખું છું.
જો મારી પતંગને મેલાવે કોઈ.

પતંગની દોર ભલે ડગમગાયા કરે,
બાજુની છત પર સુંદરી પર નઝર ડોકાયા કરે.
કહું તો મનની વાત કેમ કરીને?
પલમાં પીગળી જાય એ દિલને,
ઢીલ દઉં કે ખેંચી લઉં?

સુર્યાસ્તના સમયે ફાનસ ચડાવીએ,
એક, બે અને સહુ ચડાવીએ.
ભલે ને ફાનસ ક્યાંક જઈને ઠરી જાય,
જ્યાં સુધી રહશે પ્રકાશ એનો,
ત્યાં સુધી તો દિલોને દીપાવી જાય.

કહે છે કે આકાશની કોઈ વીશાત નથી,
તો ઉમંગોની પણ નહિ જ હોઈ.
ઉત્તરાયણ આવે એટલે ધડકનો વધે,
જાણે કે પતંગો નહિ
દિલો ઉડાન ભરે.

Your life is a film, get involved, release it!

You got a life. You make it a story.
Choose a character.
Make it your life.
Your mind is the best producer,
let it sponsor.
Got a beautiful heart, let it direct you.
There is something common in all of us,
Vibrant, spiritual, undefined.
One that triggers -  "light, life (camera), action...!"
You think you are mistaken somewhere,
just edit it.
Your time will come,
Celebrate it.
Your love will awake.
Sing it.
Tell yourself everyday you wake up,
Your life is a film,
Get involved,
Release it!