The happiest the heart, the happiest the mind!

I often don’t know what to ask for since I feel I have been blessed with so many good things and more importantly good people.

The only thing I could think of is to wish everyone to be content and happy.

One would say that how could one become content and happy all the time?

Of course, it’s not an easy trait.

Happiness or being content is an inner state of mind. It requires complete  awareness of presence and remind oneself that one wants to be happy and content all the time.

First exercise is to make one’s heart happier. The happiest the heart, the happiest the mind!

Stop worrying to develop a happy heart. Don’t carry a baggage of expectations from you or people around you. You’re a human after all! You might be clever in your own right but there’s universe much bigger and more capable than you which has survived before your arrival and will still survive after your existence. What that means is that things are taken care of. Believe in it, have faith if there is ever a god and you believe in him.

If you think you’re clever and worrying for people around you then stop. Advise them, let them carry their own worries, suffering is good for them because only suffering will lead them to success. Krishna did that to Arjun and let him fight his own battle. He could have won the Mahabharata on his own without the help of Arjun but then he would have failed to explain or experience to Arjun what it takes to fight.

Hope this makes sense. Work on your peace and content this new year! Happy new year!

When India was shut down!

5.14 am. A vacant road. Few light and a man was returning home with a lost mind. He had drugs last night and was really struggling to walk. He was repeatably nudging his nose so that he at least get some sense to reach home and suddenly he heard a shout - "Hey watch out!"

Before he comes out from drug fantasy, he fell down on the road. "Man, are you all right?" Somebody put a hand on his shoulders. That stranger lifted him up.

"Heavy you are!" - Stranger.

Druggist - "Not more than my head!"

Stranger - "Are you drunk?"

Druggist - "No no. Just a few drugs that's it."

Stranger - "Oh! You want me to help you?"

Druggist - "I need it actually!"

Stranger - "Poor fellow! Let me take you my home. Be my guest."

Druggist - "Oh no no. My home is just 2 minutes awayyyy...." His voice was shivering and was almost on the edge to vomit.

"Just show me the nearest tea stop." - Druggist was now asking for the next boos.

"You better have some sleep." - Stranger made some sense.

"I can't! These people won't let me sleep!" There was a tension in his voice.

"Who?" - Stranger asked.

Druggist - "Leave it. Tell me, why there's no life here. It's going to be 6 am. Isn't it?"

"Oh! Don't you know? India is closed today! High price protest!" - This time it was time for Stranger to get tensed.

"Ha ha. Cowards! You stay away from them huh? By the way, pubs are open, right?" - Druggist was squeezing his eyes.

"Huh! You look rich. Why should you worry? Even if you are, say for a change, you can have your drug dose to forget it." Stranger, for the first time, raised his voice.

Druggist - "Opps! Perhaps, I knocked on the wrong door. Are you a farmer?"

"No. No. I am a milkman.

In your debt

એ દિવસ જયારે આપણી નઝરોં મલી
અને તમે મલકાયાં,
ચાહું છું કે
એ માટે હું હમેંશા તમારા દેવામાં રહું.

જયારે તમને કોઈ ગમે, ત્યારે?

પ્રેમની વાત તો ઘણા કહી ગયા,

આ તો હું મારો અનુભવ વ્યક્ત કરું છું.
દોસ્ત, વાત કૈંક આમ છે કે

દિલ દીવડો થઇને પ્રગટે અને
જીવન પ્રસંગ બનવા લાગે.

જયારે તમને કોઈ ગમે,
ત્યારે તમને બધું જ ગમવા લાગે.

જેમ ગુલાબને એની મહેકની જાણ નથી,
એમ એ મારા પ્રેમથી અજાણ છે.
મન ખોવાઈ જાય છે એમના ખયાલોમાં,
મારા શબ્દોનું એમાં જ નિર્માણ છે.

તમે એમનામાં ખોવાઈ જાવ અને
મન થપ્પો દાવ રમવા લાગે.

જયારે તમને કોઈ ગમે,

ત્યારે તમને બધું જ ગમવા લાગે.

વર્ષોથી એમના નામની
વાંસળી કૈંક આવી વાગે છે.
કે કૃષ્ણ રાધાની કહાની
કૈંક એવી જ સરખી લાગે છે.
ડરપોક દિલ બોલી ને તો રહ્યું પણ
ખુલ્લેઆમ ગઝલો લખવા લાગે.
જયારે તમને કોઈ ગમે,

ત્યારે તમને બધું જ ગમવા લાગે.

Short little endeavour

So many winters have gone by since we were together
And I haven’t felt like that after
How could I when I keep rewinding that moment?
How does it matter if you did that on purpose?
Or you were just trying to make me fool.
What I get out of this short little endeavour is
That you turned back and smiled at me.

It makes me still feel that I am in a race
I am running behind you trying to catch up on you
While you have moved on so far so away.
Don’t they keep telling me that I have lost control of me?
I am too smart for my own good that
I still carry that stamp on my mind, oh yes,
That you turned back and smiled at me.

It doesn’t matter who you are right now
Or what you have become.
Who cares who you really love?
Or there’s still a part of me in your heart?
I have closed all the doors and locked all windows of you
What I am going to remember before I go
That you turned back and smiled at me.