Humanity First

                These are times when India is facing a bit more number of threats to its sovereignty than we’re probably used to. At least as far as my knowledge goes, I haven’t seen the media report Chinese and Pakistani incursions or any other threats from these countries at the same time. Also, the internal security challenges aren’t on the decline either. It’s as though we’re disintegrating, we’re recognising our differences but these external threats are keeping us somehow weakly glued. I recently read in an article the divide between Hindus and Muslims, North Indians and South Indians and between other social groups is increasing. The ‘Unity in Diversity’ has been remained to a bookish phrase. Is this a problem? I say yes. Is there a solution? Yes, but trying to forget our differences and suddenly unite won’t help. It will never even happen. If the branches start to dry up, perhaps the roots need to be diagnosed.

                As a kid I had a read a story about two pen pals, one from India and another from Japan. In one of the letters, the Indian friend writes that in India, people are Indians first and then Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jains, Sikhs, etc. It’s a good start and we can go a step further. The BJP too should be appreciated for positioning themselves as a party of development instead of religion and caste (I am not a bhakt). I think instead of saying that we are Indians first and then whatever our religions may be, perhaps we should not talk about our religions at all. Religions were not created by a God. They are human inventions, meant to moralise the society. They are just a guideline to living but they’ve now become fearful forces. As long as I respect you, does it matter how I do it? By bowing down to you with my hands folded or with a handshake? As long as I don’t eat from your plate and leave you starving, does it matter what I eat and how much of it? Does it matter what I wear or how I speak? It actually does matter, though it shouldn’t. And it will continue to matter for as long as we have multiple religions in the world. This is one of the fundamental flaws of our society. The other being the root cause behind division of Earth. Well, it’s needed for administrative purposes, but that’s not the reason it was done. The real cause behind this division is greed. Greed of one particular person or a handful who’ve managed to brain wash the masses into believing their so called just cause. Now, one can’t really eradicate greed, it’s a part of human nature but what one can do is be a human being before being any other thing. By putting humanity before nationalities and religion will help solve a great deal of our problems. Believing that we’re human beings first and then Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese, Americans, etc. will reduce the number of wars to a great extent if not erase them completely. Would we really need religion then? Wouldn’t it make God happier to see that we’re following the principles of humanity, we’re doing what basically every religions asks for instead of praying? Or his God so egomaniacal that he/she would punish us for not praying? And when we think of God, wasn’t he/she created by us humans too? The basic problem lies in our incapability to accept opinions different from ours. We classify everything into good and bad, whereas opinions are just opinions. But this is a deeper problem, perhaps at the DNA level and hence it’ll take us centuries to even try to resolve it but we can find a common ground today. The common ground of all of us being human beings. Because what really classifies a person into a particular religion was created by humans. It did not occur naturally. The clothes we wear, the languages we speak, our names, our grooming habits were all created by humans. What did occur naturally was birth of a human being. A baby isn’t born with a particular religion, he/she is just born a human being. Perhaps it’s time to look back at our roots, look back to what really defines us, our humanly created differences or the common ground of humanity.

Mulakat Khud Se

Din ki khamoshi mein
Raat ke sannate mein
Mulakat hui khud se, jo rubaru hua
Jana kitna tanha chhod diya tha khud ko
Jisse dur bhaga, wo hubahu hua

Mili mujhey khushi aise
Kaha ho apna kisi ne barso baad jaise
Ayi sharm gham ka thaame haath
Jab pehli baar khud se pyar hua

Raund deti hain hawayein zindagi ki
Unhe jo bheed me chala karte hain
Jee to raha tha saalon se main
Khud se milke fir bhi naya janam hua

Bohot tha dar aane wale kal ka mujhey
Wo kal jise mujhey hi banana tha
Jo dekha kal ko khali kitaab sa
Toh jo maine likha, bas wo hua

The Philosophy of Science

If you’ve ever felt that the reason for your existence is much more than just the chemistry and biology governing natural organisms, you have at some point pondered about the purpose of life (most probably in the shower). And this must have got you a little excited and in that tiny moment, epiphany strikes and you have got yourself the ultimate life goal. It fills one with energy and one starts to question everything one does. Everything, every activity, has to push one towards that goal. One can already see oneself as the leader of the masses (or a cult), changing the world and making it a better place. But that excitement and energy vanishes with the moment (or lasts for as long as one is in the shower). But history can’t stop boasting of stories in which this excitement and enthusiasm lasted for much longer periods of time, long enough to change the world.

Not all eureka moments have to do something with great discoveries and award winning inventions. The greatest invention on Earth is life and the greatest discovery for any living organism would be to find its purpose. To quote Buddha, ‘The trouble is, you think you have time’ when the fact is that time is passing by every second. A second doesn’t seem like a lot of time when we think that we have hours, days, months and years to live. But it becomes dangerously significant if we think about what can happen in a second. A sperm cell may take a day or so to find the egg, but it takes about a second to fertilise it, thus creating life. When the baby comes out of the womb, it takes a second to cut the umbilical cord, detaching the baby from the mother and welcoming a new creature in this world. The baby can spend years trying to learn to talk, but it is in that one second that the first word is uttered and one of the most powerful tools, speech, takes birth. Same goes with walking and other chores in life. It’s in a second that rings are exchanged and two people become a couple and it’s also in a second that life finally leaves the body. People (including me) waste a lot of time. The amount of time people spend on doing something they love are like moments compared to amount of time spent on doing something they’re not passionate about, or worse, even hate. A passionate musician might have to work as an accountant to support himself but should it be considered a waste of time if he/she spends a minute dreaming about him/her playing an instrument that is moving and touching people around him/her? I’d say working as an accountant is actually a waste of time. Because that way, the musician will never be inspired to use all his/her energy to spend life doing what he/she truly loves.

It is sad to see people thinking that life is about birth, education, job/business, supporting family, dying. Every human being has the responsibility to live a passionate life. And science has sort of started to believe it too. According to quantum mechanics, the state of an electron (particle or wave) depends on the act of measurement or observation. During the double split experiment (please google it, details of this are beyond the scope of this article), the dual nature of electrons was discovered. But what was also discovered was that the electron happened to change its nature depending on whether it was being observed or not. Another surprising discovery was that, whenever and wherever the scientists tried to find the electron, it appeared there and when they didn’t try to find it, it was nowhere. It was as if, the electron existed everywhere and nowhere simultaneously. This means life presents itself the way we want to see it, as a wave or as a particle. Life is everything we believe it to be and is nothing else whatsoever including all the joys and pains. Now, if you apply this principle to your life, you will always find what you really look for and when you’re not looking, there’s nothing to be found. So if you feel that there’s no way that you could follow your passions, look again at yourself. Why can’t you live passionately? Look for that metaphorical electron called will in yourself and you will find why you can and you should.

Now, following one’s dreams seems like a big risk due to fear of failure. What if I don’t make it is the one question that has destroyed more lives than wars. But there’s science here too. According to another concept called entanglement in quantum mechanics, there’s a pair of electrons which are entangled to each other. If separated, even by the distance equal to the width of the universe, the entanglement is strong as ever. This was found to be true in an experiment in which the electrons were separated by a distance of 143 kilometres and were subjected to different physical instances like rotation, movement, stress, etc. The effects on one electron had an effect on the other as well. No matter the distance, the result was the same. One of the reasons behind this could be that before the Big Bang happened, everything in the universe was condensed at one single point. Everything was actually one. The explosion caused the condensed mass to disintegrate and spread away. It’s like a single cake was cut into different pieces. But that doesn’t mean that the pieces are different types of cakes. They are all one. Similarly, everything in the universe is connected, entangled. Every little action we take has an effect. So be afraid, but not of failure. Every action taken towards one’s dream, towards living a life full of passion, will have an effect. Doesn’t matter whether you see the results immediately or not, but the only result that matters is the satisfaction you will receive and the peace that you will experience. You will live a life that you love and love is all that the world needs.

SUREST WAY TO MIRACLES EVERY MOMENT

How many of us believe in miracles? Don’t worry, it’s not going to be a teenage girl’s journal entry. So, how many of us believe in miracles? I guess most of us do, or have started to. The world around us has changed quite dramatically (for the better or worse, depending on perspective) which isn’t so short of a miracle. But how many of us just can’t stop experiencing them every moment? A lot of hands have gone down, haven’t they? (Sorry, I write as if I am speaking to a live audience).

Well, let me tell you, miracles happen every moment. The degree of impact may vary but they do happen. I’m going to give you two examples here of “actual” miracles and then explain how these happen all the time.

Example 1: It’s the peak morning time and as usual I’m waiting for my train at one of the railway stations of Mumbai. The train arrives and before it can halt, people have started jumping in. Now, I am not new to this Sparta like phenomenon and hence I try to get in too. But I’m pushed aside, so hard, that I fall on the platform. I get back up and with the same resolve, I get inside the train and guess what, find myself a seat. A true miracle, any Mumbaikar would say.

Example 2: I and my flatmate have rented a new house in Mumbai. The owner asks us to meet him at short notice. Due to his insistence we leave early from office only to wait for him for 2 hours at the meeting point. He arrives with a list of questions (literally) and the viva begins. From his questions it’s clear that he thinks of us no less than a bunch of underground gangsta rappers. His broker brings up a clause to be included in the rent agreement which I and my flatmate are not comfortable with, but will doubly protect the interests of the owner. He asks his broker to not force the clause on us. A miracle!

Now, these 2 incidents may seem like a miracle because as laymen, we understand miracles to be unexpected welcome events which do not happen all the time. Well, by that definition, isn’t the non-occurrence of certain events which do not happen all the time, miracles too? Non-occurrence of earthquakes or other natural calamities? Non-occurrence of a terrorist attack at some place? These do not happen all the time and their non-occurrence causes a welcome event. Imagine your flight is about to land and there’s an earthquake on the runway. This is not a miracle, it’s an unfortunate event. But the non-occurrence of such an event would cause a welcome event of a smooth landing. But yet, we don’t call a smooth landing a miracle either. That’s because, we give far too much importance to rarely occurring welcome events as compared to others. The significance of common welcome events is so less that we’re not even aware of them. Isn’t it a miracle that you’re breathing right now? You’re not aware of it, you’re not even trying, but you are alive. Isn’t it a miracle that your dog, who’s probably stronger and more agile than you, is your loyal friend and not a predator who can eat you when you’re sleeping? Yes, dogs are programmed that way by nature (and genetic engineering) but aren’t all miracles? Isn’t it a miracle that the human race is still going strong, after two world wars and so many others? Isn’t it a miracle how Earth has all the life supporting elements in the exact right amounts? Isn’t it a miracle that you’re on the beach and there’s no tsunami? Isn’t it a miracle that your breathing doesn’t suddenly stop? Or despite all the terrorism, which has been occurring since decades, you’re feeling safe right now?

We’ve never acknowledged these things, have we? Why? Because we take the present for granted, despite it being a very serious thing, the only true thing. We’re obsessed with the future. It takes a major event, a jolt perhaps, to make us realise the importance of the present. The present is the only moment we have all the control over. We’re losing control every moment and we don’t know if we’ll still have it in the next. But in the present moment, we are completely in control. It’s not bad to plan for the future, but to live in it, that’s terrible. That’s like Virat Kohli worrying about the ICC 2019 World Cup because he may have to lead the Indian Cricket team then. One doesn’t make 24 international hundreds in 161 innings worrying like that. Even this is a miracle.

To conclude, miracles are happening every moment because every moment is happening for us. There would be no miracle if we were dead. Being alive is a miracle itself with all the wars, terrorism, diseases, stress and so much more. The only way to witness miracles every moment is to live every moment. Mere acknowledgement of every moment will surely cause a miracle, because miracles don’t happen once in a while, they happen when you look for them, just like the electron in the double slit experiment. Sorry, getting off topic here. So, the surest way to witness miracles every moment is to acknowledge every moment by being in the present.

THE HALLUCINATING HUMAN BEING

So, I was watching Bajirao Mastani last weekend and just when I was about to doze off, as the climax approached, the last scene of the movie really connected with me. Now, before some of you start to defend the movie, let me just clear the air by saying that I am not going to write a review of the movie. This article is not about that. I respect your opinions if you liked the movie (I am not intolerant, you see?) and agree with you if you think a 30 minute story was over-stretched into a 2 and half hour movie. So, let’s get to the point, shall we? Warning: Spoiler alert!

           

            In the last scene, the sick Bajirao runs in the river (I think Godavari) on seeing a cavalry approaching to kill him. The horses are running on water like it’s a small puddle and suddenly there are even flaming arrows coming from the skies. Bajirao is hit by a few of them and they light fire on water. He is also cut with swords by the men on horses. It’s real, quite real for him. He has in his hand his metallic belt like sword swaying and is fighting the cavalry but in vain. His attacks have no effect on neither the horses nor the men sitting on them. He swings his weapon on one of the enemies and the horse just passes through to an unclear destination, like the warrior in the river didn’t exist. Bajirao tries to fight and avoid the flaming arrows but they hit him but don’t really hurt him. He stops swinging after a while. At a distance, his wife, Kashi, looks at her husband swinging his sword madly at an invisible object. The whole world is peaceful except her husband. Bajirao soon realises the truth and the cavalry disappears. The arrows and the fire on the river disappear too. Bajirao is laughing. He is laughing as crazily as he was swinging his sword at, well, nothing. He’s realised the truth and that how crazy he was before. He is liberated and quite literally soon after, from life. Wouldn’t you feel liberated too? What if the job that you hate so much but have to do it every day, was a hallucination? Would this knowledge liberate you? What if the fact that your father doesn’t understand you, is just a hallucination you’ve been making real? What if your financial problems were a hallucination? What if that nagging girlfriend was a hallucination or that insecure boyfriend was? Not only your problems, the good stuff in life can be a hallucination too. That iphone worth almost half a lac (50,000), your dream house, your bank balance, the care free life that you enjoy, it’s all a hallucination.

            So why is it a hallucination? Feels pretty real, doesn’t it? It feels real to everybody else too, so how is it a hallucination? The answer to this is in the question, what’s real? Nothing is real. Nothing is absence of everything. I know it’s a basic definition and there’s nothing epiphany-like in it but have we really tried to understand this definition? Do you know when you get nothing? Alright, I’ll give you nothing right now. You ready? Just imagine this and go slow. The chair or bed that you’re sitting on isn’t there. There’s no table either. There are no walls around you. The clothes that you own, including the ones that you’re wearing right now, don’t exist. Your glasses (if you use a pair) don’t exist either. There are no bed sheets, pillows, blankets, footwear, bathroom supplies, food, trees, plants, animals, other human beings, grass, insects, birds, buildings, vehicles, not even air. There’s no Earth or other planets and satellites. This computer isn’t there either. It’s just you in this entire universe. You look around and it’s all dark, black. There’s no sense of direction or speed as there’s nothing to compare these two dimensions with. There’s a black out and that’s all there is, forever. You’re floating but you don’t know whether you’re moving or not and if you are then towards what or in which direction. Is this Nothing? No. Now, imagine that you don’t exist either. Now we have Nothing. Everything is absent, nothing is present. This is real. A blank canvas, an empty notebook. The moment you paint, the moment you write, is the second stage of hallucination. The first stage being, your existence. The moment you acknowledge your own existence, you start to hallucinate. This is so because, you start to create meaning out of your existence. Of course, you’re a baby initially so you accept the meanings that are told to you by others and as you grow, the basis of meanings created by you, are the ones that you had accepted before. Nobody is born an Indian or a Hindu or Muslim but these identities are labelled upon us and we are taught, really well, how to hallucinate. Some hallucinate about engineering, some about medicine, some about flying a plane and more. We create meanings as if they are permanent, we create rules as if they have been the governing force of all mankind, as if the ‘Gods’ want us to follow these rules. We also create a God and worship our creation as if it is our creator. It is all an hallucination.

            So, if this so and nothing is real, then how do we get out of this hallucination and reach that reality? There is just one way, death! All the great saints, sadhus and babas are aware of this hallucination but are still a part of it. This is so because we are not meant to escape this phenomenon and neither should we try to. We are meant to realise that we’re hallucinating but we can’t escape it. But the realisation does put our hearts at ease, doesn’t it? Knowing that everything around us is not real, it is all a figment of our own imagination and creation, gives us some degree of power. The fact that your partner is upset with you, is your own creation and thus you can change this fact. How? That’s a question only you can answer as it’s your creation but nothing is permanent. You create everything and you have the power to create whatever you want, it’s your blank canvas, your empty notebook. You may not know how to paint and write yet, but practice and you will be a great painter like Buddha or a great writer like Krishna, Christ or the Prophet. We call them Gods but they were all just normal humans like us, hallucinating but always aware of this fact and they created what we know about them today. They knew that they can’t escape the hallucination but what they could do was hallucinate about what they desired. And this is exactly what we need to do today. This doesn’t mean that we sit all day just imagining stuff. When you hallucinate, the hallucination is so real that it alters your actions. Therefore, whatever we desire, should reflect in our actions. If you want to be rich, your actions should be such that you’re getting richer. Rich people work hard (unless you’re Mukesh Ambani’s son) and they plan everything amongst a lot of other actions that they take. If you want to be famous, do something that makes you famous. Whatever it is that you want, take actions to hallucinate about that reality. In the end, none of it is going to last but for as long as you’re lasting, create for yourself that you wish could last forever.

THE EMPTY AND MEANINGLESS LIFE

Do you ever wonder how life got so complicated? Do you ever wish for simplicity in life, just like it was when we were kids? By the way kids today have a pretty complicated life themselves so, just think it over, but you get the point, right? I sometimes think about my purpose in life; how the universe is perhaps trying to teach me, train me for a better life ahead. Do you think about it too? Do you also try to understand the meaning of it all? If yes, you’re complicating life, my friend.

The day you were born, life started to become complicated. You were told you were born on a particular day of the particular month of the particular year. Who made these days, months and years? You were told that the building you were born in is called hospital. You were told that you came out of a tiny hole called a vagina. You were told that your name is this or that. You were told that going to school, respecting elders, loving one another, following etiquette, etc. is expected and is good. You were told everything. Do you remember questioning a lot of these rules as a kid? But then you stopped, because you started to make sense of it, rather, you started to get the ‘meaning’ behind all this. If there were things that couldn’t be explained with logic, you assigned the meaning of supernatural or religion to it. But everything had to have a meaning. There’s a little voice in the back of our heads that just can’t stop creating meaning out of everything. Even right now. As you’re reading this article, your little voice is asking, ‘Where is this article going?’, ‘Is the writer going to make any sense at any point at all?’, ‘What does all this mean?’, ‘What am I thinking now?’, etc.

Doesn’t your mind start racing if your girlfriend/boyfriend doesn’t call you when he/she is supposed to? Some of us are relieved but some are having crazy thoughts too, right? We are trying to ‘connect the dots’ like Sherlock and trying to arrive at a logical decision. Did you know that the word decision has its roots in the Latin word cide which means to kill off? So when we make a decision, we’re actually killing off all other options, all other views, all other possibilities. If one day your boss starts to treat you nicely, what does your mind say? It may say a lot of stuff but it can’t stop assigning a meaning to it. And that’s where you get all of life’s complications.

Quantum physics has proved that everything is an illusion. In many experiments it’s been found that an electron is not present where it is present, but where the scientists look for it, i.e., they saw the electron wherever they looked. On a macro level, it means that life doesn’t exhibit what’s true; it exhibits what we believe to be true. We see what we want to see, we hear what we want to hear, we feel what we want to feel and we live what we want to live. Take a second, let it sink. You would now realise that life isn’t controlling you, you’re controlling life, I mean the little voice in your head is. Terminator: The Judgment Day put it quite rightly, ‘NO FATE’ (well said James Cameron, well said). Do you see that life is what you make of it? It is what you create. You will always see the electron where you want to see it.

So what happens if the little voice in your head is no longer controlling you? I say no longer controlling because it can never shut up, unless you’re dead. So, what happens if you stop making stories, stop assuming stuff, stop trying to create meaning out of everything? What happens if you stop looking for the electron? What would you see? Think for a minute before reading further, because if you get this, you’re going to be a changed person. So, what do you see if you stop looking for the electron which appears to be wherever you try to look for it? Nothing! You see nothing. On a macro level, if you stop creating meaning out of everything, life becomes simple and simple and simple unless it comes down to Nothing. And that’s what life is, Nothing. Without self created meaning, assumptions and guesses, it indeed is nothing. Life is empty and meaningless. It sounds sad but it is actually true and the most joyous realisations of my life. Now that I know that life is empty and meaningless, I have all the space in the universe to create whatever I want to create. Of course I will listen to the little voice in my head and create meaning but I would no longer be bound by it. I would always be aware that in the end, there truly is Nothing that exists. Therefore, you are what you want to be. The meaning of life that you had been searching for all your life is yet to be created and guess who is the creator, YOU!

LEGENDS OF YOU

"Not everything is possible. Of course I am not always right.." -- Sachin 'The Little Master' Tendulkar

Happy Birthday to Sachin Tendulkar. This is all I am worthy of saying to this legend. This is not another tribute to Sachin but something that may help you get such tributes for the rest of your life and even after that. And I am right.

Possible is something that you think can happen, impossible is something that you think, can't. So, it's a matter of what you think. Nobody thought in Cricket, a 16 year old lad could hammer the shit out of the best pacemen of their times. Nobody thought humans could fly. Nobody thought a feeble old man with a piece of cloth around his body, a wooden stick in hand and harry potter glasses (of course HP didn't exist then) could end a 200 years old empire and become the father of a nation. It was all IMPOSSIBLE. But it did happen, didn't it? I would say we're somewhere wrong with our definition of impossible. Of course impossible exists but just like light and darkness do. Unless you light something up, it's dark. So, it's impossible that not everything is possible.

We all have watched movies which have made us cry, laugh, angry, sad, etc. But in our hindsight we all know that it's just a movie. SRK didn't really die in Kal Ho Na Ho nor did Sanjay Dutt get into a medical school (oh, he's getting into a very, very different place in real :D).They were all just movies which we enjoyed and moved on with our lives with no attachments to them. Likewise, the whole world is a movie which runs in your mind. You're constantly writing the script in your mind and your brain, the director, is doing its job and projecting the movie to you using your senses. What you see, what you hear, smell, feel or taste is just a projection which may or may not be true. We've all had incidences when we've missed seeing, hearing or feeling something even though it was right there. We have all daydreamed about things that don't exist and we've realised their non-existence only when we've come back to our senses. Thus, your mind controls your and your environment's existence. You believe something to be true when your mind says it is, you believe it to be POSSIBLE when your mind says it is.

Now, this is not what usually happens with all people. Or as we like to call them, extraordinary people. So, what do extraordinary people have that we don't? It's a belief that one can achieve what they want no matter how impossible it seems. A belief that no goal is higher than the will to achieve it. A belief that if one person can do something then even we can because after all we're made out of the same elements of the universe. And if you aim to achieve something that nobody else has, then you have a rare opportunity to inspire a whole new generation by doing what nobody else has done before. This is what legends believe, this is what legends are made of. This is what YOU are made of. Is there any instance where you have pursued something with all your heart and sweat and with no fear or doubts about failure, and have not achieved your goal? There won't be. But if you haven't pursued something in this way it's time you do. I know many of us believe it's easier said than done but believe me, it's much easier done than said. So, how do we do it?

I am not going to tell you something that you don't already know. It's something that you've known since a long time but hardly followed.

So here it goes: start believing that you have what you want, or you can reach where you want to reach. Believe it like a fanatic. Believe it so much that just a thought of your goal inspires you to new degrees and you get an adrenaline rush. And here is how you can strengthen your belief. Once something gets in your subconscious mind, your subconscious starts to give you signals in form of hunches, dreams, sixth-sense as we call it. You need to trust those signals and follow them. Your subconscious has all the knowledge of the universe since the time you are conceived by your parents. We need to access the subconscious and tell it what we want and trust me, it'll get it to you. To reach your subconscious, you need to be relaxed or in technical terms, your mind needs to be in alpha state in which the frequency of your brain waves is 8-12 Hz. Normally, the frequency when we're actively awake, i.e. in the beta state, is 14-30 Hz. There are various relaxation techniques you can find on Internet or you can buy books too.

Once your goal has reached your subconscious, you will just have to follow your instincts and achieve your goal. To know in more detail about your subconscious mind, you can get a book, "Spring of Inspiration" by Dr. Jitendra Adhia.

Maybe, after reading this technique, you will first laugh at it, then think about believing it, then one day if and when you have everything going against you and you don't know why, you will believe it. Once you start believing and following it, you will live it. And once you start living it, you will start living. So, don't leave it for the worst moments, follow it from your best moments so that the worsts don't arrive at all.

So, to sum up, there's nothing you can't get that you want. There's a legend inside us. We too can be a Sachin, or a Mahatma or even Christ. Or maybe we already are?

A DYING STAR

I saw a star pass by
Moving slowly like a tear,
When babies cry
Moving down without a hope
Without a wish, without a grope

Away from home by a billion light years
Still lit not the world, but the universe
Burning inside hotter than the sun
A mask of silver, making Christmas fun

Wonder the kids as up above the world
This diamond twinkles and twirls
Nothing hides from its light
Knows the way to new born Christ

It dies as an unsolved mystery
An enchanting tale of fascinating history
As it dies all old and worn
It grows beautiful with the tail it adorns

A dying star is a sight to behold
Watch it close, as a lesson unfolds
Lights the universe though burning inside
Making millions watch as it dies

LIVING - II

Wait for the sunrise sometime
Before it golds everything it finds
The moment just before dawn
Isn't that the darkest time?

Bury a seed deep in the ground
And go about doing your chores around
Doesn't that tiny plant of life shatters
The mighty earth, to leave you astound?

Go to a shore when the tide is high
Divided by husky rocks, never left dry
There's a passion in waves to meet the moon
Don't they fight the rocks, till they die?

Watch the rich as they laugh and smile
As they eat and drink being guile
Now look beyond wealth into their hearts
Are they really happy, or have riles in piles?

So stop for a moment, take out some time
Breath a little, watch nature's mimes
If you feel tired, sad, depressed or scared
Open up your heart and reread this rhyme

Here's LIVING - I

IMMORTAL - II

Rest, don't sleep when tired

Burn, don't die when pyred
Not the ones to give up challenges
But the one to take up are admired

Bleed, don't plead when bruised
Learn, don't cry when used
You may get cut, get stuck in a rut
But you're strong enough to come out amused

Prepare, not scared when storms you see
No matter how big the challenge, don't flee
Leave a mark behind, before death you find
And I promise, immortal you will be

Link to Immortal - I

CHANGE

All we need is a change sometimes
A break, a void from our daily crimes

When the stinking carcass of love
That we didn't deserve
Rots amidst lacerated hearts
Look within your soul
Abusing a gifted control
Perhaps there still lie purer parts

On no food we feed
Driven by our greed
Wealth the new deity in Godtown
With betrayal the new blood
Killing is a cud
We do it easy, with no frown

But karma is a bitch
Pushes you into a ditch
Like a buffoon you start to wonder
What went wrong
It was merry all along
And you blame Him for your blunder

But our soul has a sinless side
Something we all like to hide
If only we uncap its shine
Acknowledge the beauty so sublime
Because all we need is a change sometimes
A break, a void from our daily crimes

ख़याल

बस एक ख़याल है मन में

क्यूँ होता है ये जग में
ख़ुशी के बाद ग़म का साया
ना जाने कहाँ से आया


मुस्कान तो मैंने बाटी थी
चाहे मन में मेरे उदासी थी
फिर क्यों अंधियारे रिश्ते में
क्यों बस अनसु मेरे हिस्से में


बस एक ख़याल है मन में
क्यूँ बस्ता है कोई दिल में
जब बिछड़ना लिखा होता है
क्यों हर दिल कभी टूटा होता है

मुझ भगवान् को बसाओ मन में
उलझे रस्ते खुलेंगे जग में
ग़म ने ही तो सिखाया है
के ख़ुशी मेरे प्यार का साया है


किसीको मुस्कान देते हो
तो उसका मोल क्यों लेते हो
चाहते हो जो हर्ष का साथ
मूंदो आँखें, थामो मेरा हाथ


वो दिल टूट जायेगा
जो मुझे नहीं बसाएगा
और जो मुझे बसाएगा
वो हर दिल में बस जायेगा

हर गुनाह तुम्हारा माफ़
हर दाग तुम्हारा साफ़
बस जो ख़याल है तुम्हारे मन में
बदलो उसे मुझमे

LEAVING FAILURES BEHIND

You'll bend fall kneel
Get buried under the ground
But pay no heed to pains you feel
If the sky you want to surmount

Like a sapling in a storm
Get pushed but not broken
Not giving up should be a norm
Let your courage not be stolen

You may bleed like gray clouds
Yet like a lion you'll have to fight
You have to make yourself proud
By using your own might

No paw is stronger
Than that of a determined mind
A mind without doubt and fear
Is the one leaving failures behind

A DESIRE

I have a desire

Which is fuelling the fire

It'll burn me to ashes

If the desire's met with clashes

Myself I mislead

Towards sin and greed

But this fire burns my feet

Makes me retreat

I follow worldly norms

And meet conventional thorns

If what they say I do

Nameless I shall die too

So I'll end this fire

And make the world admire

By following my dreams

Making possible what impossible seems

Those who step over me

Shall tomorrow kiss my feet

Those who hate and accuse

Shall feel honoured by my abuse

The ones who shower love

I shall keep all above

To ones who call me friend

My life I shall lend

And a promise I make

All's admiration I'll take

As I burn on my pyre

If only I follow my desire

THE DEVIL SHALL CRY

When the thorns would clear,
And the fire would die,
You'll lose all fear,
And the devil shall cry.

You can make your way,
Through the walls of stone,
All evil you can slay,
Through the good you've sown.

You have the sword,
The power is with you,
Just trust the lord,
And you will get the cue.

Just don't be scared,
Keep up the spirit,
You're the change you want,
And you can cause it in a minute.

The blind can see,
The dumb can sing,

The power's in your dreams,

Just give them wings.

And then the thorns would clear,
The fire would die,
You'll lose all fear,
And the devil shall cry.

The Pendulum of Life

Moment you think it's going well
Everything turns around
That's how life is
It's secret can never be found

You cry in pain
Forgetting the happier past
You feel everything's over
Forgetting that nothing forever lasts

Whatever the trouble maybe
Don't get the fright
Becasue it's only in the dark
That you see the ray of light

Immortal

Everyone remembers when I
Took my first breath
And I also want them to remember
Me after my death

Why should I do
What you want me to
Why can't I follow my heart
And create a new path

Why has my life
Been bordered with expectations
Expectations I can't stand up to
Why can't I do something
Which generations have failed to do

If failure's the prime step to success
Let me set me my own sail
Let me style my way to progress
And don't fear me fail

Because I know that
I'll make it big one day
If I do what I'm good at
And not do what you say

I don't mean to offend you
I just want a happy breath
I want to be someone
Who's remembered even after his death