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Afraid to Leave the Inner Cave of Darkness?

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all-we-imagine-as-light All We Imagine As Light ~ The movie that I watched recently, is about the struggle of three women and their own journey in dealing with it. For a moment, I thought to put a brief background about the movie, its three protagonists, their struggle and how they come out of it. But that would take away the awe being experienced while watching the movie on screen. So, this post is about a dialogue towards the end where the female protagonist, Prabha. She is having a hallucination of having a conversation with her husband who has left her long ago after their marriage. Her husband went to Germany, leaving her behind and she has been dealing with this emotional struggle since long and now, when she is imagining a stranger, whom she rescued, as her husband; she says to him. ‘ तुम इतने सालों में बहुत बदल गए हो ’ To which he replied. " वहां कई दिन ऐसे होते थे, जब मैं गोदाम में लंबे समय के लिए फंसा रह जाता था। ना दिन का पता चलता था, ना रात का  मैं तीन- चार दिन के बाद ...

बहना है~ यूंही

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नीला गगन, ऊँचे पर्वत, और क्षितिज से डूबता  सूरज जिसकी लालिमा, पूरे गगन को अपनी लाली से चूम  लेता है।  और अपनी  किरणें, तुम पर भी बिखेर, तुम्हें अलविदा कहता है। तुम इस पर इठलाती हो, अपनी हल्की सी मुसकान लिए बहती चली जाती हो। बहाव ही तो तुम्हारी प्रकृति है, न मंज़िल की फिकर, न कल का डर।  कभी तुम्हारी लहरें यूंही उछल, किनारे रेत को चूम जाती है,  कभी तुम्हारी नीरव लहरें ही, एक थके राही की थकान ले जाती है।  तुम्हारी बहाव में पंछियों की गूँज है, वो खिलखिलाती चहचहाहट। च‌ट्टानों को गले लगाती,  तो नाविक को नौका पार कराती।  आखिर, तुम्हारा ही हाथ थामे तो, तुमसे पार जाना है |  उस पार? किस पार? कोई नाम नहीं, उसका, कोई ठिकाना नहीं। बस तुम हो और तुम्हारी ये शीतलता। ये मद्धिम बहाव।  मुझे भी बस यूंही बहना है, तुममें, तुमसे, इस कदर की बस तुम हो, तुम रहो. और ये बहाव । By-the-river-side

A Machine: I Am!!

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My life is a set of patterns, A machine it is The stomach growls  asking - ‘It’s time to supply fuel’ And here, comes food The body yawns  And it lies down and farts Alarm bell rings And work reminds me of the deadline and yelling boss Mundane work, with no bigger purpose Still, i run and run in the race Spending my morning and evening time in traffic and rage. Now, I am all exhausted Hunger is no more I fall on the bed and sleep Eat, Work & Sleep That is the pattern, i live A machine I am A false life is all I have Huh!! Look here, look closely Even a machine has so much sense of self ‘I’ is constantly sitting at the centre  And the controller of this life game Afraid, insecure- ‘I’ am Constantly running behind security And collecting whatever this ‘I’ can Building homes, hoarding money,  yearning for name and fame Sometimes, its a wonder, Is this what life all about? Hold on, Hold on A question is raised, But a machine never questions How did this happen? The a...

मैं भावना हूँ ~

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मैं भावना हूँ: एक प्रवाह, बहती नदी की धार की तरह, इस शरीर में बहती हूँ, प्रकृति की हूँ, प्रकृति में हूँ  तुम जो बूझो मुझको तो प्रकृति के पार जाने का जरिया हूँ  ना समझो, तो माया का: चक्रव्यूह हूँ ||   मैं आज की कोई नई खोज नहीं सदियों पुराना रिश्ता है मेरा, मानव से, तुमसे  जंगलों जितना पुराना, तुम्हें लगता है, ये जो मेरी भावना है,  बड़ी पवित्र और मासूम है, कुछ खट्टी - कुछ मीठी, कुछ किलकारी भरी, तो कुछ आंखों में मोती सा चमकती हुई,  कुछ निर्भरता का जिक्र है, तो कुछ खामोशी में कहीं अनकही बातें। कुछ दूरियों में मिलन की तड़प है, तो कुछ नजदीकियों में जन्म-जन्मान्तर का संग ||   ऐसे ही बनते हैं ना, तुम्हारे सारे रिश्ते ?  ऐसे ही बूनते हो ना, तुम अपनी काल्पनिक कहानियाँ ? ऐसे ही लगता है ना, आज तो कुछ नया हो गया ?  भाव विभोर, हो चले तुम तो।|   हंसी आ रही है मुझे तुमपर, पता है क्यों? तुम इसी "मैं, मेरी भावना" के खेल में फंस चुके हो, मेरी ही माया जाल के गुलाम बन चुके हो |   अब तुम कराहोगे, याद है, वो चिट्ठियों में की गयी बातें? याद है, वो काली चां...

We the Living by Ayn Rand:- "Joy of being alone"

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A long, long time ago I dreamt of wilderness Dreamt of giving up of being Around the crowd, and Running all the way round. Of being all alone, In the middle of long dense trees Whose branches lush and green   The small little forest – my home Where Fruits healed my hunger Where Cool soil guided my sleep In the sweet melodies of canary   I dreamt of joy In being alone And find myself jumping in the rain I dreamt of fear In being alone And find myself curled up Like fetus in the womb of nature   The alarm bell on my phone Asking me to wake up from my dream I wash up my face And move to a window side To supply the fresh air to my inner self A light thunder And I look up at the sky At the clouds turning gray and black Of the clouds scattering and showering sun’s light Of the clouds thundering and pouring down The rain dampens the dry soil & I breathe in the fragrance of petrichor And come back to my room ...

We the Living by Ayn Rand- It’s time to sit back and question!!

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One day, or it can be night too. You were just born. How? Well!- biology defines it the meeting of XX or XY chromosome But, chances are your parents tell you- child is a gift of god. And, you wonder- who this god is? They take you to the temple and introduce you to god! Hmm.. And in the name of god- you are supposed to do everything without questioning. Following blindly a set of beliefs It all starts with just a drop of sand But with time, it turns out to be mountain hard & strong Beliefs that could have been questioned once, Now is a living being, so obvious that there is no room left to question Beliefs that only make you a blind follower Follower of ? Follower of a book with structures and rules mentioned in it If you break the rules- you are afraid, you will be left out & suffer If you follow the rules- you suffer, because you don’t know what’s happening all around. I wonder, Who gave this rule book? Who is the author of this book of disci...