Friday 21 March 2008

ghalib....


What Shakespeare is to English Language, Ghalib is to Urdu, the language of over a billion people around the world.
A literary contemporary of Khayyam, Hafiz, Rumi, Bedil, Sa'di and Mir, Ghalib is the most widely read poet of Urdu Language.

Yeh na thee hamari qismat..

Yeh na thee hamari qismat keh wisaal-e-yaar hota
Agar aur jeete rahtay yehi intezaar hota

Tere waade par jiyee ham to yeh jaan jhoot jana
Keh khushi se mar na jaate agar intezaar hota

Yeh kahaan ki dosti hai bane hain dost naaseh
Koi chaarasaaz hota koi ghamghuzar hota

Kahoon kis se main keh kya hai shab-e-gham buri balaa hai
Mujhe kya bura tha marana agar aikbaar hota

Huay mar keh ham jo ruswa huay kyun ka gharq-e-dariya
Na kabhi janaza uthata na kahin mazaar hota

Yeh masaael-e-tasavvuf yeh tera bayan ghalib
Tujhe ham wali samajhate Joh na badaakhwar hota.

T R A N S L A T I O N
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E N G L I S H

It was never in my fate to meet my beloved.
Even if more years of life was to me allocated, I would have been still awaiting the prize cherished.

If you think that I had been living on your promise, it is a lie.
For, if I had faith in you, would not of joy I would die.

Woe betide, my friendship, that the friends give pious advice and sermons they deliver.
I need someone on whose shoulders could I weep, who could allay my grief and my fears.

Whom should I tell that the night of sorrow is full of pangs.
I would not have resented the death, if it comes only once.

Disgraced, as I was after my death, why didn't I drown in a river or sea.
Neither, there would have been a funeral, nor tomb erected for me.

The marvels of ethical problems and your statements full of meanings.
I would have counted you, "Ghalib" amongst dearest friends of God; if only, you had not been a lover of drinks.

Tuesday 18 March 2008

coincidences


Coincidences do they really happen....... or is it destiny.....
i read somewhere that coincidences don't really happen..... theres nothing like it....maybe serendipity...
Spirits that have the same positivity move towards each other...this can happen whether u r in India or in Spain or in Ethiopia..
one day the spirits meet......
my life is dotted with examples of this kind of serendipity
Ive met all my forever friends in some kind of supernatural situation.....when i think about it i feel extraordinary..... blessed...happy.....

Sunday 16 March 2008

cry at nightfall.


I cry for me.
For the dead, the alive and well.
The starving children.
The mishaps of today and perhaps tomorrow.
I cry and cry, 'till I can't cry no more.
My eyes will be red tomorrow

Friday 14 March 2008

yes to life......


Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision,but making mistakes is part of life.What does the world want from me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?

Paulo Coelho
(Eleven Minutes

Thursday 13 March 2008

shri shri ravi shankar....

Question: Guruji how do we know that our experiences are authentic? And how do we know that we are progressing on the spiritual path?
Si Sri: You know doubt always come on that is true. You never doubt depression. You doubt love, whereas you never doubt anger! Therefore if you are having a doubt on your experiences just know that they are all authentic (Laughter!!).
And how to gaze whether your are progressing on the spiritual path or not; see if you have become more compassionate. See if you feel more relaxed and free now. Do you feel free or not? Just see within yourself. See how much does the entire happening around you bother you. Do they bother you like before or not? Does the external events bother you still? Even if they bother you see how much time does it stay for. See how fast you are catching up with your self! You should not think that, oh! I should never get upset! See how fast you are coming back to your self! A few minutes of distraction and then you are back. Don't Judge yourself. There is no need to judge yourself. Can you become a student and an examiner at the same time? No. Certainly not! You are learning now so leave the evaluation work to some one else!! Let Him decide, let Him evaluate!

Wednesday 12 March 2008

Love: A Natural Kind of Meditation

Osho,How can people turn the human phenomenon of falling in love into a meditation?

It is the easiest way. In human life, love is the closest phenomenon to meditation. The moment you fall in love with someone, what actually happens? What transpires between those two who have fallen in love with each other? They drop their egos ― at least for each other. They drop their hypocrisies, their masks. They want to be together, almost one soul within two bodies. That's the desire of love. And this is a beautiful moment to change it into a meditation. Just nobody has ever told them. In fact, just the opposite has been told to them: that love is against meditation, so people who are falling in love can never become meditators. The same people who make celibacy spiritual make love unspiritual, something dirty, condemned. But to me things are totally different. Love helps you to relax, which is part of meditation. Love helps you to be joyous, which is part of meditation. Love helps you, for a few moments at least, to be silent, which is the essential part of meditation. And finally, making love, if you attain to an orgasmic experience, gives you a glimpse of what meditation is, but it is millions of times more than this.
So to me, love is a basic experience which can help you to become meditators.
The old religions have been preventing it, and they have been preventing it for a certain reason. If people can transform their love into meditation, then the priests and the churches and the synagogues are no more needed, then people are totally free. No spiritual leadership is needed. And there are millions of priests around the world, like parasites on humanity. And naturally they will give you wrong ideas, against love, and they will give you ideas for meditation, but because you don't have the basic experience....
Love is just like when you enter into a swimming pool, step by step you are going into deeper water. Then the floor of the swimming pool is divided in two parts, one for those who cannot swim, so the water is up to your neck, and then the second part for those who can swim. But those who want to learn swimming have to learn in the first part, which is not for swimmers. They have to learn it there. Once they have learned, then slowly they will gather courage and enter into deeper water, because for a swimmer it does not matter how deep the water is; the swimmer is always on the surface. The water may be a hundred feet deep, five hundred feet deep, or five miles deep, it makes no difference to the swimmer. It makes a difference only to the non-swimmer. Beyond five feet, everything is death. But the swimming pool is one ― shallow, deep ― it is one. And the boundary line is only a line until you learn to swim. To me, love and meditation are just like that. Love is the shallow space in a swimming pool, for those who cannot meditate. But that is the place to learn meditation. And it is the same pool, it is the same water, it is the same kind of phenomenon. You are just unable to go deeper because you have been made afraid even to enter into it. The shallow part has been condemned, and you have been told to jump into the deeper part without knowing how to swim. So they disturbed your love life by condemnation and they disturbed your meditative life by sheer strategy: because you don't know swimming, you cannot go so deep.
And you don't have any experience of silence, peace, sheer joy, a little bit of ecstasy, something orgasmic ― these will give you the hints how meditation is not a myth. You have tasted it a little bit. It is the same energy field, just you have to go deeper into it. What actually happens when one couple moves into the realm of orgasmic experience? What actually happens? Every point has to be understood. Time stops. For a moment the pendulum does not move, and that single moment seems to be almost eternity. The two persons are no more two ― for a moment. They have melted into each other. There is no thought in the mind, for a moment. It is all empty and silent, and these are the things which have to be deepened in meditation. And once you have tasted them, you will be surprised that it does not depend on the other person. Something happens within you. Something happens within the other person. But it is not dependent. If you can sit silently, if you can manage, by watching your thoughts, to bring a gap, a stop, you will suddenly see time has stopped again. And now it is in your hands, not in the hands of biology. You can keep this time stopped as long as you want. And once you know the secret key....
The key is: no thoughts, no ego, no time ― you just are. That's why I have never been against love. I have been much condemned for it, naturally, because I was cutting the very roots of the business of all the religions. Every religion is against me. Their profession depends on condemning love and praising meditation. They know you cannot attain to meditation, and they know now your love is condemned, it is a sin. You will never experience any orgasmic phenomenon, so meditation will remain just a philosophy, and your life will remain loveless, angry, full of rage, ready to explode at any excuse. Because where will your energy go? It could have become peace, silence, joy, blissfulness. You did not allow it to become that. That repressed energy turns into poison. That's why everybody is irritable, annoyed, worried, tense. The simple reason is that they have lost the natural source of relaxation. No animal looks irritated, annoyed, angry, because they don't understand the language the priests speak. They have never heard that celibacy is spiritual. Of course they cannot attain to meditation, but they are far better than those human beings who could have attained meditative heights, but have lost even the simple biological experience of orgasm. Those are simply indications of your possibilities, potentialities. And it is easier to experiment with something natural in the beginning and then to try something which is supernatural, which belongs to higher nature.
And once you know how to be silent, how to be thoughtless, how to be in a state of no time, no mind, you experience such orgasmic joy, which has nothing to do with sex, it has such purity and such innocence. A man who has attained to that purity and innocence has no need of sex, it is no longer a psychological problem for him. But there is no prohibition either. He can enjoy sex too, and he will enjoy it more than anybody else, because his orgasm will immediately become meditative. Having experienced the meditative orgasm ― such a greater phenomenon ― his sexual orgasm will immediately trigger the bigger orgasm. He can play with sex. There is no harm in it. There is no need, but there is no prohibition either. It is up to him. The meditative orgasm absorbs your sexual energy, because you don't have any other energy. Your whole energy is sexual energy, and that vast explosion of joy simply absorbs all your energy. Hence, you need not become a pervert, you need not make an effort to remain celibate. It is just your choice. If you want to play old games once in a while, it is perfectly good. In fact, perhaps it should be a part of every enlightened man's life to have sex once in a while, because that will change the attitude of the whole world about sex. Without that, it is very difficult to change. Then they can see that even an enlightened person can enjoy sex. There is nothing sin-like in it. And it will join the enlightened man and unenlightened man in a bridge. At least on one point, both experience the same thing.... Love is a natural kind of meditation. And meditation is a supernatural kind of love.

Tuesday 11 March 2008

JAGJIT SINGH...

ae khuda ret ke sehra ko samandar kar de
ya chhalakti aanKhoN ko bhi patthar kar de
tuJhko dekha nahiN mehsoos kiya hai maine
aa kisi din mere ehsaas ka paikar kar de
aur kuch bhi muJhe darkaar nahiN hai lekin
meri chaadar mere pairoN ke baraabar kar de

Faasila to hai magar, koi faasila nahiN
MuJhse tum juDa sahi, dil se to juDa nahiN
aasmaaN ki fiqR kya, aasmaaN khafaa sahee
aap Ye bataaye'e aap to khafa nahiN
kashTiyaaN nahiN to kya, hausle to paaS haiN
keh do na-khudaaoN se, tum koi khuDa nahiN
lijiye bula liya, aapko khayaaloN meiN
ab to dekhiYe hameN, koi dekhTa nahiN
aaeeye charaaG-e-dil, aaj hi jalaaYeN hum
kaisi kal hawa chali, koi jaanta nahiN

Thursday 6 March 2008

The Challenge

The challenge….
I’ve learnt that, life is a challenge ….yeah!….
u have to love your self before u can love anyone else….your self esteem has to be in place before u think of helping someone else…and most of the things u do, HAVE to be for yourself!
When u help someone, why do u do it? Is it because u feel pity or is because u want to feel good about your self….
when u help someone u do feel good about yrself…. u r happy… u have so much to give…u feel prosperous….. I think that should be the only motivation……not to get anything material in return……of course, one should not force ones viewpoint…but one can definitely try to put it across clearly …leaving options open…..HELPING PEPLE TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS!
I’ve learnt many things the very hard way the most important being…to let go….to try and give up material pleasures. That doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy luxuries…it’s just that because im so happy inside im able to enjoy all the luxuries I have ,,to the fullest…Im aware of my blessings….
Earlier ,I used to think if I have more loving people around me…. ill be happy ….if I’ve a bigger house ….ill be happy……if my health improves… ill be happy….never understanding ,that the time to be happy and enjoy life is now( enjoy- doesn’t translate into consuming/buying more things, but to appreciate life as it is)….…..I had so many questions….now I know that the most important thing is to just BE…..being alive itself is such a joy……
If u r in control of your anger then many problems can be dissolved….because of your anger u have to compromise so much…u have to compensate so much …u have to lose so much…u have to understand that people don’t really want to be mean to u…they just lack the competence to be nice…(they too r frustrated, and don’t know how to relax/react in overwhelming situations….the only thing they know is to get angry…..and anger is just the protest against the injustice that u feel has been meted out to u…. its not the solution….)…...and once they know u properly they will stop trying to manipulate u….they will put all the cards on the table( u have to give a chance to yourself to know people) …and also to learn the skill of discernment… and u will……. when u start understanding the bigger picture….
We feel we know so much…but the thing is we don’t know the true meaning of so many words.
To relax…..what does it mean---unwind, calm down, let go, settle down……relaxation can take place everywhere…..u see people relaxing in crowded trains…..I remember reading the essay of a person in the Nazi concentration camp….after he was rescued, he spoke about how he was free inside the prison….his mind was free……the body will only do what the mind tells it to do…..