सच्चाई का आइना

Reading about the recent gangrape case in delhi, I have lost all faith in our bureaucratic system. Its time we, the women stood up for ourselves and took steps to make our country safe for us. Lost in contemplation I penned down a few lines, dedicated to that unfortunate girl....


कुछ आशियाने उसने भी बनाये
सपनो की उस दुनिया
को उसने भी सजाया
उम्मीदों से आशायों  से
कुछ अभिलाशायों  से
कुछ आकांशाओं से।
परी  कथायों की वो दुनिया
लगी उसे कितनी सयानी कितनी सुनहरी .
सचाई से घबराती
वास्तविकता को इन्कारती
छुप सी गई दुनिया में वो अपनी .
भोली सी पगली सी
समझ ना पाई
कटता नही जीवन सपनो में
कटता है वो यहीं
तरल जमीन पर
सुलगती धूप, ठिठुरती ठंड में।
तू भाग नही सकती, तू भूल नही सकती
सच्चाई के आईना से तू छुप नही सकती।
निगल ले कुचल ले
आज तू सामना तो कर ले।
दुर्गा का अवतार तू
ज्वाला का प्रचार तू
उठा आज तलवार तू
समय है आज नाश का
समय है विनाश का।
तू ही है जननी तू ही है विनाश्कारिणी।
जब जब पाप है छाया
तूने अपना प्रज्वलित रूप है दिखाया
नष्ट कर उन कुकर्मियों  का
दुनिया जिसने तेरी बिगाड़ी
समय है तेरा
समय है तेरी सपनो की दुनिया का

Well its been days since I wrote something here….not that I was busy ,just that I wasn’t getting anything to write on. And then I realized how fast time changes, one day I literally have to choose from a myriad of topics and the next day I have nothing to write on. Sadly, this is applicable to all parts of our life. One day you are best friends and the next day you don’t even acknowledge the prescence of that person. This is something over which you have no control. Sometimes the circumstances are such that how much ever you want to set things straight, you just can’t. How much ever you feel that things are in your control, they are not and the reality is painful. In life you meet people with whom you share your deepest secrets and beliefs, and if you don’t get the trust of those people , it hurts, it hurts bad. People say that love is great, to those people I say, friendship is greater. Friends are people with whom you share moments of life, moments that will be cherished forever, and if friends leave you , the soul loses something, the pain and fire melt you from inside. You can face the worst days of your life with your close ones, but if these same people leave you , you have no one to share the pain with. An empty void is what is left in your life, with nobody to fill it with happiness and hope. When loneliness and sadness become your companion, material benefits don’t even figure in your life. But as they say, the show must go on. So how much ever melancholy your life might seem, you have to move ahead and give life another chance. Life is all about learning. Take this as a lesson of your life. Feel the positive vibrations around you. Soak into them, let them energise you and welcome the new you. Do what you like, make yourself the most important person in your life for a change. Pamper yourself. Let the warmth of hope make the draught of despair disappear.The blessedness of life will become apparent only if you have faced the rough times. So, make this thought your mantra and you will never have to curse your life  


P.S : dis is my first attempt at philosophy. do tell hwz it :) :)

सिलसिले

धुंदली सी धूप में
कुछ अधूरे अक्षरो की छवि
झिलमिलाने लगी
नन्ही सी
कुछ बूंदो में
बावरे से मन में उठी
कवी की कुछ पंक्तियाँ
पंखो  की आहट लिए
आई  कोई कोकिला
सिलसिले से है जुड़ी
ऐसी ही कुछ जिन्दगानिया
तुम मुझसे पूछो
मैं तुमसे पुछू
कुछ पन्क्तियो की लडिया
ये बताओ
शब्दो की इन डोर में
कैसे उलझ गये
आज हम तुम
और उलझ गयी
ये जिन्दगानिया

Truth about Evil

I have been a bit confused lately. Last week I read the first two books of the Shiva Trilogy, Immortals of Meluha and Secret of the Nagas. First of all , excellent books, perhaps the best I have read since Harry Potter, do read. In the book Lord Shiva has come to destroy the evil, quite simple for the Mahadev except for one little detail, he does not know what is evil. His definition keeps changing with the people around him. This whole thing was causing a bit of a turbulence in my head and what really hit the nail hard was when we were asked in my class to classify some qualities into virtue and vice and I realized that the definition of virtue and vice varies a lot from person to person. So how does one decide? How does one define evil? And more importantly how does one know which of the many definitions of evil is true. Evil is anything that we believe is wrong or immoral, but what happens when that belief itself changes. Does the concept of evil change or we ourself go over to the evil side? Is the concept of what is evil fixed and same since time immemorial or is it dynamic, changing with the changing circumstances? Ravan is considered evil but we all know that he was a great scholar, Parshuram is not considered evil even though he was violent, is it because Ravan went against Lord Ram who for us is an epitome of an ideal man and Parshuram bowed down in front of Lord Shiva. Is here our definition of evil not affected by what we consider not evil? Evil is relative. What might be evil for me might not be evil for you, so how does one say in absoluteness what is evil. How does one classify what is virtue and what is vice. I don't think there is any universal answer for all these questions, the only thing that we can do is keep our minds and hearts open. Let the changing circumstances change our beliefs if they can and most importantly not let our definitions be changed by others. There is no black and white in this world, there is only grey. So go ahead find your own shade and the truth about evil.