Life is a mystery

World is an illusion
God's dream and we are to act
Time is a deception
Why to run, delusion is intact

Birth is the end
to peace, to search it back again
Death is the begining
to harmony, do with all the pain

Cry is blissful
A momentary lapse to meet yourself
Dreams are the untouchables
Like an unread book kept forever on shelf

Love is a misery
once in makes your heart fragile
Hate is loved
for which people are readily agile

Life is a fiction
reality is hard to conceive
Life is a mystery
reason is tough to perceive

Conscious dream

Sometimes you feel
you have won the world
you have got everything
that you desired in life

World seems beautiful
with love all around
You ask yourself
is this a dream?

Dreams with open eyes
with all your consciousness
you watch the world
coming your way

Then there comes a wave
so hard that blews you away
tears you apart
you feel nothing's left

Scared of dreams then
you think it should
have never happened
You curse your life

We blame life
that has many a times
given you happiness
and given you hope

Hope is for dream
and it may never die
But dreams are dreams
one's gone there's another

Flowers of flesh

This first poem of her's that I have read, has stunned me.. I always heard of her but never read.. I think she was a great soul.. Its sad that she is not with us anymore but her writings will definitely be there.. alive.. forever...
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On the branches of this earth
Flowers of flesh grow every day.
Everyday they are plucked and shaken off
but one day a flower of flesh will grow
that storms will not shake
that hands will not pluck;
A fragrance will spread far and wide
and usher in an unknown peace.

- Amrita Pritam

Doob jaane ka darr hai..

Zindagi ke is moad pe
hum sab se door hain
kise aapna kahen
paas aayen ke na aayen
kya karen dil ye bebas hai..

Aye tanhai gale laga le
doob jaane ka darr hai

Nazarein ghuma kar dekho
itne chehre haseen hain
dil ye dhadakta to hai
par kise dein ke na dein
toot jaane ka darr hai..

Aye tanhai gale laga le
doob jaane ka darr hai

Rehte the gumsum
socha koi to ho humdum
jo samajh sake hume
kaash ye samajh baazar mein milti
jo milta nahi dhundne par hai..

Aye tanhai gale laga le
doob jaane ka darr hai

kabhi main sochun
ke itna na sochun
sochne se kya haasil hai
zindagi to fir bhi chalti hai
khwahishein to ab bhi buland hai

Aye tanhai mere itne bhi karib na aa
Ab to ye dil kahe doob jaana he behtar hai

Goods and bads in life

Everything in life happens for something good. Difference is that some people realize it and some don't.. And person who realizes this knows how to life the right way.

Each and every things that happens in life teaches you some lesson that you take it forward and use it. Bad things teaches you something the hard way. Sorrow makes you become tougher and makes you be prepared for next time when it happens and you have the control over it to avoid it. Good things neutralizes it and teaches the meaning of happiness and why we need it.

This, I think is more related to being positive and being optimistic in life. Optimists learn from the bad times and makes the utmost use of it and be successful in life. They pursue their dreams and make it a reality..

Sometimes I feel that I am blessed. God had given me the strength to cope with the hard times and thrive in this world. I would have been broken long time back if I lacked that strength in me.

Good things and bad things are the part of life.. Nobody has all the goods and all the bads.. Life gives you the mixture of both to make your life complete..

That's life!

Love

Dictionary meaning - "strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties"

Love, the most beautiful and most favorable emotion of a human, creates a bond between one person with the another person. A bond that is stronger than any other bonds that brings people closer to one another.

Love is all about hearts. Its about the feelings that comes out from the hearts when they meet. When two hearts become one. It develops the strong affection towards other person that shows up, when one heart aches, its pain is felt in the other. It develops the affection wherein one feels the need of making his/her lover happy.

People say Love is eternal. Well sure it is. If the love were for short period then it will not be called Love, it would be called infatuation. Unfortuately people live in the world of illusions and often forget the true sense of love. Thats the reason their love is very short-lived. People fail to enjoy it. The feelings lack!

Love is often confused with sex. Most of the people think love to be synonymous to sex. Attaining the physical relation seems to them the ultimate goal of love and when its done its all done with. I think it is something beyond that. Its more mental than physical understanding.

Love inculcates the beauty that presists in your heart and mind. Makes you a beautiful person from within. And the internal beauty lasts longer than the external.

Marriage is an institution where two bodies meet and we take vows of sharing our lives to each other. But its a bliss when its a marriage of two hearts and minds. Lack of this very thing results in the break-ups and you see many many divorces, especially the LOVE marriages. Now, if it is LOVE marriage then why would it break? The reason is the lack of love itself! Most of this love marriage happen because of the physical attraction and a decision taken in haste. Once the physical hunger is satisfied then they feel nothing left between them. Thats were the mental understanding between the two and the your hearts comes to play. You understand each other and respect your feelings that keeps the relation alive. Thats what I call a true marriage, the marriage of hearts and minds.

It is a feeling that grows over the time and thats what the true love is all about. You know each other better and there is a sense of respect and trust that binds you all along. If you do not have feelings for each other then its no point of being together and its better to stay apart.

Love also is not just a male and female union. Love could be between anybody to anybody. A child loving his/her mother is a love, a grand pa loving his grand sons/daughter, a brother loving his sister etc. Now, there is nothing called sex that is involved in these relations. So I think sex is nothing to do with love. The thing that is more involved here is feelings. So, I think its feelings that is most important aspect for the love to be successful.

As love is about the feelings between human beings, it does not even matter whether you are of a different religion or caste or creed or race to love each other. Feelings are irrespective of these factors. Its a commanility that each human possess.

Everybody in this world needs love and has that feeling within him/her. Some may be able to express it but some may not as it depends more on the type personalities that they are. Everybody in this world deserve it.

How is love different from hatred? Well according to me answer is, love is very difficult to be built where as hatred is instantaneous. Its very easy to hate anybody but to love somebody needs a lot of time and patience. Thats the reason you will see lots so hatred going on in this world than love.

Whats the similarity between love and hatred? Both are contagious. Both spread to one another when thrown out. But where as hatred is on the negative side, love is towards the positive side. You can find it out yourself. I will give you a simple example. Try to have some hate talks about somebody with a person, his/her mentality will also change as of yours or talk something praiseworthy about anyone, that person will start liking him/her.

There is one very beautiful quote that I like the most. It goes like this:
The Beauty of Life does not depend on how happy you are... But on How happy others can be Because of you !!!

If you love everybody, everybody will love you..

I wish love prevails between all of us and we find peace within our souls.

BOMBAY

Read this... This will give you a snapshot of Bombay.. Some points are funny, some are ironical and some are those which only a Bombayitte can understand :-)

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Bombay has no bombs and is a harbour not a bay.

Churchgate has neither a church nor a gate. It is a railway station.

There is no darkness in Andheri.

Lalbaag is neither red nor a garden.

No king ever stayed at Kings Circle.

Nor did Queen Victoria stay at Victoria Terminus.

Nor is there any princess at Princess Street.

Lower Parel is at the same level as Parel.

There are no marines or sailors at Marine Lines.

The Mahalaxmi temple is at Haji Ali not at Mahalaxmi.

There are no pigs traded at Dukar bazaar.

Teen bati is a junction of 3 roads, not three lamps.

Trams used to terminate at Kings circle not Dadar*Tram Terminus (Dadar T.T.).

Breach Candy is not a sweetmeat market.

Safed Pool has the dirtiest and blackest water.

You cannot buy coal at Kolsa street.

There are no Iron smiths at Lohar chawl.

There are no pot makers at Kumbhar wada.

Lokhandwala complex is not an Iron and steel market.

Null bazaar does not sell taps.

You will not find ladyfingers at Bheendi Bazaar.

Kalachowki does not have a black Police station.

Hanging Gardens are not suspended.

Mirchi Gully does not sell chillies.

Figs do not grow in Anjir Wadi,

Sitafals do not grow in Sitafal Wadi,

Jackfruits do not grow at Fanaswadi.

But it is true that you may get fleeced at Chor Bazaar!!!

AMCHI MUMBAI

A City where everything is possible, especially the impossible.

Where lovers first love and then marry,

Where there is place for every Tom, Dick and Harry

Where telephone bills make a person ill,

Where a person cannot sleep without a pill.

Where carbon-dioxide is more than oxygen,

Where the road is considered to be a dustbin,

Where college canteens are full and classes empty,

Where Adam teasing is also making an entry,

Where a cycle reaches faster than a car,

Where everyone thinks himself to be a star,

Where sky scrapers overlook the slum,

Where houses collapse as the monsoon comes,

Where people first act and then think,

Where there is more water in the pen than ink,

Where the roads see-saw in monsoon,

Where the beggars become rich soon,

Where the roads are levelled when the minister arrives,

Where college admission means hard cash,

Where cement is frequently mixed with ash.

This is Mumbai my dear, But don't fear, just cheer, come to Mumbai every year!

THINGS TO PROVE YOU'RE A BOMBAYITE.

1. You say "town " and expect everyone to know that*this means south of Churchgate.

2 You speak in a dialect of Hindi called 'Bambaiya Hindi', which only Bombayites can understand.*

3. Your door has more than three locks.

4. Rs 500 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.

5. Train timings (9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events of life.

6. You spend more time each month traveling than you spend at home.

7. You call an 8' x 10' clustered room a Hall.

8. You're paying Rs 10,000 for a 1 room flat, the size of walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."

9. You have the following sets of friend: school friends, college friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and yes, train friends, a species unique only in Bombay.

10. Cabbies and bus conductors think you are from Mars if you call the roads by their Indian name, they are more familiar with Warden Road, Peddar Road, Altamount Road.

11. Stock market quotes are the only other thing*besides cricket which you follow passionately.

12. The first thing that you read in the Times of India is the "Bombay Times" supplement.

13. You take fashion seriously. You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.

14. Hookers, beggars and the homeless are invisible.

15. You compare Bombay to New York's Manhattan instead of any other cities of India.

16. The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.

17. You insist on calling CST as VT, and Sahar and Santacruz airports instead of Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport.

18. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.

19. Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.

20. Being truly alone makes you nervous.

21. You love wading through knee deep mucky water in the monsoons, and actually call it ''romantic'.

22. Only in Bombay, you would get Chinese Dosa and Jain Chicken.

Whatever People say and think about Mumbai but the conclusion is Mumbai is the best city in the World. It has got its own recognition where you can experience everything you want. It has got its own charm. You name it and you get it. It is the fastest city in India and one of the fastest cities in the World.

My Source of Inpiration!

She is beautiful, caring and graceful.. I find peace when engrossed in her beauty.. Its endless when you try to explore her... its my source of meditation, contemplating her beauty in perfection, my source of inspiration... my mother Nature!

May be its a human instinct but there is some kind of attachment that makes me feel that it is related to you and without which there would be sort of emptiness in your life..

Its beyond your imagination power to get the answer of the questions that raises in your mind - how these things come to its existence? Is there some sort of spirit working behind to produce this marvel around the globe? Or this beauty just comes to existence by itself, knowing that they have to be beautiful? Some questions that make you go hmmm...

Nevertheless, nature is indeed something that makes me think about spirituality.

It makes me feel lost and taken to a different world.












The sounds of water and birds chirping somewhere in the woods, makes me think nature speaks and this are the sounds of nature..

The greenery wrapping the ground makes me feel it has conquered it and beauty & grace shall prevail there too..















When I see the sun rising yet again in the morning bringing light to conquer the darkness..












Besides beauty and grace, nature has always brought to our consciousness from time to time - an indication of the things that could happen when we try to ruin it...

Industrialization has always been a menace and is constantly posing a threat to imbalance the ecosystem.. Global warming is a form reaction to us.. telling us 'As you sow, so you reap'... when pollution enter the ecosystem then it disturbs the whole balance that nature had provided to us... I hope people would realise this truth and stop polluting this beautiful earth!

Nature has always given us something good, without asking anything back but now its time for us to repay it to her... or else it will be too late when nature starts showing her power of destruction!

Mumbai....

...the city where people come with their dreams and make fortune.. the city that teaches you not to look back and keep moving ahead.. the city where people celebrate all festivals together and live every second of their life.. the commercial, multi-cultural, multi-linguistic and multi-ethnic capital of India.

Mumbai the city that never sleeps!


I have lived in many cities but when it comes to Mumbai I feel its a very different place altogether. The life style is so unique when we compare it with the rest of the world. No doubt there are other cities that have the fast life but in Mumbai its fast life with a difference.

One of a belief about Mumbai is that one who has lived there for atleast 1 year and got used to those conditions then he can survive anywhere in the world. Its not that its a very bad place to live in but its the everyday challenge that you face while you do your routine job. Packed local trains, buses, footpaths, etc. definitely make your life difficult but once you are used to it, you blend with the evolved culture of Mumbai and become a real 'Mumbaikar'.

By real 'Mumbaikar' I mean a person who despite of so much of toil and trouble in daily life, never complain about it... It becomes a part of daily routine and you can see the smiling faces, people cracking jokes and people keeping themselves busy all the time..

A typical Mumbaikar's daily life goes like this - Get up at a particular time (and they mean it when they say a particular time.. not early not too late..), get ready and run for the local train or bus at a particular time (that they dont wanna miss it), reach they work place, do the work, when done run for the local train or bus at a particular time (that they dont wanna miss it), reach home and spend time with friends and family. It sound a typical life style of people living in other cities but in Mumbai there is a challenge at each stage of your daily life.

'Time' for a Mumbaikar is a very important element in their life. Everything that they do, goes with a definite time. And that makes them punctual always. And precise. They learn how not to lose every second of their lives as it is so essential for them. Thats the reason you will not find any Mumbaikar always running for something.

Although I have left Mumbai more than a year back and have changed a lot adapting the life style of a new city, I think will never forget the life style of Mumbai. Its the very interesting life style that anybody can have it if you look at the positive side of it.

I really miss Mumbai!