मग़रूर ज़िन्दगी

ज़मीन तो मिल गयी, आसमाँ को पाना है अभी
इस डर को दिल से निकाल, कुछ कर दिखाना है अभी
मग़रूर ज़िन्दगी का, साथ निभाना है अभी
साँसों को अपनी संभाल, बोहत दूर जाना है अभी

मुक़म्मल जहाँ

शब्दों की इस जंग में तू जीत जाए भी तो क्या है
ज़िन्दगी की दौड़ में तू आगे निकल जाए भी तो क्या है
जिस हमसफ़र को राहों में छोड़ आया तू
बिना उसके मुक़म्मल जहाँ मिल जाए भी तो क्या है...

फितरत

इन 'छोटी' खुशियों की चिंगारियों से क्यों निराश होता है तू ?
कुछ इधर से समेट, कुछ उधर से,
और तबियत से फूँक मार;
कि चिंगारियों से आग जलाना तो तेरी फितरत में है...

Alone.

With noise cancelling earphones
In a jungle of concrete and stone
This uneasy feeling
Of being so alone.

It's a real word !

Random discovery of the day: the word BACKRONYM.

(Backronym = A phrase constructed to fit an acronym/abbreviation)

So today, the tagline of SBS channel (Australia) has gone from "Six Billion Stories" to "Seven Billion Stories" (and counting). Apparently, neither of them is the original expansion for SBS; they are backronyms for SBS - Special Broadcasting Service.

I wonder if I was the only one who got it wrong.

[not that I don't have other things to worry about :D]

क्यों ?

आसमाँ को छूने की ख्वाहिश तो बचपन से थी,
ऊचाइयों से क्यों आज लगता है डर..
समंदर को नापने की तमन्ना की थी,
गहराईयों से क्यों आज लगता है डर..
दुनिया से आगे निकलने का ही तो ख्वाब था,
तनहाइयों से फिर आज, क्यों लगता है डर ?

The crisis in consciousness ..

" We were saying how very important it is to bring about, in the human mind, the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, the crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions and considering what the world is now, with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on. Man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and... he has built a society along these lines."


"What we are trying in all these discussions and talks here, is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind. *Not accept things as they are* - but to understand it, to go into it, examine it, give your heart and your mind with every thing that you have to find out. A way of living differently. But that depends on you and not somebody else. Because in this there is no teacher, no pupil. There's no leader, there is no guru, there's no master, no savior. You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is."


- Jiddu Krishnamurty (from the video archives included in the movie Zeitgeist:Addendum)