Monsoon Milan

श्याम वर्ण मेघा जब छाए
नाचे मोर चातक हरशाये
प्रेम पिपासी धरा से मिलने
मेघ! नीर बन दौड़े आए |

धरती ने सोलह श्रृंगार किया
हरित वस्त्र फिर धार लिया
सजना से मिलने को हो तत्पर
मिलन ऋतु का आभार किया |

जब प्रेम मिलन साकार हुआ
नव जीवन का संचार हुआ
स्फुटित होते नव अंकुरों से
निश्छल प्रेम चरितार्थ हुआ |

Kah Mukri Challenge

कह-मुकरियाँ या मुकरियाँ  का सीधा सा अर्थ होता है कही हुई बातों से मुकर जाना. और इस बंद में होता भी यही है.  ये चार पंक्तियों का बंद होती हैं, जिसमें पहली तीन पंक्तियाँ किसी संदर्भ या वर्णन को प्रस्तुत करती हैं,  परन्तु स्पष्ट कुछ भी नहीं होता. चौथी पंक्ति दो वाक्य-भागों में विभक्त हुआ करती हैं. पहला वाक्य-भाग उस वर्णन या संदर्भ या इंगित को बूझ जाने के क्रम में अपेक्षित प्रश्न-सा होता है,  जबकि दूसरा वाक्य-भाग वर्णनकर्ता का प्रत्युत्तर होता है जो पहले वाक्य-भाग में बूझ गयी संज्ञा से एकदम से अलग हुआ करता है. यानि किसी और संज्ञा को ही उत्तर के रूप में बतलाता है. इस लिहाज से मुकरियाँ  एक तरह से अन्योक्ति हैं. (source here )

कुछ स्व-रचित कह-मुकरियाँ यहाँ प्रेषित है जो की हमारी काव्य पाठ मित्र मंडली "पढ़ने लिखने वाले" की प्रेरणा से लिखी गयी है

उसकी खुशबू , से मन डोले
नैना तरसे , तन हिचकोले
हाथ छूए तो, दिन आफताब
कौन माशूका? ना रे किताब।

जब वो आवे , मन हरशाए
ताज़ी हवा सा, घर महकाए
बचपन का वो, बड़ा त्योहार
कौन दिवाली? नहीं रविवार।

उसकी सबसे, मधुर आवाज़
जब वो बाजे, तो लागे साज़
दौड़ू पीछे, बन मतवाला
कौन वो सजनी? ना कुल्फी वाला।

गरमी में भी, ठंड दिलाए
तन मन पर, अमृत बरसाए
जा कर जहां, हो दिल मस्ती वाला
सजनी की गली? नहीं मधुशाला।

रिश्ते : जाने अनजाने

आँख खुली जब सामने था वो, चेहरा एक सुहाना सा
था कुछ मुरझाया हुआ सा , फिर भी था निराला सा
आँचल से था अमृत झरता, मधु के जैसा निर्मल सा
रिश्ता ममता का बन गया , गंगा जैसा पावन सा ||

यौवन की जब आयी बेला, दिल था हुआ पतंगा सा
कली कली तब भटक रहा था, किसी आवारा भँवरे सा
आँख लड़ी जब उस चेहरे से , वीणा के जैसा नाद हुआ
रिश्ता बंधा सात जनम का , कुछ खट्टा कुछ मीठा सा ||

नीरस सी इस दिनचर्या में, वो प्यारी गुड मॉर्निंग सी
वाणी उनकी मिश्री जैसी, बातें लगे कविता सी
होली पे  उन गोरे गलों पर, रंग मलने की हसरत सा
रिश्ता ये पड़ोस की भाभी से, नटखट और रंगीला सा ||

उसका यूँ पीछे से गुजरना, किसी रेल के इंजन सा,
उन चंचल चितवन नैनो से, हज़ार ख्वाहिशें कहने सा
उस हृदय हिरणी के संग , बैठ कॉफ़ी पीने सा
रिश्ता ऑफिस की उस कर्मी से, अनजाना अनचाहा सा ||

शक्ति

मैं शक्ति हूँ मैं शक्ति हूँ

मैं सृजन का गीत हूँ
मृत्यु का रुदन भी हूँ
हूँ गृहस्थ की शान मैं
अघोरी का अभिमान भी हूँ

 मैं शक्ति हूँ मैं शक्ति हूँ

मैं साम हूँ मैं दाम हूँ
मैं दण्ड हूँ और भेद हूँ
मैं काल का भी काल हूँ
रौद्र हूँ महा विकराल हूँ

मैं शक्ति हूँ मैं शक्ति हूँ

मैं सौम्य हूँ तो अम्बा हूँ
पोषण करती अन्नपूर्णा हूँ
जो रुष्ठ हुई तो काली हूँ
संहार रूपिणी चामुंडा हूँ

मैं शक्ति हूँ मैं शक्ति हूँ

ब्रह्मा का पूर्ण ज्ञान हूँ मैं
श्री हरी की सारी माया हूँ
शिव का तांडव नृत्य हूँ मैं
संपूर्ण विश्व की काया हूँ

मैं शक्ति हूँ मैं शक्ति हूँ

हे मेरे काव्य , मेरे प्रभु...

तेरे चरणों में तेरा ये भक्त कुछ अर्पित करना चाह रहा हैं | चाह तो रहा था कि तेरे ही अंश रुपी पद्य का प्रसाद तेरे चरणों में प्रेषित करूँ |  पर ये सुदामा रुपी भक्त अपनी चावल की गठरी रुपी कविता तुझे देने में लजा रहा हैं | तेरे भव्य वैभव के सामने, ये छप्पन भोगों की थाल जो इन सब ने चढाई हैं,  उनके आगे मेरी चावल की गठरी का क्या मोल |  इसलिए  गद्य का ही प्रसाद चढाने की हिम्मत जुटा पाया हूँ |

एक भक्त के लिए उसका भगवान सर्वव्यापी भी होता है और सर्वज्ञाता भी | काव्य और कविता के रूप में अर्धनारीश्वर के भाँति सृष्टि के आरम्भ से ही तू व्याप्त रहा हैं | जब सृष्टि का निर्माण नहीं हुआ था तब भी तू प्रणव नाद के बनकर ब्रह्माण्ड में गुंजायमान था | जंगलो में भटकते मनु वंशियों को जब ज्ञान का प्रादुर्भाव हुआ तब वेदो की वाणी बन कर तूने उस ज्ञान को सर्व सुलभ बनाया | आदि कवि वाल्मीकि के मुख से जब अनायास ही "मा निषाद प्रतिष्ठां" श्लोक निकला वो तेरी ही तो लीला थी, जो तूने रची थी , रामायण जैसे  महाग्रंथ की रचना के लिए |

जिस तरह से ईश्वर हर काल और हर क्षेत्र में अलग-अलग रूपों में स्तिथ रहता है , उसी तरह हर देश हर भाषा में कई रूपों में अवतार लेता रहा है | क्या इतिहास और क्या भविष्य तू तो सर्वज्ञाता हैं |  जब भी हम मनुष्यों को अपनी भूल से कुछ सिखाना चाहा तब तेरे किसी भक्त ने तुझे एक नया रूप देकर प्रस्तुत किया।कभी गीता महाभारत कभी कुरान कभी गुरु ग्रंथ साहिब , हर  रूप में तूने आकर हमें सही मार्ग पर लाने का प्रयास किया | पर हम ठहरे मनुष्य जो इतिहास को हर बार भूल  जाते हैं और हर बार गलतियां दोहराते हैं |

पर  मैं जानता हूँ तू दयालु हैं , अपने भक्तों को छोड़ेगा नहीं | अवतरित होता रहेगा, नये नये रूपों में नित नये भावों के साथ | तेरे कई भक्त तेरे दिए कर्तव्य को निभाते रहेंगे | इसी आशा के साथ |

तेरा एक शरणागत

Human vs Dogs

Note : This post is strictly my thoughts and beliefs, it is not meant to hurt anyone. Please feel free to comment if something hurts or seems objectional.

This Saturday morning when many thoughts are burning in my head I am writing this post out of lot of anger and frustration,(though you may not feel so while reading the post). While having a walk in night after dinner(its not too cold in Bangalore, though north is freezing), I saw a stray dog.I am usually fond of dogs and start playing with them on roads. I called him( making usual sound one makes while calling a dog) and it came near me. Suddenly these were the thoughts that came in my mind:

My home town is in MP. I used to call the dogs same way there and play with them... I always enjoyed that. I started my first job in Nagpur(Maharashtra). While returning home from company I used to play with dogs and they happily used to react. Now I am in Bangalore and I find no difference. Point is rather it be MP, Maharashtra, Karnataka or any other part of our country, my way of communication with dogs is still the same and I feel no difference. They never revolted against me saying we can't understand you.

And humans, we fight over language issues. We fight over language because we understand several languages. Animals don't understand language. The only language they understand is language of love. If you wish to convey something via love you will always succeed. Thank god, animals don't have different languages to fight over. Waiting when we human will become as intelligent as DOGs.....

PS: Once again I say my post is a result of frustration due to all things happening in India.....though I love my country a lot and proud to be a Bhartiya....:). Thanks for being patient and reading this crap.

More on Creationism

In my previous post I tried to explain what Vedas has to say on creation of Universe and its comparison to Big Bang theory. But as I said words are always less to explain the thoughts from Vedas. So here I am continuing with the discussion with regards to space and time.

As its said that before Big Bang, there was no space and time, there were no distances between any tow objects, there was no relation between anything and no relativity. The Big Bang says there was one point, the nucleus of expanding Universe. But this point, this nucleus was neither in time nor in space as the space and time were not created then. So where was this point. Thus definitely it was not a geometrical point, it is neither geometrically describable nor logically conceivable. That is why the philosophers says about this point "it is a center which is everywhere, with circumference nowhere. It is as if the center of this circle has become the circumference itself." In Euclidean geometry we can't have such a circle.

So this Big Bang theory's center is everywhere, it means it is in everyone of us, every particle of this Universe. And the only thing I can imagine of who is in everyone and is everywhere is Him, the God, the Brahma... And he resides in everyone of us. Thus the Vedas says "Aham Brahmosmi" and "Soham".

OK, so now lets consider more. One of commentary on Big Bang says "There was no space and time before the Big Bang took place; therefore, there was no distance of one thing from another. We have come from a distanceless point, which means to say that even now, at this moment, when we appear to be far, far away—inconceivable light years of distance from that point—we are still sitting at that point only." So then where is creation if after millions year of spatial expansion we come to be at the same place.

Is this all Illusion, Maya? Are we trapped in a Matrix thinking te illusion as reality and waiting for the One to come....

Running child shell even after parent shell closes

Once in my project I was facing a strange problem. We have created a service script to start our product as a service in *nix. To start the service one need to give the command "service start" command on command prompt. However, to ease user we also provided a GUI with a start button to start the service. Now here starts the interesting part of story.

When user starts the service using the UI and as soon as closes the UI after starting the service, the service also used to get stop. After banging my head against the PC hundred times I got the clue and solution :)..

Reason for the above behavior: the SIGHUP signal

SIGHUP is a signal sent to a process when its controlling terminal ( or parent terminal) is closed. This signal causes all child processes to terminate when the terminal which launched them is closed. In my case, the GUI was launched using a shell script, and when the UI was closed, the shell script gets closed and thus the launched service as well.

Solution : NOHUP

NOHUP is a command to ignore SIGHUP signal, enabling the command to keep running even after the controlling terminal terminates. The nohup syntax :

nohup command-name &

And pufffff.... magic was done

And on the last note, nohup prevents logging so to get logs you must redirect I/O stream to some text file using > indirection

Stay tuned....

Pre Universe : Cosmology

On this lazy Saturday I am sitting alone in my flat and thinking something to do. Suddenly I started thinking about Universe, its creation, the state before Bing Bang theory. I took one of book from my collection and started reading it. I started reading "Nasdiya Sukta" the creation hymn from Rigveda and tried to link it with Big Bang theory and thus is this blog post.

Nasdiya Sukta philosophically describes the state before creation of universe, how secret the cosmology is and how creation of universe started. Though its always tough to explain vedic philosophy with limited set of words, I will try my best.

नासदासीन् नो सदासीत् तदानीं नासीद् रजो नो व्योमापरो यत्

किमावरीवः कुह कस्य शर्मन्नम्भः किमासीद् गहनं गभीरम्|1|

In pre-creational state of universe "not the non-existent existed, nor did the existent exist then". Then was neither being nor non-being; there was no realm of air nor sky beyond. What covered it, and where? what sheltered it? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?

न मृत्युरासीदमृतं न तर्हि न रात्र्या अह्न आसीत्प्रकेतः

आनीदवातं स्वधया तदेकं तस्माद्धान्यन् न परः किं चनास|2|

Death was not then, nor was there immortal; no sign was there, nor day's and night's divider( as no Sun and moon were there) . "The One" being, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it there was nothing else.

तम आसीत् तमसा गूळमग्रेऽप्रकेतं सलिलं सर्वमाइदम्

तुच्येनाभ्वपिहितं यदासीत् तपसस्तन्महिनाजायतैकम्|3|

Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness all was indiscriminate chaos. The stage was different from real-unreal, truth-false and there was no knowledge of existence. All that existed then was void and formless: by the great power of warmth was born "The One". When compared 2nd and 3rd hymns with Big Bang, the Big Bang says there was one indescribable point, the nucleus of the would-be expanding universe. That nucleus was not in space and not in time, because space and time had not been created yet - the basic quantum uncertainty.

कामस्तदग्रे समवर्तताधि मनसो रेतः प्रथमं यदासीत्

सतो बन्धुमसति निरविन्दन् हृदि प्रतीष्याकवयो मनीषा|4|

Thereafter rose desire in the beginning, desire, the primal seed and germ of spirit. Seers who searched their heart for wisdom discovered the bond of being within non-being with their heart's thought.

तिरश्चीनो विततो रश्मिरेषामधः स्विदासी दुपरिस्विदासी

रेतोधाआसन् महिमान आसन् स्वधा अवस्तात् प्रयतिः परस्तात्|5|

Transversely was their severing line extended: what was above it then, and what below it? There were seminal begetters, there were mighty forces, free action here and energy up yonder. The desires originated and also the consumers of the desires.

को अद्धा वेद क इह प्र वोचत् कुत आजाता कुत इयंविसृष्टिः

अर्वाग् देवा अस्य विसर्जनेनाथा को वेद यतआबभूव|6|

Who knows and who can say, whence it was born and whence came this creation? The Gods are later than this world's creation. Who knows then whence it first came into being? Here the Gods means the gods of air, water, fire but not the Supreme One.

इयं विसृष्टिर्यत आबभूव यदि वा दधे यदि वा

न यो अस्याध्यक्षः परमे व्योमन् सो अङ्ग वेद यदि वा नवेद|7|

The One, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not, He who surveys it all from his highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps even he does not! Its again a paradox, "The One" was the creator and/or also the creation. The One was creator or creation is similar to "Egg Chicken" puzzle.

The One described in this sukta is similar to center of universe of Big Bang theory. The search for creation is agnostic. The supreme power, the Brahma, the Absolute condensed Itself into the point of a universal will of potentiality to outline the process of the would-be creative universe. Brahman becomes Ishvara; Ishvara becomes Hiranyagarbha; Hiranyagarbha becomes Virat - the Param Purusha, the Axis Mundi......

But the question is who we are our part in this creational philosophy....

Humsafer: कौन हो तुम

Humsafer: कौन हो तुम

कौन हो तुम

क्या हो तुम, कौन हो तुम

मैं ये सोचता हूँ |

क्यों सांसो की डोर हो तुम,

मैं ये सोचता हूँ ||

तुम मेरे ही तो भीतर हो,

हृद्यांगी तुम हो मेरी

फिर क्यों मृगतृष्णा से व्याकुल हो,

हर पल तुम्हे खोजता हूँ |

कहाँ ढूँढू पा जाऊं तुम्हे,

मैं ये सोचता हूँ

क्यों सांसो की ......||

तुम से ही तो पूर्ण हुआ मैं

जन्मो से जो अधुरा था,

अपने प्रेम कलश के पात्र को

तुमसे ही तो भरता हूँ |

कैसे समेट लूं अपने मैं तुम्हे

मैं ये सोचता हूँ

क्यों सांसो की ......||

मेरा जीवन बेजान सा था,

सुनसान मरुभूमि जैसा,

इस वीरानी को अब तो मैं

वीणा से झंकृत करता हूँ|

हर राग मैं कैसे पाऊँ तुम्हे

मैं ये सोचता हूँ

क्यों सांसो की ......||

Invictus : i love this poem

I love this poem, also the movie:

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Kaise bataun me mere liye tum kaun ho

Have you ever loved someone. If yes howmuch. This the extent to which one can love anyone. The nicest poem to express you love for someone.


Kaise bataaoon main tumhe
Mere liye tum kaun ho, kaise bataaoon
Kaise bataaoon main tumhe
Tum dhadkanon ka geet ho
Jeevan ka tum sangeet ho
Tum zindagi tum bandagi
Tum roshni tum taazgi
Tum har khushi tum pyaar ho
Tum preet ho manmeet ho

Aankhon mein tum yaadon mein tum
Saanson mein tum aahon mein tum
Neendon mein tum khwaabon mein tum
Tum ho meri har baat mein
Tum ho mere din raat mein
Tum subaah mein tum shyaam mein
Tum soch mein tum kaam mein
Mere liye paana bhi tum
Mere liye khona bhi tum
Mere liye hasna bhi tum
Mere liye rona bhi tum

Aur jaagna sona bhi tum
Jaaoon kahin dekhoon kahin
Tum ho vahan, tum ho vahin
Kaise bataaoon main tumhe
Tum bin to main kuch bhi nahin
Kaise bataaoon main tumhe
Mere liye tum kaun ho

Yeh jo tumhaara roop hai
Yeh zindagi ki dhoop hai
Chandan se tarsha hai badan
Behti hai jis mein ek agan
Yeh shokhiyaan yeh mastiyaan
Tumko hawaaon se mili

Zulfein ghataaon se mili
Honton mein kaliyaan khil gayi
Aankhon ko jheele mil gayi
Chehre mein simti chaandni
Aawaaz mein hai raagini
Sheeshe ke jaisa ang hai
Phoolon ke jaisa rang hai
Nadiyon ke jaisi chaal hai
Kya husn hai kya haal hai
Yeh jism ki rangeeniyaan
Jaise hazaaron titliyaan
Baahon ki yeh golaaiyaan
Aanchal mein yeh parchhaaiyaan
Yeh nagriyaan hai khwaab ki
Kaise bataaoon main tumhe

Haalat dil-e-betaab ki
Kaise bataaoon main tumhe
Mere liye tum kaun ho
Kaise bataaoon, kaise bataaoon
Kaise bataaoon main tumhe
Mere liye tum dharam ho
Mere liye imaan ho
Tum hi ibaadat ho meri
Tum hi to chaahat ho meri
Tum hi mera armaan ho
Takta hoon main har pal jisse
Tum hi to voh tasveer ho
Tum hi meri taqdeer ho
Tum hi sitaara ho mera
Tum hi nazaara ho mera

Yudhyaan mein mere ho tum
Jaise mujhe ghere ho tum
Purab mein tum pachhim mein tum
Utar mein tum dakshin mein tum
Saare mere jeevan mein tum
Har pal mein tum har chir mein tum
Mere liye rasta bhi tum
Mere liye manzil bhi tum
Mere liye saagar bhi tum
Mere liye saahil bhi tum
Main dekhta bas tumko hoon
Main sochta bas tumko hoon
Main jaanta bas tumko hoon
Main maanta bas tumko hoon

Tum hi meri pehchaan ho
Kaise bataaoon main tumhe
Devi ho tum mere liye
Mere liye bhagwaan ho
Kaise bataaoon main tumhe
Mere liye tum kaun ho
Kaise

Door kahin koi rota he

Tan par pehra bhatak raha maan,
Sathi he kewal soonapan,
bhichad gaya kya swajan kisi ka,
krindan sada karun hota he.

Janma diwas par hum ithlate,
kyo na maran tyohar manate,
antim yatra ke awsar par,
aansuon ka apshagun hota he.

Antar roye aankh na roye,
dhul jayenge swapna sanjoye,
chalana bhare vishwa me kewal,
sapna hi to sach hota he.

Is jeevan se mrityu bhali he,
aantakit jab gali gali he,
me bhi rota aas paas jab,
door kahin koi rota he.

Parakhna mat ke parkhane me koi apna nahi rahta
bahut der tak aine me koi chehra nahi rahta
bas jae ek bar jab koi is dil me
dil phir bahut der naraz nahi rahta