आई

This is one of the my favorite poems from my writings, for which I won the 1st prize in a state level poem competition.

लहान होते अजान होते, तेव्हाच सतीच वाण माज़्यावर लादल

काय सांगू कस सांगू नियतिन आपसुक जाळं टाकल...

खेळण्या-बागडण्याच वय होत, अन संसाराशी बांधल नात

देह बदलतो, वातावरण बदलत, पण मन मात्र तसच राहत...

रातीपाल्याद दिस उजड गुरावणी राबत

नवऱ्याच्या लाथा खाउन नशिबाला कोसत ...

कुणास ठाऊक काय होत दैवाच्या मनात

म्हणूनच आल वैधव्य जीवनाच्या अर्ध्यात...

पण खर आहे लेका, आपल्या लेकरांची चिंता त्याच्याच पोटी

म्हणूनच पाठवलं विधात्यान तुला, मला आई म्हणण्यासाठी...

तूच आता जीवनाचा 'श्वास' होतास, तुझ्यासाठी जगण

अन तुझ्यासाठीच मरण, तूच तर होतास माझा आशेचा किरण...

हाडाची काड करून उपाशी ऱ्हायला काइच वाटत न्हवत

कायबी करून कसबी करून, तुला आफिसार करायचं सपान डोळ्यात व्हत...

तू शिकण्यापाई गेलास खरा परगावी,  

पर तुज्या आठवणींचा आसू आता रोजचाच पावणा झालाई... 

तू शिकलास, साता समिन्द्रापल्याड आज गेलास

मला तर स्वर्ग मिळाला बाई

आता तुला डोळभरून बगण्याशिवाय काइबि इच्छा न्हाई…

तू घरला मागारी येणार कळताच मन सुपाएवढ फुललं 

तिरडीवर जाण्याआधीच या म्हातारीला जणू गंगास्नान घडल…

त्या दिशी रातभर माझा डोळाच लागला न्हाई

सारखी नुसती आवरायची घाई न तुझ्या येण्याचीच दिरंगाई …

आया-बायांची दार पुजून तुझ्या आवडीची खीर बनवली

कवा यायचास र लेका बग की र सांज झाली …

तुझ्याच वाटकड लागलेत माझ डोळ तान-भूक हरवूनी

कवा तू यायचास अन म्हणायचास मला 'आई'...

गाडीचा आवाज येताच तुझ्या येण्याची चाहूल लागली

अंधारलेल्या मनात माझ्या आशेची ज्योत नवी जागली…

    

तू आलास, पण..पण..तू एकला न्हवता आलास

तुझ्यासोबत ती तुझी बायको..न्हव..माझी सून घेऊन आलास…

क्षनभर सुन्न झाले पण शेवटी तुझीच आई

त्या अनोळखी चेहऱ्यातदेखील आपलेपनाच पाही…

'आंधळा मागतो एक अन देव देतो दोन डोळे'..असच काहीस झाल

एका निमिषात या म्हातारीला आभाळ ठेंगण झाल…

माझी गोरी-गोमटी, इंग्रजी बोलत्याली सून नव्यान घरात यायची म्हणून

बिगीबिगीण तांदळाच माप उंबऱ्यावर ठेवल आणून…

पण त्या येडीला माझी माया कळलीच न्हाई

या पडक्या घरात म्हणते मी मुळीच ऱ्हायची न्हाई…

बायकोच्या एका शब्दाला तू पण लेका भाळलास 

आज तुझ्याच आईचा देह तू जिवंतपणी जाळलास …

इतक्या वर्षांनी घराची खबर तरी घ्यायची होतीस

लहानपणी मिटक्या मारत खाणाऱ्या खिरीची चव तरी बघायची होतीस…

तू खाली मन खालून निघून गेलास पण एकदा माझ्या नजरेत बघून बोलायचं होतस

तुझी आईच आहे, परकी नाही मी, माझ काय चुकल ते सांगायचं होतस…

तुझ्या जाण्याबरोबरच सार काही गेल

इतक्या वर्षांनी पालवी फुटलेलं हे झाड, आज मुळापासून कोलमडल…

या घरादाराला तुझ्या आठवणीचीच शिदोरी लाभलीय

तू कधीतरी येशीलच, आता वाट पाहण्याची सवय लागलीय…

माझ्या मरणाची बातमी ऐकून तुझ्या डोळ्यात पाणी नक्कीच येईल

अन तेही नाही आल तर तू मात्र नक्की ये…

फक्त एकदाच ये लेका, तुझ्या आईला भेटायला

लहानपणी अंगाई म्हणून तुला झोपवणाऱ्या आईला

मातीमध्ये कायामचच झोपवायला...!!!

 

          

Letting Go !

This is a very good short inspirational story. When I came across while reading I felt it is worth to share. In our everyday life we face many negativities and we sometimes unable to let go of them, which leads to tensions, dissatisfaction and depressions. This is something which will make you think a while.

A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: “How heavy is this glass of water?”

Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.

She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.”

She continued, “The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything.”

It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don’t carry them through the evening and into the night. Remember to put the glass down!

Never hold or force anything.  Give it your best shot and then let it be.  If it’s meant to be, it will be.  Don’t hold yourself down with things you can’t control.  When one positive light in your life burns out, don’t use it as an excuse to shield yourself from all the other sources of light shining around you.  Continue to appreciate what you have now, and smile about the memories.

Meditate…Laught...Live purely… Be quite... Do your work with mastery…Like the moon come out from behind the clouds… Shine!

The Mysterious World of Energy

In this beautiful world, we are surrounded by mysteries. We follow many things without knowing the reasons. If we start thinking will be having non-ending list of questions like, who made this world? Who maintain it? How we breathe unknowingly? How do we know eating, sleeping, reproducing? Why we go to temples? Is God behind everything of these?

‘Existence of God’ is a big topic of debet. I believe in the ‘Energy’…Everything in the world is Energy. God is another name of ‘Supreme Power’ the biggest source of energy.

We spend whole life with ourselves, but still our body is a big mystery. We eat, we sleep, we work, we think, we do many things, but within our body a continuous process goes on, we don’t even know its complexity. We are also energy. Hence said, ‘God is within all of us’. Then why do we go to temple? to visit God? Actually God is not there in the temple, not even in those statues. But we feel great, very much positive when we are in temple, it is because the high level of positive energy in the temple. People visit temples with a faith; a positive attitude that 'whatever problems I have it will destroy with the blessings of God. He can do anything'. Thousands of people give the positive vibes of faith when they worship to the statue of stone. The surrounding of the temple gets full with those positive vibes. Even the structure of temple is designed in such a way that it stores the energy, like the conical shape of shikhar preserves the energy at high level. There are many such things related to

Vastu-shastra to energy preservation.

Even human body is also energy; we can feel the magnetic force within our body. Our palms highly emit the energy. Hence Gods or elders use to give blessings with their palms. In our Yoga session we do a palming exercise in which we do inward and outward moments of palm with some gap in between both palms while seating in the meditation pose. Within few minutes we start realizing a magnetic force between two palms and this force increases as we continue palming moments. At one stage we strongly feel that our both palms are unable to join together, a great force is repulsing them outward. This is a very beautiful meditation where we actually experience the magnetic force within our body. Hence we do 'Namskar' by joining our palms to receive more energy.

Another source of energy is our words. Word contains high form of positive and negative energy vibrations. Great scientist Masaru Emoto has proved effect of words, thought and music on molecular structure of water. Masaru Emoto focused his microscope on water crystals took from a big city's water dam and predict the result: water was impure and the crystals were formless and ugly. The same water was later carried to a monk, so he could say a prayer and bless it. The crystals of the same water then acquired a beautiful shape. He experiment the same water with some positive words like, Thank you, Love and gratitude, beautiful, etc and also with some negative words like sick, kill, hate, etc. The water structure after the experiment was extremely changed. You can see in the images. Our body contains 90% of water, hence the words, music we speak, listen; our thoughts influences our lives very much. The same idea is behind all Mantras and Shloks in our culture. ‘Om’ manifests the highest positive vibes. Hence we need to be very careful while speaking, listening or thinking about anything, try to be more positive.