Category : Gujarati Poem

Man Ogalya Karavu

જો લાગે કૈંક સારું, તો કેટલું એને માણ્યા કરવું?
કે પછી લઈશું એનો સ્વાદ, કહી ટાળ્યા કરવું?

શું અકરાંતિયા બની અહર્નિશ અંતરને બાળ્યા કરવું?
કે પછી સંતોષ થયો છે, એવું ફક્ત દેખાડ્યા કરવું?

જો એને જોઈ ના શકો તો શું ફક્ત એને જાણ્યા કરવું?
કે પછી મેળવવાની ઈચ્છા વગર ફક્ત નિહાળ્યા કરવું?

અવિરત અપેક્ષાઓને અંતરમાં જ ઘોળ્યા કરવું?
કે પછી સંયમની સાપેક્ષ સઘળું તોલ્યા કરવું?

શક્ય ન હોય જ્યાં, કે શું લેવું ને શું ખાળ્યા કરવું,
જાગ્રત મનનું કામ એટલું, કે આ બધું ચાળ્યા કરવું,

પારકી પંચાતોથી પર, મન અંતર્મુખ વાળ્યા કરવું,
ભજન કીર્તન ભૂલી આ એક જ વ્રત પાળ્યા કરવું,

સંસારનો ખરેખર વ્યર્થ એ બધો વ્યવહાર છે હૃષી,
જે આપ નથી એ પ્રયત્નથી સૌને દેખાડ્યા કરવું,

જો અનિત્ય અસ્તિત્વની પાર જવું જ હોય હૃષી,
તો પરમતત્વમાં મન અવિરત ઓગાળ્યા કરવું.

To be, or not to be, that is the question – uttered by all of us from time to time.  Most of the people think that some of the questions are better left unanswered and there is no solution to existential misery.

But I beg to differ and I believe that such indecisiveness arises from the lack of awareness of mind. A mature aware mind – a Sthitpragnya will not be succumbed to such vicissitudes and infirmity of mind. When a person becomes enlightened, all things starts to fall into the place without any effort. A state of eternal bliss, isn’t it? 🙂

Category : English Poems

Lilly Lives By The “Likes”

Lilly Lives By The “Likes”

I’ve got this new dress and here is the pic,
Please make my mood with your single click,

Not the real but that heart shape button I seek,
looking but not liking?!!,  man you’re such a dick,

Nudity  is  just  a bait,  so  please  don’t be a  freak,
It’s just for likes, otherwise I’m a sanskari shy chick,

Guys with bikes and cars?! Dude! it’s such an old trick,
Six pack and a gym pic!  Go ahead boy, brick by brick,

I used to follow this cute guy’s profile named Nick,
Jesus,  in reality he  came  out as a predator prick,

Now  these million  followers  making  me so sick,
Why this damn thing is not giving me a real kick?!

………

( Now Lilly is sad, but of course not mad 😉 )

Earlier while counting every ‘like’ I used to roll,
Now  I’m reading and cursing,  every f’kin troll,

So  before  I  delete this profile, one final poll,
Do  you  like  me mature  or a mere Barbie doll?

………

So please, friends and followers, help dear Lilly,
We all know, she’s so lovely, just a little bit silly
😉

Last weekend there was a news article in TOI that a girl torn her newly bought expensive dress because she was enraged that it didn’t fetch enough ‘likes’ on the Instagram from her friends when she posted her pics with the dress.  Now, some will blame social media, some will preach the parent’s inability to instill virtues, some will blame the bullying, few will point towards the psychological shortcomings of helpless girl etc. But what can you do about the inherent characteristics of the nature! Natural obsession of men for power and women’s madness about beauty will never go away. Some things aren’t being called the ‘basic instincts’ for nothing.  So what’s the cure or conclusion? One might ask. Well, nothing really, I would say.  We all know the need for recognition aka ego etc, is never going to cease to exist.

Those who can see through the transient nature of the things and have found the permanent source of joy, will just be Sthitpragnya and smile, looking at all these ‘Lila of Likes’.

As Geeta says, God likes the one who is – ‘Tulyanindastutimauni‘ – ( translation – One who is really unperturbed by any commendation or condemnation and remains silent )

But well, we all know how difficult it is, don’t we?!