It is not that I follow everything

but I like writings like these.
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The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to
It is content with the low places that people disdain
Thus it is like the Tao
In dwelling, live close to the ground
In thinking, keep to the simple
In conflict, be fair and generous
In governing, don't try to control
In work, do what you enjoy
In family life, be completely present
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,everybody will respect you
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From a translation of Lao Tzu writings
The last line actually goes completely against the world that I live in. Without competition there's no success, no escape from poverty, no prosperity.

Performance with tantrum

Watch this little one.

Jai Ho

Dance Performance!

Good song

I just discovered. Help me make it through tonight.

Vividh bharti ki aur se

pesh hai yeh gana. Although I must say, I dont like the picturization. It's a good song on a sad scene. I don't like the lyrics either. The melody is good, IMHO.

aisa kyun hai ki

हम कहीं और जाने की कोशिश मैं
जिंदगी कहीं और ले जा रही

प्रेरणा

फूल को नही चाहिए
खिलने के लिए

(related verse from bible: http://siphar.blogspot.com/2005/05/order_24.html)

moh

कुछ ने मुझसे कीजो
कुछ से मैंने कीजो
एक मानुस मोह मैं मरते देखियो
एक मानुस मोह मैं पलते देखियो

Chinta

My Nani's house used to have Shirdi Sai Baba's poster and 10 sayings in their middle room. Of these I remembered this one today

"चिंता चिता के समान है"

Insurance

is the price you pay for doing well in life. I don't say it's good or bad. It just is.

(Evening stu-pi-dity)

Slumdog Millionaire

When you are in a creative field, particularly something like film or music,” says Rahman, “you can be tossed between highs and lows, good reviews and bad reviews. To maintain equilibrium, you have to detach yourself and abandon yourself merely to the service of music — look at it all from a different perspective. For this, the destruction of the ego is very important. At the same time, there are ironic counterpoints. If you don’t have an ego you can switch on and off, you cannot make music, you cannot do something extraordinary. You have to be committed to the idea of excelling the standards you have set yourself, fulfilling expectations. So, there is a good ego and a bad ego. Something like music also draws you away into another energy field — money, fame, women. For a long time, these impulses used to pull me in separate ways — the desire to renounce and the desire to achieve. You can never perfect these things, but finally now, I feel I am walking in sync, with both impulses hand-in-hand.

Find the full profile over here. A R Rahman.

Kanchana says her brother wanted to be an ordinary boy — sleep late, play carom — and used to resist being woken at seven by his mother to practice the piano. But the mother, fervently knocking at temples, churches, and mosques, was determined to refuel the prophecy. Suddenly, around the time he was 11, destiny came knocking again. The family met Karimullah Shah Kadiri, a Sufi pir (at a railway station, goes the apocryphal story). Karimullah foresaw the boy’s entire future and said Dileep would come to him in 10 years. “That was the turning point,” Rahman admitted in a rare moment of candour to a CNN interviewer. “Everything happened as he said it would.”

The heart stirred.

प्रकृति

आज सुबह बे-पत्ते पेड़ पर एक चिडिया दी दिखाई
शांत सुबह मैं मिठास सी घुल आई

aaj

अपनी चारदीवारी मैं चक्की पीसते हुए

मैंने खनखनाती धुप देखि

सनसनाती बर्फीली हवाएं झेलीं

इधर टकराया उधर गिरा

कभी फिसला कभी फिरा

ऐसे दिन गया रात आई

पूछो मत कितनी थकन आई

और अब दे न बहार कुछ भी दिखाई

पर अब भी गब्बर सिंह

चक्की पीसिंग

चक्कं पीसिंग

(maay de snovboarding tude, a phev laains)

(I wrote it, translated to hindi in blogger and retranslated to english. This is what it became from "my day snowboarding today, a few lines").

mahatvakanksha

मैं कुतुब मीनार पर जा हुआ खड़ा

लेकिन कद फिर भी नही बदला

लोग कहते वोह देखो कुतुब मीनार चढ़ गया अगला

मैं हँसता कुतुब मीनार चढ़ गया पगला

लेकिन कद फिर भी नही बदला

main

मुझ मैं खोट है

लेकिन मैं खोटा नहीं

मैंने jhoot बोले हैं

लेकिन मैं झूठा नहीं

मैंने सच बोले हैं

लेकिन मैं सच्चा नहीं

मैं कौन हूँ?

मैं तस्वीरों की इस भीड़ मैं

अपनी तस्वीर तलाशता इंसान हूँ

Bebasi

हम तो मयखाना कल रात ही छोड़ आए थे
आज कदम फिर बहक गये

Kaash

के करवटें बदल के
सपने बदल जाते
हम लगे इस कोशिश मैं
की थोरे हम बदले
और थोरा दिल

A few lines from LOTR

I sit beside the fire and think

Of all that I have seen,

Of meadow-flowers and butterflies

In summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer

In autumns that there were,

With morning mist and silver sun

And wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think

Of how the world will be

When winter comes without a spring

That I shall ever see.

For still there are so many things

That I have never seen:

In every wood in every spring

There is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think

Of people long ago,

And people who will see a world

That I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think

Of times there were before,

I listen for returning feet

And voices at the door.

[Bilbo Baggins in LOTR]

Duvidha

सवाल यह नहीं की लोग क्या कहेंगे
सवाल यह की हम अपने आप से क्या कहेंगे

कोशिश

तोह कीजिये
पर ख़ुद बा ख़ुद खुल जायेंगे
आप खुले आसमान मैं उड़ना सिख जायेंगे