is mod se jaate hai kuch sust kadam raste....

I entered my supposedly-happening gym in Koramangala(Bangalore) the other evening trying my best to evacuate all worldly thoughts outta my mind. It's that innocent and lovely smile I can't miss of that receptionist every day.

I offered a wide-desi smile in return to an attitudinal grin of the coach who doesn't like me for not asking his guidance in anything. May be he sensed my observation of his shapeless "physique" in my eyes. Whatever, those days are over when I wondered about the people, the society, structure, fake personalities, countries blah blah blah. But what pissed(s) me off is that ultra stupid...utterly boooring "tujhe mirchi lagi to main kya karu" type songs. Then I run around talking to every bloody manager to get some energy music playing.

No matter how much I try to fit in this new age bull crap music... I just fail to digest it. I wonder what goes on in their mind for such music to compliment their thoughts and their tastes. Worse is these sensual(?) sophisticated-looking dames who sing along. Hello, is that the art of deceiving baby? isn't that attitude that you wearing... and isn't that your mind at work, does your heart say something or you bluntly go with someone else's choice???

Where is that sweetness we heard in a song like 'rimjhim gire saawan'?
Where's that soul stirring feeling as she sings 'mera kuch saaman'... 'yara seeli seeli' 'lo aagayi unki yaad, woh nahi aaye'
Where...exactly where are such people with taste, with passion, with that innocence and playfulness who sang adorable yet naghuty songs like 'accha to hum chal tel hai'?

I wonder where this new gen music is heading... if there are people who crave for a meaningful life when I hear songs like 'jhalak dikhlaja' !

Not that I'm an old fashioned fella who can't appreciate new songs... I fell in love with some songs like 'baras ja ay badal barasja' or 'agar tum mil jao' or 'aditi', 'mere haath mein'... etc. Certainly, taste differs from person to person but don't their hearts crave for a little melody, a little meaning and true expression!!!

A tribute to the master...

When you gather much -- the riches of knowledge, scriptures, all around you, libraries condensed in your mind, and suddenly you become aware that you are just carrying the burden of others, nothing belongs to you, you have not known -- then you can drop it, you can drop all this knowledge. In that dropping a new type of ignorance arises within you. This ignorance is not the ignorance of the ignorant, this is how a wise man is, how wisdom is.

Only a wise man can say I don't know. But in saying I don't know, he is not hankering after knowledge, he is simply stating a fact. And when you can say with your total heart I don't know, in that very moment your eyes become open, the doors of knowing are open. In that very moment when you can say with your totality; I don't know, you have become capable of knowledge.

This ignorance is beautiful, but it is attained through knowledge. It is poverty attained through richness. And the same happens with ego -- you can lose it if you have it.

Life is dialectical. Create, and then life says: Destroy. Be born, and then life says: Die! Attain, and then life says: Lose! Be rich, and then life says: Become poor! Be a peak, an Everest of the ego, and then become an abyss of egolessness. Then you have known both -- the illusory and the real


....OSHO

aapse milke hum...

aapse milke hum
kuch badal se gaye
sher padhne lage
gungunaane lage

kahne mushhoor thi
apni sanjeedgi
abto jab dekhiye
muskuraane lage...


...as the maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sang