सबसे ज़रूरी क्या है?

सबसे ज़रूरी क्या है?

भूख का होना

देसी घी की पूड़ियाँ हों

पर भूख से प्यार ऐसा हो

कि सात घंटे राशन की कतार में लग कर

बाप सूखी रोटी के २ हिस्से करके 

खुद भूखे पेट सो जाये

शायद साधन का होना 

कि दस दिन के

मटमैले कपड़ों को

रंगों के निखार के लिए 

फैब्रिक सॉफ्टनर में रगड़ा जाए

या एक छत का होना 

जिसकी दीवारों में सीलन न हो

दरवाज़ा east-facing हो

और गर दिहाड़ी छिन जाए 

और किराया न निकाला जाए 

तो क्या आंधी क्या तूफ़ान 

और wi-fi वगैरह

मुफ्त! 

या अनुशासन का होना

जो सात फुट के डंडे लेकर 

वर्दी वाले गुंडे 

- जिनका गुरुर 

उनके ओहदे से शुरू होता है 

जो immune हैं 

कानून को 

और रखवाले भी हो सकते हैं 

फुर्सत मिले कभी तो -

निकल पड़ते हैं 

आदर्शिता फैलाने

आप ही हैं -

सही समझे हैं!

ठन्डे दिमाग से,

एयर कंडीशनर वाले-

सबसे ज़रूरी है

कि छाती पीटकर

हम कहें

"भारत माता की जय" 

ये गुल्सिताँ हमारा 

हमारा 

सारे जहां से अच्छा जो है..

या आँखें खोलें

तो हो सकता है!

FAITH

No BIG-BANGs have the answers. No Science ever created before does either. Yes, my question is the same as a million others. Just add a little arrogance. Only when I think "WHY GOD?"  is where I get some answers.

FAITH. Thats a powerful word indeed. Its psychological. I feel eased out when I have faith.. in something... anything. Let that be named GOD. Next step would be marketing it as something universal and omni-present. If doubts arise at any point in the future? Lets add FEAR. Heaven and Hell. Life, death, Shit-Happens etc. We are complete. A package. Branded and sold. Generation after generation. Welcome to the world, ya fools! Technically, new borns do have under-developed brains. So not so wrong, am I?

Looking back in time, GOD had been institutionalized long-long ago.. Some back then just chose to let the gradual shift be ignored; for some personal good perhaps. Now, all that remains is the smugness of these so-called men of various religions. I sound blasphemous? Well, you started it sire, now its just a regular Ping-Pong game.


For me, I have FAITH. I choose the easy path. Though I had things in complete control earlier, with no supreme power to the rescue. Now, I just feel relieved.. Lesser tensions. Leave it to the almighty, and take a breath! But my GOD doesn't ask me to offer prayers every morning and evening. Not the kind who is sitting with a RULE-BOOK over my head.

Boycott the religions? Well, I gotta socialise! And I already suck at it. You won't even talk to me next time, if I say what you believe in since birth is bullshit. And history stands by me, people get real emotional, just mention their religion and shit in the same sentence :)

I don't know how long things will work thus. Perhaps someday I'll have this quest of mine ended.. Or a big-bang will accidently create another Universe. An end to a cliched search, not with a result necessarily. Just keeping in my mind that at times no answer is the answer.

A talent, something worth..your abilities..or even your greatest passion...displayed out in this cold world.. sometimes it pinches.. like clothes torn off your body...a shame.. not that the body is exposed... but that it is exposed to INDIFFERENT eyes.


Those eyes.. they won't understand you... though they don't intend malice... just that they don't want to know good you are or can be...this hasn't been in the traditions... Be whatever good you are... things that work out are 'respected' here...and truth, it seldom works with them.. Here, someone's favor can make you his slave.. such is the system.. Or almost anything that could feed their vanity..

You were a believer.. in self, in the universal energy.. all seems lost and confused.. faith has changed definitions... now what are you gonna do? You fight, give up or maybe give in... Or choose ESCAPISM.. it's comforting..you think you've faced enough.. you tried to stand by what was universally right.. but the system works on relativity.. individual frames of reference... self-centered view-points.. selfish minds, greedy minds.. all your life you never hated anything or anyone.. but you forgot - if you hate hate, you still hate! And now, you can't stand a bunch of hypocrites.. you can't stand this society..

You weren't immoral.. you did the thinking for yourself..  just kept your own set of morals.. many did coincide with theirs'.. so far they didn't mind, now there seems to be a clash!

You won't wanna hurt them.. just keep away.. anything and everything that would link you back to them... but where are you gonna run? It all piles up soon.. so heavy on your back.. even though you think you have been moving forward.. some day your back breaks and you have no option but to succumb.. Then, you realize.. there isn't any escape-door.. your misery made you fool yourself.. hah! but life isn't over as yet..

Though now you don't have many options.. struggle in obscurity or compromise..  But be clear.. you chose escapes throughout.. maybe you're not born to struggle.. compromise - like millions have.. once, you hated that they never dared to challenge..  look at their numb faces now... compromise doesn't seem so hard after all!