"नथनी उतारो सम्भल के पिया........."
झट्ट सुन्दा तपाईंहरुलाई बामदेवजीले बक्रदृष्टि लगाएका डान्स रेष्टुरेण्टहरु मध्ये कुनै एकको वर्णन जस्तो लाग्छ तर यो वर्णन केही दिन अघि राजधानीको एउटा नाम चलेको विद्यालयको अभिभावक दिवसको हो।
WORLD OF MY WORDS
साँझैपिच्छे लोडशेडिङ्गले
छोपेका अंध्यारा दिमागहरूमा
के पलाउन् र अरू
निराशाहरू नपलाए
एउटा अंध्यारोबाट उम्केर
बिलाउनु पर्ने अर्को अंध्यारोमा
नियति के हाम्रो यति नै
उदाउन नपाउँदै एउटा प्रश्न
फेरि विलीन हुन पुग्छ
लोडशेडिङ्गकै कालोमा
उज्यालो त चेतना हुन्छ
सेतो त ज्ञानको रंग रे
तर हाम्रो उज्यालोको भोक
कसले कहिले मेटाउने हो
हाम्रो निष्पट कालो संसारमा
घाम कहिले उदाउने हो
हरेक मान्छे बाँचिरहेको छ
भाग्यको बोकेर रित्तोरित्तो
एकएक वटा कुलेखानी
छोड्न पाइएला कुनै दिन भन्दै
अंध्यारोमा रूमल्लिने बानी
निभ्नै नपर्ने बेला पनि अचेल
तर झ्याप्पै निभ्ने गरेको छ बत्ती
मंसीर १, २०६५ नेपाल पत्रिकामा प्रकाशित
He was cheerful. He smiled all the time. He was hardworking and he was just 22. I have known him for almost 6 months. A staff working in our office collapsed all of sudden following a severe headache. It was a case of brain hemorrhage. After fighting with life for 5 days, numerous complicated tests, an operation and last few hours in ventilator, he succumbed. We took him to Pashupati Aryaghat. And only the memories remain now. I am still finding it difficult to believe that the cheerful young Mohan is no more with us.
While listening to popular artiste Madan Krishna Shrestha practising for his solo concert in Paleti, my attention was drawn by a particular song,
He Bhagwan Mero Khalti Ko Ghaau.......
It is not that I have heard this song, composed and performed in a light comical mood for the first time. But I don't know why, I found myself exploring the deeper and more serious side of the song. Some lines say,
Encouraged by positive responses, I am including 2 more translations of classics by Phatteman and Kumar Subba.
How I wish there were more happiness in the world. How I wish..........
Friends are gifts from God. Leave something for friend. Never leave friend for something. Coz in life, something will leave you but friends will always live with you.
This is a message which woke me up in the morning. Its so very true. Being a friend is very difficult task and finding a friend is even more difficult. Other relations come with certain expectation and the moment you fail to fulfill them, you start seeing cracks and holes. The more you fail, they become wider and bigger. Intentionally or un intentionally, if you fail, the relationhips start falling apart.
अस्तिको हप्ता बल्ल बल्ल २ लिटर पेट्रोल पाइयो, त्यो पनि कालोबजारमा।
१०० रुपैंया लिटरको पेट्रोललाई २०० रुपियाँ तिरेर किन्नुपर्दा लौ त भन्ने हो भने मेरो चित्त पनि दुखेको थियो। रुखमा फल्दैन पैसा र आफूले मेहेनत गरेर कमाएको पैसा त्यसरी खर्च गर्नुपर्दा म खिन्न पनि भएको थिएं। तर आवश्यकताको अगाडि केही लागेन। पेट्रोल नपाउन थालेदेखि मैले आजकल कतै जानै छोडेको छु। पहिले पहिले केही साथीहरु मिलेर शुक्रवार शनिवार हुनै हुन्नथ्यो कतै न कतै लामो यात्रामा हिंडिहाल्थ्यौं हामी। अहिले त घरबाट अफीस, अफीसबाट घर, टाप लगाएको घोडा जस्तो भइसकेका छौं हामीहरू सबै। यता उति कतै जानै पर्ने भयो भने किलोमिटरको हिसाब गरेर चुकचुकाउनु पर्ने भएको छ।
जिन्दगीमा हरेक कुरामा पनि हामी यस्तै हुन्छौं। सम्वन्धका कुरामा पनि यही त लागू हुन्छ। सजिलोसंग आरामले पाएको मायालाई पनि हामी पहिले पहिलेको पेट्रोल जस्तै गर्ने गर्छौं। तर जब त्यसको अभाव हुन थाल्छ अनि मात्र हामी त्यसको महत्व बुझ्ने गर्छौं। तर भावना, स्नेह, प्रेम र सम्बन्ध त अझ झन् कालो बजारमा बढी पैसा तिरेर पनि पाइंदैन। त्यति जान्दाजान्दै पनि किन हामी सजिलोसंग पाएको कुराको महत्व नबुझ्ने मूढ हुन्छौं ?
हेरौं त एकपटक हाम्रो वरिपरि नियालेर, भोलि महत्व बुझेर चुकचुकाउनु पर्ने कति त्यस्ता सम्बन्धहरुको कतै आज हामी बेवास्ता त गरिरहेका छैनौं?
The world was coming to an end. Something was tearing the earth apart. There was chaos everywehere. People were running around, shouting and screaming.
I was chanting "Om Namoh Shivay.....Om Namoh Shivay.....Om Namoh Shivay..." somewhere. Lord Shiva appeared in front of me. I can not remember how he exactly looked, it was a vague vision. I was thinking that I should not ask for anything. I did not ask for anything.
But he blessed me. He blessed me that nothing could destroy me, no one could look in to my eyes and dominate me.
Then I woke up. It was midnight. My little daughter, who had slept with me was nudging me. She was suffering from tonsil infection. She had high fever. After giving her cetamol, cooling her forhead with water soaked cloth & making her sleep, I lay awake for a long time thinking about the strange dream.
सिक्नु राम्रो कुरा हो। हामी सबै संधै सिकिरहेका हुन्छौं, केही न केही, कहीँ न कहीँ। तर के सिक्ने र के नसिक्ने भन्ने कुरा चाहिँ थाहा हुनुपर्छ।
अहिले हाम्रा टेलिभिजन च्यानलहरुले हिन्दी समाचार च्यानलका विकृतिहरु सिक्न थालेका छन्। गीति रिपोर्ट भनेर हिजो एउटा च्यानलले गाइजात्रा गरिरहेको देख्दा मलाई वाक्क लाग्यो। नौटङ्की पारामा राष्ट्रपति निर्वाचनको परिणामको बारेमा व्याख्या गर्दै पृष्ठभूमिमा गीत बजाएर प्रस्तुत भएको त्यो रिपोर्ट ठ्याक्कै हिन्दी न्यूज च्यानलहरुको फोटोकपी लाग्दथ्यो । हिन्दी न्यूज च्यानलहरुले सस्तो लोकप्रियताको लागि समाचारको स्तरलाई नै रसातलमा जाक्ने काम गरिरहेको आवाज भारतमा नै उठ्न थालिसकेको बेला हाम्रा च्यानलहरु अब त्यसैको सिको गर्न तिर लागेका छन्। भारतमा समाचार च्यानलहरुले आफ्नो बिश्वसनीयता गुमाइसकेका छन्। पहिले पहिलेका मनोहर कहानियाँ र सत्य कथा भन्ने पत्रिका जस्ता भएका छन् भारतीय समाचार च्यानलहरु। होडवाजीको क्रममा उनीहरुले नैतिकता, जिम्मेवारी, तथ्य जस्ता सबै कुराहरुलाई पाखा लगाइसकेका छन्। तर दुखको कुरा के भने अब हाम्रा समाचार च्यानलहरु पनि त्यही बाटोमा हिंड्ने भए।
मलाई सोच्न वाध्य बनाउने अर्को कुरा पनि छ। पछिल्लो वर्स सगरमाथा टिभीको लागि मैले परामर्शदाता भएर केही समय काम गरेको थिएं । त्यतिबेला स्वरसम्राटको पुनर्जन्म भनेर एउटा न्यूजब्रेक गर्दा अलिकति नौटङ्की मैले पनि गर्न सिकाएको थिएं । त्यो बेलामा भारतीय न्यूज च्यानलको सिको हुन लाग्यो भनेर कसैकसैले भनेका थिए । कतै मैले नै यो प्रवित्ति भित्र्याउन शुरुवात गरेको त हैन भनेर म एकछिन झसङ्ग पनि भएं । (लिङ्क)
हामी किन छिमेकीको गलत कुराहरु मात्रै सिक्ने गर्छौं? राजनीति, कला, सिनेमा, सङ्गीत, टेलिभिजन कार्यक्रम, समाचार, बोलीचाली, आचरण र व्यवहारमा जहिले पनि हामी गलत अनुसरण मात्र किन गर्छौं?
Last night, I was watching the football match between Germany & Poland. It was a tough competition. Its part of the game that some team has to win. I noticed a major problem in the players of Poland, whenever they got the ball inside the D box of the opponents, the player having the control of the ball tried to score himself. It happened repeatedly where as Germans detached themself from that personal greed. They played for the team. The result was obvious, Germany won 2-0.
Even in life, we tend to surrender to the temptation of scoring and most of the times and forget we too have a team. The team can be a family, bunch of our friends or even a single person who is equivalent to a whole team, a whole world, universe or everything for us.
When we play for our team, provide them with opportunity to score in life, the final victory is ours. But most of the times, we are playing individual games. That will ultimately make everyone loose. So we have to get over the personal feeling, play with them, play for them, like a team. Then only can we win the game of life.
But it is a very hard sometimes to decide which is our team, whom to play with and play for. If we make the mistake in identifying, we will end up ruining ourself & our team. In that case the people we think whom we are trying to make happy by sacrificing the opportunity to score will also achieve nothing. How can they be happy when we are making ourself unhappy. Such sacrifices are meaningles.
Believe me, life is a very tough game to play.
We tend to forget the importance of tiny little things in life. Its human nature. It is not that we do not realize its value, but sometimes we take certain things for granted in life. In relationships too, we take things for granted after sometime. We should refrain from doing so. Because when we take things for granted, we might be hurting the sentiments of the other person unknowingly, unintentionally.
We should try to cherish small things and small gestures from the other person. These small moments, small things make a big difference in life.
I woke up with the sound of rain this morning. It was pouring heavily. With a cup of tea in my hand, I came out to the small verendah attached to my bed room and I saw a small teddy bear there. It was washed and kept their for drying.
I remember that we had bought it when our daughter Shayesta was about 2 years old. She was fast asleep when we reached home. We thought that she would be pleasantly surprised to see it upon waking up. So we put in the bed, near to her. A relative paid a visit and we were talking in the bedroom itself. When Shayesta woke up, she saw the relative first and the teddy. She assumed that the teddy was a gift from that relative. When later we said that it was us who brought it for her, she refused to believe.
She was an innocent child. But In life even mature people sometimes suffer from such confusions. The circumstances lead to misunderstanding and the way Shayesta found it difficult to accept the fact, we tend to believe in what is seen directly.
But there are other side of the picture too. Every coin has two sides.
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..................Let the light keep going, brightness is yours.
This is not my line. I have borrowed it from a friend. It is amazing that someone can be so positive in life. I admire that friend of mine who radiates positive energy all the time.
In my previous post I had talked about Talat's song, "Harek mod se milta hai rasta koi."
It reallly is the ultimate truth. In life, everyone has to travel through dark tunnels. Sometimes the tunnels are longer, sometimes shorter. When going through the pitch darkness, you can see a small dot in front of you. That dot is the light coming from the other end of the tunnel. Sometimes, even if you do not see that point, you should not be discouraged. It has to appear, sooner or later. You just have to keep moving ahead. The longer the tunnel, the smaller the dot. It might be as small as a needle point. But as you move ahead the dot becomes brighter and bigger.
When you reach the other end, VOILA! You see the sunshine.
Everyone goes through a dark tunnel, that is part of life and everyone sees a tiny bright spot sooner or later.
Few days back, i happened to be a part of the audience of a special program. Aavaas, a musical scholar, composer and singer was singing. The venue was Embassy of India. Occassion, unofficially to bid farewell to Indian Ambassador.
Apart from many other songs he sang, I remember one right now is,
"Oh Tenzing maile yo prem ko pahad kahile naghne hola?"
If you try to go deep behind the meaning as I did, it says a lot. The most difficult height to scale is not Mount Everest, it is the height of love, emotion and affection. You have to give a lot. You have to empty yourself in love and the sad part is, the other person might not even realize the value of what you have sacrificed. The world has become so materialistic and so are the people.
The pahad of maya has become taller and taller. So when aavaas was asking with Tenzing "maile yo maya ko pahad kahile naghne hola?" I sincerely wished that someone would definitely volunteer to answer this. Aavaas, there are lot many people who are seeking the answer along with you. If you get an answer to this quesytion, please share it with me at least.
"Prem ko pahad kahile naghne hola?"
Its been long since I went through my music collection and listened to any of my favorites. Suddenly I remembered a song by Talat Mehmood which says,
"Harek mod se milta hai raasta koi
Nazar to dhoond hi leta hai aasra koi"
Life has unpredicatble twists and turns. It seems so true that there must be a new path to be explored after each bends. Life has to move on, it can never go back. I sometimes wonder why life plays strange games with us? Why do we have to face sharp unexpected bends and adjust to new lanes? Why life can not be a simple straight journey?
There are certain people who can easily adapt to the new lane and move ahead cheerfully. And there are other people who find it difficult to adjust. Also there are people who can not simply prepare themselves to forget things easily and move on. To those people, committment, promises, shared moments and dreams woven together matter above everything else. They are ruled by their heart, not their brain. Brain is calculative, its decisions are ruthless wheras heart never calculates pros and cons. It knows nothing apart from emotion.
People who are ruled by their heart are often ridiculed, branded impractical and emotional fools. But that is the way they are. They suffer alone. When they believe in someone or somthing, they believe in totality. When their belief is shattered, they are devastated.
हाम्रा देशका मन्त्री तथा प्रधानमन्त्रीहरु भारत भ्रमणमा गएको बेला उताका माइबापहरुका सामु लम्पसार परेजसरी फाफुरा आफ्नो प्रिय रत्नपार्कमा लम्प...