A poem from my love for me

स्वःतच्या दुःखात रडत बसण्यापेक्षा
रडणारा चे अश्रूं पुसून तर पाहावे..
घराच्या कोप...र्यात डोक्याला हात लावून
बसण्यापेक्षा
निसर्गाच्या हातात हात देऊन तर बघावे..
आयुष्य जास्त सुंदर वाटते..
माझ्याच वाट्याला हा एकटेपणा म्हणत
राहण्यापेक्षा..
अनाथाचे मन जाणून तर घ्यावे..
पूर्ण न होणार्या स्वप्नात हरवण्यापेक्षा..
सत्य परीस्थितीला अजमावून तर पाहावे..
आयुष्य जास्त सुंदर वाटते..
प्रेयसीच्या प्रेम भंगात देवदास
बनण्यापेक्षा..
आईवडिलांच्या डोळ्यांतील स्वप्ने तर
आठवावे..
आयुष्य जास्त सुंदर वाटते..
दुसर्याच्या मनाशी खेळ खेळण्यापेक्षा..
स्वःताच्या मनाचा खेळत हरून तर पाहावे..
आयुष्य जास्त सुंदर वाटते..
अन्याय बघत बसण्यापेक्षा..
जीवनासाठी लढा देऊन तर बघावे..
आठवणीत रमून मनाला त्रास देण्यापेक्षा..
कोणाला सुंदर आठवणी मिळतील का पाहावे..
आयुष्य जास्त सुंदर वाटते

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तुज्ह्या कुशीत डोक ठेवून
शांतपणे पडवेसे वाटत
तू केस कुरावालाल्यावर
मग उगाचच रडावास वाटत

श्रावणधारा

तुझ्या हाती हात देवून,
गवतावरून चालत चालत ,
तुला मिठीत घट्ट घेवून,
पावूसधारा झेलत झेलत,
गुलमोहराच्या झाडाखाली,
मी चिंब भिजून बसतांना,
भिजतांना बघतो तुला,
तू तिथे नसतांना ...

मुंबई पुणे

मुंबई आमची कष्ट करणा-याची कर्मभूमि……
तर पुण्यात आहे जाजवल्य अभिमानाची खूमी

मुंबईकराला जास्त वेळ काही झेलवत नाही
आणि पुणेकराला मुंबईचं घड़याळ पेलवत नाही

लोकलचं टाईमटेबल आम्हाला तोंडपाठ
पुणेकर पी.एम.टी. ला घलतोय शिव्या आणि एम्.ए.टी. मारतोय लाथ

मुंबईला सकाळी ५ ला उठायची सवय काही सूटवत नाही
आणि पुणेकराला १० शिवाय काही उठवत नाही……

आधी आंघोळ नंतर चहा नाश्ता अशी आमची सवय
पुणेकराला आंघोळीच्या आधी चहा थालीपीठच हवय

आम्ही असे आम्हीच तसे…..असं सांगणं मुंबईकराला रुचत नाही
पुणेकराला मात्र ते न सांगता काहीच बोलाणं सुचत नाही…….

मन आमचं मोठं……सारं झेलतो आणि विसरून जातो
पुणेकर आपला विचारात गुरफटलेला आणखी गुरफटत राहतो…..

एकदा तरी पुणेकराने मुंबईत यावे…..एक वर्ष इथे जगुन पहावे
आळस आणि अभिमान झटकून सारा ख-या अर्थाने समृद्ध व्हावे

Me

When very young i had a sense of being in a magic world, outside of time and the need to have to become or do anything… an unrecognised oneness that enveloped me simply in the wonder of what is. I feel it is the same for most children.
One day all of that changed and i entered the world of separation and need. I found that i had a separate mother and father, a name, and an apparent choice to do this or that. I moved into the world of time and space, boundary and exploration, endeavour, manipulation, and the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain.
I came to own these experiences and believed they were my natural way of being.
I was also taught and came to believe that if i work hard, behaved myself and succeeded in my chosen or imposed job, got married, had children and looked after my health, i stood a good chance of being happy. I did all of this quite successfully, and enjoyed myself at times, but i also recognised that somethingintangible and fundamental seemed to be missing – a secret of some kind…
I was told that if i worked hard and applied myself to various disciplines, rituals and purifications, i would eventually come to deserve “spiritual fulfilment”. Again… i still could not discover the reason for my sense of bereavement.
One day, almost as if by accident, i rediscovered the secret, or perhaps it rediscovered me… The revelation that accompanied this rediscovery was so simple and yet so revolutionary that it swept away in a stroke all that i had been taught or had come to believe.
Part of that realisation was that enlightenment is absolutely beyond my effort to change the way i live, or even of changing life at all. It has to do with a total shift in the realisation of what it is that lives.
I am already that which i seek. Whatever i seek or think i want, however long the shopping list may be, all of my desires are only a reflection of my longing to come home. And home is oneness, my original nature.
Since that time i have embraced and lived that revelation – and avoided and rejected it.
It is of course impossible to communicate in words the inexpressible, and so this declaration is my attempt to express my understanding of that revelation. I try to explain the way in which my beliefs about enlightenment, time, purpose and my effort to achieve spiritual fulfilment, can directly interrupt that oneness that is continuously and directly available. How the illusion of separation, fear, guilt and abstraction can distract me from the freedom that includes and transforms these influences.
I also express in the best way i can how effortless and natural it is to let go and be open to that freedom. This declaration speaks about a singular and revolutionary leap in perception about what we really are.
For the sake of clarity, the terms enlightenment, liberation, fulfilment, freedom, oneness, and so on, are all seen here as being the same as the absolute realisation by anyone of what they really are.

A mirror of the world

SOME people say science and technology is cold and calculating, essentially bereft of any moral dimension. Dehumanising. They crave therefore the simpler existence, a return to nature — the unprocessed, austere, meditative life. Sages, Thoreau, the Amish. While this kind of a lifestyle does have its merits — it’s a cleansing, self-debriefing experience for one thing — it can, nevertheless, also be argued with evidence now that such a generalised view could be deeply flawed. In other words, a strong case can be made for the rise of technology leading to a more ethical societal structure in future. Neuroscientists have discovered what they call mirror neurons that fire not only when an animal acts but also when it observes the same action performed by another member of its species. It’s speculated that in humans these function like copycat cells that echo other people’s actions and emotions from within the confines of their own brains, seemingly dissolving the barrier between self and others. It’s seen as an important nervous system development in the evolution of ancestral humans who lived in small tight knit groups where survival depended on unconditional cooperation which involved being able to see the world through another’s eyes in order to augment one’s own limited and necessarily singular vision. For instance, being able to feel another’s anguish or agony meant being slightly better equipped to deal with a potentially hazardous situation. The development of language widened the reach and scope of such empathetic sharing of mental states so that one small group could now communicate its experiences with another. The printed word, and later, radio and television broadened it exponentially. Today, the Internet is globalising it across time and space. With that in mind we can perhaps begin to understand what Joshua Greene, a cognitive neuroscientist and philosopher, means when he says: “Nature endowed us with tuggable heartstrings, a crucial design feature for creatures whose survival depends on cooperation. But nature couldn’t foresee that our survival might someday depend on cooperation across oceans and continents, and so neglected to outfit us with heartstrings that are readily tugged from a distance. ”Today we are more prone to save a child dying in front of our eyes than one dying halfway across the world. Thanks to spin-offs like Facebook, YouTube or v-mail, tomorrow we might want to do that too.