मानव, मानवता और उनके मूल्य...

किसी सुबह फुर्सत में सोचूंगा, ज़िन्दगी में गँवाया क्या हमने

दाना, पानी, हवा और रिश्ते तो कुदरत से मिले,
फिर ज़िन्दगी की भाग दौड़ में कमाया क्या हमने।।

रिश्ते जो विरासत में मिलें, वो दुनियादारी की भेंट चढ़ गए,

बाक़ी जो बचे, उनमें से भी क्या कुछ संझोया हमने !!

अकेलेपन से जो इस क़द्र मोहब्बत हो चुकी थी, वो बचपन की यादों वाली क़िताब के रिश्तों वाली पन्ने भी ना खोला हमने।।

       बात तो वैसे सच है की, कई रिश्ते नए बनते हैं,तो कुछ बिछड़ भी जाते हैं, कुछ की विनम्र स्वाभाव को कमजोरी मान

तो कभी कुछ रिश्ते खोखले दिखावों की भेंट चढ़ जाते हैं।

बावज़ूद इसके, इंसान को इंसानियत के लिए झुकते देखा है हमने।।

लक्ष्य का महत्व जीवन में क्या होता है, ये पर्वत पे तैनात सिपाहियों से पूछो,

या पूछो उनसे जो ज़िन्दगी की जंग में शरीर अंग का त्याग करना पड़ा।  

तपस्या और दृढ़ निश्चय हर मुसीबत का हल खुद समेटे बैठी हैं और

जसवंत सिंह रावत और अरुणिमा सिन्हा को भी इसी युग में देखा हमने।।

जीवन का उद्देश्य लक्ष्य भी इन्हीं कुछ पंक्तियों में झलकती है 

ख़ुशी, प्रेम और सम्मान ही सबका अधिकार हैं, चाहे व्यक्ति या लक्ष्य।

असली संपत्ति तो यहीं होनी हैं और ज़िन्दगी की दूसरे छोड़ पे इत्मीनान से सोचना है हमने 

ज़िन्दगी की भाग दौड़ में क्या खोया और कमाया क्या हमने।।

 

 

2020 – A Guru of Karma

We do hear many times that our doings will reflect back to us in future. What we do, gets us back, precisely we can call it Karma. We do also have this understanding that there are undoubtedly certain things which we do intentionally or unintentionally, might be good for one or the other or might be hurting for someone but goes unnoticeable by us. I would agree many of those are not in anyone’s control. Something which is good for someone might be unfruitful for the other but what matters is the priority of the act and use of any specific work for good cause for one of them is what defines our Karma. We often have a belief, you may call it superstitions but it’s a mere fact that many of us belief to start a new day or a new year on a good and happy note. Few people also opt to do some holy work which could possibly makes the entire day or year happy and prosperous for them and their family. Now, that could be summed up as everyone wants a happy, calm and prosperous life. However, many of our acts do not qualify us for these perks of life. We do not make us eligible to use best of the resources of nature as we keep harming the nature in our day-to-day life. 

Human being were and are the most precious and premium creation on the nature and what we are doing in returns! We are in unsaid cold war with nature in challenging manner. Many a times, we have also seen a defeat but are we really serious to account our mistakes and not to repeat em’ all again? We came across the most cruel pandemic may be of the century – Covid-19 which claims millions of lives. Which means many happy families in the beginning of 2020 were led to live with the reduced family members, were led to be deprived of the love and affection of their complete family and restricted themselves to keep continuing what they use to do with that particular family member. This void created in their family is never going to be compensated by anyone and only such family can understand the loss they had. How are we going to see this in terms of Karma? Is it their individual acts which led them cost the lives of their family member? Absolutely not! This is an act of violence with nature and suffering is accounted to entire mankind. It’s just everyone of us on Earth is a culprit to nature and destroying her.

In race of personal benefits and achieving things quickly, we humans are going second to none, not even the demons. We are racing to finish our race and still not bidding an eye to save our Earth and for this we humans are even agreeing to live alone in our whole new place of deprival and denials just to satisfy our materialistic ambitions. This Covid-19 pandemic has turned up to be an eye opener for us to understand how nature can get back her things to normal and restore the best of hers. How beautiful it was to see animals roaring and humming to human’s place and still harmed no one. How mesmerizing the view was of the mountains covered with snow which we never thought of seeing from the places far away and how exciting was the experience to have a shake hands & fur with water mammals at the shore. We have got so tremendous amount of time to witness the restoration of nature and feel it. This also gave us so tremendous amount of time to spend with family and to make us believe that the time machine is something not actually a machine rather it’s our sense of taking things with the perspective of satisfying all sorts of emotional needs which could actually go well with professional and personal life in parallel. No money helped people to travel their planned holiday destination neither saved someone’s life. Everyone were having access to some particular stores only and people irrespective of poor or prince have to depend on it to source their livelihood. No malls, no flights, food courts were opened but we still managed to live. Where is the differences now? What let us to live is the feeling of being human and recognizing our emotions and connection with other human. The way this Covid-19 forces us to live a life, we are definitely not going to cheer it up but we have to take away the learnings from it and respect the things matter most to us. Let’s categorize this as a personal and emotional part.

Now, I would also like to know if there is anyone who can claim to suffer extremely hard in every front of life (let’s keep those away who lost someone from their family) like they were not able to socialize as ever etc? Well! Let’s categorize it as a technological advancement part. Let’s assume how life would have been in early 20th century and earlier when technology was something which were out of the reach of common people and no internet, phones, video games etc were there. Now, the biggest gift of technology to the mankind is Internet which actually never accepted to push the world a step back but keep on improving to fill the gap between demand and supply with better services. People never going out for anything but yet not fall sort of any of their daily activities/ purchases. Almost everything even the schools were brought to our homes and show kept on going. We cannot be at denial end if in future Technology will rule the world and robots will make human their slave and we cannot surprise when our coded robots will overtook those codes and start doing things beyond the fed logics. May be in that case, things will get improved a bit.

Last but not the least, we have to think that whatever we are doing should not be an act of challenging and destroying nature. We will always be at the receiving end of our doings and no material going to suffice the void being created due to its consequences. Be kind to everyone and be emotional enough to be able to talk to your inner soul.

आइना

आ देख ले आईने में खुद को एक दफ़ा।।

पींजड़े में बंद करते थे जो, आज खुद हैं पिंजड़े में खड़ा।
इस तरफ़ हो के मैं जो दूसरों की तक़लीफो में अपनी खुशियाँ ढूंढता था
काल चक्र की बेचैनी ऐसी हुईं की आज खुद ही हु उस तरफ पड़ा।
आ देख ले आईने में खुद को एक दफ़ा।।

हमने तो अशंक अनगिनत घर उजाड़े होंगे
जीव-जन्तु , पशुः-परिन्दों के खाल उधेरें होंगे
कुदरत से ये जो बेमतलब उलझते रहते है हम,
अनकही प्रतिस्प्रधा में खुद को खुदा समझने की खता करते जा रहे है हम,
आँखें मुंदने में जो महारथी हासिल कर रखी है हमने जिसकी भुगत रहे ये सज़ा
पींजड़े में बंद करते थे जो, आज खुद हैं पिंजड़े में खड़ा।
आ देख ले आईने में खुद को एक दफ़ा।।

चंद लम्हे दुनिया में रह के, दुनिया से दूर क्या हुए, कुदरत ने -
फिर से लायक़ समझा अपनी इंद्रधनुषी रूप का साक्षात कराना,
बिन सावन मोरों का थिड़कना, सागर के सेहज़ादो को तटों पे आना।
पंछियों का दशकों पहले जैसे चेचहाना, आसमानो पे बदलो की तरह छा जाना
इस युग में भी हिमालय की छोटी की पिंड को दर्शन का सौभाग्य मिलना 
काफी हैं कुदरत की मेहरबानियों को समझना और कुछ सीख़ लेना
आ देख ले आईने में खुद को एक दफ़ा।।


विपदा देखे न कोई दौलत-शौहरत, न आषाढ़ ओढ़ाए चुन के धुप
अन्न जाये सबकी थाली और ना देखे हरियाली कोई रंग-रूप।
ये सब भाए मानुष को, जो हज़ारों माप दंड पे छान-छान के करे हर काम
जरुरत और मतलब के तकाज़े पे तौल के रिश्तो के रखे नाम।
त्रासदी में जो दे साथ उतनी तो इंसानियत कुछ लोगों से उम्मीद होती है
किसने कहा सफेद कपडे सिर्फ कफ़न के होते है! कर्ज़ हैं अब इनका और देश के रक्षक के हम पे
सबका साथ रहे, हो सबका विकास। चूके ना हम अबकी बार, सम्मान सबका करे है फल सफ़ा
आ देख ले आईने में खुद को एक दफ़ा।।

Being Practical or being Insensitive?

Humans!!! Most beautiful and intelligent creature of Nature, being blessed with those attributes which no other living creatures would probably have like expressing their feelings, emotion, love, agony, anger, dissatisfaction, enthusiasm, every other comfort or discomforts and could do every other activity which might not be possible for any other living beings on the planet and, that's actually where the illusion of believing ourselves as the peculiar, sensible, best & blessed starts evolving inside our complicated brain. So, in context, are we saying no other creature could share their emotions, feelings, pain, discontentment etc? Or is it just because we are not able to understand their languages and could communicate with them, which let us precisely assume about them as being deprived and lame unworthy? Of course, we are the most intelligent creature or at least self-acclaimed intelligent and being said that, we don't need anyone's certificate to prove this. Isn't it? Even, I really believe that being the largest population among all the species, we have that leverage to assume us whatever we want us to be and an (in)famous saying is "new things come with new responsibilities." So, to keep these attributes sustaining, this is quite obvious to change ourselves to respond to the corresponding requirements. This is how we precisely start changing and named it "Being Practical," where no act of sensitivity, emotions, and humanity holds firms or exerts any limits.

Let's analyze this in a structured way:

Normally: We love others (Wow!!!! That's amazing.)

Being Practical: Keep loving him. Will need him in the future to accomplish particular ongoing work.

Normally: He is so dumb.

Being Practical: Bro!!! Let's come to my place. We've got a house warming party tonight. Intentions behind - More hands required to settle the things.

Normally: Parents are old now. They can't move with us to a new place at this older age.

Being Practical: 1. They might not fit their new so-called society and ambiance believing a blot on their living style and reputation.

After few months, I can't leave them alone, they are my parents. 

Intention behind: Assets related.

Now, apart from this personal instances, I have got numerous real-life happenings which could make you and everyone of us think where are heading towards and why is it so important to ignore or moral values, respects, knowledge, and understandings to be superseded by wealth and unprecedented thoughts just to suits one's lifestyle and daily routine. I guess, everyone of us might remember Kamlesh. Yes! the same kid who was a drug addict and use to believe that family and mother stands seconds in comparison to drugs and millions of people laughed on the compilation of the video made by some money-minting, ill-cultured, inhuman kind of freelancers, digital marketing and production agencies diminishing the entire heart wrecking objective of the original video and the dark side of the story of 13-year-old Kamlesh. 

I believe we all respect women in our families, at least I can assume 90% of the educated of us do. So, commercial advertisements on television showing every product being endorsed by a lady character and evolve around her only. Let it be a deodorant ad, body or face cream, any health drinks or cold drinks or be it anything in the world, a watch, a shoe, a refrigerator or an AC. This entire blog space will fall short on the examples but I don't need to mentioned more because everyone of us knew that. Who creates such ads? Are they illiterate or not part of society? These ads are being created by the same among the "educated of us." And then we are also the one who takes our lungs out shouting for equality for women and equal status to men. Are you guys serious? You guys first create a differential story dividing societies on the basis of caste, creed, sex, and color and then rolling out the propaganda against the same. 

The majority of the society never distinguishes between any of the factors being taken out by the marketing production agencies and NGOs working on the so-called welfare of mankind. It's just a matter of fact that everyone else is busy earning their livelihood and so even those unwanted agencies too but these people earn by dividing the societies and remaining people strive to unite them. This is again they say, this generation is more practical and likes to live at times and enjoy everything. I guess the remaining population is probably from the medieval age. 

It's all up to us, what we accepts and what we rejects! Either way, someday and sometime this going to be returned to us in any form. So, let's decide we want fresh air or pollution? Let's decide, we want a safe and concentrated world for our generation or a diluted and polluted minded people? We want to carry the same legacy ahead to the next generations or we want to change something for good? Let's decide that what we want is probably the best available thing at least we can provide to younger generations and mankind. We can decide the boundaries and limitations for our life to be managed by "being practical" and "being sensitive and emotional" enough to take care of each element and entities connected with us and ensure if we want to "live happily & leave happily" or the other way?