Uski gali mein fir mujhe...

Updating the lyrics, the correct lyrics were provided to me by Mr. Sameer Kabir.
Thanks Sameer.

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koi lay jatha hain us thak na kazaa aati hain
aap ho kar mujhe jane mein hyaa aati hain
Majboor karke muj ko mere yaar le chalo,
Uski gali mein phir mujhey ek baar le chalo.

Shayad ye mera weham ho mera khayal ho,
Mumkin ho mere baad se mera malaal ho,
Pachta raha ho ab mujhey darr se utha ke woh,
Baitha ho meri raah me aankhein beecha ke woh,
Usne bi to kiya tha mujhey pyar le chalo,
Uski gali mein phir mujhey ek baar le chalo.


AB us gali mein koii na aayega mere baad,
Us darr pe khoon kaun bahayega mere baad,
Mainey to sang o khisht se takra ke apna sir,
Gulnaar kar diye the lahoo se woh baam o darr,
Phir muntazir hai woh darr o deewar le chalo,
Uski gali mein phir mujhey mere yaar le chalo.

Woh jisne mere sene ko zakmoh se bhar diya
Chudwa ke apna dar mujhey dar dar ka kar diya
Mana ke us ke zulm- o- sitam se hu neem jan
Phir bhi mein sakht jan hoon pohunch jaonga wahan
Sau bar jaonga muchey sau bar le chalo
Uski gali mein phir mujhey mere yaar le chalo.


Diwana keh ke logone har bath taal de
Duniya ne mere paun me zanjeer daal de
Chahu to aaj mera mukadder sanwaar do
Yaroon ye mere paun ki bedi utaar do
Yaa kheechte hui sare bazaar le chalo
Uski gali mein phir mujhey mere yaar le chalo.


Ay sar phiri hawaon ! Tumhi rukh ko pher do
Zaroo ke tarha much ko fizaa mein bhikher do
bahoown mein phir meri hasti samet kar
Pholoon ki khushbuon ke kafan mein lapet kar
metti meri saja ke dare yaar le chalo
Uski gali mein phir muhey mere yaar le chalo.

Uski gali ko jaanta pehchanta hoon main,
Woh meri qatlgaah hai ye maanta hoon main,
Uski gali me maut muqaddar ki baat hai,
”Shahid” ye maut ahl-e-wafa ki hayat hai,
Main khud bhi to maut ka hoon talabgaar le chalo,
Uski gali mein phir muhey mere yaar le chalo.

~ Lyrics “Shahid Kabir”

Tere milne ki chaah mein...

Tere milne ki chaah mein e humdum..
Ab to hai shaam bhi deewani..
Dhalte suraj ke jaam ko piye ja raha huin...
Naach rahi hai dariya mastani..

Aa ke ab nahi hota intezaar..
Aa ke kab aayegi bahaar..
Aaja ke dil ka jaam bhara hai..
Tere pyaar mein deewana deewano sa khada hai..

Har taraf teri hi dhun si sunti hai..
Koyal ab tere hi gaane bunti hai..
Chalak rahe hain in aankhon se tere ras ke pyaale..
Aaa nahi to jaane waalen hain ab tere chaahne waale..

Dekhta huin jidhar to dikhti hai teri hi parchaayi..
Ab nahi lagti ye tanhaayi jaise koi tanhaayi..
Aa ja tere gaano se mehfil saji hai..
Aa ja teri rah mein ye saanse adi hain..

Love or hatred

Continuing from my last post on the famous buddha quote "when we walk there is no walker, only the walk", I would try to point out some logical nuances between love and hatred.

Since now we know, that memory cannot be true, since memory is something recording of past, and the past is not something in this moment, it is not true. The feeling of hatred is based on this very memory.

You hate someone, because of some reason, he might have harmed you, caused you trouble, because of which you have a feeling of hatred for him. This is again a case of fallacy created by human mind.

How easily can a spiritual person overcome the feeling of agony and hatred?
This can simply be realized by realizing ( not by understanding ;-) ) that human memory creates the fallacy of these feelings.

On the other hand, love is not based on any past memory. If you feel love in looking at a flower, you do not love the flower because of its past. How was it developed, how did its seeds look like?. Also you do not love it because of its future. You only love the flower because of this moment. Because of truth.
Love is a true feeling. A spiritual person would be in love with this world. He would simply not hate anything, because hatred is not a true feeling. It is a false feeling being created by the human mind.

It is not that an enlightened would not remember anything. But the memory and mind loses its clutches on him. He is free, he is true, and he now cannot be deceived by something which is false, not even by his mind.

~Nshu

Walk without the walker

"When we walk, there is no walker, only the walk." This was quoted by Gautam Buddha, and appears most illogical and paradoxical statement to human mind.
But it is only the human mind which creates this fallacy of being. This truth can be realized by not sensing through mind. Please note, that the truth cannot be understood, since understanding is again done through mind. But the mind is the one, which creates the fallacy, so the truth cant be understood, it can only be realized.

The world is an eternal flow of consciousness. The human memory creates the fallacy of being. The world does not exists in past, neither it exists in future. It only exists in the current moment, which is a snapshot. And in a snapshot, there cannot be the walker, only the walk remains. Human mind lives on memory, feeds on memory, memory is a series of events (recorded events), our ego feeds on this recording of events. In a snapshot, there can be no ego, no self, two persons cannot be distinguished. In fact, there is nothing to be distinguished. Distinguishment is a real consequence of the fallacy created by human memory.

Again, I would stress upon the fact that this article cannot be understood, can only be realized. And can be realized by various means of meditations (bringing the mind to a still), where there is no memory, no future, no past, no mind, only the truth remains.
The realization of oneness with the universe.


~Anshu

Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the oldest language on the earth.

The very word sanskrit means transformed, adorned, crowned, decorated, refined -- but remember the word "transformed". The language itself was transformed because so many people attained to the ultimate, and because they were using the language, something of their joy penetrated into it, something of their poetry entered into the very cells, the very fiber of the language. Even the language became transformed, illuminated. It was bound to happen. Just as it is happening today in the West, languages are becoming more and more scientific, accurate, mathematical, precise. They have to be because science is giving them its color, its shape, its form. If science is growing, then of course the language in which the science will be expressed will have to be scientific.
The same happened five thousand years before in India with Sanskrit. So many people became enlightened and they were all speaking Sanskrit; their enlightenment entered into it with all its music, with all its poetry, with all its celebration. Sanskrit became luminous Sanskrit is the most poetic and musical language in existence.
A poetic language is just the opposite of a scientific language. In scientific language every word has to be very precise in meaning; it has to have only one meaning. In a poetic language the word has to be liquid, flowing, dynamic, not static, allowing many meanings, many possibilities.
The word has to be not precise at all; the more imprecise it is the better, because then it will be able to express all kinds of nuances.
Hence the Sanskrit sutras can be defined in many ways, can be commented upon in many ways -- they allow much playfulness. For example, there are eight hundred roots in Sanskrit and out of those eight hundred roots thousands of words have been derived, just as out of one root a tree grows and many branches and thousands of leaves and hundreds of flowers. Each single root becomes a vast tree with great foliage.
For example, the root RAM can mean first "to be calm", second "to rest", third "to delight in", fourth "cause delight to", fifth "to make love", sixth "to join", seventh "to make happy", eighth "to be blissful", ninth "to play", tenth "to be peaceful", eleventh "to stand still", twelfth "to stop, to come to a full stop", and thirteenth "God, divine, the absolute". And these are only few of the meanings of the root. Sometimes the meanings are related to each other, sometimes not; sometimes even they are contradictory to each other. Hence the language has a multidimensional quality to it. You can play with those words and through that play you can express the inexpressible; the inexpressible can be hinted.

The Sanskrit language is called DEVAVANI -- the divine language. And it certainly is divine in the sense because it is the most poetic and the most musical language.
Each word has a music around it, a certain aroma.
How it happened? It happened because so many people used it who were full of inner harmony. Of course those words became luminous: they were used by people who were enlightened. Something of their light filtered to the words, reached to the words; something of their silence entered the very grammar, the very language they were using.

The script in which Sanskrit is written is called DEVANAGARI; DEVANAGARI means "dwelling-place of the gods", and so certainly it is. Each word has become divine, just because it has been used by people who had known God or godliness.

दिल - ऐ - बेताब

दिल - ऐ - बेताब सीने में धड़कता क्यों है..
जब चलती है सर्द हवा.. यूं दर्द सा इसमें भड़कता क्यों है..

काश के होता मैं परवाना उस शम्मा का..
जलकर ही सही, छोड़ देता अफसाना उस समां का..

जिस शाम उसने चूमे थे ये लब लबों से ..
उस शाम को याद कर.. ये तड़पता क्यों है..

करता नही क्यों शिकवा अपने गम की मुझसे..
बता दिल - ऐ - नादान चुपचाप ही यूं मरता क्यों है

दिल - ऐ - बेताब सीने में धड़कता क्यों है..
जब चलती है सर्द हवा.. यूं दर्द सा इसमें भड़कता क्यों है..

इश्क

है ज़माना परेशान..के इश्क किसी बुलबुल का नाम है..
बिना नज़र के देखो.. ये नज़र भी इश्क.. ये जान भी इश्क..

इश्क है वो जज्बा.. जिससे दिल धड़कता है ..
इश्क है वो रूह.. जिससे इंसान बढता है..

जो कहते हैं की बेखबर हैं वो इस शबनम की रात से..
सच तो ये है की वो बेखबर हैं इस खूबसूरत सी बात से..

कि सभी झूटों में जो सच्चा है वो है इश्क..
है बुनियाद जिसकी इश्क.. इतना सच्चा वो है इश्क..

Divinity: My views

Divinity does not lie in the act of loving everybody and not having any harsh feelings for anybody. Indeed it is very much a human nature (to love or to hate).

Ability to forgive everyone and love everyone can never be divinity, since the very fact is that only those forgive who have their ego(self).

Divinity lies far above the normal human nature of loving/hating/forgiving/regretting etc.

For me, the very fact that God cannot be seen, he cannot be felt, he does not has a name, he has no identity and has no shape makes his existence meaningful. Someone, who sees everything with undistorted perception, without interfering with his own thoughts and his identity/ego.

All of us suffer distorted consciousness. Whatever we see, whatever we surmise, whatever we judge, we do it in reference to our own ego, in reference to our own identity. Distorted consciousness cannot lead to the truth.

To see without being effected by one's own identity, own ego, own perception is divinity.

We can only see from the constraints that are bound with our human nature. Our senses, limitation to only see what our eyes allow. Limitation to only feel and hear what out senses provide.

Divinity is to see and feel without being bound by the human senses. Which one can do only when he realizes he is far more than the human body. He is the whole universe.

Most of the people who have been able to achieve this situation (nirvana) are called mad, unrealistic and insane.
Satori experiences takes one to eternity. Now he cannot be destroyed. Nothing can be taken away from him. The state leads to supreme peace and beatitude.

To realize that the nature of anything is substantially emptiness or nothingness is divinity.

Disclaimer

It almost always happens that when you are missing something you start thinking about it, you start creating a philosophy about it. People who have not loved write books about love; that is a kind of substitute.
People who have not been able to love, write poetry, they write very great love poetry, but they don't have any experience of love so all their poetry is just speculation.


My poetry does not point to any person, in-person, any identity, any human or unhuman. If there seems to be any human reference, it is just a coincidence.
I enjoy writing and music, thats why I am running this blog for poetry and songs (that I play, sing, or write).

I hope all those who enjoy reading my poems, would continue to receive more :)

आहटें

आहटें कहती हैं जो.. उनका फ़साना लगता है..
अकेले में भी हर वक्त.. उनका पास आना लगता है..

कुछ तो हो जो अब दिल को संभाले अपने..
अब तो हर वक्त जैसे.. इस दिल का जाना लगता है..

क्या कहूं के ये भोर है के शाम ..
यूं तो अब हमें हर वक्त ही सुहाना लगता है..

कहते हैं वो के.. "बातें" बना रहे हो तुम..
कैसे बतायें के.. उन्ही से हमें ये ज़माना लगता है..
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दिल में तरंगें सी जो उठती हैं यूं ..
ये तो जैसे उनका गुदगुदाना लगता है..

हमें सताके हस्ते हैं वो.. नही जानते के ख़ुद भी फसते हैं वो..
दूर जाके जैसे फ़िर से पास आना लगता है..

चाँद में दिखता है जिसका चेहरा.. हर वक्त है जैसे जिसका पहरा ..
वो इंसान हमें अब खुदा से भी सुहाना लगता है ..

क्या बात है उनमे ऐसी .. ये हम नही जानते ..
लेकिन अब तो बस उनके लिए जीना .. फ़िर मर जाना लगता है ..

नसीब

ज़रूरत तो उसकी जान से भी ज़्यादा है
पर वो मेरे नसीब में नही है,
दील पे लीखा है सिर्फ़ उनका नाम
पर उसके हाथों में मेरी लकीर ही नही है

ehsaas

I dedicate this one to Arvind Batra, who gave me the kickstart to write this :)

Ek dard hai, ek ehsaas hai..
ek dard ka ehsaas hai ..
Maana ki ye haar hai..
lekin ye haar bhi kuch khaas hai..

Maiyyat par aate hain humaari.. aur haske chale jate hain..
aise chaahne waale kyun aaj bhi dil ke paas hai
Maana is ehsaas mein hai dard hi dard..
lekin fir bhi ye ehsaas humaare liye bahut khaas hai

अकेला

मंजीलें भी उस की थी
रास्ता भी उस का था
एक मैं ही अकेला था
काफीला भी उस का था

साथ साथ चलने की सोच भी उस की थी
फीर रास्ता बदलने का फ़ैसला भी उस का था
आज क्यों अकेला हूँ दील सवाल करता है
लोग तों उस के थे, क्या खुदा भी उस का था ??

Who do you believe?

If somebody says 'You must live your life humbly, without hurting anybody's emotions, earn a lot of money, live for others, donate the money you have earned with the efforts of your whole life and contribute to the society' sounds good??
And do you consider somebody is bad when he is egomaniac, self centric, lives for just himself, or abstain from social responsibilities?
What we believe, what we think, we make decisions about people.. our mind makes us believe that whatever we think or feel is the divine message of the holy GOD and has to be perfect. Our belief , our thinking is always the best. Nobody feels the way we do. ''Nobody is as good as me''. We judge the world with our eyes, without ever questioning our own formation.
How can anybody be wrong if you cannot see him with his perspective?? You say someone is wrong with your own senses, senses which are made up of your history, your culture, how you have grown up, what u have seen in your life.
Wish to judge a criminal who is going to be hanged ? You might had been at his place if you had lived in his shoes.

We feel proud after have studied so much, earning a good salary, running a big company pulling a lot of money. Considering what all the life has given us.. we look down at people who have not been able to earn much egoism.
Yes egoism is what we derive from knowledge/power/money. Although it can be easily contradicted by saying that the statement is easy said by someone who has not been able to do much in his life.
But how can somebody be ever right if he only can judge with his own perspective?
The answer to this question is simple... Nothing in the world is right or wrong... good or bad.. Everything only depends on the perspective you are looking from.

As my friend Ashoka says.. 'live humbly, there are good people around us'
I would go a step further and say.. 'never go on judging anyone, because if you can't be him, you can never correctly judge him. Everyone is right in his own ways'.