एक मुलाकात-(One Meeting)

एक मुलाकात

 

एक मुलाकात

Ek Mulaqat

 

एक मुलाकात बाकी है अभी,
कुछ बात बाकी है अभी,
कुछ सुनने को बाकी है अभी,
कुछ सुनाने को बाकी है अभी।

कुछ जिक्र तेरा होगा,
कुछ जिक्र मेरा भी होगा,
कुछ खामोशी होंगी तन्हा तन्हा,
एक मुलाकात बाकी है अभी।

कुछ खामोशी कुछ नहीं कहती,
कुछ खामोशी बेज़ुबान नहीं रहती,
लम्हा लम्हा जिक्र होता आँखों से,
बस यह हमें अब जीने नहीं देती।

कितना बेज़ुबान होती है ज़ुबान की आँखें,
कहने को कुछ कहती है यह बातें,
ना कहने को सब कुछ कहती है आँखें,
गहराइयों में दफ़न ना हो जाऊं, फना हुआ हूँ अब फनकार ना हो जाऊं।

की रूह की आगोश में मौत साज़ ना बन जाऊं,
की हर दर्द के धड़कन पे संगीत का दरिया ना बन जाऊं,
अभी अभी तो निकला हूँ उन ख्वाबों से ख्यालों से,
कहीं फिर से यादों की गलियों में अनजान शहर में खो ना जाऊं।

एक मुलाकात बाकी है अभी,
कुछ बातें बाकी है अभी।

दिल से निकली हुई दुआ करना बाकी है अभी,
दर्द से बनी ग़ज़ल को पेशकार बाकी है अभी,
लम्हा कुछ देर दूर जाकर रुक जाओ,
क्योंकि महबूब के मौके में दीदार-ए-जानाँ में मुलाकात बाकी है अभी।

Inked by: d'pen

 

 

About the Poem

"Ek Mulaqat" (One Meeting) is a romantic Urdu-Hindi nazm that explores the profound emotions of longing, anticipation, and the sacred wait for a beloved. The poem delves into the depths of unfulfilled conversations, unspoken words carried by silence, and the fear of losing oneself in the ocean of memories.

Through powerful metaphors—where pain transforms into music, where eyes speak louder than words, and where the soul trembles at becoming a symphony of sorrow—this nazm captures the universal experience of waiting for that one meaningful encounter that remains incomplete.

The circular structure, beginning and ending with "ek mulaqat baki hai abhi" (one meeting still remains), emphasizes the eternal nature of hope and longing in love.

Inked by: d'pen

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મન ની વાત ((Whispers of the Mind)

મન ની વાત

Whispers of the Mind

 

મન ની વાત

(સુધારેલ અને અંતિમ વર્ઝન)

પ્રથમ સ્વર

શું ચાલે છે મન માં, શું ચાલે છે તારા મન માં,
શું ચાલે મારા મન માં, મન કહે શું ચાલે છે કઈ મન માં?

મન માં ચાલે તે મન નું નથી,
મન માં ચાલે મન નું પણ નથી,
મન થી ચાલે તે થાતું નથી,
તો પણ પૂછે છે શું ચાલે છે મન માં?

મન નો સ્વભાવ

ચંચલ ચલિત ચિત્તવન છે આ મન,
કે વન માં વાવ્યા વિના નું વૃક્ષ છે મન,
જો પરખાય તો જીવન છે આ મન,
નો પરખાય તો વિષ નું નામ છે મન,
તો પણ પૂછ છો શું ચાલે છે મન માં?

મન ની એકલતા

મન ની વાત સમજવી છે સૌ ને,
મન ની વાત કરવી છે સૌ ને,
મન ને સમજાય તેવી વાત,
પણ મન કહે કોઈ તો કહો મારા મન ની વાત.

મન નું દ્વંદ્વ

મન માં આવે છે ખુશીઓ ને લહેર,
તો મન માં હોય છે દુઃખો ની કહેર,
મન માં કથા પણ છે, મન માં વ્યથા પણ છે.
આ મન છે પણ મન નું નથી.

મન નો વિરોધાભાસ

શું ચાલે છે આ મન માં, શું હાલે છે આ મન માં,
મન ની વાત મન કરીએ, મન "મન" નું મન થી કહે.
મન કહે છે ક્યાં... મન ચાલે છે ક્યાં...
મન તો ખુલ્લું વન છે, જે વાવો તે ઊછરે છે મન.

મન માં કાંઈ ચાલતું નથી, મન માં કાંઈ હાલતું નથી,
મન ની કોઈ ગતિ નથી, પણ મન અંદર બધી ગતિ વિધિ છે.
મન ને સમજું નથી, મન અતિ સમજું પણ નથી,
મન તો મન છે પણ તે આપણા મન ને પણ ગમતું નથી.

મન નું મન મારું નથી, મન નું મન તારું નથી,
પણ મન તોય પૂછીયે છે મન શા માટે મારું તારા ઉપર કાબૂ નથી.

અંતિમ સત્ય

મન માં માની લીધું એટલે તે મન નથી,
મન ની વ્યાખ્યા તો મન માં છે પણ મન માં નથી,
હજુ કોઈ પૂછે કે શું ચાલે છે મન માં,
શું ચાલે છે તારા મન માં,
શું ચાલે મારા મન માં,
મન કહે શું ચાલે છે કઈ મન માં?

તો સ્મિત સાથે કહેજો—
મન માં ચાલે છે પણ મન માં નથી,
વિચારો ના વાવેતર છે,
ઊછેર કેવો કરવો તે મન નો નહીં,
આપણો વિચાર છે...

Inked: d'pen

Note:સુધારણા: વાચકોના માર્ગદર્શનથી ભાષા શુદ્ધિ કરવામાં આવી છે.

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Aarambh aur Prarabdh

 

Aarambh aur Prarabdh

आरंभ और प्रारब्ध

Aarambh aur Prarabdh

 

आरंभ ही प्रारब्ध है,
तो प्रारब्ध भी आरंभ है।

कौन है किसके साथ,
क्यूंकि साथ भी नहीं एक साथ,
इसलिए तो कहना पड़ता है—
हम हैं साथ।

जिस साथ में दम नहीं,
वो साथ में दम्भ है,
दम्भ घुट घुट कर घुटनों पे वार करता,
जो चलने से रेंगने पे आता है।

कुछ तो बात है बातों पर,
जो हर कोई कहता अपनी बातों पर,
बात वो नहीं एक वो कोई बात है,
बात यह कि क्या यह भी कोई बात है?

जिस बात में कोई सुकून नहीं,
वो बात अधूरी है,
क्यूंकि उसमें शोर नहीं,
और जो सुकून कहने को है,
वो सुर में कोई शोर ही नहीं।

हर आरंभ में हम प्रारब्ध ढूंढते हैं,
पर हर प्रारब्ध ही आरंभ का आरंभ है।

जवाब ही प्रारब्ध है,
और हर वो सवाल जिसका जवाब प्रारब्ध है,
वही आरंभ है।

 

~ Inked by d'pen

 

WE RUN FOR LIFE IN NEVER ENDING RACE.

 

 

 

WE RUN FOR LIFE FOR OUR ENTIRE LIFE,

BUT LIFE RUNS OUT OF LIFE FROM OUR OWN LIFE!!

 

One more profound and poignant observation of life’s paradoxical nature. We strive, we hustle, and we run a never-ending race towards success, love, money, financial stability, legitimate purpose, and Immortality, or simply saying planning for next weekend on the very first day of the week! Seriously! Boss, while reading this very article, life slipped very smartly and quietly back door, without our knowledge, far out of our scope. And, life’s fleeting nature reminds us of our mortality, not being immortal forever. Isn't it very poignant? Throughout our entire life, we plan the arrangements for the life we want to live, but that very life has its own agenda, its own narratives that unfold for us. Just not able to decode this joke of life, “we schedule our life, or life has its schedule”.

Even much before the moment we pop out into the world, naked, vagitus –the first bawl, cry, of a newly born baby. We are confused whether to celebrate or be prepared for life lifelong, eternal MARATHON WITH NO MEDAL as a reward. We started our first ever race as sperm, among our clones of 40 millions sperm, for the existence in life as the fittest for survival!! Phew, we raced to live and experience life, which we never knew about before. And this sperm race concluded as “LIFE” with many more races to be performed throughout life.

We were taught, mentored or instructed, or guided to get moving and more of moving. First, we were told to crawl, and then, more perfect crawling, walking, and then more poised walking, then running, finally, which was crafted with phrases like achieve, chase, win, and more of wins. And in this entire exercise of “life race”, unknowingly, we became participants of the biggest prank being played by life! Merely, just whenever we f we were going to hit the hang of all shake of life, the best of ever prankster, life, starts quietly withdrawing. We engaged ourselves in disengaging our own lives into shreds of sweat! And yet, entire lives, we MARATHON RELIGIOUSLY, irrespective of caste, creed, or sex. Religiously, without much asking life what we want, we follow the muddled dogmatic pseudo belief of life as “RACE”.

We exist; moreover, we have mechanised ourselves into machines, cursed! In an age where “hustle” is considered a divine virtue, a perfect pseudo notion, sleeping long are losers, rest is sin- as time is money, and one must wake up at 5 A.M, have organic tea, with warm water, lemon water with honey journal your daily muster of life as log book- write down three deeds to be done least daily, dominating your goal(s) daily. Even leisure feels never-ending, KPI-KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR, a quantified measurement over unstoppable time for a specific objective, i.e., race, and more of race. And all the whilst, “LIFE” chuckles, sipping martini-half stirred and half shaken (life is dancing martini where a perfect blend of life is half shaken and half stirred) in the corner, whispering,” wow,  they fell for it (prank)”.

We chase love, win love, nurture love with fragile care, and invest our heart in a relationship in “PURSUIT OF LOVE”. But the same “pursuit of love” can be all-consuming! Priorities of life can be shifted, changed, or diverted into other unwanted lanes of life, while chasing the same chasing love, nurturing, winning over love, or investing our heart, and ending up miserable, an accident which might not only paralyze the notion of true love but lose the sight of self-dignity aspect of life. At this point, the quest for true love becomes so intense, obsessive then abusive that other important breath-giving aspects fade into the background from foreground of life collage.

Short anecdote, she spent a years for her soul mate, pouring her heart into every relationship, hoping one day the nurtured plant will bloom into a blossom of love and affection!. But one day, she looked back, and she realized she’d missed out on beautiful friendships, career milestones, and precious moments with family. A friend once asked,” Did you find love?” She smiled wistfully and replied,” Forget about love, but in the chaos of love, I did not earn one single soulful friend. All I found life was passing by me smiling”. It’s important to balance and appreciate life as a journey where many transitions take place and not be reluctant to it, not just the final destination.

Not only that we spend (invest) decades building a career. We indulged or being to raise a castle in hell, where we get burnt day and night. We face the different facets of strikes from any end without prior our knowledge, yet we strive to protect and defend in any circumstances. And we do all these acts of never-ending race just so we can smilingly retire and finally enjoy “life” in peace and rest!! …”  REST” where and what is left rest in the so-called “rest” than a bunch of medical prescriptions, medical unpaid bills, maybe insurance bills, medical reports with more confusing notes,  aches and pains in various departments of the body, frustrations of not being able to perform independently anymore and may more in list….just being left as residue. Most of the sacrifices represent productivity chasing promotions that may or may not mean anything in the end, every day, new challenges in the arena of life, as combat duels…target schedules where we forget our real target, unclaimed, in a roller coaster.

We puppet, we jump, we dance on every single chance we get as an opportunity, we clown on our being, yet we showcase” CAREER” as a circus, where we participate to act and entertain the rest of the world as colleagues, and again those colleagues entertain others too. And this so-called circus goes on performing acrobatically, where dear “LIFE” acts as ringmaster rest of us…….do we want to know even. Life makes a sarcastic point,” Congratulations, you have climbed the ladder and swings, wrong building though. And like a clown, we merely cry over the mask of a smile! And yet once again, it becomes a powerful act of entertainment.

Now, when the career wheel breaks spirit, you discover a spirituality path as a new address for accommodation, arranging new karmic baggage to let go, meditating, and seeking immense abundance to balance, often while paying back for retreat or downloading the wrong app of life!!. Even peace, then, has become performative. Then, we regret not prioritizing our spiritual growth earlier, longing for a more meaningful, purpose-driven life. We often turn to the spiritual path of awakening our consciousness when life itself is fleeting. We should have been mindful about cultivating spirituality or self-awakening throughout our precious life, rather than waiting till the end.

And after all these chasings and winning races as so called ultimate goal of life, what do we get? A memorial post with “RIP” WRITTEN IN BOLD AND CAPS, along with a few emojis. We always knew this was coming, but still, we participated in these races, and we treated life as a permanent gig. The real sarcasm, or rather stated as a sarcastic truth, is that we waited our entire lives for the right time to live.  Recently, we all learned and adapted a new philosophy of life, “live like the last day”…. absolutely wrong interpretation. Don’t live like it’s your last day, Live like it's only a day….Life doesn’t wait, and it never ends. It passes by and we just wave a hand. It leaves a sarcastic, absurd, beautiful, “RUN”. Learn to read it right, before life runs you.

Life plays out in contrast; we chase meaning in chaos, laugh to hide tears and painful screams, and live like we will never die, immortal. Maybe this is a joke on us, but it is also for us.

 

We run for life in our entire lives,

“AND” life runs out of life from our life.

But maybe, just maybe,

If we stop running, chasing blindly, following, or pursuing,

We will see life was right there, all along.

And not in or over the finishing line.

There is no substantial finishing line ever.

As there is no life left beyond the finishing line ever.

But yet we run and run for run in absurd, beautiful, sarcastic “RUN”

Just note to understand clearly,

We run for life in our lives,

BUT life runs out of life from our life.

or 

We run for life in our lives,

AND life runs out of life from our life.

 

 Inked by: d’pen

 

TOMORROW in TODAY

 TOMORROW in TODAY

 

 Day starts with hopes ……”hopes” for better than last one, hopes for best to com, hopes to have best for tomorrow or best of tomorrow and forever…”hopes”… for better and secured life in coming days or times…more than that we possess “now” more than sufficient, in short we may say security for any incident or accident that might or might not take place in, and for that we reason, we “hope for the best, insures the promising provisions, of tomorrow, in life to be protected.

A powerful remainder, we try to insure tomorrow but nobody assures tomorrow that despite our best effort to plan and prepare the future is uncertain and unpredictable …, in short unsecured.

We plan, we strategically execute, and we define and redefine aims, goals, target, objective, intentions, or seen unseen purposes, missions and set for the direction to execute same. Entire exercise is for “TOMORROW IN TODAY”. We all want to secure unsecured tomorrows today. We all want our tomorrow to be delivered in safe and secured way “TOMORROW”. But in course we forget one clear thing, TOMORROW is TOMORROW and not at all “TODAY”…may be day after tomorrow but certainly that day is not today.

Tomorrow is being prepared “today”, constructed today, vision today but will be version they tomorrow, on the basis of hypothetical assumption and acceptance of series of event to happened or took place in past from that as “moment’. We induce our work to propagate for desired resultant in future, for unseen and untold moment!!

And there is no wrong in going for it, pursuing your “TOMORROW”, but keeping in mind that we are merely excavating the buried future, which has no exact traces   as a fossils of any burials or ruins of “tomorrow”, in today, the day we live here on it!! We are looking to extract the fortune future of tomorrow in today, we are hunting for unfold treasure …scavenger hunt of our tomorrow, in pith or “MYSTERIOUS” LIFE.

Life is indeed life a maze, where we know the entry and the exit point, as of our tomorrow, rest there are countless way to reach our “tomorrow”, but when that will be unfold in tomorrow as “TOMORROW “ and not TODAY as tomorrow. Remember our future, TOMORROW, is indeed priceless, valuable, and precious. To possess or to secure the future is indeed prized possession. And we should, too, dream our future, one to be painless, peaceful and priceless!! Good, great in fact, live it today what your tomorrow will be shaped up as the moment of that “TOMORROW TODAY”. But with one understanding that that “THE TOMORROW” in not TODAY at all!

To live future “TOMORROW”, we need learn to live in “TODAY in TODAY” and not in “TOMORROW TODAY”. The strong and resilient today we live, we feel, we breath will be the reflection in tomorrow as mirror image of what we think today as process of progressive perusals .What all we have in present in our hand, in our control, within our reach and in our life, is “today”, the day we are living, reading or thinking as moment of truth.

 Nobody can deny or snatch your “TODAY” as the moment, the moment you live, the moment you feel day and the experience day as moment today, just embrace it. Dream of prospective and better tomorrow in today, but before your “TOAY” get expired in a moment.

Recognise the uniqueness of “TODAY” over “TOMORROW”, so you can happily shape, sculpt or chisel your “TOMORROW” the way you want. Always remember all we can’t bargain or trade our “TODAY FOR TOMORROW”, as nobody vouches or knows tomorrow in real. Nobody as experienced it, all we have imagine, felt or envisioned “tomorrow”. It’s uncertain, unpredictable and erratic. To understand better tomorrow, we need to learn today radically, live in today rationally. So we can understand today for better tomorrow. Its progressive process of balancing the “fulcrum” between livings in today and shaping tomorrows.

Life is more than just preparing for tomorrow. It’s about experiencing and embracing today. The present moment has value and worth, should not be compromised or negotiated or neglected in pursuit of future goals ”TOMORROW” . What you have is only today, and what you don’t have is only tomorrow.

Just revaluate our priorities over preferences, and make space for living in present, rather than solely focusing for tomorrow. It’s an old saying with little improvised version, “what we sow today, we can reap richest of sow for tomorrow.”

Carpe diem Seizing or embracing the invincible power of “TODAY”, by making most of today for brighter “TOMORROW”

 

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