tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88743399151418494152024-03-05T19:21:13.118+05:30post card from deepakDeepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-37629707544366027222012-08-19T12:42:00.003+05:302012-08-19T12:45:54.200+05:30ગીતાંજલી<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti;">ગુરુદેવ રવીન્દ્રનાથ ટાગોર પોતાના નોબેલ</span><span style="font-family: '\'Times New Roman\'';"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti;">પ્રાઈઝ થી સન્માનિત કાવ્ય</span><span style="font-family: '\'Times New Roman\'';"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti;">સંગ્રહ ગીતાંજલીમાં એક નાની</span><span style="font-family: '\'Times New Roman\'';"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti;">મજાની</span><span style="font-family: '\'Times New Roman\'';"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti;">વાત કહે છે:</span><span style="font-family: '\'Times New Roman\'';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: '\'Times New Roman\'';"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti;">અંગ્રેજીમાં:</span><span style="font-family: '\'Times New Roman\'';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"><b>The child who is decked with prince's robes and who has jewelled </b></span></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">chains round his neck loses all pleasure in his play; </span><o:p></o:p></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"><b>his dress hampers him at every step.</b></span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust he keeps</span><o:p></o:p></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">himself from the world, and is afraid even to move.</span><o:p></o:p></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, </span><o:p></o:p></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, </span><o:p></o:p></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">if it rob one </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">ઓફ</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.</span></b><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><b><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">માતા પિતા પોતાના વ્હાલા શિશુ ને ખુબ ઉમંગભેર સારાં વસ્ત્રો આભૂષણો થી સજાવી ને પોતાનો આનંદ વ્યક્ત કરે છે ત્યારે એ શિશુ ના મન ની વાત આ સંવેદનશીલ</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">જ સમજી શક્ય હોય તેવું આ કાવ્ય માં દેખાઈ આવે છે.</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">" </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">માડી</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">મારે આવા શણગાર શું કામના</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">? </span></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">તું મને તો રાજકુંવરની જેમ તૈયાર કરીને રમવા મોકલે છે પરંતુ મારો રમવાનો બધો આનંદ ક્યાય ગાયબ થઇ જાય છે. મને આ રેશમી વસ્ત્રો</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">આ દાગીના બધાનો એટલો ભાર લાગે છે કે હું હળવો ફૂલ થઈને રમવા ચાહું છું તે તોહું</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">કરી શકતો</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">નથી.</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">આવા મોંઘા દાટ કપડાને સાચવી સાચવી ને પહેરવાના</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">ના તો એને ડાઘ લાગવો જોઈએ ના તો એ રમત રમતમાં ફાટવું</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">જોઈએ</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">મારે તો એની ચિંતામાં</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">બધાથી દુર જ ઉભા રહેવાનો વારો આવે છે. હું</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">કોઈને પાછળ દોડીને પકડ દાવ પણ નથી રમી શકતો.</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">હું તો ચાહું</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">કે તું જેવું ઘરનું બારણું ખોલે ને હું સડસડાટ રસ્તા ઉપર દોડી જાઉં</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">તાપમાં</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">ધૂળમાં</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">કાદવ કીચડમાં મન મુકીને રમું</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">,</span></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">આખો દિવસ કેટલા બધા બાળકો ત્યાં ધમાચકડી કરતા હોય છે</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">એમાં હું ભળી જાઉં.</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">વિશ્વ વીણાની</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">હજારો સુરાવલીઓ જ્યાં ગુંજે છે</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">પ્રકૃતિ</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">પોતાની છટા જ્યાં છલકાવે છે ત્યાં મને રેશમી વસ્ત્રો અને આભૂષણો માં શણગારીને દિલ</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> ખોલીને </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">રમવાનો મારો અધિકાર તું છીનવી લઈશ મા.</span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8;"><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">સાચું કહે </span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">માડી</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">મારે આવા શણગાર શું કામના</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"><b>? 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<o:p></o:p></b></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">એ જમાનામાં </span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">સો વરસ પહેલા</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">રેશમી વસ્ત્રો ને આભૂષણો પહેરાવી સુખી ઘરની માતાઓ બાળકો ને તૈયાર કરી રમવા મુકાતી. હવે તો કાંડા</span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">ઘડિયાળ </span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">મોંઘા જીન્સ</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">ગોગલ્સ</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, વિડીઓ ગેમ્સ , </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">ઈત્યાદી</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">જ આભૂષણો બની <span id="6_TRN_3">gayaa </span> છે. નિશાળમાં તો મોબાઈલ ફોન વડે પણ પોતાની બડાઈ હાંકી શકાય છે. ગણવેશ નો અર્થ જ એ હતો કે શાળામાં રંક અને રાય ના બાળકો સમાન દેખાય</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: Shruti; font-size: 11pt;">સમાન ગણાય અને એક બીજા માં હળે ભળે. આજકાલ તો શાળા જ આ વિફરી છે. ટાગોર ના શાંતિનિકેતન ની હોસ્ટેલની ગૃહમાતાએ ઘૃણાસ્પદ રીતે એક છાત્રા સાથે વ્યવહાર કર્યો તો બીજી બાજુ દક્ષિણ ભારતની કોઈ શાળાએ ગરીબ બાળકો</span><span lang="GU" style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt;"> સહેલાઈથી ઓળખાઇ જાય તે માટે તેમના વાળની લટો કાપી નાખ્યાના સમાચાર પણ વાંચ્યા છે.
કુમળા બાળકોની મનોસ્થિતિ અંદ જરૂરીયાત સમજવા જેટલી સંવેદના માતા પિતા, પરિવારજનો અને શિક્ષકો મા હોય તે કેટલું જરૂરી છે તે તો ગુરુદેવ ટાગોર અને ગુજરાતના પૂ. ગિજુભાઈ બધેકા (</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.8;">વાલીઓમાં અને શિક્ષણ જગતમાં </span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.8;">વહાલપૂર્વક </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.8;"><b>જેમને બાળકોની "મૂછાળી મા" તરીકે ઓળખવામાં આવે છે) આપણને સમજાવી ગયા છે. બસ, આપણે તો માત્ર તેને યાદ રાખવાનું છે અને અમલમાં મુકવાનું છે.</b>
</span></pre><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-27886288924232233822012-08-17T12:23:00.001+05:302012-08-17T12:23:21.275+05:30રાગ અને દ્વેષ..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">રાગ અને દ્વેષ..</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">રાગ એટલે ગમતું / ગમવું એમ કહેવાય.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">અને</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">દ્વેષ એટલે અણગમતું / ન</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ગમવું.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">જે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ગમે તેને સાચવીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">લાડ લડાવીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">રીઝવીએ. વહાલ કરીએ. વિખૂટું તો નહિ પડી જાય તેની ચિંતા કરીએ. સાચવીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">સંભાળીએ. તેના સારું ઝગડી પડીએ. તેના ગુણ ગાન ગાઈએ.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">જે ન ગમે તેને તિરસ્કારીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">તરછોડીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ધુત્કારીએ. નજીક ન આવા દઈએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">મોઢું</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ચડાવીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">અણગમો વ્યક્ત કરવાની એકે ય તક જતી ન કરીએ.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">રાગ અને દ્વેષ જયારે ( પતિ-પત્ની</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">માં બાપ અને બાળકો સિવાયની ) વ્યક્તિ માટે હોય ત્યારે કેવો અન્યાય થઇ જાય!</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">કોઈ આપણ ને ક્યારે ગમે </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">? </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">આપણા</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">વિષે સારું કરે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">સારું બોલે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">થોડું ઘણું</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ઘસાય</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">માન આપે - એટલે કે આપણા અહં ને પોષે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">લાભ કરાવી આપે. બદલામાં આપણે પણ સામે એવુંજ કરીએ . એવી</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">આશા સાથે કે આપણે કર્યું એ બધું એને પણ એટલું જ ગમશે. એની એ વ્યક્તિ નોંધ લેશે અને યાદ પણ રાખશે. ક્યારેક એક પક્ષ એવું પણ વિચારે કે પોતે કર્યું એટલા પ્રમાણમાં સામે પક્ષે તો કંઈ કર્યું નથી. આવી પરિસ્થિતિમાં</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">હવે એવું થાય કે એક પક્ષે રાગ થાય અને બીજા પક્ષે દ્વેષ થાય. આ તો વેપાર થયો. ત્રાજવા લઇ ને બેસો એટલે અપેક્ષાઓ નું અને વળતર - મળતર નું</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">પલ્લું હલકું-ભારે થવાનું. મન તો માકડું છે. તરત નફો નુકશાન ગણી નાખે અને એમાંથી જાણ્યે અજાણ્યે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ઉપજે રાગ-દ્વેષ.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">જે જે આપણા સંપર્ક માં આવે તેના આવા હાલ થાય. કાં તો આપણ તે વ્યક્તિ ગમે અથવા પછી ન ગમે. ભલે એનું કઈ કામ આપણ ને નથી પડ્યું કે નથી પડવાનું</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">નથી એને ભોજન માટે બોલાવવાના કે નથી આપણે જમવા એને ત્યાં જવાનું. નથી કઈ ઉધાર લેવાનું કે આપવાનું. અથવા તો નથી એણે કે નથી આપણે ઘસાવાનું. તોય ગમો-અણગમો ક્યાંથી ફૂટી નીકળ્યો એ સવાલ મન ને પીડે છે.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">અરે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">કોઈ કહે કે તમારા વિષે અમુક ભાઈ કે બહેન બહુ સારું બોલતા હતા એટલે બસ ખલ્લાસ. ભલે આપણે કાનોકાન નથી સાંભળ્યું. ભલે એવું કંઈ એ ખરેખર</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">બોલ્યા હતા કે નહિ. પણ એ સજ્જન કે સન્નારી વિષે આપણા મન માં માન વધી ગયું. રાગ પેદા થઇ ગયો. એવામાં જો એ ભૂલે ચુકે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">આપણા ઘરે પધાર્યા તો આ વખતે મહેમાનગતિમાં કોઈ કસર બાકી નહિ રહેવાની. મહેમાન પણ વિચારમાં પડી જશે </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">માથું ખંજવાળશે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">કે ક્યા બાત હૈ.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">આના થી ઉલટું.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></span></span><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">જો કોઈ કહે કે તમારા વિષે અમુક ભાઈ કે બહેન બહુ ઘસાતું</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">બોલતા હતા એટલે બસ ખલ્લાસ. ભલે આપણે કાનોકાન નથી સાંભળ્યું. ભલે એવું કંઈ એ ખરેખર</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">બોલ્યા હતા કે નહિ. પણ એ સજ્જન કે સન્નારી વિષે આપણા મન માન માં ઉતારી</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ગયું. દ્વેષ પેદા થઇ ગયો. એવામાં જો એ આપણા ઘરે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></span></span><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ભૂલે ચુકે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></span><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">પધાર્યા તો આ વખતે મહેમાનગતિમાં ભયંકર ગાબડું.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> . </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">મહેમાન પણ વિચારતા થઇ જશે </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">માથું ખંજવાળશે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">કે આ શું</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">? </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">આવકાર આટલો બધો</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">લુક્ખો અને ઠંડો</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">? </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ચા કે શરબત ની પૂછપરછ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">વગર જ આ વખતે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">મુલાકાત કેમ</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></span><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">પુરી</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></span><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">થઇ ગઈ!</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span></b><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">સંબંધ બાંધ્યાનું જો આ પરિણામ હોય તો આવા સંબંધો શું કામના</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">?<br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">હજારો લાખો લોકો એવા છે જેને આપણે કદી મળ્યા જ નથી. મળવાનો કોઈ મોકો</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">જ નથી મળ્યો. આપણા કહેવાતા મિત્રો- સંબંધીઓ- સ્નેહીઓ- સગાઓ કરતાં</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">એવા બધા અજાણ્યા લોકો કેટલા નસીબદાર! નથી આપણ ને એમના માટે રાગ કે નથી દ્વેષ. એ બધા એમને ઘેર ખુશ અને આપણે આપણા ઘરે ખુશ. ન કોઈ પંચાત</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ન કોઈ ગમો -અણગમો. બંને પક્ષે બધા જ સુખી! આ તો એવું થયું કે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">જેમ અંતર વધારે </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">જેમ પરિચય ઓછો</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">તેમ અપેક્ષા ઓછી.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ભાગ્યે જ દર રોજ આપણે કોઈને કંઈ આપવાનું કે કોઈનું કંઈ લઇ લેવાનું હોય છે. તો પછી કેમ મસ્તી થી ના રહીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ના અદેખાઈ કરીએ કે પછી ન ઈર્ષા પેદા કરીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">? </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">અને જીવનમાં સંબંધો નો બનતો-બીગડતો</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">બધો ખેલ જો સારી રીતે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">જોઈ-સમજી લીધો હોય તો આપણી જરૂરીયાત ઓછી કરી ચલાવી લેતા કેમ ના શીખીએ. કેમ ના સ્વાવલંબી બનીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">? </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">મદદ કે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">વસ્તુ વગર ચલાવી લેવાશે. પણ સંબંધો માં મીઠાશ વગર નહિ ચાલે.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">મદદ કરીએ ખરા પણ બદલા ની આશા વગર. કંઈ આપીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">તો ભૂલી જઈએ. કંઈ લઈએ તો યાદ રાખીએ. સંબંધ કાં</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">તો શૂન્ય હોય અથવા તો મીઠાશ ભર્યો હોય. કડવાશ નું શું કામ છે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">?.<br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">ચારસો</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">વર્ષ પહેલા શેક્સપીઅરે </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">'</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">હેમલેટ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">' </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">માં લખ્યું છે: "</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="background: white;">Neither a borrower nor a lender be;For loan oft loses both itself and friend " </span></span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Shruti;">મતલબ કે</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Shruti;">નાં તો દેવાદાર બનો કે નાં તો લેણદાર: બંને કિસ્સાઓમાં મોટાભાગે મિત્રતાની સાથે સાથે આપેલી કે લીધેલી</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Shruti;">વસ્તુ ગુમાવવાની આવે છે. આવા સુભાષિતો બીજા પણ છે. લઈને કે દઈને બે ઘડી નો આનંદ તો પલક વારમાં</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Shruti;">વિસરાઈ ગયો ને આખરે તો સોદો ખોટ નો જ થયો ને!</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span></b><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;"></span>એવું કેમ ન બને કે જેને મળીએ</b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">જ્યારે મળીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">તો પ્રેમ થી મળીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">નિસ્વાર્થ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">નિર્મળ સ્નેહ થી મળીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">શુભ કામનાઓ ની આપલે કરીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">સુખ દુખના હાલ પૂછીએ. આ બધું સાચા દિલ થી કરીએ. દેખાડો કરવા માટે નહિ. સામેવાળા</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">વિષે જે કંઈ વિચારીએ કે બોલીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">એવું જ પારદર્શી વર્તન પણ રાખીએ. એવું નહીં કે મુખમાં રામ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">બગલ માં છુરી. જયારે મળીએ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">હેત થી મળીએ. જયારે છુટા પડીએ ત્યારે આત્મીયતાથી વિદાય લઈએ. કોણ જાણે ક્યારે ફરીથી મળવાનું બને</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">આપણે</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></span><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">આખરે તો કાચી માટીના માનવી છીએ ને! રાગ દ્વેષ ની કડવાશ જીરવવા જેટલા નીલકંઠ આપણે નથી બન્યા. પણ સંબંધોની મીઠાશ ને સુગંધના રસિયા છીએ અને એવા જ બન્યા રહીએ . ગમાડીએ અને ગમતા રહીએ </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">અને તે પણ સાવ સહજ ભાવે.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Shruti;">કબીરજી અનાયાસે યાદ આવે છે.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
" </span></b><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: Mangal;">सहज मिला सो दूध बराबर</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span></b><b><span lang="HI" style="font-family: Mangal;">मांग लिया सो पानी. बाकी है सब खून बराबर जिस में खिंचा तानी"</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></div></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-29146204213316123192012-07-22T09:17:00.003+05:302012-07-22T09:19:55.071+05:30"પવિત્ર શ્રાવણ મહિનોઅને અને પવિત્ર રમઝાન મહિનો "<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">"પવિત્ર</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">શ્રાવણ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">મહિનો</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">આજથી</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અને</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અને પવિત્ર</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">રમઝાન</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">મહિનો આવતી</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">કાલ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">થી</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">શરુ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">થઇ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">રહ્યા</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">છે."</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">આટલું વાચ્યું ત્યાં તો મારો કાયમ નો પસ્તી-ભંગાર વાળો યુવાન</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> ' </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એહ </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">' </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">જેવા એકાક્ષરી અવાજ નો ચિર પરિચિત લહેકામાં મારી શેરીમાં </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">મારા ઝાંપે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">સાદ પાડે છે<br style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; line-height: 1.5;" />તરત જ ચા -નાસ્તા પછીનું અમારું દૈનિક છાપાનું વાંચન મુલતવી રાખી હું તેને મારા કંપાઉંડ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">માં આવવા કહું છું.</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">" </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પસ્તી રાખવાના ખાના માં જગ્યા રહી નથી. એકાદ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">છાપું અંદર નાખીએ તો તરત</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">બહાર આવે છે. માટે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">જેટલી પણ હોય</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ભાઈ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">આજે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પસ્તી લઇ જાઓ."</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">તેનું નામ મેં કદી પૂછ્યું નથી. અબ્બાસ કે ઝાકીર એવું કઈ હશે. મારે મન તો બધા રામ રહીમ જ છે. તે ઠેઠ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">કંપાઉંડ ના ગેટ પાસે સેન્ડલ ઉતારીને મકાનના પાછળના બારણે જવા ડગલું માંડે છે. પસ્તી ક્યાં રાખીએ છીએ તેની એને ખબર છે.</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">હું ટકોર કરું છું. " આંગણું વરસાદ માં ભીનું થયું છે. સેન્ડલ પહેરી રાખો. ઉપર</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ઓટલે આવો ત્યારે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ઉતારો તે ઠીક છે .હમણા ઉતારશો</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">નહિ. "</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">બે વાર કહ્યું એટલે મારું માની</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">થોડું મરકી</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અંદર આવ્યોં. ઘરના પાછળના ભાગે ગયો અને ઢગલો પસ્તી ઊંચકી લાવ્યો. હું બેઠો હતો તે ખુરસી પાછળ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">કાર પાર્કિંગમાં જમીન પર ઉભડક બેસી વજન કાંટા ની સાંકળ સરખી કરી તોલવાની તૈયારી તેણે શરુ કરી. </strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">રોજના નિયમ પ્રમાણે અમે દંપતી ઘરની આગળના ભાગે આવેલા ઓટલે - હિંચકે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">બેસીએ અને હું વનિતાને</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">છાપાંમાંથી તે દિવસના યા તો જરૂરી અને જાણવા જેવા અથવા તો પછી રસપ્રદ પણ બિન-જરૂરી સમાચાર વાંચી સંભળાવું. માનવ સ્વભાવને તેમજ સમાજને લગતા અચ્છા બુરા ચીલા-ચાલુ સમાચારથી પાનાંઓ ઉભરાતા હોય. અઠવાડિયા માં પાંચેક જેટલી પૂર્તિઓ પણ છાપા સાથે મફત</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">આવે ત્યારે તેમાંથી વધારે સારું<span data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.5;"> અને વધુ ઉપયોગી </span></strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વાંચન મળે.</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">આજના અમારા નીરસ </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વાંચન-ક્રમમાં પોતાના આગમનથી ભંગ પડ્યાની પસ્તીવાળા ને જાણે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ખબર પડી ગઈ હતી. એણે પૂછ્યું: " ખાસ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">શું સમાચાર વાંચ્યા</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">?". </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">મેં કહ્યું: " તમારો રમઝાન અને અમારો શ્રાવણ શરુ થઇ રહ્યા છે તેની વાતો વાંચી. દશામાં ની મૂર્તિઓ બજાર માં આવી ગઈ છે તેના ફોટા જોયા."</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">તેની સચ્ચાઈ અને પ્રામાણીકતા અમે જાણતા હતા. એટલે હવે પૂછવાનો વારો મારો હતો: " તમે તો રોજા રાખવાના</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">છો ને</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">?" </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">તેણે કહ્યું: "ના. આપણો ધંધો જ એવો છે </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એટલે રોજા નથી રાખતો".</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">મેં આવો, તેના ભંગાર જેવો જવાબ સ્વીકારવાને</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">બદલે પૂછવાનું ચાલુ રાખ્યું: " વરસાદી ઠંડક ની મોસમ છે અને ક્યાં તમારે બહુ આઘે સુધીની રખડપટ્ટી હોય છે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">? </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">આ વરસે તો બધાને ઘણું સહેલું પડશે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ખરું ને</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">? " મેં ખુશી દર્શાવી.</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વનિતા પણ હવે ખુરસી માં બેઠા બેઠા ફૂલ છોડ પર નજર ફેરવતી હતી તે છોડી</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અમારી વાતોમાં રસ લેતી થઇ. કહે: "અરે, એવો તો વળી કેવો ધંધો છે તારો કે રોજા રાખવામાં એ નડતર રૂપ બને</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">?" પોતાનાથી ઉમરમાં </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">નાના અને અમારે ત્યાં </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">રોજ આવતા ફેરિયાઓ સાથે એને એક-વચનમાં વાત કરવાની એની જન-સામાન્ય ખાસિયત છે. </strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; line-height: 1.5;" />"</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">બહેન</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">આખો દિવસ ધંધા માં ભાવ તાલ કરતાં કરતાં કંઈ ને કંઈ જુઠું બોલી જ જવાય છે. ગ્રાહક ને સમજાવવાનું અને સાચવવાનું પણ જરૂરી છે ને. મારી આવી નાપાક કરણી હોય ત્યારે દર રોજ નો રોજો કેમ પળાય </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">? </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એના કરતાં </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">હું તો મહિનામાં બે દિવસ રજા રાખીને</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ઘેર બેસી ને બે રોજા રાખું છું તેમ આ વખતે પણ કરીશ. એટલું પુરતું છે અને વળી મને પોસાય પણ છે."</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">મેં કદી તેને પસ્તી-ભંગાર નું</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વજન</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ભાવ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">કે હિસાબ પૂછ્યો નથી કે નથી તેણે આપેલા રૂપિયા</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પૈસા ને ગણ્યા. ઘણી વખત વિના કામની ઘરની નાની નાની વસ્તુઓ હોય તે એને વગર હિસાબ કર્યે લઇ જવાનું એને કહીએ. બહુ નાની રકમ હોય તો યાદ રાખી ને પછી જયારે મોટો હિસાબ કરવાનો થાય ત્યારે જુનું બધું ઉમેરીને </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અમને યાદ કરાવીને તે વખતે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> પૈસે પૈસો ચૂકવી દે. </strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">આવો નેક દિલ યુવાન</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">કેવો તો નિખાલસ અને ખુદાથી ડરવાવાળો !</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અહા! કેવી ભક્તિ! કેવી સચ્ચાઈ!</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અરે, કચવાતે મને બોલાઈ જતું નાનું અમસ્તું અસત્ય પણ તેને યાદ રહે અને દિલમાં ખુંચે પણ ખરું ! અને તે પણ કોઈને છેતરવા માટે બોલાયેલું ના હોય પણ ફક્ત પોતાનો વ્યાજબી ભાવ ખરેખર વ્યાજબી જ છે તેટલો</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ભરોસો આપવા માટે કહેવાયું હોય. </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વેપાર માં રોજ ચાલતું - તલ ભાર</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અસત્ય પણ એક પાક રોજા ને ના-પાક બનાવી દેવા માટે કાફી છે એવી ઊંડી<span data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.5;"> </span></strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અંતરસુઝ ખુદાએ પોતાના આ નેક બંદાના દિલ મેં કેવી બેસાડી છે એ વિચાર માત્રે મન પ્રફુલ્લિત થઇ ગયું.</strong> <strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પંડિતો ને પણ શરમાવે તેવી </strong> <strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">આ દ્રઢ માન્યતા તેને બીજા બધા કરતા જુદો માણસ બનાવી દેતી હતી.</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">નાની અમસ્તી તેની એક રોજીંદી</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> અને સામાન્ય </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">હરકત</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પણ રોજા ની આમન્યા જાળવવામાં બાધક હોય છે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> તેમ તેનું દિલ કહે છે. </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પાક અને નાપાક વચ્ચેની બારીક પણ સુ-સ્પષ્ટ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ભેદ રેખા તેના હૃદયમાં ભુસાઈ નથી. પોતાની ગરીબી અને નિરક્ષરતા કે અલ્પાક્ષરતા વચ્ચે પણ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">મજુરી જેવા </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">'<span data-mce-style="font-family: Shruti;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Shruti; line-height: 1.5;">નિમ્ન </span></strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વ્યવસાય કરતાં કરતાં પણ તેના સંસ્કારો વાતાલાયા નથી </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> એ વિચાર માત્રથી મેં </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">તેને મનોમન સલામ કરી. મારી આંખોમાં ઊતરી આવેલી એક વિશેષ ચમક</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">થોડાં ઝળઝળિયાં</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વચ્ચે કોઈને ન દેખાઈ જાય તેનું ધ્યાન રાખીને મેં રૂમાલ વાપરી લીધો.</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; line-height: 1.5;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> <strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ તો રોજો રાખ્યા વગર પણ ખુશ હતો. કારણ કે પોતાન ખુદા સાથે તેણે કોઈ છેતરપીંડી નહોતી કરી. એને ક્યાં કોઈ ઢંઢેરો પીટવાનો હતો? એને તો કોઈ પાણી પણ નથી પીવડાવતું હોતું એટલે "સોરી</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">મારો તો ઉપવાસ છે , સાહેબ !</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">' </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એવું કહીને આપ-બડાઈ કરવાની કોઈ તક</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">તો એને માટે સુલભ હતી જ નહીં.</strong></strong></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ઇનામ ન મળે તો કંઈ નહિ પણ ખુદાનો ગુન્હો તો નથી કર્યો તેનો સંતોષ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પણ તેના માટે </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પુરતો હતો. વળી બે દિવસ માટે તો તે પોતાની ટૂંકી રોજી ગુમાવીને કાયદેસર</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">નિયમબદ્ધ રીતે બે રોજા તો રાખવાનો</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">છે જ એ તેને માટે કાફી હતું.</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ઉપવાસો રખાય તેમાં કંઈ ખોટું નથી</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પણ ભક્તિ ભાવ નું વાતાવરણ<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> આ</strong> સીઝન માં જયારે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">છલોછલ છે. એવા સમયે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ઓછા</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વત્તા અંશે બાહ્યાચાર નું પ્રમાણ વિશેષ દેખાતું હોય છે. મોટા ભાગે આંતરિક શુદ્ધિ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ની ક્યાય છાંટ સરખી જોવાતી નથી. એ જ રોજીંદા</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">કપટ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ જ કાવા દાવા</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એજ લુચ્ચાઈ </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ જ ભેળ-સેળ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ જ ગોરખધંધા</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ જ જુઠાણાઓ </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ જ ઠગાઈ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એજ ધાક ધમકી</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ જ શોષણ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ જ અત્યાચાર</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ જ આડંબર</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ જ આત્મશ્લાઘા</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ જ ઢોંગ-ધતિંગ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એજ પ્રપંચો, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">.</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વિગેરે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વિગેરે બધું વ્રત ઉપવાસના દિવસે પણ ચાલતું રહે. મન ની શુદ્ધિ ન હોય તો પણ ચાલે. અરે દોડે!<span data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.5;"> </span></strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એક દિવસ માટે પણ આવા શુધ્દ્ધીકરણ માટેનો પ્રમાણિક</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પ્રયત્ન કરાવવાનો નહીં</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એક દિવસ પુરતું</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">સંયમ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">શિસ્તવાળું</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અને નીતિપરાયણ જીવન જીવવાની હોંશ નહિ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">તૈયારી નહિ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, .. </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અરે જરૂરત પણ નહિ! </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">આવા બગભગત ની</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અશુદ્ધ જીવનચર્યા માં બિચારો ઈશ્વર પરાણે ભેળવાઈ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ને ( કે પછી ભેરવાઈને</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">?) </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પોતાના ભાગ્ય ને દોષ દેતો હશે , ખરું ને?</strong><br />
<strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; line-height: 1.5;" /></strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">મંદિરો માં ભીડ વધતી જાય છે</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એક ટાણા</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ફરાળ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">શક્કરીયા</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, <span data-mce-style="font-family: Shruti;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Shruti; line-height: 1.5;"> વેફર, </span></strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">દૂધ</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પેંડા</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, કેળાં, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પપૈયા</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">સફરજન</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વિગેરેની બોલ બાલા ઠેર ઠેર નજરે ચડે છે. શું શું ખવાય તેની નવી નવી માહિતીની ઘરોઘર આપ લે થતી રહે. કોઈ કોઈ </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">'</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">શુરવીરો</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">' </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ચતુર્માસ સુધી નો લાં...બો કાર્યક્રમ રાખી દે છે અને પછી આ બ્રેકીંગ ન્યુઝ નું રાત દિવસ પ્રસારણ કરતા રહેતા હોય છે. ઘણા તો વળી એને ડાયેટિંગ સાથે વણી લે અને તેમને પોતાને પણ ખબર કે ખાતરી નથી હોતી કે ઉપવાસ અને ડાયેટિંગ </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ બે માંથી પ્રાથમિક શું</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">હતું અને ગૌણ શું હતું ! અથવા તો પછી ડાયેટિંગ ને ઉપવાસમાં ખપાવી ને ઈશ્વર ની ખુશામત પણ કરી લેવાતી હોય છે. કહ્યું છે ને </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">, </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એક કાંકરે બે પક્ષી. આ તો એક કાંકરે એક પક્ષી અને એક ઈશ્વર.</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">; </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વાહ ભાઈ </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વાહ !</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પસ્તીવાળાના ગયા પછી મેં વનિતા ને કહ્યું: " યાદ છે? ઈલોરા ની ગુફાઓથી માત્ર ૩ કી.મી.ના અંતરે આવેલી ખુલ્દાબાદ ખાતે આપણે એક અતિ યાદગાર કબર જોઈ હતી ?"</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">મારી યાદદાસ્ત મને ભૂતકાળ માં દોરી ગઈ.</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">થોડા વર્ષો પહેલાં અમે સપરિવાર શિરડી, ઔરંગાબાદ, ઈલોરા ના પ્રવાસે ગયા હતા. એ પ્રસિદ્ધ ગુફાઓ થી ૩ કી.મી. દુર આવેલા ખુલ્દાબાદ ખાતે, ખુલ્લા આકાશ નીચે એક અતિ સામાન્ય કબર અમે જોઈ. એટલી બધી તો સામાન્ય કે </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એના મર્હુમ 'માલિક' કબરને </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> પથ્થર થી ઢાંકવાની પણ ની ના પાડતા ગયેલા. કબરની ઉપરની એ ખાલી જગ્યામાં એકાદ ડમરા નો છોડ ઉગેલો હતો અને સર્વત્ર એનો વિશિષ્ટ પમરાટ સમગ્રપણે સાડા અને પવિત્ર વાતાવરણ ને વધુ પવિત્ર બનાવી રહ્યો હતો. ખુદાનો એ પ્યારો બંદો પોતાના ઈ.સ . ૧૭૦૭ માં થયેલા મ્રત્યુ થી પણ લગભગ ૩૭૫ વર્ષ અગાઉ અવસાન પામેલા એક સુફી સંત શેખ બુર્હામ્મુદ્દીન ગરીબ ની દરગાહ ના પટાંગણમાં , જાણે કે તેમના આશ્રયે, નિશ્ચીંતપણે, સંપૂર્ણ સાદગી ભેર આરામ ફરમાવતો હતો.</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"><a data-mce-href="http://dst121.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/az-grave2.jpg" href="http://dst121.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/az-grave2.jpg" style="color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; line-height: 1.5;"><img alt="" data-mce-src="http://dst121.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/az-grave2.jpg?w=300" height="412" src="http://dst121.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/az-grave2.jpg?w=300" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #444444; cursor: default; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px;" title="AZ grave2" width="621" /></a></strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">નવા પર્યટકો માટે કુતુહલ બની રેઅહેલી આ ખુલ્લા આસમાન નીચે ઠંડી ઋતુમાં થરથરતી, વરસાદમાં ભીંજાતી અને તડકા માં તપતી આ કબર આવી કેમ છે?</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ગાઈડ કહે: . "<em style="border-bottom-style: none; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;"> </em><em style="border-bottom-style: none; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">મારી કબર માટે ૮ રૂપિયાથી વધારે રકમ ખર્ચશો નહિ" </em>એવી કબરના 'માલિકે' - અથવા કહો કે 'ભાડુઆતે' - ખાસ તાકીદ કરેલી. કારણ ? કારણ માત્ર એટલું જ કે તેણે આવા પાક, અવ્વલ મંઝીલ ની રાહ પર જવાના કાર્ય માટે સરકારી ખઝાના માંથી એક કાનો પૈસો પણ </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">નહોતા વાપરવો. સરકારી ખર્ચે સુખડનો પોતાનો અગ્નિદાહ અને સ્મારક માટે પ્રાઇવેટ પ્લોટ ભિખારી ની જેમ માગતા રહેતા દિલ્લી ખાતેના વિઆઇપિઓને આ વાત સમજાશે નહી.</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પોતાના રોજના 'કાર્ય' માંથી તે કબર માં સુતેલો ભાડુઆત , સમય બચાવીને રાત્રે પવિત્ર કુરાન-એ-શરીફ ની હસ્ત લિખિત નકલ બનાવી , થોડું કમાઈને, પોતાની કબર માટે રકમ એકઠી કરતો રહેતો . પછી એને મનમાંને મનમાં ભય લાગ્યો - કે જો જરા સરખી પણ ભૂલ મારાથી થઇ ગઈ હશે અને મારી હસ્ત-લિખિત નકલમાં એકાદ વાક્ય ખોટું, એકાદ શબ્દ પણ ખોટો લખાયો હશે તો ?વાંચનાર માટે તો મારે કારણે અર્થ પણ અનર્થ બની જશે! . એવી હરામની કમાણી તરત તેણે બાજુએ હડસેલી દીધી. હવે તેણે પાકટ ઉમરે, નવેસરથી ટોપી સીવવાનું કામ હાથમાં લીધું અને મ્રત્યુ પર્યંત તેના દ્વારા એ માત્ર આઠ રૂપિયા બચાવી શક્યો. એટલે કબર એટલામાંથી જ ચણવાની હતી. </strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અમારા ગાઈડે અ બધું સમજાવ્યું ત્યારે માન્યામાં ન આવ્યું કે મેં અને તમે ઇતિહાસના પાઠ વાંચીને જેને એક ક્રૂર, નિષ્ઠુર, નીરસ રાજવી તરીકે ઓળખ્યો હતો એની અ કબર? જેના જમાનામાં શાહી ખજાના ની આવક ભૂતકાળમાં કદીયે ના હોય તેટલી - એટલે કે વિક્રમ જનક અધધધ ૧૦ કરોડ પાઉન્ડ અથવા </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">(ત્યારના વિનિમય મૂલ્ય અનુસાર) </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">૧૦૦ કરોડ રૂપિયા હતી - તેવા મુઘલીયા સલ્તનત ના આલમગીર ઔરંગઝેબ (૧૬૧૮-૧૭૦૭) ની આ કબર હતી!</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">આવો બાદશાહ અને ટોપી સીવે? </strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">ઔરંગઝેબે ૮૯ વર્ષના આયુષ્યમાં મ્રત્યુ પર્યંત </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">શાસન કર્યું હતું -</strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પુરા ૪૯ વર્ષ સુધી. અને છતાંય રાજ-કાજની વ્યસ્તતા દરમ્યાન પણ પવિત્ર કુરાન ની હસ્ત-લિખિત નકલ બનાવવાનો અને ટોપી સીવવાનો સમય કાઢીને પોતાની આત્માના અવાજને અનુસરી, તેણે પોતાની અંતિમ યાત્રાના ખર્ચની આપ-કમાઈમાં અને પાક-કમાઈ થી જોગવાઈ કરી! . તેના પૂર્વજો પૈકી ઘણા મુઘલ સમ્રાટ ઠેકઠેકાણે ભવ્ય ઈમારતો માં સરકારી ખર્ચે દફનાયેલા સુતા છે. પણ આ તો વિશિષ્ટ બાદશાહ હતો . એણે આ આત્મા ના ઉત્કર્ષ માટે, પવિત્ર સ્વર્ગારોહણ પુરતી ગરીબી અપનાવી હતી.</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પરંતુ એનો આત્મા ક્યાં ગરીબ હતો? ખુદા નો એ પ્યારો બંદો , અને મશહુર ઓલિયા- સુફી સંત હઝરત નીઝામુદ્દીન સાહેબ નો આ પ્યારો મુરીદ -પોતાની કબર ની પાસે એક તકતીમાં કલાત્મક શૈલીમાં </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પર્શિયન ભાષામાં </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">લખાણ લખાવી ગયો છે કે " <em style="border-bottom-style: none; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">આ ધરતી સાથે એકાકાર બનીને હું અહી સુતો છું માટે મારા ઉપર સંગે મર્મર બિછાવી ને મને આકાશથી અળગો ના કરશો".</em></strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">વળી યાદ આવી ગયી પ્રસિદ્ધ ગઝલની બે પંક્તિઓ - તેના જ વંશ વારસદાર , આખરી મુઘલ બાદશાહ બહાદુરશાહ ઝફર બીજાએ , વતન થી દુર, ઠેઠ રંગૂન ની ઇસ્ટ ઇન્ડિયા કંપનીની જેલ માં બેસીને લખી હતી <em style="border-bottom-style: none; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">" </em></strong> <em style="border-bottom-style: none; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">कितना है बदनसीब ज़फर </strong></em><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"> दफन के लिए दो गज ज़मीन भी. मिल न सकी कुए यार में.</strong> <strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;"><em style="border-bottom-style: none; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">". </em>દિલ્હી માં દફન પામવાની તેની ખ્વાહીશ અધુરી જ રહી અને રંગૂન ની માટી માં તેણે વિશ્રામ લીધો.<em style="border-bottom-style: none; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;"> </em>તેની અસુરક્ષિત અને ઉપેક્ષિત કબર ઉપર ખુબ ઘાસ અને વેળા પાંદડા ઉગી ગયેલા અને ઓળખાય નહિ એવી હાલત માં તેનો વર્ષો પછી , ખોદકામ અને શોધ ખોળ કરીને જીર્ણોદ્ધારકરવા માં આવેલો .</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">એ પણ એક ખ્વાહીશ રંગૂનમાં હતી અને આ પણ એક ખ્વાહીશ જે ખુલ્દાબાદ માં હતી. બધા aramaano તો ક્યાં પુરા થતા હોય છે. મિર્ઝા ગાલીબ નું માનીએ તો</strong><em style="border-bottom-style: none; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;"> </em><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">हजारों ख्वाहिशें ऐसी कि हर ख्वाहिश पे दम निकले, बहुत निकले मेरे अरमाँ, लेकिन फिर भी कम निकले !</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પસ્તીવાળાના ગયા પછી એક લારી શક્કરીયા અને બટાકા અને કેળા વિગેરે વેચવા આવી અને તેની આસપાસ થોડા દિવસ માટે ના હંગામી ઉપવાસી ધાર્મિકો ફેરિયા સાથે ભાવ-તાલ માં પોતાની નિપુણતાનો ઉપયોગ કરીને પોતાના સુખદ સ્વર્ગારોહણ ને વિષે આશ્વસ્ત બનવા પ્રયત્નશીલ જણાયા . નુકશાન થાય તો સામેવાળાનું જ થવું જોઈએ એવી ઘણાની જાણે કે પ્રતિજ્ઞા હોય છે.</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">યાદો ની પેલી પાક, પવિત્ર ભીનાશ અનુભવી રહેલ આંખો માં ખુંચીને ખલેલ પહોંચાડતા આ દૃશ્ય ને અવગણી ને મેં તરત મારું માન હટાવી લીધું અને અનુસંધાન ફરીથી જ્યાં હતું ત્યાં જ જોડ્યું.</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">મારા પસ્તીવાળા અને એ ખુદાવિંદ બાદશાહ માં કેટલું સામ્ય છે એ તો બુદ્ધી નું ત્રાજવું તોળતું રહ્યું પણ ફરી એક વાર આંખો છલકાઈ ઉઠી અને ત્રાજવું નેકી તરફ નમી ગયું .</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #444444; font: 16px/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">દંભી બાહ્યાચારનું </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">અને દેખાવ પુરતા ઢોંગ રચનારાઓનું </strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">પલ્લું - ભલે તે રામ નું હોય કે રહીમ નું, મારા મનોવિશ્વના ચિદાકાશમાં આંચકા સાથે ઉંચે ઉંચે ક્યાંય ફેંકાઈ ગયું હતું .</strong></div></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-9309503893400231832012-07-12T10:38:00.001+05:302012-07-26T12:06:19.017+05:30I am in B and W, both !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR2nLXNEoFUU7tlgvlIn6WzXlzJZIarzUQtqWe77JeQH_2MOybTe4XWM7D0WSEZhDLq81K_NsZwHl2qH0SAu_VZEkOsj0ThYNBdENr47Fcn9yEhiffnj7Cf7j7CQb5epuaWKdmxuyg6Uzs/s1600/b+&+w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>In February 2010, in my blog , three posts relating to this subject were published.<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: #faffed; line-height: 21px;"> (</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://dst121.blogspot.in/search?updated-min=2010-02-01T00:00:00%2B05:30&updated-max=2010-03-01T00:00:00%2B05:30&max-results=3" style="background-color: #faffed; line-height: 21px;">http://dst121.blogspot.in/search?updated-min=2010-02-01T00:00:00%2B05:30&updated-max=2010-03-01T00:00:00%2B05:30&max-results=3</a><span style="background-color: #faffed; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">)</span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Today, one equally eye opening post can be read at <a href="http://habitsdietyoga.blogspot.in/2012/05/take-medicines-at-your-own-risk.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://habitsdietyoga.blogspot.in/2012/05/take-medicines-at-your-own-risk.html</span></a></b></span><br />
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</div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-76722922995294040212012-05-13T05:51:00.000+05:302012-05-13T05:51:17.401+05:30Turn to Nature Cure. Two new blogs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Two new blogs have started last week dealing with low cost, medicine-less alternate medical treatments. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>[1] h<a href="http://habitsdietyoga.blogspot.in/">ttp://habitsdietyoga.blogspot.in/</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>[2] <a href="http://healingfingertips.blogspot.in/">http://healingfingertips.blogspot.in/</a></b></span></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-14133451748411165702011-11-12T12:19:00.005+05:302011-11-12T13:17:26.518+05:30Unparalleled example of making a dream come true!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">The year is 1946. the day is 3rd March, quite a hot day of impending summer. The place is a remote village in western <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Two simple looking men (one is 66 years old and other precisely a decade younger) are arranging their spartan personal belongings in an 8 ft x 10 ft sized makeshift dwelling under a mango tree. The area is infested with gangs of robbers and dacoits. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh8kLL2S-tJeoQ09m8pMncprdyZWt1mJqbBCtE4fYm9eiVo21hqKetONTabeNB7sR3NzTBNcB_maGBWhMBBXXbYuPtJj6Ip6Dm0sVnqhgkQSVDUfjbbXsGFYGBp5L609BLeHCDGGCclS9m/s1600/vision.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh8kLL2S-tJeoQ09m8pMncprdyZWt1mJqbBCtE4fYm9eiVo21hqKetONTabeNB7sR3NzTBNcB_maGBWhMBBXXbYuPtJj6Ip6Dm0sVnqhgkQSVDUfjbbXsGFYGBp5L609BLeHCDGGCclS9m/s200/vision.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">They have the burning ambition to do something for the people of their area. They have spent lot of time in ambitiously planning to build a new educational town. With no resources in hand, they had held a meeting in a small neighbouring village, predominantly comprising of farmers. They were persuading farmers to donate their land for their dream project, which would benefit one and all in times to come. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">One of them - the younger of the two - had drawn an ingenious plan which offered a deal, with all sincerity, integrity and commitment: </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">By October 1943, Bhaikaka had planned a complete and compact town of learning. The town would have provision of almost all the faculties of education, with learning facilities from KG to PG, and even a University. He planned a town with all infrastructural facilities like electricity, water supply and roads. He envisioned supportive facilities like a market, a post office, temple, a hospital, a community hall, recreational facilities and a vast playground.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Farmers will give their land free of cost for their project. They would develop the entire are and soon the market value will sky-rocket. At that point of time, they would return to each donor a piece of land measuring 1/3rd of his originally donated land. The market price of this small piece will far, far more than compensate him as compared to his initial philanthropy.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">With such a win-win proposal and a desire to be useful to the society at large, the plan worked well. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">At one such meeting in a village, the response was so astounding that the village population spread the map of the village land before these two benevolent taskmasters and offered them a pencil to choose the land size they need. Donations rained that day in the small <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">village</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Bakrol</st1:placename></st1:place> and 555 acres of land was spontaneously offered. The educations mega city was now not a mere dream but a work-in-progress.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">They despised the idea of borrowing know-how and do- how from anywhere. So they started to bake bricks for the buildings locally. Soon to follow were a workshop and foundry, cement pipe factory, tiles factory, rubber factory and prestressed concrete factory to produce, in addition to bricks, lime, timber doors and windows, flooring tiles, hume pipes and various concrete products.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">And why not? What they produced was cheaper in cost, superior in quality and employed local people. Next, they silently started to transform the social stigmas such as un-touchabilty, divided factions through narrow religious beliefs and caste system. So, they invited a Harijan to inaugurate the brick-kiln, a Muslim mechanic to lay the foundation of the workshop and foundry and a Brahmin to lay the first brick of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place>! They did not miss out to start even a printing press for printing handbills, booklets, books, research journals and question papers! Not to mention that they planted a thousand trees.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">They had blessings of Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi and the like. Their extraordinary hard work brought into existence their first college in June 1947. Its B.A. and B.Sc. classes had no roofs - just tall walls. After the classes were over, the teachers and students carried, with cheer, bricks and mortar, toiling along with the skilled and semi-skilled construction workers !</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Sir C.V. Raman and Lady Raman graced the first Annual Day celebration of the college.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Justice M.C. Chagla, Vice -Chancellor, University of Bombay, during his visit to in 1947, was all praise for it when he said, "I came here... and found a new magic. Dreams have come to reality. As the Vice- Chancellor, I am proud that such an ideal college is affiliated to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Bombay</st1:placename></st1:place>.'</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3xO75TC_WnRr_D90IzIJn-KXWWO9OPHRIvwFgkf7MxWIgF0QnLUaFuGsLAyC2YK4LpT-ai0VU_D7l3u9GbN9k9jjJZ1hGWWTkU_hlVRnSinb8P8_lYyxb6sf0R24XCs_phNrnDzxokFB5/s1600/mountbatten.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3xO75TC_WnRr_D90IzIJn-KXWWO9OPHRIvwFgkf7MxWIgF0QnLUaFuGsLAyC2YK4LpT-ai0VU_D7l3u9GbN9k9jjJZ1hGWWTkU_hlVRnSinb8P8_lYyxb6sf0R24XCs_phNrnDzxokFB5/s320/mountbatten.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">In next five years came up two more colleges: commerce and engineering. Lord Mountbatten, the then Governor General, declared open the engineering college on 14th June, 1948 and had praised this "experiment in village reconstruction" . He said that “ from the start the organizers have kept before them the project of a residential university and I am glad to see the educational areas of the township have been planned accordingly.. it is a real pleasure for me to perform this ceremony , the last of its kind of which will be my pleasure to perform in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> as governor general”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Jawaharlal Nehru, who laid the foundation stone of this new educational town observed"...The first thing I have liked is that the activities here have the object of serving village people. The other thing I have liked is that you do not care whether your house is ready or not. You know how to start putting it to use and start your activities. Here we find harmony of principle and practice. This institution by itself prepares its requirements. I earnestly hope that the example of this institution will not only be followed in this province but throughout the country..."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Many reputed men of letters from all over the country joined college as teachers in response to the appeal of the founders who ensured that the quality of education imparted was first- rate. In order that new teachers too equip their students with the latest advances in their respective disciplines they sent nearly a dozen teachers to <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.K.</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.A.</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> for receiving advanced training in research.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-indent: .5in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwxs6vjlhw19NEtYNRQFYuHkhaEWA0b8EdOImD5KD8mONVId27lpdOCFWbBzMDykHCcqU9DQQOSZxC6Yvk2i1zTEyOH0Xdj_3Z1JQ_TOfrFMgV212Wt-pZ3Ljoo6xGBUqALE6-B509H6GI/s1600/education.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwxs6vjlhw19NEtYNRQFYuHkhaEWA0b8EdOImD5KD8mONVId27lpdOCFWbBzMDykHCcqU9DQQOSZxC6Yvk2i1zTEyOH0Xdj_3Z1JQ_TOfrFMgV212Wt-pZ3Ljoo6xGBUqALE6-B509H6GI/s320/education.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">The engineering college was the first one started by a private trust in the entire <st1:placename w:st="on">Bombay</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype>, which extended from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Karachi</st1:city></st1:place> to Dharvad, and the first one in the state. The commerce college foundation stone was laid in 1950 by Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Establishment of Gram Panchayat (1954) & railway station (1956) added new dimension to the prolific development . And all this within a short span of only eight years !<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">The enthusiasm was unstoppable. Within ten years of its foundation it became a university township in October 1955. As a befitting gesture expressing their deepest gratitude, people were happy to see the elder of the two founders being appointed as its first vice chancellor. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyzseTz7xc-0XgrFdVjNNGfSm48KBhLcZvNVpzAKz6ux7gVcP0izTK8LsR6rgTWKQYFuP9Owa-t_0upKqyI_XfnU5ErB3-j7ZLbrTNGqaybEI_Vx0gpHR_MokFb65ZmeVJOtpF2OASPfAi/s1600/edu+courses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyzseTz7xc-0XgrFdVjNNGfSm48KBhLcZvNVpzAKz6ux7gVcP0izTK8LsR6rgTWKQYFuP9Owa-t_0upKqyI_XfnU5ErB3-j7ZLbrTNGqaybEI_Vx0gpHR_MokFb65ZmeVJOtpF2OASPfAi/s320/edu+courses.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Today, the campus hums with almost 45 institutions, beginning with primary schools, technical school, offering graduate courses in arts, science, commerce, engineering, fine arts, music, dance, pharmacy, applied science, environmental design, English training and research, home science, career development centre, management education, physical education, ayurvedic study and research, language studies, applied social sciences, women’s institute for engineering, research in computer and communication technology, ayurveda hospital and maternity home, IAS academy, etc. etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She was studying to be a nun but eventually gave up the idea and decided to start her career as a model . We know who lost and who gained by this decision. </span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today she is wearing the crown which was a special gift from the Queen Elizabeth of England for the Miss World pageant.</span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">She becomes the sixth crown holder in her country, a world record ( which so far was tied with India witha 5-5 score). Her country was waiting for this since last 16 years. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">OMG. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Worth re-reading? You decide !</span></span></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-56450759754971432962011-11-08T08:07:00.000+05:302011-11-08T08:07:11.941+05:30Simple Living and High Thinking... deep down in wilderness!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The British colonials gave the aborigines of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> a name: Bushman.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Though struggling for their daily survival, they are excellent philosophers. Their attitude is reflected in their simple life and simple customs.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEajp3NN61kuvVSgLohujGZU-fzyVmFJVBI7-qu2wYiuAJ0bSLIkjDCKePEP9kbo9qfy08ZxENI0bJIXZ5ljpcqSS1roXWKZ0j3nI6V0Px8Kx9GJCVolJ4hXN1COLpasw8Gkbge5GXCUSv/s1600/bushman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEajp3NN61kuvVSgLohujGZU-fzyVmFJVBI7-qu2wYiuAJ0bSLIkjDCKePEP9kbo9qfy08ZxENI0bJIXZ5ljpcqSS1roXWKZ0j3nI6V0Px8Kx9GJCVolJ4hXN1COLpasw8Gkbge5GXCUSv/s1600/bushman.jpg" /></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They are on the move each day of their lives for water and food. They have limited names, say about thirty-five for each gender (they think it fosters a “name kinship”). The women enjoy high importance and their opinions often take precedence. They hunt with a poisoned arrow which is neuro toxic, meaning that it affects the brain of the prey but does not contaminate the whole body. The portion where the arrow hit the prey is cut out and thrown away before consuming the hunted animal. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They take birth, wedding and death also very casually. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvfQi7tPaX7HeldAj-mA1iKJgHaxlKgM1njgCZ3jcBBuLHXhQSBR-uXiWShfwWHkye6lFlfMF0rkcSHFAjQjk1Dn5Kx6KEvMuRhyphenhyphennSfcALUA5WlKWPspo4q3LkETR2nXGTBTiPtifbKYu/s1600/foetus" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvfQi7tPaX7HeldAj-mA1iKJgHaxlKgM1njgCZ3jcBBuLHXhQSBR-uXiWShfwWHkye6lFlfMF0rkcSHFAjQjk1Dn5Kx6KEvMuRhyphenhyphennSfcALUA5WlKWPspo4q3LkETR2nXGTBTiPtifbKYu/s1600/foetus" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They are not big issues. A Bushman woman who is about to give a birth will simply go behind a bush (sorry, no pun is intended) and just ‘squeeze out’ the baby, have the baby and be back for her routine life in a short while, say an hour or so, unless there is some complication when an older woman could be called for help.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9FRZsQApt2yT1h6GSdtHREkl9DrwyA6tCOmyp-u5dveFRZwFnWW59SzBuj_v7xrv28sspBMqM1ed4JaEGegliAuhJZK1xTK2N04qMrvbUNPZfpAKjjnbmYn5ZOzFd3mdjSCP4InqYXrhB/s1600/love.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9FRZsQApt2yT1h6GSdtHREkl9DrwyA6tCOmyp-u5dveFRZwFnWW59SzBuj_v7xrv28sspBMqM1ed4JaEGegliAuhJZK1xTK2N04qMrvbUNPZfpAKjjnbmYn5ZOzFd3mdjSCP4InqYXrhB/s200/love.jpg" width="194" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A wedding is a private affair between the bride and the groom and only in exceptional cases, a guest may be invited. Boys are not considered as men until they have killed a large, dangerous animal.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If some one dies, the clan will move away from that spot after burying the dead alongwith his or her possessions and never camp at that spot again. The dead person’s knees are folded and brought near the chin while burying, believing that this makes him ready for his new journey (a position resembling the foetus inside the mother?)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I did not start this post to write about the Bushmen but a beautiful piece of their wisdom:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“The day we die, a soft breeze will wipe our footprints in the sand.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When wind dies down, who will tell the timelessness that</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once we walked this way in the dawn of the time”</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or this similar thought, written differently:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The day we die,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The wind comes down</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To take away </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our footprints</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir51QRvIKSSnuKzyBDw-2vGmQBTHiU0JNEZjP-wAebqPxvSPRawsTb3PoqEbcxlR-qng52LuQADzETtHfGwppWkWD9AVbLDkRhXzbZpfWRZhd1DW3FpMUZ7DZiqqjSvZq4huO78G_K1_Mx/s1600/Sand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir51QRvIKSSnuKzyBDw-2vGmQBTHiU0JNEZjP-wAebqPxvSPRawsTb3PoqEbcxlR-qng52LuQADzETtHfGwppWkWD9AVbLDkRhXzbZpfWRZhd1DW3FpMUZ7DZiqqjSvZq4huO78G_K1_Mx/s200/Sand.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The wind makes dust,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To cover up </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The marks we left</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While walking.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgikVNoVrcMV4FEc2ysgJNbOzVN3VlrZleuvUqK7QYbSlXc2KHuTrEeudfR_oMzm-OTX3W8t0bD7q98z3Q9q-WbFNrTCZ-fGONDpVe88m7J_nzdGvMShTbKQDGQ4_8ntg7DF3MyzLhOJepT/s1600/foot-print.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgikVNoVrcMV4FEc2ysgJNbOzVN3VlrZleuvUqK7QYbSlXc2KHuTrEeudfR_oMzm-OTX3W8t0bD7q98z3Q9q-WbFNrTCZ-fGONDpVe88m7J_nzdGvMShTbKQDGQ4_8ntg7DF3MyzLhOJepT/s200/foot-print.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For otherwise</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The thing would seem </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As if we were</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Still living</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Therefore, the wind </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is he who comes</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To blow away</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our footprints.”</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Need we say or learn anything more?</span></b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqjhpomXdpJ8j0ArYUzwLtOdBmaqYe_VWGf4xYHBac7jDUQiITzzlX-HPJQad1UlRNz2HVPYGJpaHXKZ_yhBMHzR7f4Z3600YBF7pGaC7vuQB22DlbMQuoyzgucpiEUDWJta-DRMmqPqY1/s1600/ost-in-time.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqjhpomXdpJ8j0ArYUzwLtOdBmaqYe_VWGf4xYHBac7jDUQiITzzlX-HPJQad1UlRNz2HVPYGJpaHXKZ_yhBMHzR7f4Z3600YBF7pGaC7vuQB22DlbMQuoyzgucpiEUDWJta-DRMmqPqY1/s1600/ost-in-time.jpg" /></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-18056916310920483722011-10-23T11:04:00.103+05:302011-10-23T12:19:41.150+05:30what a heart sings is poetry!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2hLIs9BCVru4v0KkBWqReLRWmJzTWXonNCRRtxpNwkt6js32hl6y5muWNBLgzvvwbJEhAH0XdcCfvVgVR8_gIXcu9LQ85hR1JIoTDCy8htBfhFQdP5U7V3vskpxN7o7BdYhhbljb0do6y/s1600/feather.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2hLIs9BCVru4v0KkBWqReLRWmJzTWXonNCRRtxpNwkt6js32hl6y5muWNBLgzvvwbJEhAH0XdcCfvVgVR8_gIXcu9LQ85hR1JIoTDCy8htBfhFQdP5U7V3vskpxN7o7BdYhhbljb0do6y/s200/feather.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">આમ અચાનક આપ જ્યાં, મળવા આવ્યા ત્યાંજ</span></b></span><br />
<div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">રોમે રોમે ઉજવ્યો, અંદરથી તહેવાર</span></b> - </div><div><b>* * *</b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"></span></span><br />
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b>અહિયાં ફર્યું જે રીતથી ત્યાં પણ ફર્યું હશે,</b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b>એકાદ પીંછું યાદનું ત્યાં પણ ખર્યું હશે. </b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 28px;">( અંકિત ત્રિવેદી)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><b>પોથી </b><b>કરતાં </b><b>તો </b><b> </b><b>એક </b><b>સપનું સારું</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><b>જે મને જીવવાની </b><b>લગની</b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"> લગાડે -</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(કિરીટ ગોસ્વામી)</span></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></b></span><br />
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<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnEzDi6Tcfk7NxUO7-glcZtwwal5E3y6pXEh_8ViDseKQDaBexrJxSU69_Ld_CP08CIZiRcrSt5h_JF3BzrMGb5f-n5VeJZyGrPiXCYFELTBEKSU3ZvICuZSpJiybVV6TI-FicjAkfBiQe/s1600/cuckoo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnEzDi6Tcfk7NxUO7-glcZtwwal5E3y6pXEh_8ViDseKQDaBexrJxSU69_Ld_CP08CIZiRcrSt5h_JF3BzrMGb5f-n5VeJZyGrPiXCYFELTBEKSU3ZvICuZSpJiybVV6TI-FicjAkfBiQe/s200/cuckoo.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">બંધ ઘરની એ ઉદાસીઓ બધી પી જાય છે</span></b></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">એક કોયલ આંગણામાં </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">રોજ ટહુકી જાય છે </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">કોઈ પણ હાલત માં ખુશ રહેવાનું મન શીખી ગયું</span></span></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b></b></span><br />
<div style="display: inline !important;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">એટલે મારાં બધાયે દર્દ હાંફી જાય છે </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">-</span></span></b></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">-</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (કિરણ ચૌહાણ)</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: 28px;">* * *</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">એક માણસ હારવાનો વારતાના અંતમાં</span></b></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;">હું દિલાસો આપવાનો </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;">વારતાના અંતમાં</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"></span></b></span><br />
<div style="display: inline !important;"></div><div style="display: inline !important;"></div><div style="display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"> </span></span></b></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">જિંદગીભર આપતા આવ્યા છો જાકારો ભલે </span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">હું તમારો લાગવાનો </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">વારતાના અંતમાં </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">- (દિનેશ કાનાણી)</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 28px;"><b>* * *</b></span><br />
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<div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">આ તે કઈ રીત છે?</span></b></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">સંબંધના ચણતરમાં લાંબી તિરાડ</span></b></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">અને પાયામાં </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">શરતોની ઈંટ છે.-</span> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 23px;">(આશા પુરોહિત)</span></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 28px;"><b>* * *</b></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"></span><br />
<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNF_nxPHRw2wrJlcWV9MeN_2I2StTt8EqOwmawjgneuge3QDqc7bcnvBytZptXC_SjwPaX2a_GPuh_JWRN1ssawFmEvm1xA9uCUYYuKna3-PJLz6_sXrhpaRDEEUC3TVcrqtNaDMrk15j/s1600/nail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNF_nxPHRw2wrJlcWV9MeN_2I2StTt8EqOwmawjgneuge3QDqc7bcnvBytZptXC_SjwPaX2a_GPuh_JWRN1ssawFmEvm1xA9uCUYYuKna3-PJLz6_sXrhpaRDEEUC3TVcrqtNaDMrk15j/s200/nail.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">એક ખીલીને </span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">ભણવા બેસાડી ...</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">ગ્રેજુએટ થઇ ને આવી</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">ત્યાં સુધીમાં તો </span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">એ</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">સ્ક્રુ બની ગઈ!! </span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">-</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (જિજ્ઞાસુ </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 23px;">દક્ષિણી)</span></div><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">આવે ગઝલ માં જે રીતે બસ આવવા દીધી,</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">મેં લાગણી ની કોઈ દી' માત્રા ગણી નથી.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">એથી જ પ્રેમ પામવાની આશ છે હજી</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">તેં હા કહી નથી મને, ના પણ ભણી નથી. -</span></b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(મકરંદ મુસળે)</span></div></div></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-30829667638055548862011-10-17T12:03:00.002+05:302011-10-17T12:17:36.777+05:30Mentoring - the golden touch of a master<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">For personal growth, self-esteem and self-worth are immensely essential.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VjCXhCIZzkC4I8PceVLgeh2c1V8Q60q6zXOkGSngLAEji_uyGPpfDyKl06D68WTTyh3BhPsVS2KWVY4NOUxImwH5hATzxclakN97NJpxYqneUnjUI3hzu7hU89lbuhL-s87o-Od0CEq-/s1600/self+worth.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VjCXhCIZzkC4I8PceVLgeh2c1V8Q60q6zXOkGSngLAEji_uyGPpfDyKl06D68WTTyh3BhPsVS2KWVY4NOUxImwH5hATzxclakN97NJpxYqneUnjUI3hzu7hU89lbuhL-s87o-Od0CEq-/s320/self+worth.gif" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">We may feel very lowly about ourselves, despite all our talents and skills. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">Just a little boost, some mentoring, some one kindly showing us a mirror and letting us know who we actually are! Those who are lucky, get such people in their lives. And they suddenly find a surge of energy and enthusiasm and urge to achieve and excel, with confidence level that was never so high.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">It is the grace of our mentors: small and great, old and young – who made us believe in ourselves. How can we repay this debt? One, we must remember and thank very often, Secondly, pass on the legacy of mentoring on to some one who come in our touch and help that person realize their self-worth.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAVN2k5WxaAIdwXDOjun22aHOK3tfv0skebT93PVvfbBvLMboanJTEN3jE8Q7jQCL9Ygm1qCqMQUhqleHs7AzBMsK0NhsbSDLHAnv6TcGV4Jum8zIuZXqow5JPnCbklV1u-jdtFHy36B98/s1600/mentoring.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAVN2k5WxaAIdwXDOjun22aHOK3tfv0skebT93PVvfbBvLMboanJTEN3jE8Q7jQCL9Ygm1qCqMQUhqleHs7AzBMsK0NhsbSDLHAnv6TcGV4Jum8zIuZXqow5JPnCbklV1u-jdtFHy36B98/s1600/mentoring.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">Here is a beautiful poem by<b> </b><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal;">Myra</span></em></st1:place></st1:city><em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal;"> 'Brooks' Welch, the ‘poet with a singing soul”</span></em><b> (</b>originally published by her anonymously in a church magazine but later she was identified as the writer of this much too popular and greatly inspiring piece of work).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">There is an interesting background:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">She wrote it just in 30 minutes in 1921 after she was greatly touched by listening to a speaker when she was a student. She thought it came from the God and must not have a claim on it as a writer. It sparked like magic and touched many a hearts. When it became popular was read once in an international convention as an anonymously written poem, a man stood up and said that he knew her and it is high time the world also knew her. “She is my mother”, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">It tells splendidly what one hardly can say about the golden touch of a master (in shaping our lives, as it were).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Thought it scarcely worth his while</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">To waste much time on the old violin,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">But held it up with a smile.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">"What am I bidden, good folks?" he cried,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"Who'll start the bidding for me?"</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"A dollar, a dollar"; then, "Two! Only two?</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Two dollars, and who'll make it three?</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Going for three" But no,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">From the room, far back, a gray-haired man</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Came forward and picked up the bow;</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Then, wiping the dust from the old violin,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">And tightening the loose strings,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">He played a melody pure and sweet</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">As a caroling angel sings.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">The music ceased, and the auctioneer,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">With a voice that was quiet and low,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Said, "What am I bid for the old violin?"</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">And he held it up with the bow.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">"A thousand dollars, and who'll make it two?</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Two thousand! And who'll make it three?</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Three thousand, once; three thousand, twice,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">And going, and gone," said he.</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">The people cheered, but some of them cried,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"We do not quite understand</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">What changed its worth." Swift came the reply:</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"The touch of a master's hand."</span></span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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</b></span></div></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-87555919701349501662011-10-07T23:10:00.001+05:302011-11-09T07:55:43.277+05:30Sing aloud "all is well" when you are hurt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">I came across today a wonderful lyrics of a song by the popular US band R.E.M. that transported me to a popular </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Hindi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"> film song from the film '3 Idiots'.</span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">Both are having a common thread, a philosophy that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">liberalizes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"> one self from the grief and hurt. Who has not experienced it?</span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>So let the lyrics enthrall and elevate us, with least interference of any sort</b></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGTRdCwzQh8tDFnJ9rFX9uAyWuZvZCukNb2_lnXWzex0IeXR-VyF-9WmdiQ5aUf33VcvEBOCzI1ahKjviikrbo_Wu_tcXu1Hfr80qUxppwbjdqGQ3eQ1eVUWOHPi5YceERAxXuRYJvtNPP/s1600/hurt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGTRdCwzQh8tDFnJ9rFX9uAyWuZvZCukNb2_lnXWzex0IeXR-VyF-9WmdiQ5aUf33VcvEBOCzI1ahKjviikrbo_Wu_tcXu1Hfr80qUxppwbjdqGQ3eQ1eVUWOHPi5YceERAxXuRYJvtNPP/s400/hurt.jpg" width="326" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Everybody Hurts</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 115%;">(Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe)</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,</span></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">If you feel like letting go, (hold on)</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">'Cause everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand. Oh, no. Don't throw your hand</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Well, everybody hurts sometimes,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Everybody hurts. You are not alone</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"> ----------------</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">(Swadanand Kirkire)</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>जब लाइफ हो आउट ऑफ़ कंट्रोल</b></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-size: 15pt;">होंठों </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-size: 15pt;">को </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-size: 15pt;">कर </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-size: 15pt;">के </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-size: 15pt;">गोल</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">होंठों </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">को </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">कर </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">के </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">गोल</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">सीटी </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">बजा </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">के </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> बोल</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 36px;"><br />
</span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 28px;">आल </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">इज्ज्ज़ </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">वेल</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 36px;"><br />
</span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 28px;">मुर्गी </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">क्या </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">जाने </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">अंडे </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">का </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">क्या </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> होगा</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">अरी </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">लाइफ </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">मिलेगी </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">या </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">तवी </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">पे </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">फ्राय </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">होगा</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">कोई </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">न </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">जाने </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> अपना </span></span></b><b style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 20px; line-height: 36px;">फ्यूचर </b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">क्या </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> होगा</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">होंठ </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">घुमा </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">सीटी </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> बजा</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">सीटी </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> बजा </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> के </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> बोल</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">भैया </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">आल </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">इज्ज़ </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">वेल</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 36px;"><br />
</span></span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">अरे </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">भैया </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">आल </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">इज्ज़ </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">वेल</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">अरे</span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> चाचू </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">आल </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">इज्ज़ </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">वेल</span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">अरे</span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">भैया </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">आल </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">इज्ज़ </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">वेल</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">कनफूजन ही </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">कनफूजन </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">है</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">सोलुशन </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">कुछ </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">पता </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">नहीं</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">सोलुशन </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> जो </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">मिला </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">तो </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">साला</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">क्वेश्चन </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">क्या </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> था </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">पता </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> नहीं</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 36px;"><br />
</span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">दिल </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">जो </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> तेरा </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">बात </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">बात </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> पे </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">घबराए</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">दिल </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> पे </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> रख </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">के </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> हाथ</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">उसे </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">तू </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">फुसला </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">ले</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">दिल </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> इडिअट </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">है </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">प्यार </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">से </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">उसको </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">समझा </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">ले</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">होंठ </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">घुमा </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">सीटी </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> बजा</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">सीटी </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> बजा </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> के </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> बोल</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">भैया </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">आल </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">इज्ज़ </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">वेल</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 28px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></div><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">स्कोलरशिप </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">की </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">पि </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">गया </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">दारु</span></span></b><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">ग़म </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">तो</span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> फिर </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">भी </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">मिटा </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">नहीं</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 28px;">अगरबत्तियां </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">राख </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">हो </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> गयी</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">गोड़ </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">तो </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> फिर </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> भी</span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> दिखा </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">नहीं</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">बकरा </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">क्या </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> जान </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">उसकी </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">जान </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> का </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> क्या </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> होगा</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">सीख </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">घुसेगी </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">या </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> साला </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> कीमा </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">होगा</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">कोई </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">न </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">जाने </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> अपना </span></span></b><b style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 20px; line-height: 36px;">फ्यूचर </b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">क्या </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> होगा</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">होंठ </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">घुमा </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">सीटी </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> बजा</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">सीटी </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> बजा </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> के </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> बोल</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">भैया </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">आल </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">इज्ज़ </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">वेल</span></span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">अरे </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">भैया </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">आल </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">इज्ज़ </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 15pt;">वेल</span></span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 28px;"></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb7jFJ7tyUFP5-DWNnjYR3EET2AYiNU_3IP9ECaMGW8VSfLpZ5FQ0IaalRP_fXMvqZYpksX7Ptb-H9WZlFkqFV1mImP5TTJyKGqXcbroMSJZiN-0iDQxRsHeQ2PnZZVZjIG0l36scRZgQu/s1600/sing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb7jFJ7tyUFP5-DWNnjYR3EET2AYiNU_3IP9ECaMGW8VSfLpZ5FQ0IaalRP_fXMvqZYpksX7Ptb-H9WZlFkqFV1mImP5TTJyKGqXcbroMSJZiN-0iDQxRsHeQ2PnZZVZjIG0l36scRZgQu/s320/sing.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>It started with a visit to the general physician. Then a visit to the path lab for a series of pathological tests. Blood / urine samples and some tests were routine and simpler. Some were advanced and expensive but no success.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>The eye specialist was also energetic. He did basic check up and also deployed his speculum, tonometer, fundus camera, aberrometer, refraction and 20-20 and what not. No success.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>The neurologist checked brains and nerves, did fluoroscopy , angiography, cerebrospinal fluid analysis, discography, and what not.Again, alas no success.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>I even checked with the immunologist to find out about some help through vaccines, shots, preventive, etc help.They are good about allergies and epidemics, as were my symptoms indicating.</b></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I had thought that all these biochemical parameters testing, kidney, liver, lung, assessment, cardiac and neuropathic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> consultations, their peep into every vein and artery, brain and heart, bone and blood/urine dimension details would enable them to locate and treat ( better still - remove) my several ailments, diseases, indispositions troubling me ever since i grew up and which restrict the joy of living.</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For example, I wanted to know where do my cheerlessness, combativeness, urge for a big revenge, apathetic indifference, hostilities, uncaring callousness, jealousy and rudeness, insensitivity and indifference, grudges and grumblings, ego blasts and moody disposition, insincerity and distrust, reluctance and recalcitrance, pretentiousness and ostentatiousness, contentiousness,,showmanship, dogmas and dis-beliefs, laziness and avarice, greed and hypocrisy. The list goes on and on.And periodically also grows on and own.</span></b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRGkb1rDwUdpZrrJjk8LiTGFOVN7X8A7n_vrPEepz9F8YSKsakVLPhOSq93wp6j0ayiuIhhHtBHSyaKCi2SqEV5EhPDaN6ZmRQ57VuxaH-kQBEiRjLlL0Cf6hTUQgaTcspxyOvU9BEngZ/s1600/heal+thyself.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRGkb1rDwUdpZrrJjk8LiTGFOVN7X8A7n_vrPEepz9F8YSKsakVLPhOSq93wp6j0ayiuIhhHtBHSyaKCi2SqEV5EhPDaN6ZmRQ57VuxaH-kQBEiRjLlL0Cf6hTUQgaTcspxyOvU9BEngZ/s320/heal+thyself.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I thought when they see into the heart or </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>brain, they will be able to locate the bunkers in which all these diseases reside, well protected, well nourished and ever-indulging and interfering with my thoughts and behaviour. And I unknowingly keep obeying their commands like a slave, sadly revelling in them.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>I thought these experts and their tools would weed them out, burn them with a laser, put an incision through their sharp scalpel and chop it off, bypass them and create a healthy new route, put an artificial device/ stent, 'peace-maker', broaden the narrow heart and mind through baloonoplasty or whatever, stitch and sew, transplant, detox, clean the mess, etc.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>But they smiled, gave me the bill and whisked me in a wheel chair to the parking lot.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>I am back to where I started with lighter pockets but valuable wisdom: </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>I will have to all this my self. </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>I can do it.</b></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Amen</span></b><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><i>Mahishasura Mardini stotram</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #3e3e3e;"><br />
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</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This beautiful Hindu prayer ( in Sanskrit language , with English translation) is symbolic of the power of Shakti ( supreme power identified with the female form ) and highest regard in which they were expected to be held by one and all.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The poetic portrayal is so awesome, powerful, graceful and fearsome - all at one - and is a treat in itself, whether one is religious or not, a believer or not . it is highly lyrical, set in pleasing rhymes and rhythm, melodious and with little practice can be sung by those who are gifted even with average skills.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The story ( courtesy : The Smithsonian Institution) runs like this:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>Durga</b>, the great Warrior Goddess, represents the lethal energy of divine anger when turned against evil. It is Durga's story which is one of the three great stories in Devi Mahatmya. The world was under attack by Mahisha, the most evil demon in the world, who took many different forms, including that of a buffalo. </i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>The male gods, fearing total annihilation endowed Durga with their powers. Riding a lion into battle, Durga slew the buffalo by cutting off its head and then she destroyed the spirit of the demon as it emerged from the buffalo's severed neck. It is through this act that order was established in the world. Durga's victory and power are celebrated every fall throughout India in the Durga Puja. Durga is among the most widely represented visual forms of Devi throughout the Indian </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>subcontinent</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As some one has rightly said, the colorful tapestry of legends that surround Shakti also contribute towards festivities observed throughout the year, the most significant of which is the autumnal <strong>Navaratri</strong> or the festival of nine nights ( which has just began two days back) . It is also celebrated as <b>Puja</b> festival in Eastern India at this times.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><i><br />
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</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span lang="ES-TRAD"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1.</span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span lang="ES-TRAD"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ayi giri nandini, nandhitha medhini,Viswa vinodhini nandanuthe, </span></span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span lang="ES-TRAD"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Girivara vindhya sirodhi nivasini,Vishnu Vilasini Jishnu nuthe, <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span lang="ES-TRAD"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bhagawathi hey sithi kanda kudumbini,Bhoori kudumbini bhoori kruthe, </span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span lang="ES-TRAD"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jaya Jaya Mahishasura mardini,Ramya kapardini, shaila Suthe</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i style="color: indigo;"><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i style="color: indigo;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Who bestows boons upon the Gods, Who defeats the undisciplined, </b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i style="color: indigo;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Who tolerates the ignorant, Who is ever rejoicing, </b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i style="color: indigo;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Who nourishes the three worlds, Who pleases Shankara,</b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i style="color: indigo;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Who removes sins, Who inhabits the sound of AUM,</b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><b>Whose wrath befalls the progeny of the demons Danu and Diti, </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo; font-style: italic;">Who destroys those drunk on the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-style: italic;">evil intoxicant of pride, </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><b>Who is Daughter of the Ocean!</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the </span><st1:place style="color: #351c75;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Buffalo</st1:city></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"> Demon!</span></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Victory, Daughter of the </span><st1:place style="color: #351c75;" w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">, with beautifully plaited hair!</span></b></span></i></div><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> 2.</b></span></i><br />
<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b> ayi jagadamba madamba kadambavanapriyavaasini haasarate ||<br />
shikharishiromaNi tungahimaalaya shringanijaalaya madhyagate ||<br />
madhumadhure madhukaitabhaganjini kaitabhabhanjini raasarate ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: indigo; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Oh, Mother of the World, my Mother, </b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: indigo; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Who loves Her Kadamba tree forest, </b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: indigo; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Who is always smiling,<br />
Whose dwelling is in the tallest peaks of the Himalayas, the greatest of all mountain chains,<br />
Who is so very sweet, </b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: indigo; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Who keeps the treasures of Madhu and Kaitabha, </b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: indigo; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Who slayed Kaitabha, </b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: indigo;">Who is ever dancing,<br />
</span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</span></i></b></span><i><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br />
</span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWl7Ylyc4K6PtS5x_daKMF3J8Drz1zBY-dFElUr636eYNNR52vCPzvgu7zBOodu9UKBFZiT45J-aAU8E01KtkFLSh-uv8HYCsojRX5ygj3Foynn7UIoq18FfQTys4DOi22Um1AmGnXVUd/s1600/mahi-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWl7Ylyc4K6PtS5x_daKMF3J8Drz1zBY-dFElUr636eYNNR52vCPzvgu7zBOodu9UKBFZiT45J-aAU8E01KtkFLSh-uv8HYCsojRX5ygj3Foynn7UIoq18FfQTys4DOi22Um1AmGnXVUd/s400/mahi-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"> 3.</span></i></b><br />
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<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> ayi shatakhaNda vikhaNditaruNda vituNditashuNda gajaadhipate ||<br />
ripugajagaNda vidaaraNachaNda paraakramashuNda mrigaadhipate ||<br />
nijabhujadaNda nipaatitakhaNda vipatitamuNda bhataadhipate ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: indigo; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Who splinters demons' heads into hundreds of shards, </b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: indigo;">Who severs the trunks of their great battle elephants,<br />
Whose great Lion mount exhibits terrifying valor, as he tears apart the temples of the enemy's elephants<br />
Who shatters the skulls of enemy chieftains with the strength of her own arms, </span></i><i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"> Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</span></i></b></span><i><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>4.</i></b></span><br />
<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> ayi raNadurmadashatruvadhodita durdharanirjara shaktibhrute ||<br />
chaturavicharadhuriiNamahasiva dutakrita pramathaadhipate ||<br />
duritaduriihaduraashayadurmati daanavaduta krutaantamate ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
<ol start="5" type="1"></ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: indigo;">Oh, it is You Who possesses the invincible force that vanquishes hard-to-subdue enemies in battle<br />
Who promoted Pramatha, the great attendant of Shiva, a master of subtle thinking, to be Her general in battle,<br />
Who destroyed the messengers of the demons, who were sinful, with evil intention in their thoughts and minds,<br />
</span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</span></i></b></span><i><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br />
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</span></span></i></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5.</span></i></b></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b> ayi sharaNaagata vairivadhoovara viiravaraabhayadaayakare ||</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> tribhuvanamastaka shoolavirodhishiirodhikritaamala shoolakare ||<br />
dumidumitaamara dundubhinaada mahomukhariikrita tigmakare ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;">Oh, it is You Who gives protection to the wives of heroic enemy warriors when they seek refuge;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Who aims a flawless spear at the head of the demon who causes great pain in all the three worlds,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Who burns like a blazing hot sun, inflamed by the resounding din of the war-drums of the Gods, </span></b></span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</b></span></i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> 6.</span></i></b></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b>ayi nijahunkriti maatraniraakrita dhoomravilochana dhoomrashate ||<br />
samravishoshita shoNitabeeja samudbhavashoNita biijalate ||<br />
shivashivashumbhani shumbhamahaahavatarpita bhutapishaacharate ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;">Oh, it is You Who, with a single roar, disperses the streams of smoke flowing from the eyes of advancing demons,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Who thrives like a vine on the blood that falls on the battle ground,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Who delights alike in the company of the auspicious Shiva, inauspicious Shumbha and Nishumbha, and the ghoulish spirits who feed on the battle carnage, </span></b></span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</b></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br />
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</span></span></i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"> 7.</span></i></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><b> </b> dhanuranusangaraNakshaNasanga parishphuradanga naTatkaTake ||</span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"> kanakapishanga prishatkanishanga rasadbhatasringa hataabaTuke ||<br />
krutachaturanga balakshitiranga ghatadbahuranga raTadbaTuke ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i></span><br />
<ol start="8" type="1"></ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;">Who decks Her tender limbs with fine dancing ornaments at the moment of battle, as She readies Her bow,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Who slays huge enemy soldiers with Her shining sword and arrows from Her golden-brown quiver,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Who plays with the vast enemy forces arrayed on the battlefield as if they were screaming toy soldiers, </span></b></span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</b></span></i></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></i></b><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b> jaya jaya japyajaye jayashabda parastutitatatpara vishvanute ||<br />
jhaNa jhaNa jhinjhimijhinkritanoopura sinjitamohita bhootapate ||<br />
natita nataardhanatiinatanaayaka naatitanaatyasugaanarate ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Who attracts Shiva's attention with the tinkling of Her bells and ornaments as She dances</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Who delights in Her own beautiful singing, and Her dance in the form of Ardhanari( half male/half female form) </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;">,</span></i></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!</span></i></span></b><br />
<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"> Victory, Daughter of the </span><st1:place style="color: #351c75;" w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">, with beautifully plaited hair!</span></span></b></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b> ayi sumanah sumanah sumanah sumanoharakaantiyute ||<br />
shrita rajanii rajanii rajanii rajanii rajaniikaravakravrute ||<br />
sunayanavibhra marabhra marabhra marabhra marabhra maraadhipate||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> [The meaning of the middle two lines is unclear],</span></b></span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</b></span></i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b>sahitamahaahava mallamatallika mallitarallaka mallarate ||<br />
virachitavallika pallikamallika shrillikabhillika vargavrute ||<br />
sita kruta phullisamullasitaakruNtallaja pallavasallalite ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;">[ Regrettably, the meaning of this verse is unclear as stated in various versions available .] </span><br />
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Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</b></span></i></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> 11.</span></i></b><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b>aviralagaNda galanmadamedura mattamatangajaraajapate ||<br />
tribhuvana bhooshaNa bhootakalaanidhi roopapayonidhiraajasute ||<br />
ayi sudatiijanalaalasamaanasa mohanamanmatharaajasute ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Oh Great Princess, Daughter of the Ocean, Who has the beauty of the Moon,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Who is Ornament of the triple world,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Princess of Love, whose beautiful smile enchants the minds of those entrapped by desire,</span></b></span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</b></span></i></div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></i><br />
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alikulasankula kuvalayamaNdala maulimiladbakulaalikule ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;">Whose flawless forehead displays Her beautiful complexion, pure and delicate like lotus petals,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Whose flocks of swans follow Her with the fluid grace that is the mark of all beautiful arts,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Whose swarms of bees sail down from the </span>bakula<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> trees to light with other bees atop the lotus flowers,</span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</span></i></b></span></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></i></b><br />
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militapulinda manoharagunjita ranjitashailanikunjagate ||<br />
nijaguNabhoota mahaashabariigaNa sadguNasambhruta kelitale ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;">Who so sweetly plays Her flute that its music puts the Kokila bird to shame, Who always has sweet thoughts,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Who dwells in colorful mountain groves that echo pleasantly with the bustle of mountain folk,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Whose playground is filled with breathtaking tribal women, who are manifestations of Her own great qualities,</span></b></span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair</span></i></b></span></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> 14.</span></i></b><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b>katitatapiitadukoolavichitra mayookhatiraskrita chandraruche||<br />
praNatasuraasura maulimaNisphuradamshulasannakha chandraruche||<br />
jitakanakaachala maulipadorjita nirbharakunjara kumbhakuche ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: indigo;">Who outshines the brilliance of the moon with the colorful rays flashing from the yellow silks around Her waist,<br />
Whose toenails shine like the moon as well, reflecting the crest jewels of the gods and demons who bow at Her feet,<br />
Whose breasts outshine the temples of wild elephants and the high peaks of golden mountains,<br />
</span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</span></i></b></span><i><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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krutasurataaraka sangarataaraka sangarataaraka soonusute ||<br />
surathasamaadhi samaanasamaadhi samaadhi samaadhi sujaatarate ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;">Who surpasses the thousand-rayed sun with the brilliance of Her own thousand hands, and Who is in turn praised by a thousand suns,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Who does battle to save the Gods, and Whose sons fought the demon Taraka and are Saviors,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> [Meaning unclear], </span></b></span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
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ayi kamale kamalaanilaye kamalaanilayah sakatham na bhavet ||<br />
tava padameva param padamityanushiilayato mama kim na shive ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;">Oh Benevolent Goddess, accompanied by Shiva, when one daily cherishes Your lotuslike feet,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Then, Oh lotus-dwelling Lakshmi, how will one not become wealthy?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Oh Auspicious Goddess, what riches will not be mine, if I earnestly believe that Your feet are the highest goal to be achieved? </span></span></b></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</b></span></i></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></i></b><br />
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bhajati sa kim na sachikuchakumbha tatiiparirambha sukhaanubhavam ||<br />
tava charaNam sharaNam karavaaNi nataamaravaaNi nivaasisivam ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Will one not experience in Heaven the joy, equal to that of Indra, of embracing the full bosom of Sachi?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> Oh Goddess worshipped by the Gods Themselves, I take refuge at Your feet, which are also the abode of Shiva. </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br />
</span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b> tava vimalendukulam vadanendum alam sakalam nanu koolayate ||<br />
kimu puruhoota puriindumukhiisumukhiibhirasau vimukhiikriyate ||<br />
mama tu matam sivanaamadhane bhavatii kripayaa kimuta kriyate ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;">When one sufficiently dedicates oneself to Your entire moonlike visage, brighter than a host of perfect moons,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> How will one be turned away in heaven by the moon-visaged beauties of the city of </span><st1:place style="color: indigo;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Indra</st1:city></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;">?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> [Meaning unclear], </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!</span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</span></i></b></span></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></i></b><br />
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</span></i></b></span></i></b></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> 19.</span></i></b></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b> ayi mayi diinadayaalutayaa krupayaiva tvayaa bhavitavyamume ||<br />
ayi jagato jananii krupayaasi yathaasi tathanumitaasitare ||<br />
yaduchitamatra bhavatyurariikrutaadurutaapa mapaakrurute ||<br />
jaya jaya he mahishaasuramardhini ramyakapardini shailasute ||</span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;">Oh Uma, please look kindly upon me, because of your virtue of compassion toward the meek,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> [Meaning unclear],</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: indigo;"> But you may do as You wish with me, Oh You who removes the pain of Her devotees. </span></b></span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Victory, victory to You, Oh Slayer of the Buffalo Demon!<br />
Victory, Daughter of the <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>, with beautifully plaited hair!</b></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</span></i><i><span style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> By Ramakrishna kavi / </span></b></span></span></i><i><span style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Translated by Devi Bhakta</b></span></span></i></div></div></div></div></div></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-80032673305797298682011-09-28T15:53:00.002+05:302011-09-28T15:56:52.818+05:30Better to be a butterfly than learn English .<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You know when was the best time to write in English? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Answer is astonishing. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was in Shakespeare's time. There were hardly coorect and incorrect spellings.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">His own name had 41 spellings and he himself used 5 of them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">God forbid, we are told that root of the problem is the first bible in English language. About 500 years ago, one was to read it only in Latin and one can be punished for printing or keeping English version.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPPb6mpNa1Ax-pwIp6JBoRdH2AMC5PT4ex7ihA6vA_r4grwcKOLYZgHKNd8gM8mPyVdzklG-C7Wa8KIou3mlkpsC1FT1FasvDJZnv3lPtwzN6xI5OCE74RHBZaYpqwdNqFFHRcNwi7fjBS/s1600/old+bible.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPPb6mpNa1Ax-pwIp6JBoRdH2AMC5PT4ex7ihA6vA_r4grwcKOLYZgHKNd8gM8mPyVdzklG-C7Wa8KIou3mlkpsC1FT1FasvDJZnv3lPtwzN6xI5OCE74RHBZaYpqwdNqFFHRcNwi7fjBS/s400/old+bible.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So the first bold step was to print it in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> where people knew very little English.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was a first ever book for most of the people and it became the sole primer for their reading, writing, and we are bearing the brunt today of those uncorrected prints.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In spoken English today , </span></b><br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">there are some 43 sounds as against around 50 in European languages . </span></b></li>
<li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But funnily enough , there about 185 spellings for 43 sounds and children have to learn this. </span></b></li>
<li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">More than 100 words have same spellings </span></b></li>
<li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">About 70 English spellings have more than one pronunciation and as a result about 2,000 words become totally un-decodable! </span></b></li>
<li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There are about 100 words where pronunciation changes with their context and again , </span></b></li>
<li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">about 370 words obey the doubling rule and </span></b></li>
<li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">some <i>380</i> words <i>disobey</i> it and finally, </span></b></li>
<li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the silent letters are just the last straw on the camel’s back.</span></b></li>
</ul><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Generally, it takes about ten years of practice to be a good English speller or speaker. </span></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAfM6yvxW53QfKGdeoVxzyw1ZZZLmQZAA4HIK213-5ak2UxaLyCwmmhtgUMbLgTW9RyVGYucJfz-IEBbS9lNdAk5n-Wb2-eHmE5OkIM5198o_XTXg1CRVMDqp8aXbmaEM7AGT9FZnzceF/s1600/too+advanced.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAfM6yvxW53QfKGdeoVxzyw1ZZZLmQZAA4HIK213-5ak2UxaLyCwmmhtgUMbLgTW9RyVGYucJfz-IEBbS9lNdAk5n-Wb2-eHmE5OkIM5198o_XTXg1CRVMDqp8aXbmaEM7AGT9FZnzceF/s400/too+advanced.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now we know it and must pity them if they are still learning – or admire them if they have learnt it. </span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Imagine the plight of about 250 million users of Facebook, MSN Messenger and Twitter and add further a few hundred millions who use SMS or text messages on their cell phones ! No wonder the following parallel NETLINGO spellings are going around in great volume :</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE5XpFvZNVYVvmEMKIWarFGz_ld7cxpjxFjkgixje_gRJhPAecBH3Cx9B9dZ6KBxqtIqBoX9rHvP3Z2IfgQcMAcJPxh9koVNoag9XJD9ACmsdOT_DULB-SqrmFHme0RKq5G6cZq1VXC4_m/s1600/vodaphone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE5XpFvZNVYVvmEMKIWarFGz_ld7cxpjxFjkgixje_gRJhPAecBH3Cx9B9dZ6KBxqtIqBoX9rHvP3Z2IfgQcMAcJPxh9koVNoag9XJD9ACmsdOT_DULB-SqrmFHme0RKq5G6cZq1VXC4_m/s320/vodaphone.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">CUZ-Because / </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">CWOT-Complete Waste Of Time / </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">CWYL-Chat With You Later / </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">CX-Cancelled / </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></b></li><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">CY-Calm Yourself / </span></b></li><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">CYA-See Ya / C</li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">YE-Check your Email / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">CYL-See You Later / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">CYM-Check Your Mail / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">CYO-See You Online / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">CYT-See You Tomorrow / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">D&M-Deep & Meaningful / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">d/c-disconnected / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">DLTM-Don't Lie To Me / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">DMI-Don't Mention It / </li><br />
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<li style="display: inline !important;">DNBL8-Do Not Be Late / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">DNC-Does Not Compute / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">DND-Do Not Disturb / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">...etc </li><br />
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</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><ul style="display: inline !important; text-align: left;"><li style="display: inline !important;"><div><ul style="display: inline !important; text-align: left;"><li style="display: inline !important;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></b></li>
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></b></ul></div>OR</li>
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</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">luv U, cant w8t 2C U l8r - love you, can not wait to see you later / </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></b><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">which 1 of my kdz do U wnt? - which one of my kids do you want?/ </span></b></li><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;"> IM@wrk - I am at work / </li><br />
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<li style="display: inline !important;"> ayt – are you there? / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;">aisi – as I see it / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;"> btw – by the way / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;"> ILU – I love you / </li><br />
</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<li style="display: inline !important;"> ruf2t – are you free to talk? / </li><br />
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<li style="display: inline !important;"> rntuaqt – aren’t you a cutie / </li><br />
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<li style="display: inline !important;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">etc, etc</span></b></li><br />
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<li style="display: inline !important;"> </li><br />
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</span></b></div><span style="color: #333333;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> With thousands of radio messages broadcast every second by aviation and military personnel round the world, with many accents too difficult for the non-natives, we have ended up with PHONETIC / SPELLING ALPHABET </span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #292929; line-height: 17px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Letters</span></b></span><br />
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<tr><th style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; padding-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Letter</span></th><th align="left" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; padding-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Code word</span></th><th align="left" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; padding-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pronunciation</span></th></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Alfa</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">AL FAH</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bravo</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">BRAH VOH</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Charlie</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">CHAR LEE</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Delta</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">DELL TAH</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">E</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Echo</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ECK OH</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Foxtrot</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">FOKS TROT</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Golf</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">GOLF</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">H</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hotel</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">HOH TELL</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">India</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">IN DEE AH</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">J</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Juliett</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">JEW LEE ETT</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">K</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kilo</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">KEY LOH</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">L</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lima</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">LEE MAH</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">M</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mike</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">MIKE</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">N</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">November</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">NO VEM BER</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">O</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oscar</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">OSS CAH</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">P</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Papa</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PAH PAH</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Q</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Quebec</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">KEH BECK</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">R</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Romeo</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ROW ME OH</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">S</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sierra</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">SEE AIR AH</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">T</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tango</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">TANG GO</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">U</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Uniform</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">YOU NEE FORM</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">V</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Victor</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">VIK TAH</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">W</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whiskey</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">WISS KEY</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">X</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">X-ray</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ECKS RAY</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Y</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yankee</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">YANG KEY</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Z</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Zulu</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ZOO LOO</span></b></td></tr>
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</span></h3><h3 style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 5px;"></h3><h3><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">With all these headaches in spoken and written communication, one day we should not be surprised that more people will turn towards the SIGN LNGAUGE used by the hearing-impaired people. But here also there will be spelling problems. So, perhaps the best option could be <span class="apple-style-span">"<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Hieroglyphs</span>" or <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">logograms</span> representing words using graphical figures such as animals, objects or people, used by Egyptians some 5,000 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Or better still, would be to observe <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">total silence</span> as Hinduism, Buddhism and other eastern religions preach.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaT7u0bXUAgoBjAHR7cmVEkCF4MLwnsCLoh4gt0KkbuKAbwrxavbgx7g8MtDQxrKjwlQ2dV3UFv5DXQVPTJyng9l6iiDcl0ui_q67GX0KWBwi9WVXcBt_ScSnT9pegqCmF-RvRk9lVzve-/s1600/butterfly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaT7u0bXUAgoBjAHR7cmVEkCF4MLwnsCLoh4gt0KkbuKAbwrxavbgx7g8MtDQxrKjwlQ2dV3UFv5DXQVPTJyng9l6iiDcl0ui_q67GX0KWBwi9WVXcBt_ScSnT9pegqCmF-RvRk9lVzve-/s320/butterfly.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Or best of all would be to be born as a star or a butterfly or a flower – I suppose.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Amen!</b></span><br />
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</b></span></div></div></div></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-58534335841575213662011-09-28T11:48:00.006+05:302011-09-28T13:00:22.127+05:30Tips for the budding writers, published 142 years ago !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #666600; font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Tips for the budding writers, published 142 years ago<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #666600; font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">BOIL IT DOWN.""</span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffdd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dashed; border-top-width: 1pt; color: #666600; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 9pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9aBynBAwtaaLGKJ_gZGpGp265Gv4jx52VXY8bLgSpgbAphCCzoHQy2aktFN4gLBQ2mUwR3C_gXK664N3rdq74DQCrfmoOvTTBCxXSLs6LNFm8k0GTEdHNoPhjAihqe7cOfDt7bvDYOlL3/s1600/scrapped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9aBynBAwtaaLGKJ_gZGpGp265Gv4jx52VXY8bLgSpgbAphCCzoHQy2aktFN4gLBQ2mUwR3C_gXK664N3rdq74DQCrfmoOvTTBCxXSLs6LNFm8k0GTEdHNoPhjAihqe7cOfDt7bvDYOlL3/s200/scrapped.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffdd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dashed; border-top-width: 1pt; color: #666600; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 9pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Compaq/Desktop/BOIL%20IT%20DOWN.doc"><b><span style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: white; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;">Fix this text</span></span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">WHATEVER you have to say, my friend,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Whether witty, or grave, or gay,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Condense as much as ever you can,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">And say in the readiest way;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">And whether you write of rural affairs,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Or particular things in town<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Just take a word of friendly advice-<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Boil it down.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
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</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">For if you go on sputtering over a page<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">When a couple of lines would do,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Your butter is spread so much you see,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj31Jpqm2FVzgEwzfuMaxY4wNNjbN29i6zT9xBEMvC_1eKuhVa1rggr5-vKKFHIZ6lnGbCa2SCUEsFklZ4ZWIwjunxDQF6Q-IseyUZNeSuBIfIfKkp0SXPcsYWkxeihiTLd873hCFh79e6n/s1600/concise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj31Jpqm2FVzgEwzfuMaxY4wNNjbN29i6zT9xBEMvC_1eKuhVa1rggr5-vKKFHIZ6lnGbCa2SCUEsFklZ4ZWIwjunxDQF6Q-IseyUZNeSuBIfIfKkp0SXPcsYWkxeihiTLd873hCFh79e6n/s1600/concise.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">That the bread looks plainly through.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">So when you have a story to tell,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">And would like a little renown,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">To make quite sure of your wish, my friend,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Boil it down.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">When writing an article for the press,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Whether prose or verse, just try<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">To utter your thoughts in the fewest words,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">And let them be crisp and dry;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">And when it is finished and you suppose <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">It's done exactly brown,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Just look over it again, and then,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Boil it down.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">For editors do not like to print<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">An article lazily long,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">And the general reader does not care<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">For a couple of yards of song;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">So gather your wits in the smallest space<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">If you'd win the author's crown,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">And every line you write my friend,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Boil it down.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b></span></o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px;">(Writer Unknown)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;">- Published very prominently on page 1 in the top left hand corner. – much to the editor’s delight - on <b>Thursday, 16<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>December 1869 in QUEANBEYAN AGE</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(established in 1860), published from <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:state u1:st="on">New South Wales</st1:state></st1:state>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region> . </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;">And now the coincidence: </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;">About 39 years later, in the same news paper</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"> dated Friday, 15th May, 1908, the following witty piece was published as a dialogue between a writer and his editor - perhaps unknowingly - using the title of the above poem printed in 1869 !</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="displayFix" id="lc10" style="border-bottom-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: white; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: white; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: white; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;" wh="11" ww="104" x="3372" y="2650">"But," protested the space writer, " perhaps </span><span class="displayFix" id="lc11" style="border-bottom-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: white; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: white; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: white; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;" wh="17" ww="54" x="3341" y="2681">you could use this article if I were to <i>boil it down</i>?"</span><span class="displayFix" id="lc11" style="border-bottom-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: white; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: white; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: white; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;" wh="17" ww="54" x="3341" y="2681"><br />
</span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="displayFix" id="lc12" style="border-bottom-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: white; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: white; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: white; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: inline !important; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;" wh="19" ww="117" x="3340" y="2703"> "Not at all;" rejoined the blue pencil: </span></b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="displayFix" id="lc13" style="border-bottom-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: white; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: white; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: white; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: inline !important; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;" wh="23" ww="67" x="3340" y="2729"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">"if you were to take a gallon of water and <i>boil it down</i> to a </span></span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="displayFix" style="border-bottom-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: white; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: white; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: white; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; display: inline !important; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;" wh="23" ww="67" x="3340" y="2729"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">pint, it would still be water."</span></span></b></span><br />
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</b></span></span></div></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-4403011156295532272011-09-28T05:30:00.001+05:302011-09-28T13:49:24.720+05:30The (con)fusion version of English Language for Europe !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib04sAHcvfM5Ga1Rk0Htn9xh9OrbcOPVFlMBGKttjGSnMxC3Ju6NB6wOO9NYvJhFHhd64UVi09OrfuWsQu4T8NAiPbxIAW1oaraHNHxriBo9urtc0AX7VWFDarkf2jQ7VBLfjU-l1vZZZU/s1600/language.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib04sAHcvfM5Ga1Rk0Htn9xh9OrbcOPVFlMBGKttjGSnMxC3Ju6NB6wOO9NYvJhFHhd64UVi09OrfuWsQu4T8NAiPbxIAW1oaraHNHxriBo9urtc0AX7VWFDarkf2jQ7VBLfjU-l1vZZZU/s200/language.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The European Commission has just announced an agreement that English will be the official language of the EU - <i>rather than German</i> (the other possibility). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement, and has accepted a 5-year phase-in of new rules which would apply to the language and reclassify it as EuroEnglish.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The agreed plan is as follows:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In year 1, the soft c would be replaced by s Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard C will be replaced by 'k . This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan now have one less letter. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome ph is replaced by f This will reduse fotograf by 20%.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrknffEZ6_GoQz3XgWjij1ZK5-9zahlwEt_MLstfOXWo_MhRm6X95YaDhZYdDxqkb_TX8oNPhudsTwENanrHZPA-qhZO8EenxJHPbz_4J93j9Dshx0-FKvgxMcDFEP8xeldd1N5qud7b2U/s1600/confusion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrknffEZ6_GoQz3XgWjij1ZK5-9zahlwEt_MLstfOXWo_MhRm6X95YaDhZYdDxqkb_TX8oNPhudsTwENanrHZPA-qhZO8EenxJHPbz_4J93j9Dshx0-FKvgxMcDFEP8xeldd1N5qud7b2U/s1600/confusion.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent 'e's in the language is disgrasful and they should eliminat them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By year 4, peopl wil be reseptiv to lingwistik korektions such as replasing th with Z and w with v (saving mor keyboard spas).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">During ze fifz year, ze unesesary o kan be dropd from vords kontaining ou and similar changes vud of kors be applid to ozer kombinations of leters. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After zis tifz year, ve vil hav a reli sensibil riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ze drem vil finali kum tru!! </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: center;">( This or a similarly written piece is attributed sometimes to anonymity or even Mark Twain. </div><div style="text-align: center;">But it seems that the basic source of these anonymous articles is a piece by a writer named </div><div style="text-align: center;"> W. K. Lessing (under the pseudonym Dolton Edwards), </div><div style="text-align: center;">called "Meihem in Ce Klasrum", first published</div><div style="text-align: center;"> in a U.S. magazine called <i>Astounding Science Fiction</i> in 1946) His articles begins like this: (EXTRACT)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> BECAUSE WE ARE STILL BEARING SOME OF THE SCARS OF OUR BRIEF SKIRMISH with II-B English, it is natural that we should be enchanted by Mr. George Bernard Shaw's current campaign for a simplified alphabet.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Obviously, as Mr. Shaw points out, English spelling is in much need of a general overhauling and streamlining. However, our own resistance to any changes requiring a large expenditure of mental effort in the near future would cause us to view with some apprehension the possibility of some day receiving a morning paper printed in-to us-Greek.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Our own plan would achieve the same end as the legislation proposed by Mr. Shaw, but in a less shocking manner, as it consists merely of an acceleration of the normal processes by which the language is continually modernized.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> As a catalytic agent, we would suggest that a National Easy Language Week be proclaimed, which the President would inaugurate, outlining some short cut to concentrate on during the week, and to be adopted during the ensuing year. All school children would be given a holiday, the lost time being the equivalent of that gained by the spelling short cut.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> In 1946, for example, we would urge the elimination of the soft c, for which we would substitute "s." Sertainly, such an improvement would be selebrated in all sivic-minded sircles as being suffisiently worth the trouble, and students in all sities in the land would be reseptive to- ward any change eliminating the nesessity of learning the differense be- tween the two letters.) </span><br />
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</div></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-33387977508023364122011-09-26T12:38:00.004+05:302012-05-03T20:29:16.464+05:30Two Poets, Two Poems, Two Continents... one common target..Husband!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Panna Naik</b> (born 1933) and <b>Judith Viorst</b> ( born 1931) – are two distinguished, octogenarian lady writer/poets from two different continents (but now living in one) and both have written (at least) one poem each on the same subject: how do we in the family / society keep escalating our demands from our womenfolk in terms of gearing up and rising to our expectations , till it culminates into a heart-wringing desperate cry !<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyLppb7gx-zsCkQM_H0utn4xh6a7fDCCYeyAvHbGvjZBnwHPa0349fA8PXglv-0DYmSvWHv3_lfuINF8hOEig0f1_cFrrYAmXh0Bergpea-WOsWz199D0BvOobFLBkRTS9DH9uhm8h15Bo/s1600/Viorst+Judith.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyLppb7gx-zsCkQM_H0utn4xh6a7fDCCYeyAvHbGvjZBnwHPa0349fA8PXglv-0DYmSvWHv3_lfuINF8hOEig0f1_cFrrYAmXh0Bergpea-WOsWz199D0BvOobFLBkRTS9DH9uhm8h15Bo/s200/Viorst+Judith.jpg" width="151" /></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">First, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">Judith Viorst</span></b>‘s poem titled <i>“Self-Improvement Program.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>I’ve finished six pillows in Needlepoint,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And I’m reading Jane Austen and Kant,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And I’m up to the pork with black beans in Advanced Chinese Cooking.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>I don’t have to struggle to find myselfPage 6<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>For I already know what I want.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>I want to be healthy and wise and extremely good-looking.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>I’m learning new glazes in Pottery Class,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And I’m playing new chords in Guitar,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And in Yoga I’m starting to master the lotus position.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>I don’t have to ponder priorities<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>For I already know what they are;<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIQjzWMTlmc3uMLQQoyhr2X5jwFi1oaNMUv5WSDs8K3M-BUSep0I8pxJGJ3RmF1oOi6puCEdDfRb-uowUQWfE75Aw8hGv3jv3cdL84DaJPqtM7_qjxnwjHNeuAsSunIzuJeARm6s-zruJ7/s1600/fist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIQjzWMTlmc3uMLQQoyhr2X5jwFi1oaNMUv5WSDs8K3M-BUSep0I8pxJGJ3RmF1oOi6puCEdDfRb-uowUQWfE75Aw8hGv3jv3cdL84DaJPqtM7_qjxnwjHNeuAsSunIzuJeARm6s-zruJ7/s200/fist.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>To be good looking, healthy, and wise.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And adored in addition.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>I’m improving my serve with a tennis pro,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And I’m practicing verb forms in Greek,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And in Primal Scream Therapy all my frustrations are vented.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>I don’t have to ask what I’m searching for<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>Since I already know that I seek<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>To be good-looking, healthy, and wise.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And adored.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And contented.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>I’ve bloomed in Organic Gardening,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And in dance I have tightened my thighs,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And in Consciousness Raising there’s no one around who can top me.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And I’m working all day and I’m working all night<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>To be good-looking, healthy, and wise.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And adored.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And contented.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And brave.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And well-read.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And a marvelous hostess,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>And bilingual,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>Athletic,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>Artistic…<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 66.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>Won’t someone please stop me?</b></i><span style="color: green;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">Now<b style="color: #0c343d;"> <span style="color: #351c75;">Panna Naik</span></b> (http://pannanaik.com/): <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirzM2PmZHZIu2x1KtLjCJ4cF4hxrLgFYh5v1gvyF0mOMHUe6d74GPHuPFmNIFdE5n8ws6Sxi1nORkY5pm-9BsvihslXD-7HWXlh0ou8hMCnXsn38-OvG76cfdgpMG8Ja62nMd1n7TDZgXV/s1600/panna+naik.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirzM2PmZHZIu2x1KtLjCJ4cF4hxrLgFYh5v1gvyF0mOMHUe6d74GPHuPFmNIFdE5n8ws6Sxi1nORkY5pm-9BsvihslXD-7HWXlh0ou8hMCnXsn38-OvG76cfdgpMG8Ja62nMd1n7TDZgXV/s200/panna+naik.jpg" width="157" /></a><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">She goes one step further in her poem dares the people around her and declares her independence and says:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNV0KHANdbkNqxxN9xOARyY431-xzix_j0Fbx8BIGSIT6eQ_uqPqxzbtP7B7ElZOxB2XjS8BNUCvPPRK2me9JF-BzAvTSwYRXBocsKysB6KgbPIVFV3nyS7mKcGQ4O_9FZISSFzjbyvAq3/s1600/cage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNV0KHANdbkNqxxN9xOARyY431-xzix_j0Fbx8BIGSIT6eQ_uqPqxzbtP7B7ElZOxB2XjS8BNUCvPPRK2me9JF-BzAvTSwYRXBocsKysB6KgbPIVFV3nyS7mKcGQ4O_9FZISSFzjbyvAq3/s320/cage.jpg" width="208" /></a><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>I do not wish to be a emotional cuckoo and keep singing in someone’s intellectual cage, speak as they wish me to and dance like a serpent when a flute is played before me. I have wings and sky of my own. <o:p></o:p></b></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>I am my own master and then why need I be afraid of some one. <o:p></o:p></b></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>I do not wish to say ‘yes, yes’ and keep accommodating everyone around me, by speaking, walking, dressing, sleeping, socializing, doing everything everything in exact measure that has been cut out for me. I do not wish to be a cuckoo and keep singing in someone’s cage.</b></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">As if to help us end this post on a lighter note, the same Judith Viorst has said elsewhere : <i><b>“ </b></i></span></span><span class="body"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.” </b></i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="body"><span style="color: black;">And would she so easily let go her man? </span></span></span><span class="body" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: black;">No way. Judith writes elsewhere: </span></span><i><span class="body"><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.</span></b></span></span></i><br />
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<span class="body"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">Perhaps both the lady poets can have a good laugh now!<span id="goog_1412053512"></span><span id="goog_1412053513"></span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="body"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;">And finally, time for one and all to chuckle to make the score : Love All!</span></span><br />
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<center> <h1>A poem about English pronunciation.</h1></center> <br />
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</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“The Chaos” is a poetically explained , well-known versified catalogue of irregularities of English spelling and pronunciation, written by <b>Gerard Nolst Trenité </b>(1870-1946), also known under the pseudonym <b>Charivarius</b>. He was a dutch observer of English. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It first appeared in an appendix to the author’s 1920 textbook "<b><i>Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen</i></b>." Ironically, while the pronunciation of his own surname is not obvious, he is best known in the English-speaking world for this poem.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(Recommended for Reading it Aloud):</span></b></div><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Dearest creature in creation, <br />
Study English pronunciation. <br />
I will teach you in my verse <br />
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. </span></b></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>I will keep you, Suzy, busy, <br />
Make your head with heat grow dizzy. <br />
Tear in eye, your dress will tear. <br />
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.</b> </span></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Just compare heart, beard, and heard, <br />
Dies and diet, lord and word, <br />
Sword and sward, retain and Britain. <br />
(Mind the latter, how it's written.) </span></b></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQMp5AQQiuPTWMbTyHfPH3skUZdvJI46xwh1RtHEyXfpClJBMpc6DtQlCuu3OevpW1zJvDQvLc-csj2UQO2hO9cpmU65IAF5MPTlS3RHpEIm7XzR1A2rSwP_CMpUrbnPPao_8ctYzeMOjX/s1600/confused-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQMp5AQQiuPTWMbTyHfPH3skUZdvJI46xwh1RtHEyXfpClJBMpc6DtQlCuu3OevpW1zJvDQvLc-csj2UQO2hO9cpmU65IAF5MPTlS3RHpEIm7XzR1A2rSwP_CMpUrbnPPao_8ctYzeMOjX/s400/confused-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Now I surely will not plague you <br />
With such words as plaque and ague. <br />
But be careful how you speak: <br />
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; </b> </span></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Cloven, oven, how and low, <br />
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Hear me say, devoid of trickery, <br />
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, </span></b></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, </b><br />
<b>Exiles, similes, and reviles; </b><br />
<b>Scholar, vicar, and cigar, </b><br />
<b>Solar, mica, war and far;</b></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>One, anemone, Balmoral, </b><br />
<b>Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; </b><br />
<b>Gertrude, German, wind and mind, </b><br />
<b>Scene, Melpomene, mankind.</b></span></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Billet does not rhyme with ballet, <br />
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. <br />
Blood and flood are not like food, <br />
Nor is mould like should and would.</span></b></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhltXkrgtjBnyvZWxhLg531W6O-iAE2nOAiT_1x8uABMnsnhFjXDuntjfJVpNMQ3zCZUzhDJlXn9aLff4GZlWZV9I1uWn7h5wSWJITOqe1IW072z2hYBZtT0ilq-x9aicvy4didChSTuW0m/s1600/confused-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhltXkrgtjBnyvZWxhLg531W6O-iAE2nOAiT_1x8uABMnsnhFjXDuntjfJVpNMQ3zCZUzhDJlXn9aLff4GZlWZV9I1uWn7h5wSWJITOqe1IW072z2hYBZtT0ilq-x9aicvy4didChSTuW0m/s1600/confused-3.jpg" /></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Viscous, viscount, load and broad, <br />
Toward, to forward, to reward. <br />
And your pronunciation's OK <br />
When you correctly say croquet, </span></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, <br />
Friend and fiend, alive and live. </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Ivy, privy, famous; clamour <br />
And enamour rhyme with hammer. </span></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, <br />
Doll and roll and some and home. <br />
Stranger does not rhyme with anger, <br />
Neither does devour with clangour. </span></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, <br />
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, <br />
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, <br />
And then singer, ginger, linger, </span></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, <br />
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. </span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7rzXQC96282YrFzhy1Lx0cBWja4BmKJfwqXqE6f4eauRXqTlVqhpNCMkrU3_heUHuaETS7j-zFWyKgmzDbEUeY5zYzea6kYj4YoLFLtKOw-t7OIiHJebKB7mpoa4mmdOWURr6puOtOTX5/s1600/soup-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7rzXQC96282YrFzhy1Lx0cBWja4BmKJfwqXqE6f4eauRXqTlVqhpNCMkrU3_heUHuaETS7j-zFWyKgmzDbEUeY5zYzea6kYj4YoLFLtKOw-t7OIiHJebKB7mpoa4mmdOWURr6puOtOTX5/s320/soup-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Query does not rhyme with very, <br />
Nor does fury sound like bury. </span></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. <br />
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. <br />
Though the differences seem little, <br />
We say actual but victual. </span></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Refer does not rhyme with deafer. <br />
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. <br />
Mint, pint, senate and sedate; <br />
Dull, bull, and George ate late. </span></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, <br />
Science, conscience, scientific. </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Liberty, library, heave and heaven, <br />
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.</span></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We say hallowed, but allowed, <br />
People, leopard, towed, but vowed. <br />
Mark the differences, moreover, <br />
Between mover, cover, clover;</span></b></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, <br />
Chalice, but police and lice; <br />
Camel, constable, unstable, <br />
Principle, disciple, label.</b> </span></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Petal, panel, and canal, <br />
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. <br />
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, <br />
Senator, spectator, mayor. </span></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Tour, but our and succour, four. <br />
Gas, alas, and Arkansas. <br />
Sea, idea, Korea, area,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Psalm, Maria, but malaria. <br />
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. <br />
Doctrine, turpentine, marine. </span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Compare alien with Italian, </b> </span></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH7LC5qCFJIVi-L-29_t5MoweMVHgb_QToSoWOe2fvuOdwI1GYeAvqUHBOMrBldYfHyh7vwzdc3BZPmUI8gQ0ycFk4SRzC1I-B-zVB1YrftgCILz3HfnWFNx7jnJvuL8wj_cIjzG26a_MA/s1600/repeat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH7LC5qCFJIVi-L-29_t5MoweMVHgb_QToSoWOe2fvuOdwI1GYeAvqUHBOMrBldYfHyh7vwzdc3BZPmUI8gQ0ycFk4SRzC1I-B-zVB1YrftgCILz3HfnWFNx7jnJvuL8wj_cIjzG26a_MA/s1600/repeat.jpg" /></a></div> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Dandelion and battalion. </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> Sally with ally, yea, ye, <br />
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. <br />
Say aver, but ever, fever,</span></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. <br />
Heron, granary, canary. <br />
Crevice and device and aerie. </span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Face, but preface, not efface. </b> </span></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. <br />
Large, but target, gin, give, verging, <br />
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. <br />
Ear, but earn and wear and tear <br />
Do not rhyme with here but ere. </b> </span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Seven is right, but so is even, <br />
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, <br />
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, <br />
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.</b> </span></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Pronunciation -- think of Psyche! <br />
Is a paling stout and spikey? <br />
Won't it make you lose your wits, <br />
Writing groats and saying grits? </b> </span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>It's a dark abyss or tunnel: <br />
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, <br />
Islington and Isle of Wight, <br />
Housewife, verdict and indict.</b> </span></blockquote><blockquote><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Finally, which rhymes with enough -- <br />
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? <br />
Hiccough has the sound of cup. <br />
My advice is to give up!!! </span></b></blockquote><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; color: #333333; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We know Mulla Nasrudin as the most witty, inimitable character. But Osho victimizes him here:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;">A rich farmer had been trying desperately to marry off his daughters. One day he met Mulla Nasrudin.</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">”I have several daughters,” the farmer told the Mulla. ”I would like to see them comfortably fixed. And I will say this, they won’t go to their husbands without a little bit in the bank, either. The youngest one is twenty-three and she will take Rupees 25,000 with her. The next one is thirty-two, and she will take Rupees 50,000 with her. Another is forty-three and she will take Rupees 75,000 with her.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">”That’s interesting,” said Nasrudin. ”I was just wondering if you have one about fifty years old.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Mulla Nasrudin’s family was upset because the girl he was planning to marry was an atheist. ”We’ll not have you marrying an atheist,” his mother said.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72YCwiWCIO52iUqcqwnBPkhixfU0MAVaOS49K8CZ5sCMpaFg5QhgVvmEzuF_YYjZ15zUZgjUg5HZHb_46nbyKsmdpo4JXJ6fBuj0_M0MRUlKIzzknlVLd2IkZ_I6RjkCl82fQ2b0WXtVm/s1600/nas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72YCwiWCIO52iUqcqwnBPkhixfU0MAVaOS49K8CZ5sCMpaFg5QhgVvmEzuF_YYjZ15zUZgjUg5HZHb_46nbyKsmdpo4JXJ6fBuj0_M0MRUlKIzzknlVLd2IkZ_I6RjkCl82fQ2b0WXtVm/s200/nas.jpg" width="148" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;">”What can I do? I love her,” the young Nasrudin said.</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;">”Well,” said his mother, ”if she loves you, she will do anything you ask. You should talk religion to</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Several weeks went by, then one morning at breakfast the young Mulla seemed absolutely brokenhearted.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">”What’s the matter?” his mother asked. ”I thought you were making such good progress in your talks</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">”That’s the trouble,” said Nasruddin. "I overdid it.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b><span class="apple-style-span">Last night she told me she was so convinced that she is going to study to be a NUN.<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">”</span></span></b></span></div></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-26753534471616885812011-09-25T14:35:00.002+05:302011-09-25T19:08:37.254+05:30Twin Poets: Kalapi of Gujarat and Keats of England :<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the princely state of Gujarat in western India, in 1874, poet <b>Kalapi</b> ( his pen name) was born in a royal family as Sursinh ji Gohel. He had realized in the early age that he was not inclined towards the statecraft and politics and so, gave away his right to the throne to remain a poet!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kalapi died at a very young age of 26 in 1900 and is considered even after 100 years as the poet who gave us the most recitable and memorable couplets from his wonderful poems.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">His twin brother poet <b>John Keats </b>was born in 1795 and died at a very young age of 26 in 1821. Robert Bridges (1844-1930) , a doctor by profession and poet by passion wrote that <i>"If one English poet might be recalled to-day from the dead to continue the work he left unfinished on earth, it is probably that the crown would be set on the head of John Keats".</i> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So immersed was Keats in love that he wrote<i>: <span class="body">I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.</span> </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">Keats asserts that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">it's the imagination, not our expression of it, that is the most powerful</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span> went on to write the
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"</i><span class="body"><i>I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest", </i></span> <i> </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Of the other twin - Kalapi , it is a lesser known fact that he had a fan in Mahatma Gandhi , who prayed regularly twice a day, be he alone, or in public or in jail. A collection of Gandhi's multi-religious, thoughtfully chosen and soul-elevating prayers "Ashram Bhajanavali" is a very popular even today in thousands of homes. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gandhi had chosen a poem by Kalapi for inclusion his prayer book, but some one, who 'mis'understood it as a purely romantic poem advised Mahatma Gandhi against its inclusion in a book full of prayers. Repenting his mistake, that person confided in 1932 in his jail years to the poet Umashankar Joshi that " I have done a great injustice to Kalapi by giving a wrong advice to Mahatma Gandhi".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here is that wonderful poem "<i>Aapni Yaadi</i>" - written in his last year - which describes beautifully that the beloved's memories are here, there and everywhere, <i>" wherever I set upon my eyes". </i>It has always been and will be always regarded as a romantic poem. There will hardly be any one who has read it and can't recite its few lines and re-live the romance .</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But, just once, for a brief while, if the reader changes his point of view , he suddenly realizes that the beloved here is none other than the God Almighty ( as in Sufism) , dwelling in each of the five key elements of the universe, namely earth, water, light, air and sky and these insights into the poet's mind render the reading of this poem even a greater pleasure than ever before. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier10 BT';"><b>How many people must have been hurt, distracted or distanced by this foul smelling litter spread in the vast land fill!</b></span><br />
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Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-62641517376880244532011-09-24T12:33:00.001+05:302011-09-24T12:43:06.059+05:30William Shakespeare's as I now him know...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Recently I was browsing through one old classic from my book shelf, printed in 1932 in London, by Strong & Redlich and a very interesting section on Shakespeare told me so much for the first time. </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
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</b></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">“ …To be told that Shakespeare is the greatest writer who ever lived,and then to start upon a play which perhaps at first conveys nothing to us is a bewildering ( and quite unnecessary) experience. We have been led some how to expect that every sentence we read will be a sample of the best writing in the world - which is, of course, nonsense. Shakespeare is the greatest writer in the virtue of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">whole</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> of his work, the amazing sum total of it all, not because every line is perfect. Often he reaches heights which are beyond the reach of all others. Often and often he reaches heights which others could reach only now and then.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But when all is said and done, he is the king of writers, because no other has so wide a range, or understood so much: and because his work is not a haphazard total of all the things he ever wrote, but a complete thing in itself: a single huge poem, developed, natural and finished. Shakespeare ( did not go on writing till the day of his death, though he died in early middle age (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>52 years to be precise</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">) . He had definitely retired ( </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>at the age of 47</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">) , and ceased to write, because he knew consciously or instinctively, that his work was finished...... </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">By 1597 (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>when he was 33</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">) he had made enough money to buy the biggest house in his town (Stratford)......</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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</div></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874339915141849415.post-7382085917699568212011-08-20T07:11:00.000+05:302011-08-20T07:11:40.450+05:30Freedom to protest against the status quo....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia;">How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://en.proverbia.net/enviar_frase.asp?id=21619" title="Send quote to a friend"><span style="color: #000099;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75"
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia;">Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. <span style="color: #000099;">Salman Rushdie</span> </span><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia;">(1948-?) Anglo-Indian novelist.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia;">A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. <a href="http://en.proverbia.net/citasautor.asp?autor=10834" title="Napoleon I Quotes"><span style="color: #000099;">Napoleon I</span></a> </span><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia;">(1769-1821) Napoleon Bonaparte. French general.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political. ~Ignazio Silone,</span><i style="color: #330000;">The God That Failed</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">, 1950</span><br />
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<st1:place style="color: #330000;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Liberty</st1:city></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ~Ambrose Bierce, </span><i style="color: #330000;">The Devil's Dictionary</i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. ~Thomas Campbell</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. ~Gerard K. O'Neill, </span><i style="color: #330000;">2081</i><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330000;"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;">Liberty</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"> has never come from the government. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:city> has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~Woodrow <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:city><br />
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</span><span style="color: #339966; font-family: Georgia;">Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330000;"><br />
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</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;">You can cage the singer but not the song. ~Harry Belafonte</span></span><span style="color: #330000; font-family: Georgia;"> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330000;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia;">How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330000;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://en.proverbia.net/enviar_frase.asp?id=21619" title="Send quote to a friend"><span style="color: #000099;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75"
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330000;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia;">Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. <a href="http://en.proverbia.net/citasautor.asp?autor=16322" title="Salman Rushdie Quotes"><span style="color: #000099;">Salman Rushdie</span></a> </span><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia;">(1948-?) Anglo-Indian novelist.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330000;"><br />
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</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330000;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia;">A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. <a href="http://en.proverbia.net/citasautor.asp?autor=10834" title="Napoleon I Quotes"><span style="color: #000099;">Napoleon I</span></a> </span><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia;">(1769-1821) Napoleon Bonaparte. French general.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330000;"><span style="color: #330000; font-family: Georgia;">History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. ~Charles de Gaulle<br />
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political. ~Ignazio Silone,<i>The God That Failed</i>, 1950<br />
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Liberty</st1:city></st1:place>: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ~Ambrose Bierce, <i>The Devil's Dictionary</i><br />
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The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. ~Thomas Campbell<br />
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Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. ~Gerard K. O'Neill, <i>2081</i><br />
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln<br />
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir<br />
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Detroit</st1:city></st1:place>, 1952<br />
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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler<br />
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We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the <st1:place w:st="on">Atlantic</st1:place> not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~Robert J. McCracken<br />
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. ~Robert Frost<br />
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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine<br />
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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. <st1:place w:st="on">Roosevelt</st1:place><br />
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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan<br />
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There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ~Charles Kingsley<br />
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No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown<br />
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Freedom means choosing your burden. ~Hephzibah Menuhin<br />
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Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown<br />
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Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein<br />
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick<br />
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New York City</st1:city></st1:place>, 28 August 1952<br />
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, <i>Historical Review of Pennsylvania</i>, 1759<br />
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, - Necessity and Free Will. ~Thomas Carlyle, <i>Essays</i>, "The Opera"<br />
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We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. ~Felix Frankfurter<br />
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, <st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state>, 1883<br />
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:city>, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ~George Washington<br />
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788<br />
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. ~Mahatma Gandhi<br />
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ~Daniel Webster<br />
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus<br />
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I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown<br />
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Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. ~Nietzsche, <i>Twilight of the Idols</i>, 1888<br />
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Without freedom, no one really has a name. ~Milton Acorda<br />
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. ~Baron de Montesquieu<br />
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:city> means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ~George Bernard Shaw, <i>Man and Superman</i>, "Maxims: <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:city> and Equality," 1905<br />
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Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown<br />
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We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914<br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John Stuart Mill,<i>On <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Liberty</st1:city></st1:place></i>, 1859</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~Voltaire,<i>Dictionnaire Philosophique</i>, 1764</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. ~Voltaire</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><i>On <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:city></i>, 1859</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><i>New York Times</i>, 24 February 1959</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. ~Albert Camus</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ~Sigmund Freud, 1933</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Every burned book enlightens the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">The paper burns, but the words fly away. ~Akiba ben Joseph</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?" ~Joseph Henry Jackson</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught. ~Harold R. Medina</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. ~David Ben-Gurion</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~John Stuart Mill,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><i>On Liberty</i>, 1859</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ~Claude-Adrien Helvétius</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ~John F. Kennedy</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ~Rebecca West</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! ~Thomas Carlyle</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~Evelyn Beatrice Hall,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><i>The Friends of Voltaire</i>, 1906, a description of Voltaire's attitude, commonly misattributed to Voltaire, the closest of his documented sentiments being "I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write." in a 1770 letter</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330000;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330000;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia;">The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330000;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://en.proverbia.net/enviar_frase.asp?id=18538" title="Send quote to a friend"><span style="color: #000099;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75"
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, </span><st1:place style="color: #330000;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Detroit</st1:city></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">, 1952</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the </span><st1:place style="color: #330000;" w:st="on">Atlantic</st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~Robert J. McCracken</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. ~Robert Frost</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. </span><st1:place style="color: #330000;" w:st="on">Roosevelt</st1:place><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ~Charles Kingsley</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Freedom means choosing your burden. ~Hephzibah Menuhin</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, </span><st1:place style="color: #330000;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New York City</st1:city></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">, 28 August 1952</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, </span><i style="color: #330000;">Historical Review of Pennsylvania</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">, 1759</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, - Necessity and Free Will. ~Thomas Carlyle, </span><i style="color: #330000;">Essays</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">, "The Opera"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. ~Felix Frankfurter</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, </span><st1:city style="color: #330000;" w:st="on">Washington</st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">, </span><st1:state style="color: #330000;" w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">, 1883</span><br />
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<st1:city style="color: #330000;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ~George Washington</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. ~Mahatma Gandhi</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Freedom has a thousand charms to show,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ~Daniel Webster</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. ~Nietzsche, </span><i style="color: #330000;">Twilight of the Idols</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">, 1888</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Without freedom, no one really has a name. ~Milton Acorda</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. ~Baron de Montesquieu</span><br />
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<st1:city style="color: #330000;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ~George Bernard Shaw, </span><i style="color: #330000;">Man and Superman</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">, "Maxims: </span><st1:city style="color: #330000;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> and Equality," 1905</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;"> We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John Stuart Mill,<i>On <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Liberty</st1:city></st1:place></i>, 1859</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #330000;">The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~Tommy Smothers</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~Voltaire,<i>Dictionnaire Philosophique</i>, 1764</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. ~Voltaire</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><i>On <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:city></i>, 1859</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><i>New York Times</i>, 24 February 1959</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. ~Albert Camus</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">To reject the word is to reject the human search. ~Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ~Sigmund Freud, 1933</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Every burned book enlightens the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">The paper burns, but the words fly away. ~Akiba ben Joseph</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?" ~Joseph Henry Jackson</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught. ~Harold R. Medina</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. ~David Ben-Gurion</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~John Stuart Mill,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><i>On Liberty</i>, 1859</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ~Claude-Adrien Helvétius</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ~John F. Kennedy</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ~Rebecca West</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! ~Thomas Carlyle</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~Evelyn Beatrice Hall,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><i>The Friends of Voltaire</i>, 1906, a description of Voltaire's attitude, commonly misattributed to Voltaire, the closest of his documented sentiments being "I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write." in a 1770 letter</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia;">The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://en.proverbia.net/enviar_frase.asp?id=18538" title="Send quote to a friend"><span style="color: #000099;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75"
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;">"I want to suggest to you that citizens of free societies, democracies, do not preserve their freedom by pussyfooting around their fellow-citizen's opinions, even their most cherished beliefs. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;">In free societies, you must have the free play of ideas. There must be argument, and it must be impassioned and untrammeled. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;">A free society is not calm and eventless place - that is the kind of static, dead society dictators try to create. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;">Free societies are dynamic, noisy, turbulent, and full of radical disagreements. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;">Skepticism and freedom are indissolubly linked; and it is the skepticism of journalists, their show-me, prove-it unwillingness to be impressed, that is perhaps their most important contribution to the freedom of the free world. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;">It is the disrespect of journalists-for power, for orthodoxies, for party lines, for ideologies, for vanity, for arrogance, for folly, for pretension, for corruption, for stupidity, maybe even for editors-that I would like to celebrate...and that I urge you all, in freedom's name, to preserve."</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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ABCD of praying ( literally the Baal Shem way) ..</span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qCvQlGM9SaNoO3CiHp4UEFFOc_98ZBBwUa3zYsXYDeuAP-1l5-OAnfoua2_4wUtQltfSYeF8r72fB7mcUYg8iiwpGBQonZCtkobRwXwzsgS6ig3k7f3IPSmX2am7lDizWJ-Hh3sbb2h1/s1600/prayers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qCvQlGM9SaNoO3CiHp4UEFFOc_98ZBBwUa3zYsXYDeuAP-1l5-OAnfoua2_4wUtQltfSYeF8r72fB7mcUYg8iiwpGBQonZCtkobRwXwzsgS6ig3k7f3IPSmX2am7lDizWJ-Hh3sbb2h1/s400/prayers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Osho</span><span style="font-size: small;"> tells us to be child-like....</span></b></div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">He tells us like no one else can...</span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: blue;">When you are praying it is unseemly to make a display of your spiritual knowledge or to recite the scriptures. That is why the prayers of children bear more fruit. And when a saint prays, his prayer is as good as that of a child.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWf2lRn3-diFYRhLhVHUUAoCIRdvwp6Opwx16KVjgQXDRQ3EGuzfmZYIshW52NlRSuZtZE4HLFr0fqkAVRzGEgb6EY2DSPr7rjw29mgmBw1-NfxwmSuAZ6LS1s3sVZibJMmpeyf3psecFt/s1600/praying.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWf2lRn3-diFYRhLhVHUUAoCIRdvwp6Opwx16KVjgQXDRQ3EGuzfmZYIshW52NlRSuZtZE4HLFr0fqkAVRzGEgb6EY2DSPr7rjw29mgmBw1-NfxwmSuAZ6LS1s3sVZibJMmpeyf3psecFt/s320/praying.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: blue;">Once a young boy went into his bedroom, jumped straight into bed, and covered himself with his blanket. His mother reminded him that he had not said his prayers. The child replied, "Is it right to awaken God from His sleep on such a cold night? And so late?"</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: blue;">From such a child, God needs no prayer composed of words. His concern that the night was so cold and that it was too late to disturb God's sleep is prayer itself. Feeling like this is enough; there is no need to say anything.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: blue;">And the word 'God' is merely an excuse, a help in expressing our feelings to the totality. In fact, the whole of existence is God. All is divine. And when you are filled with this feeling of divinity, you become united with the whole of existence. The solution to your problem is in that union.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPls01oXqh1RPDgqdkb29Wlu8QHVhWi49YANjmMUY1FHZEnprgeRy4Hww9-ZH4F7JHaxPqYEPRkp3Bth7thwlk7dPcSPP_Lz3nadNYCV1QCUuiRjjPyfg3mPLPoLqzI7KX6ch2EFgYxiPB/s1600/Prayer3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPls01oXqh1RPDgqdkb29Wlu8QHVhWi49YANjmMUY1FHZEnprgeRy4Hww9-ZH4F7JHaxPqYEPRkp3Bth7thwlk7dPcSPP_Lz3nadNYCV1QCUuiRjjPyfg3mPLPoLqzI7KX6ch2EFgYxiPB/s320/Prayer3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: blue;">Your real problem is that you are uprooted. And because you are uprooted you are thirsty. Your roots are unable to absorb water, that is why you feel so afflicted. Even when you have everything you have wished for, you still have the feeling you are missing something, the feeling that you want something. If your roots are not deep beneath the soil you will not be able to absorb water even if the rain is falling. And so you are certain to remain thirsty. To be united with existence is prayer. Prayer is this particular state of feeling.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHtTbgbupd7bW8UvJqKa8qyqhj9WLwsejxLLgQXRCU4SlK5evD6iAwkqTLQdQqoER4J_iuiM6fWd1Kx5azoatdS_bWSG-Aj4_EjGTmBKZKlByVaXiq4Z6Dy94ax56ywlrk-BPuOVrhwLI7/s1600/quarrel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHtTbgbupd7bW8UvJqKa8qyqhj9WLwsejxLLgQXRCU4SlK5evD6iAwkqTLQdQqoER4J_iuiM6fWd1Kx5azoatdS_bWSG-Aj4_EjGTmBKZKlByVaXiq4Z6Dy94ax56ywlrk-BPuOVrhwLI7/s200/quarrel.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: purple;">There is a very fine anecdote about a famous Hebrew mystic named Ba'al Shem.</span></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: purple;"> He was a peculiar kind of devotee -- in his prayers he generally quarreled with God. Only lovers can quarrel. If something he didn't like happened, he used to make a lot of fuss. His prayers were worth hearing because they were direct conversations with God</span>.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjemx2oz0K_TCCqdCQrkHodTSAzpuBYGlnvR1ae0SmZQGc7dAoKp0r3L-I_C1SN48ZPvBPT3cLifYdU_C2dliTx5lRH7slI2bvx4KEgw4fx8T9Xe9EraL9VFmu8rg00JB2zNiZTRQGr3T4k/s1600/prayer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjemx2oz0K_TCCqdCQrkHodTSAzpuBYGlnvR1ae0SmZQGc7dAoKp0r3L-I_C1SN48ZPvBPT3cLifYdU_C2dliTx5lRH7slI2bvx4KEgw4fx8T9Xe9EraL9VFmu8rg00JB2zNiZTRQGr3T4k/s200/prayer.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: purple;">Baal Shem thought the world was getting worse and worse every day, so he complained to God, "Why don't You come down to earth as You promised? You said You would come when things really got bad. Why are You delaying?" The story tells us that God was greatly harassed by him in this way, and quite often too.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: purple;">One of Baal Shem's disciples used to make a note of whatever he said. He was writing Baal Shem's biography, and he also used to jot down these chats with God. </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: purple;">The story goes on to say Baal Shem once bothered God so much, He sent His messenger to earth, telling him to brainwash Baal Shem and his disciple so they would forget everything.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: purple;">Baal Shem was that much of a nuisance. The divine messenger carried out his instructions to the letter. When Baal Shem arose from his prayers, he had forgotten everything. He could not even remember his own name. He did not remember that the world was full of problems and that he wanted God to come and remedy them immediately. He could neither remember who he was nor where he was.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPKDradRnpKOOl1E2YdpHeT32ObAIqlOdnjuwj9eS-DcVfO2S_EGlvnxwd_nH1I8JblFcJNJk4iMTzQcGyvCODetP-VC7GQPF2hprPJOlFHy9QZmJaAOBS3kW6jAOYQ0h9QAU15tfseo9k/s1600/amnesia.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPKDradRnpKOOl1E2YdpHeT32ObAIqlOdnjuwj9eS-DcVfO2S_EGlvnxwd_nH1I8JblFcJNJk4iMTzQcGyvCODetP-VC7GQPF2hprPJOlFHy9QZmJaAOBS3kW6jAOYQ0h9QAU15tfseo9k/s1600/amnesia.gif" /></a></div><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: purple;">But when he looked at his disciple he had a vague recollection, as if in a dream, that he was a mystic and that this man was his disciple. He asked the disciple to tell him what he could remember of the past. The disciple was unable to tell him anything, he had been brainwashed totally. He replied, "I do not even remember who I am either."</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: purple;">Baal Shem said, "I have given you many lessons in the past. Try to remember a sutra from any one of them and repeat it quickly. Time is passing and we may find ourselves in some difficulty."</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: purple;">The disciple replied, "I remember nothing but the Hebrew alphabet -- ALEPH, BETH, GIMMEL, DALETH..."</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: purple;">Baal Shem said, "Be quick. Speak the letters aloud." The disciple began to recite the alphabet, and Baal Shem followed suit. This one clue brought their memories back. And then Baal Shem began to take God to task. "Why did You play this trick on me?" he asked.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: purple;">It is said that Baal Shem finished his prayer by repeating the alphabet and thus regained his lost memory. There is nothing of substance in the letters ALEPH, BETH, GIMMEL, or DALETH, but he repeated them with such attentiveness that he regained his original self. And then he shouted to God, "It is absolutely essential the Messiah come down to earth now!"</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';"><span style="color: purple;">God recalled His messenger and told him he had not done his job very well. The messenger replied, "It is dangerous to work on this man. No matter how hard one tries, his prayer cannot be snatched away from him. We can take everything from him except his prayer. His prayer has no relationship whatsoever with his brain -- his prayer comes from his totality. His intellect, his words, can be snatched away from him, but his love cannot, his prayer cannot. There, even you are helpless."</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'OCR A Std';">Source - Osho ook "The Great Secret"</span></b></div>Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252602912070805059noreply@blogger.com1