India is a country of contrasts.............A poem

India is a country
where everything happens
The good turns into bad,
The bad turns into good,
Or the bad turns into worse,
The worse turns into ugly.

Where an outstation train
reaches Mumbai on time,one day
Only to be told
that it was yesterday's
train the next day!

Where heroes are worshipped
with rose garlands one day,
And garlanded with footwear
the next day!

Where a slumdog becomes
a millionaire to-day,
And millionaire becomes
a pauper on the morrow.

Where friendships are
made every minute
And enemities are
planned every second.

Where deadly bombs go off
without warning at some places,
And fire-crackers are set off
for mundane celebrations at other places.

Where commercial love
is found in sex dens,sea-fronts,
pubs,malls one day,
And a love wired through
the net is born next day.

Where straights indulge
in sex one day,
And gays,pimps,sedomists,
run riot the next day!

Where logic and reason
turn into confusion,one day
A mess is solved in a second,
by a wizard,next day!

Where, dogs are taken
by a car ride,one day
And killed and kicked
about the other day.

Where persons are talking
for the sake of talking
one day,
And deaf and dumb exchange
mutual handsigns, the next day.

Where man encircles
the space, some times,
On another day,
Man struggles to reach
his house safely.

Where,there is joy in
every sunrise,one day,
And sadness in
every sunset the next day.

Where music is loud and lewd
one day,
And soft and spiritual
next day!

Is India a mad country
to-day,
And a sound country
to-marrow?
You answer!

"Does Freedom Bring Innovation & Joy?"---An Essay

Nature is free and yet is bound by law.You feel so much joy,happiness,peace in nature.Anything that brings destruction does not bring in joy and nature knows this very well.It works within the law and yet is free of the law.

Why are there earthquakes,storms,tornadoes in nature?Because,nature is angry that somewhere,some law has been violated and wants to maintain a balance and thus punish the lawbreakers.Who are the lawbreakers?Maybe,someone from the human kingdom,or the animal kingdom or the planetary disturbances in the Cosmos.We cannot pinpoint with certainty that who has broken the law and that is why the catastrophe has followed.It is like a revolving wheel of a cart-horse.So long it is revolving,it is revolving.The moment you put a spoke in the wheel,then all hell will break loose.The wheel will stop revolving,the cart will stop going further and the horses will refuse to run.

Now, what is the law?A law is like breaking one of the ten commandments of Jesus.If you can work within those commandments,you will find happiness and joy.Its like signing a bond with nature and adhering strictly in its implementation.Only those who know the law can go beyond it.However,man on the other hand has lost his way.He equates freedom with unlimited license for indulgence.It is here, that his freedom gets destroyed and his soul gets chained into sin,deprivation,lust,greed,temptation.How to get the soul out of this mess?Understand,that the soul is free and joy is bound by law;it is ironical but true.Let the soul run free in your heart and bring out all the talents,merits,innovation to the fore.This acivity of man brings him more and more in face of the society and this is the true freedom that the man is seeking.

Freedom is totally naked and upright!It does not seek obscurity to reveal itself.Look at nature.The seed in the fertile soil comes out of obscurity to sprout,the bud to flower and the fruit to appear on its branches among its leaves.In the same way,the soul is constantly struggling to innovate,to creat something new and release its talents and this is not to boast itself of its power, but simply for maintaining an intricate and delicate balance in nature.Why does it indulge in all this acitivity?It wants simply to be free and realise itself and contribute to this bounty of nature.Freedom entails responsibility and true freedom is without any pressure and responsibility;it simply is in existence.When this type of freedom is at play,there is a birth of innovation & joy;it is absolutely effortless!

"IS EGO AND SELF INTERCONNECTED?"---AN ESSAY

The first question is: What is ego and self?
Ego is false pride and the self is the real personality of a person.Both are called "I"; but the "I" in ego is false and the "I" in self is real.You can put it this way.....Ego is the devil or saturn and the self is the angel or God.But, now a human being has fallen into a trap!Ego is dominating the self in every aspect of life.... be it in commerce,relationships,inventions,knowledge,study or what not.How was this ego born?Ego was born out of knowledge and not wisdom.Now, what is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?Knowledge is what you learn in school or college.Subjects like,history,geography,mathematics is called knowledge.Knowledge will help you to get a job in any company;but it will not help you to live a life of peace,calm or joy.If you require real happiness or bliss,then you will require wisdom.You can get wisdom by training under a spiritual Guruji.He cannot teach you about school subjects,but he can tell you something about the secrets of life like,awareness,meditation,life beyond,sound judgement.These are the real virtues of life which can stablise a person in his personal life and his family.
Knowledge is false information gathered by humanity since the birth of man.Mind you, don't confuse this knowledge with inventions created by scientists.But it is a fact that whenever, a scientist discovers anything new,"I" is born and this "I" is the ego.And when this happens, the mind of man takes a u-turn;it becomes unreasonable,illogical,wrong,and destroys the self, the real "I".
Speaking about self,the self is like God Inc.It has truth,beauty and innocence.How to recognize this truth,beauty and innocence?Truth can only be recognized by the self only when ego is separarted from it.Its like separating water from milk.Once the whole water is drained off from the milk by heating,you get the real milk.Beauty is always within and not outside.All beautiful man-made structures are mirages;they are temporary.Why?Because of possessiveness.Once you want to possess beauty,it is lost forever.You buy an expensive painting at an art gallery,you own it and you hang it on the wall of your bedroom.What happens?After sometime,you lose interest in your painting and beauty is lost.On the other side,observe a rose with thorns in a pond.If you don't possess this natural wonder,you will admire the rose as well as the thorns.Here,beauty creates a kind of adventure,a thrill!And,what about innocence?Innocence is your very nature.Truth and beauty will draw you into deep meditation.Meditation is complete relaxation of the mind,soul and body.Once you are in this state,innocence will be born.Try it!

Ego and self are interconnected.Once you separate ego from the self,you are in bliss,joy,happiness.How to do this? You can do this by just witnessing,watching,observing without any judgement.If you judge even once, the full magic is lost.The mind has become tired of judgement.How many things to judge in life? How many judgements a mind can handle.....a thousand,a million,a billion?Its madness!Now,we want our minds to relax,to rest,to open up,to enjoy silence,which is real rest.When you see the world outside with billions of objects,it has disastrous effect on the mind......it becomes extremely tired,because it has learnt to judge only and critisize and not enjoy.How many things to judge in life and what do we get from judgements.....nothing but misery!What is right,who is wrong,no one can prove;it is all madness,churning in a fake world.Now, we want our minds to rest,to ease,to experience joy and this can be done by just observing,witnessing without judgement.Keep a tab on your mind by strictly telling it not to judge.

Many people want to know what is witnessing?Witnessing is just looking or observing without any judgement.Observe anything in your house....e.g.a chair.Don't judge the chair,don't have a description of the chair in your mind.Just witness as an object of existence.Slowly and slowly,the chair will disappear from your mind.Why has this happened?Because, the mind has become clear,empty and there is only one object,'chair' in your mind.If you have too many things in your mind,then the mind becomes confused;there are far too many distractions for the mind to handle.
Now take an emotion of hate.Don't judge hate;see it as a way of life,be silent,let your mind be cool and slowly, this feeling of hate will disappear.

Consider witnessing as a form of God,who is about to transform you.There is a difference between a witness and a doer.The doer is a corrupted man,full of flaws and no beauty; a witness is a man of existence,like a God.Imagine, among all the noise,dins,sounds,chaos of the world,you are a witness.The noise is there,but the sound is muted;it is like soft music in a very low decibal.You are in the centre of a circle and the full circumference belongs to you.In fact, you become the whole circumference and existence and disappear,become invisible,dead and merge with the universe to become one whole and nothing else.
When this happens,life becomes one big celebration,a party you never want to end!When you reach this stage,a great peace and silence will dawn on you.You become centred with bliss,joy and happiness.You will feel a great burden on you mind being suddenly lifted and an unusual innocence will come over you.You will be like a new-born child in the midst of nature!

Random Thoughts on...."Poetry"

Some poets write sonnets to die for
Other poets write haikus to live for
Some poets write gimmicks for fun
Other poets write lyrics for a Sun
Some poets like to ryme and dine off
Other poets like to hymn and sign off
But all poets have one goal,
To write one thing and meaning another,
And,this is ironically permissible in poetry.

Poets come from diverse fields..................

ON CLOTHES

Poetry can be worn on a sock
As well as on a frock
Poetry hides in a hanky
As well as in a panty
Poetry can climb a maxi
As well as lower itself in a mini
Poetry can be worn on a coat
As well as on an overcoat
Poetry is in a bra of a woman
As well as in a..............

ON MEN

Poetry doctors a Physician
As well as paints a Painter
Poetry buries itself in a Funeral Director
As well as exposed in a Dead
Poetry can flower in a Garden
As well as in a Gardner
Poetry cuts in a Tailor
As well as in a Sailor
Poetry can fly in a Pilot
As well as in a Plane
Poetry can set sail on a Captain
As well as on a Ship
Poetry can happen in a Train
As well as in a Rain

ON FEELINGS

Poetry can happen when in Love
As well as when in Hate
Poetry creeps into an Emotion
As well as while in Motion
Poetry is in an Attire
As well as on a Satire
Poetry happens when you are Happy
As well as when you are Sad
Poetry rushes in when you are sympathetic
As well as when you are Empathatetic

ON THINGS

Poetry can be written on Money
As well as on Honey
Poetry can be on a Currency Note
As well as on a Fake Note
Poetry can be written in a book
As well as on a Page
Poetry can be hung on a Hat
As well as written on a Mat
Poetry can be built on Furniture
As well as on an Architecture
Poetry has time to sleep on a Bed
As well as on a Bedsheet.
Poetry can sit on legless chair
As well as eat breakfast on topless table

Alas! True poetry will always
come out of a Dreamer!
Because,Poetry is just about Anything!

A Poem on.... "Tea"

A morning cup of drink
wakes up a man from his slumber

What an envirogating drink
Mother Nature has given to plumber
For leaking taps,tops,toilets & pipes,
Which he sets right
in front of your eyes at site.

A concoction that washes away blues
of children going to school
so that subjects remain glued
in their tiny heads.

A brew that brings many unknown faces
to allay fears, doubts,anxieties
vanish like a ghost without trace
and cultivate everlasting friendships.

A misture that brings quareling couple to-gather
Man and woman fighting
over silly things for upmanship.

A brew that can end
a dispute between Ram and Rahim
waging war for the last decades,
in a no-win situation.

A brew that can solve
difficult chess puzzles
between two old friendly foes.

A brew that can never become
a storm in a tea-cup!

What Makes A Best Seller?----- An Essay.

Originality comes into play, when one’s mind asks a question in the midway of a thought…………. “Whether this is possible.”

I think 90% of the books published in the world should not be written at all .Why? Because they write out of compulsion, they offer to the reader nothing but environmental disaster of wasting our precious trees! I know the daggers will be out, but what about the content potential?

Going still deeper, some of the best sellers are boring to read. You have to just look at the classics……..The Bible, The Ten Commandments, Dr. Zivago, Ulysses, Samson and Delilah, Cleopatra, Where Eagles Dare, Charlie Chaplin, Mother India, Malgudi Days, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Marx Bros., Gone With The Wind,…………these books are full of inspiration, awe, entertaining, morals……..a book you want to hold to your heart forever! The Bible is the highest selling book in the world; it has sold more than 15 billion copies worldwide. The Ten Commandments is another gripping book on the life of Jesus Christ; it is the most popular book in the world.

I know everyone who writes will consider me a villain, who has come to spoil their party; but I don’t carry any such thought. I only want to encourage them to come out of their closet with something original in content for the readers to enjoy. I know this is difficult for many writers, but I can give them a start. Let their ideas run wild, mad, illogical, but from there the writer can built up the essay, prose, fiction or even poetry.

Another trait in a compulsive writer is to write long and thick. They will empty the ink in their pens up to the last drop and then fill up a number of times, writing, writing and writing. But the taste of the pudding will be in the last few pages of the book. And, when the writer does finish writing the entire book, he will congratulate himself on achieving a milestone. Whew!

Novels can be an interesting read, when they have something new to offer to the readers. Let their content be their real experience, observation or a news items. And, mind you, it is not the complete novel that is important………but each and every page of a novel must be exciting and eager to be looked forward to by the readers. Many writers write hundreds of pages of a novel, but not concentrating on the title. They fill up the pages with useless conversations, extensions of no consequence, reflecting the general apathy of the writer. These type of writers make the last few pages very interesting; but by that time, the reader is exhausted and bored to death! Hence their novel can never be a bestseller. A bestseller novel is power packed from page one to page last. It is loaded with exciting feeds like an original story, fantastic locales, mind blowing characters and meaty interesting conversations, that will ring true. This type of novel must engage the reader immediately from the opening page itself. Once the reader picks up the novel, he should be hooked to it, should not like to put it down, but rather finish it in one go!

That’s about Best Sellers !

WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE PICTURES TO YOUR NOVEL?

Yes,it would be a fatastic idea and it could be the first of its kind ever implemented in a noval;provided of course the publisher,editor or others agree that this idea of picturization in a novel will be a value added commercial concept for the publisher or the author,whoever funds the cost to print the novel.

How will these pictures be depicted in a novel?Well, the picturization of a novel will be conditioned,reserved and limited for only such novels where it is necessary that such pictures will add value to the reading public and make them enjoy the novel.I feel,spy novels having adventure as its theme will be favourites for picturization..........e.g.Superman,Batman,Spiderman,Lone Ranger on a horseback.Then novels on wars themes will be ideal to print pictures,where you can see bombers dropping bombs on enemy territories or a ship be hit by an underwater missile sinking in the occean;all these scenes will be very exciting to see in colours.

Its a very tricky situation and one must not get caught in a catch22 situation.The author should be the first person to decide picturization of a novel to be implemented or not,followed by the editor and the publisher.However, it is worth mentioning here that if the publisher is given this right,then the novel will not be a success commercially.How many pictures could be in a novel will depend entirely on the writer himself,because he knows best where to put the pictures to have a maximum blast on the readers!Finally, there is no guarantee,whether a picturization of a novel will be a benchmark for success.However, going by the thumb rule scale of 1 to 10,I feel the picturization score could be in the range of 7/10.

That gives me another fantastic idea for the publisher! What's that?
Well,to produce a picture version of a written novel,just print it like a whole comic book.So, the publisher will have 2 books to publish.........one,a written novel in a digital format and two picture version of a digital written novel.Would that be not exciting?Both versions of the books could be awarded copyrights to the author only.So, as far as the sale of the novel is concerned,I think the readers would like to own both! So much the better for the publisher.Children will love the picture versiion and adults the both versions.