यमरक्षण

सबके जीवन का आज नहीं तो कल समापन होना ही है। यह बात परम सत्य है। तो ऐसा क्यूँ होता है कि कुछ लोग आज, वहीं कुछ लोग कल चल गुज़र पाएंगे?

क्योंकि सच तो यह है कि हम मे से किसी को जाना नहीं है! बल्कि, मौत तो एक किस्म की परीक्षा है, और इस पहेली को बूझ सको, तो आप भी यमरक्षण के योगी बन पाते हो।

अब आप पूछोगे कि यमरक्षण क्या बला है?

दरअसल यह बला नहीं, बल्कि हर इंसान का हक़ है। अब अगर आपको जीने कि तमन्ना न हो, तब तो अलग बात है। लेकिन हम अक्सर ऊपर वाले से प्रार्थना करते है कि काश हमे और हमारे चाहने वालों को लंबी उम्र का वरदान मिले। उस वरदान को पाने का तरीक़ा है यमरक्षण।

बोहुत ही कम लोगो को यमरक्षण नसीब होता है। और इसकी वजह यह है कि ज़्यादातर लोगो को यह नहीं पता के उनकी अच्छी कीसमात दरअसल यमरक्षण वरदान है।

समई तो कहता हूँ हम सब को मूहीम चलानी होगी ताकि हमे भी यमरक्षण वरदान मिल सके।

Sacred Texts

The sacred texts, however quaint, dated and backward may seem, are the only way to heal yourself through the dread of waiting.

Just on the carpet, a bottle of cold water at one side, the fragrance of a burning incense stick on the other. Of course, right in the middle, sitting front of your lap- the sacred texts.

Your eyes are completely fixed, absolute dissolving of your gaze into the words, stanzas and proses you cannot help but recite them in a certain manner. If you wish, you can even laugh, clap or let the teras dry yp on your cheeks.

Until the time to stop waiting comes, of course.

That is exactly the moment when the texts become meaningless, and the act of reading it a mighty chore. You throw away the texts like a slush of guff they are.

The question is, what do you learn from the text during the period of waiting, and what wisdom the next person might gain from the same texts, once they become meaningless for you.

Thoughts

Brihad loves talking a bit too much, but Bubbli knows the brouble begins when he remains quiet.

Bubbli kept staring at Brihad when he kept humming to everything the ‘Electrician’ said on the phone. When she doubted, he challenged her to check his phone for any sign of trouble. She kept mum then, but of course, you cannot mum the thoughts in your head.

Another thing with thoughts- over time, if untouched or unchallenged- can certainly morph into an idea, a belief, even a resolution.

And once your thoughts become resolutions, nothing can be done to change them. Still, not like Bubbli made the mistake of letting her thoughts be known to Brihad.

Brihad remained unoblivious, until the time came for his end.

Resolutions don’t consider, beg or change, and neither did Bubbli. It was only after the end when the thoughts perished, burgeoning her with  confusion and guilt.