“Each color is important, mix them well”

“Each color is important, mix them well”

Since this was a weekend, he was feeling more relaxed and decided to watch TV till late night. But watching news has always disturbed him in one way or the other. He felt bad when he saw news related to honor killing, inter-religion troubles, caste differences and all. He thought what we are doing with our lives; we have become experts in creating trouble for each other. Anyway, it’s none of my business; I am having a great life. He went to bed with mixed emotions.

He did not realize if it was dream or real, but he met someone who looked like god. He asked him, are you god? The answer was, yes. God said, “Can you do a favor to me”. He was surprised, if you are god, then why you would need a favor from me. You are the supreme power. God said, “can you paint a picture and make garland for me”. Of course I can, but why would you ask me to do that. God said, just do it and make it sure that you make the best picture and best possible garland.

He mixed the best possible colors and painted a picture, which he was sure that, is the most beautiful picture, he could possibly paint. Then he made a garland by sewing together different flowers with different colors and fragrances. He proudly showed it to god.

God praised his efforts and asked him, but why have you used different colors in this painting and so many different flowers in this garland. He said, because each color was important and together they make a beautiful picture. If I would have used just one color, the picture could not have been as beautiful as it is now. Here, each color is complimenting the other color. And in the same way these different flowers has made this garland the best, because each has its own fragrance.

God replied, my friend just now you have explained the secret of life. You have said that for a beautiful picture each color is important and they complement each other. Now imagine these colors as different religions (and castes) existing on this earth. Together they make a beautiful picture of this world, each one of them is important and like those flowers, each one has its own fragrance. But instead of making a beautiful picture from them, you people have made each color fight with other and prove it superior to other. Where it could become a beautiful picture with all the colors (religions and castes), you people are fighting hard to paint a picture with just one color (your own religion or caste). You have entirely changed the idea of making a beautiful world.

Why there is so much resistance to inter-religion (and inter-caste) marriages, this is similar to mixing different colors for a more beautiful picture of life. Why you people still feel that some castes (or religions) are more superior to others, when you yourself have said that each color is important for a best picture. And why are you afraid of mixing these colors together. And this is also like; to save your favorite tree in a garden you are trying to cut the other trees. But in this whole exercise you have destroyed the garden itself. I just want you to realize the importance of making a beautiful picture of life, rather than fighting for any one color.

And the day, you people could look at the whole picture, there would not be any different (religion or caste) color.

There would be just one beautiful picture of life having all the colors (religions) existing together, making it more meaningful and alive. And the next morning he actually woke-up "for the first time in life".

-Ajay Bamel

“ एक अर्थहीन जीवन यात्रा ”

कभी  हसरत  को  मारा  होगा,

कभी  नफरत  को  पाला  होगा,

जो  सच  था  उसे  छोड़ा  होगा,

और  झूठ  को  सहेजा  संभाला  होगा,

जीवन  तो  खेल  है  ऐसा  बोला  होगा,

और  फिर  झूठ  में  सच  को  टटोला  होगा,

खेल  समझकर,

दूसरों  का  भरोसा  भी  तोडा  होगा,

और  जितना  भी  पा  लिया  हो  तूने,

फिर  भी  वो  तेरे  लिए  थोड़ा  होगा,

मैं  जीत  रहा  हूँ  यही  सोचकर  तू  भागा  होगा,

पर  तेरे  भीतर  का  जहान आज  भी  अभागा  होगा,

दूसरों  को  खुश  देखकर  रोया  होगा,

और  उन   जितना  पाने  के  लिए  सबकुछ  खोया  होगा,

गैरों  के  लिए  अपनों  से  रूठा  होगा,

फिर  हर  चेहरा  लगा  तुझे  झूठा  होगा,

फिर  भी  तू  नहीं  माना  होगा,

जीवन  को  उलझाने  का  ढूँढा  नया  बहाना  होगा,

महंगी  बस्ती  में  भी  खुशी  को  ढूँढा  होगा,

वो  खुद  भटक  रहे  हैं , तेरा  वहां  क्या  होगा,

प्यार  का , रिश्तो  का  धंधा  किया  होगा,

ज़िन्दगी  पूरी  जी  के  भी , कुछ  कम  सा  जिया  होगा,

ऐसा  जीवन  भी  ,क्या  जीवन  रहा  होगा,

जिसे  ना  अर्थ  दिया  होगा , ना  जिसका  अर्थ  ढूँढा  होगा,

जिसमे  जिया  हर  लम्हा , सिर्फ  स्वार्थ  से  बना  होगा.

-अजय  बामल

What are we celebrating today??

I know its Dussehra!! But, what are we celebrating today??

As far as I know “Dussehra” is celebrated for the victory of good over evil. And the tradition is that people would gather at one place, there would be a mass gathering and then they would put on fire three different statue. One statue would symbolize Raavan.

They say that, they hate raavan, he was not a good person because he had kidnapped “Sita Mata”. But the other truth is that Raavan also took care of Sita Mata as long as she was there in Lanka. And still we treat him like a real bad person.

And here in real life we have so many inhuman people playing around us, doing heinous crimes. They are not just kidnappers; they are murderers and rapist also. But we will not dare burn these inhuman creatures. The real evil still exists with us.

And we are happier to burn a statue only. And we feel that we have witnessed the victory of good over evil.

Shri Ram must not have expected this from us. What he must have been trying to say is that look whenever there is a evil around, I want you all to be brave and daring enough to fight against it. I want you all to be brave and good human beings in life.

And I want you all to pass this same message to your coming generations by your acts, by your karma  (not by burning a statue).

But what we have done is that we have lost that message somewhere in between and we have kept that statue with us, to which we put on fire every year (and somehow it comes back again, the next year).

So, what are we celebrating today??

-Ajay Bamel

“अभी बाकी हूँ मैं ”

अभी  होना  मेरा  बाकी, 

अभी  जीना  मेरा  बाकी, 

अभी  सुनना  मेरा  बाकी, 

अभी  कहना  मेरा  बाकी, 

अभी  बाकी  है  हसरत  भी, 

अभी  बाकी  है  अरमान  भी, 

अभी  बाकी  है  धड़कन  भी, 

अभी  बाकी  है  ये  जान  भी, 

अभी  बाकी  हैं  उम्मीदें, 

अभी  बाकी  कई  सपने, 

अभी  बाकी  नयी  कौशिश, 

अभी  बाकी  मेरा  चलना, 

अभी  बाकी  है  दिन  ढलना, 

अभी  बाकी  है  मिलना  खुद  से, 

अभी  बाकी  है  जुड़ना  तुझ  से, 

अभी  बाकी  हूँ  मैं, 

अभी  काफी  हूँ  मैं, 

मंजिल  पे  मैं  भी  झूमुँगा, 

अभी  राही  हूँ  मैं ..

-          - अजय  बामल

Live life like those last days of college..!!

Do you remember your last days of college life? I am sure we all remember our college life and we loved it so much and we still cherish it a lot, every single day of that life. But there is something very important about those last days of college.

During those last days we all tried to enjoy every single moment of college with our friends. We tried to avoid any kind of disputes and misunderstandings with others (may be because now we were sure that this all will end soon). We ignored bitter words by others and tried not to hurt others or get hurt. We only focused on living life to maximum. We would have lots of parties together. We would try to make every creative attempt in those last days which we had missed before by saying “ab nahi karenge to kab karenge.. phir to college life khatam ho jayegi” (if we don’t do it now, then when will we do it..college life is going to end soon). Those who were into sports would try and make some mark in cultural events as they wanted to experience how it feels on stage. The dramatics guys would make an attempt in sports. BECAUSE DURING THOSE LAST DAYS WINNING WAS NOT IMPORTANT, MORE IMPORTANT THING WAS THAT WE MADE AN ATTEMPT AND TRIED SOMETHING NEW. Nobody would make fun of your attempts even if you failed, as they knew “ab nahi karenge to kab karenge.. phir to college life khatam ho jayegi”. In fact they would laugh and celebrate together. Now they would enjoy together even failures too, as making an effort was more important (Competition turned into celebration and every participant was a winner now, in some way or the other). Everybody started appreciating and encouraging others. The studious one would go and tell the dramatics guys that you people had a great life here and enjoyed a lot.. We would also perform this time on farewell because “ab nahi karenge to kab karenge.. phir to college life khatam ho jayegi”.

Those who had gang wars (kind of..they liked this word for themselves) would try to be the best of friends now, they would praise each other and would talk good about each other and same old reason for this.. “ab dosti nahi karenge to kab karenge.. phir to college life khatam ho jayegi”. Everyone would try to be good and would focus on enjoying those last days of college because everyone knows that they might not meet again in future, they may not have same life again, so let’s LIVE IT!!

The same thing is in life, but it is much longer than those 4 years and that’s why we don’t realize that it would also end one day. We fight with each other, cheat on people, ignore our dreams, our health, our relationships because we feel that we will be here for very long time or may be forever. But we don’t realize that it could end any day, It could be even shorter than those last days of college life. That feeling “ab nahi karenge to kab karenge.. phir to college life khatam ho jayegi”, made us do lots of new creative things, it made us live and explore life to maximum. That very same feeling holds true in this real long life also. We just need to realize that this journey of life could end any moment, so let’s live it and celebrate it, let’s not postpone our dreams for tomorrow (which may never come .. aur phir ab nahi karenge to kab karenge). Let’s be good to others here also and let’s avoid and resolve any kind of disputes and differences with others like those college gangs. Let’s live and celebrate each moment of this uncertain life. Let’s not wait for tomorrow as that is the most uncertain thing here. We need to realize that the duration could be longer but this life is also a repeat of those 4 years only, we come here, interact with people, make friends, explore our interests, some become good students, some good actors, some good sports-persons, and there is so much to become. But this much longer life would also end one day.. So, let’s live it like those last days. Let’s live it without any fear of failure, let’s explore it and have some new attempts here and lets enjoy our failures too, lets laugh on our failure because most important thing was to make an effort for your dreams.. “ab nahi karenge to kab karenge.. phir to life bhi khatam ho jayegi”. Let’s live each day of life like it is our best day and could be our last day on earth. And remind ourselves each day that why should I cheat someone or hurt someone or postpone my dream, I may not be here tomorrow. Instead of criticizing each other lets appreciate and encourage each other, which shall make a better world.

Let’s live life like those last days of college!!

-Ajay Bamel

Make peace with your present..!!

An interesting incident happened in Metro Train today!!

I was travelling by metro train on yellow line today, to every passenger’s surprise an insect entered inside the train just before train doors were closing. It was big in size and looked like a butterfly but with very dark ugly color. It started wandering inside the coach and passengers could feel trouble caused by it now. A few tried to hit it, a few stood up from their seat in panic. This happened for 10 minutes and that insect was flying from one seat to other causing some discomfort to every passenger.

Finally it sat just above the head of a girl (she was busy reading a book and did not notice the whole panic situation) on the glass window. That girl very cheerfully told her friend look here is a butterfly (yes it looked like a butterfly but with an ugly color which she ignored), she was happy to see a butterfly around her. She did not try to hit it; she did not panic, she did not shout, she was very calm. And to my surprise, in return, the butterfly also sat quietly there for rest of the journey. It did not trouble her or rest of the passengers anymore, once that girl has made peace with it and was comfortable to have it around. The girl continued reading her book with same interest (she was surely enjoying it!).

Same thing happen with us in our life too, when something is troubling us and we react in panic or we lose our temper and senses to that situation, it just worsen the situation. Panic, anger or shouting doesn’t help at all, we are just destroying some priceless moments of life by doing so. The best way is to make peace with it and keep your calm. Like that girl who was happy to have a butterfly around her, although rest all were reacting in discomfort for same situation. It would solve all the problems and things or at least would keep you at peace. Make peace with your past and present, respect and cherish your present even if it has ugly color but still it’s a butterfly. And in return we will receive peace from our present and that shall give way for a better tomorrow and some cherish-able moments of present.

Because this journey of life would end surely sooner or later and at that time we won’t be thinking about what we got in life, more important thing would be that what we did with it which we got in life.

Life is not just about how much we got here, it is more about how much we cherished it and enjoyed here!!

-Ajay Bamel

I want to ENJOY the game!

When I was kid.. I was fascinated by a very popular game called cricket. But I was too young to play with big boys. And there was no kid of my age in neighborhood. So I started playing with them. They would send me as last batsman for batting; they won’t give me overs to bowl until and unless they are sure that they have sufficient runs to win. They would put me at most boring and least important field positions.

But with time,  in few situations I proved my little worth (I remember my first difficult catch taken by me on long on, when the ball was in the air, batsman laughed and said.. “arrey iss bache ke kahan bas ki hai”. And I took an awesome catch; I was shouting and running on the field in excitement.  Somehow I managed to learn the game with time. I never got bored of it and I was enjoying it a lot, even during that time when I was struggling in the game.  

And then there was a time when I was opening as a batsman and bowler, I was fielding at key positions and was doing better than those big boys. In fact I was doing better against them and they were inviting me to play for them against other teams because I was a key player now. (some of my college mates might still remember my inning during the final match in college tournament.. 5 sixes.. no fear..Because I was enjoying the game).

Professional life has again given me same situation, Big boys don’t want me in their teams, they think that I am too young to perform. If somebody has given me a chance, he wants me to bat at last position, field at some of the boring positions. They think that only they can prove themselves to be real winners. I am too young and inexperienced to do that. But, I can repeat the history again.

But this time there is a dilemma that I know exactly what they are thinking and planning, last time I was more innocent and less aware and concerned about their views about me. But this time I know what they are thinking and this has hampered my game and my performance.  I am more concerned about playing for big boys instead of improving my game so that they can consider me a key player again.

And this time I hate their other team-mates as I have lost that innocence and I am more aware now. This time I cannot take their rude behavior and negative behavior towards me. This time I am here to form my own team and beat them all.. but there is this dilemma that is stopping me.. I am too concerned about their perception about me instead I should learn and enjoy the game of life as I did last time.. I should have no fear as I will improve with every game. I know this all..

But still.. why am I afraid this time..??

May be last time I was less aware and did not recognize fear of failure. Being more aware has given me a kind of fear which I desperately want to overcome. This is not just about me, this is for all those players who have stopped enjoying the game of life as they are more concerned about fear of failure this time.

Had I stopped playing cricket when I got out without runs during my first game.. I could never have learned it.

I believe god would give me enough strength once again so that I can LEARN,  I can ENJOY and I can EXCEL in the game of life..!!

And I want my own team this time to compete with those big boys. I want to enjoy the game again, its learning phase, struggle phase, success.. everything..!!

- Ajay Bamel

“एक और ज़िन्दगी है..”

हकीकत से  परे .. एक  और  ज़िन्दगी  है ..

तेरे  ख्वाबो  में  है .. मेरे  ख्यालो  में  है ..!!

वहाँ  ज़िन्दगी  के  सब  जवाब  मिल  जाते  हैं ..

यहाँ  ज़िन्दगी  का  ‘अर्थ’ शायद  सिर्फ  सवालों  में  है ..

वहाँ  दिलो  की  रौनक  से  ‘रौशनी’ है  सारे  जहान में ..

यहाँ  रौशनी  सिर्फ  जलती  हुई  मशालों  में  है ..!!

या  फिर  कौशिश  करते  हैं  उस  जहान  को  इस  जहान  में  लाने  की ..

चल  कौशिश  करते  हैं  दूसरों पे  ‘अपना ’ होने  का  हक  जताने  की ..

समेटने  से  जहान  नही  बनता ..

चल  कौशिश  करते  हैं  मुस्कुराहटें   बांटने  की .. और  इस  जहान  को  अपना  बनाने  की ..!!

तकलीफ  में  आंसू  तो  कई   बार  बहाए  हैं  हमने ..

चल  कौशिश  करते  हैं  इस  बार  तकलीफ  में  मुस्कुराने की ..

हकीकत  से  परे .. एक  और  ज़िन्दगी  है ..

तेरे  ख्वाबो  में  है .. मेरे  ख्यालो  में  है ..!!

- अजय बामल 

Zindagi Tera Arth Kya Hai..!!

Zindagi Tera Arth Kya Hai..

Tujhe Jeene ke liye shart kya hai..

Tera dia har lamha khaas hai..

Phir kyu mann udaas hai..

Aisa jeevan mein vyarth kya hai..

Adhoore khwaab adhoori hasrat kyu hai..

Khoobsoorat hai har dil..

To phir duniya mein nafrat kyu hai..

Sabko khabar hai ki sab kuch pal ke mehmaan yahaan..

Phir kyu nhi ban paate hum insaan jaise insaan yahaan..

Kehne ko saath hain..

Par inke dil door kyu hain..

Aur jinke dil mil chuke hain..

Wo door rehne ke liye majboor kyu hain..

Zindagi Tera Arth Kya Hai..

Tujhe Jeene ke liye shart kya hai..!!

-Ajay Bamel

Zara Udkar Dekh!!

Mat baandh apne aap ko..

Tu udne aaya tha zara udkar dekh..

Hakikat ki duniya agar tujhe takleef deti hai..

To khwabo ki duniya se judkar dekh..

Thoda yakeen apne aap par kar le..

Toote khwabo ko samet aur aankho mein bhar le..

Tera bharosa teri jeet banega..

Tere muskurane se phir ek geet banega..

Bhar dum seene mein aur apne darr ko jhaad de..

Sher sa needar hoke tu bhi dahaad de..

Khushiyaan baantne mein tu sabse bada daani ho..

Mohabbat aise toot ke kar ki teri aankh mein bhi paani ho..

Zindagi roz hai, maut ek baar aani hai..

Kuch khwabo ko tu bhi sach kar teri bhi ek kahaani hai..

Ye dharti to teri shuruaat bhar thi..

Tu aasman se bhi zara judkar dekh..

Tu bechain hai, kyonki kuch adhura reh gya hai..

Aankhein bandh kar aur piche mudkar dekh..

Mat baandh apne aap ko..

Tu udne aaya tha zara udkar dekh..

-Ajay Bamel

Jaane ke baad mujh  jaisa  Fakeer Dhundhoge..

Zindagi ko dhuaan bana kar uda dia maine..

Dhoondh lo isme kya tasveer dhoondhoge..

Jo hua wo ittefak nahi Zid thi meri..

Par tum to shayad isme bhi takdeer dhoondhoge..

Na roke rookunga..na thaame thamoonga..

Bolo ab bandhne ke liye kaunsi Zanjeer dhoondhoge..

Jab tak jeeunga..

Muskuraahte baatunga..

Jaane ke baad mujh jaisa Fakeer dhoondhoge..

Zindagi ko kohre mein chupa dia maine..

Dhoondh lo isme kya tasveer dhoondhoge..

Nek dil..nek iraado ki kadar tumne kab ki..

Tum log to aatma mein bhi shareer dhoondhoge..

Zindagi ko dhuaan bana kar uda dia maine..

Dhoondh lo isme kya tasveer dhoondhoge..

-Ajay Bamel

"Lagey aag meri buraai ko.."

“Lagey Aag Meri Buraai Ko..”

Lagey aag meri buraai ko..

Miley hawa meri achhaai ko..

Jiyein log isi sachaai ko..

To kahin na tadapti tanhaai ho..

Jannat mein meri sunwaai ho..

Sukoon dene wali meri parchaai ho..

Jab duniya se meri vidaai ho..

To ‘raakh’ bhi meri kaam aayi ho..

Mere chehrey pe wo sachaai ho..

Jo bayaan kare achaai ko..

Nidar rahu main.. Jab tak jiyu main..

Bechain aankho ka.. sukoon banu main..

Lagey aag meri buraai ko..

Miley hawa meri achhaai ko..

Ajay Bamel