The interval between thoughts

True that when v follow our dreams, path is tough, often lonely and most importantly no roads to guide to the destination but its equally true that when v do that monday morning's never remain post weekend blues, there is a twinkle in the eyes even in the midst of problems, there is a bubble within which propels us when there is a steep slope to climb, there is a different level of energy which pulls out when rationality says its not possible, there is different time dimension which never lets us feel when we were at work and when at leisure, even if small but v get a different team which doesn't work 10-6 and for the pay cheque they receive at month end but for the shared goal, even when there are not big resources there are small helping hands who share their small savings with care and trust, there is an enlightened intuition to make new roads when there are no roads for traversing across to the destination and most importantly a faith which transcends conventional wisdom and creates an entirely new set of values for the society .

But the question is: then why most of us don't opt for it?, No this question is not right, we all opt for our dreams at some or the other point in life, only error we all do is we ourselves don't persevere for it. Perseverance is the price this twinkle in eyes, this bubble, this different level of energy, this different team, this new resource, this enlightened intuition seeks.

The question therefore is
Will the faith on our dreams continue, 'next time'?

What's there in d name ! Mayurbhanj Coop experiment

Efforts in the Mayurbhanj Cooperative experiment have started yielding results. Results not just at the physical and financial level but to the larger objective of creating true ownership of poor over their business.

Existing 'promoters' board of Disha Cooperative didn't allow the villagers board to take over, therefore with community decision a new federation 'Marshal Cooperative' is legally set in with democratically elected 11 member board. All 15 functional village level cooperatives have joined in the Marshal Cooperative. So here on experiment of Mayurbhanj will be recognized as "Marshal Cooperative" .(Surprised at hearing an English word given by village members, wait....its a Santhali word meaning 'Ojaswi' (enlightened).

First patronage distribution (profit over and above market price) was given over to the villagers in Gaipani Village. This was on the 10% amount sold at village level, 90% is scheduled to go to Godown for much higher returns to primary collectors. Though this amount of patronage share was not very high, but symbolically its very important as it marks the first strike on the existing market mechanisms which feels that poor cannot do business and claim their share in the value chain. I felt so happy, moments of "Manthan" and"Mamuliram" movies showed during induction at IRMA came out vividly!

Forest department has consented the efforts with the Marshal Cooperative, have asked us to prepare a detailed report for production unit, they'll try to support machineries to the tune of 5 Lakh. On other front one member has contributed his 2 acre non cultivable land at token fees for the production unit cum  "Hut Office". The place is very serene surrounded on two sides by forest, perhaps very much suitable for an Ashram if  Mohandas Gandhi was alive today.

Expansion to new villages will begin towards month end. I thank one and all specially my Professors at IRMA who have come forward, believed in the experiment when Institutional support was withdrawn.  Perhaps God wanted it to be a truly people's initiative.  Wish to facilitate creation of a 'mini Anand' in Mayurbhanj !

दूसरा सिरा

जिंदगी के इस मोड़ की कहानी सुनाऊं कैसे 

चरखा भी है धागा भी है फिर भी सपनो की चादर बनाऊं कैसे 

चादर आधी बन ही पायी थी की धागा उलझ गया

उलझा ऐसे जैसे दूसरा सिरा कहीं गुम  हो गया

दूसरा सिरा नहीं मिला फिर चरखा चलाऊं कैसे

आधी चादर फिर से खोल पहला सिरा लाऊं  कैसे

इस उलझे धागे की उलझन में पड़े मन को समझाऊं कैसे 

सपनों की चादर बनाऊं कैसे 

जिंदगी की इस उलझन के दोराहे पर बैठा वो सोच रहा था 

कभी चरखे कभी उलझे धागे को देख रहा था

तभी उस उलझे धागे ने दी पुकार 

जीवन के धागे की नियति है उलझना बार बार

इसकी उलझन पर जीवन का चरखा न रुकने देना मेरे यार

सिरा न मिले दो धागा तोड़ कर नया सिरा बना लो कहीं 

क्यूंकि कोई चादर बिना धागे के टूटे और जुड़े बिना बनती नहीं  

धागे की उलझन को तोड़ चरखा चलाओ दिल  से 

सपनो की चादर बनाने लग जाओ फिर से 

 

Hearing ear to Heart

Life often brings us at  a juncture, where we are left stranded by the ones who have promised to help and ones who even initiated steps along with us for the common goal, the goal which some of us call as the dream and  some passion. This inflexion in the curve of life perhaps cannot be captured by any polynomial equation derived by even the best of the best mathematicians of the era. We stand with two choices, either to leave the dream and passion because the major supporting hands are gone or to move ahead and make another try.

This is where lies the truest test of  our belief on our own dreams, belief that god will either give us a pedestal to hang on or will teach us to fly, belief that even if the door of opportunity has closed and there is no sneaking possible from the opaque window, there is something called 'hope' which sees beyond the wall of hurdle, belief that if there are great people and best institutions who can leave us in between there are at the same time common friends and teachers whom we have perhaps forgotten but who still believe in us and believe in our dreams, belief that there is a greater picture in making which just needs drawing a small dot by us and once that dot is put on the paper the picture is complete.

This belief is very special, special because no test of rationality will ever testify it has true, special because no logical arguments for or against will ever be conclusive and even more special because it comes only when we give a "hearing ear to the heart".

Are we hearing!!

Sharing the dreams

Perhaps last few days had been the toughest phase of my life in person and as development professional for the cooperative experiment in Mayurbhanj. Sudden resignation from the organization I was employed with, retrenchment of the two field staffs from their existing set up, arranging salary for them and looking for some suitable job to hang on.


As they say, whatever happens happens for a reason and its always for our wellbeing. Things have started settling down. Friends, batchmates, juniors, seniors and Professors supported the initiative and while I was thanking each of them one reply which touched me to the core was
"

me: thanks for coming out for help at this crucial time dear

10:34 AM Robin: this is not help dude...

  this is sharing the dream ... n we are doing the easiest part :)

  God is with you...we are nothing ..

10:35 AM me: :)"
Perhaps this makes it truly the people's initiative where on one hand villagers pool in small money and produce to get better returns from the market mechanisms and at other end individuals from their small savings contribute so that facilitation of this first time process happens smoothly.
 I was just thinking over what Robin (my batchmate in IRMA) said "Sharing the Dream". Should we not take this beyond. I was blessed to have wonderful agents (read friends) of God who supported me and pulled me out of this odd situation. I would have definitely quit if this support hadn't come. I am sure there would be many such initiatives going on elsewhere and its quite possible that the facilitators there might not be having such network and caring friends. I was discussing with few of my friends and will soon register a trust fund which will be "by the community and for the community owned initiatives". This fund will not work with NGO's but directly with initiatives owned and controlled by community (example cooperatives, producer company etc.). It will have a clause whereby community initiatives which are left stranded due to gap in donor funding will be supported directly and once the community owned enterprise/organization stabilizes they can contribute back to this community fund so that it can be used again by a new set up. This fund will also be accompanied by professional assistance to the community owned institutions.
This trust fund will assist Marshal Disha Cooperative as its first experiment and will gradually try to evolve across geographical areas of the country. Just initial thoughts, will decide something firmly soon!!
ना  हार  से  ना  जीत  से
बस  केवल  एक  उम्मीद  से
वक़्त के पन्नों पर कुछ लिखता मिटाता हूँ
गीत नया गाता हूँ

Not Jobless but Salary-less !!

Not Jobless (Disha moves on) but definitely Salary less:) -Resigned from Winrock!!

It was 30th May 2007 when I had put papers with General Motors to take on career in the development sector . Yesterday took another baby step towards the objective. With Winrock deciding to discontinue its support for the Cooperative experiment,I decided to discontinue from Winrock. Thanks to one and all who have and who are supporting the Mayurbhanj experiment in this transition phase.

The Saga at the backdrop!

               Last 4-5 days I had been travelling across all the villages where village cooperative branches are formed. I interacted with them, shared with them that I might have to return back to Delhi towards month end due to some official reasons. 11 villages out of the 15 villages, out-rightly said that they want to continue with the collective movement as they have started seeing the benefits at the village level collective sale itself and now they have realized how they can collectively do the business but since this is a new path, they need support for a year atleast. One person commented “we were potential seeds lying in deep mud created by existing market systems, and now your team has taken us out of mud, cleaned the seed and now when we are ready for plantation, you cannot leave without putting us in soil and watering us till we are capable enough to face the wrath of nature on our own as a new plant”.

My professional ethics was in question. I was in dilemma if organization has decided will I be able to continue the work?. But Will it be morally and professionally right on my part to leave these villages in between? Should I not give a last try? Should I leave just because the person from Mayurbhanj who had requested me to stay here, 4-5 months back has backed out  due to reasons which to my understanding are unjustified and immoral (if I had bowed to the request of that person it would have been the biggest wrong I would have done to the cooperatives)? Will my escape  not mean that I am also no different from the lot who just performs the “said” work even if s/he feels that there is a need of extra bit for the people for whom we claim to work for? Should I care only for my ‘career’ and take very ‘safe’ decisions? If I take a decision which is good only for self, do I have a right to stay and work in the development sector? Lastly Will I ever be able to call myself a true IRMAn, if I escape?

I didn’t have an answer and  in such situations I often get back to  “guiding statement” of Mr. M.K. Gandhi which I had used when I decided to leave the promising career with General Motors. The statement says “"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and yourself melt away."

As I had shared  at the time of my relocation to Mayurbhanj that I don’t claim that experiment will necessary be successful but I don’t want it to become unsuccessful because of reasons which Almighty has bestowed within my control.  And I think things are still in the domain where I can and I must give a try. I have decided to continue with the experiment of Mayurbhanj.

Some of my friends and professors have offered financial support through which I can meet the expenditure of the two field staff, till any institutional funding comes in. I am looking towards some suitable job in bhubaneswar/kolkata/jamshedpur (nearest towns to Mayurbhanj) so that I manage my expenses on my own and on weekends come down to Mayurbhanj and support the two field staff.

इरादा मन में ठान कर रखना, 

दुआओं का दामन थाम कर चलना,

ऊंचाई से गिरकर जमीन तक आने में जो वक़्त मिलेगा ,

उस वक़्त में गिर कर टूटने से पहले फिर एक नयी उड़ान पर चलना.

फिर एक नयी उड़ान

इरादा मन में ठान कर रखना, 

दुआओं का दामन थाम कर चलना,

ऊंचाई से गिरकर जमीन तक आने में जो वक़्त मिलेगा ,

उस वक़्त में गिर कर टूटने से पहले फिर एक नयी उड़ान पर चलना.

मकसद मिलेगा इस उम्मीद का दीपक जला कर रखना,

आंधी तेज चले फिर भी छोटे से हाथों में  दीपक बचा कर रखना ,

बुझना और जलना जीत के दीपक की नियति है, 

जीत का दीपक बुझ जाए फिर भी उम्मीद के दीपक से नयी लौ को जला कर रखना .

डगर नहीं होगी आसान ये जान कर रखना,

कर्तव्यों की लड़ाई होगी घनी ये पहचान कर रखना,

डगर यदि नहीं छूटी कर्तव्यों की लड़ी नहीं टूटी,

तो इतिहास के स्वर्णिम  पन्नों पर अपनी पहचान को पहचान कर रखना .

 

क्यूंकि मै एक आम आदमी हूँ

स्ट्रीट लाइट पर लगा है बल्ब पर जलते उसे कभी देख नहीं सकता;

जलाती है भीड़ राह खडी बसों को पर उन्हें जलने से रोक नहीं सकता ;

दुखी होना फिर भूल जाना मेरी फितरत है;

क्यूंकि मै एक आम आदमी हूँ.

रिश्वत खिलाना गलत है पर बिना रिश्वत दिए फ़ाइल बढ़ते देख नहीं सकता ;

आय चाहे लाखों में हो पर मौका मिले तो अपने आपको बी.पी. एल दिखाने से रोक नहीं सकता;

गलत को चलने देना फिर कभी खुद  गलत करना मेरी फितरत है;

क्यूंकि  मै  एक आम आदमी हूँ.

सिस्टम गन्दा  है ये हर चाय की दूकान पर सुनता हूँ पर कुछ कर नहीं सकता;

इंतज़ार है किसी सुभाष किसी भगतसिंह के आने का सिस्टम साफ़ करने  के लिए पर तब तक अपने हाथ गंदे कर नहीं सकता;

गंदगी को कोसना फिर उसी में सो जाना मेरी फितरत है;

क्यूंकि  मै  एक आम आदमी हूँ.

देश को बिकते देखता हूँ पर कुछ कर नहीं सकता;

मल्टीनेशनल कंपनी के बड़े बड़े प्रजेक्ट को मैनेज करता हूँ पर  देश के लिए समय दे नहीं सकता ;

आम आदमी का चोला पहनकर देश को कोसना मेरी फितरत है;

क्यूंकि  मै  एक आम आदमी हूँ.

किसको शीश झुकाऊं मै?

किसको शीश झुकाऊं मै?

घर से चौराहे तक सड़क मिले न मिले;

चौराहे पर बहनजी कि प्रतिमा जरुर पाऊं मै;

किसको शीश झुकाऊं मै?

जब से होश सम्हाला सुनता आया चारा और हवाला;

पहले लाखों का पता नहीं चलता था अब मेरे देश के अरबों के खो जाने की अर्जी किससे फिर लगाऊं  मै ;

किसको शीश झुकाऊं मै?

गाँधी को कभी टोपी क्या तन पर पूरा कपडा पहने नहीं देखा; 

पर उनके बेहरूपी नाम और टोपी वालों को कैसे कर दूँ अनदेखा ;

जो कर दे बेध इन दोनों में वो सीबीआई कहाँ से लाऊं मै; 

किसको शीश झुकाऊं मै?

शुक्र है साठ वर्ष में गाँव न सही बिजली के खम्भे कम से कम शहरों में पहुँच गए;

पर उनमे बिजली लाने कि आस किससे लगाऊं मै;

किसको शीश झुकाऊं मै?

कोई जाती के नाम पर लडवाता है और कोई धर्म के नाम पर ;

अंग्रेजों की बोई इस जेहरीली खेती को किससे  मिट्वाउन  मै;

किसको शीश झुकाऊं मै?

अखबार तो एडवरटाईज़मेन्ट से भरे पड़ें हैं;

अपनी शिकायत फिर कहाँ छपवाऊं मै; 

किसको शीश झुकाऊं मै?

आस तो थोड़ी सी थी इस देश के पढ़े लिखे नव-जवानों से ;

पर अच्छी डिग्री पाकर पैसे की दौड़ छोड़ देश के लिए कुछ करने की विनती किसे सुनाऊं मै 

किसको शीश झुकाऊं मै? 

 

कैसे

सपनो की डगर छोड़ पैसों की दौड़ लगाऊं कैसे;

रेगिस्तान में फिर भी चल दूँ पर किनारों में कश्ती तैराऊं कैसे;

आसमान में उंचा उड़ने का ठाना है तो धरती पर घर बनाऊं कैसे ;

गिरने से नहीं लगता है डर फिर स्थिरता की बैसाखी पर चल जाऊं कैसे ;

कुछ कर गुजरने का खुद  को खुद  से किया वादा है उस वादे  से मुकर  जाऊं  कैसे  ;

आज फिर वही सवाल आ खड़ा हुआ है;

गैरों का  सवाल हों तो जवाब भी दूँ अपनों के सवालों को दौहराउन कैसे ;

सपनो की डगर छोड़ पैसों की दौड़ लगाऊं कैसे.


came back from home today, plausibly the lines above reflect the current state of mind due to discussions which happened last week

The Common Man

Was bit free today and was thinking about what next in Disha. While looking into some stuff on similar past experiments, opened up my hard drive and found a documentary movie on the common man's life and watched it 7th time.  Every time I watch this movie on his life or read an article on him, a shivering  appears from within. Don't know why is it but this 'common man' had always been an underlying inspiration for me in whatever I do or I plan to do.

Whenever the journey appears tiring,  I read about the relentless struggle of almost 3 decades for what he stood for. The struggle which many of us think we know, but its certainly much beyond that what we know. We possibly weave our thoughts on one dimension of what we see but he weaved all possible dimensions in what we fondly recall as struggle for freedom of the country. Without any 'adarsh' reverence or citing him as the reason for freedom of the country, I see him more as a human-being and fall in love with the amazing creation of Almighty.

Whenever thoughts appear to encroach my steps and question my ability to take up those steps or the selfish pursuits try to drag my steps back from the journey, his words time and again come for rescue. NCERT text books often quoted these wonderful words as his "talisman" which I have tried to use in judging all my steps whenever in dilemma.

Whenever I start feeling lonely and the path appears dingy, his writings and unending faith on not fearing anything except 'doing wrong to someone' give the courage from within. Other day after returning back from Siriapala village, one of the field staff person "Divakarji" was asking me how I got into this stuff of 'apparent' rural development. I couldn't reply ( or may be I am tired of replying same question), but perhaps he already knew from Bibek about my past in the automobile industry and was therefore keen to know why the change happened? Did parents not oppose, Did I not fear? I told him, I feel good in what I am doing and till the time I am not doing wrong I don't fear anything. And then I realized, what impact this common man actually casted on subconscious thinking 

This man of weak physique, without a charisma on his face, with no royal/political backdrop, a below average student and an unsuccessful lawyer possibly will continue to amaze me with an example what a 'common man' can do. No hats off, no wonderful remarks just amazed.


PS: For those who don;t know this common man, world calls him by the name of Mahatma Gandhi

Don't Just

Don't just follow what everyone says

No one knows you better for things at which your heart weighs

Don't just speak for yourself

Speak for someone whom you find below the shelf

Don't  just work for money

It's important but certainly not absolute happiness gunny

Don't just live the life till your heart beat is alive

Touch some lives so that you remain alive in the heart beat of those lives

Don't just read this and feel contented

What I wrote is nothing new you must have read it many times though unintended

The dot became a line only when it began the journey called walk

Let a new line begin with the dot of our life stopping the talk and taking the walk. 

When problems try to turn us down

When problems try to turn us down;

Some of us put up our nose and frown;

Frown over what situation we are in;

As if  we are the only one's with bad luck linked in;

But there were people in history who didn't put up their nose;

Instead they put up their sleeves and gave a pose;

The pose that they are tougher than the toughest situations;

Irrespective of the existing resource and capability permutations;

It's nothing but a matter of choice;

And so don't put up nose but put up the sleeves and feel the rejoice;

Rejoice will prevail even if you don't come out with victory;

Because it's not the victory which always creates history!

Fear

When the journey towards one's dreams- one's aspiration begins, it doesn't begin with thunder. It's always a slow movement of air which keeps on accumulating in a small space called 'heart' keeps churning within thin long domains called 'veins' echoing the ear drums from within, putting the sight off and vision on. This journey is unique because it trespasses the fear of fear, there is nothing in the world which can penetrate into that small space of heart and break open the thin long veins where dream flows across. Joy and Struggle which accompany the traveler move him forward away from the past and move him backward away from the future. The traveler starts living in "now". Fear needs a time dimension to exist. It exists before a fighter begins his fight, it might exist after fighter stops his fight, but it can never exist while fighter is on the fight. Travelers who travel in the direction of their dreams are constant fighters, they don;t have a past where they didn't fight and they don't have a future where the fight will stop, they move in constant state of fight. Vanishing of this time dimension creates revolutionaries, freedom fighters, poets, writers, nation builders and every uncommon common being who is unique in his own field. Time keeps moving from past to future, but the traveler doesn't feel this passage. The dreamer lives only in one dimension and that is now, the dreamer sees only  one thing and that is his dream, every nerve,every neuron and every heartbeat just says one thing and that's the sound of dream. No matter what circumstances are, no matter how strong is the fear of failure, no matter how unrealistic and irrational each step appears, the traveler doesn't stop. External circumstances can push the physical person out but it cannot put off the spirit, the will to move on. Fear of failure, fear of criticism, fear of being left lonely vanishes when one starts this journey. If at all there is fear, the fear is of most of us not leaving the shore of fear and starting this journey.


Have we left the shore of fear?

Reason in life's every season

There is a reason in life's every season;

Some sit and cry while some leverage even pain with precision;

Any fool can be happy and confident when everything is at best;

It takes courage to move on when sun hides and life starts appearing at rest;

The time we forgo in blaming luck and others;

Is the time history charters use in creating buzzers ;

Buzzers which opens the doors of future with perfection;

Not with the best situation but with their best creation ;

Apparently bad situation is the reason;

History uses  to give future a new mason ;

The mason proves that it's not about what situation gave us;

It's about  responding with attitude of winning omnibus;

This resurrection of situation by mason;

Reiterates that there is a reason in life's every season.

Except me

We may blame, we may criticize and we may hate others for the situations we are now in, for the phase we are passing through and for the bad shape of the destiny of our dreams. As intellectual beings, we may furnish "thousand and one" excuses to show to the world that "except me" everyone else is responsible for our bad times, except "my sincerity of efforts", except "my earnest desire to fulfill dream" everyone else is responsible. And we may do that with utmost sophistication and tears in eyes that whole world feels that look here is a guy who wanted to do "xyz" but situations didn't let him complete.

But is that a reality?

Is it that those who could do, were granted special luck by Almighty? or Is it that world was more favorable to them and provided them red carpet welcome to accomplish their dream? or Is it that their dreams were very ordinary and that's why they apparently had no or "little" hurdle to cross? or Is that they didn't go through any pain or suffering?

When we sit back after "trying to run away" from "self" we find that "except me" no one else is responsible. This is the moment when we start saying "Accept me" for the faults. None in the world was granted his/her dream accomplishment on the tick of the clock. Possibly no one in the world had silver feathering all the time in the journey. It's just that those who didn't wait for the the "semicolon" to become "full stop", who didn't wait for the "excuses" to make them "excused with their dreams", who didn't let the anguish over "situations" to get "settled with situations" could finally do it.

And its not that those who did that -realized it on the first day. Everyone goes through the "except me mode" with the only difference that those who realize this  before the "time" excuses them from their "dreams" are the one's who ensure that time keeps sharing about them candidly that they didn't say "Except me" but "Accept me" and therefore they achieved what they aspired.

Are we "realizing"?

कौन हो तुम

कौन हो तुम पूछ लिया परिस्थितियों ने उससे  आज;

गिर जाते हो पर आती नहीं कराहने कि आवाज;

हार जाते हो पर दुखी चेहरा नहीं देख पाता कोई तीरंदाज ;

इधर दर्द के  तांडव नाच का रहता है आगाज़ ;

उधर तुम्हारा  कर्त्तव्य रथ आसमा में करता है परवाज़ ;

.कौन हो तुम पूछ लिया परिस्थितियों ने उससे आज

कौन हो तुम ये आज बताना होगा ;

किसने तुम्हे भेजा है ये आज समझाना होगा;

परिस्थितियों के प्रश्नों को आज सुलझाना होगा

देख प्रश्नों कि बारिश वो बोल पड़ा;

नाम है मेरा आम आदमी और फिर ये जोड़ चला;

थोडा सा भरोसा खुद पर रखता हूँ ;

थोडा ज्यादा अपने खुदा कि सुनता हूँ ;

गिरता हूँ हारता हूँ दर्द में कराहता हूँ;

पर दुखी होकर कभी रुकने नहीं पाता हूँ;

क्यूंकि यकीं है: 

अगर गिरने के बाद भी सांस चल रही है;

हारने के बाद भी नब्ज़ फड़क रही है;

दर्द से चीत्कार के बाद भी पैरों कि धड़कन भड़क रही है;

तो मेरे खुदा का है ये इशारा कि मेरी मंजिल अभी भी है बाकी;

और देखो इस आम आदमी कि  आँखें मंजिल देख पाने को तरस रही हैं .

The Image

Moments come in life when "life" puts us at a juncture where it tests the sincerity of our dreams, our conviction, our capacity to remain "tugged" with what we had believed-with what we had preached and for what we had begun our little steps.

The problems with which we get occupied, the unfathomable hindering elements in realization of our dream- start bringing in a feeling that possibly  almighty sitting somewhere on this earth or on heaven doesn't want this dream of ours to get converted into reality. Thoughts start creeping that possibly our capacity is limited, our resources are bound by someone else who has either provided us employment or has given  support  as a team mate, our authority to take decision for the dream lies with someone else, the circumstances in which we are in are possibly  not congenial to carry on with the dream. Intellect starts saying that we may take up this dream sometime later when "everything & everything" is perfectly all right. .

 And then we stand to decide, "the decision" which which will not just shape completion or non-completion of this dream but will create an "image", " an image of self" and "within self", the image which will always remind us being a "quitter". This image may perhaps will never be visible to other's but everytime when we take up a new dream- it will always float before our eyes.

This image will be so treacherous that even if one want's to run away, one wants to pass on the buck to someone else,  there will be none to blame, there will be no excuse to give, there will be none to listen except one and that will be "self". This moment says not get befuddled with "Apparent" limitations of resources,capabilities, team or circumstances, there was none and there will never be one situation when "everything and everything" will be perfect to begin the dream. There  is just one way, one moment and that one way and the one moment is to carry on because our heart says "Its My Dream" and therefore "My responsibility" to "Live it".

Are we seeing the "The Image"?

The True Winner

It's not a hundred metre race my dear;

One who fights till the end of the marathon is the true winner;

Many people begin the fight;

Some run fast while some have early situations tight;

Don't get bogged down if you are in the latter half;

Because every challenge at the beginning actually strengthens your calf;

The strength, the courage, which you gain;

The will, the immunity, to bear the pain;

If not now, for sure, will make the journey easy for the later half;

Therefore get up  before your self starts saying that you are dwarf;

Fight till the end even if first hundred metres put your feet on burner;

Show the world that you are not a hundred metre race runner;

Because it's not a hundred metre race my dear;

One who fights till the end of the marathon is the true winner.

तो खुद भगवन को भी लाना होगा

अनिश्चितता के पलों का दावं भले ही कितना  गहरा हो; 

चाहे हर ओर बस अँधेरे का पहरा हो; 

फिर भी वहां रुकने या वापस लौट चलने का विचार करना संभव नहीं;

जहाँ राह दिखेगी वहां  कदम बढ़ाना होगा;

जहाँ राह नहीं दिखेगी वहां कदम के साथ राह को भी बनाना होगा;

जिस राह पर कदम चल निकले हैं;

जिन उद्देश्य के लिए वो बढ़ निकलें हैं ;

उसकी मंजिल पहले से बनी  राहों पर बढ़ने से आ जाएं तो सही ;

वर्ना खुद बनाई राह पर कदम फिर बढ़ाना होगा; 

और इन  बढ़ रहे  क़दमों के तले मंजिल को हर हाल में लाना  होगा ;

क्यूंकि लड़ाई अगर केवल निज स्वार्थ की होती;

या हार-जीत की कहानी खुद  तक सीमित होती; 

तो अँधेरा हटने तक कदम न बढ़ाते तो फर्क न पड़ता ;

या शायद डर कर लौट भी जाते तो कोई तर्क न करता;

पर यहाँ सवाल है उस भरोसे का उन शब्दों का;

जिनको पूरा करने के लिए अगर जरूरत पड़ी तो खुद भगवन को भी लाना होगा ;