Burn money

You earn it
So you can burn it
Wise men say it has
three known states
Consumption, gift or waste

So save what you can
For the lean times
When the going seems good
Animals too do it
this is well understood

Trade your time for cash
Is an extreme
Of chasing an impossible dream
Can't buy one extra breath
For all you are worth

No one has yet saved it
Or had enough
In bad times it may be gone
So trade cash for life
When ever you have chance

Be temperate
Do not add fuel to fire
Burn money once a while
For the fulfilment of desire
To see what it leaves behind in its pyre

In the end
what you keep
Is what you give
so burn it all in haste
through consumption, gift and waste

© Ratish

Why do we all believe in things that we believe in?

 Values and beliefs are something fundamental to each individual. It reflects their upbringing, exposure and often is a guiding factor in making decision over a period of time.
Many a time an individual will defend their position because they believe it resonates with their core principles. At time they also seem to limit  alternate options that a person can exercise in a given situation.
Now let us consider a few questions

• What vales or principles you will not give up or compromise

•  If you think that you have a valid reason for your belief or find some logical inconsistencies in the alternate argument

• Even if there exists conclusive evidence against your viewpoint

• What will take for you to change your core beliefs

• To what extent you will go to shield someone from the consequences of their misplaced beliefs

• If a person is a stranger or acquaintance

• If a person is someone close to  you

 

© Ratish

मासूम

है हलका सा खिलौना मेरा

माँ का आँचल ही है बिछौना मेरा

अपनी ऊम्र से तुम देखा न करो

अभी तो कद भी है बौना मेरा

पल में करता हूँ

पल में भुला देता हूँ

है दुनिया की समझ कच्ची मेरी

अपने सच मैं खुद ही बना लेता हूँ

मेरी नजर में

है यही इंसाफ

एक हसीं तेरी और

मेरे सौ गुनाह माफ़

मैने ख्वाब अभी सीमाँओं में नहीं देखे है

सहेजे हुए पत्थर अब तक नहीं फेके है

अभी सीखे नहीं है दुनिया के रिवाज

सोच है तेज पर कहने को कम अलफाज

कुछ दिन और मुझे परियों की कहानी गढ़ने दो

बेफिक्र खेलने दो, पनाहों में तुम्हारी रहने दो

बदला जो इक बार कभी वापस न बन पाऊगा

कुछ दिन और मुझे मासूम बना रहने दो

 

© Ratish

Didcot  16th Nov 2013

मृत्यु जीवन विधा

जन्म से हो न कुछ

है यह सुनिश्चित

अन्त हर जीव का

अन्त ही है

है यहाँ जब कर्म

और श्रम सुनिश्चित

आनंद ही जीवन में 

क्यों क्षणिक है?

हैं मरूस्थल, हिम और बंजर

तो खेत, नदियाँ और वन भी हैं

क्षोभ और दुखः क्यों व्याप्त जग में

शान्ति और हर्ष पर क्यों संक्रमण है

अमृत्य पुत्र कहकर मुझे दी यह व्यथा

आज मैं तेरे इस विधा पर भी हसा

जो कुछ भी हूँ मैं पूर्ण ही हूँ

मुझसे कुछ और हो कर तू दिखा

 

19 October, Didcot (long walk with large moon visible )

© Ratish

Daddy what is Future?

Rudra asked  me - "Daddy what is Future?". We were only two people in the room. I was trying to finish my Mojitos and watch a random friday flick on TV. Rudra was busy playing and thinking about impossible things.

 Between the dialogs I responded "Future is time that is yet to come". Then he came and sat next to me and persisted with his line of questioning. I was giving him curt responses, when I could. Then I realised that something more important was happening right in this room. So I turned the volume down.

By now Rudra had challenged me to explain future without time. I think at this point I was trying to explain today is present, tomorrow is future and yesterday is past.So in the next few minutes I tried to explain the concept in more ways while Rudra was seeking clarification.

Rudra then was able to link this conversation with concept he was familiar with - Days of the week. He even went further to deduce that future repeats it self, as the days do. I was frantically searching for a Calendar to show that days do repeat but date, month and year do not. Our further conversations diverted to when is Christmas and Halloween.

 Today I was just wondering how easily we pass our own preconceived notions as truths. The calendar itself is our interpretation of measure of time and each calendar has an arbitrary reference point.  If we all agree we can make today any hour, day, date or year. We do this type of exercise for daylight savings don't we?.        
            

Coming back to future - what is future, how do you define it, from where did you learn this concept, what misconceptions will you choose to spread when some one asks you Daddy what is future?

There is another way to look at it consider what you are investing today now for your uncertain future.And what stories have you brought into?

Anyways when I checked with Rudra today about our conversations on future got point blank response - I don't know. In few years who knows what we as society will teach him 


© Ratish

नभ, रत्नाकर, धरा

नभ, रत्नाकर, धरा

तृणवत

क्यों जियें

आहत, आक्रान्त

परिस्थितियों से प्लावित ?

दीनता के खेल

खेलकर बने दीन

संचार कर ऐश्वर्य का

हो चिर नवीन

संमुख है तेरे

नभ, रत्नाकर, धरा

हो विस्मृत

यदि इंनमें से ध्येय चुना

हो देव पुत्र

ध्येय का ध्यान दो

एक लक्ष्य है

उसका संधान हो

इस देश काल

का पालनहार तू

सूक्ष्म से वृहद का

विस्तार तू

है आश्चर्य

यहाँ इस खेल में

अधिकों ने दीन

पात्र ही चुना

और तुम

क्या कीमत लोगे जीवन की

नभ, रत्नाकर, धरा

 – बस क्या?

 

© Ratish
Didcot 12th October