Monday, November 29, 2010

Comedy of Hyderabadi errors!

It was an excellent experience at Hyderabad, but not the excellent-est(which exists in my dictonary) ! asking why ? read on :)

Harish announced his wedding well in advance, which was to be held at Hyderabad,
and i understanding that not many of my friends may make it, booked my own set of
tickets( let us call it set 1).

A few days later Harish himself forced my other friends to make it to Hyderabad,
and they finally gave in. I was glad they are making and asked them to book tickets
for me too along with them. They booked 2 set of tickets(call them set 2 and set
3). Set 2's train was a sleeper class one, and set 3's was a Seat-coach train(named
the Pune Super Fast- remember the name!). Also, i canceled the Set 1 onward
ticket. It was also decided that either Set 2 or Set 3 shall be chosen , and the other be
canceled.

All went well, as there were almost 2-3 weeks more to go, and i had a hell lot of
partying to do meanwhile with various friends!

A week before the departure to Hyderabad, i realised the set 2 and set 3 tickets'
train reached both only on saturday afternoon (Sunday being the wedding).

Hyderabad has our chacha(Nachiket, for ignorants) and vishwesh amongst other
friends, whom i will need to spend a good amount of time with. After all, they were
my final year wing mates, whom i had had an excellent time with.

So, Set 2 and Set 3 canceled ! Only the onward journey tickets were canceled.
(Fortunately, or later i doubted was it unfortunate that the return tickets were
not yet canceled).

Finally i decided to book a bus ticket on friday to spend a good amount of time
with hostel friends at Hyderabad. Call it Set 1, as i had already canceled my Set
1 onward tickets! [ Wrap Around condition ! :D ]

So all was set !
I told myself , "I am going to go by Set 1 (bus ) to Hyderabad, and return with the
Pune friends' (either set 2 or set 3)."

A day later i realised set 2 and set 3 tickets for returning were pretty quick
(afternoon tickets), hence i wanted to come back by Set 1 ticket (night train).

"OK", i told myself. "No more confusions anand." !

Then a BRAINWAVE struck me !
" Why the hell should i waste my set 2 and set 3 tickets ? "

Jaywardhan was the scape goat, and i asked him to go in my ticket(of Set2 or Set3)
to Hyderabad.

About 4 days to go for the journey.

My parties too came to and end, bringing to a start a stomach problem !
I was in dire-straits the next two days, and decided to cancel all the sets and
become a NULL SET !

Then hope came in a few hours, when i realised that my stomach started showing
signs of recovery.
"So the plan remains. Set 1 to go anand.. hey wait, what the hell ? it is a bus
journey ?? what if my stomach plays the fool again? "- now even my mind got upset
along with my stomach.

SOMEhow things got better and i decided to carry on with my journey.

2 days to go.

Another Brainwave struck me.
"Why not return in Set or Set 3 tickets? I will get time to rest at home before
coming coming to office on monday." [This is the TURNING POINT!! ]

I then realised that my scape-goat Jaywardhan turned a villain, as he agreed to go
on my tickets!! Then, as one would expect as happens on movies to Heroes like me, Jaywardhan
decided not to go ahead for some important reason.

So i was double happy, that i
would return home on sunday night itself.[MARK THESE WORDS!]

Hence i canceled my Set 1 return tickets.

So the final schedule was -

Anand will go by Set 1 (bus) tickets and return by Set 3 tickets
All other friends will go and return by Set 3 tickets.
Set 2 was cancelled, as they had yet remained on Waiting Lists!

DAY of JOURNEY -

I left by bus at 830PM on Friday. Chacha offered to pick me at Hi-Tech city in
Hyderabad at about 630AM on Saturday.
The bus was horrible! Much lesser seat space compared to other volvos, broken A/C
regulators at the top, the plastic board by side which keeps hitting your thigh
each time the bus crosses 30kmph!, n most importantly, an horrible guy behind your
seat, who aims his A/C on your head, because he feels cold!

630 AM, Saturday -

Chacha calls up and find out where the bus has come to. The bus driver's assistant,
who i all the while thought was a co-passenger, told me it would take about 20 mins
more.

7 AM Saturday -

Chacha - same question,
anand - same question to driver
driver same answer

7-30 Saturday -

SAME!!

8AM Saturday - SAMEE!!

Now a worst thing! Driver stopped for a coffee/tea "break" ! Another 15 mins
killed!

8-45 AM

MY stop came, and the driver showed a sense accomplishment in him !
Actually i should have had it, that my destination finally arrived! grr!

After getting ready quickly [ read 11AM ;) ], we left to the Ramoji Film City. The
lunch in between at DilSukhNagar re-activated my stomach pranks!!

There were no problems, just that every 3 hours i was fortunate to find decent
toilets!! :D

On a serious note, the overall day was an excellent one, as we friends got to
relive our hostel days, the pranks, the fun, the jokes, the mannerisms, and what
not!! This one factor helped me forget all the irritating things that had passed by during
this trip. :)

Then on our way back in the night we went to the Birla Mandir, and my stomach gave
me one more hike! hehe!

SUNDAY - WEDDING.

Stomach got better, thanks to some tablets that finally happened to work!
The highlight to me was Chiranjeevi's attending the wedding, AP's MegaStar, whose
movies i haven't seen but he is a human i have a great respect for(for his
humanitarian deeds).

As Vishwesh later told me " i am waiting for years! but u came just for one day to AP and u saw Chiru that very day and that too from a distance of 2-3 ft!!" :)

That apart, from Rosaiah to Chandrababu Naidu to MLAs and MPs to other famous personalities, the wedding became a super VIP Wedding!

NOW COME BACK TO THE COMEDY -
[recall all the things u were supposed to remember!]

As mentioned earlier, i was to return with my other friends in the set3 tickets, so
that i reach earlier!
That great train , which calls itself a Shatbdi, or i would rather call a
Shameless-Train-Body, virtually put us to all tortures in the world!

- Train arrives in the wrong platform.(as compared to earlier communication)
- No indication by the station systems.
- We found the train like how we find an auto on the roads! Asking porters, etc
about where which train is going to, etc!
- Train arrives an hour late.
- Train leaves an hour later!!!
- Train NEVER REACHED PUNE!! (hope it did !! )

We fortunately got down at 3AM at Hadapsar Village(a station very close to my house) , THANKS to some crossing! The train might have reached Pune an hour or so later, if it all it had!!

So the train which was supposed to reach at 11-30PM , so that i could have taken some "rest", only ended up reaching Hadapsar(forget Pune) at 3AM !! n IT WAS A SEATER TRAIN of all !


Well, you yourself, as a reader, tell me! WHICH SET of tickets SHOULD i have
chosen????

Friday, August 6, 2010

an innocent heart !

when i take u for granted..
see the innocence in my assumption that u wont mind..

when i slap u..
see the innocence in my intention to slap u..

when i speak ill of u..
see the innocence in me for i realise not that GOD is hearing..

when i demand more from u..
see the innocence in my expectations..

when i help u..
see the innocence in my expecting things in return..

when i hurt u..
see the innocence in my incapacity to understand ur pain..

when i pray to GOD,
see the innocence in my heart..

when i dont share a certain thing with u..
see the innocence in my hunger for that object..

when i cheat u..
see the innocence in my incapacity to understand ur loss..

when i lie to u..
see the innocence in my inability to even lie..

when i tease u..
see the innocence in my unclear-sight which has made me tease u..

lastly.. see the innocence in this poem
for this poet is innocent to assume
that everyone will see only the innocence in others
to make this world a beautiful world to live in :)

Monday, May 24, 2010

True Fiction !!

THEN(1908):

The horses got real tired. The driver recommended a few hours' break once they reach the greenery-surrounded pond at Neemgaon. The 72 year old driver as usual had a lot of fodder for his horses whom he considered as his children.

"Sir, we shall rest here for a few hours. MY horses need the break more than anyone of us.I will share my bhaakrees and dal with you, once we refresh in that sweet-water body." - twinkled the driver's eyes.

Elton was glad at this invitation and picked up the packet of dry-fruits he had brought along with him, which was gifted to him by the Travancore Royal family.


NOW(2009-10):

"GOD Da, help me da... i have just finished my last exam of engineering, and i am fearing this last one may be the first that i flunk" - a worried anand prayed to GOD. It was Cryptography paper and anand took it totally for granted !!

"Hey, eppo da vara ? " - anand's mom calls him and finds out when he would get back to Bangalore, as his hostel life has come to an end.
"amma, i will book the tickets via the VIP quota and come down in another 10days'
time ma" - replies anand, citing reasons of the last possible few days of fun at hostel, which he would not want to miss.

"remember to get your appointment order of Avaya da..."
"sure ma".

THEN(1908):

Splasshhhh!! Horses immediately looked at the pond, but continued with their fodder.
"Sir, do all English know swimming? "- asked the driver while wiping his wet face. Elton was enjoying the waters in the 42-degree-celsius summer of 1908.

"you are one of the first few Englishmen to our village" - smiled the rustic.
Elton was out drying himself, when the driver shot the next question quite innocently, " Sir, but our village has nothing for you to make use of." This is an ordinary village, and you may get nothing here."

"Why do u say so? " - Elton.

"Are you not an administrative English Officer?"
" haha.. i have no intentions of enslaving people or conquering this land like my fellow Englishmen.."- Elton laughed out loud.

"I have been conquered instead!! "- Elton continued.
A sudden expression of seriousness prevailed, while the duo partook lunch.

NOW(2009-10):

"ayyo, the heat in the train was unbearable ma.."- says anand to his amma, when he reached home. Amma hugs him and says " so engineer, congrats! ", with a cool smile on her face.

The campus recruitment offer anand got was at Avaya, which has offered its posting
at Pune.
"Hmm, yet another tryst with Mahrashtra ma.. Pune this time following Nagpur, hahaha!! " - chuckled anand.

"ya, it seems BABA has taken you closer to HIM now, illa ? Shirdi is about 5 hours away only right.."- smiles amma.

Anand's Amma knew that anand had turned into a theist, rather a mono-theist, only towards ShirdiBABA , and at the same time used to shun all other deities. He accepted the others' existence, but never accepted their Powers as told by elders.

He strongly believed ShirdiBABA was the only GOD who was always with him. Anand's mom would often say his dad, " atleast this fellow turned away from atheism, im glad. however, i wish he could also follow Vaishnavism like us."


THEN(1908):

The tanga-driver seemed to be enjoying the dry-fruits. "The Travancore Royal family gifted me this. I came down to Kochi port from the Port of London. And then i found my way here, about 1100 kms northwards." - Elton told.

"why but, Sir? What makes u come here? "- asked the driver with his mouth wide open.
" I am being pulled like a Sparrow with a thread tied to my feet."

" you are speaking in parables like a MadFakir i know of, whom i love a lot " - exclaimed the driver.


NOW(2009-10):

Anand gets used to pune life. Office, roaming, Music, GTalk, Facebook, etc was the way of his life. A few months in, a life-turning incident happens. I appear in anand's dreams and instructed him that I am already in the next incarnation as SathyaSAI of PuttaParthi. I informed him clearly that I(in the form of SathyaSAI) will come to a place called Hadshi, near Pune soon to give him MY Darshan.

He got up confused, and refused to believe for Science has taught him not to believe in "such things" !!


THEN(1908):

The journey was about to resume.
"Which direction to proceed, Sir? - driver.

"Lets ask someone before proceeding further."

Elton and the driver approached the palm-grove where an old man was sitting outside beckoning to Elton.
" Take the left after 3 Koss, and Maharaj shall appear. Allah ho Akbar!"- saying thus the old man walked off., entertaining no further questions.

They took the left turn as instructed and moved on further.

NOW(2009-2010):

I work upon my instruments and and make sure HE gets MY Darshan at a VIP level seat at Hadshi; he still wont budge to believe in MY Re-Incarnation as SathyaSAI. I am not ready to let go of anand, for he was a butcher at MY Court in SHIRDI in his previous birth, and I have promised him that he will be with ME in the future generations.

MY favourite way of Gracing anand is through dreams! and thats what I resorted to!

THEN(1908):

" Yaa na.. Maharaj mala tumcha sathi thambaila sangitla "- said a man with a white turban. The driver translates the Marathi to Elton that Maharaj instructed this turban-man to await them.

They enter a Masjid. There was a heavy rush. The driver and Elton always thought that this was a very scarcely-populated village, but it seemed otherwise. It was Evening Aarathi Time, and prayers were sung with great Faith. The prayers just ended as the duo reach the Masjid.

Elton barged into the crowd, and fell down unconscious.

"Maharaj..." - shouts the driver, who followed Elton, and falls at MY Feet.

Elton gets back to consciousness with the help of others, and asks, "Where is MY Lord ?" I smiled and answered- " I am your Lord. I am HE. HE is I."

Elton falls at MY Feet seeing MY change of Form and back to the normal Form. "Is this possible or am i hallucinating?" - a puzzled Elton asks.

" Nothing is impossible to ME. " - I told him.

I looked towards the driver and asked " so when did you become a tanga-driver?"

The driver, in tears of joy, explains to ME how I appeared in his Dreams and blasted
him to quit butchering innocent animals, which was his original job.

The Driver then had changed his profession to that of a tanga-driver. I am happy with his Devotion to ME and have hence decided to reward him.
" Stay HERE at SHIRDI.. Resume your butcher job here, serve only ME.. I need some animal flesh to convert some non-vegetarian devotees to Vegetarian ones. Now on you are one with MY Heart. " - I commanded the driver.

The driver looked at Elton and told " This is the MadFakir i refered to; i never knew HIS whereabouts, but thanks to you, Mr.Elton, i have reached my Destination. "
Elton smiled back and told, "Even this sparrow has reached its destination."

I told all present, " none can understand ME, who am the BABA of not only this SHIRDI but the entire Universe.. Even Arjuna never could not understand MY Doings during the Dwapara Yuga..".

I had instructed Elton through a Vision to reach India via Kochi Port, and then I provided him Directions to this Place, SHIRDI, through MY instruments.

I further ensured the driver that he would serve ME in the future generations too. As for Elton, his karma ends in this very life, n he will become one with ME !

NOW(2009-10) :

A number of dreams were enough to let anand understand the fact, which just cannot be comprehended by today's constrained-reasoning!

Now anand understands that behind every action of his, every success of his, every good/bad(if at all any) I was the sole reason !!

Now anand accepts it all, and asks me one question, " who was i , who am i, and who will i be? "

I told him that he was a butcher in MY Court at SHIRDI(the same butcher, tanga-driver), and today is a very successful human-being, with heights of peace
graced to him by ME, and Will be a part of MY Court in Gunaparthi, Mysore.. the Court of PREMA SAIBABA, which would be MY Third- Avathar in this Trinity of SAIBABAs. !!


CONCLUDING WORDS:

Thus the lucky soul who once served ME (Shirdi BABA) as a butcher, and who then enjoyed the luxuries granted by ME and is experiencing ME as SathyaSAI , now is going to serve Prema BABA at Mysore too!!

Thus this soul has
enjoyed and is in future still going to enjoy a Divine Association with all the 3 Avathars comprising the Kalki- Avathar. [ not to talk of MY previous Avathars of Rama and Krishna, etc..]

I Will take care of every tiny aspect in the life of MY Devotee !! Peace and Prosperity are ensured in MY Devotee's life, coz WHY FEAR WHEN I AM HERE !!

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

complicated dreammmmmmm!!

Word of Caution:
Don't be surprised if u end up not understanding anything ;) u may even feel to quit reading this post halfway itself.


TO AVOID GETTING A LOT CONFUSED:
The word "dream" i refer to can be any desire/goal.. be it career, life, whatever.. just not specific!
It will fit into anything :)


Purpose of the post:
to complicate simple scripts!! ;) For this is the current trend :P


so lets start the complicated dreamm !!

" come on , make way.." - shouting all the way,

Swami ran down the stairs. Yes it is our dear old Swami, who we think was a "kid" at heart, has got even more kiddish now.

He ran down the two floors in a jiffy, leaping 3-4 steps at a shot.
What was this sudden gush of energy for?? It was quite sometime watching Swami in so much
of an enthusiasm.. i being him guessed it within a shot.. yes.. that "magic" it is which is making him go berserk ,hehe!!

Okies before i complicate things further, i am the blogging-personality of Swami.

Yeah, i am he and he is i, but.. i love to stay impartial and avoid coming into emotional contexts.

Purpose of this Personality:
i love to retrospect on incidents very impartially and comment to Swami. Thats where i am different from him!

He ran out of his office building, saw Aman coming to office there. It was 9-27AM. Dragging him outside along with him, which nonplussed Aman, Swami finally got to a halt skidding on the wet floor outside the building, thanks to Aman's resistance against Swami's pull.

"Oh wow.. it rained kya?? floors are wet man.."- Swami was all smiles proving Aman thereby that he has all the 32 teeth intact and also showing off his middlemost 2 upper teeth to have a slight dent.

Aman, pissed by all this asked with a great deal of anger and sarcasm - " u mean u did not come to office today by this building entrance, to have not noticed the rains ??"

Swami, yet in a fantasy mood, got all the more excited. HE took aman's two hands by his two and
chipped in a wonderful step of Swing Dance lasting 2-3 seconds. "am i ur girlfriend?? leave me, u ..!!" -shouted aman.

The company bus had arrived and 2-3 more friends caught up and laughed out at the crazy Swami's mood.
"kya haal hai..?? kuch chamak raha hai tere aankhon mein..!! " - said Lav.

Aman had had enough and shouted at Lav, "take this mad guy off man!! subah subah dimaag kha raha hai.."
" Bas Kya dost!! "- Swami smiled back running his fingers through Aman's dense silky hair.

Aman realising that Swami always told things first to him finally smelt that Swami wanted to
tell him something.

Swami pulls Aman from others towards a bakery, buys loads of sweets in order to distribute to
every known person in office.

"to know it rained, u should experience 'rain' " - said Swami.
"I experienced rain now, today.. and realised that it indeed has literally rained too" - he continued.

Aman turns very glad on knowing the hidden-reason of that parable Swami used which
he got to know while conversing on the way back to office from the bakery.

Aman knew how crazy Swami was, and how now he has been blessed with his desire/dream.
Swami gets to his seat after distributing sweets to his friends.

It was close to lunch time now and Swami says he is full when his usual lunch-table-group
beckoned him to the pantry.

Swami closes his eyes, trying to digest the great excitement and happiness. He felt as glad
as a farmer would feel seeing his wonderful crops about to be harvested, or as an Army
Officer who would proudly announce to the world that he won the war for the Nation, or as a
Sachin's fan who saw him get to a double-century in ODIs, or as a devotee who has witnessed an
excellent miracle of GOD.

A sudden flash of wisdom dawns him.
A few years back the very same Swami was trying to take his control over an exactly opposite situation. Yes, an exactly opposite reason.

A moment that he had forgotten, but was reminded due to the current thrill.

Rewinding a few years back..

The stage was all set. He was about to reach his then-wonderful dream he had in mind. Little
knowing that it would not materialise, as HE realised it later to have followed GOD's Will,
he was strongly behind it.

He had a few friends then. Many in number but only a few when it came to his dream
realisation. These few were harmless who whether helped or not, never atleast put him in trouble, as the rest had always done.

He was exasperated when his dream became an issue of fun or became a reason for him becoming a laughing-stock, and was taken advantage of by bullies. Swami, himself once a bully in
childhood, felt he was reaping what he had sowed.

But the anguish deep in his blood, could not be controlled easily. However GOD took care then to
avoid Swami from punishing his traitors.
An incident where Swami goes to the extent of smashing one particular chap who "played" with
his dream, making fun of it, and hence was instrumental in making it a distant-dream or
rather a to-be-forgotten-dream is worth mentioning. Somehow GOD helped Swami realise
that it was GOD's Will alone to clear Swami's dream, and that it should not materialise.

However Swami just could forget or forgive the tragedy caused thereby by the others.

Swami took a few days to get his anger healed. He got over it.
But his dream reshaped. He remained silent on this.

He took a few years to check the veracity of the existence of his dream. The dream was there consistently. But something was missing, yes.. He felt the dream was better to buried unfulfilled, which GOD had willed years ago using Swami's "friends" as instruments and hence leaving no scope of development of the dream.

But somehow this dream would not fade off..
Swami was worried, and a little concerned, as there was atleast a small speck in his heart
thinking of this dream.

"Why?? Why is it persisting?? i am no more interested in that dream.. but why is it
smashing me into pieces??" - he would ask me often.

Some instinct, which Swami sometimes terms as GOD's sense, made him understand that Swami just needs to wait.

Forwarding to the Present:

I always believe in "this too will pass by" philosophy. Maybe since i talk very less to Swami, Swami doesnt wait for my reply. Maybe he doesnt understand that he needs to turn silent
for a while to get my answers to his questions.

Never mind, he will learn to get my answers soon.

Thus leaving Swami at this point of contemplation about his past and his possible future which GOD alone will Will, i would now want to use our GOD Sense Instinct.

Rewinding back to our old plot.. :

A few years pass by with Swami's dream slowly fading. The sting is no more there, the craving
is not much felt. But when Swami assumes a future without that dream being achieved, he
feels a pain. This was the question he has been worried about throughout.

Swami asked me, " what do i do? how do i get rid of it?"

I answered back, wondering how he has learnt to listen to me, " just go.. achieve the dream.. u
dont want to live without it..".

Personally i have no interests in his achieving this dream which is complicating his life for
nothing. I tried the reverse psychology and i got what i wanted, as follows:

"no, maybe i would happier without the dream.. " - Swami.

"Why? " - I asked.

"i feel by achieving it, if at all i can, i will be at no peace. i have more aversion than inclination towards it now"

"Why?" - I repeated the same question.

"i have an aversion.. wait.. why am i having an aversion??"

Swami was perplexed. I got him thinking, to help him understand the missing link.

It took him a few days to think over why he was disinclined to the dream, which once he was crazily chasing. He retrospected in total detail and got back to me.

"i think i always was disinclined to it.."- said Swami.
I patiently heard to him.
"there was this fear that i am not supposed to have a life with such a dream executed.. a dream
as what i apparently was after.."

"hmm.."- it was getting interesting to me.

"hence i wanted to avoid this dream in my life once and for all"

"ok.. but why did u chase it? " - i asked.

"from what i understand, my sub-conscious mind plotted this plan so that i am 100% not gonna achieve this.."

"aha..!" - i exclaimed. i caught the rest of the game. His sub-conscious mind too played a
reverse psychology with him, until he totally is willed against even thinking of such a dream/desire.

Back to Present.. :

Swami gets up from his seat and goes to the pantry. He has got over the over-excitement and
he is now very content.

Now what is he content about? Why did he jump up and down today morning??

Simple!! His present dream was realised!!
hehe, don't go crazy, this dream is one beautiful desire that he wanted to achieve since long,
and this dream he got connected to by his former-disinclined-dream.

Such is life!! If you are finding some undesirable incidents continuously happening, just say yourself, " this is the path to achieve my greatest of dreams ".

Yeah, finally Swami sits with his friends in the pantry with an extreme sense of satisfaction of having achieved the greatest of goals, or dreams, known only to him.. i mean known only the dream, him and me!! :) ;)

I know the readers are not content with the connection so far.
Swami was after a dream only to realise he should not have been after the dream, but was
also chasing it in such a way that he can only distance himself away from it forever. Had his
subconscious mind let him know that it was playing a game, he would not have chased it all, thus ending up as a prey to the dream.

Why did the Subconscious mind want him to chase it still??
because Swami's actual dream was the current one which he has GodWilling attained. And the
apparent-dream was a stepping stone to achieve this!! Besides he would now understand that the achieved dream is much more precious than the apparent-dream.. infact the most precious !!

SWAMI thus is blessed with the BEST !!

Friday, March 26, 2010

short.. but good!!

Shot-1

JAN 31-2010 : 4-35PM

Dude, it was that useless auto chap at Jogeshwari !! Hey.., but what about ur sleeping for another 10 mins?
I would rather blame it on the slow locals upto Dadar, and the other which stood for 2 mins at the prev station(Masjid station) to CST.

OK FINE!!! forget it mann!! i fell short of around 10-15 seconds!! thats it!! i missed my train to pune!! its done! dont think of it anymore!
Dratt!! now how i got to go back to Dadar and pick up a bus to Pune!

And again goes my mind:
I could see the train leave the platform da... it was a matter of 10 seconds at most, for my defeat in the sprint to the train!!

aaaahh!! i cant believe it!!

I had been to Rohit's place in Mumbai for the weekend and was to return to pune this evening by the 4-30 train.. i missed it...!

Contemplating on my 15 seconds deficit, i got a range of very genuine factors which played spoilsport to my catching the train!!
An auto-driver took about 25 mins to reach the local station against the general 5 mins! Then the local train to Dadar, n switching railway lines to reach CST!!
The scenes were playing again and again !!

Ohh!! the ATM has no cash!! Shucks!! Let me try the third and last atm at CST; i have no cash in wallet to get back home!! I tore the train ticket with an anger that was basically out of disappointment!

I recalled.. it just cant be my fault.. GOD decided it, say for some good reason!! This is what BABA always says.. that nothing happens without HIS Will..

Now my anger shifts towards GOD, and every time my anger is directed to GOD, it takes HIM a second to cheer me up! So too was in this case!!

I left to Dadar for a pune bus.. loooong line!! aaaah!! An alloy of anger and irritation raised !!

" chod baba.. load mat le yaar.. aaram se jao na yaar.. "- said Rohit, with his ever-smiling face!!

OH MY GOD!! Rohit was with me all the while..!!!

"yes Rohit.. i was 15 seconds SHORT.. but i surely loved this extra 2hours!! a thrilling experience today with u!!:) " - i told rohit mentally!!

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Shot-2 :

Mar 24-2010: 9:09 PM

What the... helll !!!!
we are out?? dude, hey captain, .. are we out???
man, tell me we are not out.. i cant take it man!!

i was in tears.. literally in tears..

Heart shrunk to the size of a pebble from a conch n i felt blood being squeezed out!!

Dude, we won the first 4 matches.. and there were 2 more to go.. but the ego had set in,..

BAS-KYA-DOST team !! it rocks man.. we will slaughter any team, i used to say out..
i felt like MahaBali, when Vamana Avatar in HIS great Splendour and Size demanded MahaBali for one more foot of land..

yes, our team's ego was thrashed.. we did not even know of its existence earlier!!

HOW??
We won 4 matches on 4. Table Toppers!!
The next 2 matches are against the easiest of teams to be faced, we got to know.

We lost the 5th, scheduled last week, by a run.. We gave away the victory to them..!!
We still didnt get up from our pride-slumber!! Rather that loss was not enough an alarm for us :(
Coz, we told ourselves, "we virtually won that match!!" [ i repent for that now !! ]

Today.. the 6th match.. the opposite team had 3 players short.. yet our shots found the fielders' hands!! YES, we lost in a most embarrasing manner..

"Never Mind, we will smash the other teams in Quarter Final, Semi, n the Final" - we told.
I thought we were thus self-confident!

Alas, we had been lured by the lust of fame! BAS-KYA-DOST fame had reached all nooks and corners of Avaya after all !!

We took for granted that no other team is going to win 4 matches to grab us off our QF spot!!
but the online-score/points table talked otherwise.. yes.. we felt 'cheated',.. by ourselves!!
We then calculated that... had we scored 5 runs more, we would have been through!!


What is disappointing is we never knew uptil now that we were already out.. !!

" i found very good friends in my team.. all of them are sweet hearted but we are still young blooded.. tend to make mistakes!! but we learnt!! yes we learnt!!"

SHORT of 5 runs.. but somehow i got 5 times closer to my DOSTS!! :)
BAS KYA DOSTTTT !! :)
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BEING SHORT IS BEING GOOD, Baby!! :) hehe!!

OR, simply putting it, GOD makes everything happen for the bestttt!! :) Cheers! :)

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

(got the following poem through a group-mail from a devotee called Adeline Teh. This poem best expresses what i fail to!!)

Swami, my Lord...

How patiently You have waited for me...


For many years I was ignorant of You

Yet many more I have searched for You

And when I have found my God in You

I was still plagued with doubts of You


Swami, my Guru...

How graciously You have guided me...


Your books became my constant companion

Your messages were my solace when in confusion

Yours words never failed to inspire and uplift me

Your teachings paved the path to help me see


Swami, my Father...

How tenderly You have loved me...


Each time we met, You brought me closer

Every question I asked, You gave me an answer

When darkness blinded me and I was led astray

You came in my dream to show the way


Swami, my Atma...

How lovingly You are always with me...


Work through my body so I may serve You in others

Think through my mind so I may help You in others

Speak through my lips so I may comfort You in others

Love through my heart so I may love You in others


Friday, January 1, 2010

I FIRMLY BELIEVE...

(the following poem was penned by Bhagawan Shree SATHYA SAIBABA 4 Decades ago, and given to Prof. N. Kasturi on NEW YEAR's EVE, 1960.)


I FIRMLY BELIEVE...



I firmly believe there is none kinder than You,
to shower Grace on me.
Tell me, is this not the reason why
I am at Your Lotus Feet?

I firmly believe You will respond quick
when I do pray and plead.
Tell me, is this the reason why
I am crying aloud for You?

I firmly believe You are ever beside me
to guide my steps aright.
Tell me, is this not the reason why
I am Yours thro' day and night.

I firmly believe You can never say 'No'
Whatever I ask from You.
Tell me, is this the reason why
I long for a glance from You?

What have You designed for me this time?
Why this dire delay to offer boons?

However long You make me wait and wail
I will not leave, I'll be standing still
Until Your loving eyes do turn on me.
OM SAIRAM