Need a Friend

Need a friend…

To whom I can rush, the first thing when can’t hold on more,

And pour out myself each and every bit

Would listen to me with all the interest of a love-story

Need a friend…

Who’ll understand what I speak not,

Soothe me when I need most,

Bring a smile to my face when tears cease not

Need a friend…

Who’s there, I know, always for me

Think like me when the world in oppose

Knows me better than I know me

Need you friend..

Be there with me

For I weigh a friend more than anything

That’s needed to make a me out of me!

-Gaa

The Green Fest!

The festival of the Green has been in air!

Just take a step outside and you confront His artists setting up a beautiful panorama for you.

Indescribable, unforgettable shades of the green are just scattered all over... all trickling down with the luminous drops of the heavenly joy. You literally feel blessed to witness this exhibition of the agile momentum going on around you.

The fort of Lohgad was one such exhibit of His awestruck performances, which held us spellbound yesterday.

I was so entranced by this one-on-one with Him that for a few golden moments just could not remember the mundane world (yes, that did exist around!).

Running thoughtlessly on the green, touching the clouds (!), all absorbed by the clean and pure music of the rains was so fascinating an experience that my words fail to describe and my mind denies to forget it.

The stones and the greens and the drizzling whites made it a painting of the divine, if nothing else!

I feel filled up with this festive feast, and how dearly I wish that it remains forever with me!

Let the celebration now go on within and let my being be with the divine!!

An Encounter with Life!

It is 10.30 in the night and we are waiting outside a house. A small boy is accompanying us, as it’s his house we have come to visit at such untimely hours. We wait for 10-15 minutes and his parents arrive. I’m in a hurry to finish my job with them and leave the place. But the lady invites us so warmly, that we cannot deny. We enter their house, which has a few signs of a home, but looks more like a vegetable storage place. It is but obvious, as they are vegetable sellers.


Two small children are lying on the floor there, fast asleep, their clothes all dirty and unwashed. (They are the kid’s siblings, doing very well at school, we come to know later.)The place is also not very clean, all the household lying unkempt. We are offered water which I hardly drink. We are treated very warmly, as if the parents and the kid who have been selling vegetables for years on a nearby road have been quite a close acquaintance.

Now is offered lime sharbat in clean steel glasses. This time I drink it hardly thinking about the hygiene as I’m too engrossed in their story. The story unfolds the life of a very common man and his family striving hard to make both ends meet by selling vegetables. But what touches our hearts is their honesty, hospitality, spirituality, and simplicity. The kid being so mature at that tender age working hard to support his parents makes me introspect.

“hi ghya tumachi purse, taai!” (“Here is your purse, madam!”) the lady says holding my purse, which I had left at her stall a day before, while buying vegetables from her. I have been so eager to get it back till half an hour ago. But now I don’t even find it necessary to open and see whether all my valuables are safe in it. Now, I know that they were in safe hands, which know only how to work hard.

With our hearts filled in with awe for this rare gesture of honesty (the purse contained diamond ear-rings) and hospitality, we leave their place. I was repenting and blaming myself for losing the purse carelessly. But now, I think everything happens for good as you meet life in a new form teaching you its ways.

Why Life?

It is just hopeless sometimes, I feel.

Life and its ways…

Just hopeless!

Fighting for mundane and dying for the unknown.

Starts from nowhere I know.
Journeys to what eternity, I fail to guess.

Still, I am filled with it all… everything what it is about.

Do I really need to take it that way..??

Isn’t it hopeless all the same?

---Gayatri.