Hardly I lived!

Here I lie on my deathbed n my life I  review ,
The End of the life gives you a nice birds eye view,

I had a long life, I am aged seven sevnty,
Still i cant recall a day, when I had time plenty,

From my days as a child, my days of school,
Thought only the big ones had fun, I was a fool,

As I joined the college, my goal was a career,
For years and years, I worked hard as much i could bear,

I joined a job and soon I had married,
Here was some years I was not harried,

Then I joined the race, the race that
Led me to deathbed,
Money, power, respect and to be always ahead,

It was to be a 'Have', and not to be a 'Have not',
This was the real game, but see it I did not,

The best car, the best villa, the best suit, the best gadget,
I burned my life for them, now can only regret,

Now it looks as if the years went in a flash,
My health, my youth, with them I was very rash,

Now though i have stacked property of many a million,
Time, I need most, alas that I have none,

Doctors say I may live months four or five,
You fools, my worries and attachemnts do only keep me alive,

It may all go waste, what all I  had achieve,
Others will soon blow it for fun, I can only now grieve,

Overtimes, weekends, holidays I burnt for carreer,
I made injustice to those I held dear,

My family they missed me on many an evenings,
Just as I miss them, I can feel their yearnings,

Time the only treasure, as a fool I threw away,
Millions that I have, now can't buy me even one more day,

I was young, could enjoy, could dance laugh n sing a lot,
That was my life, the life live i did not,

Family and friends, hobbies and passions,
Weekends, holidays, going on vacations,

These were the days, only worth a counting,
The race ate up the rest, the huge loss is now haunting,

Life is made of years, years made of many such a day,
So Only way to enjoy life, is to enjoy 'Today'.

If only I knew and lived so, now I would not have repented,
Could have been happy a lot more, by being just a little bit contented,

Time and youth, health once lost no one can regain,
Are the real tresures of life, that dont ever come again.

Life would be like pardise, if I knew it before,
Life is the only thing, worth ever living for,
Today is the day, worth ever living for.

एक

एक,
एक दो, दो एक,
एक तीन, तीन एक,
एक छत्तीस कोटी, छत्तीस कोटी एक,
एक छह अरब, छह अरब एक,
एक अनन्त, अनन्त एक
एक आदि, अन्त एक
एक बस एक बस एक । ।

The Real El dorado!

The expedition to locate and unearth the greatest treasure in all world will be very long and very very difficult. After many sleepless nights it will lead to some great revelations and the trail, after passing through all over the world,will finally end at your own doorstep!

शुद्ध विचार शुद्ध कर्म सुखी जीवन ।

पहला  माने तारो और ग्रहों की चाल,
दूजा  माने की हाथ लकीरों में है भाग का हाल,

तीजा करे तीरथ चौथा करे दान,
पंजा खोजे जंतर, तंत्र , मंतर में निदान,

छठा  माने शुक्कर, सात माने मंगल,
 आठ माने शगुन नहीं तो बड़ा अमंगल,

नौ करे जग, दस करे बिसेस पूजा,
गारह कहे मेरे गुरु सा कोइ न दूजा,

बारह बदले आपन नाम, तेरह बदले खिड़की द्वार,
 चौदह बने बैसनब जब न कैसे भी हो उद्धार,

 पंद्रह बांटे तिल तेल,  सोलह बांटे पिली राइ,
 कोइ न जाने कुछ भी बांटे से न मिटती भाग लिखाई,

करम के फल से कौन बचे हैं, कौन बचेंगे,
देव, नर, प्राणी, करम फल तो सब भोगेंगे,
  
जब बस तेरे कर्मो का  फल ही है तू पाता,
 फिर क्यूँ न अच्छे कर्मों से तू जोड़े नाता,

करम करे जो, फल पाये सो, प्रभु बचन है गीता में,
सत्य यही है मान ले बंधू, फिर मन काहे को चिंता में,

तृष्णा, द्वेष, मोह, भय, चिंता और हंकार, 
बुरे करम व् दुखी जीवन के बस इतने  हैं द्वार ,

ना  कर  चिंता, भय, डर , ना करना मन को निरास ,
 सुद्ध बिचार से सुद्ध करम कर, कर ले प्रभु में बिस्वास,

सार यही है , बोध यही है, सब ग्रंथों में बस इतना ही ज्ञान,
बस अच्छे कर्म से ही सुखी जीवन का है विधान ,

 छोड़ उपाय सब, मान यही बस, कर ले बस इतना नियम,
'सुद्ध बिचार- सुद्ध करम',  'सुद्ध बिचार- सुद्ध करम',
'सुद्ध बिचार- सुद्ध करम' , 'सुद्ध बिचार- सुद्ध करम'

Saving Money and Spending Life?

Money Money Money!
There is no other thing that occupies so much space in our Life.

In fact from the childhood to adulthood itself, we learn the importance of money everyday.
By the time we grow up, we think money as the most important purpose of life. We think Money will buy be Joy, peace, security, power, respect, Health even friends and family. That is why in most of our calculations money is the most deciding factor.
We tend to make mostly that choice which maximizes money in short, medium or long term, if the choice is approved by society, peer groups, law etc.

This is the "Maxima and Minima" of money in making choices. These choices start from which school we attend, what studies we take, what carreer we take, what job we take, whose friendship or social circle we aspire for, sometimes, whom we marry, who is friend and who is enemy et cetera et cetera.

In short it is the money that makes most of our choices and it is the money that runs our lives.

There is a fable of a wood cutter who lived in his small hut near a forest. He earned just enough to maintain his family. He was poor but did not complain and took life as it came.
One day, in the forest, as he selected a large and very old tree and lifted his axe to make his first hit, a 'Yaksha' appeared. The yaksha requested to the wood cutter to spare the tree, which was his home. The wood cutter replied that he had to fell this tree to buy food for his family. Then the Yaksha promised to give him a horde of Gold, of seven Urns. When the wood cutter returned home he was euphoric to find the seven urns full of Gold. One moment, one of the urns was only half full. The half urn disappointed him a bit, but not much. He spent the day in euphoria, but in the night as his excitement kept him awake, a thought crept into his mind. "If the seventh urn was also full, won't that be fabulous. Won't that make me the richest as well as the happiest." By the time he left his bed in the morning his mind was made. He would fill the seventh urn also. Buy working just a bit more and spending a bit less he planned to accomplish it. It was a matter of 2-3 months he thought.
He started going to forest half an early and returning half an hour later. It was exhausting, but just a few more days. He kept his spirit up for a few weeks, till he realized that level of gold had not increased much. "Ok!" he thought, " A bit of economizing and a bit more slogging is needed." He further increased his hours and rationed his food. It went on for a couple of months. He had to gradually increase his log again and again. He was still not getting any where. The magical urn was still not full.
One day as he bent down on a stream to drink water,  he was shocked to see his own reflection. He saw himself  aged, frail and sad. He was way off worse than he was before he found the urns. There was sadness and quarrel in the family too. It dawned on him that the chase of gold had destroyed his life altogether. He went back to the Yaksha who agreed to take his 'Boon' back.
His old life was back. Now he had less, only, he was enjoying it more.

Money is neither everything nor is money nothing. Money, as we should recall, is just a mode of exchange for goods that we need or want such as food money, clothes, comfort etc. Without its value as exchange, a kilogram of Dollars has the same value as a kilograms of old newspapers.

In transaction money can become everything available in the market, yet without transaction money is nothing. So, if  I am working day or night for an huge amount of money, which is way beyond my needs and requirements, which would remain un-exchanged at the end, perhaps I am making a Big mistake!

If Life is like a home than Money is the fuel that keeps the appliances of the home running. No fuel, no electricity, no appliance, no food or clean cloths or hot or cold air, or entertainment. Therefore money is absolutely essential to keep the home from coming to a standstill.

On the other hand, how much fuel you actually are going to need. You need the fuel to run the house lifelong, you need a bit more for contingencies also, yet can you afford to spend all your capital (time in this case) into fuel for the generator and have nothing left to buy any appliance or actual needs like food or cloths etc.
Also would like to convert all your capital into fuel only. Would you like to keep a million gallons in your storage and worrying about its safety and security or whether it would evaporate and therefore keep continuous adding up.
Just like for a household a million gallons are not a requirement but a burden, same is a billion rupee bank balance. Which car needs a thousand liter petrol tank in a car. The car will be constantly burning fuel, only to carry the excess fuel.
We need money to maintain life, yet why spend the life earning and accumulating money, till you have no life left to maintain, only money left.

It is better to have money for a decent life, a bit more for contingencies and then divert the time we have to ourselves, our own health, our own family, our own friends, our own comfort, our own peace and happiness.

Maintain your liquidity. Like a hill station, In life also, The journey is meant to be much much more enjoyable than the destination.

 The Time is the actual asset in our life, which depletes constantly and is irreplaceable even for the King of the earth. We earn money only by giving our time. Time is the youth, time is the age, time is the seconds, minutes and hours that add up to our life.
Family is the tree that should be nurtured with time and money.
Health is the actual property which should be cared for and protected with time and money. We learn this very late and then we have to we spend all the money we have accumulated to purchase health, the same money for which we earlier spent all our time and health.
We spend our millions in old age, just to give our aged and frail bodies a few more days to live, while when we had youth, we spent all of it and countless days to accumulate money.

Ask a man on a death bed, does his money give him health, life, time or happiness. No, it only gave him worries. Who will capture and waste my money, which I accumulated through my lifetime of misery, suffering and effort. I suffered and they will enjoy. Oh my money!

So Health for Money, and then Money for Health, funny ain't it!

So friends, earn money and save money, but save time also, time is the actual treasure. Spend your days wisely, to enjoy, to love and to be loved, to be at peace and to be happy. To care and to be cared. For self, family and friends. Live and Love your life. Enjoy today, it wont come back. See the sunset and sunrise, the rainbow, the chirping of birds and the flowers. The laughter of the child and the smile of the life partner and love of the parents.

Don't Save money and spend Life. Save Life and spend Money instead. Enjoy