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Mulla Nasruddin’s wife was ill and she had been operated on. A few days earlier she had come back home from the hospital, so I asked: How is your wife? Has she recovered from the operation? No, He said: she is still talking about it. ~If you are thinking about something, talking about something, it is there. And now it is more dangerous because the body will recover, but the mind can go on and on and on – ad infinitum. The body may recover, but the mind will never recover.

Got the following email from one of my contacts.  Felt it is worth sharing with you all. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Situation: (the specifics are gossip value, but are required to build up the story) Last night on a dark Baner road (no road lights) closer to highway, I passed a donkey lying near the road divider. I stopped and walked back to check on the guy. Was bleeding profusely through the nose/mouth but was alive. Cars zipping past in high speed, but nobody stopping to look at this animal. Not even the pedestrians were giving this guy a second glance. While i was standing there and figuring out a course of action, 2 people came along to see whats happening. I put them to work to put stones to prevent cars from coming too close to the animal. I then got the red hazard warning triangle from my car and put it up. I started making calls to vets for first aid advise (i have no exposure in treati...

Got to read a good quote on the Internet. "The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love  only the reflection of ourselves we find in them." ~Thomas Merton Many people in love, an d mainly the married couples tend to mould their spouse in a shape like theirs. Typically, they start from finding similarities in their likes and dislikes. More the match there, they feel the better would be their match as a couple for the rest of the life. But, this does not hold true for long. As the time goes, more of the differences start getting uncovered, which then starts a tussle between the couple on how much each of them succeeds in moulding the other in their own shape. Leading to dissatisfaction, frustration and stress in the relationship. And the relationship generally worsens with time and becomes a burden to carry for the rest of the life. On the other hand, if the couple realises the fact,...

सागर पोहत बाहू बळाने ।। नाव तयास ... मिळो न मिळो रे ॥ १ ॥ स्वयेच जो तेजोनिधी तरणी ॥ तदगृही दीप ... जळो न जळो रे ।। २ ॥ जो करी कर्म अहेतू निरंतर ॥ वेद तयास ... कळो न कळो रे ॥ ३ ॥ ओळख पटली ज्यास स्वतःची ॥ देव तयास ... मिळो न मिळो रे ॥ ४ ॥ --- कवी बोबडे

Pasaydaan, one of the most wonderful blessings asked to the Almighty by someone in the world ! Saint Dnyaneshwar  (1275-1296 AD) , who is regarded as one of the most respected saints in Maharashtra, was a great poet. At the age of mere 15 yrs, he completed the composition of "Bhavarth Deepika" better known as "Dnyaneshwari" (composed in 9000 ovis or stanzas), where he explained the sacred Hindu scripture in layman's language (Prakrit - Marathi) at that time (@1290 A.D.) prevailed in Maharashtra. Dnyashwari is considered to be a masterpiece in Marathi literature. At the end of which Dnyaneshwar asks for the blessings of the Almighty through this Pasaydaan (9 ovis/stanzas) which is considered as the summary of Dnyaneshwari. Here, I am just trying to put down what I could understand from this. Hope you might find it useful. Please provide your inputs to improve on this attempt. The Pasaydaan narration by ' Ram Shewalkar ' in marathi has be...

राया माझा सरदार शिवरायांच्या पदरी । गेला मोहिमी कधिचा प्रिया तुझी वाट पाही ॥ १ ॥ वेढा पन्हाळी पडला बाळ माझा अडकला । काळजाला थार नाही जिजाऊ ही वाट पाही ॥ २ ॥ जणु वणवा पेटला जीव कासावीस झाला । खग चातक कधिचा पावसाची वाट पाही ॥ ३ ॥ फिरे रानोवनी माय टिपायाला दाना-पाणी । कोटरांत चिव-चिव पिलं तुझी वाट पाही ॥ ४ ॥ आंग्ल लचके तोडीती सारा मुलुख लुटती । दीनवाणी हिंद माता स्वातंत्र्याची वाट पाही ॥ ५ ॥ किती चाललो फिरलो शिणलो परी नाही । वाट पंढरीची माझी विठामाई वाट पाही ॥ ६ ॥

केला कुणी आज बंद आहे नुसतीच ब्याद । जन मानसाच्या मनी काय तयाचा आल्हाद ॥ काढली रे कुणी आज सरकारची या कळ । बस फोडी, ट्रेन रोखी सारा सावळा गोंधळ ॥ म्हणे आम्ही कार्यकर्ते देशाची या चिंता वाहु । किती दूर गाव माझा बस बंद कसा जाऊ ॥ झाला बंद जो यशस्वी श्रेया साठी चढाओढ । जनतेच्या व्यथा लाख त्याची कुणाला त्या चाड ॥