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Showing posts with label I think.... Show all posts

Sunday, May 2, 2021

અરજ કરું છું..

નાનીશી કોરી આ પોથી ને સાદી એક કલમ લઈને બેઠો છું હાથમાં,
જાદુ તો આપની પ્રેરણાનો છે કે કાળી શાહી ભરે છે રંગ હર પાનમાં.

પ્રખરતા અને પ્રખ્યાતિ, બે અલગ પરિમાણ છે દ્રષ્ટિકોણના,
કર્ણનો ઊંચો છે દરજ્જો પાર્થથી, જયારે સરખામણી થાય દાનમાં.

પ્રતિકૂળ પરિસ્થિતિનું પરિણામ પણ સદા રાખવું જોઈએ ધ્યાનમાં, 
જ્યાં યુધ્ધ રહે તલવારની ધારમાં, શાંતિ એ તલવારની મિયાનમાં. 

પોતીકાને કઠોરતાથી તરછોડ્યા ને તડપાવ્યા તેં ગુમાનીના નશામાં,
સાચવજે - વખત પાસું બદલીને ના ઊભો હોય જયારે આવે તું ભાનમાં.

પ્રતિનિધિનું કામ એ કે દરેકની મહેનતનું વળતર આવે એના ભાગમાં,
પ્રશંસા તો થાય ભર સભામાં, પણ ઠપકો રહે સીમિત એના કાનમાં.

નાચી ઊઠે દિલ તાનમાં જયારે સુર રહે સંગીતકારના કમાનમાં,

જાણે રંગ સાત ભળી શોભાવે ઝરમરતા આભને મેઘકમાનમાં.


મનની વ્યથા છે એટલી પૃથક કે રસ્તા બધા જાણે છે એ મકામના,

નિર્મિત કયા વળાંકે પહોચી, વળવું પાછા આજે એ સદા રહે અજ્ઞાનમાં.


Friday, January 2, 2015

Alive and Awake...

My advice to Diwan's technical students during their industrial visit at Divy Rollform Ltd.

ઇંદ્રિયો જીવંત અને મગજ જાગૃત રાખો...
Keep Senses Alive and Mind Awake...

Saturday, December 13, 2014

તને હું નામ દઉં છું...

મુજ પ્રથમ બાળ-સ્મૃતિમાં જે સમાયીનૈર્ઋત્ય-થી આવી,
આશ-ઉમંગની ઋત વૃષ્ટિ તદર્થે હું મલ્હાર ગાઉં છું.

હોય જેના સાથી અનેક, પણ  તેને સમકક્ષ કોય,
અનેરી એવી લાખોમાં એક - અનન્યા હું સાફ જોઉં છું.

સૂર્ય હોય ભલે શિરે તપતોપ્રેમીહૈયાને તોય રીઝવતો,
હરિત રંગીમધુર રાગ ધાની, તારો હું રિયાઝ કરું છું.

ક્ષણ-ક્ષણ બની જે યાદઝણઝાણાવે દિલના તાર,
પુનિત, પ્રણય સભર એ પલ, તને હું પ્યાર આંકું છું.

હેમંત-શિશિરની ટાઢી સાંજેરાગ જે સ્વરને દે ગમક,
કૃષ્ણ-રંગે રંગીલી ગોપી - અભીરી સંગે હું રાસ રમું છું.

સ્વરથી સંપૂર્ણઉભય વક્ર રાગ જે રંજક છતાં રડાવે,
ધીરસહિષ્ણુત્રિકાળજ્ઞસાહના તારો હું સંગાથ ચાહું છું.

અંતરની ઊર્મિ-ટૂક અડધે ઉમેરીઝરણ-તરુણીને -
નદી-નાર નીખારતીઅંતરા તને હું શરૂઆત ગણું છું.

ગહન કવિ મન-સાગર ટટોળીહૃદય-મોતી ખોળી,
શબ્દ-માળા ગૂંથતી લિરિક, તને હું સત્-ભાવ રચું છું.

વસે જે ગોળ ઉત્તરે બની નક્ષત્ર શિરોમણી અભિજિત,
પુરાતન તાર-વાદ્યલાયરા તને હું સિતાર જાણું છું.

હવા ક્યાંક કહેકોક સિંહણીમધુર ગવાયું જે એકલ કંઠે,
વિસ્તૃત ગીત  આરિયા, તને હું સહ-ધ્યાન સુણું છું.

ક્રમચયે-સંચયે સર્જે સંગીતવ્યંજને વળગી વણે વાણી,
મૂળ આરવ-શ્રવણ તત્વ - સ્વરા, હું હર શ્વાસ ભરું છું.

પ્રાચીન પ્રભાતિયા, જેની ઓળખ સચવાઈ મૈહર ઘરાને,
ભૈરવ-તોડીમાં લીન રાગઅહીરી તને હું સુપ્રભાત કહું છું.

શુદ્ધથી વધી શુદ્ધતમનો પરિતોષ કરાવે જેનો પરિચય,
રાજ્ઞી અરાયના, તારા પર બની હું સ્નેહ-અપાર વર્ષું છું.

વિના પૂર્વજ્ઞાન કરે તાલ મિશ્રણનો ચક્રવ્યુહ જે પ્રસ્તુત,  
ઝૂલણહાર સંગીત શૈલી - જાઝ, હું ડોલાવી માથ માણું છું.

દિલે ભરે મીઠાશ જેના બોલનો ટહુકાર, શ્વાસનો રણકાર
અને હૃદયનો ધબકાર, તે પ્રેયસી પર હું પ્રાણ વારું છું.

ઈચ્છા-આકાંક્ષા પ્રબળ, જાણે ઈશાન-માં પ્રચંડ ગિર અચળ,
આર્ય જે અગ્રેજ-મન તૃષા છિપાવા હું પ્રયાસ કરું છું.

અહેસાસ જે નાચ, ગાન ને વાદ્યના સુમેળે કરે તલ્લીન,
પધ્ધતિસરની પુનરાવર્તી પ્રણાલીલય-માં હું તાલ પૂરું છું.

હાલરડાં-જોડકણાં થી પ્રેમગીત-લગ્નગીત શીખવવા આતુર,
સ્વપ્નો સજાવતો 'પૃથક' લખે છે - તને હું નામ દઉં છું...



નૈર્ઋત્ય = South-West Direction, for Indians - Direction of Hope (આશા ની દિશા)તદર્થે = For You, ગમક = Singing Style with Vibrations, ઉભય વક્ર = Raga in which, Notes in Both Ascent and Decent follow a Zig-Zag Pattern, રંજક = Entertaining, Pleasing, સહિષ્ણુ = Enduring, ટૂક = Stanza, લિરિક(Lyric) = ઊર્મિકાવ્યવ્યંજન = Consonant, સ્વર = The Seven Notes of Indian Classical Music, Vowels(Script), ક્રમચય-સંચય = Permutation-Combination, આરવ = Sound, Vocal, મૈહર = A city in Madhya Pradesh, A Hindustani Classical Music Clan which produced Gems like Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Pandit Ravi Shankar etc., ભૈરવ,તોડી = Names of Raga, સુપ્રભાત = Blossomed Morning, પરિતોષ = Complete Satisfaction, રાજ્ઞી = Queen, અરાયના = Pure(Sanskrit), Queen(Latin), સ્નેહ-અપાર = SnehA-Par(th), ઝૂલણહાર = Swinging, પ્રણાલી = Tradition, Practice, જોડકણાં = Rhymes.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

The King of zig-zag driving

have you ever experienced some old guy smiling in his car thinking "that was a crazy bastard." of you? well, that is how he appreciates your speed, your style, your passion and your guts.. this is a typical scenario when he watches you approaching through the rear view mirror, blinks his eyes once and observes you flying away through the front windshield. a quick experience of the Doppler Effect... violate shift of your head lamp to red shift of your tail lamp!

today, i want to share a driving experience i had a few days back. i was driving my car, Carbon, to Ahmedabad from Mumbai. on that route Surat to Vadodara is a six lane road, with heavy traffic. a lot of buses and trucks use that road and unfortunately they drive on all three lanes of a side! there are two wheelers too alongside cars... but all that make the drive really challenging, enjoyable and eventually memorable. i drove around 200km at an average of around 100 kmph. and during the trip i thought of zig-zag driving... formed some rules and followed them...

some of the rules are here...
- drive in such a way that others do not have to break because of you.
- do not make anyone honk unnecessarily.
- accidents are fatal, avoid them.
- don't hurt your car.

it is a harsh world out there. if you do anything wrong, people honk. you lose points for such mistakes. so, timing is crucial on every stage, whether it is pushing the clutch paddle or shifting gars or turning the wheel or pressing the accelerator... any of the timings is wrong and your car would groan in pain. making anyone break is literally a crime. accidents can show you the way to a prison or a hospital or even the one-way to the dead-end. so, keep all your five eyes in action...

zig-zag driving is not a one man show, rather it is a double act. you and your machine, your car. you should know your car inside out. what it can do and what it can not... how fast it can go and how quickly it can stop... how much space it requires... when it needs a gear up and when a steering turn... what its mirrors show and what its door frame hides... your car is the extrapolation of your body or you are just the decision making 'part' of your car!

it is a challenge for your body... coordination among various body parts... your eyes on the road... your one hand on steering and the other on the gear changer... your one leg on the clutch, other handling break and accelerator... your ears, listening to the music your car deck plays... your brain and spinal cord gathering information, assessing and responding in real time... it is a challenge for your sensors, controller and actuators. you are a mechatronic system! it's a test of capability of your brain to control these organs and of your organs to react to the command. it is a test for your sub conscious as well...

zig-zag driving is a dynamic phenomena. all the dimensions are changing with time... distance between different vehicles are increasing or decreasing... you should judge not only if your car can pass through a passage, but also what would be the size of the passage as you would approach it. your angle of approach to the passage also has a say as your requirement of space changes in different direction... you are a heterogeneous body!

again not only distance, velocity and accelerations are important, jerk also plays an incredible role. when to hit the throttle and how hard... for how long before decelerating... again breaking is not uniform.. and it does not stop at jerk or third derivation of distance... sometime you wait for a passage to open and as it opens you rush trough it... sometime you wait for proper approach angle, break suddenly, change angle and speed up to enter a closing passage... you are a Newtonian body!

driving in zig zag fashion through crazy traffic needs an act of PID (proportional integral derivative) controller. it takes current, future and past events in account while deciding an action. you should know of the current position of all the vehicles around as you pass through them... you should know their position a little while later (integral) as that would tell you what passages would open for you... also, when and where... you should know positions and speeds of the vehicles you just passed through (derivative), so as to get an idea about which lanes to enter and which to avoid. you should know this history of past 7 to 15 seconds if you travel at around 100-120 kmph, to avoid honks... you are omniscient!

there might be more... but this is how much i could grasp... it was a lovely experience and i loved every moment of it. it was an adrenaline pumping act, but ironically i was singing a very soothing, slow, Indian classical song, Aan milo sajna... from Gadar.. however annoyed or excited you look outside, inside, you are always calm and compose!

literally no car could come close to overtake me throughout the 2 hour drive... i made no other car honk or break... and of course did not collide with anything... maintained a good speed.. and most importantly, i enjoyed my drive. i was so swift and so wonderful that i was thinking if there is a crown called 'the king of zig-zag driving'? coz if there is, i am here to claim it!

Friday, October 2, 2009

જીવન અમૂલ્ય છે...

લખું ભૂંસું અને ફરી લખું, ચઢું પડું ને ફરી ચઢું,
હસું, દોડું, રમું, કૂદું, ઊડું, શીખું, જીવું; કારણ, આ જીવન અમૂલ્ય છે...

મારે ખૂંદી વળવું છે આખું આ વિશ્વ
,
ને જાણી લેવું છે કોઇ અદભૂત રહસ્ય... આ જીવન અમૂલ્ય છે...

બની દીવાસાળી પ્રગટાવવી છે કોઇક જ્યોત,
પણ રાખ થઉં બીડીની ટોચે દેતા ધીમું મોત... આ જીવન અમૂલ્ય છે...

બની પંખી વિહરવું છે
અપાર-અગાધ ગગનમાં,
બાજનજરે સમાવવો છે આ વિશ્વાલેખ નયનમાં... આ જીવન અમૂલ્ય છે...

ડગ માંડું નિરંતર અથાક પરિશ્રમના પંથે,
ના ચડું ભ્રમે આદિ મિથ્યાજ્ઞાન વ્યાપક ગ્રંથે... આ જીવન અમૂલ્ય છે...

'પૃથક્' વિચારક જ નહિ વિચારપ્રેરક બનું હું,
જાગું, જગાડું ને ઉન્નતિનો નૈતિક માર્ગ ચીંધું હું... આ જીવન અમૂલ્ય છે...

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Approach to Life...

I think there are four ways by which an individual can live his life... He can be one of these four guys..

Let it be!

The let it be! guy is one who lives like a living puppet. He doesn't give any inputs to his surroundings neither he receives anything from it... He is a guy who acts as per commanded... he doesn't think for himself or for any one else... He let the things go the way they are going whether they are good or bad... right or wrong... He sees things but doesn't react to them. He is a guy in mental coma.

Crybaby

The crybaby guy is a whining element. He finds the world a place under the influence of some dark magic or evil forces... He finds negative points in everything and complains about it all the time... but he doesn't act to correct what he thinks is wrong. He talks and talks and talks... but wouldn't step forward to do what he preaches... He is a limitless source of negative energy... a pessimistic approach to everything good or bad...

Fighter

The fighter guy is a warrior... He is a resistance to the evil to take over the world... He is the change that drives the world forward... He is the reason of human existence and human progress on the earth... He is an intellectual who observes the things... judges them based on the logical tests... reaches a reasoned conclusion about it... and executes the necessary to achieve desired results... He clears the road so that his fellow mates can reach further and further...

Manipulator

The manipulator guy is a mass controlling element. He is the one who goes after power... He wants to rule... He wants others to act on his command... talk what he thinks... depend on his mercy... He finds ways to interfere in other people's life... makes it miserable so that they stop thinking and start following... he can make or break the world on short period, but on long run he would ruin it as he demotes free thinking...

Think... which one fits you better?

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The Dynamics of Winning

I have had hard time for last few weeks... nothing was going right anywhere and everyday I was fighting not to get depressed. This is one thought that came to my mind...

I was driving home from the factory. One more of my experiment didnt yield the expected results. was feeling low... was thinking that i am loosing here...

its a big word... loosing... then i thought, loosing is a dynamic state and not static. lost would be static coz then there wouldnt be any fight to be fought. then i thought, as Newton said, a body remains in its dynamic or static state unless acted upon by an external force. now this force can be in either direction and the final effect on the body would be as if only the resultant force is acting on it. and this resultant force is a vector sum... sum of all the external forces considering their intensity as well as their direction...

so from a loosing condition i can force it into the winning condition which again is a dynamic state and then further i can go and win... now won is not a static state coz as soon as you win, there are many more bettles you would like to jump in. so, winning never ends...

and in a few moments i was up again...
determined to fight again the next day...
determined to win...

Saturday, February 14, 2009

When your Adverb eats up the Object...

Have you ever been really passionate about anything? or have you ever reached the extreme ends of anything? or have you ever got yourself really woven in something?

well, this is what happens when you got really engrossed in something.

there is a sentence format..

subject ... verb ... object ... adverb.

e.g.
I desire something passionately.
I need something desperately.
I love someone deeply or purely or intensely.

and the consequences...
the adverb eats up the object and converts the verb in to a noun to be the only companion of the subject...

in our cases,
'passionately' eats up 'something' and I and (my) desire are only left.
'desperately' eats up 'something' and I and (my) need are still alive.
'deeply' eats up 'someone' and what remains is I and (my) love.

In a broader sense,
When you desire something so passionately that your passion generates a new motive... a motive where what matters is only you and your desire... the object doesn't matter anymore. your capacity to desire and your passion and you...

similarly, the depth of your love...or the purity... or the intensity... your ability or your power to love leads you in a new direction, on a new road where the one you love takes the back seat... what drives you is you and your loyalty to your love... the fact that you love..

may be after all its always you and your ego... if you have inertia or integrity, enough to let your ego empower you...

Sunday, May 13, 2007

પૂછે છે!


જેનાથી આશ હતી મને વૃષ્ટિની,
એ નૈઋત્યના પવન દિશા પૂછે છે.

જેને હતો વિશ્વાસ બંધ આંખનો,
આજે બે વત્તા બે ચારનો તર્ક પૂછે છે.

મુઠ્ઠીમાંથી પાણી બની વહેતી આ રેતી,
મારી ભાવનાઓનો અર્થ પૂછે છે.

જેના આધારે જીવન આખું પસાર કર્યુ છે,
એ મને પોતાનું જ અસ્તિત્વ પૂછે છે.

કેમ કરી રોકું ઊર્મિઓના થનગનાટને?
વાટ નિરખતી એ સ્નેહાળ આંખો "કેમ છે બેટા?" પૂછે છે.

જેના પર ગ્રંથો લખવાનુ મન થાય છે,
કૃતજ્ઞ છું - એ એક શબ્દ માટે તો પૂછે છે.

શું જવાબ આપું 'પૃથક્',
જ્યારે એ મૌનનું પણ કારણ પૂછે છે?

૧૩/૦૪/'૦૭

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Spirit...

Death

the Moment in which you 'Evaporate'...
with your Dreams incomplete...with your Thoughts unexecuted...
from the Picture you painted...from the Plan you made...
from the Map you drew...from the World you created...
leaving them...untouched... still....

Living Death

the Moment in which everything 'Vanishes'...
your Dreams burst...your thoughts freeze...
the Time stops...the World melts...
Past closes the Door behind and Future in front...
you stand loosing Everything but your Life...
like a Patient of Amnesia...in a total Blackout...
like a Captain...watching his own Court Martial...
stunned...unable to cry... unable to die...

Life after Death

the Moments, after Living Death, you decide to 'Live on'...
saying I am Hurt...not Dead...
burying your Grief... overwhelming your Fear...
fighting the Past and Future for Present...writing your own Destiny...
planning your Journey again...constructing your Road again...
aiming your Destination again...erecting your World again...
determined to struggle...to rise... to succeed...