विषमताओं से हम साथ लड़ें

हर कसौटी पर उतरें खरे,

साथ ही खिलें सबके मन,

साथ ही चलें सब जन,

साथ ही मन उपवन महकें,

सदा जहां प्रेम कोकिला चहके,

साथ ही बुनें सामाजिक ताना बाना,

साथ ही बैठना, साथ ही खाना,

साथ ही करें राष्ट्र निर्माण, बनें राष्ट्र गौरव,

साथ ही हों उदीयमान, साथ ही बनें सौरव,

साथ ही करें उस विश्व का ध्वजारोहण,

जहां कोई न करता हो किसी का दोहन,

साथ ही बनें यशस्वी, साथ ही कीर्तिमान हों,

साथ ही हों गौरवान्वित, किंचित मात्र न अभिमान हो,

न हो कहीं दुराग्रह, न दुराचार हो,

प्रेम बसता हो सर्वत्र, सदाचार का प्रसार हो,

हाथों में हाथ लिए बढ़ें एक नव क्षितिज की ओर,

मंगलमय हो सब का जीवन, शुभ आशीष दे एक नूतन भोर !

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While your birthday you celebrate,

Be mindful that your life you need to recalibrate!

What has got derailed you need to get back on track,

There are several exams of life you still need to crack,

There is so much wisdom that you still lack,

A punch or two in life you still have to pack,

There are still more challenging parts you have to chin up to play,

You have to negotiate more moral areas that are grey,

You have to get out of the mental fog of your own making,

You have to pick up the fruit that is yours for the taking,

You have to thank God for each and every blessing,

You have to learn to accept the truth without any dressing,

You have to get out of the maze of your wanton lies

Whatever the cost and whatever the price,

You have to do justice to the weak and the meek,

There are many from whom forgiveness you need to seek,

The wounds you have inflicted you need to heal,

And apply salve on the hearts to which you have given a rough deal,

Above all, there is the slate of your life you need to wipe clean

And on it write the nuggets of wisdom you have been able to glean,

You have to transcend all the inner clutter and noise,

And learn to negotiate the ocean of life with elan and poise!

While your birthday you celebrate,

Be mindful that your life you need to recalibrate!

Arun Bhagat

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Good generous people are worth their weight in gold,

You can make this statement clear and bold!

Their sweetness like a cosy shawl around themselves they wrap,

On the goodness inside you also they gently tap,

In a world that is largely selfish and cold,

They cast those around them into their own goodly mould,

They are so transparently warm and fair

That they come across as a breath of fresh air,

They light up our lives like nothing else,

They are like the dulcet sounds of temple bells,

They are the nourishing food for our soul,

They make our truncated fragmented selves whole,

They are to you a sacred gift of God,

You can make this statement clear and bold!

Arun Bhagat

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Facebook asks, ” What is on your mind?”

I say there is a lot I wish to say and unwind!

There is a lot of needless baggage I want to shed,

There are a lot many good thoughts I want to wed,

There are inner continents I wish to traverse,

I want to keep at bay things insidious and perverse,

I want to stick to my ‘dharma’ ar any cost

So that in a hell of my own making I do not have to roast,

I wish to bid a calm adieu to what is done and gone

As it makes no sense over spilt milk to cry and moan,

I wish every thing and being to embrace,

I yearn the Lord in them to behold and praise,

To having been born a human I want to do justice,

There are a host of noble ideas I wish to put into practice!

Dear Facebook, I can always tell you some more of what is on my mind,

If you are willing to be with me patient and kind!

Arun Bhagat

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Play the game of life till the last whistle,

Do not with needless apprehensions bristle!

Do not give up till the end,

With determination for yourself fend!

Do not just cave in without any reason,

Play well in and out of season!

Let your courage say it all,

With the challenges of life play ball!

Each impediment in your way squarely face,

Do not just meekly opt out of the race!

Give all you have to the game,

Then even in losing there will be no shame!

Do not despair and do not quit,

Watch out for openings with patience and grit!

Let the game of life your character test,

Show that out of the jaws of defeat victory you can wrest!

Play with aplomb and play with grace,

Even the gods above will you love and you praise!

Arun Bhagat

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Who wants to stew in his own juice,

Who wants to live life by a ruse,

Who wants in misery to wallow,

Who wants his life to be barren and fallow,

Who wants his conscience to rust,

Who wants his moral sense to go bust?

Who wants to live a life of lies

Even when the truth in their face flies?

Who wants to trudge through life with a leaden weight,

Who wants a burdened conscience to distort his gait?

Why do we then we go through all that we don’t want,

Why do we thorns in the garden of our life plant?

Is it of the all pervasive ‘ maaya’ the insidious working

Or is it that we are always our human responsibility shirking?

Is it because sense we lack

Or because life has to us on our head whack?

As we see our life away from us fly,

The answers to these questions are so hard to come by!

Arun Bhagat

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Try your best,

To God leave the rest,

Hard work never goes waste,

Work hard and the heady nectar of success taste,

Put your shoulder to the wheel,

Work with passion and zeal ,

Success will be yours for the asking,

You will find yourself in the sweet sunshine basking,

As hard work is the only magic wand,

God will be there to lend you a helping hand,

Then nothing will be able to stop you,

All the good luck in the world will you woo,

If truthfully and resolutely your way you wend,

The whole universe will to your purpose bend,

When you become one with the Design Grand,

All the fulfilment and joy will in your lap land,

Then, believe me, you will on a roll,

A glowing and radiant soul!

Arun Bhagat

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Life can be fun,

But then it can also make you sweat and run,

It can be quite dicey,

And act stiff-lipped and pricey,

It can turn everything upside down,

It can scowl at you and frown,

It can flatten you to the earth,

Of the blows it can deal you there is no dearth,

But then it can also treat you nicely

If you are aware and decide to live wisely,

It can you with kid gloves treat,

If you it with a loving embrace greet,

It is to different people different things,

It can keep you afloat or eclipse your wings,

It can make you or you mar,

If you with negativity try it to tar!

What you give it, life gives you back manifold,

This is a tale sages down the ages have us told!

Arun Bhagat

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म

हर पल को तूँ स्वीकार कर,

न कर विरोध उसका, न प्रतिकार कर,

हर पल में छिपी अमूल्य निधि,

सीख ले उससे जीने की विधि ,

असीमित सम्भावनाएँ पलतीं पल के गर्भ में,

न गवाँ उनको तूँ अपने दर्भ में,

पल में तूँ देख सारा ब्रह्मांड,

पल में है ज्ञान प्रकांड,

पल में ही जीवन का सार,

एक पल लगा सकता है बेड़ा पार,

पल में ही जीवन फलता फूलता,

पल ही होता सारगर्भित मूलतः,

पल में ही होता जीवन उदय,

पल में ही पल्लवित होता हृदय,

पल को ही अपना इष्ट जान,

पल को ही अपना सर्वस्व मान,

हर पल को तूँ सहर्ष स्वीकार कर,

न कर विरोध उसका, न प्रतिकार कर!

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राम नाम तोते मानिंद बोले,

राम न पाया कोये,

अंतर्मन की जो आँख न खोले,

रहे पड़ा वो सोए!

राम तो है घट में विराजे,

सुंदर उसकी छवि है साजे,

अंदर उसकी ख़ुशबू फैले,

कहाँ जानें जो मन हैं मैले?

राम हमारे साथ हैं जगते,

साथ हमारे हैं वो सोते,

फिर हम क्यों बेचैन हैं होते,

क्यों हाथ मलते, क्यों हैं रोते?

नस नस में है जो बसता,

साथ है रोता, संग है हंसता,

उसे पाने को बाहर हैं फिरते,

एड़ी घिसते, पड़ते गिरते,

सब के अंदर जो एक रहता,

उसके नाम पे लड़ते फिरते!

मूढ़ मति हम भेद न पाएँ ,

जो अंग संग, उससे दूर हम जाएँ ,

जहालत के हैं जब बादल छाएँ ,

यूँ ही औंधे गिरें हम और यूँ ही हैं मुँह की खाएँ!

ऊपर नीचे, बाहर अंदर,

उसे ही देखे मस्त कलंदर,

उसी का सुनाई देता नाद चहूं ओर,

फिर भी हम क्यों न करते गौर?

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