आगे दौड़, पीछे चौड़ ,

कैसी लगी है जग में होड़?

अंधी दौड़ में सब सरपट भागे,

बिखर गए हैं सब धागे!

टूट गया सब ताना बाना,

किसी का मर्म न कोई है जाना!

किसी की पीड़ा कोई न जाने,

हर कोई अपना दर्द है माने!

गिरते हुए को कोई न उठाए,

हर कोई उल्टा पाठ पढ़ाए!

मुख से करते राधे-राधे

हर कोई अपना स्वार्थ है साधे!

हर कोई अपने लोभ से लिपटा,

हर कोई अपने आप में सिमटा!

मन की कोई मन न जाँचे,

तन की महिमा हर कोई बांचे!

सब जकड़ें है मोहपाश में,

सब फँसे हैं छद्म जाल में!

हर कोई अपने नशे में झूमे,

यूँही समय का चक्का घूमे!

अरुण भगत

If you are a drop, you are the entire ocean in a drop,

So to live fully and well you do not need any prop!

You are a storehouse of possibilities immense,

So at will you can a fantastic journey commence!

You yourself are a living god,

You are the seed inside a pod!

You are of any fabulous idea the germ,

Against the fiercest storms you can stand firm!

You are the prime mover of your fate,

Even if you wake up to this truth now , it won’t be too late!

Whenever you yourself rouse, you will be greeted by a morning bright

Because the awakened consciousness is the way to live right!

Remember that your human birth was a blessing rare,

It depends on your wisdom how in this human journey you are going to fare!

Arun Bhagat

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Some people in life just get stuck,

They can not rise above the muck!

Let them in their own juices stew,

Let them their own deadly concoction brew!

Let them over their own silliness gloat,

Let them their own balloons of vanity float!

Let them beguile themselves with their own lies,

None can rouse them from their slumber howsoever hard one tries!

So do not try with them to reason out,

They will look at you with mistrust and doubt!

See them go their own supercilious way,

You can not the working of their destiny stay!

Don’t try to stop them, do not incur their wrath,

You can only guard against going down a similar path!

Arun Bhagat

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It is Time the Air of Freedom You Inhaled

It is time you stopped yourself uselessly preening

And gave your life some meaning!

It is time you your ego cast aside,

And saw through the treacherous working of your pride!

It is time you rose above all narrowness which your freedom restricts

So that you cast away every mental block that you constricts!

It is time the air of freedom you inhaled

And against all unnatural curbs railed!

It is time you of your life made a go,

And all man-made chains cast aside and did throw!

It is time you painted the canvas of your life with colours fabulous and rich,

And lived your life without any hindrance or hitch!

It is time you hitched your wagon to the stars

And refused to cow down before anything that your life and freedom mars!

It is time you asserted your freedom and your own destiny wrote

Before any tyrant crushed your spirit and over it did gloat!

Arun Bhagat

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Listen to your silence,

It knows no violence!

All the answers it knows,

To the deepest recesses of your heart it goes!

Of your consciousness it is the essence,

In your life it is a becalming presence!

Silence this creation preceded,

When all else failed, has it succeeded!

Of your being it is the core,

Of wisdom it has opened every door!

If you listen to it with honest intent,

You will find it pregnant with meaning and content!

It can open the most baffling knots,

It can join the most puzzling dots,

It is the nourishment of your soul,

Living a life of inner silence is the most worthy goal!

All the answers you seek it gives

Because it is in silence that God lives!

Arun Bhagat

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Age is just a number,
So snap out of your despondent slumber!
Don’t let just a number put you down,
Cock a snook at it and let it just helplessly frown!
Keep your collars up and your spirit high,
Don’t let any gloomy thought let your creative juices run dry!
Life is waiting for you with open arms,
Open your heart to its still unfolding charms!
Even if it is a race against time, run it with all you have got,
Don’t let age put you in any silly straitjacket or slot!
On the wings of zest into the sky soar,
Don’t let your creaking joints on your spirit cold water pour!
Smart and dapper, strut on the stage of life
Even when the rumours of your impending end are rife!
Remember that you are as young and vibrant as you feel,
That is the best way with your age to deal!
Like a luminescent glowworm on a dark night glow,
That is the best way to age deal a death blow!

Dedicated to all the so-called semi-senior and senior citizens like me!👍👍👍

Arun Bhagat
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Let the moment be your guide,

It will never take you for a ride!

It will show you the way like a lamp post,

It will treat you like a most gracious host!

Allow it to hold your hand,

It will take you on journeys amazing and grand!

If you to the moment surrender,

It will unfold before you wonder after wonder!

Of life it contains the seed,

So the call of the moment you should heed!

Of life it holds the essence,

Take due cognisance of its presence!

Live in the moment with awareness,

That is what I can say in all fairness!

In moments does it exist,

That of life is the gist!

Arun Bhagat

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साँसों का है सारा खेल,
इस खेल का है न कोई मेल!
साँसें चलतीं,सब कुछ चलता,
साँसें रुकतीं, सूरज ढलता!
साँसों का है न कोई मोल,
इन्हें न सकता कोई तोल!
इनका विधि विधान कोई न जाने,
हर कोई इनका लोहा माने!
साँसों से जुड़ी है हर आस,
साँसों से जुड़ा सब आम और ख़ास!
साँसें हैं तो सब कुछ अपना,
थम गयीं तो सब है सपना!
कब तक चलता साँसों का रेला,
है सब यह कुदरत का खेला!
साँसों की पूँजी है न्यारी,
इसी लिए है हम सब को प्यारी!
साँसों पर हम करें न्योछावर सब कुछ,
इनके आगे सब कुछ गौण और तुच्छ!
साँसों से बंधी है चाहे जीवन डोर,
इन पर न चलता किसी का ज़ोर!
महामारी ने भी यही है सिखाया,
साँसों का पता न किसी ने पाया!
जब तक चलतीं मनाओ ख़ैर,
काहू की रंजिश, काहू का वैर!

अरुण भगत

In this soulless age, we need people with a soul,

That is the crux of the matter whole!

We need people with a sense of right

Whose good sense has not taken flight!

We need people with a kind and loving heart

Who are not unfeelingly up for sale in the ruthless materialistic mart!

We need people with moral mettle

Who, their core being sound, are in fine fettle!

We need people with a humanistic zeal

Who hold dear to their heart the public weal!

We need people who hold aloft of goodness the banner,

Who strengthen the cause of humanity with their decent manner!

We need people with a sensibility fine

With which we can so heartily align!

We need people with a soul,

That is the crux of the matter whole!

Arun Bhagat

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With us always walks the shadow of grief,

This is the story of life in brief!

It meets us at every step,

Why then don’t we for it prep?

Often does it make its presence felt with its dead weight,

It just won’t go away how so much we may it hate!

Why don’t we learn with it to walk hand in hand?

Why don’t we with it form an alliance grand?

Why don’t we with it play ball

So that into the morass of sorrow we don’t fall?

Why don’t we embrace it as our bosom pal

So that it does not gnaw at our heart and it maul?

Why should we find ourselves in its vice-like grip tight?

Why not befriend it so that its touch upon our soul is light?

Arun Bhagat

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