Mundane Myriad

For quite many years I have believed (or so my brother and Deepak Chopra's book "Seven Spiritual Laws of Success" have made me believe) that whenever you do a good thing for somebody or even think good about anybody that comes back to you as good wishes/deed from others. However, the relationship between these two i.e. good wish/deed for others, and a good wish/deed from others may not be always straight and linear. That is, if I did a good thing for X or wished good for X, X may not always return me the gesture with a good deed/wish towards me.... but well, another person,Y, may return me that unexpectedly. So good things/wishes may come back to you from any quarter or corner - the rate of return is some times more and some times less compared to our good wishes/deeds. The same is true for bad deeds/wishes. Some are of the view that rate of return in this second case is higher than what we wished for or did -- may or may not be true. It's probably difficult to pract...

Life has many interesting twists and turns, where you come across myriad people and events. Out of these myriad events and people there are few who leave their foot prints deep within - I call them as my 'Mundane Miracles'. These miracles emerge out of the ordinary people and forgottable events, but within their ordinary demeanour a specialty is hidden which makes them special and unforgottable. How else do you describe that ricksawpuller for whom Rs.5 might mean a lot, but who politely offers to give it up because I got down a few yards before my destination !!!! ...... Or that small paan (betel) shop owner who offered me his wife's only pair of sandals as my sandal broke on the way of my return to the hostel after finishing some work outside the hostel campus late evening. Not only that, he offered to repair my sandals the next morning by the nearby mochi and suggested me to collect it from him anytime during the next day at my convenience from his paan shop !!!! Sure en...

Tumhare jaane ke baad Sabkuch suna suna lagta hai Isiliye nahin ki tum meri bahut chaihiti thi Sayad isiliye ki tum sabse juda aur sabse alag thi (1) Who balkha ke mere piche aana Aur darwaje main khud ko lapete sikayat karna ‘Jina nahin aayee Khane ko kuch milega kya ?’ (2) Jina jaisi aa jaati Mano chehre pe raunak aa jati Uski godi main khudko lipat ke aur sapnon ki duniyan main khoyi hui Sayad Pupu apni kisam ki ek hi billi thi (3) Jina ko to mano jaise khud ki koi bacchi milgayee thi Bachpan se leke aab tak usse bahut lad pyar se pali thi Aur Pupu hardam uske piche dum hilati Phirti thi (4) Bas Mummy nahin bulati thi Lekin apni mew mew awaj se bas wohi to kehti thi Apna din bhar ki kisse, apni nayi sikar ki koshish, aur nayi billionse dosti Pata nahin kitni sari baten un dono main hoti thi (5) Phir achanak ek din sara jahan ruk gayi Jina ki duniya thamgayi Pupu nahin mil rahi Aur Pupu aayee bhi nahin (6) Sayad pani ki tanki main Khud ki chehra niharte hue Uski pair phisal gayee Aur...

IIT mein aana ek sapna tha Woh sapna jo bahut kuch apna tha Lekin aake pataa chala Sapna aur duhspna ke bich ka phasla bahut patla tha (1) Pehli dapha aaye To thoda jaldi mein the Course work, registration seminar Khatam karne ke liye bekarar the Tabhi pata chala ki Ek teacher ko meri smile bha gayee Aur unhone mujhe Course se hi bahar nikaldi (2) Dusri dapha aaye to girl's hostelon mein room ki kuch kamee thee Lekin warden aur chairman ko dhun lagi thee Kuch bhi ho jaye single room ko bachana hai aanewali batch ke liye Chahe uske liye current batch ko Corridor mein hi kyun na sona padjaye (3) Warden se chairman, chairman se warden Ke beech mein daudne se paresan Socha kyun na apne roommate (roomie) se hi Samjhauta karlun Kya hua ki raat bhar usko chat karne ki sauk hai Aur mujhe sone ki At least usse adaptability to badhjayegi Badlate hue halat mein adjustment karne ki Barlight ke jalte hue sone ki Aur headphone/cellphone...

The other day a gentleman came calling on me at my residence in Bhubaneswar. I was a bit surprised. He, a bank officer, was an old student in my computer training institute long back. My interaction with him was not very much even during his studentship, not to mention of the period after that. After some initial introductory gestures, he started finding out how I was doing and suggested me I must be a member of Amway, the greatest networking giant in the world. The reason – it gives me an income opportunity, the products are very good (though prices are exorbitantly high to fit any common man’s consumer good set), and opens up numerous possibilities to create a lot of friends. For the first proposition, all that I have to do is to market Amway’s products starting from face creams to nutritive foods to medicines. I can do the marketing myself, induce more people to join under me to do the marketing, they in turn induce many more under their fold to market the products and so on – e...