MindVerse: nurturing souls through words

Since childhood I was fascinated by sea, searching its boundries while sitting on the shore but never able to make out!! It has always appeared like a magnanimous blanket to me, hiding all the secrets of this earth within, like a faithful soldier committed to safeguard enormous wealth of this planet till his last breath…But alas!! It is still captured within the cage of this earth, yearning to fly, yearning to be free, hiding the aches inside its depth sometimes quietly, sometimes bursting in a storm of emotions expressing its helplessness… People come, they admire its charisma, its outer beauty but what about its inner misery?? The sun rises, it sets, then again rises, but still there is darkness, still there is eeriness, still there is mystery… Those waves full of dreams & ambitions, emerge with full hope & confidence, with a desire to touch the sky, with a desire of capturing few of those wandering clouds somewhere deep within but extinguish with those unfulfilled wishes ...

समंदर की जैसे इक चादर सी बिछी हो इस ज़मीं पे, हज़ारों राज़ छिपाये अपनी गहराई में, मानो कह रहा हो कुछ आसमाँ से, कि "ऐ नीले आसमाँ, मुझे भी अपनी तरह उस खुदा का आशियाँ बना, दिल जलता है उस अब्र को देखकर जिससे तेरा ताउम्र का दोस्ताना है! मैं भी उन बेफिक्र परिंदों की तरह तुझमें उड़ना चाहता हूँ, इस ज़मीं के पिंजरे को तोड़ना चाहता हूँ... अपने अंदर के तूफानों से जूझते जूझते थक गया हूँ मैं, अब ज़रा से सुकूँ से तो मुलाकात करा! लोगों को मेरी खामोशी से कई गुमां होते हैँ, पर कैसे सुनाऊँ उन्हें अपनी आहों की गूँज! कैसे दिखाऊँ उन्हें अपनी बेकसी का आलम! एक नन्ही कश्ती का सहारा तो मैं हूँ, पर मेरा सहारा कौन है? मुझे भी तो साहिल का दीदार करा... खुदा ने आफताब के नूर से नवाज़ा है तुझे, दो बूँद रौशनी की मुझमे भी तो छलका! लोग कहते हैँ कि किसी छोर पे तू मुझमे समाता है, और तेरा अक्स मुझपे उभर आता है, पर ये तो इक हसीन धोखा है, जो हकीकत से मात खा जाता है... हमारी आशनाई की ग़ज़ल तो ये लहरें भी गुनगुनतीं हैं, अपने अरमानों के पँख फैलाये, खौफनाक चट्टानों से बेखब...

Ye daulat bhi le lo,Ye shohrat bhi le lo, Bhale cheen lo mujhse meri jawani, Magar mujhko lauta do vo bachpan ka sawan, Vo kagaz kashti, vo baarish ka paani.. (Jagjit Singh) Those were the best days of my life, few very precious moments of the past buried deep inside my heart under the soil of the present… Few memories, sometimes faint, sometimes crystal clear, always a foremost content of my thoughts… Its not that I cannot exist without them, but only as a living being without a soul!! There are times when I tried to relive the past, capture those moments somewhere inside me making them a part of my identity… Those streets, those people, those moments, that happiness, those tears, that madness, that carelessness, was all coming back to me bit by bit, piece by piece like flashes of light, like drops of rain, like pearls in the ocean though very old but seem to be very fresh, very new… Those years, those 5 years of a doctor in the making, were just a few drops from the ocean of my life,...

Aaj phir vo guzre saal yaad aaye, Doston ke saath guzare chand lamhe zahan mein muskuraye…. zindgi ke samander ne bus kuch boonden thi chalkaayi, phir bhi humne is samander mein kuch kami si thi paayi... aaj phir vo guzre saal yaad aaye, doston ke saath guzare chand lamhe zahan mein muskuraye.... vo baat baat pe gila shikwa, us har shikwe mein pyar tha barsa, kabhi to har baat ko dil pe lagana, to kabhi doston ki naadani samajh kar bhool jana, vo har baar roothna, pur phir maan jana, vo ek doosre se khushiyaan baantna, lekin gum mein bhi saath nibhana.... vo raaton ko doston ke saath sair pe jana, aur subah hote hi apne apne kaamon mein ulajh jana, phir din bhar ki thakaan ko chai ki chuskiyon se bhagana!! kabhi to befikr hokar masti mein naachna gaana, aur kabhi choti choti baaton ki fikr mein doob jana.... vo saath saath galiyon ki khaakh channa, phir palak jhapakte hi shehar ke ek kone se doosre pe pahunch jana, aur miljul kar pyari pyari shararatein karna... vo ek doosre ke liye ...