Golden Memories

By the time I bring you next post "Friend - A wonderful gift", chill out with these wonderful memories of past

Ek Chidiya Anek Chidiya
 

 Lalitaji - Ravi bête

 Doordarshan tune

Jungle Jungle Baat Chali Hai



Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi

Rickshaw Run

Sometime back Gautham sent me a link with subject “Reminded me of you while looking at this”. As I clicked the link my eyes widened in excitement. Primarily it was “the adventurist” website but the link was to “Rickshaw Run” a recurring event organised by group.

The Rickshaw Run is an event where teams drive Auto Rickshaws along various routes across India. The Rickshaw Run takes place every 6 months with a summer and winter edition. The route changes each time but starts from the finishing point of the previous run. Initially the route just included India but by the second Run teams were going through Nepal.

The Rickshaw is a vehicle designed to transport light loads over small distances on paved roads, making it a challenge to cover long distances. Each team consists of one rickshaw and between one and four drivers. There is no set route and no support is given; only start and end point are defined to be covered in two weeks. The route length range from 2000 to 3500 km usually covers length or breadth of India now included Nepal.

Here is the link for your eyes to pop up Rickshaw Run

Gautham knows me well. He knows that inside I am a crazy person who loves to do adventurous things and therefore the subject line. My life is much beyond my work. I love to live life with excitement and ecstasy. Of late a mist covered my excitement and liveliness making it is invisible. But the link from Gautham reminds me of myself.    

I love to travel secluded places of India and do the things as inhabitants do.The route in the video is passionate, it goes to very interior of India, it takes untraveled routes which are unknown to us and they meet people who are unfamiliar to us, exciting my nervous system to take a dip into rally.  

I like most two things about Americans (I mean people from west) 

1) They live life their own way doing all what they want to do and 

2) They give their 100% to whatever they are doing.

This is the reason you see them doing many of our things much better than we do for example Yoga, wearing Indian dress or even doing Puja or Samadhi. Ancient India had these qualities which somehow we lost and still losing while copying west.

In no specific order my list of such few things which I want to do and accompanied by

1) Living 3-7 days as a Sevak at Shegoan Gajanan Maharaj temple - Alone

2) Vipashyana course at Igatpuri - Alone or may be with Ram (friend) 

3) An outdoor camping - All friends

4) A ride of Shakuntala Express - All friends

What’s on your list?

Cheers!!!

Mohit

PS: I would love to spend my time doing things for welfare of earth and human being

A wonderful prayer in Marathi

Recently I come across this wonderful prayer in Marathi. If you understand Marathi, you will enjoy it, but even if you don't understand by reading below lyrics text and meaning I am sure you will like it.
 


OR click here to listen from Saavn (new window iwill open)

Marathi	English	Meaning
तुझ्या पायरीशी कुणी सान थोर न्हाई साद सुन्या काळजाची तुझ्या कानी जाई	Tujhya paayarishi kuni saan thor nhai Saad sunya kaaljachi tujhya kaani jaai	All are equal at your doorstep... Only you can listen to the elegy of a lonely heart
हे.. तरी देवा सरना ह्यो भोग कशापाई हरवली वाट दिशा अंधरल्या धाई	Hey.. Tari deva sara na yo bhog kasha pai Haravali waat disha andharalya dhaai	Then why doesn't the suffering end, my Lord? The path is lost, darkness engulfs all directions..
ववळुनी उधलतो जीव माया बापा वानवा ह्यो उरी पेटला	Vavaluni udhalato jeev maya baapa Vanava hyo uri petala….	Fear grips and ravages me, O father… There is a forest-fire raging in my heart
खेळ मांडला ..खेळ मांडला .. खेळ मांडला .. देवा .. खेळ मांडला ..	Khel Mandala, Khel Mandala… khel mandala, Deva… Khel Mandala!	The game is set, O Lord, the game is set...
सांडली ग रीत भात घेतला वसा तुझा तूच वाट दाखीव ग खेळ मांडला डाआवी देवा पैईल पार पाठीशी तू रा उभा ह्यो तुझ्याच उंबर्‍यात खेळ मांडला	Sandaliga reetbhat ghetla vasa tujha Tuch vaat dakhiv ga khel mandala Daavi deva pail paar paathishi tu raha ubha Yo tujhyach umbaryat khel mandala	We have forsaken all traditions and took your oath You have to show us the way, for the game is now set.. Stand by us in all circumstances, O God... For we have set the game in your courtyard...
हे उसवाला गाणा गोत सार आधार कोणाचा न्हाई भेगलल्या भुई पर जीना अंगार जीवाला जाळी	Hey… Usavala ganagot saara, Aadhar kunacha nhai Bhegaalalya bhooi pari jeena angaar jeevala jaali	The fabric of my relationships is all unwoven, there is no one I can rely on... Flaming hot coals burn my body, as if the sun scalds the barren cracked earth
बल दे झुंज़ायला कीरपेची ढाल दे विनवती पंचा प्राण जेव्हारात ताल दे	Bala de zhunjaayala kirpechi dhaal de Inaveeti pancha praan, jeevarhat taal de	Give me the strength to fight, and the shield of compassion… I ask for mercy, please give me the rhythm of your soul
करपाल रान देवा जलाल शिवार तरी न्हाई धीर सांडला खेळ मांडला	Karapala raan deva, Jalala shivaar tari nhai dheer sandala...  Khel mandala...	The forest has burnt to ashes, and the farm is ablaze... Even then I haven't lost hope, my Lord, for the game is set...

Credits
Film	Natrang (Marathi, 2010)
Music	Ajay- Atul
Lyrics	Guru Thakur
Singer	Ajay Gogavale
Translation	S Wagh

Coming up in next posts "Rickshaw run" and "Friend - A wonderful gift"

Cheers!

Mohit