The ultimate truth is "Change"

We always try to hold on to things...love, youth, beauty, money, relationships, position, recognition and everything which comes on our way or what we earn. This is a very common human trait, and the biggest challenge in itself. This is the biggest challenge of a human life as this trait in us takes us against Mother Nature. Yes, the Nature...change is the ultimate truth of nature. Being a part of this nature, change is inevitable to us, in every aspect of human life.

Change is inevitable...unstoppable...inescapable, perhaps this the truth each and every human being is fully aware of, deep down in his heart. In worst cases, the truth dwells in the subconscious and unconscious minds, bothering human constantly, making him build a strong resistance, a delusion, in his real life and conscious mind that he has everything under his control. After that, his ego and eventually his fear overpower him and make his life a total mess. 

Men struggle to accept this ultimate truth of the entire cosmos, “change". What comes in between? What causes the struggle? Is that ignorance? Is that our Ego? Is that the frailty of being human? Holding onto and letting go... the whole life, as if, a permutation and combination of these two phrases. What do we hold onto? What part we let go? Who will decide? Time or I? The processes, the struggle, the wait... all of it incur both pain and pleasure in our life span. This is the mystery of human life, makes it beautiful, interesting and worth living.

At the end, accepting the reality gives us freedom from pain… change is inevitable. Let us accept it and move on. J

Apna Gham leke kahi.n aur na jaayaa jaaye

Apna Gham leke kahi.n aur na jaayaa jaaye
Ghar me.n bikhri hui chizo.n ko sajaya jaaye

Jin chiraGo.n ko havaao.n kaa koi Khauf nahi.n
Un chiraGo.n ko havaao.n se bachaya jaaye

Baag me.n jane ke aadaab huaa karte hai.n
Kisi titali ko na phoolo.n se uDaya jaaye

Khudkushi karne ki himmat nahi.n hoti sab me.n
Aur kuchh din yuu.N hi auro.n ko sataya jaaye

Ghar se masjid hai bahut door chalo yuu.N kar le.n
Kisi rote hue bachche ko ha.Nsaya jaaye

-Nida Fazli

Chalo chalein

Khwahishe jo ehsaas se banti hai
Bhula deti hai bandisheyn
Urne lagte hai asmaan par
Kya duniyadari, kya ranjisheyn

Shayad ek jahan aisa bhi hai
Jahan urrne par  paandhi nehi

Behne par nehi puchhte nehi "kiyun"?
Len-den main hi zindegi ke maine nehi khoti

Naftrat ki andhi har raat jeet ke nehi laut-ti
Aansu hasi main zaroor badalte hai
Mohabbat se roshan ek aadh  diye bhi
Khamoshi se andhera mitati hai

Jo diya jalakar tumne,
Ruh ko mere roshan kiya
Wohi roshni bikharte dekha
Jaha tha chhaya andhiyara

Chalo wahan chale savera ban ke
Jaha raat kabhi khatm hua nehi
Muskurahat bikhrayen motiyon si
Jahan aansuyon ne daman chhora nehi.

Not all who wander are aimless!

Remember the film Mona Lisa Smile? I watched it several times...loved it, without contemplating ever on the reason why I liked it. Two days back, while surfing the channels, I caught last few scenes from the movie. The last part had the key dialogues, told me why I liked the movie, back then, and even now. I am going to share a few lines told by Betty Warren, with which I totally, completely and whole-heartedly agree. This particular dialogue and its meaning made me realize deep inside me, as to why I loved this movie.

Betty Warren: I've heard her called a quitter for leaving and aimless wanderer. But not all who wander are aimless, especially those who seek truth beyond tradition, beyond definition, beyond the image. I'll never forget you. 

Those who have not watched this classic, please do watch. :) You will know that quitting on something at times does not make you loser, neither holding onto everything makes you any stronger or winner all the time. When we seek the truth, we must not follow any tradition, any set rules, any damn format. We must be dare enough to let go of all pre-conceived ideas, free enough to perceive things without prejudice, beyond pre-defined texts, break free of all self-developed subjective truths to perceive that ultimate Satya, the truth!

The search may and will turn you into a wanderer in the eyes of the normal world...they will say, "oh the aimless person on a rudderless ship". But in reality, you are a wanderer, but not aimless. You, the lucky one to have started your journey to seek the truth.....you are actually much more ahead of your peers in that search! :)

Here is to us, the wanderers... the seeker of truth! Cheers! Love live our journey! Long live the quest!