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समय की दिवार पे चढ़ के थोडा झांके
वो देखो दानी guitar बजा रहा है
वो देखो सुहास गाना गा रहा है
वो देखो समीर कितना शांत खड़ा है !
वो देखो खंडेलवाल bike पे सैनी की परछाई बिठा के लाया है
वो देखो टूटू पान अकेले खा रहा है
मत डरो ये तो बस बंग पलट के देख रहा है
वो समय भी गुजर गया और ये घड़ियाँ भी बीत गयीं
जो ठहरा है वो हम हैं और हमारा प्यार है
जरा ऊपर देखे वो आसमान में रवि है
नहीं हमारा Ravi Jain है
God Bless All of You My Dear

Lakirein

लकीरें बुन कर मन बनाता हूँ
ये जो उलझे से हैं किनारों पे
ये उलझने नहीं
पंखुरी उम्मीदों की हैं
यहाँ वहां पुरे तन-मन को ओड़े पड़ी हैं

Diwali

दीये की धुन पे लौ गुनगुनाये मल्हार

क्षितिज से उतरा घनघोर तम

उसका भी स्वागत करें ऐसे ही हैं हम

Tasir

बादलों में इतनी कशिश होती है
तासीर कभी बिजली कभी पानी होती है
पर ये तो शायरों की बातें हैं
हमने तो बिजली की डोरी बनाई है
उसपे आसमान की पतंग उड़ाई है

Life

According to Nicherin Daishonin's Buddhisim all living beings (including humans) has varied mind state and it is this mind state that is the reason of our good or bad fortunes. These states of mind are termed as 10 worlds. Topmost is Buddhahood and the lowest one is hell. As we always have fluctuating thought process for interpretation of a given situation. Broadly speaking when we perceive our problems as gift of some one other, or we try to be selfish, or driven by greed/ hunger, or full of ego, or not able to show respect to others, or discriminate other people/ community then we are one of the lower states of mind and entrapping ourselves in a never ending cycle of causes and effect. Now what are these 10 worlds. As per given in Nicherin Daishonin's Buddhisim the 10 worlds are listed below:

Hell

Hunger

Animality

Anger

Humanity

Rapture

Above 6 together are lower state of mind.

While rest four enumerated below are the higher state of mind and hence difficult to be in and even more difficult to retain

Learning - Aspiration to enlighten

Realization - shall be able perceive true nature of phenomenon in simple words why something happening and the immediate effect/ result may be negative and if you have belief in faith in long run it is going to be productive/ positive

Bodhisattva- This state is when one is able to show his/ her unity with life force of cosmos, the state of mind is in rhythm/ resonance with larger force at work for all living beings

Buddhahood-Nothing effects and everything including illness, birth, death, sufferings, aging is a source of joy and fulfillment.

Now the best part, these state of mind are not like ladder in the sense that we climb upwards and once we crossed one state then we don't go back to that state again. Rather all these 10 worlds / states of mind exist together that means a person in Buddhahood may fell in the state of hell in no time and a man in a state of hell may behave like a Buddha in a given situation. Overwhelming!! isn't it. But how does it happen? The answer is all 10 worlds exists in mutual possession, that means, each of the world possess all 10 worlds in it. VAHO! Yeah! That's how it happens. So we have to continuously working for state of mind to remain in higher state and it is indeed very challenging. Then how to do it. First and formost talk to yourself continuously and commit to oneself only that I shall behave like Buddha only. No matter what comes and what happens. The very belief that we all are Buddha and capable attaining that state of mind changes everything including how we look at the people and world around us. If we will somebody is not behaving properly with us that means our old karmas are standing in front of us in his behavior. The reason to believe this is that same very person was behaving very well yesterday or the same person is behaving well with some other person at the same time when he is misbehaving with you. Then question is what to do to reduce the possibility of such situations and overcome them. The answer lies in the Prayer for that person and for yourself. We may definitely choose to pray as we want. But to further take the Nicherin's Buddhism, the method of prayers are known as Daimoku and Gongyo. What's that!

Daimoku is chanting of words:

Nam-Myo-ho-range-kyo (We will discuss this later)

Gongyo is excerpts from Buddhist scripture written in Japanese. Though the phonetic English versions are very conveniently available.