Eye flickering.....

At times, I am not very comfortable....this is that time. What has happened that I had been roaming around...for weekend...went to deliver something to a friend for brother in Singapore (difficult drive to Faridabad....too much traffic going to Vrindavan/Mathura/Agra)..then returned back to Noida at a friends place. He told me that there is a program organized very nearby...on Sain baba jagaran so we all went to visit...Anup Jalota had come down for the event and his live concert was good. He sung almost all the bhajans...and when we reached in the front row towards the end of his concert....it became thouroughly enjoyable. Just before that, we had some prasad as I was feeling hungry. We had a nice darshan of Sain baba...the temple was build like it is in Shirdi...as they claimed.

Overall, a nice evening...although a bit tiring...around 3:00 AM, we came back to home and slept.
In the morning, we woke up around 8:15..not much sleep and then went to have some jalebis/kachauris. Bhabhi was ready with some Idli/sambhar.....K was asking for Biryani..so I proposed for Andhra bhavan...afterall, we started around 1:50 PM..Virendra also joined...we went there...it was too crowded. somehow, we managed to have food...everybody liked it although Biryani was not available anymore. returned back to Noida....left from Noida to Home...reached home around 8:00 PM very very tired....almost sleeping on the roads.

My left eye flickering too much....read some articles on web...seems like I am really tired. I need to sleep for some more time.

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Recently I returned back to Noida after completing Shri Ram Charit Manas path at my home in Varanasi. It's an event, when everybody has to be present at home and my brother from Singapore also arrived Delhi in the morning so that we can leave for home in the evening by Shiv Ganga Express ( a famous train for Delhi-Varanasi ).

When we reached Varanasi, we were escorted:) with some people of brother's staff and we reached home in half an hour. All the preparations were done and in the afternoon the Ram Charit Manas started. We usually have a set of people who are professional for Ram Charit Manas path and are available for this event for last 5-6 years (without even asking as they know about this event happening every navratra, this time).

We all brothers are really enthusiast for Ram Charit Manas since the childhood and really enjoy singing/reading it. There are n number of different Lay/taal for reading Ram Charit Manas and when with instruments, it sounds great.

Few special lines are -

" Jahi na chahiya kabahu kachu, tum sang sahaj saneh !
Basahu Nirantar taas man, So raur niz gaih !!" (I'll put it in Hindi!)

" Seeya ram main sab jag jani, Karaun pranam jori jug pani !" (This is the one liner which is called "Samput" and has to be set for akhand ramayan.)

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While searching on internet, I found more links for Shri Raam Charit Manas, may be of interest to some -

Complete Ram Charit Manas in e-book - http://ramayan.wordpress.com/2006/07/24/main/

Many more things available - http://sanskritdocuments.org/hindi/

In Kaliyug, "Ram Naam avalmban eku !"......Jai Sri Ram !!

Maha Shivratri.....Gone are the days !

Many years ago...remmbering the days when I[we] used to stay in Lahartara Railway colony. Shivratri used to be a festival which were celebrated to a great extent. There was a small temple near the ralway line, which used to be hub for all the religous activity. [I remember women from colony gathers there for Diwali pooja or other festivals] There was a big enough playground in front of the temple and adjacent to this ground, there were two rows of houses, one on each side. This used to be the place where the Colony committee use to arrange a movie show in the open sky[If you remember, it's something similar to a scene in "Swadesh" where the song "ye taara wo taara" were filmed.

Having introduced to the surrounding, I start the story which I would like to tell today.....

The story is about two kids who were part of a family...quite big family..In the railway colony, I couldn't find a family with less than 4 kids. The biggest family used to be 9-10 ppl. and the smallest one with 5-6 members. So these two young guns were hot shots and were able to

Togetherness....

Together we are...

At the night, when darkness covers the sky
and the moon tries to illuminate the sky,
stars twinkling all over the sky,

I see straight into your eyes...
and feel togetherness, I don't tell a lie
the life is so beautyful...under the sky !!

I suspect the survival is not possible...
if you weren't with me..for all the long days...
and longer nights !!

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