Get-Together

Ganesh went to Allah's house to invite him to Saraswati's recital of sama veda on veena.

He knew his friend loved music and would not miss this performance of Saraswati at any cost.

Ganesh knocked the door, the caretaker opened the door and greeted Ganesh with a smile. Ganesh asked, where is my friend? The caretaker said, he is in the balcony. Ganesh walked to the balcony, he saw Allah reading the Earth News and he seemed really upset. Ganesh inquired, what happened my friend? Allah said, see what these idiots are up to, every day i keep reading about fights, violence at some part of the earth...no one seem to have understood what religion teaches and sadly all these are being done in the name of religion. If i had power to punish someone, i would have killed this osama guy, he is bringing so much of violence in the name of Islam, he does not even know what Quran teaches. Sadly, as per the rules In Kaliyuga, people need to learn from their mistakes, and we cannot intervene much, apart from giving them strength.

I am losing hope Ganesh, i do not think people will understand that all religions teach the same thing, why cannot people just live together happily.

Ganesh said, cheer up friend...there are people who are misleading others but there are good people too, lets not lose hope. Anyways, i came here to invite you for Saraswati's performance, she is going to play sama veda, you will love it. Allah said who else is coming? Did u invite Nanak, Jesus and the adorable Buddha?

Ganesh said, off course. Jesus really want to attend it, as he is currently reading the vedas.

That evening, in the Sur Ganga memorial hall, there was a huge rush of people, the hall was packed to the limit. Ganesh was eagerly waiting for his friends, and there he saw Jesus and Allah coming together from the left and Nanak and Buddha coming from the right. Krishna and Ram said they will be bit late, but will come for sure.

The performance was breath taking, everyone was transformed to another world.

Once the performance was over, everyone met Saraswati and praised her for her performance, they all discussed Sama veda for a while and then as everyone was about to disperse, Jesus said, hey guys lets have dinner together, how about going to Shabari's Kutti for Home Made Food?

Everyone was party to that, so everyone took their vehicles, Ganesh on his mouse, Saraswati on her Swan, Krishna/Ram on their horses. Krishna and Ram offered lift, however Allah Jesus Buddha and Nanak said they will prefer to walk and will join them 30 minutes later, they can place the usual order meanwhile.

Shabari was thrilled to see her Ram and everyone else, she warmly welcomed everyone.

Everyone sat on the floor in a circle, every month they all ensured the met once and had some good time together. Allah started the conversation by saying, every day after reading Earth Times, my temperature soars, only after doing some mediation i am able to get back to normal.

Jesus said, i understand what u feel and it scares me to think, humans are trying to find life somewhere else also, they are not able to leave peacefully in one planet, why do they want to cause more chaos by inhabiting another planet.

Allah said, this Osama driving me crazy, who is giving Muslims such a bad name, he is causing so much of destruction, earlier the most hated guy in my eyes was Saddam now its him. what can i do with followers like this...to this Ram said, i agree, in my case too, people fight in my name, do i care for a temple, these idiots brought a mosque down by saying, this is Ram Janam Bhoomi, don't they know i am in there hearts and not in a concrete building. Recently read about Mutalik, who wants all women to wear only sarees, does he know, unless women are free, no nation can say it is free. What right does anyone have to force a decision on anyone. Even Gandhi said, we can say we are free, only when women are free to walk alone at night without any fear.

This idiot does not know anything about Saint Valentine and goes about banning Valentines day saying its against our culture. How can u condemn any festival which is about love, off course it has to be celebrated in the right way. Today young generation also does not understand what love means, Love means to be selfless and these idiots get upset for petty things and abuse the person they say they love.
Recently read about a guy killing his girlfriend over a petty fight...where are we heading..i wonder.

To this Krishna's said, in dwapaar yuga, the gopis were given complete freedom to express there love to me. I wonder when again we will see this, look at the state of women, they are so much suppressed, most of them are still living in fear, confirming to society rules...whats even sadder is women seem to be hurting women instead of understanding there pains.

Jesus added to this by saying, in my case some of my missionaries are spreading Christianity by tempting people to convert, that's so shameful. Don't they know, nothing can be forced, one should follow what your heart tells you.

Buddha, who was listening to all this silently said, its written in Geetha
Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya, Glanirva Bhavathi Bharatha,
Abhyuthanam Adharmaysya, Tadatmanam Srijami Aham

Now in this Kaliyuga, instead of we taking birth, the change should come from within.
Its definitely tough for people to get of this chaos on their own and find what is the right thing to do. But in this they are not alone, as there will always be some people who will lead the way...we had people like...Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa to show the world, how life needs to be lived, what is important. Recently read about Jaago Re campaign, what that person is doing is really commendable.

There are good people, who are making a difference in there own way, i know it will take time, but we will get there.

Everyone nodded there heads in agreement and now the conversation switched to other things. Nanak asked everyone to join the next day at 4.30 am for Prabhat feries, Jesus asked everyone to come to church coming Sunday, there was a special lecture on Love.

At the end, everyone asked Saraswati to sing something, Saraswati started singing "Vaishnava Janato Tene Kahiye..."

Luck By Chance

Saw the movie Luck By Chance, really liked the story line and what was conveyed in it. The pressures of being successful has an impact of lot of people, very few people remain true to themselves and do not change at all.

Will look forward to more movies from Zoya Akhtar. We need directors like her :)
As always Konkana is amazing, i have started liking Farhan as an actor, hope he acts in more movies.

Paani

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uske liye har pyaala ek samaan tha
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Yeh jaante huve bhi ki woh malik ki laadali thi
Aur usse hak tha zid karne ka

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