Aakash's space

1) Aaliyo and Maalio's saying:

Aaliya ni topi maaliya maathe ne maaliyo ughada maathe (meaning, aaliya's hat goes on maaliyo and maaliyo has naked head).

All the students accepted that until I told them, "Guys, think! If aaliya's hat goes on maaliyo, then maaliyo has the hat (from aaliyo), so how can maaliyo be without the hat?". Everyone said, "aakash ki baat mein dum hai, yaar!". All accepted.

Two days later, in class, bapu again said, "Aaliya ni topi maaliya maathe ne maaliyo ughada maathe". This time, everyone is laughing so (so so) much and looking at me too. Bapu is thinking why are students laughing much more than usual on this usual saying. After two seconds, he stops worrying and says "ha ha ha" (in big slow voice).

2) Student's excuses for not having home-work finished and for being absent in class

- "Sir, I woke up on time, I got ready on time and I was left my home. I was on my way, and just near nagar chakla (a place), a black cat cut my way (kaadi bilaadi e maaro rasto kaapyo), so I went back home and slept off."

- "Sir, I had done the home-work. I had solved all the sums but when we were standing downstairs before our class, cow ate my notebook!" [actually this is very close to a real story when I saw live cow trying to eat my friend's homework notebook].

- This is a real one, happened in our class only [at 6am in the morning] "I came here on time but just down-stairs, outside our class, my scooter stopped working. So I went to find a mechanic. It was so early so I couldn't find one. Finally I found one and then I repaired it." then he comes at 7 o'clock when class finishes. Baapu said, "Class is over. Now go home and sleep". That guy, so brilliant that he couldn't just come upstairs at 6 and then go and find mechanic at 7am.

- An ultimate one:

"I was coming to class. I left home but in the way, I saw our milk-man (doodh wado). So I went back home and slept off!!".

That guy supposadly thought that it's up-shakoon [bad luck] if you meet a milkman on your way.

A song close to my heart - sung by Geeta Dutt, music: Madan Mohan.

There was a young boy in ancient India. His name was 'Aakash'. He had a very lovely mother, father and a sister.

When Aakash turned 7, he had to go in a forest far away from home for his education. There used to be "Gurukul(s)" in ancient india where young students went at an early age and they used to finish when they had become mature. These gurukul (schools) used to be in the forests - far from towns/cities and students had to stay there during their educational period.

Aakash went to one of these gurukuls. He enjoyed at the starting but then he started feeling little lonely. He wanted to meet his mother. He started thinking - "I wish mother could have breakfast with me", "I wish I could play a sport with the mother", "I wish I could have lunch and dinner together with mother".
He was sure that mother always listens and she will listen to him this time too.

Sometime after, he met a girl. She asked Aakash to have snacks together, one evening. They both talked about each other and had a great time together.
Aakash thought that I had asked mother to be with me and to have snacks with me. This girl must be either the mother herself or someone sent by the mother, at least.
Time was passing by. Aakash started loving the girl now, [not as (mis)understood in today's generation but like a sister or like a friend]. She started coming in his dreams everyday where they used to talk with each other for long times.

Now he started thinking why is he getting attracted so much by a girl? Why he wants to meet her everyday? Why is he having expectations at all? He thought there was something wrong. The attraction of that sort is probably not a very good thing. He decided to find the origin of this.

Today, he found the origin - the roots of this problem. Today he realised that he had forgotten where the love started from. He remembered the mother - the mother with whom he wanted to spend time. The mother who had sent this girl (or who was the girl herself). Today he realised that. All his expectations were now dying and he again started enjoying the ultimate happiness.

So it feels like the love starts only from the origniality - when a person is being nice to you, he/she seems to be nearer to the original self. This is lovable and the love starts. Then [most of the times] impurities (like expectations) are mixed into these relationships. If these impurities are carefully avoided, a person will enjoy and keep great relations with others.

Hari om tat sat.

કુરુક્ષેત્ર નામક ધર્મક્ષેત્રમાં યોધ્ધાઓની વચ્ચે સ્થિત અર્જુનને આજે સમજાયું કે જેમને હું એક મનુષ્ય, સખા/મિત્ર સમજતો હતો એ ખરેખર પરમાત્મા, સાક્ષાત્ પરમેશ્વર છે! એમને કોઇ બંધનો નથી, એમને કોઈ સીમાઓ નડતી નથી. એ સર્વજ્ઞાની છે. અરે! એમને કોમ્પ્યુટર પણ આવડે છે! Windows અને Linux પણ એમણે જ બનાવ્યા છે. અર્જુનને લાગતું હતું કે ભગવાનને માત્ર સંસ્ક્રુત જ આવડે છે, આજે એને જાણી ને આશ્ચર્ય થયું કે અરે! એ ઈશ્વર તો અંગ્રેજી પણ જાણે છે. અંગ્રેજી જ નહિ, વિશ્વની દરેક ભાષા જાણે છે. એમને કોઈ પ્રકારનો વિકાર નથી, ક્રોધ અને અહમ્(મિથ્યાભિમાન) તો તેમની આસપાસ પણ ફરકી શકતું નથી! વાહ! કેવા પરમ ક્રુપાળુ અને દયાળુ છે આ ઈશ્વર! કેવા પ્રેમાળુ! આજે અર્જુન આ સત્ય જાણી અનંત આનંદ અને સુખ ને પામ્યો. તેના હ્રદયમાં પ્રેમનો ઝરો ફુટી નીકળ્યો. તે કૃષ્ણના ચરણોમાં શીશ ઝૂકાવી રહ્યો. તેના મન અને શરીરના રોમેરોમમા આનંદ આનંદ વ્યાપી રહ્યો.

॥ હરિ ૐ તત્ સત્ ॥