The Arrow of Time...

We always moves from ordered to disordered.......

moves towards randomness........

Nothing is reversible.......

So.... never try to be oversmart... ..

cause if betterness comes in life, it prevails for ever....

Abstract of Tolstoy’s RESURRECTION

Tolstoy is an outstanding writer , a philosopher and an excellent creator of the characters inhabiting the descriptions of their lives , depicting the pathetic situations prevailed in Russia in those days . He introduced the moral values and the love of God in his epic “Resurrection” as the ultimate solution for the reforming of vice that had deep rooted in the people. These preachings stand the times over. It is said that Mahatma Gandhi was inspired by writings of Tolstoy. If you read the novel , you cannot forget the characters -Katyusha Maslova and Nekhlyudov. Katyusha was born to a poor unmarried lady working in a dairy farm. In those days these maids , if they conceive, used to leave the new born babies to starve and die. But this baby was taken up by two maiden ladies, owners of a dairy farm, when one of them happened to see her. Katyusha Maslova, actually named as Katerina was thus brought up under the care of those maids and later worked as housemaid in their house. It so happens that on one day , Mr. Nekhlyudov, a prince , and nephew of the old ladies comes to spend some time with his aunts. He was attracted by the beauty of Katyusha and she falls in love with him. Nekhlyudov spends a day with her and leaves her. The story starts with a Court case where Nekhlyudov was on the Jury. There he recognizes Katyusha Maslova brought for trial for killing one Mr.Smelkov for money. Katyusha was sent out of the house of her godmothers when she was found to conceive after meeting Nekhlyudov. She suffers a lot trying to live like any normal lady but everywhere she encounters persons beginning to beset her and making amorous advances to seduce her. She reaches a brothel house where she spends time in orgies every night. She changes from one brothel to another thus living in this way for more than six years. At the instance of the mistress of a brothel house one day she goes to a hotel where Mr. Smelkov stays. It is alleged that Maslova poisoned him in the hotel for money. From here onwards her trials and turbulations are shared by the repenting Nekhlyudov . He tries to get her punishment reduced. But he was not successful. She was sent to Syberia as a prisoner. This was a capital punishment for the prisoners in those days. Nekhlyudov, sells away his properties and he also goes with the prisoners party. Katyusha first dislikes him when she was reminded of their first meet. She realises how she was wronged. But when she understands the struggles Nekhlyudov faced to get her punishment reduced, the property and the royal life that he renounced, she slowly finds a soft corner in her heart. Yet she refuses to live with him even when the term of punishment is reduced due to his efforts. She did not like to live with the haunting memory of her previous life. On the part of Nekhlyudov , first he feels it was he duty to uplift her from the pathetic life she is living to efface the memory of his sin. Later he admires his own remorse and feels self –admiration. When he understands that Katyusha did not like to live with him, he feels unwanted and ashamed. His concern now is shifted to the prisoners who are suffering in the prisons without any basic amenities. He thinks of the corrupt administration , the horrible life led by the prisoners, the silly reasons in many cases where people are imprisoned for no fault . He tries to find out philosophically what was the reason for all this. He feels that the people who preach morality and righteousness are really evil. Vicious men were trying to reform other vicious men and that too by using mechanical means. The persons in the profession of punishment and reformation of the guilty, themselves became corrupt and went on corrupting those whom they tormented. That is why things could not be set right. But still theorder in the society existed not because of these lawful criminals who judged and punished others, but because men still pitied and loved one another. Ultimately he finds his solace and also his goal from Bible. People should abide by the five laws of Bible preached by Christ- One that man should not kill and not even be angry with his fellow men. Secondly he should not commit adultery nor enjoy in the beauty of woman. If once he comes close with a woman he should not be faithless to her. The third is that man should not bind himself by oath. The fourth law is that man should forgive for any wrong done to him and should bear it humbly. He should not refuse service that is desired of him. The fifth one is that man should not hate his enemies but love them , help them and serve them. If man starts obeying these laws the kingdom of God will be established on earth. The message Tolstoy gives is very valuable even in these present day circumstances. Humanity existed only because of love and not hatred.

The Black Angel, By Michael Christopher...........

The concept of forgiveness is portrayed in the powerful play, The Black Angel, by Michael Christopher. What happens to us when we forgive someone? What happens to us when we are forgiven?Christopher's play is about a former German army general, Engel, who tried to make a new life for himself and his wife outside a little French village. He had been imprisoned for 30 years, sentenced by Nuremberg war war crimes court. He hoped that people will forget and forgive he terrible past. He built a log cabin in the near by mountains he wanted to start anew.A french journalist, Morrieu, could not forget the past. His family was massacared by the generals army. There was not a single survivor in the village. For thirty years Morrieu had planned his revenge. He said to himself: "If the Nuremberg court could not sentence General Engel To die, I will pronounce his death sentence and execute it." He stoked the embers of hartred and fears in the mind of village radicals. and revolutionaries.They conspire to burn down the cabin in night, killing Angel and his wife. Morrieu as a journalist, had several question for the General: why did he do it? After thirty years in prison, what did he feel know? So he proceede to the cabin, surprised the General and his wife and spent the whole afternoon probinghis past action, trying to analyze and learn the reason for the tragedy.He found the general full of regret and repentance. He was actually waiting to download his guilt to someone, He could trust. Moved, Morrieu offered to smuggle the General and his wife to safety. He disclosed to them that he vilagers would atack his cabin at night and kill both of them. The general said: " We will accompany you only on the condition; that you forgive me." Morrieu could not forgive the general. He could save him but forgive him never! That night the villagers burnt down the cabin and shot Engel and his wife dead. The play when staged left the audience gasping for an answer.......

नफरतों के जहाँ में हमको प्यार की बस्तियां बसानी हैं,....

नफरतों के जहाँ में हमको प्यार की बस्तियां बसानी हैं,

दूर रहना कोई कमाल नहीं, पास आओ तो कोई बात बने

A young Amrita Pritam, madly in love with Sahir, wrote his name hundreds of times on a sheet of paper while addressing a press conference। They would meet without exchanging a word, Sahir would puff away; after Sahir's departure, Amrita would smoke the cigarette butts left behind by him। After his death, Amrita said she hoped the air mixed with the smoke of the butts would travel to the other world and meet Sahir! Such was their obsession and intensity।

Imroz, who was previously a friend of Amritaji, provided emotional hold and their liaison began growing। Being younger to Amrita ji and living in Indian high values society, Imroz still gave her soul companionship। Amrita ji and Imroz were great soul mates never lived but they shared the floors of same house in Delhi along with children. She used to write very long letters, poetic, full of emotions and pathos to Imroz. She used to address Imroz as “Mere Mehboob” (My beloved) and discuss many themes of the social order and society. Their love remained a ‘sacred hymn’ and became a pure platonic saga of love.

Amritaji never lived life sadly, contrary she was pensive and thoughtful person and so do Imroz, both the artistes filled their gloomy emotions in their work (Nazms, poems and Canvases) but never in their lives. I am a great admirer of both the artistes, and about their handling of delicate sort of relationship. Their love was never bound of physical terms of limits but it went beyond that in the form of words, canvas, poems,colours, ideas, thoughts etc. I feel like that their love for each other is complementary and paired to each ओथेर।

Talking about his relationship with Pritam, Imroz said: “We never used the word ‘love’ for the two of us। This concept of ‘I love you’ is very filmy, and I never fell in love with Amrita Pritam on first sight.

“We never used the word in either our letters or our works। There was never a need to tell that we loved each other. Yes, when I first met her I realised that she was the kind of woman with whom I could spend the rest of my life. And that’s precisely what we did.

“Another aspect that never existed between us was questioning: we never askedeach other where we were headed, or whom we were meeting. We just cared for each other, and that showed.”

प्यार पर बस तो नहीं है लेकिन फिर भी .
तू बता दे की मैं तुझे प्यार करुँ या ना करुँ
साहिर

Reason and Religion......

It is generally argued by the thinkers, that as science develope poetry and religion will decline, that religion and imagination will be at logger-head.

However when we turn to the history of religious thought, it appears that in last two centuries there have been major shifts in established religious thoughts, new and powerfull articulation of existing believes and rise and fall of numerous significant arrangement, pertaining to mans spiritulity. Yet God has remained as an unspoken presense in all form of civilisation, and maas waiting for God has not come to an end yet.

The source pf opposition between the two was neither really in their method of cognition nor in their vision of universe. The saint as well as scientists will admit that the absolute and radical seperation between the domain of intution and the realm of intellact is conceptually impossible as well as methodologically untunable, Spirituality and science both needs study and disciplin, and both depends upon seeker's ability to observe the phenomenon that he studies with ultimate detachment..

Romance and Religion

Romance and Religion have always been considered as the serene routes to enlighten the humane soul. Religion all over the world always advocated the idea to love one another irrespective of the ideological disparities.

Romance share many similarities with the religion......

Like romance is not less relevent to one conscience than religion itself. Romance is also arguably more tempting than religious choices requesting perhaps more internal debate.

And in last we may say that if it is true that religion should be romantic then it is equally true that romance should be religious......