यादें

किसे याद रखें किसे भूल जायें
अपनों के बीच क्यों ये गैर याद आयें
जानी पहचानी थी वो छोटी सी दुनियॉ
बाबुल का अंगना और सखियों की गलियॉ

वक्त ने बदल ली हमसे छुप के करवट
अजनबी हैं रास्ते अब अजनबी हैं वादियाँ
किसे पहचाने किसे हम बुलायें
धुधंली सी पड़ गयी हैं रिश्तो की कहानियाँ

अपनी समझ के गली में बढ़े कदम
भूल गये ठौर पर वो सांकलें चढ़ी थी बन्द
किससे नजर मिलायें गुफ्तगू करें कहँा
बचपना तो खो गया बेजार हैं जवानियाँ

भटकते रहे घन्टो पीरे दरगाह पर
सजदे किये हजारों मन्नतें भी माँगी
फिर भी नजर न आया वो नूरानी चेहरा
देखते थे जिसको दियो की कतार में

घड़ी थाम के हम तो बैठे थे कबसे
दामन में चाहा था वक्त को छुपाना
खुद ही छुप रहे हैं अब ढलती शाम के संग
धुधंलुका घिरा कब ये नही हमने जाना

कैसी दिवाली कैसी वो होली
रगं पुराने हैं यादों में समाये
पहचान सकते तो पहचान लेते
मगर चढ़ चुके हैं ऐ वतने माटी
तुझ पर भी मुझ पर भी रंग कुछ पराये

किसे याद रक्खे किसे भूल जायें
अपनो के बीच क्यों ये गैर याद आयें ।

अगर अल्फाज़ लमहे होते तो यह हर लमहा हमने जिया है ।

Shraddha

सत्त्वानुरूपा सवॆस्य श्रद्धा भवति भारत ।
श्रद्धामयो अयं पुरुषो यो यत् श्रद्धा स एव सः ।।Ch.17: Sh.3
Translation:
The Shraddha of every one accords, O Bharata, to the truth of his being. man's very being is Shraddamaya ( Faith-inhering, faith- instinct, faith-essenced): of whatever Shradda
one is, that verily he is.
 The faith of each man takes the shape , hue, quality given to it by his stuff of being, his constituting temperament, his innate power of existence…Gita tells us that this Purusha, this soul in man is as it were made of Shraddha, a faith, a will to be, a belief in itself and existence, and whatever is that will or constituting belief in him, he is that and that is he....
If a man or the soul in a man consists of the faith which is in him... then it follows that the truth he sees or wills to live is for him the truth of his being, the truth of himself that he has created or is creating and there can be for him no other real truth. This truth is a thing of his inner and outer action, a thing of his becoming, of the soul's dynamics, not of that in him which never changes. He is what he is today by some past will of his nature sustained and continued by a present will to know, to believe and to be in his intelligence and vital force, and whatever new turn is taken by this will and faith active in his very substance, that he will tend to become in the future. We create our own truth of existence in our own action of mind and life, which is another way of saying that we create our own selves....
Note: This passage has been taken from 'Sri Aurobindo in Essays on the Gita'
          Sanskrit Shloka and Translation is from 'Bhagavad Gita - In light of Sri Aurobindo' edited by Maheshwar.