He came towards me..

He was dark. Scraggly. Dirty. Fearsome. And he came towards me. The road was empty save for the two of us. Little light coming from the lamp posts gone by. None of them above us. And he kept coming forward. I had a flimsy packet in hand. I did hit him in the chest with that with hopes that he'll vanish. But it was no good.
With those bared dirty teeth gleaming at me, I woke up with a sweat and fast shallow breaths. The horror of it all just would not go away.
I immediately fell back to sleep only wanting to push him away. To get him out of my system. As I knew only forceful pushing works in nightmares. But to no avail. As I lay thinking of who could I call to help me in the dream I couldn't come up with a single name. And suddenly Guruji came and stood a step behind me on the right. To protect. And lo and behold the whole scene happened all over again. This time only to have that man steer clear of my path as soon as he saw my Guru. My protector. :-)
And I breathed normally again.

P.S. I don't normally remember my dreams so vividly. And that too after so many days! Only one in a thousand, maybe. This also told me that you might forget Him, but He doesn't forget you. :-)

Jai Guru Dev!

Indian guru's healing touch

The HT reports :) - Sri Lankan cricketers on friday wrapped up a post trauma course of deep breathing and yoga taught by an Indian spiritual guru to overcome the shock of the Lahore attack. Swami Sadyojathah, from the Bangalore based Art of Living Foundation, taught the squad special breathing techniques and meditation.

Kriya, the magique :)

He asked - Do you feel good when you do the kriya?
I didn't know what to say. Do you feel good when you breathe??

He persisted - No tell me. Do you really like it after you do the kriya?
I barely managed to mumble some incoherent syllables. Yea. hmm.

Not to be easily put off, he re framed it - So are you glad that you attended the Utsav?
Finally, if only to end the questioning, I replied - It has been wonderful. And I can only be glad that I've been able to keep up with my commitment of doing the kriya regularly. The day seems incomplete without it! And I didn't know anything could have such an effect on me!

He simply concurred. And smiled. :)

Chaand sifarish

Today morning while in the shower I suddenly remembered the song,

चाँद सिफारिश जो करता हमारी
देता वो तुमको बता..

From the movie 'Fanaa'.

I so wanted to listen to it cuz couldn't recall the rest of the lyrics. Thought of checking up in my office playlist (yup! thanks to the secluded corner my workstation in office is, I can play music. :)). But remembered that I didn't have this song on me!

Hoping that I just 'might' be able to listen it on my way in Manoj's car I forgot all about it.

About seven minutes away from the office, with some music playing on his system, I remembered again about the sifarish.. With about 5 minutes left, another song started to play. Which of course was not the one I was waiting for.
And suddenly, out of the blue, Manoj changed the song to... Chaand sifarish... :-) :-)


चाँद सिफारिश जो करता हमारी.. तो भी इच्छाएं इतनी जल्दी पूरी नही होती. :-)

Erm, is that a chuckle I hear?! ;P :D

The call

Just the other day, Shivam got to know that I was thinking of him. Or maybe vice versa. :)

How it happened is immaterial. But what happened is not. I was waiting for someone and thought of catching up on a friend. The first name that came to me was his. But I did not have his number! Weird I know for he's amongst the very few friends from school I have managed to keep in touch with! Anyhow, I had Apeksha's number. She's his friend who I got to know too. I was tempted to call her to ask for his number but realised it might be very rude of me to do so, I didn't.
I called a few other people then. Just generally talking and updating lives. But my thoughts kept returning back to him. And I kept trying to recollect his number!! lol!
This happened between 6.45 and 7.40 pm.
Then the senior at office I was supposed to go home with finally came.
As I sat in the car, I put Shivam's thought aside, deciding to catch up with him online.
At 8.08 I get a call from none other than him! :)

So, is this a coincidence yet again?!

Past life

Just the other day on Sunday my sister and I were talking about our fear of dogs. ( with both of us are scared to death :( ) And in the matter of conversation, I told her that a friend had told me once that maybe it is because of some traumatic past life experience that makes me so scared of them. So I just suggested maybe I should get a past life reading done as I've heard it helps.
The very same evening I get an email from astrology.com which,even though must be spam, totally spooked me out.
It was titled " Nimisha, Are You Haunted by a Past Life? ".

Coincidence? :-?

Hindi, anyone?

Just the other day I was wondering that it is so difficult to write in hindi, now that I've not been really in touch with the Hindi side. i.e. since I've given my class tenth board exam. Have not actually written in Hindi. Neither have I been regular with reading hindi literature. *sigh* Not good for a person who 'took' pride in her Hindi skills.

Also, I feel now it has become very difficult for me to be able to write in pure hindi. Takes so much effort and raking of the dormant grey cells.

And, lo and behold, I came across a wonderful wonderful hindi blog. :) :)
Just what I wanted.
Thank you, Akanksha.