हसरे दु:ख - भा.द. खेर

पुस्तकाच्या मुखपृष्ठावर असलेले नाव आणि चार्ली चाप्लीन चा फोटों बघून मला हे पुस्तक वाचावेसे वाटले, पुस्तकाचे नाव आणि चार्ली चाप्लीन याचा नेमकी काय संबध आहे हे जाणून घ्यावेसे वाटले. आयुष्भर ज्याने लोकांना फक्त हसवलेच त्याचे आयुष्य इतके कारुण्याने भरलेले होते यावर खरतर लवकर विश्वासच बसत नाही.
चार्ली चाप्लीन चे बालपण कसे खडतर गेले. तो आणि त्याच्या भावासाठी त्याच्या आई ने घेतलेले कष्ट, त्याचे आईवर असलेले प्रेम, नंतर त्याची आईला वेड लागल्यानंतर इस्पितळात भरती केल्यानंतर झालेली चार्ली ची मनाची झालेली ओढाताण. हे सगळे वाचल्यावर चकित व्हायला होते कि इतके दु:ख भोगून सुद्धा हा माणूस सगळ्या जगाला आपल्या सहज सुंदर अभिनयाने आयुषभर हसवतच आला.
यशाच्या शोधात तो अमेरिकेत आला आणि त्याने खूप यश कमावले. पण त्याला संसार सुखं काही लवकर भेटले नाही. तीन लग्न अपयशी झाल्यानंतर त्याचे चवथें लग्न मात्र त्याला सुखं देऊन गेले. ब्रिटन सोडून अमेरिकेत गेल्यावर त्याला खूप यश मिळाले. पण दुसऱ्या महायुद्धा नंतर त्याच्यावर कमुनिस्टचा शिक्का बसल्यानंतर त्याने अमेरिका सोडली आणि स्विझर्लंड मध्ये स्थाईक झाला. तिथेच त्याने जगाचा निरोप घेतला.
आपल्या हसऱ्या मुखवट्यातून जीवनाच्या सुक्ष्म वेदनेचा वेध घेणाऱ्या कलाकाराची मनस्वी कहाणी.
चार्ली चे त्याच्या आई वर खूप प्रेम होते. त्यामुळेच तो आई विषयी म्हणतो
" मला भेटलेल्या सर्व स्रियांपेक्षा माझी आई अधिक उजवी होती.... नंतर मी जगभर हिंडलो पण मला माझ्या आई सारखी परिपूर्ण स्री मला कुठेही भेटली नाही. मी आज जो काही आहे तो केवळ तिच्यामुळेच आहे. "

Some of his quotes are really inspiring,
"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down"
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles."
"I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying."
"We think to much and feel to little."
"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it."

Purandar Trip The history is something always fascinates so as the historical places. So I decided to visit a near historical place called “PURANDAR FORT”. I called up my friend Kiran and he too got ready for that. So on Sunday 19th July,09 we travelled across Hadapsar, Dive ghat, Saswad and Narayanpur village and reached to foothills of the fort. Narayanpur village has a temple of Lord Mahadev constructed sometime during the Yadav’s dynasty. But we couldn’t get time to see it.

A brief about history :
The mythological name of the Purandar is “Indraneel Parvat”. As per Hindu mythology, when Load Hanuman attempted to carry Dronagiri mountain range, a portion of it slipped off and fell down to form “Indraneel Parvat”.
In 1649, Adilshah was furious by the great deeds of Shivaji Maharaj since he had captured many forts, which were previously under control of Adilshah. Adilshah, therefore arrested Sahaji Raje and Summoned Fatehkhan to get hold of Shivaji. Recognizing the inevitability of a fight, as a part of a strategic decision, Shivaji Maharaj opted Purandar fort, aa a suitable place for battle. However, in spite of the fact that the same fort was not in hands of the Marathas, it was a calculated risk which he had taken within no time, though, he managed to establish his supremacy over the fort using Gusiella technique.
With this fort as base, the Marathas entered into battle with Fatehkhan, which they subsequently won. It was a triumph of Shivaji. Later in 1655, Maharaj nominated Netaji Palkar as the “Sarnaubat” of the fort.
Shivaji Maharaj’s son, Sambhaji, was born on 16th May 1657, Thursday on this fort.
Again in 1665, Mughal Sardar Jaisingh made a lot of Purandar fort. At that time the fort was under the supervision of Murarbaji Despande. A 2000 strong infantry backed him. Selecting 700 strong troops, Murarbaji ventured into battle with Dilerkhan who was nominated by Sardar Jaisingh and backed by 5000 strong infantry. Dilerkhan was marching upwards from all directions on to the Purandar fort. However, first Vajragad was lost and later in spite of a valiant performance by Murarbaji’s troops, the fort of Purandar fell into the hands of Moguls. Later when Shivaji Maharaj understood of his defeat, he entered into treaty with Mogul Sardar Jaisingh in which he agreed to surrender 23 of Mogul forts won by Marathas. It dates 11th June 1665.
Later, after the death of Sambaji Maharaj, Aurangazeb conquered the fort and renamed it as ‘Ajamgad’. Again, on behalf of Marathas, Shankarji Narayan argued with Mughals and took control of the fort. Subsequent to that, in Shake’ 1695, Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj handed over the reigns of the fort to Peshwas.
It was the capital of Peshwas for many years then. Shake’ 1697, i.e. 1775, marked the birth of Sawai Madhavrao. In the year 1818, British took the charge of the fort.

The journey :
At the foothills of the Purandar, we were wondering about how to go on fort, whether by treak or by bike directly. But as we were in treking mood we took climbing road which suppose to take 20 mins to reach, but for us it took almost 1 hr.

As we reached at Purandar Machi, we enter through Bini Darwaja as we proceeded further; the khandakada immediately caught our attention. After enter through door, we saw the road branches, one straight ahead whereas the other towards the rear end of fort. As we move on, we come across the vintage military camps and a few bungalows. The same road leads to the foothills of the citadel, where we can see the temple of “Purandareshwar”. Also, the statue of Murarbaji in his fighting stance gives us the feel of his courageous nature and does not fail taking us back to those glorious days.
As we go ahead we saw ‘Padmavati Lake’, next to that there Militarty prohobitated area but still we can go ahead till ‘Bhairav Khind’. A statue of the Great Maratha, ‘Shivaji Maharaj’ can be seen here. On the right hand side we see the ‘Rajale lake’ which also the source of water supply for Purandar Machi.
After seeing vintage military camps and a few bungalows we started again climbing, after a short distance we reached at Delhi Darwaja, the door, facing north, is still in a good condition. As the road turns near the Darwaja, we can see a temple of Goddess Laxmi. A leftward route from the bifurcation ahead leads us to the other end of the Citadel. The same road leads us to some water cisterns. The rightward road from the bifurcation leads to yet another door (Darwaja). Two statues of lions guard either sides of this Darwaja.
As we started walking uphill, We got to see here the remnants of few structures like ‘food-grain storage rooms’ as also of a castle. A few water reservoirs. After a walk 15 minutes along the main road and climb the steps, we come across ‘Kedareshwar’ temple. A reconstructed temple, it is of Lord Kedareshwar. During Mahashivratri thousands of pilgrims visit this temple. ‘Deepastambha’, a stone pillar for enlightening the lamps, can be seen in front of the temple.
This temple is a topmost part of the fort. One can see the forts like Rajgad, Torna, Sinhagad, Raireshwar, Rohida, Malhargad as well as Karhe-Plateau from here. At the rear end of this temple there is a fortified place called as ‘Koknya’
After seeing the temple we started back journey, and reached shortly at Delhi-Darwaja, There we saw a huge rock extending eastwards. This is nothing but ‘Khandakada’. At its end lies a bastion. As we went ahead, we come across Kedar Darwaja. Although it wasn’t in good condition. however, its historical value and importance can’t be overlooked.
Again reaching at Delhi Darwaja, we started coming down, while coming down we reached at ‘ Purandareshwar Temple’, the Lord Mahadev’s temple built in ‘Hemadic’ style of architecture. The temple houses approx. 1.25 to 1.5 feet high statue of Lord ‘Indra’. Bajirao(I) was instrumental in leading its reconstruction.
There was one canteen where we had our lunch and then again came at Bini Darwaja, there we saw ‘Statue of Murarbaji Deshpande’, was established in 1970 ( which is at right if we go through Bini Darwaja). We should have seen this when we got through Bini Darwaja but we took left side.
After this we had started our journey back to foothills where we parked our bike and there we started back to Pune.
Following is the place on Purandar I think we missed to see,
Rameshwar temple :
This temple is located towards the rear end of Purandareshwar temple. Constructed during the start of ‘Peshva’ dynasty, built by Balaji Vishwanath, it was a temple that was privately owned by the Peshvas. Moving further ahead we come across the remains of an ancient two storied bungalow called as ‘Wada’.
It was in the same ‘Wada’ that Sawai Madhavrao was born. Behind it is a well, which is in a good condition even today.

Ek Hota Carver (Marathi, by Veena Gavankar)


Someday back I read one Marathi book "Ek Hota Carver" by Veena Gavankar (translated in Marathi) , it is based on a George Washington Carver life. Carver was Nigro in America and an American Botony researcher. The book tells how is has been dedicated his life to his Nigro brothers to helping them in farming, improving their living standard, increasing their source of income etc. All he did without excepting any fame, money was his really greatness. Being born as Nigro how agonizing life he lived but still he helped his Nigro brothers by teaching them farming techniques. Though he was great Painter, Musician. But all this fame he left to help needed people in Southern America.
Your tear comes out at the end by knowing how he was really great, how painful life he lived, about his love to his mother, thinking of helping poor people.
Being neglected many time, insulted many times he never give up, always tried to help people. His scarifies, his work was really great.
On his grave was written the simplest and most meaningful summary of his life. "He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world."
Worth to read.

Mahashweta
By Sudha Murthy
It’s a fictional story of one woman’s life. It’s a story of her ups and downs in life, her courage to face truth and struggle to start new living.
She is born in poor family with stunning beauty. She met a smart, handsome and intelligent rich man. They fall in love with each other and got married. For her it was a dream comes true. Everybody was envy on them. But soon few months after marriage her life start taking down turn as she developed lucederma. ‘Lucederma’ still it is known as curse, an illness that mostly comes from ancestors, it’s a hereditary illness. People look lucedermic person either with sympathy or doubtfully.
She also faces the same situation, sympathy, ill-treatment from step-mother, ignorance from doctor husband. Her husband who had promised her to be with her for lifetime but after knowing that she developed lucederma, he not only forgot his promise but also didn’t give a reply of her letters.
Now she was so frustrated that she started thinking for suicide but soon she left that thought and started creating her own world and became happy.
On the other her husband finds himself is emotional trap as he ignored her when she needed him most. Now cursing himself as he couldn’t do justice to his love.

Even though story is fictional, but the theme, characters are so common that we can think that these are around us. This can happened to anyone. So it feels touched.

The most interesting thing about this book which inspired me to read this book is I read a story in ‘Wise Otherwise” book of Sudha Murthy. That story about youngster who fell in love with a girl and with their parents wish they got engaged. But after engagement his fiancee developed lucederma. So he takes aback marriage thought. But to comeout from this situation he spends most of time in library and there he read “Mahashweta”. He read that book almost 10 times. He thought about plith of that girl and don’t want to become like her husband. So after that he married to his fiancée. Sudha Murthy attained this marriage just because of curiosity as she got handwritten message with the invitation card.
So I too just read this book out of curiosity as I thought how a fictional story could change one’s mind-set. I too felt touched with story.

Wise Otherwise – A Salute to Life
By Sudha Murthy

The dedication line says “For the ‘shirtless people of India’ who have taught me so much about my country”, this self explains the book contains the author’s experiences with people of the country.

There are fifty stories of myriad shades of human nature which varies from honesty, humbleness, humanity to cruelest act, extreme selfishness of the people. These are the incredible stories of people to whom author met.

As a trustee of the Infosys Foundation, Sudha Murthy traveled various regions of the country, especially villages, rural areas, she met a variety of people, and she encountered ordinary people with extraordinary minds.

There are story of village man who taught great humility to the author, story of change of attitude of the people when they have problems and when they are successful, how a beggar taught to the author’s friend how to live happy life and then author’s friend helps to the beggar’s granddaughter, the change of mind of person to accept his fiancée when she developed leucoderma after engagement and so on…

The freshness and directness of the stories touches the heart most. You can read almost every shade of human nature. It’s really nice, worth to read these stories.

Experience of Art of Living course...

First day at Art of Living, (Date. 14-Oct-08)

It has been since 2 years I had joined the course in Bangalore but couldn't able to complete and left after 3 days, but this time I decided that I will complete it and continue the practice of teachings. It took almost 2 years to just start with course and lets hope that I will continue till end and also continue the doing things which I will get to learn.

The course timings was 6 pm to 9 pm, but due to some people came late it started off almost at 6.40 pm.

As people were less around 25 people so our teacher was reluctant to start because he has 10 years of experience in teachings and he has to take the batch more than 50 people. He is not allowed to take batch less than 50. But still he started off as he doesn’t want us to get disappointed.

So we stared with teacher’s introduction and then he asked us to introduce us to each other and at the end just to say “I belong to you” and “Let’s move together”. Everybody felt awkward to introduce like this but it was just different kind of experience we had. I think no body has been introduced themselves like this. We feel nice to get introduced like this.

Then Guruji told us some things like what to eat, drink in the duration of course and follow this at least till course ends.

After that he asked us 3 questions like,

“What do you expect from life?”,

“What are things that are bothering to you?” and

“What you expect from this course?”

As first 2 questions are too personal so he asks us to answers the third question. So as per everybody’s expectations, each has given the answer.

Then he describes the difference between “Question” and “Wonder”.

Usually Question expects answer where as Wonder doesn’t. So we need to transform our Question into Wonder so that we don’t feel too much burden to get answer, it will lessen our worry. Though transcending Question into Wonder sometime doesn’t give us solution but surely it will lessen our tensions, worry which has been arose because of Question in our mind. Later we will get or find answer/solution to the problem.

The next things we learn “To be happy make less expectations”.

Usually everything we do we have expectations to get desire thing. We want reward against doing work. So when we get things we don’t feel happy because we thought this is what I deserve. If we get less then we feel unhappy because we thought what I did is far more than what I get, again we don’t feel happy. So sometimes though we get things as per what we expects we never feel happy. So if while doling things if we expects less then we will happy irrespective of how much to get in return.

Then we learn “Live in present moment”

Mostly we live in thinking past’s mistake, feeling guilty about the mistakes we had done Or we live in thinking of future. We either captivated by past events or in thinking future worry. We never think of enjoying current moments. Present moment is inevitable.We can’t ignore, we can’t neither bring back past nor live in future.
We have to live in present moment without worrying about past and future.

Then we learn about “Ujjayi Pranayama”. It is 3 stage pranayam.
“Bhasrika Pranayama” and Omkar jap.

Second day :

Initially we did little physical exercise, this is kind of warm up session.

After that our Guruji came and started with discussion. He made us in group of 5/6 people and discuss about the question he had given as home work.

1. What do expect from life to become happy?
2. When you will become happy?

Every group given their own opinion, mostly are same like Positive attitude toward life, detachments towards material things, good health etc etc.

Mostly times we seek our happiness in a material things like if I get this I will be happy. Sometime again getting those things we feel still we are not happy, so again we plan for next things to be happy. So in this way we keep on postponing our happiness. So sometime we end up in feeling that we will never become happy.
But the true is that happiness can’t be brought from external sources, its inside us only. We are made up of happiness, joy, enthusiasm. We need not to search for it.
We need not top plan and wait for it. Sometimes planning happiness in future we ruined our present happiness. So always live in present and enjoy present moment.

After having break, we learn Anulom Vilom pranayama. Then we did for Anulom Vilom, then Ujjayi Pranayama, Bhasrika Pranayama, and Omkar jap.

Now our “Sudarshan Kriya” started. ‘Su’ means proper, ‘darshan’ means vision and ‘Kriya’ is a purifying practice. The Sudrashan kriya is therefore a purifying practice, where by one receives a proper vision of one’s true self.This unique practice is a potent energizer. Accordingly Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the Sudarshan Kriya came to him like an inspiration to bridge the gap between the worlds of inner silence and outer expression of life.

The rhythmic breathing pattern of Sudarshan Kriya harmonizes the rhythms of the body and emotions and brings them in tune with the rhythms of nature. The breath connects the body and mind. Just as emotions affect our patterns of breathing, we can bring about changes in our mental and behavioral patterns by altering the rhythms of our breath. It flushes our anger, anxiety and worry; leaving the mind completely relaxed and energized.

After doing Sudarshan Kriya we felt very calm, quite, enlightened. Its really very nice experience till now we had and we left for our home.

Third Day

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Fifth Day

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Sixth Day,

Sixth day …actually the last day of our course and it had been long session as per told us. In the morning we gather to one of our course friend’s home to see the information about Art Of Living foundation and His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar.
We saw the experiences of the people, activities AOL foundation does.
After then we again come back to our course hall.

Then teacher discussed about ego. Everybody has ego, but it creates problems in our day to day life. Our every activity is around “I” only. Like I did this, I did that etc. Unless we come out from this “I” and see beyond that we will not become happy. We should increase love inside us to reduce ego, so slowly our ego will get vanish.

After this discussion we had lunch, everybody brought lunch from their home and we share each other’s tiffin. It was nice to have lunch like this.

After that each of us had given a plant and asks us to take care of it.

Again we gathered in hall, this time teacher asks us to make a group of 3 persons each and every person will tell his life story to other 2 in brief. In my group we were 2 male and 1 female. First I told my story and then lady. I was astonished after hearing her story, the way she is trying to live and the things she has faced. I really admire her courage to go through all these. After we heard the story of the retired person and again I too surprised his story as well, the way he has accepted things, his struggle for life and then negativeness created within him because surroundings and love towards his wife. Both are so honesty in their story and I think after that they felt so relax, I could see on their face.
My experience in front them was too small in terms age and in terms of ups & downs. I think they had faced much hard time than me, they have lot of patience to go through all these things.

After that we again heard bhajan and then we left for the home.

My first On-Site Visit..
Auckland, NewZealand

Here brief about some of places we visted there,

1. SkyTower :
Sky Tower, which is Tallest Building in Sothern Hemiphere, almost 328 meters(over 1000 feet), taller than the
Eiffel Tower in Paris or the AMP tTower in Sydeny.
We went to OBSERVATORY which almost 194 meter.
For more details plz visit at http://www.skycityauckland.co.nz/skycity

2. Ragitoto Beach ( Volcano beach):
Rangitoto, which is a Volcano beach, which is a home to New Zealand’s largest Pohutakawa forest.( The Pohutakawa tree is
Christmas tree that displays bright crimson flowers during December).
Also Rangitoto is the Auckland's youngest volcanoes, is 250 meter above the sea level.
You can see some photos at http://www.thenewzealandsite.com/photogalleries/HaurakiGulfIslands/Rangitoto

3. Kelly Tarlton(Under Water world) :
Kelly Tarlton, Its really nice place to see under water world.. which
consists of fish like Stingray Bay etc, Snakes etc. Also we can see Penguins..which are preserved
in zero degree environment. really nice experience to see them.. you can have look
whenever you have time at http://www.kellytarltons.co.nz/

4. Auckland Zoo:
Auckland Zoo, it’s also very nice to see Kiwi bird of New Zealand.
You can see all other animals too. U can visit at http://aucklandzoo.co.nz/

5. Devonport:
Devonport, town in New Zealand on the northern part of North Island. Devonport's pleasant environment, spectacular harbor views, and nearby
sandy beaches have led to its development as a residential suburb of Auckland and a recreational area. The town is joined to Auckland across the
harbor by the Auckland Harbour Bridge (completed in 1959) and a commuter ferry. The annual Auckland Anniversary Regatta, the world's biggest
one-day regatta, is held in the harbor, and crowds flock to Devonport for the best views. Devonport is situated on volcanic rock, which is riddled
with tunnels. The original Maori inhabitants built the tunnels and lived in them for 700 years until they were evicted in 1863. The tunnels were
fortified against a feared Russian invasion in the 1870s.

6. Auckland Museum:
Auckland War Memorial Museum tells the story of New Zealand, from our unique flora and fauna and our history at war, to our priceless collection
of Maori and Pacific treasures. The Museum’s galleries showcase the natural, cultural, and social history of New Zealand. For kids, two award-winning
Discovery Centres provide hands-on fun and exploration of the natural world and human culture. Housed in one of the nation's finest heritage
buildings and with spectacular views of Auckland City and the harbour, Auckland Museum is a popular destination for tourists and locals alike.
For more detills you can visit at http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/

7. Waiheke Island :
Waiheke is a large island in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, between the Auckland mainland and the Coromandel Peninsula.
Waiheke Island is a taonga (treasure) with many special places. National reserves like those on Waiheke protect natural, historic and cultural
heritage for all New Zealanders, and help safeguard the biodiversity of the planet.
Waiheke island very famous tourist place to visit.
For more details visit at http://www.waiheke.co.nz/


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