Three languages, one pressure of feeling.

Hindi · Poem 59

कुछ कमी / The Art of Living with Less

• कुछ कमी के साथ जीना, एक हुनर है...
• कुछ नमी के साथ हसना, एक अदा है...
• ख्वाइशों की कैफियत पूछना, तो अच्छा है,
• पर बिन बताएं उन्हे जानना भी, एक कला है...!

Living with some shortage is a skill; laughing through some pain is grace. Knowing someone's wish before they say it — that's art.

English · Poem 62

In Quest / On Identity

• In quest of trying to be like somebody,
• we always forget that eventually
• we were made unique.
• This quest takes us away from our own identity.

• So try to grow as a unique identity,
• not to mold into an already developed stature.

In trying to become someone else, we lose ourselves. Grow as a unique identity — not as a copy of someone already great.

Marathi · Poem 47

एका क्षणात / In One Moment

• एका क्षणात सगळ्या आठवणी, डोळ्यासमोर दर्शन देतात...
• पक्षी चाललेत उडून म्हंटल्यावर, अंगावरती शहारे येतात ...

• कठीण काळात मदत करून जे आपल्या झोळीत पुण्य घेतात...
• जीवन काय, जगतात सगळे, अर्थ त्याला मित्र देतात...

In one moment, all memories appear. When birds leave, it sends a shiver. Friends give meaning to life by standing beside you in difficult times.

English · Poem 101

What Defines You

• What defines "you" exactly?
• Is it your body? But it ages everyday...
• Is it your brain? But it develops everyday....
• Is it your mood? Oh varies by minutes...
• Is it the heartbeat? Oh rises in seconds...

• People around you? How's that possible...
• Place where you are? Come on, impossible...
• What about your dreams? Those aren't real though...
• And your past? Well that's dead no!

The self remains stubbornly undefined — not body, not brain, not mood or heartbeat, not the people or the place. What exactly is 'you'?

English · Poem 102

So Easy to Forget

• So easy to forget, but difficult to remember.
• So easy to let go, but difficult to hold on.
• Why are humans like that?
• It's so easy to ask,
• But difficult to answer!

• So easy to speak, but difficult to listen.
• So easy to interpret, but difficult to understand.
• So easy to enact, but difficult to behave.
• So easy to follow, but difficult to lead.
• So easy to make a mistake, but difficult to forgive.
• So easy to justify, but difficult to accept.

A list of human contradictions. Easy to ask why — difficult to answer.