To Prophet Mohammad!

हाँ सुनी मैंने तेरी कहानी ऐ मोहम्मद,

हुई अब तुझसे भी मुझे मोहब्बत।

ग़रीबों का रहनुमा है तू,

अमीरों के यहाँ गुमशुदा है तू।

तेरी बोली में बस खुदा का ज़िक्र है,

सबके भले की तुझे सियासी फ़िक्र है।

अपनाता है तू हर बेबस को,

किया दूर तूने यथरिब की असमंजस को।

तेरे जैसा पेग़म्बर अब मिलता कहीं ना,

यूँही नहीं कहलाता तू सरकार-ऐ-मदीना।

बरसा दे मुझ पे नूर-ऐ-ख़ुदा-ऐ-रहमत,

हुई अब तुझ से भी मुझे मोहब्बत!

वैभव माथुर!

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To Prophet Mohammad!

Haan suni maine teri kahani ae Mohammed,

Hui ab tujhse bhi mujhe mohabbat!

Gareebo ka rehnuma hai tu,

Ameero ke yaha gumshuda hai tu,

Teri boli me bus khuda ka zikra hai,

Sab ke bhale ki tujhe siyaasi fikra hai,

Apnata hai tu har bebas ko,

Kiya door tune Yathrib ki asmanjas ko,

Tere jaisa pegambar ab milta kahi na

Yuhi nhi kehte tujhe sarkar-e-medina!

Barsa de mujh pe noor-e-khuda-e-rehmat,

Hui ab tujhse bhi mujhe mohhabat!

Vaibhav Mathur

मज़ाक़ मज़ाक़ में

मज़ाक़ मज़ाक़ में निकल जाऊँ कहीं दूर,

की कोई ढूँढ ना पाए मुझे,

फिर तुम लगा के GPS चले आना मेरे ख़यालों में,

तुम्हें तो इजाज़त है।

वैभव माथुर।

One liner on my Worldliness

Where the worldliness has taken me,

I have been waiting for myself from ages!

Vaibhav Mathur!

Is my mind a store room?

I am like a store room in own my house,

All your dispersed thoughts are creating a mess up there!

Vaibhav Mathur!

Quick thought on our fast paced lives

Oh my life , the speed at which you’re running so fast,

I think you’ll soon get a ticket!

Vaibhav Mathur

For Papa on Fathers Day 2017

कुछ हज़ार मीलों के फासलों से कौन जुदा होता है,

आप मुझ में यूँ हैं जैसे कोई ख़ुदा होता है!

बचपन से आपकी ही तरह बनने की कोशिश की है,

मैं जानता हूँ वाकई ख़ुदा होता है!

वैभव माथुर!

For Erisha on her 1st Bday

When you were born, you were so small

Our eyes with joyful tears when we first saw you crawl,

You were so tiny when you came in this world,

We had joyful tears with not a single word,

You give pleasure to each one of us while having fun,

Go out and take walk of fame as you turn one!

Happy Birthday Erisha!

Vaibhav Mathur

I know a Godly figure

Written on Oct 14 2010

After six years, now I have realized that I met a godly figure once,

At such tender age, he had sparkling eyes, lucid and authoritative voice,

I was impressed, kept on looking at him but never knew how he came to that exalted position,

I was engrossed in materialism which made my life miserable

After I finished conversation with him, I entered into the ocean of this ethnic,material world again

I forgot about the grace he possessed,

I forgot that transcendental knowledge he carried,

I forgot the god whom I saw in him while talking with him,

I forgot the bliss of getting mixed with the god by devotion

I forgot about the purpose of life which I got to know in that conversation

All I did is just plunging into the pond of materialism, ego, superiority, power

Now that I followed a bit of his style, I got the chance to feel sprituality,

feel eternal bliss of performing prescribed duties and endeavors,

To get into the mysteries of understanding of god,Feel god

He is the one who made me feel god,

He is responsible for this feeling

But who is he?

Though I have been knowing him since his childhood but I actually got to know him that spiritual night

He is my brother.

Vaibhav Mathur

Review of ‘More than a life’

More than a life – Review

We have seen in recent past a plethora of biographies and auto biographies of self proclaimed god-men e.g Asaram bapu etc. It turned out a majority of those were either paid or published for some specific political and/or religious agenda.

The book ‘More than a life’ , however, does not seem to fall into that category. While the writer is in awe of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and calls him her Guru or spiritual master but she also constantly questions and doubts a few of her Guru’s thoughts and even disagrees on a couple. The questioning of guru’s thought of spiritual and yogic process and also following and appreciating his principles gives some sense of honesty to the reader.

I personally think that Sadhguru goes overboard on meticulous description of his past 3 lives and his ability to know and capture everyone’s thoughts. While I realize that I don’t know anything on spiritual science and yogic practice, I still demand some element of logic in my readings. I do agree ( or could think of possibility) with some of the miracles Sadhguru seems to do in his daily life but it should have been depicted with some more rational reasoning.

Overall, I think I got a brand new ideology of faith which falls exactly in line with the concept of open mindedness of ancient santana dharma. This book may have opened new avenues of thoughts in my dark and ignorant corridors of mind with a quest of learning more about Sadhguru in details.

Vaibhav Mathur

नहीं, मैं उसे प्यार नहीं करता।

मैं कभी अपना झूठा किरदार नहीं करता

उसे अपने दिल की ख़बर बार बार नहीं करता

इस सफ़र की तेज़ रफ़्तार नहीं करता

नहीं, मैं उसे प्यार नहीं करता

मगर उसकी एक झलक के लिए मरता हूँ

शायद मैं उसे प्यार करता हूँ ।

नहीं बतलाया उसे मैंने हाल-ए-दिल

ना होता है जीना ख़ास मुश्किल

अपनी ज़ुबां के तीर उसपे वार नहीं करता

नहीं, मैं उसे प्यार नहीं करता

मगर रोज़ छुपके उसे देखा करता हूँ

शायद मैं उसे प्यार करता हूँ ।

मुझे तो कामयाबी की राह पर जाना है

एक अच्छे बेटे, दोस्त और भाई का फ़र्ज़ निभाना है

तुझे अपनी धड़कनो में गिरफ़्तार नहीं करता

नहीं, मैं उसे प्यार नहीं करता

मगर तेरे बिन ज़िंदगी से डरता हूँ

शायद मैं उसे प्यार करता हूँ।

ज़्यादा नहीं की तुझे पास बुलाने की कोशिश

मुझे ख़ुद नहीं पता आख़िर क्या है मेरी खवाइश

अपने ही ज़स्बात पे ऐतबार नहीं करता

नहीं, मैं उसे प्यार नहीं करता

बस तू रहे ख़ुश यही दुआ करता हूँ

शायद मैं उसे प्यार करता हूँ ।

वैभव माथुर ।