(A Parineeta or Madhushala don't really count)
Nonetheless, it remains one of the things that I sincerely hope to do in future.
Kabir's couplets are a part of my wish-to-read-thoroughly list.
Most of us have rattofied (learn them by heart) during school days to score those marks in Hindi.. then, I didn't know they'd make such a long lasting impression.
I find them simple yet profound and aptly applicable in daily life.. The most comfortable part is that they're open-ended and one can derive meanings and comprehend each couplet as they wish to.. There's no compulsion that they have to be spiritual or religious or anything similar.
However old the couplets may get, they will certainly never become ancient.
Sure says something about the man who's credited for them!
The one doha that has been frequenting my thoughts these days :
Bura jo dekhan main chala,
Bura na milya koi..
Jo mann khoja apna,
Toh mujhse bura na koi..
It's easy to look for fault in others and blame them... but when you search deep down, you realize there's hardly anyone worse..
55 'cutting' aur bol! :D:
:-)
My fav doha is
Aisi vani boliye, mann ka apa hoye,
apna mann sheetal kare, auro ko sukh hoye
:-)
and then the usual known-by-all
kal kare so aaj kal.........
:-D
Hindi is a beautiful language. and kabir sure is relevant.
Reading the bhagwat geeta tops my list.
Cheers!
oh btw, i know these coz I had opted for hindi till 12th. Yea, din score much, but din study much either!
hehe....
@ express
FREAKY! I jus clicked on your page and you commented on mine!
@ express
Now back to your comment ;)
Hmm.. I like that one as well but to be honest, I've never been a very polite individual! :D
kal kare so aaj kar toh just doesn't work for a procrastinator like me! :/
:)
Hindi till 12th??.. Child, how could you?? how did you??.. lol..
Jo bhi, hindi is beautiful! :)
yea, freaky :-D
I can read ur mind :-D
yes, 12th! and scored kinda well...never studied, made up answers in exams.
Yes, my hindi is good :-P :-P
I believe in the other version of kal kare,
aaj kare so kal kar, kal kare so parso,
itni kya jaldi hai pyare, jab jeena hai barso!
;-)
wow lovely write up ....good one tho....Hindi is good lang ..but as obviosily i love my mother lang....i too took hindi from 7th grade ..able to see all the hindi movies....
urs..hemu..
@ express
Hindi mein, making up answers worked but only when you used the right, heavy words :) So well done! :)
I have studied the language till class 8th and then opted for sanskrit.
:) I wana read more of hindi, I will.
@ hemanth potluri
thanks! :)
//but as obviosily i love my mother lang
which is .. hindi.. ?
hmmm do u knw tht thez cassettes and CD's made on these kabir and Rahim Dohas rocked a few yrs back ???
they ver on top few best selling albums ....for the yrs 2000-2003 around !!
and i used to hear it in spiritual drivers f autos and taxis LOL
hrd of 'lai dekhan main gayi main bhi ho gayi lal' osum xprsn of luv wid spiritual connotations ..best of luc wid ur research ..im regrettin i dint pay attntion 2 hindi in scool wen i c d rich repertory of urdu and hindi lit
@ peter
Naah.. do not particularly recall that! But now I'll search..thanks!:)
@ think tank
yes :)
I know what you mean.. about not giving hindi the right place.. but we'll catch up! :)
thats my fav. too...
good to see some more people of our gen. into saving hindi :) lovely!
waise besides commenting on post, i have something else...though i m new 2 ur gang, i find i m similar 2 u n express..tumko b yahi lagta hai kya?
ruk us se b poochti hun :D
the one that I lov is -
kaal kare so aaj kar
aaj kare so ab ....
God!! it is applicable to me NOW!
i jus dnt understand hw Kabir ever understood such simple truths and wrote them dwn in such wonderful verses!
sad isnt it...that we have only rattofied kabir in school...
i remember my hindi teacher going on and on and on...
i realized very late in life that these dohas were actually very beautiful...
A PASSING THOUGHT
i can see a lot of cancerian females (including moi) aggregating here... is this the genesis of something...
deep!!!
nice :) i was always bad at hindi..never used to get the 'ka ke ki's right :( i still curse the subject for bringing down my 10th std marks :P whatever marks i used to score was thanks to the little sanskrit words i used which got through as the 'tatsam roop' words :P
obv, the only doha i still rem is the most common of all,
bada hua toh kya hua jaise ped khajoor
panthi ko chhaya nahi phal lage ati door.
of course, the doha was my only solace for every time i felt depressed about my not so bada height :D
btw, LOVED your blog title.. am a tea lover myself.. masala tea's my fav :)
and 'cutting chai'.. lol...very amusing term.. d'ya know how it originated in the first place by any chance? first heard it in aamchi mumbai (do they use the term in other parts of the country??)
Hi ,
I was reading ur blog posts and found some of them to be wow.. u write well.. Why don't you popularize it more.. ur posts on ur blog ‘Chai aur Gupshup’ took my particular attention as some of them are interesting topics of mine too; i agree with u folks though they are simple but very meaningful....
BTW I help out some ex-IIMA guys who with another batch mate run www.rambhai.com where you can post links to your most loved blog-posts. Rambhai was the chaiwala at IIMA and it is a site where users can themselves share links to blog posts etc and other can find and vote on them. The best make it to the homepage!
This way you can reach out to rambhai readers some of whom could become your ardent fans.. who knows.. :)
Cheers,
@ sachi
:)
lagta hai bhai lagta hai! :D
I totally love both of ya and always looks forward to your posts/comments! You're much more frequent in posting than the two of us though!
Dunno if it's the cancerian thing coz well, before this, I do not recall me bonding with cancerian females.. at all!
But blogger is cooooooool! :)
and aaj hi I was reading your description and it's from Linda Goodman na.. thoda bahut?? I've read it too! :) :)
Lemme go and see what express told ya! ;)
@ veens
Hehe.. another procrastinator? ;)
//i jus dnt understand hw Kabir ever understood such simple truths and wrote them dwn in such wonderful verses!
I know! :) I'm glad I realize their value..
@ preeti
Welcome! :)
(or have ya been here earlier?)
:) Hindi classes were boring then yaar!
Btw.. another cancerian? Cool! :)
//is this the genesis of something...
lol.. dunno.. let's wait and watch! :D
@ mayz
Hmmm.. a lil change from the regular..
@ divya
Welcome!:)
I was ROTFL after reading the ka-ke-ki's.. lol!!
Honest confessions there for sure!
I loved sanskrit.. used to top every year and all that ;;)
about the doha.. you got the interpretation right girl! ;)
cutting chai...ummm...I'll look for it now..
I recall hearing ke gujarat mein they call dividing the tea in 1 glass into 2.. "cutting"..
Rest, I shall look into the matter and report back to ya! :)
u been tagged :)
thnx...
:-))
not been here before...
should have...
:-)
haha, even express has come back n read wht u wrote..
I am toh even thinking of making a girly blog wid u guys where the primary criteria 2 get in is being a cancerian!
nah nah, kidding. ek hi blog nahi samhalta mujhse..
anyway,
love.
i cant say about hindi... but what i believe is that we feel like being made learn some verses by heart when in school but only after years we realize that they have important meaning and often explain the essense of life :)
@ mayz
Hey raaaaaam! I have got serious blogging work to do now!
Will just check the tag :)
@ preeti
:) koi na .. you haven't lost much!
I'll visit your page soon!
@ express
hehe.. chor! For a moment, I actually believed ya! ;D
anyway.. m happpppyyy!! :)
@ lena
true.. spot on! :)
bhai wid chai first of all liked ur idea AGAIN..:)
n dohas r toh my favourite,,they always helped me to get Ex in recitation as it was easier than reciting a POEM in front of d class...lol:D
my favourite one is,
Bada Hua To Kya Hua, Jaise Ped Khajoor
Panthi Ko Chaya Nahin, Phal Laage Atidoor...
love dis one coz it is soooooo simple to learn n easy to remember;)...and meaningful as well...ab doha hai toh meaningful toh hoga he na...lol:D
thumbs up;)
@ prashant
thank you! :)
Recitation.. aaah! I once got a prize too in class 4 for recitation! Yayyyy! ;)
Anyway.. yep that doha seems to be quite the fav!
wow..doha's i like them..i had a cassette of kabir's doha bt i lost it..
i like the doha u have qouted n few of my my fav r "kaal kare so aaj kare"
"bada hua toh kya hua" that was mostly qouted on me :-)
"sukh main sumrin sab kare dukh main kare na koye"
n one i am nt able to rem owh rasi waala it was the best.....
a really fresh n a new idea u came with n the gud thing was it was short:-):-):-):-)
yep yep yep :))
I stole from linda..kuch kuch :))
it surely is d cancerian thing...
arre abhi i hav 2 go fr dinner...baaki gappe baad me :))
byeee
Kabir,right?
They're so meaningful!
@ mohit
Ya.. I know you like 'em! :)
//"bada hua toh kya hua" that was mostly qouted on me :-)
haha.. 188 cms or so?!..haina??
//n the gud thing was it was short
besharam!!.. :D :D waise, I had thought of penning down a whole list, but the time when I actually got down to writing something, wasn't in my best, so.. this is all that I had. :)
@ sachi
:) eat well! takecare
ps : I love Linda!
@ crystal..
yes :)
are you done studying them or are they a part of your current course?
mm...dont knw about hindi verses..
havent gone thru any of them..
it was only a language for conversation to me..
but the one you quoted was a nice one..
Kabir wrote some lovely stuff yaar.. N the best part was that he kept it short n sweet.. :)
Yes, I must agree....Kbir saab wasg great...though I used to hate him when he dived into my hindi syllabus....but the good thing was that he was always able to find me out in the exam halls. :D
And even my favorite doha is the one you have mentioned....dekha....maine kaha tha na pehle bhi....ke we are similar people!!!!
Hindi Literature can never be my cup of tea. :(
Loved those last few lines. So true.
People in glass houses should not throw stones.
i loved dat doha! had sme real meaning to it!:)
@ vinz aka vinu aka vinayak
:)
@ urv
Short yet saying a lot in em.. that's what writing is all about! He was way ahead of his times ya..
@ gagan
:D If we leave the school thing out na, and read 'em now, they're awesome!
:)
@ solitaire
:) ya..
ps : This pic o yours is - beautiful! :)
@ gunj
hmm :)
munshi premchand..!! paye laagu.. ;)
hey yeh bada nice hai
i dnt hav much intrest in hindi literature
but we had madhushala in our sylllabus
i liked it reading..it had universal meaning
I love Hindi. Its really an expressive language:)
Also,
I like kabir ke dohe too:)
if u need any sot of help from me jst tell me i know many dohas :-)
rly nice doha...dis s d 1st tyn i hav com across dohas...heard abt dem but had nevr read any...
@ trinaa
that is so not related! lol..
@ joiedevivre
wow.. lucky you gotta read it! at times i've felt its too long, but all the lines are amazing..
@ riversoul
Welcome! :) am glad you think this way :)
@ mohit
lie saying crow biting
@ pooja
seriously?! try readin some.. they're a good read!
Hindi is a beautiful language... If yet not tried then try hindi literature now... Start with Munshi Premchand... simple yet heart touching work :)
Kabir's dohas will hold relevance everytime :) If only we all try to genuinely imbibe the words in our lives:)
:)
so where are we on hindi literature post-the-post!?
i have this keen-have-to-read for urdu stuff...
lets c when is that happening!
looks like
"kal kare so aaj kar aaj kare so ab"
doesn't help!
well written
hey how u doin'?
long time no c! hope everything's well...
btw happy independence day :)
oh yea, main bhi mishing!
kidhar ghum ho bhai?
tagged!
is baat par ek chai ho jaye! :P
@ nidhi
I read Premchand in elementary school I think..
:)
@ vartika
Welcome! :)
and sahi main yaar.. kaal kare so aaj kar seems to have taken a backseat in my life as well! :( nothing's happening as planned..
@ rakesh
Welcome! :)
thank you
@ sach!
Not cool :(( but managing somehow..
How've you been.. I'll be around soon! :)
@ express
>:D<
back, back, back!!
@ divya
Will just check!
ps : chai maine ekdam abhi khatam ki.. pehle bolna tha! :(
lol..
hey what happened?
Chal am on a week off 'coz of exams..
fir ctach ya :)
Hi,
My favourite like many other commenters out here is also :
Kaal kare so aaj kar
Aaj kare so ab
Pal mein parley hoyegi
Bahuri karega kab
And I am proud to say that I practice this to perfection. I don't postpone idling and doing nothing, unless unavoidable :-)
Cheers,
Salil
@ sach!
Guess I missed replying to this one!
@ salil
hehe, yaah right! :D
I loved his dohas too...badaa hua toh kya hua..is good...i also like rahim ke dohe...dheere dheere re manna dheere sab kuch hoi, maali seeche sau ghara ritu aaye phal hoi...read on someone`s blog..patience thats what he talks about...hindi lit and poetry is beautiful;i love it even though not read much..
@ my space
Welcome! :)
hey, that was a nice one! thanks for sharing it :)
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