દ્વારકાધીશ

કૃષ્ણ અને એમની ભક્તિ હંમેશા મને કરવી ગમી છે, નાના હતા ત્યારે એમના બાલ્ય જીવન ની સીરીયલ ને હવે એમના જીવન ચરિત્ર એ મને એમને follow કરવા પ્રેર્યો છે. બપોર ના ભોજન સમયે મિત્રો સાથે કૃષ્ણ ને એમની લીલાઓ  હંમેશા favorite વિષય રહ્યો છે ને રાત્રે ભોજન સમયે TV પર એમની સીરીયલ..થોડા સમય પેલા મેં "ગીતા" સમજવાનો પ્રયાસ કર્યો તો પણ એવું લાગ્યું કે એવું કોઈ સરળ માધ્યમ મળે જે ગીતા બહુ સરળ સબ્દો માં સમજાવે તો મજા પડી જાય.. 

આજ કાલ Imagine TV  પર "દ્વારકાધીશ" નામે નવી સાપ્તાહિક ચાલુ થઇ છે ને એ  લોકો ખરેખર ખુબજ સરસ રીતે કૃષ્ણ ને એમના જીવન ને સરળ રીતે સમજાવે છે.. એમની પત્ની એ એમને પૂછેલું.. " તમે કહો છો કે તમે હંમેસા ધર્મ ની સાથે રહો છો .. પણ ધર્મ છે શું.. ?", કૃષ્ણ એ બહુ સરળ સબ્દો માં સમજાવેલું .. " જીવન એ એક અગાધ સમુદ્ર છે ને એમાં દરેક લોકો પોત પોતાની હોળી લઇ કિનારે( મુક્તિ ) પોહ્ચવાનો પ્રયાસ કરે છે.. પણ કોઈની હોળી વ્યવસ્થિત નથી ને એમાં કોઈ ને કોઈ ખામી છે..  આ કિનારે પોચવાની હોળ માં બે પ્રકાર ના માણસો હોય છે. એક એ જે એમની હાલક ડાલક નૈયા ને મારા હવાલે છોડી પોતાનું કામ કરે છે.. મારા માં અગાધ શ્રદ્ધા રાખે છે કે કૃષ્ણ અમારી જોડે છે.. ને બીજા એ જે પહેલાથીજ માની લેછે કે અમે તો કિનારે પોચવાના  જ નથી પણ બીજા કોઈને પણ નહિ પોચવા દઈએ..  આમાં જે પહેલા પ્રકાર ના માણસો જે કરે છે એ ધર્મ છે"

જય હો દ્વારકાધીશ.. જય શ્રી કૃષ્ણ...

Art is Important

Everyone owns something peculiar apart from so called FULL-TIME job !

Full-time job start at 9AM and end at 6PM, we need to execute since we expect greenback to live. Everyone has unique  different  inside them which they act when they are very satisfying.. or very sad.. or very single, we named it 'Creativity'. This creativity be with them as another life partner and it serve meaning of life partner when life partner is not with them.

After Janmasthmi, my wife rested in Ahmadabad for 1 month, she desired to spend time with her mother and brother. In this very alone time, my painting art contributed full support to me, I used to read or draw with pencils when I sense anxious. I don't perceive much in colors, even sometime am creating mistakes electing green/red in xls sheet. I determined to understand this colors and wanted to start drawing with colors. I found one familiar in our campus through blog who very well know watercolor art and he ready to educate me. I was very wondering about it, it like dream comes true. Slowly have undertook and  now I can do.. not superior but I can do and at least I can express my mood on paper.

Recently, have joined community called penciljammer, on every weekend we convene at some known site and then draw on the spot whatever we like. I am totally enjoying their company.

I feel very gorge each and every day when I do something new on paper.. when my wife came and she gazed my work, she dazed !, she never expected this kind of coloring from me.

Now my wife is also fully promising me, even she also surfaces some good cityscape for painting reference when we are out in weekend. In short  my both partners are now cordial with each other and yeah I am getting double relish now since I have two :)

I have started new blog just to record what I colored and some little background behind it-
 http://artbydharmesh.blogspot.com

Earlier, It felt like missing something in me, I found little... still searching for more.. So what's inside you ? !!

God is Great !

Now days am happy !!

But it was not alike before few weeks back.

As since,I relocated to Bangalore, my wife pushing me for exemplary holidays in south hill stations but current hectic schedule not allowing me to do so. She has made 2-3 plan in past but have spoiled it. Hardly, I convey her wait till this Diwali, she was very exited for this Diwali  since we have decided to spend our New Year days in Unty/Kodikenal.

Before few days back, I came to know that papa wished to buy some worthy site in my home-town for bro's hospital( bro is going  to start his own hospital ), I need to grant them all potential cash as I could for following few months. In such needy spell, I do not expect to west even penny behind amusement because family is in need for me. I have mentally judged to cancel Diwali holidays plan but worried, how to share it with my wife, my internals wan't permit me to disappoint her. Have spent several sleepless night thinking how she would respond if I again cancel her plan.

Looks like God was listening her, last week,  I was awarded for some paper I putted before 3 month in my company and for that I got 25K bucks. First I thought, along with my other asset, this money also I will send to papa. Then I thought, I would rather expend fraction behind our holidays and remaining  to papa so both side will be tuned  satisfyingly  and of course me too !!

In some neutral occasion, I thought.. God is always great.. yeah but we need to give faith !!

ગરવી ગુજરાત

હું પુસ્તકો નો પહલે થીજ શોખીન રહયો છું ને મને આ શોખ મારા પપ્પા તરફથી મળેલો છે, જયારે એ થી ઉલટું અમારા ઘર ની સ્ત્રીઓ ને એમાં જરા પણ રસ નથી. મારો સૌથી નજદીક નો એવો મારા નાના ભાઈએ આ જન્મદિને મને ઝવેરભાઈ ની પુસ્તક - "સત્ય ની શોધ માં" ગીફ્ટ માં આપી. આપતી વખતે મારા ભાઈએ કહેલું, તારી પાસે જો ૫-૬ કલાક નો સમય હોય ત્યારેજ આ વાંચવા બેસજે કારણ કે ચાલુ કરીશ તો મુકવાનું મન્ન નહિ થાય, ને સાચે એમજ થયું. મેં આ આખું પુસ્તક એકજ બેઠક માં મારી અમદાવાદ થી બંગલોર ના ટ્રૈન પ્રવાસ દરમિયાન વાંચી કાઢ્યું ને ખુબજ આનંદ થયો ...

શું ઝવેરભાઈ ના શબ્દો.. પાત્રો ને આલેખવાની એમની છટા.. અને કોઈ પ્રસંગ ને વર્ણવાની એમની રીત.. વિચારતા કરી મુકે આપને.. ગર્વ છે આપણા ભવ્ય વારશા પર. આજના આ અંગ્રેજી પુસ્તકિયા જમાના માં આપણે આપણા  ગરવી ગુજરાત એવા  કલ્ચર ને કસાક અંશે ભૂલતા હોઈએ એમ લાગે છે..

કોઈએ ઝવેરભાઈ ને પ્રશ્ન કરેલો.. આ પુસ્તક ની વાર્તા નો અંત આચાનક આવી જાય છે ને તેમાં કોઈ તારણ નથી નીકળતું તો નવી આવૃત્તિ માં જરા ફેરફાર કરી અંત માં કસુક તારણ લાવોને.. જવાબ માં  ઝવેરભાઈ એ લખેલું... "લેખક નું કામ ઘટના ને લોકો સમક્ષ મુકવાનું ને એમને વિચારતા કરવાનું છે.. હું કોણ છું અંત નક્કી કરવા વાળો"

હવે મેં ગુજરાતી બુક્સ વાંચવાનું નક્કી કર્યું છે.. અને મને એમાં કઈ નવા જુનું મળશે તો જણાવતો રહીશ.

આભાર. 

my first competition..

Have seen “chiller party” recently, very exemplary movie and reminded me my child-hood periods.

We have spent earlier 11yrs of my life in much wedded region of my town( Dhrangadhra, Gujarat ), and then my mom-dad debated about our future and transferred to batter place in same town. I need to submit, those days were auspicious days of my life, street was our amusement ground, people were poor but they had a great heart. Now days, everywhere streets looks full with cars and bike parking but in that era none of us had cars/bikes so it looks wide and we used to play everything ( cricket,kabbadi,chor-police..etc) in street only.

I reminded that 1 BHK villa, and gali buddies. This was the place from which I won my first price or race, today I want to share those moments -

I was in 1^st standard, one day papa entered with 3 wheel kids cycle, but it was wrecked and parted numerous place. Mom has started yelling on papa, not to mention that papa has grabbed it from junk ( bhangar wala). Next day, papa got it to his workshop and renovated that cycle. I constantly had a question what papa scheming in workshop but after that day I grasped that he is fixing peoples broken iron stuff (blacksmith work), cycle now looks fully drivable. I was very joyful on that minute, after that day, cycle became my private vehicle. I begun to drive it for anything like getting milk and house hold stuff from provision store… and within few days it became my best friend. I used to drive fast and my vital body also favoring me to do so.

One day papa had seen public notice on town’s big cross ( Rajkamal chowk), it was regard 3 wheel kids cycle competition on 26^th  JAN event. Papa immediately registered my name and within few days Whole Street came to know about my partaking.

Competition day came, whole street gathered outside my home and we all proceeded to our playground ( Zalawad ground) with my cycle. Numerous cycles and Childs like me were there. I was vivacious in gazing others, I did not attend even single world of rules that counselor had given. When race started, others started driving and at that time someone behind me drag my cycle with full force and tell me to drive LALA( my pet name).. Race started and I also started with my full potency. I did not know where to finish but just started and at the end someone has halted me and picked me that was moment I came to know that race finished and I won it ! . As a price, I got brand new cycle. I drove it from ground to our street and whole our street guys were shouting behind me. It was fabulous moment for me, I loved it!!

Next day onward, I started to drive that new cycle but somehow I didn’t sense it as comfortable as old one hence I again shifted to that old one. We didn’t have much space in home so that we could carry both cycle, mom had noticed that I am not using new one so she decided to sell it someone in street and with that money they brought new clothes for me.

My old cycle was with me throughout my child life and it shared some time with my younger bro and even my nephews :) !

Life without colour

It was 6:00 P.M. evening and as usual I have started for home, just stepped-out from NetApp building and unexpectedly but picturesque rain started, climate charged me to grin, I think that was my first smile on Lazy Monday, I did not keep umbrella with me since morning I did not consider rain, sky was clear but thanks to NetApp, we had an umbrella on rent facility, I had registered my name and took one and started for home. On the way to home, two things was in my mind, first, rain has ruined my new WOODLAND shoe, other thing nothing but DAALWADA, suddenly one incidence made me to come out from my dream.

One blind fellow was walking on one side of road, he was hardly managing himself with his stick, he did not have an umbrella and because of rain too much water was gathered on that side of road. I went there, first kept him in my umbrella, inquired him where exactly he wanted to go, he wanted to go nearby bus stop. I have given support of my hand and asked him to follow me, made him to walk in zig-zag with me, skipped water and hurdles, guided him and we safely reached bus stop. I helped him to get into bus what he wanted.

My definition for that rain suddenly changed, how bad he suffered because of rain. That time so many things came to my mind that sensed me good but vile for people like him. It’s universally different life without color. Once reached to home, as usual I made myself clean and did evening POOJA, I also did thanks to GOD but that time thanks had a different purpose!

Help disabled, respect their values.

Anyway it was birthday gift!

It was time when my mom-dad- younger bro visited Bangalore, day before their long journey to south tour, my bro has started talk on one point "NIKE shoe". Let me give an overview why that shoe so special for him - It was long back when I visited US, I brought NIKE shoe for him, he has taken very good care of it and till day no one could say shoe is >1 yr old. His point of concern was whether to take shoe for trip or not since so many temples need to visit in tour, more chance of shoe getting lost was there. After some yes-no and deep analysis on point, conclusion came that my bro can use my old shoe for trip meanwhile I will be using his NIKE since me and my wife was not going for tour.

In between their tour, one day, theft came to our society, they have stolen few society stuff and sad to say but we lost our NIKE as well. When they came back, my old shoe was completely safe in his lag!

I could not see his sad face, my brotherhood walked-up, decided to bring new batter shoe than NIKE for him, meanwhile his b'day came, I brought WOODLAND for him. Anyway I need to give b'day gift, WOODLAND served both purpose.

I don't know whether it is relevant or not but when my papa came to know, he said no one can change what is ordered by GOD !

Journey to south... !

This time.. they looks different, probably because my younger bro has finished his dental science education. In this era where education fees like anything, parents feel like they done with their KARMA when their child become what they really want! In my case, I have elder sis, me and younger bro, my parents have did their best and spent 50yr of their life just for educating and making us what we seek, they did lot for us … now it’s our turn !

Mom is govt. primary teacher and papa has a workshop(blacksmith) in small town Dhrangadhra. They are living happily there. Mom has a vacation in month of MAY so they came here( in Bangalore ) for 15 days treap, I have planned lot before they came but when I went to railway station to receive them, in between way, I found they have dream to travel for Rameshwaram. Immediately after came-back to home, I have searched for good Rameshwaram tour from Bangalore and found one excellent in Karnataka Tourism which not only covered Rameshwaram but whole south good places ( temple+sea+hill) in 9 days. I gone through review online and preferred to book for next second day so that they have one day for rest after long ahmbedabad-bangalore journey.

 

Next day, Bags are packed, separate bag for light snake and THEPLA – SUKIBHAJI.. camera is loaded.. newly brought Docomo sim for them since roaming is free,, and party is ready to go..  I was keep getting updates from them everyday.. each day they have different story for food and place.. looks like they are really enjoying their tour..

Once they came back, I went to Corporation circle for receiving them, it was early morning, I have seen great smile of satisfaction on their faces, something like smile of dream comes true that reminded me SRAVANA story and got the answer who inspired sravana to walk so long…. nothing but his willingness to full-fill desire of his parent and that dream comes true smiling face of his parents..

We can’t be pure SRAVANA in this hard and fast life but.. it’s good to learn from him..

For interested guy.. 

Journey Schedule:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B0DPvBd8CD4YMTQzYTY5ZGItYTQzYi00MDdhLWE4MGUtMmNkZWFhYzVlNWQy&hl=en_GB

Daily Notes:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B0DPvBd8CD4YMDc4ODQ1NDgtYWFjMi00OTI0LThmMzMtZmFjNmJiYTcwOGVk&hl=en_GB

So what is marriage ?

Purchasing a new bike is always challenging for me.. so many new models.. so many choices !. But requirement is critical factor that we need to consider.. my requirement is to have bike which can be used by me and my wife as well and we have finalized Activa/Aviator. She just completed her B.Ed education and want to start her carrier in teaching. She knows I am die-hard fan of Enfields models but for her only I have not chosen it. At last, she told me  when she earn from teaching, she will give me Enfield as gift of our anniversary. So nice, She might need to spend whole her CTC for this big-fat gift !


Though till a day, neither bike came to our house but I need to submit.. thinking and living for each other that's marriage !

Bad day to Good day.. help Ambulance

Today, morning I am getting late for office and I missed my house key and office meal card somewhere. I tried to find it out in my house and that put me 30 minutes late. I caught bus from Konena-Aghara( Nr. Rajeshwari theater bus stop, old airport road ) and my destination is domlur bridge but trafic sucks !. Every day after 9:00AM this road is always full with traffic. I was thinking today is definitely my bad day.

Suddenly, I heard ambulance sound and I thought how this ambulance could pass through this traffic. I have seen that traffic police also not there on next U turn and people are simply flooding our way from wrong side and that also was reason for traffic jam. I step-out from my bus and went to that ambulance and inquire where exactly he want to go, I suggested him one short-cut from gali to opposite road. I went to that U turn and first stops traffic coming from wrong side and make a way to ambulance till that U turn. After ambulance has taken wrong side and that gali.

Friends, I request, whenever you listen ambulance and if it is in traffic and no traffic police is there to help them, simply run for help without thinking much.

In the last moment that ambulance driver did smile to me and thanks to me by raising his hand.. I think thats enough for me.. I was wrong.. this is my Good day !

First VTO @ NetApp.. cubbon park clean-up !

NetApp is giving Volunteer time-off( VTO ) if you want to serve as Volunteer for any NGO event. Recently, We have participated in "Cubbon Park Clean-up" event. Those who have seen they know its beauty, its located in center of city and one of few attraction of Bangalore visitors. There is separate community - Cubbon Park Mithra Sangha ( search in the Google you will get more ) which is daily / weekly organised such events for one noble couse - just to maintain beauty of cubbon park. With the help of  "Cubbon Park Mithra Sangha" formers Naren and Karan, we ~40 NetApp guys have organised one full day cubbon park clean-up event just to help this community and we collected ~50 big size garbage bags with non bio-degradable waste. 

Cubbon park is not wall-bounded like Lal-baugh and since many attractions surrounding the Cubbon park as well as many different entry/exit points, it is hard to watch who is coming and going. Many people visited daily and at end of the day, it is full with non bio-degradable waste like gutka/wafer/kulfi wraper, plastic/glass bottles, plastic/paper dishes, papers( since its contain die ), and some time injection/syringe  might be used for drugs. "Cubbon Park Mithra Sangha" passively informing to horticulture department that you are not doing your stuff properly and if you will not do, we will execute it.. you can say "Gandhi Giri" !. As per community, now this park is more cleaner and greener as compared to 4 yrs back when these guys have started. Department also looks some what active as well.  "Cubbon Park Mithra Sangha" not only interested in cleaned up park but has did many tremendous works in past like.. informed to the department regards what all water motors are not working, painted iron grills and stone pillars and many for which this space is not enough. 

I really like this concept, many time such common society issues we feel or suffered and as reaction either we neglect it or blame it to some other, instead we only can simply try to working on it.  At EOD night, my back was paining, my body looks tired, i can't feel comfort even in bad but yeaah.. I was feeling good deeply inside my heart..  I am part of solution not problem, which really inspired me to help such community.

So, Whats your nava-juni friends ?