Surya Grahan... And the New Beginning.

This week is really great in terms of Astronomy। 20th July saw the 40th anniversary of the greatest achievement of mankind... the Man landed on the Moon! And today it was the solar eclipse... the great celestial event in our galaxy. This was the longest eclipse in 21st century. So many dimensions are attached to this astonishing event. It has religious, scientific, geographic, significance and every strata of life has its own perspective of looking at this wonderful event. And I missed it... I remember in 1999, I experienced the partial solar eclipse from Nagpur and I was nothing but mesmerised and amazed to see it... Such a big giant star and its just shadowed by significantly small moon. Very philosophical!

I was reading an article about eclipse in a magezine... and I was taken to the infinity in Universe... a deep space without end and still I am trying to trace where its going, why it has no end। Everything that has a beginning...has an end; but it doesn't apply to the space...because it IS a SPACE... an unending frontier... where there is no sense of dimensions... an infinity in true sense.



Back into reality, I realised that its also the आषाढ़स्य अन्तिम दिवसे... the end of Ashadh... Its a new moon... also called as दीप अमावस्या... People used to burn the light and enlighten the dark night... and welcome the श्रावण month। A cheerful month, raining everywhere, hide and seek of sun and clouds... fragrance of wet soil ... and Bhutte ... wow. Come Shravan and nature spreads green carpet on earth. The most auspicious month of all, it just engulf us in synergy of beauty and cultural manifestations.

I am still feeling the fragrance of श्रावण...

Lazy Monday ...zzzzzz!!!!!!

Sometimes I feel why there is a Monday! Every Monday I think why its not another extended Sunday...Wishfull thinking... Especially since Mukta and Madhura are at home on Monday, its difficult to leave the house and go back to work! Hmmm... work on Monday! When I go to the office, morning is gone in drinking coffee, reading newspaper, talking with friends and suddenly its lunch time...great! But afternoon always go very slow. And where is work nowadays? In this recession time, going to office is just a paid punishment... how many times can I read newspaper? How long can I read the technical articles? Many times I decided, yesss...its Monday...lets start updating my knowledge... lets do some creative work and reading... and my resolutions just get evaporated after 2 hours. I wonder how I would have completed my PhD... had I got into the Phd?!?! Doing same work for 4 years...neee...its not my type... We all need change and something new everyday... and then the monotonous life creep in when we get into our jobs and family and things become so much the same that we keep on rotating in our own helix. David says its a 'Quarter Life Crisis' ... man I am already in thirties and now its a crisis! Damn! Do you know how to identify a Dutch man...David explains; You have a car, two kids and a dog ... and you wash your car with all, eating a sandwich with your wife, on Sunday afternoon... You are Dutch!!! We laugh! ... A quarter life scenario...isn't it?

.... And I keep thinking about it every monday...

BUT, Madhura let me forget it when I see her smiling face. How can I get bored when she is around. Good thing about this long gone (?) weekend was that we had a FREE weekend after a looong time... no appointments, no guests, no-one was coming over and we all were together, spending time together... watched a movie, had a nice shopping and day out in centrum and had a very nice dinner together...at home :)

Then there will be yet another Tuesday, Madhura will go to créche, I will drop Mukta to her office and go to work... getting yet another cup of black coffee...and the newspaper is waiting for me ...

I am in the helix...

My Birth Day and the Milestone... achieved

2nd July 2009... 19:50:48 PM ... Delft... my Birthday eve and first milestone was to be achieved... She was trying hard for almost a week...but there was some obstacle... to achieve it... the obstacle was none other than her own hand... it was coming in between... what can she do about it...nature has its own way that nobody can change...

But I think she had determined to do that... give this special gift to me on my first BDay being a father... and just as we were observing her, she DID IT!! Her hand came out from below her little tummy and she fianally turned herself completely ... !!!! What a gift for a Birth Day for a Father and what an achievement at the age of 3 months and 5 days... Madhura achieved her first milestone in a good time to completely turn over and be on her tummy with her head above the ground and dwelling like a cobra... Congrats dear little daughter...for your first success!

It's such an amazing thing to watch our kids growing step by step and I think we experience our own childhood again... Of course, responsibilities are big but I am happy when I see contentment in Mukta's eyes and happy smile on Madhura's face...

By the way, in this frolik, I forgot for the time being that it was my BDay too... 32 years have been passed and every Birthday had been unique is some way... few I remember, few I dont! Every year I think that this Bday has been uniqe and nice...but year after year, I realised that the look out and the situations are changin and I am evolving ... every time with a new realisation. ... And I still have to live a lot of life further... few people say life is short... I think otherwise... but when it comes to achieve something, I agree... At the same time I want to become an airforce pilot, A singer, A journalist, A director of a drama... a guitarist ... a millionnaire.... A social worker... and I have already spent 32 years of my age... and still exploring... Its amazing... its a different persona every time and still I want to become a new one every new time... But great... this year this was the biggest gift that my little Madhura presented me and both of us are happy.

At late hours tonight, she is sleeping peacefully after and I am still thinking about the special gift... The moon is coming out of black clouds that just appeared from no where... and I remember the Ashadhi Ekadashi back in India. The pilgrimage is over and the 'Warkari's' are heading back to their villages... 'Panduranga' must be resting now. The whole year the Warkari's are working hard in their farms and villages and when its Wari time, you see the overwhelming faith and determination to meet the Vitthal and complete the wari... Just amazing!

... And I then simply wonder the nature of 'mind' that dwells from so many things in few minutes... and its just unstoppable!!!

'......Sad it's end of the weekend....