Bridging the Gaps

Bridging gaps after gaps makes one move to more and more congenial circumstances one after the other, and eventually one realizes one’s dream, and achieves one’s goal

By Mukesh Sharma

 

Up in the endless expanse of the universe, all the planets and stars exist in their respective places assigned by Mother Nature with discernible gaps. Down on the earth, giant mountains steadfastly stand with deep depressions. Even in human world, each man is born at a distinctive place with challenging gaps. To man, progress lies in bridging the gaps after gaps – each crest is followed by trough, each piece of knowledge is preceded by the chunk of ignorance and each answer is led by hordes of questions. Progress is an endless journey through gong buoy and gaps.

 

Bridging the Gap

Ancient rishis, Mahavira, and Buddha taught the world to bridge the gap between man and God through spirituality.

 

Albert Einstein made his best efforts to bridge gaps between earth and celestial bodies through his ‘theory of relativity; Stephen Hawkins tried his level best to bridge gaps with his well-reasoned hypothesis of ‘big bang theory’ and ‘black holes’.

 

With the acquired knowledge and material advancement, man landed on moon decades ago. The rover is already treading on the Mars. The Parker solar Probe has reached near the ever blazing Sun and incredibly touched its magnetic field. Bridging the gaps after gaps further, man, no doubt, can dream to travel faster than light, find out ‘another’ earth and eventually knock at the ‘gate of God’s abode one day.

 

By Human scale, particularly, in human society, the journey to coveted success begins with self – bridging gaps between conscience, conscious mind and subconscious mind and thus become a monolithic self to move further. The majority of people are born as  commoners but by bridging gaps after gaps through life, they become men/women of great stature.

 

Despite his humble origin, Narendra Damodardas Modi has also struggled a lot to bridge gaps after gaps in his life – from a tea vendor to school, from school to adolescent, from adolescent to RSS, from RSS to BJP, from BJP to common people at large and today he is the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India.

 

Undoubtedly, man is born in a circumstances surrounded by many gaps. Bridging gaps after gaps lead one to another better circumstances. Further the new circumstances also come with many gaps. Bridging gaps after gaps makes one move to more and more congenial circumstances one after the other and eventually one realizes ones dream and achieves one’s goal. It is like a climb on the ladder where each rung up the ladder is preceded by a gap and down succeeded by a gap. Thus an upwardly mobile, rung after rung reaches the roof top.

 

So, to start with bridge the gap between yourself and ego, and thus become one strong self. Further, Bridge gaps with people around – relatives, neighbor, friends and even unknown people with due respect and humility. One never knows whom one might need in what circumstances. Even Bhagwan Ram had to seek the help of Simians.

 

Success is nothing but an art of bridging gaps within and outside, building bridges and their proper maintenances.

 

An open letter to Respected Modi Ji

 

An Open Letter to 

Respected Modi Ji

No doubt, with concerted and collective effort of 1.35 billion, India can go north and regain its pristine crowning glory. And the people look at you as a lodestar

By Mukesh Sharma

 

Respected Sir,

I hope to be pardoned for my zeal to pen down this open letter in a hopeful attempt to attract the attention of Your Goodself in the largest interest of the bemused and confused common man.

Whenever I watch Your Gracious Self on TV channels making political speeches or delivering talks on some serious issue before the select audience, my eyes, unconsciously, get set on your fearless face bubbling with elan and exactitude; your well-combed grey hair falling on the neck gives the reflection of a Greek philosopher; your broad shining forehead makes you a solemn saint; your deep enigmatic eyes seem to be looking beyond the prevailing present; your grey high eyebrows with intuitive intellect exude goodwill; the overall glow of health on your charismatic countenance, evidently, shows that you are free from the deadly human diseases like anger, jealousy, ego, affections, and desires. Hypnotized by the halo, I wonder how a man in public life can maintain such a holistic health in this age of contradictions, conflictions, and clashes of interest.

The Hon'ble Prime Minister Modiji 

By your own candid admission, you left your home at an early age, renounced the worldly life and spent years in solitary prayer and meditation visiting and seeking blessings of many enlightened gurus/yogins for spiritual experience  - the realization of the immortal aspirations through this mortal frame, the achievement of the divine life through intellectual consciousness.

Sir, renunciation means the absence of desires. As far as a common man is concerned, each action is caused by some desire or attachment. This writer is at loss to understand what made you to abandon the spiritual pursuit halfway. What prompted you to take a U-turn from the divine course of spirituality to this demeaning politics?

Being in public life and also as a human being how you liberate yourself from the tyranny of body, the tyranny of desires and cope with the crisis of contrition.

In one of your public interviews, you have revealed that you live a very strict disciplined life - daily yogic exercise, simple vegetable food, porridge (khichri) as supper, and to crown all just three hours deep sleep.

Yogins maintain that self-discipline is not a matter of intelligence; it is a matter of will and emotions. Self-discipline is easy where there is a vision of the Highest. Here, the highest signifies, if I am not mistaken, of supreme God.

As a yogi-turned-politician holding the topmost post of Hon'ble PM of India, what inspires you to live such a 'disciplined' life.

To be honest, your journey from a tea-vendor to the top statesman sounds like a tale from fairyland. People contend that it is not possible without some divine blessings. Despite primary education in a village school and no regular academic studies in any big college/university, you are the best, the brightest, the wisest - leader of the leaders not only in India but at the world forum. How is it possible?

People maintain that you have blessings of Maa Saraswati (goddess Minerva) - the gift of gab. You know how to conquer the stage and command the respect of the audience - no stage phobia, no faux-pas, so fearless and in full control of yourself and your spoken words. You are unsurpassed in oration. It is your oratorical triumph that has saddled BJP in power. People wish to know how one can develop such art of eloquence. What is the secret?

It is common knowledge that you are a staunch nationalist - a votary of Bharat Mata, the mother of 1.35 billion. Bharat flows in your blood. You breathe Bharat. You live Bharat.

It is maintained that the countries have been made by God but nations have been made by man. Each nation is ruled by its handful of able-bodied - intellectually superior rule over the millions. In a democratic dispensation, such rulers are, ironically described as servants of people who live like kings and the so-called Masters, the poor people live like servants - battling for life - fighting with hunger, disease, and poverty endlessly. A common man is of the view that except a day of voting, people are just a scrap. Disgruntled denizens contend and allege that it is not a democracy but "lootocracy". Recent "Vazegate" in Maharashtra is the glaring example  - wolves in sheep clothing can stoop to any extent. So-called public servant enjoying impunity, lord over the hapless people; they are seldom punished for an act of transgression - a national sin against the populace. It is an unpalatable reality that today 1.35 billion are dead to the feelings of corruption-free India and incorrupt netas. Don't you ever think that besides the noble thought of nationalism, there is a need to redress the national grievance in the largest interest of the people of India, the very purpose of our 'holy' Constitution?

Hopeful people are all praise for your clarion call "vocal for local". But the people allege that it is not easy to put a precept into practice when corruption is rampant. It is an open secret that one can’t do business if one doesn’t know how to keep the ‘hawks’ at the hem of affairs in good humor - the bank, police, local authorities, selectively ever‘vigilant' tax departments that usually keeps the eye shut on the free flow of cash to political parties/netas, and , of course,over and above the local toughs. Not to speak of any established business, an honest vegetable vendor squatting roadside can’t earn his livelihood even by selling vegetables without the 'paid blessings' of local police and municipal authority. Sir, don’t you think that these public extortioners are the real threat to the slogan ‘vocal for local’. Don’t you think Sir that  THE SPOIL SYSTEM needs to be changed  - radical changes are the need of the hour.

Sir, you know how to live as a commoner with simple clothes, and you also know how to maintain the dignity of the post of Prime Minister of India, and of course the pride and  self-esteem of 1.35 billion by wearing clothes that reflect nothing but Indianism. Your excellent dress sense makes the style statement. Sir how a Yogi like you do it?

Is brahmacharya (celibacy) is necessary to lead a disciplined life? Can’t a family man perform his karma with the sense of detachment?

No doubt, with concerted efforts of 1.35 billion, India can go north and regain the pristine crowning glory. And the people look at you as a lodestar.

May you live long and all blessings follow the sons and daughters of Bharat Mata.

 Bharat Mata ki Jai!

A Bhartiya Common Man 

Farting Netas

(Humour)

Farting Netas

A neta can stoop to any extent to win the farting competition; when arguments cease farts begin

By Mukesh Sharma

Though all the Homo sapiens make wind and that everyone knows, exits from the right place, a neta is an advanced version of man, and he can fart not only from natural hole provided by the nature but also from the mouth. Over the years, the stock of such ‘super human’ neta is on the rise, particularly, in India.

Some fart like the hiss of a snake. It is a warning to stay away; the next move is to squirt deadly poison. Some fart like the sputter of fire-crackers. It is like a caution to be careful; a pre-emptive strike. Some fart loud like the sound of bugle; it is like declaration of a war on the adamant adversaries who are supposedly, responsible for their present pitiable plight from good to bad. The most dangerous of all these farting netas, is the one who while farting, doesn’t make any sound and releases such an ‘evil’ smell that can send millions into concussion without the aid of anesthesia.

Farting Neta

A neta has a phenomenal farting capacity. He can chew and fart out at the same time; a divine digestive powers! His fart is more threatening than gunfire; the bark is more harmful than bite. Unlike a common man, a neta can fart at anytime and at any place as per his convenience and comfort; he is ever ready like a terrorist who waits the chances to sabotage. A common man can face police, ED, CBI or any other agency but not the fear of fart of a neta.

To a neta, the best place to fart is the Press Conference. Whenever, he has an urge, he calls the press conference; TV channels and newspapers are always ready to get the whiff of the fart of a celebrated neta; a good fart is the staple diet of the media, for, it adds to TRP (television rating point).

Yet another right place for the fart is the rally where the people from underclass gather in return for cash and kind; it is a mobile crowd; one day it may be with one neta and the other day with another. Anyway, it helps a neta to create an illusory perception that he is a popular neta. What a neta doesn’t understand is a neta is temporary but the people are permanent.

The world over, India is known as a country of festivals – from Holi through Eid and Christmas to Kumbh Mela. But all these festivals are for the commoners. So-called hon’ble netas celebrate a very special festival that is called Fart Festival. Unlike the festivals of common people, which fall on fixed day every year, it comes after every five years. It is celebrated by the netas with all fury and fervor, for; it can make or mar the future of a neta.

This year, the much awaited fart Festival is being celebrated in five states in India –  Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram & Telangana; assembly elections are due in the states this year.

Netas of all political hues are on the pitch; they think that their quality farts can get them to a seat of power to loot and boot people for five years. So a fierce competition is going on for the farts to demolish and discredit the opponents; the competition seems tougher than UPSC exam.

Succeed by hook or crook is the buzzword. A neta can stoop to any extent to win this fart competition; when arguments cease farts begin.

Though there is no dearth of good ‘fartmen’ in any political party, the so called Indian National Congress is the frontrunner; divested of power after 70 long years, it (INC) has lost its mental balance; bereft of real issues, it has allegedly started manufacturing lies with concoction and conspiracy to nail down PM Modi, the most ‘feared’ man by the opposition as ‘animals’ fear the lion in jungle.

Happy in the knowledge that India is the largest democracy in the world, and Indian constitution provides the guarantee for Freedom of Expression (Act 19), netas think they can ‘defecate’ and ‘piss’ anywhere as they want.

Mani Shankar Aiyar, a seasoned neta of Congress, decrepit by age  calls Hon’ble PM Modi “neech” (a man of base origin). A Congress MLA Praneeti Shinde (daughter of Sushil Shinde, the former Home Minister in UPA Government)  calls  Modi “Dengue Mosquito”. A protégé of  Rahul Gandhi and Vadgam (Gujrat) MLA, Jignesh Mewani crosses all the limit and calls PM “namak haram”. Angrez of India and so called Hon’ble MP Shashi Tharoor never loses the opportunity to use ‘invectives’ against PM Modi since the initiation of Criminal proceedings in “Sunanda Murder Case.” To top all, the “loose tongue” “Pappu” calls Modi “chor”.

 People know the truth about these farting netas. Farting netas have nothing to do with national or public interest. They fart rigorously and vigorously for self-preservation and self-aggrandizement. In fact, all these fartmen are scared of mystic Modi – a Yogi who knows how to control the ‘wind’, breathe in and breathe out. He knows how to romp a race.

Wondrous Boy, The ‘Champion of the Earth’

(Humour)

Wondrous Boy

The ‘Champion of the Earth’

By Mukesh Sharma

W

ith all the elements of exclamations, his life story reads like the pep talks from the book Self Help by Samuel Smiles; it sounds like the contents of Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russel; it reflects the spirit of Ends and Means by Aldous Huxley; it shows the social philosophy of Capital by Karl Marx; it appears like the deft political moves of Chanakya Niti by Acharya Chanakya; it seems like the actions of the Prince  by Niccolo Machiavelli; his well calculated calm against the jibes of political opponents reminds one of the Gita of Lord Krishna.

His intriguing story reads like a travelogue from tea to top; from self to a son of soil; from nonentity to national figure; from RSS pracharak to Prime Minister; from State leader to Statesman.

After incipient FIASCOS, he is a man of scores of FIRSTS.  He was made an accused FIRST for 2002 Gujrat riots and later exculpated by the Supreme Court. He was anointed as chief Minister of Gujrat FIRST and an elected MLA (Member of Legislative Assembly) later in 2001. He became PM designate FIRST and an MP (Member of Parliament) later when he sweeped the general election in 2014. He is the FIRST junior BJP leader who has sidelined his seniors against hierarchy rule.

Wondrous Boy

He is the FIRST the most followed Indian leader on twitter (34.6 millions). He is the FIRST Indian politician who interacted with the netizens on live chat on Google Hangout on August 31, 2012.

He is the FIRST Indian leader who has influenced and persuaded Hon’ble Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman to go for a magnificent Hindu temple in Riyad, usually, an unheard and unwelcome idea in Muslim States.

He is the FIRST PM who has inked deal for S-400 missile system with elated 56 inch chest with Russia despite the raised eyebrows of US, a devil diplomacy.

He is the FIRST Indian leader who inspired UN General Assembly to declare 21 June as International Day for Yoga and made the world feel and realize the importance of the ancient science of India.

He is the FIRST PM who announced on TV channels the demonetization of Rs500 and Rs1000 currency notes, and declared it invalid tenders to wipe off black money, though it is a moot point in the so called intelligentsia.

Despite all the obstructionist approaches of opposition, he is the FIRST PM who has stuck to his “One Nation, and One Tax”, and has brought GST (Goods & service Tax) in force.

He is the FIRST PM who has challenged the ever bullying bigots, and has gone against the age old apocryphal practice of TRIPLE TALAQ, a disgrace to women folk and assertion of male-chauvinism, and has managed to declare it a cognizable crime now, well against so called Islamic canonical laws  ̶  Shariat and Hadees, much to the chagrin of some  self-styled  netas and vested interests.

He is the FIRST BJP leader who has made it possible to form BJP government in 19 states, after squeezing the ‘divine’ right and rectitude of Congress that has ruled and allegedly “ruined” India where over 50% populace is still below the poverty line, even after 72 years of independence. When India got independence in 1947, China was said to be lagging behind by 60 years but today China is, supposedly, 100 years ahead.

He is the FIRST leader who has forced his opponents to kneel down and allegedly,  seek the help of arch-enemy Pakistan and diplomatic foe China to defeat him in upcoming general election, a political maneuver lesser known to gullible populace.

He is the FIRST BJP leader who has given splitting headache to ‘Gandhis’, seemingly disturbed by his astute design and demagogy, and has made the Scion of Gandhi family to copy his modus Vivendi and modus oprandi  ̶   temple hopping, Mansarovar Yatra,  foreign jaunts to meet and greet Indians diaspora and so on.

He is the FIRST leader who is a fashion icon and makes style statements with his half-sleeves kurta and churidaar pyjama, an elegant but simple sartorial sense.

He is the FIRST Indian leader who has given hugs to the most of the powerful leaders of the world, and has, amusingly, been rated by US media as a “big hugger.”

As a workaholic, he is the FIRST PM who has not taken a single day leave and has worked 18 hours a day in his four and half years of tenure as a PM.

He is the FIRST PM whose kins live in wants at their ancestral  house in Gujrat. He has never mixed his public life with his private life, in contrast, to the most of the kins of netas who  make their pile just in 5 years, once they come to power, and still an, adamantly, single man is surprisingly being singled out for alleged corruption in certain deal for no apparent reason.

Since Election Commission has announced the dates of election in 5 states (Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana) in upcoming November 2018, opposition leaders like wolves are out to hunt down the ‘lion’  (his supporters euphemistically call him lion). But they (opposition leaders) intuitively know that it will not be a cakewalk. Bereft of the issue, opposition leaders are busy in girding up their loin and riding up sleeves by spreading alleged lies.  And to the utter disbelief, dismay and distress of the opposition, now he has become the ‘Champion of the Earth’ before the opposition gets wind of his latest achievement (The award was announced on September 26, 2018 on the sidelines of 73^rd UN general Assembly in New York).

If the events continue to roll like that his opponents who are in jittery, believe he may soon become the ‘Champion of the Universe’. No doubt, the ‘world’ is perturbed and perplexed by the mindboggling feats of the FIRST of the Wondrous Boy,  the Champion of the Earth.