BEING AND BECOMING

If you write for the sake of writing; You're not writing. If you create for the sake of creating; You're not creating. If you think for the sake of thinking; You're not thinking. If you celebrate for the sake of celebration; You're not celebrating. When you're driven by an inner drive to manifest; When you and your poetry become one entity; When fragrance and flower are not alienated; When clouds and waters have the same identity; In that mode of existence, I, you, we all exist as an ethereal substance and process. A being, non-being, and becoming; A perpetual engulf of time; Constant joy of divine spirit; Then, all the things are the same and different; Then, sorrow is swallowed by the ecstasy of nature's playfulness; In that spirit we all create and are created.

किसी ने कहा था, इतनी दूर भी मत जाओ,  कि ख़ुद भी तुमसे जुदा सा होने लगे। और ख़ुद के इतने क़रीब भी ना आओ, कि तुम्हे ख़ुद ही ख़ुदा नज़र आने लगे। थोड़े से सी दायरे में रहो। तभी तो एहसास होगा, कि तुम बहते हुए दरिया की रवानगी हो, और झूमते बेलों की मस्ती। तुम्हें हस्ती बनाने-मिटाने की ज़रूरत नहीं, जरा कल्पनाओं को विराम दो, ठहर जाओ, फ़िर जीवन की शाश्वता और नश्वरता में कोई भेद ना होगा।