Hail the Goddess !

September 25, 2014

Today is an auspicious day. It is the day of the Goddess. For all the Hindus around the world, this is the beginning of 9 days of worshiping the different manifestations of the female deity - as a provider, nurturer, harbinger of good & prosperity, grace, strength, courage and the destroyer of all thats' evil !  we fast and we feast...and we earnestly hope that this feminine source of power and prosperity continues to shower us with her blessings.

 Today is also nothing short of a personal milestone for me. i am writing my first blog post. i know this would elicit a few wry smiles but as they say the biggest battle in life is the one that you fight with yourself and this is exactly what i ve done. to be able to do what i always wanted to do but lacked the courage, conviction, purpose and initiative. but as it so happens in life that you reach a stage where you find yourself cornered, where the only exit is surrendering to the pressure and bide the doings of other......unless you take the bait and bite the bullet. and i am certainly not ready to regret not taking the shot. better late than never, right ? 

and so i always dreamt of my first piece of writing to be my introduction to this world...who m i, what makes me, what i intend to do and what i wish for ! 

but then today happened to be the first day of the Goddess ! and as my blog name suggests, i write about things that touch my heart. and women and their lives are the closest to my heart....their stories, their voice, their victories, their defeat, their joys, their sorrows and everything in between that can only happen in a woman' life ! having being born in a land that worships the Goddess and then goes out and abuses, molests, assaults and victimizes yet another girl/woman.... you cant blame me for my tenacity to the cause. 

but today is not going to be about lamenting the injustice....today is going to be a celebration of the feminine power. and hence i am sharing a few lines that i had written as an ode to all women.

there might be a little bit of confusion as its in Hindi but written in english typo as i have still not mastered the hindi typo on my laptop :) so pardon me this glitch but all of you who can understand it, it would be my privilege !!

Shakti

tu indradhanush si khilti hai

bayar bani beh jaati hai 

ek ithlati balkhati nadiya se iss jeevan maati ko seench jaati hai... 

 thumak thumak teri payal ki run-jhun jab dil pita ka gudgudati hai 

chahak uthta hai ghar ka aangan, aan-baan-shaan tere hone se hi aati hai 

 bandhi piya ki dor, sahmi-sahmi...jab tu raah nayi banati hai 

khil uthte hain har aor suman, dishayen geet tere hi gaati hai 

satrangi sapne liye....tinka tinka jab tu ghar aangan mehkaati hai 

nirmam,nishpran unn etton main jaan tujhi se aati hai 

 maa ban apna ansh jab....tu iss duniya main laati hai 

pyar, tyag, mamta ki moorat tu sthan devo se bhi upar paati hai 

 tu hi shakti, tu hi gauri....tu hi aanapurna hai 

le aaj vachan yeh...ho jaaye jo bhi aastitva nahi tujhe ab apna khona hai 

 jeevan path par mod kayi, kayi baar tera haq chhena hai 

lakshman rekhayen khinchti rahengi khud apne liye bhi to ab jeena hai 

 tu soch nahi, tu rok nahi yeh dharti teri...yeh aasman bhi tera hai 

faila baahein, khul le saanse, har siyaah raat baad....aata bas savera hai !! 

 tu indradhanush si khilti hai...bayar bani beh jaati hai 

ek ithlaati balkhaati nadiya si iss jeevan maati ko seench jaati hai.................!!! 

so long for today. guess my intro would have to wait a little bit more but then again i do not think i would have much explaining to do now....your first words tell a lot about you, dont they :)))

cheers !