MUKTAKE IN GUJARATI

પ્રસ્વેદમાં પૈસાની ચમક શોધે છે
હર ચીજમાં એક લાભની તક શોધે છે;
આ દુષ્ટ જમાનાનું રુદન શું કરીએ?
આંસુમાં ગરીબોના નમક શોધે છે.
- મરીઝ
નથી માત્ર મારું, આ દુ:ખ છે બધાનું,
ઉતાવળમાં કોરું રહી જાય પાનું.
જરા સ્થિર થઈએ તો સરનામું થઈએ,
પછી કહી શકીશું તને આવવાનું.
જે આયાસપૂર્વક તે કાઢ્યું ગળેથી,
ગળે કેમ ઊતરી શકે એ બહાનું ?
ઘણાં દર્દ વેઠીને આવ્યો છું અહીંયાં,
નથી ગમતું તેથી આ પાછા જવાનું.
ન માનો તો ગાયબ ને માનો તો હાજર,
હે ઈશ્વર ! તું તો શિલ્પ જાણે હવાનું.
- કિરણ ચૌહાણ
પુષ્પ લિપિમાં હું તારું અધિકરણ વાચું
ને મ્હેકમ્હેકમાં હું રંગીન વ્યાકરણ વાચું
અરે ઓ ધૂળ ! છે તારી નિશાળ અલગારી
રંગને, મ્હેકને, ફૂલોને હું અભણ વાચું !
- રમેશ પારેખ
મુક્તક - સૈફ પાલનપુરી
કોઈ સ્મિતે સ્મિતે સળગે છે
કોઈ રડીને દિલ બહેલાવે છે
કોઈ ટીપે ટીપે તરસે છે
કોઈ જામ નવા છલકાવે છે
સંજોગના પાલવમાં છે બધું
દરિયાને ઠપકો ના આપો
એક તરતો માણસ ડૂબે છે
એક લાશ તરીને આવે છે
- સૈફ પાલનપુરી
મુક્તક - ઘાયલ
ચડી આવે કદી ભૂખ્યો કોઈ હાંકી કહાડે છે  
નથી કાંઈ પેટ જેવું અન્નકૂટ એને જમાડે છે
કરાવે છે મકાનો ખાલી મંદિર બાંધવા માટે
અહીં માનવને મારી લોક ઈશ્વરને જિવાડે છે
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અમૃતથી હોઠ સહુના એંઠા કરી શકું છું
મૃત્યુના હાથ પળમાં હેઠા કરી શકું છું
આ મારી શાયરી એ સંજીવની છે ઘાયલ
શાયર છું પાળિયાને બેઠા કરી શકું છું
- અમૃત ઘાયલ
મુગ્ધકો !
[સાભાર પરત]
લાગણીના સાગરે મસ્તી હતી !
હા, કવિ ને કાવ્યની કસ્તી હતી !
લ્યો ‘પરત સાભાર’ થૈ આવી ઘરે !
શું કિલોના ભાવની પસ્તી હતી ?
[રવાડે ચડેલા કવિને !]
કાવ્યને ઘૂંટી ઘણું કાવો કીધો
શબ્દને લૂંટ્યો અરે બાવો કીધો
અર્થનાં વસ્ત્રોય ના છોડ્યાં તમે
ને કવિ હોવા વિશે દાવો કીધો !
[કાવ્ય-સર્જન પ્રક્રિયા]
રચું છું શબ્દનાં જાળાં, વળી તોડ્યા કરું છું હું !
કવિ છું, કાવ્યમાં હાંફ્યો છતાં દોડ્યા કરું છું હું !
નવું કૈં આપવાના કેફમાં છું કોણ જાણે…ને….
કવિતાની હજારો ખાંભીઓ ખોડ્યા કરું છું હું !

[મહાભિનિષ્ક્રમણ]
વિચારોથી લડીને એટલો ત્રાસી ગયો છું હું !
મગજના બારણાંઓ એટલે વાસી ગયો છું હું !
નથી રહેતો હું મારી જાતની સાથેય સંપીને
હવે મારા મહીંથી એટલે નાસી ગયો છું હું !
[કાવ્યપઠન વેળાએ...]
ભરેલી મ્હેફિલોના ખ્યાલમાં છલકાઈ જાઉં છું !
થશે શું હારતોરા ! હોંશથી હરખાઈ જાઉં છું !
કે સાંભળનારને સ્થાને દીસે જ્યાં ખાલી પાથરણાં
રચેલા કાવ્યમાં પાછો ફરી દફનાઈ જાઉં છું !
[મારી કારકિર્દી વિશે !]
લખું છું કેટલું તોયે પુરસ્કૃત હું નથી હોતો !
કરેલાં સર્જનોમાંયે ચમત્કૃત હું નથી હોતો !
બહુ છે ભાંડનારાઓ, અમારા ચાહકો ક્યાં છે ?
અડિખમ છું હજી એથી બહિષ્કૃત હું નથી હોતો !
[વાચકોને]
કહ્યું કોણે ? અરે સાહિત્યથી હું ક્યાં પ્રભાવિત છું ?
ઉછીનાં તેજ ના માગો ! અરે હું ક્યાં પ્રકાશિત છું ?
કે ખડિયામાં રહ્યો છું, તરફડ્યો છું, લડખડ્યો છું હું !
કલમ દ્વારા પરાણે બ્હાર આવ્યો, તો નિરાશ્રિત છું !
[એ જ અભ્યર્થના...]
કાવ્ય દ્વારા જેટલી મસ્તી વધે,
એટલી સાહિત્યમાં પસ્તી વધે !
સૌ કવિ ના થાય એ અભ્યર્થના,
દેશમાં બેફામ છો વસ્તી વધે !

PROVEBS IN GUJARATI

કહેવતો
- ગાજ્યાં મેઘ વરસે નહી ને ભસ્યાં કુતરાં કરડે નહી.
- આવડે નહી ઘેઁશ ને રાઁધવા બેસે ભેંસ.
- વારા ફરથી વારો અને મારા પછી તારો.
- વઘારેલી ખીચડી દાઢે વાળગી.
- ન બોલવામાં નવ ગુણ.
- બોલે એના બોર વેચાય.
- કાગડો દહીંથરુ લઇ ગયો.
- વિદ્યા વિનય થી શોભે છે.
- સાહસ વિના સિદ્ધિ નથી.
- કુતરુ કાઢતા બિલાડુ પેંઠુ.
- વાંદરા ને સીડી ના અપાય.
- કેડ માં છોકરુ ને ગામ માં ઢિંઢોરો.
- ગામ હોય ત્યાં ઉકરડો હોયજ.
- નામ છે એનો નાશ છે.
- કુવામાં હોય તો હવાડા માં આવે.
- બાપ તેવા બેટા ને વડ તેવા ટેટા.
- મોર ના ઇંડા ચીતરવા ના પડે.
- જેવો દેશ તેવો વેશ.
- જેવો સંગ તેવો રંગ.
- જેની લાઠી એની ભેંસ.
- જેવું વાવો તેવુ લણો.
- ઝાઝા રસોઇયા રસોઇ બગાડે.
- સો વાત ની એક વાત.
- દુર થી ડુંગરા રળિયામણા.
- મામાનું ઘર કેટલે, દિવો બળે એટલે.
- સોબત કરતા શ્વાનની બે બાજુ નુ દુઃખ, ખીજ્યું કરડે પીંડીએ રીઝ્યું ચાટે મુખ્.
- આવડે નહિઁ ઘેઁશ (ખીચડી) ને રાઁધવા બેસ
- ડાહી સાસરે જાય નહિઁ ને ગાઁડી ને શિખામણ આપે
- ઠોઠ નિશાળા ને વત્તરણાઁ ઝાઝાઁ
- તારુઁ મારુઁ સહિયારુઁ ને મારુઁ મારાઁ બાપનુઁ
- હઁગીને આહડવા બેસવુઁ
- હાલ હાલ હલ્લુની માશી (હાલતો થા)
- ગાજ્યાઁ વરસાદ વરસે નહિઁ ને ભસ્યાઁ કુતરાઁ કરડે નહિઁ
- ઘી ઢોળાયુઁ તો ખીચડી માઁ
- પેટ કરાવે વેઁઠ
- દીધે પે દયા ભલી
- ઘરના છોકરાઁ ઘઁટી ચાટે
- ઘર બાળીને તીરથ ન કરાય
- ગામના મહેલ જોઈને આપણાઁ ઝુપડાઁ તોડી ન નખા.
- થાઈ એવાં થઈએ, તો ગામ વચ્ચે રહીએ.
- થાય તો કરવું, નહીં તો બેસી રહેવું.
- થાકશે, ત્યારે પાકશે.
- વાર્યાં ના વરે, હાર્યાં વરે.
- થોડું બોલે તે થાંભલો કોરે.
- થોડું સો મીઠું.
- થોડું રાંધ, મને પીરસ, ને ભૂખી રહે તો મારા સમ.
- થોડું ખાવું ને મોટાની સાથે રહેવું.
- થોડે નફે બમણો વકરો.
- થોડું બોલે તો જીતી જાય, ને બહુ બોલે તે ગોદા ખાય.
- થોડે બોલે થોડું ખાય.
- થોડે થોડે ઠીક જ થાય.
- પોથાં તે થોથાં, અને ડાચાં તે સાચાં.
- અંતે ધર્મો જય, પાપો ક્ષય.
- ગૉળ અંધારે ખાધો તોય ગળ્યો અને અજવાળે ખાધો તોય ગળ્યો.
- અન્ન તેનું પૂણ્ય અને રાંધનારીને ધૂમાડો.

GOOD THOUGHTS QUOTES

  Here's a collection of some of my favorite quotes.  I'm always adding to it.  If you have a favorite you'd like to add you can email me or add it as a comment to a post.

"There's no use trying," Alice said, "One can't believe impossible things."  "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen, "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day.  Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."--Lewis Carroll

It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.--Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Believe it is possible to solve your problem.  Tremendous things happen to the believer.  So believe the answer will come.  It will. --Norman Vincent Peale

Be the change that you want to see in the world.--Mohandas Gandhi

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.--Eleanor Roosevelt

  It's never too late to be what you might have been.--George Ernst

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;  that is where they should be.  Now put the foundations under them.--Henry David Thoreau

We are pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world.--Mother Teresa

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. --Rabbi Harold Kushner

Nothing unless first a dream.--Carl Sandburg

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity into smiles.--Washington Irving

The best way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas.--Linus Pauling

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.--Martin Luther King,  Jr.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;  they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.-- Marcel Proust

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.--Julia Cameron

Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.--Elaine St. James

It takes a long time to become young.--Pablo Picasso

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.--Plato

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.--Eleanor Roosevelt

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.--Helen Keller

Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.--Anonymous

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.--Dr. Seuss

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.--Mohandas Gandhi

Peace begins with a smile.--Mother Teresa

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.--Albert Einstein

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.--Albert Schweitzer

For happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you. —Charlie Brown from Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schultz

“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do”-- Orison Swett Marden

Art is neither a profession or a hobby.  Art is a Way of being.--Frederick Franck

Good works are links that form a chain of love.--Mother Teresa

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Real winners achieve their success through honest hard work" - Rajesh, Trippalur, Palakkad

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."-- Mother Teresa

Silence is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.--Father Thomas Keating

"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don't know how or why."--Albert Einstein

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”  —Plato

“Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.”  —Mary Engelbreit, artist

“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. ”-- Nelson Mandela

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength. -- Corrie Ten Boom

  “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” —Thornton Wilder

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.”--Henry Van Dyke

The earth laughs in flowers.  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.--Rachel Carson

  “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”—Voltaire

Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.--Sir Walter Scott

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.--Mohandas Gandhi 

"Dwell in possibility."-- Emily Dickinson

"Imagination precedes fact."--C.S. Lewis

“No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.”—Zig Ziglar

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”--Woodrow Wilson, the 28th US President

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him. --Jim Elliot

“Only a life lived for others is worth living.” --Albert Einstein

No one has ever become poor by giving.--Anne Frank

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.--Carl Jung

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”-Mohandas Gandhi

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

“We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessing of peace.”--—William Gladstone

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.--Rabindranath Tagore

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! --Ruth Ann Schabacker

"The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart." --Menius

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. - William Arthur Ward“Dream your dream. Follow your heart. Imagine. Listen to the wind. Drink sunsets. Be free. Let the wonder never cease. Believe. Wish on EVERY star. Create adventure. Be Kind.” —Debbie Coulter"When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, 'Yes, this is how I ought to feel.'" -- Harold Kushner

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." --Joseph Addison

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.” —Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~Dr. Seuss True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn
You were born an original. Don't die a copy." --John Mason
Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. --Robert Brault “Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible. -- Marcel Duchamp Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. -- William James

The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb

The best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -- William Wordsworth

My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is. --Ron Olson
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? -- Pablo Picasso
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world. -- Harold Kushner
"Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive, because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive, because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny."--Mahatma Gandhi
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.--Pablo Picasso

Goodthought Quotes from Readers

Don’t be so busy in doing what you should do; that you don’t get time to do what you want to do.--Jaisal

"Counting on my positives I shall rise...

Higher and higher to my own surprise." -Sankalp S. Paralkar

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.--Jaisal

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ~Virgil A. Kraft

50 good thoughts

1. It is not what you do for your juniors/subordinates/children that are important. It is what you teach them to do for them selves.
2. The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people.
3. A successful man is he who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him! Learn to accept criticism proactively and with grace.
4. Your success is determined by what you are willing to sacrifice for it.
5. No one will manufacture a lock without a key. Similarly the God does not give problems without solutions. Only we should have patience and courage to find them.
6. Success is not the key to happiness. But happiness is the key to success.
7. Do not complain about others. Change yourself if you want peace. It is easier to protect our feet with shoes than to carpet the earth.
8. Do not only be close with someone who makes you happy. Be close with someone who can not be happy without you. It may make a lot difference to him at least.
9. Bill Gates never did LaxmiPooja but he is the richest man. Einstein never did SaraswatiPooja but he was the cleverest man. So just believe in hard work.
10. You can tell whether a man is intelligent by his answers. But you can tell a man is wise by his questions.
11. Slow down and enjoy life. It is not only the scenery you miss by going fast but you also miss the sense of where
you are going and why.
12. The only thing I like about stones that come in my way is: once I pass them, they automatically become my
milestones.
13. Luck is not in your hands. But work is in your hands. Your works can make your luck but luck can not make
your works. So always trust yourself.
14. Love is a gift. If you receive it, open and appreciate it. If not, don not worry. Someone somewhere is still
wrapping it for you.
15. Birds that live in a lake will fly away when the lake dries. But the lotus that grows in the same lake will die with
the lake. So recognize the birds in your life.
16. Coincidence decides to whom you meet in life. Your heart and your mind decide with whom you want to stay in life. But only destiny decides who gets to stay in your life.
17. Everything in life has a beautiful ending. And if it is not beautiful, then be sure, it is not the ending.
18. MORNING means one more inning given by the god to play.
19. A person who surrenders when he is wrong is honest.
A person, who surrenders when not sure, is wise.
A person, who surrenders even if he is right, is a HUSBAND! :-)
20. I can not say whether things will get better if we change, what I can say is that if we want to get better, we need to change.
21. Leave something for someone…never leave someone for something because in life something may leave you but someone will always live with you.
22. Too often we underestimate the power a touch, a smile, a kind word, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the power to build a life long relationship.
23. God has deposited Love, Joys, Prosperity, Peace and Laughter plus all kind of Blessings in your account. Use without limit. The PIN code is : PRAYER!
24. Three best things:
A little seed in good soil
A few cows in good grass
A few friends in tavern
25. One meets his destiny often on the road he tried to avoid it.
26. With lies you may go ahead in the world but you can never come back.
27. The road to a friend’s house is never too long.
28. When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.
29. There is none luckier than he who thinks himself so.
30. The truth may walk around naked, but the lie has to be clothed.
31. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
32. No one knows what he can do until he tries.
33. God gives every bird its food but does not always drop it into the nest.
34. Do not choose for any one what you do not choose for yourself.
35. It is better, in times of need, to have a friend than to have money.
36. As you do to others, they will do to you.
37. Little children – little joys
Bigger children – bigger sorrows
38. A good name keeps its brightness even in dark days.
39. An inch of gold will not buy an inch of time.
40. A light heart lives long.
41. Personality has the power to open the doors, but it takes character to keep them open.
42. The person who likes you more will trouble you more. But when you drop a tear, they will fight the world to stop that tear.
43. Those people whom you miss in your happiness are the ones whom you love. But those people whom you miss in your sadness are the ones who love you. Do not forget them.
44. Success is not a matter of being the best and winning the race, it is a matter of handling the worst and finishing the race. Be positive.
45. A man does not start turning old when his hair starts graying, but when his enthusiasm towards life and its joy start dropping. Just keep checking your age!!
46. A honey bee visits 2 million flowers to collect 500 mg of honey. So our workload is nothing as compared to them. Be cheerful and keep working.
47. It is not that some people have will power and some do not. It is that some people are ready to change and others are not. Believe in yourself and change for betterment.
48. Everybody says that mistake is the first step to success. But it is not true. Actually it is the correction of mistake.
49. Winners recognize their limitations but focus on their strengths.
Losers recognize their strengths but focus on their weaknesses.
50. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.