DAY 5497
Jalsa, Mumbai Mar 5/6, 2023 Sun/Mon 12:31 AM
🪔 .. March 06 .. birthday of the “eelas of the ila” .. Ef Leela Sitahal from Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 .. and Ef Sharmila Bhatt .. our affection and wishes ..
And the wishes also to Ef Muhammad Junaid from Canberra - Australia 🇦🇺 .. and Ef Muhammed Shifan from Kerala .. also birthdaying on March 6th .. love and wellbeing .. 🌿🙏🏻🚩
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The cycle peddles away .. the rate of its speed varies .. the peddling legs tire .. the basket for the buying to be done hangs unobtrusively on the handle bar ahead .. the seat softened by the extra cushioning raised to accommodate the lengthy legs .. legs that disproportionately spring out from the normalcy of its origin .. and the race to be in the timed presence, by some manner of speed latching on to the faster vehicle that moves on the gasoline structure .. fool hardy but never to be tried .. in the heat and the cold of the winter , the cycle , cycled out into the streets of lanes reaching out to the education machine or the general grocery store to pick up those that have been ordered by the maadre , and to return before the lamps lit the road ..
On occasion to give it a wash .. clean up the mess gathered about .. oil the oiling parts .. repairing the punctured tyres from the nearest puncture person by the side of the kirana that sold all - from the chewing gum, to the divali fireworks to the idle gossip while the bubbles appeared on the tyre dipped in the water trough .. dried , cleaned applied the blocking rubber tape to close the leak with that wonder smelling adhesive and returning back with that sense of having conquered the entire Universe ..
Starting the process of learning with the cross legs under the guest bar in front of the seat .. the ‘kainchi’ the scissors, we would tease those not accomplished enough to ride it the way it is supposed to be ..
Ah those were the days ..
in remembrance of the old has its nostalgia in place .. the present of the yesterday, forgotten and lost .. some day the collect of the paper work the letters the medals and cups won in recognition of your athletic self and the proud moments on the victory stands at the number one step .. all lost and gone .. pity ..
But as they say nothing leaves this Earth .. it be there somewhere hidden among the vapours of time and universe ..
May there be some semblance of curiosity and some confidentiality when ever this revelation occurs …
My love and care ..
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5496
Jalsa, Mumbai Mar 4/5, 2023 Sat/Sun 8:53 AM
🪔 .. March 05 .. birthday wishes to Ef Satish Kumar Paig from Kochi ..
And the greetings of togetherness to Ef Suresh Jumani and his better half Tanya from Chennai for their 24th wedding anniversary .. 💍💕
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the wishes do come and go from the family now known often as the Ef ..
And it needs to be told .. not be held ..
In Hyderabad at the shoot for Project K, during an action shot, I have got injured .. rib cartilage popped broke and muscle tear to the right rib cage .. canceled shoot .. did Doctor consult and scan by CT at the AIG Hospital in Hyderabad and flown back home .. strapping has been done and rest been advocated .. yes painful .. on movement and breathing .. will take some weeks they say before some normalisation will occur .. some medication is on also for pain ..
So all work that was to be done has been suspended and canceled dropped postponed for the moment until healing occurs ..
I rest at Jalsa and am mobile a bit for all the essential activities .. but yes in rest and generally lying around ..
It shall be difficult or let me say .. I shall be unable to meet, the well wishers at Jalsa Gate this evening .. so do not come .. and do inform as much as you can to those that intend coming ..
All else is well ..
Getting time to spend time with Babuji and his genius, his mind his words and his immense creativity .. the essence of life resides in his writings .. and such a learning and amazed joy to be in his company ..
There is desire to share .. to share what ever little that I may interpret from his words and his memories of the times spent with him .. to lament the limited .. to be in awe of the vision and the intellect of such a being .. and wonder how ever did one think of all that was written spoken thought by him ..
HOW ..
… and a book of a collection of some of the letters he corresponded with certain individuals finds me leafing through them to meet the mind of Babuji and one such :
Apne vatavaran se koi nirapeksh nahin reh sakta . Har pankaj mein pank ka kuch na kuch ansh rehta hai - pankaj ko keechad lapetne ki zaroorat nahin . Kuch lapet te hain ye aur baat hai . Aap kehte hain videsh mantralay ka vatavaran ya dilli ka vatavaran aapki kavita mein nahin aaya . Itna asamprikt rehna kisi ke liye sambhav nahin . Vo kisis na kisi roop mein aaya hi hoga . aisi sadhana mujhmein aa gai hai ki kamalvatt keechad ke oopar rahoon to meri aplabhdhi bahut choti nahin hai .
You cannot be dispassionate or indifferent to your environment. In every lotus ( Pankaj – the one that blooms in sludge and slime viz. the lotus ) a bit of the sludge always remains – it is not essential for the lotus to wrap itself in sludge . Some do it, but that is a different matter . You say that ‘the atmosphere or the environment of the Foreign Affairs Ministry or that of Delhi has not been reflected in your poetry’ . To be so untouched for anyone is not possible . It does appear in some form or the other . I have now achieved such meditative accomplishment that remaining above the sludge and mud of the lotus is no small cognitive accomplishment for me .
.. you may wonder about the Foreign Ministry .. and Delhi in reference ..
Babuji was the lecturer in the English Department of the prestigious Allahabad University .. he did his PhD in English literature from Cambridge in 1954 .. went in 1952 and within 2 years finished his PhD which normally takes 4 years .. his dissertation was ‘W B Yeats and Occultism’ ..
WB Yeats .. the accomplished and famed Irish poet, who had a passion for the occult, particularly that which emanated from India ..
When Babuji returned after this achievement, a rare PhD, perhaps the very first Indian to have got a PhD from Cambridge in English Literature, he was not given the recognition he so deserved from the University. In fact they actually reduced his salary. This was very upsetting for Babuji and he resigned from Allahabad University, joined the AIR, the All India Radio as a Producer, until eventually he was called by Pt Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India to the Foreign Ministry, now known as the External Affairs Ministry, then headed by Panditji , to be the OSD, Officer on Special Duty in the Hindi Department, in New Delhi .
Such learnings are indeed most rare .. and to have time now, as always, to be in the midst of all the incredible writings, is a god send .. I am blessed .. and to be able to share some of this with all is a duty ..
I feel your presence at the Jalsa gate .. but shall be unable to show the face ..
Apologies ..
love .. ❤️
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5495
Jalsa, Mumbai Mar ¾, 2023 Fri/Sat 7:25 AM
Ef Birthday
🪔 .. March 04 .. birthday of Wakeel Saheb .. Ef Sanjay J Rajpurohit .. our wishes and greetings .. 🌿 may all remain well and in goodness ever ..
The address reads well informing of the ‘coming home’ .. it has been done .. was there somewhere else , now back .. back to the root of home .. back to the most comfort comfortable .. back to where the desire to search fine acclimatise readjust does not arise .. you know .. know it all .. and bring it back into practice on the immediate ..
Why .. why does it happen , this coming home .. the confidence of the roof above the head, the domestic presence, the permanence .. well at times .. and the know that this be my territory ..
Humans do it, animals and nature does it .. all living beings do it ..
BUILD THEIR OWN HOME .. and the will and the hope and the prayer and the wish that one day they shall and will have their own home .. the moto the aim the vision of life for all .. HOME .. the ultimate destination ..
Yes I be home .. and the early reason for that be known sooner that later .. nothing remains quiet and silent in the World we.. live in today .. communication at its best and worst .. 🤣
Work cut short in the ‘hyds of March’ - inspired by the Bard of Henley Str., Stratford-upon-Avon in his tales of the ‘ides of march’ in the warn to Julius - aye yes sir , they have ‘come, but not gone’ ..
Riddles galore on what the blogomaestra doth write .. but in time and sooner, it shall be revealed , not by the ☝🏽 .. but by them that do inspire from them that present themselves in normal routined activity, only to be followed and in the presence of , where how why what .. to earn that one visual for the visual of their home to be blessed by the morsel of the day …
Unknown .. still .. be not in the mind of the moment .. the reveal is ever the finality of the times .. so ..
Much was done .. much remains to be done .. much shall be done ..
All in good time , they say .. as do all .. but the one that succeeds knows it all that the done has to be immediate and in the essence of time , delivered when thought .. otherwise there is so much simultaneous communication that the mind drifts to another and another, and another .. endlessly .. never confirming any and never gathering the educated enunciation of its presence ..
Bounded and strapped with the reality of comfort to the damage done from its simplicity .. there is just one prayer .. catch up .. or drop it to save the run ..
I wish the save .. and have intent to build the material that lies away and all over , but never in the searching to find its exactness ..
That is the moral of all .. the frustration of never being able to find that which is needed of the immediate .. knowing that it be there, somewhere, but never getting to it .. and the plea ever ‘someday we shall get there’ ..
Some day ..
That day never comes .. honest .. it never does ..
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5494
HydsKohe, Tlang Mar 2/3, 2023 Thu/Fri 1:49 AM
🪔 .. March 03 .. birthday of Ef Navneet Anand from Sydney .. Ef Yash Sachdev .. Ef Sunetra Ganguly from Kolkata .. Ef Radhika Sheshadri from Singapore .. and Ef Ashish Mali from Kolkata .. greetings .. 🌿
Birthday Ef - Navneet Anand , Australia .. Ef Yash Sachdev .. all good wishes from the Ef gang of families .. Friday, 3 March ❤️❤️❤️🌹
It happens .. happens often .. when it is good be not in its acceptance .. when it is bad no need for its acceptance either - the ‘other’ shall happily be endorsing that ..
be in the peace of quiet and patient .. attention to it in any form shall never change the ideology of its making .. it may change if and when it does , to the bringing attention motion of the lobby ..
do your work .. as desired .. as expected .. as given .. bring it to the very best of its reading in your capability .. self capability is the be all and end all of all ..
it shall and will .. pity we never understood this when we were them or they .. we wanted to be smart and delirious , but our acceptability, was an outrage .. I mean it was justifyingly strong and worthy of its wait ..
no wait .. no star right .. no gait .. only an understate ..
That be the be all and end of of all times .. the times wait , but come they will .. the ides of Winter … the ides of Winter have come .. but aye C not yet gone
the bard resounds a great deal more when out of its cell .. as does each flying bird or each capturing carnivore .. their existence be in the food of the starve .. that shall deliberate eventually ..
till then ..
Amitabh Bachchan
and the walls they do still resound with the first one :
DAY 5493
Hyd, KohHo, Tela Mar ½, 2023 Wed/Thu 12:27 AM
Birthday -EF - Gita Avinashi Patel .. Laila Abdelkader .. Rasha Fouad ( apologies for printing the wrong surname )
Thursday, 2 March .. and the love and greetings to all for this special day .. from the Ef family
🪔 .. March 01 .. birthday wishes to Ef Asesh Majumdar from Kolkata ..
And in the process of the morning work .. out and about and into the van for the change over .. but before that a quick work out in Gym Van, parked alongside ..
exercise the destroyer of non mobility .. to be idle and expect the responses to be in reasonable form is a fallacy .. this is a reality and must be adhered to in the text of medical compulsions ..
the excesses of information be the bane of ones existence .. well almost .. the more you desire to find out or try to abstain , the more it eats into the form of the body created for the living ..
start one and the end never ends .. it eats into you even if you wish it not to occur .. it alienates all .. your mind your near and dear and generally society ..
sitting across the family dining table and the family could be inches away but still communicates through the SP .. the smart phone ..
what have we become and what are we becoming .. now that AI dominates all conversation and aspects of life .. the future is resplendent with ideas of matters that could alter humanity .. forever .. !!
does it bother or bring fear within .. some it does some it does not ..
glory be .. and be done ..
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5492
KohHyd, Telan Feb- Mar 28/1, 2023 Tue/Wed 2:34 am
A pensive quietness throughout the day and the reason for which has remained unknown .. unheard .. undesired .. !
quiet has never made a sound .. so how would it be in such a circumstance to answer the question ..
so it did not and the silence of the work remained silent .. and shall do too ..
the remorse of not having done enough shall ever prevail and shall be in the mind and thoughts , but never to perhaps see it fructified ..
it will someday by the influence of the many that surround us .. but till then it needs to be known that all else shall stop .. which is why the quietness of the day is succoured into the mind and breath ..
we are living in a new World Order .. and before we know it the exemplary vision for the future will have invaded us all and driven us either up the wall, or some may have seen the end of the day and given it credentials ..
I am in the hour of rest .. it is past the 2:40 am mark ..
I must be in the folds of quilted comfort .. for the morrow to be prevailed in consonance with the atmosphere that prevails ..
Love
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5491
HydKoh,Tel Feb 27/28, 2023 Mon/Tue 12:39 PM
🪔 .. February 28 .. birthday wishes to Ef Jitendra Chauhan .. and Ef Rahul Tiwari from Bangalore ..
🪔 .. February 23 .. missed birthday wishes to Ef Abhishek Vyas .. and Ef Shweta Pathak from Pune .. apologies .. and affection ..
🪔 .. February 24 .. another missed birthday .. of Ef Tiku Mohit Joshi from New Delhi .. our wishes ..
And the greetings of the wedding anniversaries of the Ef .. :
💐 .. Ef Shiv Shankar Roy and his better half Nandiniji from Assam .. their 21st Wedding Anniversary .. on Feb 28 .. 💍💕
💐 .. Ef Anamika Gupta from Dubai .. her 29th wedding anniversary .. on Feb 27 .. 💍💕
💐 .. Ef Hemlata Sai Saini .. on Feb 26 .. 💍💕
Togetherness and the prayers of love and happiness .. 🚩🚩🚩🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️🌿
oh dear .. a delay once again and the timings were such that it became a little delayed to come here ..
finished by 4 am .. and then was tired up in getting to retire asap that the Blog was kept in abeyance ..
soon with you in greater detail .. till then :
.. the with and the without ..
love
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5490
koh,hyd Feb 26, 2023 Sun 11:12 PM
the day has passed , well almost, and the body has passed out .. so we meet in the morn of another ..
more on the return ..
more
Amitabh Bachchan
Mon 27 Feb 9:19 AM
the morning hath cometh and the body from the passed out hath now risen to the ‘in’ .. ‘in home’ .. the validity of which could be read and believed by them that domesticate homes in the absence of the domestic ..
the entire day though was spent in the glory of Babuji and his brilliance .. read again and again with the understanding of seeming to learn and know but , falling short ..
‘व्यक्ति का संघर्ष भी युग के संघर्ष का एक पक्ष होता है’ -
(vyakti ka sangharsh bhi yug ka ek paksh hota hai)
the struggle of an individual , of a person , is the aspect too, or the side of an era, an age ..
so humbling, yet so subtly correct .. our struggles are an aspect of the struggle of the times we live in or exist .. when an era suffers, we discover our own suffering too, related to the times .. when there is war , or a pandemic our struggle reflects the times or .. vice versa 😊 ..
o dear Almighty , the Maker the unknown force give me the strength to live and envelope and give suitable justice to the mind and writings of Babuji ..
I must ..
It would be an immense failure if I did not ..
So .. its back to the work, the mundane routine, but the creativity at its prime by those that bring me to the stable and seek from me to gallop across the given horizon and deliver that which they have conceived ..
.. 🤣🤣🤣 once upon a very long time ago ..
tea ?
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5489
Jalsa, Mumbai /hyd,Koh Feb 25, 2023 Sat 11:39 PM
.. the travel completed in its completeness .. often incomplete in its complete ..
the sense may be under consideration but the vision of the past and more recent does weigh heavily on the heave .. it heaves upon us and gives its cause to the sporting event of the days of schooling .. in the compete pf the ‘tug of war’ .. that handkerchief tied to the centre of that rough bold and strong jute rope .. the team of contestants on either side, as teams .. the Principal on hand with the ‘kerchief ‘ and announcing ..
‘take the strain …. heave ..’ !!! and the teams on either side begin to pull way for the handkerchief , to go past a designated mark - the sign of victory ..
at the end of each rope the team would tie the strongest the most voluminous bodied bod .. so its weight would weigh heavy on the opposition to pull .. often he just stood his ground or sat down or lay down , making it impossible for the team to pull him across .. smart move ..
his name was Shome .. a most genial volume of person - god bless his soul - he left us very early - but played his part in his athletic best when asked or deemed to be of some benefit ..
how does one remember these aspects of our memory system , when what transpired a few short minutes ago is no where near the remembered horizon ..
age causes memory loss .. or age causes the best memory ever ..
debatable , arguable but persistent in its belief and presence .. and more of that in some other time if it be of remembrance then ..
the idea and thought of coming away is daunting in these times .. times not of the the clocked, but of that that detaches the present and the comfort of its presence to the renewed presence of another destination ..
the properties are the same , they are found in the different .. and that is not befitting of the desire ..
the routine disturbance is unwelcome ..
so when routine is flaunted as lost .. lost it is for the routine to be of any use .. the thought comes to the tip of the tongue, known to be knowing the words names expressions ..
BUT the failure to bring it all out ..
and the smart contraption .. the unprovoked giant .. is the cause of great ‘literary content’ in the mass communication, that has beholden us all ..
nothing moves or concludes without the immortalisation aspect of the vision to be brought to permanency .. and the products in the manufacturing have realised its potential and concentrate on the viability of the belief of being documented in those tiny rounds of cylindrical glass, that make us all to be given the everlasting life in its devastating elixir of life …
description describes the name .. calendared in the objects of most immense desire .. name .. be off and away , give me the last activity performed and thine will be kept .. in the solace of confined space ..
space is the more in todays .. not easily found or rediscovered ..
it is there and every where ..
here too ..
which is why it is said ..
GN ..
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5488
Jalsa, Mumbai Feb 24/25, 2023 Fri/Sat 10:35 AM
Birthday wishes to all the Ef .. with love
🪔 .. February 24 .. birthday missed to wish .. of Ef Soham Boricha .. and Ef Smt. Seema Shailendra Shrivastav from Mandsaur MP .. apologies for missing .. you have always the affection and greetings of the Ef Family and more .. ❤️❤️❤️🌿
🪔 .. February 25 .. birthday affection to Ef Sheetal Bahl .. and Ef Partho Das from Kolkata .. greetings .. 🌿
Travelling .. will be with all shortly .. do excuse ..
Amitabh Bachchan