बस यूँही……

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The sunrise on the river.
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This was the beautiful sight which filled my senses and soul with so much joy and positivity.
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Energised I will go about my work.
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I am thankful to the Supreme One for giving me an opportunity to witness the daily recurring miracle.
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I was reminded of a few lines I had read aeons ago: Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Looking-Glass River’
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While writing Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson  also wrote the perennially popular A Child’s Garden of Verses.
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This is a lovely poem from this collection.
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Looking-Glass River
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Smooth it glides upon its travel,
Here a wimple, there a gleam –
O the clean gravel!
O the smooth stream!
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Sailing blossoms, silver fishes,
Pave pools as clear as air –
How a child wishes
To live down there!
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We can see our coloured faces
Floating on the shaken pool
Down in cool places,
Dim and very cool;
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Till a wind or water wrinkle,
Dipping marten, plumping trout,
Spreads in a twinkle
And blots all out.
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See the rings pursue each other;
All below grows black as night,
Just as if mother
Had blown out the light!
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Patience, children, just a minute –
See the spreading circles die;
The stream and all in it
Will clear by-and-by.
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#Beauty_All_Around
#Daily_Dose_of_ecstacy
#Miracles_Around_Us
#Gratitude

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बस यूँही….

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Yet Another morning, another sunrise,
Gone is the dark despair of the night,
My hopes soar like a bird taking wing on daybreak….
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Saw yet another invigorating sunrise on the way to work. The camera clock is faster by 20 minutes. So the time is actually 2 past 6.
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I had read a poem ages ago. I will reproduce an excerpt. The original is too long.
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John Keats, ‘To Hope’.
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“When by my solitary hearth I sit,
When no fair dreams before my ‘mind’s eye’ flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head …”
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It is worth noting that this was written in February 1815 when he was just nineteen years old, and ‘To Hope’ is one of John Keats’s early poems. Although it is not as celebrated or as polished as his more mature, later work, the poem is worth sharing, as it is by one of the leading figures in second-generation English Romanticism (the other two major poets are Shelley and Byron).
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Whenever Despondency, Disappointment, and Despair threaten to assail the poet, he calls upon Hope – personified here with a capital letter – to chase them away, like an angel chasing off demons. He likens this to morning ‘frightening’ away the night: bright hope sees off dark despair.
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#Hope_Springs_Eternal
#Optimism
#New_Beginnings
#New_Goals
#Sunrise_Photography
#Beauty_All_Around

बस यूँही……..

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With the Sun rising early these days, I am frequently greeted by a golden sunrise on the way to the hospital. The nearest star to our home planet spreads cheer and exhorts us to  action, to shed inertia , move our butts and get going.
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I remembered the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge written nearly 200 years ago.
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Work without Hope
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(Composed 21st February 1825)
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All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—
The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing—
And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
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Yet well I ken the banks where amaranths blow,
Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow.
Bloom, O ye amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A resonance of Karmayog from the Bhagavadgita…
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#Motivation
#Sunrise_Photography
#Inspiration
#Different_Perspective

तग-ओ-दौ: efforts, struggle, toil

बस यूँही…….

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The big cat is the pride of India’s conservation effort. One Governmental effort that started exactly 50 years ago and is a success story today.
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Human stupidity, cruelty and the resultant wanton killing of Tigers had brought the numbers down to around 1165. When the conservation effort started in earnest, numbers have thankfully steadily risen to more than 3150 now.
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Just as we are celebrating 75 years of Independence, 75% of the global tiger population is in India. The expanse of tiger reserves across the country has also spread over 75,000 sq km besides witnessing a 75% increase in their population over the last 50 years
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The most regal and powerful of the big cats, one sighting in its natural habitat is enough to fill one with awe and its majestic power is only too apparent..
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#Project_Tiger
#Golden_Jubilee
#Magical_Nature
#Majestic_Animal
#Regal_Feline
#Pure_Joy

बस यूँही……

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The summer heat is well and truly on and the various varieties of fragrant flowers are in full bloom. Stepping out into the corner of the garden where these are located is a heady, intoxicating, recurrent pleasurable experience we are fortunate to experience.
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We have multiple types of Jasmine in our garden at home, each with its distinct, light fragrance. These are some that were plucked yesterday as an offering for the daily Pooja. The majority are मदनबाण but a few flowers in the left lower corner are मोगरा. The European botanists didn’t realize there were more than 200 distinct varieties when they clubbed all of them under an umbrella term, “Jasmine”
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#Flowers_In_our_Garden
#Fresh_Start
#Frail_But_Beautiful
#Fragrant_Nature
#Nature
#A_Divine_Offering

बस यूँही……

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The beginning of a new day is
an opportunity to jettison the negativity of the past and clear the baggage,
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And start anew with renewed hopes and energy.
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That’s the message that nature gives me every single day.
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I am grateful God gave me an opportunity to admire the inspiring beauty (albeit evanescent) of a new morning.
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#Sunrise_Photography
#New_Goals
#New_Beginnings
#Inspiration
#Renewal_Of_Faith

बस यूँही……

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We travel great distances from our Urban homes and lives to seek beauty in the midst of nature while God sends much beauty our way only to find us ignoring it.
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C’est la vie
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This is Sunrise today on the way to the hospital.
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Bliss in the morning.
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Beatific blessing from the Supreme Being to help me impart a healing touch…
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”…… Oscar Wilde

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#Beauty_All_Around
#Nature_Photography
#Daily_Dose_of_ecstacy
#Sunrise_Photography
#Wonders_Never_Cease

बस यूँही……

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The night of 5th May was wonderful. The full moon, called “The Full Flower Moon” (I wonder who gives these fancy names) played hide and seek with thick, dark clouds through much of the first half of the night. It was the birthday of a wonderful human being very close to my heart. The sight was captivating and had me looking up at the sky,a camera in hand, and one around the neck, for hours.
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#Full_Moon
#Nightscapes
#Heavenly_Signs
#Celestial_Bodies
#Romancing_the_Moon

इख़्तिताम: ख़त्म, समाप्त होना

बस यूँही…..

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Sunrise and the golden orb’s appearance was preceded by molten gold spreading across the skies. The sun peeped out from behind the clouds, telling the world about the beginning of yet another day.
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The sight was truly bewitching and transfixed me to the spot, taking in hungrily the everchanging beauty of yet another recurring phenomenon.
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It is I who was fortunate enough to witness yet another instance of a daily miracle.
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#Hope_Springs_Eternal
#Hopelessly_In_Love_With_Nature
#Horizon_On_Fire
#Sunrise_Photography
#Daily_Dose_of_ecstacy

बस यूँही…….

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Sunrise and the early morning means a flurry of activity in the skies. From soundless serenity, there is a magical transformation as birds collectively soar into the skies to conquer worlds anew and look for food.
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I am always inspired by the indomitable spirit of birds and animals, at the stoic nature in accepting and overcoming pain without much ado or complaining.
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Why can’t we be like that and not waste time in whining about what might have been….
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#Invictus
#Indomitable_Spirit
#Inspiration
#New_Beginnings
#Sunrise_Photography
#Nature_Photography

एतमाद:  belief    अज़ीम: great  फ़राज़: height