I
am in a train and its morning now. I just take the newspaper of my co-passenger
to throw a look on it (generally in a train whole compartment reads 1 newspaper
in installments). The headline is “Train meets accident in XYZ”. Despite sitting
in AC coach I start sweating like anything.
डर लगे तो गाना गा..
उजाले अपनी यादों के हमारे साथ रहने दो,
I
had read somewhere,
डर लगे तो गाना गा..
And
I start whispering a song..
ज़िंदगी का सफर, है ये कैसा सफर,
कोई समझा नही, कोई जाना नही……
But
mind is not ready to surrender at any cost. The train is speeding and so are my
heartbeats.
Newspaper
in hand and Lord Yamraj before eyes.
I
start remembering few lines from a “baba” which I had seen as a result of my
father’s “Astha Prem” and
of course, the single television set at my home. “Body is a cloth. Soul is
immortal. In this world full of illusion, everything is mortal.” These days
whenever I am in a train, I get philosophical like this only.
Few
moments back, coach attendant had came and delivered my white bed-sheet and
pillow. These white
clothes are haunting me more.
A
line from famous urdu poet “Bashir” creeps in my mind.
उजाले अपनी यादों के हमारे साथ रहने दो,
न जाने किस गली मे ज़िंदगी
की शाम हो जाये |
This
passage of coach seems like “lane of life”.
Not
so long ago, a gentleman was going to Delhi from Motihari by train. At every
station, he used to get
down from the train, buy ticket and then revert back to his seat. A
co-passenger asked him why he was doing like that. Why dint he buy a single
ticket directly to Delhi? Gentleman replied with ease, My doctor has advised me
not to travel long distances at one go. So, I am cutting my journey short by buying
tickets for small distances. And I was like, What an intelligent you are??? My
girlfriend will give you a tough competition.
Same
process is being repeated by a co-passenger in my compartment. He is taking a
ticket for next station
at each station. I casually ask him are you also prescribed by your doctor not
to travel long at once?????...
He starts laughing and replies, No “bhai sahab”, every third day a train is
meeting an accident.
There is no guarantee to reach next station also. So why to waste money by
buying a single ticket for whole journey.
I
start thinking that I am the only duffer sitting here. In spite of sitting
idle, I am getting scared and
thinking…
जब प्यार (रेल यात्रा) किया तो डरना क्या …
जब प्यार (रेल यात्रा) किया तो डरना क्या …
प्यार (रेल यात्रा) करने
वाले कभी डरते नही...जो डरते हैं वो प्यार (रेल यात्रा) करते नही..
