SUPERB, INDEED!! Thanks for sharing such a goldmine of shabadsand spiritual music.

Love,

KD

Thanks.

You can move all the mails which you wish to preserve to one of the labels and then retrieve them when you need. Or alternatively, you can create ‘shortcuts’ I think if you call some one from the CDM he will give you the steps.

I have found a man here in Punjab Infotech who comes to me once in a fortnight and ‘updates, me. I think it is good to take on a ‘guru’ it saves a lot of time, and one can get more out of the same system.

I have stopped worrying my little head on the quibbles in Delhi. The government has made a mess of the whole thing. And the ‘solution’ identified by our friends is impractical. This impasse is likely unlikely to be solved during my lifetime. Hence I have decided to turn to the likes of Ghalib, Sheikh Farid and Kabir. I like the couplet,

“Fikr-e-duniyaN meiN sar khapata hooN

MaiN kahaaN, aur yeh vabaal lahaaN! ”

(Please not that the capital N is silent, but adds a nasal sound. ‘vabaal’ means a complex societal issue )

I love Raj Kadyan. Satbir is related to me. Renjen is a dear friend. Col Inderjit is a well meaning soldier. But their problem is ego. They are egotistic to the point of being megalomaniacs. They believe they have the power to bring the government down to their knees and ‘negotiate’ with them.While wishing them all the very best, I have chosen to shift to Chandigarh, and live ‘far from the madding crowd’

With best wishes,

Surjit

That is trivia.

You and I are cranes on the river bank playing joyfully,

not knowing when the Hawk shall strike.

Beautifully sung and so soul sterring.

But remember Ghalib: Maut Ka ek Din Muayen Hai

Neend Raat Bhar Kyon NahiN Aati

And then, we do not go without enjoying a lot

Mere Maula Ki Azmat To Dekheye

Barhana Paida Huae , Malboos Dafnae Gaye

Omar Khayyam is more relevent now:

The Moving Finger Writes, And Having Writ Moves on,

Neither All Thy Piety , Nor Wit

Can Lure it

To Cancel Half A line Of

OR

Unborh Tomorrow And dead Yesterday,

Why Fret About Them

If Today Be Sweet

Please put on the famous Ghazal of Malika Pukhraj:

Abhi To meiN Jawan HooN

Yeh kali kali badliyaN

Ufk Pe Ho Gayi AayaN

Hai Ik Hajoome MaikashaN

Sue maikada RawaN

KahaN Chala Hai Sakiya

Idhar to dekh Idhar to Aa

Utha Saboo , saboo Utha

Saboo Utha Ke Pyala Bhar

Pyala bhar ke De Idhar……..

…………………………

Pilaye ja Pilaye Ja

Abhi To MaiN Jawan hooN……

…………………………….

Baba Farid’s Shabads are so ‘touching’ and profound.

Show me a way to capture it on my Disc and play it as and when I wish. The Sikh Aarti you had sent earlier I possess-this one eludes. You know that I am a self-educated ‘dud’ in such matters-so send an Idiot’s guide.

On IESM- INDERJIT & SATBIR are at war again: Irreconcilable old Sardars! We exhausted our counsels; so my conscience is clear. ‘The world is what it is’ and only the deluded believe that they can recreate or change it.

Value your sentiments on RISKY’s passing on- sadly he has jumped the Q !