So now the time has come that you just have a relaxed life. Enjoy the life as such, do the things you like the most, help those who wants your help / assistance, be close to your friends or relations. What else one can hope for from life? We all should enjoy what ever we have achieved in our life so for.

Best of luck. Be happy and cheerful always. We all love u a lot.

Cheeeeeeeeers………………………….God bless.

Happy Two Eleven!

From the womb of time,

Emerges anothermanmade

New Year

We want to be happy,

As towards our ends wenear,

That’s an irony,

None can see,

But as we approach

The door of eternity,

We seek solace comfortand dignity,

That we leave behind alegacy

Of brotherhood,

Manhood

And

Evolution,

Hoping in future

There’ll be lessercorruption,

In the hands of youth,

Yet to seed aplantation

Of human beings,

We did seed,

As someone had usknown,

As their progeny,

We pass on the same

To a generation,

Whom we hope in deeperveneration,

Shall seed better tomorrows?

And let joys surpass

All yesterdays andtoday’s sorrows,

As we live on borrowedtime,

Some come early andpass away,

Tomorrow we shan’talso stay.

So till then let meonce again,

Wish my brethren

A Happier Two Eleven.

Colls glory is as everbefore,

Be not mistaken,

Love of humanity now,

Than then, is muchmore

As ever, ever before

Colls

I am reminded of a line in Shelley’s “Ode to a Skylark”

“We look before and after and pine for what is not”

The rest of the poetry is of course not relevant to the present context.

More soon and I hope we can be in touch.

Gita & I like to play 9 holes of golf in the mornings – sometimes at Chandimandir and other times at Panchkula Golf Course.

We have taken possession of a cute little apartment here while the Delhi house has been put on rental – God knows what the future has in store for us – till then it is “one day at a time, sweet Jesus, – that is all I am asking from you”.

Happy New Year and may the warmth of friends be with you forever.

“Desire is the root of evil,
It smothers hard the soul.
Its only when desire is dead
That you can reach your goal.”

And the Goal is to ‘Elevate the spirit to a higher level of consciousness’.

God bless you with many more years of life & contribution to the society. Happy New Year.

what a lovely thought

very close to my heart

my desires I have ever fought;

Life has been a bliss

what I didn’t get I didn’t miss

I enjoyed every day as my last

in my thoughts, am ever engrossed;

Thanks for your beautiful thought

it has tickled in me yet another plot

for a poem in my next book, not in prose

from an innocuous mail, a them just arose

(Composed on line while replying to your beautiful thought)

I am much younger, pushing 58, but due to some grand design of Lord in my
life, I am in similar shoes as you and hence easily identify with most of
mails on this subject.I have also been married to the same lady for over
32 years. Very often I am tempted to share my views but wonder that they
shouldnt be taken amiss and I lose a well wisher.

My both sons (No offence ment to wife)are well educated and well
settled.Both are suitably married.They both stay away from us.Elder in
Mumbai and younger in Hyderabad.Elder one is working for nearly 8 years
and younger nearly 5 years. I superannuated from the Army and got a well
paying job which I still retain.Children dont ask me money probably
because the earn more than me, though I am not sure as it may also be due
to their knowledge about their parents life in the past.

I do not know what I want because the Lord definitely gave me more than
what I deserve and almost more than what I desire.

Now slowly I am trying to compile a list of what I want (without really
noticing it till now). These are Health for self wife and the four
children.Some good friends to share my thoughts & good and bad times and a
comfortable house to live in. A good car to move in. Income to sustain
present luxurious life. When I pass away I should be fondly remembered.
Now everything I already have and the last one I would never know.

Coming to essence, I want continued happiness for the rest of my life. My
present activity does nothing in this direction. I do not know why I am
working so I resigned last month but the Company thought I want more
money(I never mentioned money) so they raised my salary by 35% and gave me
an asst. My happiness is so fragile that It can go away even if a boy hits
a dog with a pebble or some comment about me which I find unfavourable or
if some hoodlums rape a call centre employee.

So presently I think the best course is to thank the Lord for everything
and prey to him to give me the strength to accept things and events which
unfold in future (No matter what they would be) with a calm mind.

Please correct me if my thinking is going heywire .Sir, Being my senior it
is your duty too.

Wish you and Mrs Surjit a very happy and healty New Year.

Thanks and regards

Col(Retd) M B Jauhari