Khanderji

The date was important for this post, the reason is, number of my friends got married this day. I couldn't attend any, my apologies. This was the opening day for marriages, after a forbidden period. The story behind this day for being suitable for marriage is interesting. Lord Krishna married to Tulasi this day as per Hindu scripture.

I thought to share and dedicate an interesting song to all you newly weds, which is sung in rural areas for the Lord Krishna to offer sleep.

Believe me if you hear it, you will fall in love with it :)


Khanderji

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Khanderji khander maati chikani maara ramji , koi choola ghalya chaar.
With a special soil called khander, made 4 burners .
 Pele ji Pele chooley laapasi maara ramji, koi doojey chawal daal.
On first burner made a sweet dish and on second, Rice n Daal .
Iganey ji iganey choonthyo chooramo maara ramji, koi chauthey zinwa ra bhaath.
On the third, made Choorma (heard about Baati - choorma ?) and on fourth, special Zinwa Rice.
 Zinwa ji zinwa bhojan ho rahya maara ramji, Thakur ji jeeman aay.
All this food is being made because Lord krishna is coming to home for food (whose ?).
Main to ji main Tulchhan ghar jimsyan maari Radha, thara taabariya jimaay.
I will have dinner with Tulasi dear Radha, please feed your children. (said by Krishna)
 Hingaloo ji hingloo dholyo dhaliyo maara ramji, thakur ji podhan aay.
A comfortable bed is arranged for my lord, please come to sleep here. (said by Radha )
 Main to ji main Tulchhan ghar podhasyan maari Radha, tharey mehlaan maachhar khaay.
I will sleep at Tulasi's house my Radha, At your palace mosquitoes bite. (said by Krishna)
 Kunan ji kunan aagey binati maara ramji, koi kunan karoon pukaar.
Whom should I call/pray to help me out here (thought by Radha)
 Dharati ji dharati aagey binati maara ramji, koi Inder karoon pukaar.
Earth ? or The angel Indra ? ( Indra listens to her after this... )
 Jhirmir ji jhirmir meh barasiyo maara ramji, koi peda jyun paranaay.
It starts raining constantly such that even trees start floating.
 Tulchhan ji Tulchhan ro bidlo beh gayo maara raamji, Thakur ji tiriya jaay.
Along with that Tulasi's tree and Lord Krishna also start floating.
 Tulchhan ji Tulchhan re upar goodara maara ramji , Thakur ji upara khaat.
 Sleeping mattress is up on Tulasi and the bed is up on Lord Krishna.
Jadiya ji jadiya aada khol do maari Radha, Thakur ji oobha baar.
Hey Radha please open the closed doors, I am standing outside (Krishna says)
Jadiya ji jadiya aada na kholaan maara ramji, the aaya jathe hi jaay.
Dear lord I won't open the door, please go where you came from. (Radha says)
Mhara ji mhara taabar rowanaa maara ramji, mhaare mehlaan maachhar khaay.
My children are crying and my palace has mosquitoes. (Radha says)
 Taabar ji taabar dhaay rakhawasyan maari Radha, thaarey mehlaan kaanch jadaay.
I will arrange a care taker for the children, and will decorate your palace. (Krishna says)
 Athi ji athi suto maaro haalaro maara ramji, paswaadey sumani dheer.
This side my son is sleeping and aside my daughter. (Radha says)
Main to ji main to pagaanthye so le syan maari Radha, pad gud karsyaan parbhaat.
I will manage sleeping on feet side, will make it morning by rolling down here. (Krishna says)
Radha ji radha ri gudadi gaayasi maara raamji, koi baas bekuntha paay.
Whoever will sing this "Radha ki Gudadi", will get supreme place.
 Mudi ji mudi ganga naave si maara ramji, paranyayi puttar khilaay.
Kanwari ji kunwari gharbhar paayasi maara ramji, sunyan sada hi sukh paay.
Married will get sons and unmarried will get a good proposal, listening this you will enjoy always.

This song is brought to you by my Granny ( I talked about in my older post). Njoy Life !!

The Guru

अज्ञान तिमिरान्धस्य, ज्ञानांजन शलाकया |
चक्षुरुन्मीलितं येन, तस्मै श्री गुरवे नमः ||

Well, I am not talking about the junk Hollywood flick, because the above lines,.they do matter in my life. You believe it or not, every one's life.

I learned there are 3 classes of Guru.

1. Purohit Guru - The one who does some worship at your home for you.
2. Shiksha Guru - They are many in general.You might have learned anything from any individual. He/She is your Shiksha Guru. Nowdays there are many government certified Shiksha Gurus , who do everything except teaching. That's why Rajasthan (at-least as per latest survey) is dipping down in teaching.Okay, let's not go for subjective remarks :)
3. Deeksha Guru - He is generally one/unique in your life time. Provided you are aware of your Guru. You can get any kind of consultation from Him without even asking Him !!

You might have observed I am using "junk" word frequently. This is because I got inspired by a colleague :)

This Guru Poornima (24th of July) I met my Deeksha Guru, He instructed that we should not forget our Shiksha Gurus, and in fact I have already been in touch with them. So I thought lets write this blog on the auspicious Teachers Day. Whatever I am, its because of them. Say my teacher in primary school or the Profs at IIT. I blamed them for it by email this day :)  Such teachers are the candles who brighten up their students.

Now let me tell you something interesting I found on the Internet.
If you have ever read Sundar Kand (सुन्दर कांड ) you will come across following lines,
ढोल गवार शूद्र  पशु नारी सकल ताड़ना के अधिकारी !!

I was quite curious to know why author Tulsi Das would have written that, because it's controversial in today's world.  I came across a blogger  who believes that Tulsi meant it literally and thus the blogger was trying to say that Tulasi was a thoughtless guy. The blogger was making fun of this great Epic Ramcharitmanas (राम चरित मानस ).At the same post a person wrote reply which can only be written if you are a great thinker or you are in touch with such great thinker who is ultimately your Guru.
First let me tell if a scholar tries to find out the good meaning he/she will say all these five things relate to the 5 different artifacts ( काम क्रोध मद लोभ मोह ) of human life and thus you feel satisfied with what Tulsi was trying to say, but, only a Guru ( Morari Bapu in this case) will tell you that here the word .ताड़ना does not refer to beating rather it is derived from ताड़न , which means understanding and the meaning will completely change !!

Now let me talk about today's scenario of education.
At school level at least, there is a big gap between government institutions and private institutions. One place government employees are doing their job ( 7 to 12 , generally), another place we have money oriented show case of buildings and facilities for the "middle/upper middle class and govt officer's class". Mind you, there is another set of  international schools which aim for the "upper class". And yes, they do deliver what they claim for. So I am not commenting on them.But what about the gap between others?
I came to know about an initiative by Shezad Roy for clearing this gap in Pakistan.
Check out this video,


May be some day I will try that ? or may be my readers ?


For now I leave you with 2 of my favorite songs from Shezad,

1. This one  is reworked in Khatta Meetha by Shezad but soul is lost there.
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2. This one is a beautiful piece of cinematography,  music and of course lyrics !!



Njoy life, Take good care of yourself :)

O Re Piya

Hello there, you must be wondering what this idiot has to write about "O Re Piya".  Well, don't panic. It's neither about the title song of Atif Aslam nor the famous Jalpari song where, in between, he added a fusion of Azaan notes with these lines.
Check out following video created by me  ( for your slow internet connection , blame the government or get an FTTH, what most developed countries  use nowadays),


You must be laughing out loud ( I hope ). If you are wondering how a Chipmunk is singing like this then let me tell you that the original song is by Mr Rahat Fateh Ali Khan from movie Aaja Nachle. If you check out this song , e.g. in mp3 format, it's sampling frequency is 22.05 KHz.  If you playback with a  frequency which is double of that, i.e. 44.1 KHz You will get this kind of funny sound.
Such kind of experiments help grow the Audio domain.
Ever wondered how a robot got its voice ? Well, I would quote following preamble from an interview broadcast at NPR with the beautiful host LYNN NEARY,

" If you've listened to pop music in the past 40 years, you've heard more than a few songs with a robotic sound. You might have even wondered how that effect was created. Well, it didn't happen in a music studio - it all began at the phone company.
Unidentified Man: (Speaking through vocoder) This is the Voice of Power. I make it possible for you to have electric light and radio and television. I am both your servant and your master, so beware of how you use me.
NEARY: That otherworldly voice was recorded in the 1920s by Bell Labs, the research division of AT&T. That strange sound was made by speaking into one of their newest inventions, a vocoder. Originally developed to reduce the cost of long-distance, the vocoder has had many uses over the years."

 For further digging down, you can check out the various demos available on Internet about vocoders. Their applications ranges from mobile communication to Sci-Fi movies and further down to music studios.For those who don't know about vocoders, they need not know as it's Signal processing specific thing. which is not useful in their daily lives.. And those who know, it's gonna sound kind of out of box thinking for a new dimension with their engineering expertise.

Now ...monthly update from entertainment side of my life :)
1.  "By the way, on the way....",this song caught my attention this month... I figured out that I have heard this voice before. It was one of the Viva girl Anushka, nice to see her back in bollywood playbacks ( after Golmaal, which was an OK sort of song ).

2. Peepli live music looks to be good, Indian Ocean ( Jhini Jhini fame ) has reused its one song Des Mera Rangrej ...but Udaan music is better....atleast in my opinion.

3. Tere Bin Laden was a fresh and hilarious movie.
Well, I found Lamhaa also a hilarious watch, when Kunal Kapoor delivered speech in the movie :P

4. People say Inception is good, quite like Matrix....  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar told that Matrix is based on  a Hindu scripture, Yoga Vashista. Looks like west has got somewhere copy of this scripture :)

And yes, after Tere Bin Laden, I expect more humor from Dabang.


Tchao.!

PS : Thanks for your comments and the messages for my last post. That was on the highest subject of human life. Quite philosophical !!

The Realization

Bonjour !!
The realization (साक्षात्कार) is an uncommon word. I can't describe this, but one thing for sure, when we get this feeling, we don't have desires any more. I once had a discussion regarding this with a devotee of ISKCON in Mumbai, who invited me for a meeting. My concern was, "Can we get the realization only by Sri Madbhagvadgita (श्री मद्भगवद्गीता ) and I am glad that he replied, "No".
So, if we look in to other ways, ... We find sagun (सगुण) and nirgun (निर्गुण) devotees of God in this world. My own granny (attached pic) from Village ROL,(Nagaur, Rajasthan) is a sagun devotee, but she appreciates Kabir, who was a nirgun devotee as of my knowledge :).
Whenever we meet, we sing together the famous bhajans which I could never have experienced in my life. I owe a lot to her for this. Coming to Kabir, there is a Big name among Rajasthani folk singers, Mr Prahlad Tipaniya, e.g. check out this video,

who caught attention of the film maker Shabnam while in the quest for Kabir. If you are interested in Shabnam's documentaries then, take a look here . You will get to know about a scholar lady (विदुषी) Linda Hess. But this will increase piracy। My sincere request to buy the cd's to contribute in the Kabir Project. I have gotten requests for the lyrics of this song, so I am trying down here as much I could understand, probably Linda can correct me :)

Ghanaa din so liyo re, ab to jaag musafir jaag.
(O traveler, you slept for many days, now wake up !! )
Pele soyo maata ke garabh mein, aundhey mukh wahan jhoola
(First you slept in the carriage of your mother, hanging down )
Kaul kiya tha bhajan karoonga, bahar aakar bhoola.
(You promised you will remember Him, but after coming out you forgot.)
Doojey soyo maata ki god mein, doodh piya muskaya
(Second you slept in the lap of your mother, drank milk and smiled )
aur mata ne kya kiya ? mal moot tera dhoya .
(And what did your mother do ? cleaned your dirt )
Aur ? ben bhua thara laad ladaavay jhoola diya badhai,
(And ? sister and aunt have loved you, giving you nice pushes in the child-swing.)
badhao tharo ho gayo re, ab to jaag musafir jaag.
(people have congratulated for your birth, now o traveler wake up !)
Teejey soyo tiriya ki sej pe, baiyaan mein baiyaan daari .
(Third you slept in the bed of woman, putting arms in arms. )
Moh mad mein phasi gayo tu, bhool gaya sab kaul.
(Got trapped in the attraction and affection and forgot your promise.)
Biaon tharo ho gayo re, ab to jaag musafir jaag.
(You got married, now o traveler wake up !)
Chitaa ko sono baaki re rahi gyo, sab jag liyo hai soyee
(Sleeping at Pyre is pending , every where else you have slept)
Chowthey soyo jaa aai masaana , lamba pair pasaari.
(Fourth you slept after coming to cremation ground, stretching out your legs)
Kahe kabir thare jaagan ki re, jagyo nahin re gawaar.
(Kabir says you fool,  you were not awake through out)
Makhaan tharo ho gayo re, ab to jaag musafir jaag.
(You are burnt/cremated, o traveler , now wake up ! )

My last post also touched the same theme Sufism, by the way in this respect we should not forget about the sagun devotees like Karma Bai,Meera,Rahim, Soordas,Narsi Mehta, ...to name a few. Just remembered, recently there were 2 interesting topics I saw on the Internet for movie slum dog millionaire-

1. They say Muslim religion is better than others, thats why Rehman got converted and got Oscars :), I was thinking then why another Oscar winner, Rasul Bhai quoted "Ohm" sound in his Oscar speech.

2. There was a factual flaw in the movie, where "darsan do bhagwan" song was referred to Soordas , just to make content of the movie relevant, rather, its original creator is Narsi Mehta.

Anyways, all matters as per my understanding is how pure and devoted you are in your thoughts, I saw Abida Parveen quoting somewhere,
नदी किनारे धुंआ उठे मैं जानू कुछ होए.
जिस कारन जोगन बनी, कहीं वो ही न जलता होए.
I believe that's what happens when somebody immerses herself in this ocean of "love". I am not talking about physical love here. Neither I can describe it :)

Recently I came across following song by Atif Aslam, which will probably give you that feel,

For lyrics you can click here.

Singing is like Bhakti yoga :) , you might have observed Azaan notes in the above mentioned video. From the bottom of my heart I appreciate the efforts put in by Coke Studio


Okay what else....

1. No regular math problems going forward otherwise people will have bad impression about me :) , though I wanted to post a question related to number theory for which I got 80 US dollars 8-) .But if I could find something very interesting, will post.
2. I learned about this guy Shafqat Ali, the singer of Khamaaj. A singer from Patiala Gharana. If you want to see his effect., check out the performances with and without him for the song " Mahi Ve". For your information, he became famous with song "Mere mann ye bata de tu" in India.
3. Had a nice trip to Bangaluru, met the old friends and Njoyed the food at "Malgudi".Especially malayali dish "Puttu Kadle " :) (remember zoo zoo ad ? for international roaming ? :-))
8. Adding pics for some of my sweet memories so far.... Many thanks to contributors :)















PS: may not be regular on this blog coming days, but yeah you will get updated if you subscribe to this blog :) Take care and if it's night, Shabba Khair :)

Saiyaan

हीरे मोती मैं ना चाहूं ... मैं तो चाहूं संगम तेरा .... these are the beautiful lines from the song Saiyaan by Kailash Kher. I personally feel that Sufi touch given to the lyrics makes the songs like Saiyaan,Teri Deewani distinguished ones.... wait.... did u get it proper ? I said Sufi lyrics NOT the Sufi music :)
Yes,I mean it. Why do we like such songs, which deserve a feminine voice, by vocals of Kailash ? The underlying fact is that such songs are actually dedicated to Him, the Almighty. In the ancient time but not so long ago :) , when Mughals came to India , their saints aka Sufi saints came here and they used to have discussions with Indian thinkers at peaceful places like bank of river etc (source - Discovery Channel). And the common point came out was that except Him all are feminine elements here (स्त्री रूप ). I think that's why we literally immerse in the joy when we listen them. In fact in Vaishnav Community (वैष्णव सम्प्रदाय) the same view is considered.

You must have become enlightened by these lines by Shri Shri 2016 (double of 1008) Ravi Shankar Ji Maharaj :)

Now some nonsense stuff...

There is something called skirt length theory used for prediction of stock markets. I was unknowingly trying this theory from past one month but rather than skirt's length it was something else. Mostly based on movie "Just My Luck". Looks like my Luck is again with me that's why again good things started happening, can't reveal the things because of CCI 8-)

The other day was one of the most hilarious day of my life when I tortured my friends by some golden era songs in the Kitchen :D

SNR solved the last problem, but I was asking for intuitive proof, let me just finish it off,

If we look at the inequality we can come across following expression,

(a+b+c)(1/(a+b) + 1/(b+c) +1/(c+a) ) >= 9/2

OR, (1/(a+b) + 1/(b+c) + 1/(c+a) ) >=9/{2(a+b+c)}

OR, (1/(a+b) + 1/(b+c) + 1/(c+a) ) >=9/{(a+b)+(b+c)+(c+a)}

which can be proved to be true in 2 ways, First , AM >HM, Second by AM>GM. I leave it to reader how can we employ both methods. But all I wanted to say is that we get intuition of considering (a+b),(b+c) and (c+a) as 3 independent variables from the above expression.


Then this month SNR showed me an interesting problem which is seen by all IIT aspirants but its 5 line solution is found by J H Hardy and can be found in his book on applied maths (source-SNR). Problem is
"Definite integral from 0 to pi of { (cosnx-cosny) / (cosx -cosy) } with respect to y is pi*sin nx/sin x "

And the trick I found was the Z-transform approach. Because IIT aspirants are not aware of this approach, they take 2-3 pages to solve it.

There is one more problem but I am not sure whether its proved which has roots in a problem in the book of S L Loney for trigonometry. will talk on this some time.

I watched 2 movies on consecutive days (Fri-Sat) . The first one I saw was Phoonk 2 and second was Paathshala.

Phoonk 2 was a funny movie, even your girl friend won't get frightened after watching it. People were whistling whenever they saw Ghost :) But some how my friend was afraid he didn't let me go out of the theater even in the break. I personally feel that RGV ' charm is no longer sustained when it comes to the genre Horror. The only movie I found impressive was "Raat" , which in turn was inspired by a well known Hollywood flick.

Paathshala was a waste of time, Director wanted to convey some message but couldn't carry it well.

Waiting to write some good reviews for next month, c ya o.

Thinking about thinking

Hey ya,

There is/was a Hindi Writer , Mr Vidya Niwas Mishra, who writes to strike the deep roots of blind faith and the thinking of the so called , high class society. In my school days , I came across one of his passage which concludes with a famous poet's line, "कभी आती थी हाले दिल पे हंसी , अब किसी बात पे नहीं आती ". I remembered this quote recently while in discussion with my friend Sam.
Some times life plays with you such games that you are gripped over by OCD :) .
Anyways with out discussing much on this I will share some good experiences here,

1. I have made a promise to continue french course to somebody , now if I don't do that , it will cost me a lunch at five star hotel, so going forward, will actively work on it.
2 .. guess what ? Murphy's law experimented in my life for some 3 odd cases and i can say it holds true :D.
3. Clash of the Titans is worth watchable once, i liked background score of this movie.


Thinking about thinking, not like the paper of Widrow while contributing LMS algorithm I am thinking about how thinking changes over the period of time in a well cultured mind. They become possessive for their comfort. Even though life is uncertain and they should believe more on values which they are going to deliver to upcoming generation than the comfort. You must be thinking what the hell I am talking about :) so I leave it here and give an exercise for curious minds, don't think too much for my last statement,


Do we have an "intuitive" proof for the following statement,
Given a,b,c positive integers, a/(b+c)+b/(c+a)+c/(a+b) is always greater than or equal to 1.5

PS: It's a famous Math Olympiad problem, but remember I am asking for an intuitive solution.

Update :
Yes, it can be solved trivially by considering (a+b), (b+c) and (c+a) as another 3 independent variables, but my question is how do we get that intuition :) Anyways... wait for my next post in next month.

Hello

Bonjour, sera de retour le mois prochain, restez à l'écoute ....