Success is the good fortune that comes after tons of effort...
Luck is when the good fortune comes before taking that effort...

:D

Mann Mohana...

This one's from Jodha-Akbar...one of the best compositions of recent times...lyrics, music, feeling et al.....

Mann mohana...mann mohana...
kanha suno na...
Tum bin paoon kaise chain...
Tarsoon tumhi ko din-rain...

Chod ke apne kaashi mathura...
Aake basao more nain...
Tum bin paoon kaise chain...
Tarsoon tumhi ko din-rain...

Ek pal ujiyaara aaye, ek pal andhiyaara chaaye,
Mann kyon na ghabraye, kaise na ghabraye...
Mann jo koi dauraha apni raahon mein paaye...
Kaun disha jaye...
Tum bin kaun samjhaye...

Raas rachaiya brindavan ke gokul ke baasi...
Radha tumhri daasi...darshan ko hai pyaasi...
Shaam salone nandalala kishna banwaari...
Tumhri chab hai nyaari...
Main to hoon tan-mann haari....

Jeevan ek nadiya hai lehron lehron behti jaaye...
Ismein mann ki naiyya...Doobe kabhi tar jaaye
Tum na khewaiya ho to koi tat kaise paaye
Majdhaar rehlaaye
To tumhri sharan aaye....

Main hoon tumhari , hai tumhara ye mera jeevan...
Tumko hi dekhoon main...Dekhoon koi darpan...
Bansi ban jaooingi , In hoton ki ho jaoongi...
Is sapnon se jal-thal...
Hai mera mann aangan...

Life's lesson... maybe...

Ever seen the dark clouds as they grow onto the sky...darker and darker... till it doesn't feel like afternoon any more... n then the rain...first a drop..then a shower n then like they say 'rains cats and dogs'.... I love the rain... No one likes it when everything planned is rained out...stuck in the middle of nowhere, waiting for the water to just stop! but.. nothing happens...n then as i look up to the sky to ask God why now...i see something really awesome....something that makes me think.... makes me learn...

As the rain wets the earth...the dark clouds wither away...the sky...brighter and brighter... its blue again... i see white clouds now... the rain reduces... but as it passes teaches me some new lessons...
one of them - patience...n another...

true that i should never give up...
but equally true that sometimes i should let go -
may seem a loss then,
but in the broader picture, may be a bigger gain -

and most importantly...

there's always the bright sky beyond the dark clouds -
waiting to come fore ...
sometimes you have to brush the clouds aside yourself...
and sometimes, you just need to wait for the clouds to wither away....

And now...somewhere far from where i stand...
i see black clouds gathering over another land...
n then the same circle begins...
perhaps to teach these same lessons to another mortal
who like me may be a li'l unreasonable... :)

That brings to my minute and inquisitive mind another question...
why is it that each of us humans have to individually, learn personally of life, the same lessons..... :)

I love the rain.... :)