पिता का प्रेम

हर एक पिता संसार का धन्य मनुष्य है। जब बच्चे पिता को पिता कहकर पुकारते हैं तो पिता की ख़ुशी का ठिकाना नही होता। बच्चो को ख़ुशी देख कर हर एक पिता के दिल में एक अदभुत ख़ुशी पैदा होती है। एक बहुत ही ममता से भरा अहसाश होता है।

लेकिन यदि बच्चे बीमार और परेशान हों तो पिता के दुखी दिल का अंदाजा लगाना मुश्किल है। दुनिया का कोई यन्त्र उसे माप नही सकता। पिता के दिल का हल पिता ही जान सकता है।

पवित्र बाइबल बताती है कि जैसे सांसारिक पिता अपने बच्चो से प्रेम करता है, वैसे ही हमारा और उससे भी बढ़कर हमारा परमेश्वर पिता हमसे प्रेम करता है। जब मैं पिता होने पर गर्व करता हूँ तो मुझे तुरंत ही मेरे प्रेमी प्रेमश्वर याद आते हैं ।

वास्तव में धन्य वो पिता जो हम सब का पिता है। जो हम सब से प्रेम करता है और सबसे बढकर प्रेम करता है। उसका प्रेम महान् है ।

पापा की गोद

भाई को पापा की गोद में देख के, मेरी बेटी ने बोंला

पापा क्यों नही लेते मुझे भी गोद,

क्या में उनकी बेटी नही हूँ,

क्या मैं उनको प्यारी नही हूँ, ?

कैसे समझाऊ, बेटी को मैं,
प्यार मेरा बराबर है तुम दोनो के लिए
गोद में तुम रहो न रहो,
दिल मेरा धड़कता है, तुम दोनो के लिए।

लेकिन बेटी समझी नही, क्योंकि
बहुत छोटी है,
समझाने के लिए कोशिश भी की
मगर बात नही बनी,
क्योंकि भाई को केवल गोद में लेना
बात उसके लिए अटपटी है!

दूर रहकर बेटी से, जब बात यह मैंने सुनी
दिल में एक टीस सी चुभी
क्यो दूर हूँ मैं, इतना
काश यह शिक़ायत दूर कर देता
हो चाहे खर्चा भी कितना ?

बेटी के लिये ...

बेटी अच्छी हो जाना , नही कभी घबराना तुम,
पिता का प्रेम है तुम्हारे साथ, जरा न संसय करना तुम।

दुःख की घडी में, हिम्मत न कभी हारना,
मुसीबतों में तुम, हौंसला ऊँचा रखना।

बीमारी और संकट सदा साथ नही रहेंगे,
आंसू और पीडा को , प्रभु सदा के लिए दूर करेगे.

थोडे समय के दुःख को, शासवत नही मानना,
ठीक हो जाओगी फिर से तुम, हिम्मत नही हारना।

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Is there still a hope for the Dalits?

With the coming of breath of God the dry bones had come to life and become a mighty army (Ezekiel 37:1-14).

The dry bones represented the weak and dead Israel (v.11) Dry bones were pictures of failures and defeat. They had been lying out side of the society in a valley. People did not come to them, for they smell.

Ezekiel was asked by God if there was any hope for them. He simply replied, Lord I don’t know. YOU ALONE KNOW.

Prophet Ezekiel was a man, and from his perspective LIFE for the dead was not possible. There was none to give them life. There was none to care for them. They had been defeated and were crushed to death. They had died there with the expectation of victory but sadly they were overpowered and there was none to fight for them and to be an encouragement for them. There was no hope for them.

But they had hope one time…Now it was gone. Now no more sign of a bright future (V.11).
While there seems to be no way…..God makes the WAY. While there seems to be no hope, God brings the hope. While there seems to be all sad and gloomy, God brings the Good News. While there seems to be oppression and captivity….God brings the trumpet of joy and the message of Deliverance. While we were yet sinners God sent His Son for us…

The Lord said to Ezekiel, O man, there is still hope for these people, who have been defeated and lying here. They can still stand up and they will come to life and fight for their causes (V.6)
How that was possible?

God said to Prophet Ezekiel GO AND PREACH TO THE DRY BONES.
EZEKIEL WITHOUT DOUBTING: OBEYED GOD AND PREACHED (v.7).
(Ezekiel did not ask, Lord they have no ear to hear).
Lord why should I waste my time with these life less bones?
Lord What if I get sick by walking in the valley full of the bones? Etc
BUT Because of the SIMPLE OBEDIENCE AND THE POWER OF WORD and the WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT…

A MIGHTY MIRACLE TOOK PLACE: THE BONES BEGAN TO MOVE, THE LIFE LESS BONES STOOD UP ON THEIR FEET AND BECAME A MIGHTY ARMY (V.10).
This is how the hope of dry bones came alive. When the Word of God was ministered to the STINKING, hopeless, defeated and dead people, the Holy Spirit worked in them thru the Preaching of Word.

Dalits have been in the same state as the dry bones of the valley. They have been mistreated, victimized by injustices, their dignity have been put to death. They have been a defeated people by the upper castes. They have been crushed physically, socially and spiritually.

And there was and there is none to care for them. All people turned their faces from them. No body came to see them in their miseries and oppressed ways. People hated them very much. They made them live outside of their village. They feared their shadow would make them polluted. People feared of serving them anything good for they feared of excommunication from the society and loosing of many benefits.

The gods, Dalits worshipped declared no hope for them. They added to their miseries by causing their adherents to treat them more and more cruelly. They said, “They deserved sufferings and oppressions for they have 'bad karmas’ in their previous births". They said they only deserved to be mistreatment and injustices for being born in ‘lower castes’ and finally the curses of the gods.

THEY DID NOT CONSIDER THESE PEOPLE EVEN HUMANS BUT LIKE AND EVEN LOWER THAN ANIMALS. THE ANIMALS HAD FREEDOM, THEY CAN WALK FREELY IN THE SOCIETY AND JUNGLE BUT DALITS NO, THEY COULD NOT. THEY MADE AND DECLARED THEM “NO PEOPLE”.

While all this was going on….The Bible says, “While we were yet sinners, God sent his Son for us.”

Yes, Jesus has come to give us hope. Jesus has come to preach and teach us. Jesus has come to seek us. Jesus has come to give us rest. Jesus has come to love us. Jesus has come to call us his own. Jesus has come to give us life. Jesus has come to be our living bread. Jesus has come to quench our thirst. Jesus has come make us his blessed people. Jesus has come to declare us; you are more valued than a sparrow. Jesus has come to give us life.

Jesus has come to make us an army (triumphant people). Jesus has come to set the captives’ free. Jesus has come to show God love in action. Jesus has come to make the walls of disunity to be broken. Jesus has come to deliver us. Jesus has come to be our leader. Jesus has come to identify with us. Jesus has come to be our Good Shepherd. Jesus has come to call us his people. Jesus has come to show us the Way. Jesus has come to make us walk. Jesus has come to heal our diseases. Jesus has come to make us see. Jesus has come to experience us social and spiritual freedom. Jesus has come to give the dignity as part of his beautiful creation.

The same Jesus of Nazareth, the humble man, who was born to set His people Free, calls us today to set us free… from the bondage of death and the bondage of social and spiritual oppression.

He is still alive. He is still at work. He is still calling people COME TO ME, I WILL GIVE YOU REST. He wants us to be our Messiah. He wants to make the Dalits move. He wants Dalits to be in the Shepherd Fold. He wants Dalits to hear His voice and be alive. He wants us to experience LIFE. He does not delight in our dark state. He wants us to be the part of his Life which shines in the dark World.

How can Dalits become His living sons and daughters? How can they have hope? How can their filthiness and bad smells be removed? How can they have the life of dignity and honor? How can they experience the joy eternal? How can they rejoice in HIM always? How can their eyes be opened? How can they hear again?

Well the answer is IF THEY CAN HEAR THE MESSAGE OF HOPE.

HOW CAN THEY HEAR? UNLESS SOME ONE SHARES IT WITH THEM LIKE PROPHET EZEKIEL DID IT WITH THE BONES.

WELL MUCH DEPENDS ON THE PEOPLE OF GOD NOW.
GOD WANTS IT…………

DALITS, THE OPPRESSED, VICTIM OF INJUSTICES, THE WOMAN, THE CHILDREN, and “NO PEOPLE” WANT IT…………

BUT DO YOU MY CHRISTIAN Friends DO YOU also WANTS IT?

DO YOU WANT TO SEE MIRACLES HAPPENING? DO YOU WANNA SEE DEAD, STINKING, PEOPLE WALKING AND REJOICING?

Is there any hope for the Dalits today in this world?
Yes…. Yes…. yes
Make the people hear it. Make the people believe it. Give the people option. Give the people hope. You yourself have to have a hope.

LIKE THE PROPHET EZEKIEL OUR MESSAGE SHOULD BE FULL OF HOPE, ENCOURAGEMENT, FULL OF CHALLENGE, FULL OF COMPASSION AND FULL OF LOVE.
IF THE CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS ARE WILLING TO OBEY, GOD WILL DO HIS PART. LET’S DO IT. NOW WE DON’T NEED ANY MORE REVELATIONS OF GOD TO GO AND PREACH.
JESUS ALREADY MADE IT CLEAR, GO…….AND MAKE DISCIPLES ALL NATIONS.

YES, THE BLIND WILL SEE, THE LAME WILL WALK, THE DUMB WILL SPEAK, THE OPPRESSED WILL BECOME STRONG, THE CAPTIVES WILL EXPERIENCE FREEDOM, AND THE DEAD WILL COME TO LIFE.

WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE…..amen

Breaking barriers...

About 6 years ago, I had hard time to talk to an elderly man (no more in the world) in Nepal. When I first time met with him, I noticed that he was not so happy to meet me. I was introduced to him by his son in law in his home. As we talked to each other in Nepali, I sensed that the man wanted me to talk to in English in spite of Nepali (leave out Hindi) why, because for him, I was a foreigner, so a foreigner should talk in English and not in the local language.

My friend, in whose home I was talking, knows Hindi and always appreciated it. He said, “We watch Hindi movies and other programs on TV everyday.” But I was really interested to know, why my friend’s father in law was upset with me.

I was very gentle with this elderly man. But in our conversation, he turned out to be very offensive with me. As our conversation moved little, the man opened himself this way. “The Indians are very proud people. They are racist. They behave very rudely. They think that they are the only people and others are like animal.” When I heard from him these words, I was so sad, saw myself so down.

Now, I understood his argument. I just followed him and kept on listening to him. He came more openly, “I was also born in India, I am from Darjeeling. I had good education. I am retired from an officer’s post. and He continued saying, “ As I traveled to different places in India, people in trains, offices, bus stands and hotels taunted me, with “Bahadur”. “They did not respect me, because my Hindi was not so good and I had Mongolian features.”

“Oh, my” I said. Now the cat was out of the sack. Now nothing was hidden. In a few minutes, the man, poured out himself. Now, I could understand his anger on an Indian. His anger was right. He was right, and as a representative of Indian people, I sensed, I am wrong, my people are wrong but who can correct them. This question bothered me.

Yes, this true. The man was honest and right in his objection. Why I say this…Because I have seen the same discriminations almost everywhere in India, but especially on the Indo-Nepal border. The conductor in the bus (especially private ones) called a sitting Nepali passenger from behind, come in the front, as the man, came in the front; his seat was occupied by another Indian passenger. In another bus, the conductor called, Nepali passenger from front, saying, here is seat, you come back, as soon as the man stood up to go behind his seat was captured by another Indian passenger. In another example, all the people were sitting ok, all of sudden; the conductor noticed that the Nepali passenger having a big suitcase and bedding, he demanded extra money from him. When the Nepali passenger paid extra amount, the conductor did not give him any ticket for that. More worse happens at the train stations by the coolies and by the ticket checker. They always find ways to extract money as soon as they see a Mongolian face. What I have shared here this is only few, happened before my eyes.

Many Indians used to take pride until Nepal was only Hindu kingdom in the World. But majority from the same people never saw this discrimination as wrong. I almost never read about this practice in the Indians dailies. This evil practice continues even today. Whenever in the bus or train or other places, me and my friends saw this injustice, we always stood against it, but we observed, that almost none from the crowd of our Indian brothers joined us.

Perhaps, people will understand that, Mongolians, Aryans, Dravidians, blacks, Asians, and whites are all same people in spite of the difference in the outward outlooks. We eat same food, same oxygen, live under same sun and on the same God given earth, then why should we consider others inferior and lower than us? We all have weak and strong points. We all have good points and bad points. No one is perfect and no one is higher or lower. Why should we laugh on other’s face features? Who gives that authority to do so?

Let me come to the elderly man, again, I heard later on in a private conversation from my friend, that his father in law had quarreled with another Indian one day, because he could not speak in English and Nepali with him. He was speaking with him, in Hindi, which the elderly man did not like. The Indian man left very sad, thinking what happened to this old man, but was not explained. Thank God, I understood the serious point why the elderly man, left India to live in Nepal in his youth and never returned back because of his bitter experiences.

I have been to Nepal for more than 5 years, and went to different places to speak and to attend meetings in the church and marriages but was never discriminated, and I feel that the Nepali brothers and sisters in India are not discriminated anywhere in India. We live peacefully and we thank God, that we have a good understanding; it is only possible because of our foundation in sound faith. We learned that it is same God who created Nepali or Indians. So we never practiced that evil thing which we see else where very much. And the people have no understating how to end it up. My suggestion for ending it is belief in the Bible. If our foundation is solid and if we have a good philosophy to mold us, then there will be no place for discrimination and putting people low or higher.

The Bible teaches us, No Jew or Gentile, No male or female, no slave or master in Christ but Christ in all” and consider others better yourself.” Humble yourself before God, for the humble shall receive grace but the haughty will be punished. And whoever makes fun of a man, he mocks at his Creator.

अकेला जाएगा...

जग में अकेला आया था तू, अकेला ही जाएगा,
जो तेरे साथ है, सब को छोड़ जाएगा।

धन, सुन्दरता, कमाई तेरी, पीछे रह जायेगी,
तेरी जीवन संगनी भी साथ तेरे न जायेगी.

जब जाना है अकेला, तो चिंता करले अपनी तू ,
साथ न कोई देगा तेरा मीत, सोच ले इस बारे में तू।

क्या साथ देगा तेरा, कौन तुझे बचायेगा,
प्रभु के निर्णय से, क्या मन तेरा नही घबराएगा।

यदि तूने सोचा है नही, तो करले शुरुवात तू,
बचा समय है इसी के लिए, करले ईश-गुणगान तू।

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शांति का श्रोत

शांति अपनी तुम्हें दूंगा, कहते हैं प्रभू,

कर दूंगा जिंदगी भी नयी, बताते हैं प्रभू .

शांति तुम्हे मिलेगी नही शराब में,

शांति तुम्हें मिलेगी नही आदत खराब में.

जिसकी तुम्हे है तलाश, वो मेरे पास है,

जीवन खिवैया मैं हूँ, मेरा नाम तेरी आश है।

हे इन्सान वापस आजा, शान्तिदाता के पास ,

छोड़ दे बेकार के धंधे, करले अब पश्चताप।

कर भरोसा मालिक पर, शांति के लिए,

रास्ता सीधा है यही, मंजिल पाने के लिये।


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