Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 46
Prompt
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 46
Prompt
A Month of Mini Writing Challenges 2017
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Friday Fictioneers– Hosted by Rochelle Wisoff.
( My story is actually not fiction story but i take this prompt as an opportunity to write about my mother and my favorite poet.)
PHOTO PROMPT © Shaktiki Sharma Thanks Shaktiki for this prompt, it reminded me of my childhood.
Mother used to tell me stories of saints while grinding spices and grains in the afternoon. My favorite was Saint Kabir’s.
She will sing his couplets and will explain its meaning.
She told me how Kabir was threatened by both Muslims and Hindus for criticizing them for their wrong interpretation of their religion.
She told me how that after his death Hindus and Muslims both went to claim his body but found nothing except some flowers instead of his body.
She explained that it is symbolic. Saints are above religion and caste. They are like flowers whose fragrance we should appreciate.
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There are numerous couplets/words of wisdom by Kabir, I remember two couplets prominently-
Pahan pooje hari mile, to mein poojo pahar
Taate ye chaki bhali peece khaye sansar.
(If one can meet God by worshiping stone then I’ll worship mountain. Grinding stone is better than that, at least world can grind grains and eat.)
Kankar, pathar jod ke Maszid layi chunay
Ta chade mulla bang de, kya bahara hua khuday
( With stones they build Maszid and shout his name from the roof top as if God has become deaf.)
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If God be within the mosque, then to whom does this world belong?
If Ram be within the image which you find upon your pilgrimage,
then who is there to know what happens without?
Hari is in the East, Allah is in the West.
Look within your heart, for there you will find both Karim and Ram;
All the men and women of the world are His living forms.
Kabir is the child of Allah and of Ram: He is my Guru, He is my Pir.
~ Kabir Translated by Rabindranath Tagore.
Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt
More atrocities have been committed in the name of religion than for any other reason.~
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said the power-hungry politicians, religious heads to their followers
Daily Prompt- For Posterity– Your blog just became a viral sensation. What’s the one post you’d like new readers to see and remember you by? Write that post.
Wow! That’s good news. I would like my new readers to read and remember me by the following post.
PLEA OF A CHILD
I am born innocent, full of love and peace.
I am born neither Hindu, Muslim, Christian nor Sikh, Jain or Buddhist.
You brand me with a label of religion without me knowing what religion is.
Instead of teaching me love, friendship, compassion, and compatibility, you teach me to hate people of other religions.
You teach me to hate people of other religion, ideology, color, caste, and creed.
I request all the teachers, parents, and elder person, please stop teaching me anything.
There will be differences between us as no two people can think alike but we will manage.
We will play, fight, and makeup if we are not taught to carry on fights on the basis of ego and arrogance.
If you stop fighting with each other and start living in peace and harmony we will automatically learn that.
Five Sentence Fiction – Fenced
Our houses had a common wall, a very big veranda covering both the houses without any wall to bar us from going to each other’s house whenever we like.
For years our different religions were not an obstacle in our close friendship and life was great fun celebrating all festivals together, going to market, school, and picnic together.
Who could have thought that a little dispute between two communities, which did not even concern us, will give way to a riot and mar our very old friendship?
A fence was raised overnight between our veranda to stop us, children, from going to each other’s house.
Do elder’s ever think about how do we children feel when religions stand as a barrier between our friendship, how helpless, miserable we feel?
Prompts for the Promptless – Ep. 11 – Remake!
There comes a stage or rather age in life
Where aspiration, expectations, and needs
All merge into each other and you aspire,
Expect and need a world,
Without hunger, poverty, and sickness
A world
Without boundaries, discrimination, and terrorism
A world full of
Love, compassion, and friendship
A world where religion is compatibility and respect for each other
A religion that embraces everyone with an open heart.
Indira
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
A journey of expression and compassion
poetry and short stories
A Journey of Spiritual Significance
Love thyself for it's the only cure!
Speaking in a hundred silent ways
Myriad memories frozen in time
“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.” - E. Gilbert
All about self realisation, paranormal, dream interpretation and more
Life in Copenhagen, Denmark, after moving during Covid-19.
Nensi patel
Words to Encourage, Inspire & Empower
It's just banter
See Miracles In Life Everyday
My Psychological and Spiritual Odyssey!
जो हमपे गुज़री सो गुज़री मगर शब-ए-हिज्राँ हमारे अश्क तेरी आक़बत सँवार चले
अभिव्यक्ति
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
A journey of expression and compassion
poetry and short stories
A Journey of Spiritual Significance
Love thyself for it's the only cure!
Speaking in a hundred silent ways
Myriad memories frozen in time
“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.” - E. Gilbert
All about self realisation, paranormal, dream interpretation and more
Life in Copenhagen, Denmark, after moving during Covid-19.
Nensi patel
Words to Encourage, Inspire & Empower
It's just banter
See Miracles In Life Everyday
My Psychological and Spiritual Odyssey!
जो हमपे गुज़री सो गुज़री मगर शब-ए-हिज्राँ हमारे अश्क तेरी आक़बत सँवार चले
अभिव्यक्ति