Harcharan Bains Jugraj Dhillon Sohi: You just won't realsie what a great compliment you just paid me. I wouldn't mind dying a thousand times over to deserve it.
o Aneet to HB: This is with reference to the news item in in HT regarding ur globe trotting capacity in ur official car innumerable times. Please pay heed to the advice offered by the following urdu couplet.Daaman gar hai saaf to khaas ehtiyat rakhisse zaraa sa bhi daagh chhupaya na jayega .
HB to Aneet: Thanks for the advice. I take it in all seriousness and sincerity, even if it could mean a cut down on efficiency. Friends and the way they feel are more important assets than any job or status.
As for the daag and daaman,
"Daag daaman pe nahin, dil pe liya hai maine"..... incomparable Sahir
Aneet to HB: Rarely we encounter public figures like urself, having such high levels of acceptability, who can take all their critcs in their stride. Allegations are part and parcel of the package which one gets by virtue of being in high office. ...Interaction with u since past 2-3 months has been every bit of a learning experience with humility being one of the core values which i wud like to imbibe from u. I think u are one of the few people i have encountered for whom the following lines of Kipling's poem 'If' are very relevant to a great extent. How far? I think u are a better judge.If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;And for cutting down on efficiency, please dont do that as already their are a bunch of inefficient people in the govt. machinery. Efficient people are a in minority.
HB to Aneet: Its a tribute to my mother and no disgrace to me that I have not always succeeded. For instance, you would have been happy to see me turn to a life of completely ascetic discipline. She would have been happy to see me immersed in meditation. She would have been even happier if I could render soul melodies in Gurbani and live up to those divine words.
I achieved quite a few of the things she wanted me to. Uncompressing honesty and integrity in my dealings with people, bridling my greed in, working on my temperament to learn to retain my poise and calm even in even in the midst of extreme adversity, refusal to be drawn into hate race, building a capacity to love almost everything I see, everyone I meet -- regardless of what that person does to me. I have faltered many a time even in these, but have always been able to pull myself up and retain the equilibrium so necessary for sane and compassionate approach to life and people.
My failings would of course outnumber my strengths, but I have never let go of my dream to be a better, cleaner, more loving and more caring person . It may have remained only a dream, but I a cherished dream, the one that I have always considered worth a pursuit and have always pursued.
I have worked on the pitfalls of being opinionated, close minded, and prejudiced. I have treated communalism as a disease that must be fought and defeated by all of us.
All this is a legacy of my parents, especially my mother -- my father could aggressive and assertive ( not , never in front of my mother though, because her humility and kindness did not permit anyone to remain aggressive and yet look sufficiently human)
All my life I have chased these dreams, but my weaknesses have kept me away from a complete fulfillment of that. Now I am pursuing another dream: I want my son to get closer to living up to his grandmother's ideals than I have been able to. I keep telling him that bringing up an honest and loving grandchild for her is the best finest tribute I can pay my mother.
Luckily for me, despite his own weaknesses ( different from mine) , he appears well on course.
o Aneet to HB: (FB October 29, 2010) Rarely we encounter public figures like urself, having such high levels of acceptability, who can take all their critcs in their stride. Allegations are part and parcel of the package which one gets by virtue of being in high office. ...Interaction with u since past 2-3 months has been every bit of a learning experience with humility being one of the core values which i wud like to imbibe from u. I think u are one of the few people i have encountered for whom the following lines of Kipling's poem 'If' are very relevant to a great extent. How far? I think u are a better judge.If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;And for cutting down on efficiency, please dont do that as already their are a bunch of inefficient people in the govt. machinery. Efficient people are a in minority.
o Aneet: Kipling's ideal , as expressed in these words, is a peak too high for me. But yes, I wouldn't be a liar and say that I do not even try to get closer to it. I think I will be presumptuous enough to lay claim to some claim on the first ...two lines......but lines three and four? God, both friends and foes can hurt me ( though not embitter me) and all men count with me, and all too much. ( Some too, too much and a few of them, just too, too too much) But I do feel an undercurrent of love for everyone, even those I have to fight against. But how shall I thank you Aneet for the extremely kind words you ahve used for me. Humility? Don't you think I keep reacting, every now and then, with some bit of intellectual arorgance? But you think I don't, then that's high praise, something I will always like to work at to be worthy of your words. Thanks( from the core of my heart) and very high reagrds.but lines three and four? God, both friends and foes can hurt me ( though not embitter me) and all men count with me, and all too much. ( Some too, too much and a few of them, just too, too too much) But I do feel an undercurrent of love for everyone, even those I have to fight against. But how shall I thank you Aneet for the extremely kind words you ahve used for me. Humility? Don't you think I keep reacting, every now and then, with some bit of intellectual arorgance? But you think I don't, then that's high praise, something I will always like to work at to be worthy of your words. Thanks( from the core of my heart) and very high reagrds. Kipling's ideal , as expressed in these words, is peak too high for me. But yes, I wouldn't be a liar and say that I do not even try to get closer to it. I think I will be presumptuous enough to lay claim to some claim on the firs two lines......but lines three and four? God, both friends and foes can hurt me ( though not embitter me) and all men count with me, and all too much. ( Some too, too much and a few of them, just too, too too much) But I do feel an undercurrent of love for everyone, even those I have to fight against.
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o But how shall I thank you Aneet for the extremely kind words you have used for me. Humility? Don't you think I keep reacting, every now and then, with some bit of intellectual arrogance? But you think I don't, then that's high praise, something I will always like to work at to be worthy of your words. Thanks( from the core of my heart) and very high regard
o God, both friends and foes can hurt me ( though not embitter me) and all men count with me, and all too much. ( Some too, too much and a few of them, just too, too too much) But I do feel an undercurrent of love for everyone, even those I have to fight against. But how shall I thank you Aneet for the extremely kind words you ahve used for me. Humility? Don't you think I keep reacting, every now and then, with some bit of intellectual arorgance? But you think I don't, then that's high praise, something I will always like to work at to be worthy of your words. Thanks( from the core of my heart) and very high reagrds. God, both friends and foes can hurt me ( though not embitter me) and all men count with me, and all too much. ( Some too, too much and a few of them, just too, too too much) But I do feel an undercurrent of love for everyone, even those I have to fight against. But how shall I thank you Aneet for the extremely kind words you ahve used for me. Humility? Don't you think I keep reacting, every now and then, with some bit of intellectual arorgance? But you think I don't, then that's high praise, something I will always like to work at to be worthy of your words. Thanks( from the core of my heart) and very high reagrds.
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