Sorrow prepares you for joy

Rekha Sahay

Sorrow prepares you for joy.

It violently sweeps everything out of your house,

so that new joy can find space to enter.

It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart,

so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.

It pulls up the rotten roots,

so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow.

Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart,

far better things will take their place.

❤ Rumi

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  4. Nature bestowed upon a man in two ways, happy & sorrow; vis-a-visa. The best of us is ready for both by way of the best understanding i-e Knowledge, preached unanimously in all religions of the world irrespective of discrimination. Dispute ever is of personal interests in all ages, compelled the vicked to distort the real scripts of religions against natural principles of justice. That’s shameful for a vicked man, even of today’s.
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  9. बिलकुल सही बात है यह रेखा जी । कोई संदेह नहीं है इसमें । एक शेर याद आ गया है जो मुझे बहुत पसंद है : ‘पत्थर के जिगर वालों, ग़म में वो रवानी है; ख़ुद राह बना लेगा, बहता हुआ पानी है’ ।

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    1. लाजवाब शेर !!!
      मुझे कविताअों को लिखने के बाद आपकी काव्यमय प्रतिक्रिया का इंतजार रहता है । आभार।

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