Bhushan Kelkar
https://www.goodreads.com/kountilya
an ultrarunner’s mind is what matters more than anything.
“Racing ultras requires absolute confidence tempered with intense humility. To be a champion, you have to believe that you can destroy your competition. But you also have to realize that winning requires total commitment, and a wavering of focus, a lack of drive, a single misstep, might lead to defeat or worse.”
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“Your happiness – it can’t be at anyone else’s cost. Heavy karmic penalties are laid out for those transgressing this rule and it is only the absolutely stupid who would break it. With happiness so easily and freely available, only an idiot would go about acquiring it with a greedy material-grabber’s mindset that wants everything for itself, regardless of what it costs others. As a consequence, this insatiable mind develops the fear of losing what it has unethically grabbed. Stress is then its karmic penalty.”
― One Life To Ride: A Motorcycle Journey To The High Himalayas
― One Life To Ride: A Motorcycle Journey To The High Himalayas
“शेवटी संस्कृती म्हणजे बाजरीची भाकरी... वांग्याचे भरीत...गणपतीबाप्पा मोरया ची मुक्त आरोळी. केळीच्या पानातली भाताची मूद आणि त्यावरचे वरण. उघड्या पायांनी तुडवलेला पंचगंगेचा काठ...मारूतीच्या देवळात एका दमात फोडलेल्या नारळातले उडालेले पाणी...दुस-याचा पाय चूकुन लागल्यावर देखील आपण प्रथम केलेला नमस्कार...दिव्या दिव्यादिपत्कार...आजीने सांगितलेल्या भुतांच्या गोष्टी... मारुतीची न जळणारी आणि वाटेल तेव्हा लहानमोठी होणारी शेपटी...दस-याला वाटायची आपट्याची पाने...पंढरपुरचे धुळ आणि अबिर यांच्या समप्रमाणात मिसळून खाल्लेले डाळे आणि साखरफुटाणे...सिंहगडावर भरुन आलेली छाती आणि दिवंगत आप्त्यांच्या मुठभर अस्थींचा गंगार्पणाच्या वेळी झालेला स्पर्श...कुंभाराच्या चाकावर फिरणा-या गोळ्याला त्याचे पाण्याने भिजलेले नाजुक हात लागून घाटादार मडके घडावे तसा ह्या अद्रूश्य पण भावनेने भिजलेल्या हांतानी हा पिंड घडत असतो.कुणाला देशी मडक्याचा आकार येतो.कुणाला विदेशी कपबशीचा...”
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“रातराणीचा सुगंध पलंगावर लोळता लोळता उपभोगू शकतो. पण तुळस वृंदावनातच राहते. तिच्यापुढे आपल्यालाच उभं राहावं लागतं.”
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