KABIR DOHAVALI

जो उग्या सो अन्तबै, फूल्या सो कुमलाहीं।

जो चिनिया सो ढही पड़े, जो आया सो जाहीं।

In this couplet Saint Kabir touched a very sensitive issue of the world, the topic which culminates with sorrow and grief as well as the quintessential and indispensable circular rotation of the soul from one body to another. Though truly it would be very naive of me to pen down anything on such a vital facet but I believe that its necessary for all those who have a sense of being imperious in everything they do and a low content of knowledge pertinent to this topic also stands as the root cause of all our sorrows and punishment. If the human beings unravel this issue, no extirpation, no annihilation would carry on but unfortunately, its not at all that tractable but in contradistinction, its much abstruse. 

Human beings are the paragons of errors. All of us are bound to do so many errors in life and that's why 'to err, is human', but sometimes we go on to botch up so many things that at last our life becomes worthless and nothing remains, but regretting for our actions. 

The sole cause of all of our disasters is the avarice and cupidity we hold in our heart, which was actually meant to engender love. We become attracted to so many things that our greed continues to soar up and ultimately, we carry out so many actions which we would have never wanted to. When such things happen, this impetuous life, never gives us any chance to atone for our actions. Hence the main thing to be focused here is, why do we become so much greedy? 

Greed actually comes when we curb our inner conscience and start pressing up our immoral side which is never meant to come up. We start thinking about materialistic and aesthetic things as being the supreme goal of life. We start following them, with so much attention that we ultimately snub away almost everything in our life and at last we are left with nothing. But while all such things are happening, we just forget that nothing in world belongs to anyone, what ultimately counts is happiness. If you have any kind of greed for something and you achieve it, believe me the happiness that it would provide you would only be evanescent and momentary happiness never yields peace. After conquering the thing you wanted, your heart would again catapult some more hormones in your body propelling you to find some other things so as to invest your greed. This cycle would go on and when you would realize that this indeed was a 'rat trap', you would realize that you are not even left with the time to expiate. It's always good to be ambitious, it's nice to try to change the circumstances you were given when you were born by doing something extraordinary, but it's never good to compromise your inner peace and happiness behind following such things insanely.

The  most sagacious thesis ever written, The Bhagvad Gita, is all about learning the ways of living and hence is the most beautiful version of God explained. It moves past the bounds of religions and the imaginary axes of caste, creed, religion etc. After reading the complete  Bhagvad Gita, I realized one thing which truly, in  the simplest manner, expounds to us the most enigmatic thing of life, that in this life, nothing is permanent. 

Everything has to fall down. Kabir says, the thing which has grown up, would be obliterated; the thing which has blossomed up, would be plucked up; the thing which has been build up, would be bulldozed; and anyone who has taken birth would ultimately pass to nothingness. Hence ultimately, everything satisfy the simple equation  that we were born without anything and we would die experience the deja vu . All the pleasures and luxuries of life would one day pass into nothingness and that which passes into nothing would never be a thing of beauty and hence all the materialistic things you see around would never be of any help when you die. Anything that would count would just be, your attitude and benevolence towards the world. 

Imagine a situation when I give you $1 billion, but on the very next day your mother dies; would you be happy? Certainly not! Notwithstanding being among the richest people on the earth, you would be excessively tormented. 

Imagine one more situation, when you have lived your life as a despot, you have taken up all the pleasures of life from travelling around the world to living like a true king, but you have been so much vehemently cruel and indifferent towards others, that when you are on the deathbed and you could be saved if you are rushed to the hospital but there is no one out there to give you a helping hand. Though you have a lot of servants, but because you have disparaged them so much that today they are not even ready to take you up to the hospital and you are lying starving, waiting to die. Just imagine for one moment ,what would you think at such an arduous moment? Would you think about your richness, beauty etc.? Would you be happy then, watching all your materialistic wealth around you? The answer truly lies on you to ponder on. 

In life everything has to break down. All the things that you gather up would be burnt down with your biodegradable body. And when, the messenger of death strikes, your whole kingdom would strike down and nothing would be left. Whatever remains behind is just your memories in others mind and it depends on you whether you give others the worst nightmares or the sweetest memories of you. Man is mortal but not his soul. If you are good to people, if you do something that changes other's life, that can paste a smile on even one face; the day you  carry out any such action, the same day you would become immortal and your soul would live forever and when you get the rendezvous with death, you depart away with a grin on your face replenished with satisfaction and contentment. We got nothing from the world and we can never give it anything. We came nude and we would all go the same way when we die, but one thing that we can surely do is to change somebody else's life. Swami Vivekananda once said, "They alone live who live for other." A life lived for only materialistic gains would be contemptible while a life lived on principles would truly be a wonderful one. So live for sentimental gains and to be immortal in others' memory not is statues and monuments.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI