KABIR DOHAVALI

माँगन मरण समान है, मति माँगो कोई भीख ।
माँगन ते मारना भला, यह सतगुरु की सीख ॥

Here too Saint Kabir ingeniously touches one another aspect of human right which stands firm as a cardinal matter for all of us.

Kabir lays emphasis on the fact that the day you start begging for things, you become obsequious and servile, you indeed stop living at all. The moment you ask others to do anything for you, at the very moment you lose out on your self respect and once self respect as well as reverence vanishes away, they continue to be evasive throughout the life time, leaving a lacuna in your life which would continue to serve as a stigma and hence in short, it's a sin to implore and beg.

The main question that arises here is, why Kabir termed dying as a better alternative to begging. The answer is simple, if you die, you die once; if you beg, you die a thousand times. In this world the respect, we hold up is truly priceless, nothing exists that can compensate for its loss. The moment we beg to  others for anything, we indeed lose our respect, as we are giving the other person a complete authority over us and hence the mutual respect is in-toto lost. The other person would never ever look onto you with respect but you will always find a feeling of either sympathy or contempt, both of which are indication that you are being considered fragile, meek and trivial.

Being born into a human soul, we all can do anything we want to do in this world. Being blessed with almost all the perquisite things, we can do each and everything and hence begging has truly not been embedded into our program and hence a true Guru would always proscribe imploring as one of the biggest sins of human life.

You have been blessed with a great life. Go out, and take each and everything that fascinate you or you want to have because you are truly worth it.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARIT

KABIR DOHAVALI

                                                      दुर्लभ मानुष जन्म है, देह न बारम्बार,
                                                   तरुवर ज्यों पत्ता झड़े, बहुरि न लागे डार।

In this world, the biggest power that we all have been accommodated with is of being a human and without any skepticism, with great power comes great responsibility. This human life is very difficult. All the species in this universe have been bestowed with so many different features but only the Homo sapiens are the ones who have been given the blend of almost all the powers and also with the mind to artificially create the powers with which we have not been allocated. Hence, this human life is truly an advanced as well as great one. Being the most intelligent species in the whole world, we rule this universe and just like everywhere else; here also the rulers have so many responsibilities.  Saint Kabir, therefore, dubbed human life as the difficult life, because just like other creatures we can't waste our precious privilege by doing almost nothing but eating and sleeping (which is a hallmark of an animal's life). Being the rulers of the world, we have to lead the way by being an epitome of humanity, but if we continue to waste our this great life by doing almost nothing; this would elude us forever and never come back just like a plucked leaf from a tree which can't be pasted back again. 

Hence living our life constructively is the way to living the life to the fullest. We carry the responsibility of doing something remarkable. There is something in this world, that can be done by only one human being; all of us have been blessed with some great quality that's pretty rare; some of you can be an epitome of art, some of dance, some of music, some of literature and  other innumerable things. All of us have been gifted with a thing that nobody else can copy. Being the actors on the world stage, we all carry a personal charisma that no other actor can even copy to even a good extent and hence, realize your potential and how you can change others' life and this would be the best work for you to do in the universe.

                                                                       JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
                                                                           JAI MA BHARTI

KABIR DOHAVALI

रात गंवाई सोय के, दिवस गंवाया खाय ।
हीरा जन्म अमोल सा, कोड़ी बदले जाय ॥

Each one of us has got 86,400 seconds in a day, and how we actually use them define whether we would be the crackerjack or the follower, whether we would lead like a lion or be a bandwagon like a sheep, whether the world would make us immortal or whether we would die oblivious and forgotten. 

Life is actually the most precious gift that has been bestowed on us and how we use it is, hence a matter of great concern. As Saint Kabir signifies, most of us just waste our previous life. We spend the nights sleeping worthlessly, we spend the days sans doing anything good and at last nothing remains and we just waste the most amazing gift that can be given to anybody. Actually the above mentioned things are the true works of animals and hence people who conduct their daily things in such a manner are living no differently than animals and hence this great wonderful life is truly futile to them. Their main aim is just to 'survive' and frankly, they don't live, they survive.

In contrast to that, there are people who have unraveled the perplexing mystery of life, the ones who rather than subverting life, actually know the true vitality of this great thing and hence do remarkable things. In this world, we all were born equal but we are not supposed to die the same way. Ask yourself who will cry when you die. Your answer would surely notify you about the category you are pertinent to. 

Now if you belong to the second category, you are immaculately nice and my best wishes stand with you but unfortunately if you stand in the first queue, change the way you life. Listen to me, you are not going to get the same life again. If you waste it in just carrying out trifles, partying etc. which are of no use to the world, believe me, one day you will regret your choices. It's good to enjoy life, but wasting it to enjoy the same is truly something not to be condoned off. Do something at which you are really good at and through that thing, do a bit to change the world. Even a small step taken by you would affect the universe and if you can put a dent in the universe (no matter how small or how big it is) you have truly lived to the fullest.

                                                                            JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

                                                                                   JAI MA BHARTI

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

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

Life is never about how hard we can hit but it’s all about how hard we can get hit and keep moving forward. Indeed, life is not always about merry times, joyous days, cheerful rainbows and inspirational sunshines, its more about the gloomy winter, the tough time and the harsh weather which creeps in most of the time and the ones who don’t let such things get in their road to success, the ones who carry a resolve mightier than the world are the ones who at last breathe the air of greatness and feel the warmth of success.

In life there would be plethora of situations in which you would be left with nothing,  notwithstanding of all the efforts you put in, many a times the results engendered are literally nihil or not upto your expectation, and at last you are stricken hard with grief, pain, sorrow and regret. Failure sweeps up everything and not even a single pinch of motivation is left in your heart. We all might face such hard and gross circumstances one day or another and when we would face such crushing and harsh defeats we all would be dashed to the ground, but my friends, that’s the actual fight that you need to combat.

Paulo Coelho, the famous novelist, penned down in his famous work, “The Alchemist”, that “the universe conspires to help the dreamer. When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”  Whenever we embark on a great journey or whenever we set sail to our destiny, the whole universe comes close to help us out, but it only helps the true dreamer and in veracious sense, it helps the one who works the best with humongous motivation and extreme passion and to choose a person with so much will and resolve the   universe, the energy or the God, has devised its own ways.  If things would have been easy, if becoming great at something would have been a child’s play, nobody of us would have waited to achieve it and each one of us would have been extraordinarily exceptional and greatness would have lost its charm and therefore life is not at all that tractable and gullible and you need to outshine even the best, or perhaps the best of all, to achieve, what we call “greatness”.

Hence in your way there would be innumerous hurdles. Whenever you try to achieve something, there are thousands of people or even millions of them, competing against you to achieve the things you desire for and hence for the selection of one out of those thousands or millions, tests have to be taken and obstacles that you actually face in your life are just these tests. As I mentioned earlier, greats are not those who know how to punch but are the ones who know how to suffer, the ones, who know how to carry on even when they might be facing the biggest disasters of their life, would come out victorious. I am not saying that in your due course of journey you must never lose any battle but what matters in the long term is how much we persevere.

Failure is inevitable. Even the bests have failed miserably, much more than you would ever will but what counts more than your defeats is the desire and passion to hold on and be persistent despite of having all the odds against you. Let me elaborate my point through a true story. It’s about the year 1832.  This guy lost his job and then also the state legislature election. In the succeeding year, he set up his own business but failed miserably to the extent of starvation. Just after two years when he had not even recuperated from this disaster, he lost his beloved wife due to which in 1836 he suffered a fatal nervous breakdown. After two years in 1838, he fought for the speaker’s election in parliament but was defeated, in 1843 he lost the nomination for Congress, in 1848 he lost the renomination to the Congress, in 1849 trying to get back to normal life he didn’t even qualify for the job of a land officer, in 1854 the guy lost the United Senate election.  After such a great list of defeats of the guy, you must have thought till now that he was a dumb and foolish person and amounted to nothing, and moreover in 1858, just as per your perception, he was defeated in the election for the Vice President. So, was this guy a great looser? Certainly yes! But, didn’t he amount to anything? Certainly “not”!

Just two years after this incident, in the year 1860, he became world’s most powerful man, the President of the United States of America, Mr. Abraham Lincoln, one of the most legendary speakers (his Gettysburg address changed the course of history), one of the most powerful leaders of the world and above all perhaps the most tenacious person in the world.

Despite of facing so many tough times, in which most of us decide to leave and forsake what we had been doing, this guy carried on and at last got what he deserved truly.  When everything in life became tough nobody could even dare of moving ahead, this guy stood up and every time, when defeat tried to subdue him, every time he recovered with even more fervor and beat all odds to get what he desired. And this is certainly the most exemplary and paragon example of how much perseverance, success demands.

There would be times when luck would elude you, there might be times when situation would not allow you to move ahead, there might be times when you, yourself would doubt you passion, there might be times when success would appear almost unattainable, there might be times when your opponents might seem invincible and there might be times when you would cry hard but my friend don’t let your tears fall away. Breed these tears inside your heart and cultivate more and more passion. Use every brick thrown at you to transform them into the pillars of you success and when your passion would be able to even outdo the courage and patience of universe, the gloomy clouds would themselves veer away and the bright warmth of success would touch your feet but till then wait and don’t let anything else beat you. Work hard in silence and let your success roar for you.

Remember, you are already in pain, it can last for a day, an hour or a year and later on success would suffice it but if you quit today, it will last for lifetime as a lacunae in your life and this would ultimately transform you to a dejected person in complete despair, and you surely are not born for that.  So just use your pain, move ahead, no matter how hard it is to carry on, just use every minute you have, use everything  you have and move ahead and success would certainly follow your footprints.

So rather than taking your defeat as a major setback, learn from it, have so much passion that you could even change the future, even when the going gets difficult have so much courage that you surpass you difficulties and transform them to milestones of success because “great” is that one victory, which has been achieved through persistent hard work and keep in mind, “losers quit when they are tired but winners quit when they done” and you are the born winner……

At last I would just conclude by saying that,

“Winning means you are willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anybody else.”

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

KABIR DOHAVALI

                                                 कबीर कहा गरबियो, काल गहे कर केस.                                                    

 ना जाने कहाँ मारिसी, कै घर कै परदेस. 

Here also Saint Kabir articulates a very vital front of human life. There are times in our life when we just lose down our control and become so much proud over our achievements, commodities, money etc. that we indeed forsake the world behind and start soaring in a myriad of dreams and forget everything else. Sometimes we become so much blind in the beauty of money and power and almost everything else appears to be lackluster and subfusc. We become so much haughty that we breach all the limits and do so many actions which must never have been done. 

Kabir truly smashed our ego by telling us a very obvious but latent thing, that the man is mortal. Nobody knows whether we would breathe air the very next second or our soul would escape out and hence we never know anything about life. When it would terminate is truly a mystery and this provides that we are just small puppets being handled up the almighty and when we are just small puppets, then what's left there to be proud of? No amount money, achievements, medals etc. can stall your death. In the eyes of the Lord of Death, each one of us are equal and a fair and sophisticated process would be followed for each one of us and hence out of this materialistic world, in the true realm of universe, we are just the actors who are there on the stage while the director is none among us, its the supreme God, energy, nature (whatever we would love to call it). And actors can never go beyond their roles and moreover the on-screen things are not at all the veracious truth and hence whatever we have is just an evanescent illusion and what would remains inscribed on the stage would be just an expression of our attitude, benevolence and humbleness but if we continue to be arrogant, even that inscription on stage would continue to show our countenance replenished with a worthless conceit.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

KABIR DOHAVALI.

                                                निंदक नियरे राखिए, ऑंगन कुटी छवाय,  
                                             बिन पानी, साबुन बिना, निर्मल करे सुभाय। 
Its always a nice thing to keep your critics near you, the people who thrown so many predictions on your extirpation need to remains with you, because they are the ones who are going to be the most endsville motivation of your life.
Its a pellucid fact that nobody (excepts a few people in whom we can confide) wants us to move ahead in life. Nobody would like to see you coming as a gush of greatness and forsaking everybody else behind to win the title of success, hence you are bound to get so many people who will always criticize you to the level of condemnation, if you ever fail, they would always try to augment your failure so that you stop moving ahead. Any chance of catching your faux pas would always be their most revered one and truly such people are abound in the world. These people might be your relatives, your classmates, even you friends. At every moment of time, they would be finding reasons in order to disparage and subvert you and many a times they would defy past all the limits to do their most adorable work.

When we encounter such people in life (actually when we have a rendezvous with them which is actually planned by our fate), we revile at them. We start abiding them so much that we evade even coming in the contact with their shadow. We try to elude from them, but these people still continue to sting on us, making us feel dismayed at almost all the time. But let me tell you one thing, if you are following the strategy of avoiding them or just snubbing them up by starving them of your attention, you are actually committing a motivational suicide. In our life, as I talked in the previous post, everything must be balanced and hence these people too are very much crucial in our life and actually they would always fill up the motivation gap that you would feel at various times of life between you and your dreams.   Because when you feel worn out and fatigued and no longer want to carry out the procedures that would take you towards the success, such people are pretty much needed because through their insults and other processes which they carry out to belittle you, they would actually invigorate in you a feeling of want for you dream. Indeed these people would always tell you, why you started on a particular goal and believe me above all, they would prove to me the biggest motivators who would motivate you with all the powers they have. They will shed away all their energy in order to brace you for the action ahead.

   JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI