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Meditation : Nature and Application
Life is music, noise too; life is a festival, suffocation too. Music of life, festival of supreme satisfaction, is evident on the face of the child, smiling and giggling on the lap of inother in the house. If the art of creating music is mastered, then life becomes poised towards heavenly festival. For common people life is but the disintegration of music and swamp of misery. Narrow and lifeless outlook towards life become the inspirer of suicide. It is impossible for him to suicide who is drenched in the joy and simplicity of life.
A man begins the journey of life since his birth. He is alive somehow, but he is not able to peruse the lessons of life. At every step, its documents are lying, but to dissolve these witbin leads to the unfolding of the mystic philosophy; a preface to beware before getting a jolt.
Man is being grinded in the grinder round the clock. The vigilance of the day is completed in the shop, in the office and the night snorting on the cot. All do walk on the path of life, but rare are the people who can collect the lively essence of life.
People weep during journey to the graveyard, bis eyes are damp ('diya Kabira ruye’: Kabir burst into tears) sandwiched between the two grinding slabs ('do patan ke beech mein'), due to mistuning of life.
From misery to non-misery and from non-misery to misery; from dream to non-dream and from non-dream to dream in this struggle-wave a person has become converted into a double-faced
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