Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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Let's go beyond the mind/15
“Umare daraz maang kar,
laaye the chaar din, Do aarzoo mein kat gaye, do intezaar mein”
-ZAFAR [I had got my life-span enhanced by four days; two days were spent in desiring, and the two other in waiting.]
Involvement is certainly the basis of perseverance for life, but it is indispensable to read the epilogue of detachment. Detachment because one day man bas to depart all alone leaving behind each and everything here.
On receiving the ticket for departure, the entire society is there to see you off, to cremate you, but no one from the entire world to be a co-traveller on the funeral pyre. On the funeral pyre does not burn one's money, but only dry wood :
"Chaar jane mili khaat uthaye, Rowat le chale dagar dagaria, Kahe Kabir suno bhai sadho,
Sang chali woh sookbi lakadiyan.” [Four persons have lifted the cot, and carrying through the streets, weeping all the time. Poet Kabir says : listen 0, gentleman, the only thing that accompanies are the dry wood.]
This death that takes place in life is not a fact, but a recess in the strain and strife of the mind, the realisation of its futility. Even if in any one birth, one could not know the soul, the super soul or the spirit, but he just minutely read and scrutinized the credential of the mind, it can be said that he has traversed a major part of the way leading to the destination.
Man does get hold of the understanding of the body and the thoughts but cannot hold the tail of the heart. It is beneficial to catch even a lock of the fleeing thief's hair, but first of all the footsteps of the thief need to be heard. Without knowing the beginning or the end, the man sits down to measure-up the sky.
Mind is but fickle moment after moment. If the mind itself be life, then for maintaining it, household and shop-market should