Embodied memories of your line,
Incarnate legends of your reign.
---The Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu.
Alex Graham Brown and his wife, Australian citizens and relatives, (Graham of Sydney married my brother-in-law's sister-in-law), graced our house in April 1998. I accompanied them for city tour. While seeing Qutb Shahi Tombs inter alia, upon my request Graham jotted down the 'epitaph' poem "The Royal Tombs of Golconda" etched on the stone tablet, a glimpse of which is garnished above. Why mention now? The links follow...
When I saw in the media and wide coverage in news papers about the devastating earthquake in Nepal around April of this year, I took out the albums of 1985. With my children, now all are parents, reminisced about our 'sweet memories' of grandeur of the temples of Bhaktapur and surroundings in Nepal.
As I ponder over 1985 and 1998, the disparaging Acts of Time are but a chronicle in the History. What remains in this material world ? It's the 'vanity of attachment !' - despite so many lessons as above flash from time to time before our eyes.
A day shall come in every body's life to awaken to elicit the Truth. We are living in the world of dualities of our own making attitudinally. Hence our lives are fraught with untold miseries and sufferings. Great men of letters have passed on to us the Nature of Truth , each in their own way.
It is desirable to be in remembrance of some such gems of knowledge as our constant beacons, to maintain our bearings, in the path of Truth. I share, a precious jewel,from the poet laureate Sri Sri,
'Edi Satyam' (What's Truth).
Edi chikati, Edi veluturu: Edi jivitam, Edi mrutyuvu;
Edi punyam, Edi papam; Edi narakam, Edi nakam;
Edi satyam, Edi asatyam; Edi anityam, Edi nityam;
Edi ekam, Edi anekam; Edi karanam, Edi karyam;
O mahatma ! O maharshi !
Edi telupu, Edi nalupu; Edi ganam, Edi mounam;
Edi nadi, Edi nidi; Edi niti, Edi neti;
Ninna swapnam, Neti satyam; Neti khedam, Repu ragam;
Oke kanti, Oke santi;
O mahatma ! O maharshi !
Translatiuon :-
"What's Truth !"
What's dark, What's light; What's life, What's death;
What's piety, What's sin; What's hell, What's heaven;
What's truth, What's false; What's ephemeral, What's eternal;
What's unity, What's diversity; What's cause, What's action;
O Noble Soul ! O Noble Sage !
What's white, What's black; What's song(sound),What's silence;
What's mine, What's thine (yours); What's moral, What's nought;
Yesterday's dream, Today's reality; Today's misery, Tomorrow's mirth;
One (sole) light, One (sole) peace;
O Noble Soul ! O Noble Sage !
As I said earlier every thing, about the dual nature of existence in this world, is in our perspective only. As our journey on the spiritual path progresses, we come to understand the transitory and illusory nature of the whole contraption of creation. The volatile matter is in essence, the Energy, Supreme Consciousness (Suddha Chaitanya) only. Who realises this, becomes aware of his 'Witness role' (by vanishing of all duality). for such seekers the world becomes pleasant abode with manifestation of nobility in each and every being in this creation.
It is said, when Krishna happened to be with Dharmaraja and Duryodhana, he asked Duryodhana to go on a round in the Hastinapura and find out if there were any gentle men. After a while Duryodhana returned back and told Krishna that Hastinapura was abounding with wicked only and there was not even a single gentle man to find. Later he sent Dharmaraja. After returning from the round, Dharmaraja told Krishna that Hastinapura was replete with all gentle men . There was not even a single wicked person to find. Hence, the world IS as per your drukpatha ( the way you look at).
As our drukpatha is refined with noble traits, it becomes a fertile breeding ground for spiritual harvest yielding the rich crop of Ultimate Truth !
Rama Temple, Bhaktapur, Nepal (1985)
Om Shanti !
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