Life is precious; since it is lived only once. Hence it is necessary to make the most of it as a meaningful existence. But how? Knowledge is the answer. Those who understand the wisdom in the saying "Jantunam Nara Janma Durlabham", become 'Mumukshuvu' (aspirant of liberation) and seek ardently through the 'learned', the path of Salvation. On the other hand, most of the hapless lot - 'Baddha Jivi', the 'bound' - carried away by instincts and ignorance, waste this valuable life in pleasure hunting and other mundane affairs. Too late a realisation about the vanity of the life indulged in murky affairs, is like crying over the spilt milk. As time and tide wait for none, one can not turn the clock back for realisation and refashioning the life.
The lamentation of one such unfortunate 'Baddha Jivi' (the 'bound') is well depicted in his sankeertana, "Galine Poya Galakalamu" by the poet savant Annamacharya.
'O My Lord! I have whiled away my whole time, like that of ever floating unsteady air, in wasteful aimless wanderings. I didn't ever find time to ponder over repentance and secure pardon.
'I passed the whole time in wading through mud and washing my feet again and again (without learning any lesson). I didn't spare enough time to think about the Almighty Within, the Lord of this mundane body. What an unfortunate am I?
'O My Lord! I wasted my whole time in filling and refilling the pot as it kept on splashing water over brim time and again. I spent my whole time in attending to the never ending passions of this body. I didn't find enough time to pay attention on the Lord ruling this body. What an 'unlucky one' am I?
'O Lord! I spent all my time inserting my head (poking my nose) into every affair that I came across and wasted time in struggling hard for disentanglement from them, involving countless deceits in the process. I didn't find enough time to seek the Almighty Within. What an unfortunate am I?'.....
Thus, we are so much grateful to the learned men like Annmacharya for cautioning us, through sankeertanas such as above, against the alluring pitfalls distancing us from the Almighty Within. Once awakened, our path of spiritual progress becomes steady and un-distracted till realisation. Message is clear; Let us march forward !
The lamentation of one such unfortunate 'Baddha Jivi' (the 'bound') is well depicted in his sankeertana, "Galine Poya Galakalamu" by the poet savant Annamacharya.
'O My Lord! I have whiled away my whole time, like that of ever floating unsteady air, in wasteful aimless wanderings. I didn't ever find time to ponder over repentance and secure pardon.
'I passed the whole time in wading through mud and washing my feet again and again (without learning any lesson). I didn't spare enough time to think about the Almighty Within, the Lord of this mundane body. What an unfortunate am I?
'O My Lord! I wasted my whole time in filling and refilling the pot as it kept on splashing water over brim time and again. I spent my whole time in attending to the never ending passions of this body. I didn't find enough time to pay attention on the Lord ruling this body. What an 'unlucky one' am I?
'O Lord! I spent all my time inserting my head (poking my nose) into every affair that I came across and wasted time in struggling hard for disentanglement from them, involving countless deceits in the process. I didn't find enough time to seek the Almighty Within. What an unfortunate am I?'.....
Thus, we are so much grateful to the learned men like Annmacharya for cautioning us, through sankeertanas such as above, against the alluring pitfalls distancing us from the Almighty Within. Once awakened, our path of spiritual progress becomes steady and un-distracted till realisation. Message is clear; Let us march forward !
Pouring on over brim
Om Shanti!
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