Saturday, November 28, 2009

कबीर सूता क्या करे

कबीर सूता क्या करे, कूङे काज निवार | जिस पंथ तू चलना , सोयी पंथ संवार

Kabir says why do you keep sleeping,cast away the useless pursuits ;decorate the path that you should take

Kabir teaches us to be extremely focussed on what our goal as human beings should be --to escape the travails of transmigration and yoke with God, for that is the only divine reason for which we take birth, but life is short and we need to dispel useless pursuits and focus on what is required to be done and not be diverted from the divined goal.
तदर्थ एव दृश्यस्य आत्मा --so says patanjali and which means that "all that is seen is for the purpose of the seer", i.e. all creation has no purpose of its own, it merely assists the experience(bhoga) and realization(apvarg) purposes of the seer.The seen is made of five elements(air, water, earth, fire,space)and of the senses(.भोग अपवार्गार्थम दृश्यं )
We are part of the seen and endowed with mind and its elements and so we have the capacity to offer experience and liberation benefits to the seer,by eliminating the afflictions of the mind and devoting ourselves with abject surrender and extreme feeling to God.For clarification I may add that even mind is just dead matter but due to its subtlety it is easily endowed and interspersed with the light and reflection of the seer and so it gives the impression of being alive.
Kabir warns us to be focussed on the real goal and shun useless pursuits like engaging with the senses

Arvind Mishra

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