The Whispers Of My Heart

 The sources of happiness vary with time.  Toys entice a child much.  On attaining youth, toys no longer attract.  For a young person, the whole world of happiness lies in the arms of beloved.  During middle age, one finds delight in money making activities, one's allurement for moolah intensifies.  But does one find real, lasting happiness throughout one's life?  No, certainly not.  If it were so, then the sources of happiness should not change at all.  Then a middle aged should also find rejoice in playing with the inanimate toys.  Worldly people have been groping in the dark, searching for the perennial pleasure.  But it remains ever elusive.  Everlasting bliss lies somewhere else, dear!  Sadly, there are very few "real" spiritual gurus ( सद्गुरू ) in the contemporary times ( कलियुग ) who can show the right way to permanent bliss.  Well, I have written the following lines to show how a materialistic person is mindlessly pursuing the path of lasting joy sans an auth

 Renowned mystic, Kabir, has wisely  written :  मन के हारे हार है मन के जीते जीत । कहे कबीर हरि पाइए मन ही की परतीत ।  The chief objective of human life is to control the mind.  One who can't surmount one's mind, always remain in anguish.  By mastering one's mind, one becomes the conqueror of this illusory world ( मायावी संसार ).  O Kabir, it is only by winning over one's mind that one can have firm faith which is prerequisite to attain Lord Krishna ( हरि ).  Due to uncontrolled minds, the globe nowadays is sadly teeming with crimes, corruption, rapes. Unfettered mind is undoubtedly the fountainhead of avarice, anger, vices.  Upanishads, particularly the Kathopanishad ( कठोपनिषद ) likens the body to the chariot, the five senses to the five horses drawing the chariot, the mind to the charioteer, the soul to the owner of the chariot who is seated behind.  The senses ( horses ) desire pleasurable things. If the owner of the chariot ( the soul ) does not restraint the mind

 "Sir, I have been searching vigorously for a black dog for the last two hours. Have you seen any black dog nearby?" asked an acquaintance of mine.  "Why on earth are you seeking only a black dog. There are some brown ones in this area. Make do with them" said I.  "Sir, the astrologer has advised me to feed milk and flour biscuits only to a black dog, as a remedy to remove the evil effects of Rahu planet".  Sometimes I amusingly see people pouring mustard oil on banyan trees so as to propitiate Saturn planet ( शनि ग्रह ). I don't know whether pouring oil pleases Saturn or not, but it definitely damages the healthy banyan tree, irreparably.  To obliterate pains, illnesses in their lives, some people do many such absurd, foolish things.  In "Srimad Bhagavad Gita", Lord Krishna has clearly told His disciple Arjuna that "Every action done by a being has a reaction. Nobody, in this entire creation, can escape from the fruits of the actions.