Sometimes, Life will take away what you love and want most
– could be people or things. You will find it very, very hard to accept that
you don’t have that someone or something anymore. But it is only through a loss
that you learn about Life – and its transience.
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| On a lighter note....!!!! |
Everything that you are I have has been
acquired during the course of this lifetime. When you were born you came with
nothing. When you die you will go with nothing. Your name, your education, your
titles, your fame, your money, your assets, your relationships – everything was
got here, on this journey called Life. When your Life ends, you will leave
behind everything. This is the way Life is. Yet, if you examine your emotions
closely, you will find that all your grief and suffering comes from your
attachment to all those very things and people who you will leave behind. It is
at one level so evident, so basic. That all that you cling on to cannot go with
you. But even then you hold on to all that gives you grief?
There’s an old Persian story. A fakir who was
wandering in the desert stopped by at the Amir’s inn. The fakir had nothing but
a worn-out flowing garment on him held together by a rope strapped around his
waist. The Amir was moved by the fakir’s plight and gave him his best velvet
robe as a gift. The fakir accepted the robe, wore it and went away cheerfully.
That night the fakir stopped to rest under a tree. He decided to roll up the
velvet robe and used it as a pillow. But he could not catch sleep. Every time
he closed his eyes, he imagined that bandits were attacking him to take away
his robe. He tossed and turned and even sat up for a few hours. But his mind
was full of fear of being robbed of his velvet robe. Finally, he took the robe,
flung it far away into the darkness, and went to sleep. He slept for the rest
of the night like a baby – soundly, peacefully!
The velvet robe is but a metaphor. It symbolizes all that
we are attached too. Unless we learn to detach ourselves from everything –
absolutely everything, including people – we will never quite experience inner
peace.
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