LIFE IS ETERNAL

 

                LIFE IS ETERNAL

Life should be eternal is the ambition of every human being. It is so because people die every day.  The span of their lives is short. They disappear.  Where do they go nobody knows. But there are books like the Gita and  poems by some religious poets who assure humans that their life is endless. This is what  Lord  Krishna says in the  Bhagavad -Gita which is a part of the holy book The Mahabharata.

            “There never was a time when I was not, nor you, nor these rulers  of men. Nor will there ever be a time when all of us cease to be. As the dweller in this body passes into childhood, youth and age, so also does he pass into another body. This does not bewilder the wise.”

            And to conclude, here is an anonymous poem titled: THERE IS NO DEATH.

“There is a plan far greater than the plan you know;

There is a landscape broader than the one you see.

There is a haven where storm-tossed souls may go---

You call it death ----we, immortality.

 

 You call it death ---this seeming endless sleep;

 We call it birth –the soul at last set free.

‘Tis hampered not by time or space –you weep

Why weep at death? ‘Tis immortality.

 

Farewell, dear voyagers---‘twill not be long.

Your work is done—now may peace rest with thee.

Your kindly thoughts and deeds ---they will live on.

This is not death –‘tis immortality.

 

Farewell, dear voyagers ---the river winds and turns;

The cadence of your song wafts near to me,

And now you know the thing that all men learn :

There is no death ---there’s immortality.

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G.R. Kanwal

21^st May 2024