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
21st May 2024
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