Once a visitor came to a sadhu\u2019s ashram. He saw the sadhu was living in a very simple house. He looked around and found there was nothing worthy in his house –\u00a0 no bed, no wardrobe, no chair, no table, no refrigerator. The visitor was surprised.\u00a0 He immediately inquired, \u201cSir, where are your belongings.\u201d The sadhu asked, \u201cWhere are yours?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
The visitor reasoned, \u201cI am just a visitor here and will be here for a short period of time.\u201d The sadhu said, \u201cSo, am I.\u201d \u00a0While travelling we try to carry minimum luggage so that we travel without much hassle. We carry only essential items. In this world too we are a traveler, we cannot live here permanently although we may wish. But almost all of us believe that we will live here forever and so we keep on hoarding things.\u00a0 Krishna tells us that to attain peace in this world we should give up all desires for sense gratification and give up all sense of proprietorship. B.G. 2.71.<\/b><\/p>\n
But we think, \u201cThe more we have the more happy we will become.\u201d And so we work hard, to earn more so that we accumulate more. The more desire we have more miserable we become, we also cannot fulfill all our desires. And since we are a cosmic traveler we are asked to vacate the place as soon as our visa expires. All our plea to extend our visa in front of the agents of death fall on deaf ears.\u00a0 Death can come at any moment. It can come while I am writing this piece or it can come while you are reading this article.\u00a0 Most of the time it comes without intimation. Using our worldly positions we cannot defy the order of the agents of death, through our wealth we cannot bribe them.<\/b><\/p>\n
When we have to leave we have to leave and we may be asked to leave at any moment. Stephen Hawking, the renowned scientist, had solutions to many of the mysteries of the world but he too had to wind up all his research work and leave with the agents of death when they came calling. Sridevi, a very popular movie actress, was getting ready for a dinner date with her husband in Dubai. She went to take bath and her husband was eagerly waiting for her to get ready. Little did she or her husband know that there was also an uninvited guest who was waiting to take her with him.<\/p>\n
Govinda Dasa Kaviraja, a poet and a devotee of the Lord reminds us that how everything in this world is temporary – e dhana, yaubana, putra, parijana\/ ithe ki \u00e4che paratiti re\/ kamala-dala-jala, jivana talamala\/ bhajahu hari-pada niti re.\u00a0 \u201cWhat assurance of real happiness is there in all of one’s wealth, youthfulness, sons, and family members? This life is tottering like a drop of water on a lotus petal; therefore you should always serve and worship the divine feet of Lord Hari.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Once a visitor came to a sadhu\u2019s ashram. He saw the sadhu was living in a very simple house. He looked around and found there was nothing worthy in his house –\u00a0 no bed, no wardrobe, no chair, no table, no refrigerator. The visitor was surprised.\u00a0 He immediately inquired, \u201cSir, where are your belongings.\u201d The… <\/p>\n