The Saga of being spiritual - I

“Living the knowledge requires track of the mind every time”.

The substance called love and devotion gave birth to these lines and measuring the amount is really difficult. Someone can go 99% near to that but exactly 100% seems close to impossible. I am talking about the line that has been written by “Saint Ravidas” a very famous spiritual poet some thousands years ago.

 “Prabhuji tum chandan hum paani, Jake ang baas samani”.

  “Prabhuji tum tum ghan ban hum mora, jaise chitwat chand chakora”.

The epitome of love and devotion. This love only can be felt when mind will function exactly similar to the situation when it has been written and devotion only can be felt when the same amount of spirituality will dawn.

            This is the real saga of “Being Spiritual”. There is huge gap between the experience and expression of the person on this side of the river and experience and expression of the person at the other side. Person of the other side may feel that grass is greener at the opposite bank but the person residing this side will be happy and contended with the color of grass he is having. Many people ask me what is this all about? In this many people includes my closest also. I almost feel helpless to explain, what this is all about? Sometimes I feel short of words and sometimes when words are in abundance, the expression behind the word lags. That is why my Guruji told; “This mode of communication has got limitation”.

            Does love also have some limitation? Now this is one big question, because to understand the limits of love we have to find out what love is, first. But atleast for one lifetime I can term it as limitless. If love does not have limitation than expressing it in limited words will always be like cracking a tough nut through small steel ball. Many of my friends give the example of Indian sweet ball called “Gulab Jamun”. Untill unless you will not eat the “Gulab Jamun” you cannot get its taste and nobody can explain the real taste. That is why the beautiful devotional lines of “Saint Ravidas” have just become either a beautiful song or some black curves on white paper.

            Somewhere I read this; it is very difficult to get three things.

1. A human Birth.

2. A questionable mind to ask “who am I”.

3. Company of an enlightened master, who can guide you, the path.

From the word path I remember one very beautiful story of “Adi Shankaracharya”. Adi Shankaracharya, who did incredible job in his short life span. He was the one who showed the way of real path. He was the one who preached that the real magic is when we “walk on the path” and not just admiring the path and worshiping the path makers (Nowadays we call it God or Guru). Most of us nowadays do the same. We visit the temple worship the god through various rituals but at the end we forget it’s the path which made the idol a God not the content of physical appearance. Is it due to the laziness? Or choosing the easiest way? It’s true that walking on the path is a big challenge and sometimes our body or sometimes mind will try to pull you back. Hurdles are very high but the fruit is also very tasty. But whatever we think, whatever we do the question will remain as it is:

Who am I?

What am I doing?

Why am I doing all this?