the water flows
each moment new
and yet the river
stays the same
the banks that are still
only can notice the flow
thoughts, feelings rush
through the mind,
through you
sparks of life
and in some quiet moments
you see them flow
clothes are changed
when tattered or stinky
old giving way to fresh hues
just so do the bodies change
worn out replaced by brand new!
swords or words that cut like them
cannot cut who you truly are
neither can the burning fire
in the mind or heart or situation outside
char that life within
nor is the spirit drenchable by rainy gloom
or moved by feverish wind
unruffled by devastating storms,
the unbroken stream of life called you flourishes
impossible to interrupt, divide, dissolve or evaporate
eternal, undecaying
ever so fresh, like this moment
totally still and yet totally moving
uncapturable in expressions and words
unfathomable by contemplation or thought
untouched by vices or silly feelings and thoughts
limitless like the star-filled sky
YOU are!
know this, your true nature,
and be free from despair!
each moment new
and yet the river
stays the same
the banks that are still
only can notice the flow
thoughts, feelings rush
through the mind,
through you
sparks of life
and in some quiet moments
you see them flow
clothes are changed
when tattered or stinky
old giving way to fresh hues
just so do the bodies change
worn out replaced by brand new!
swords or words that cut like them
cannot cut who you truly are
neither can the burning fire
in the mind or heart or situation outside
char that life within
nor is the spirit drenchable by rainy gloom
or moved by feverish wind
unruffled by devastating storms,
the unbroken stream of life called you flourishes
impossible to interrupt, divide, dissolve or evaporate
eternal, undecaying
ever so fresh, like this moment
totally still and yet totally moving
uncapturable in expressions and words
unfathomable by contemplation or thought
untouched by vices or silly feelings and thoughts
limitless like the star-filled sky
YOU are!
know this, your true nature,
and be free from despair!
Mahatma Gandhi's verse-by-verse
22. As a man casts off worn-out garments and takes others that are new, even so the embodied one casts off worn-out bodies and passes on to others new.
23. This no weapons wound, This no fire burns, This no waters wet, This no wind doth dry.
24. Beyond all cutting, burning, wetting and drying is This-eternal, all-pervading, stable, immovable, everlasting.
25. Perceivable neither by the senses nor by the mind, This is called unchangeable; therefore knowing This as such thou shouldst not grieve.
Copyright 1934 Mahadev Desai for Mahatma Gandhi
Sanskrit
( Shree bhagavan uvaacha)
vaasaansi jeerNaani yathaa vihaaya navaani gruhNaati naroparaaNi
tathaa shariraaNi vihaaya jeerNanyanyaani sanyaati navaani dehee(2.22)
nainam chhindanti shastraaNi nainam dahati paavaka
na chainam kledayantyaapo na shoshayati maarutah (2.23)
achhedyoyamadaahyoyamakledyoashoshya eva cha
nityah sarvagatahsthaaNurachaloyam sanaatanah(2.24)
avyaktoyamachintyoyamavikaryoyamuchyate
tasmaadevaviditvainam nanushochitumarhasi(2.25)
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