Verse 12
दिनयामिन्यौ सायं प्रातः शिशिरवसन्तौ पुनरायातः ।
कालः क्रीडति गच्छत्यायु स्तदपि न मुञ्चत्याशावायुः ॥ १२॥
dinayāminyau sāyaṁ prātaḥ
śiśiravasantau punarāyātaḥ,
kālaḥ krīḍati gacchatyāyuḥ
tadapi na muncatyāśāvāyuḥ.
Day
and night, dusk and dawn, winter and spring come and go again. Time sports and
life ebbs away, and yet the gust of desire never leaves (us).
When Sun rises in the east, day starts; when sun sets in the
west, night starts; days and nights are thus passing away one after the other incessantly.
One period starts winter; another period starts spring time;
they too are coming and passing away incessantly.
Some wise men call it the Kaala chakra, the wheel of time.
In the wheel of time, days and nights, winters and springs are
passing away and coming back again and again. In the endless flow of time, your
life time is passing away, almost unnoticed, and we do not know what awaits us
on the other side of death.
Are we conscious of that, which can carry us through these life
tides successfully?
Similarly, wants are infinite. As each want is satisfied,
another takes its place…
Life thus goes on as an endless stream of wants and desires.
Can we avoid desires altogether? No. It is neither feasible, while in this body nor even required.
Know their nature; Stay in control; Stay as their master; not as
their slave.
Every time we experience joy, we must realize that sorrow is just
around the corner in pursuit. This cycle is also never-ending – it lasts as
long as we are trapped in the birth and death cycle.
In childhood, author read a line somewhere, “Life is like a
pendulum, betwixt a tear and a smile”.
Even when the pendulum of a wall clock swings to the right side,
we are sure that it is bound to now swing to the left side.
Exactly in the same manner, life teaches us time and again that
any joy is short lived in life and it is followed by sorrow.
Why worldly joy is short lived??
The answer is simple. All joy derived in world are in essence
limited by/ subject to the following:-
A particular location/ environment – DESA
A particular time – KALA
A particular object/ set of objects – VASTU
And, if we observe, all the three – Desa, Kala, Vastu - by their
definition, keep on changing.
So, any experience derived from anything in this world which are
limited by Desa, Kala, Vastu - is bound to be short lived because, they
themselves are subject to changes and are not eternal.
Readers can close their eyes and think of any best experience /
joy, they derived in their lifetime. They will realize that the joy
experienced was in a particular place / environment, in a particular time frame
/ phase in life and derived due to their association with some object(s). Even
human beings and their relationships also get covered in object.
ETERNAL JOY
Merger with God in the path of devotion
and
Living in the light of knowledge and discovery of our true nature
of spirit in the path of Jnana
These two inner experiences can only give us eternal joy as both
God and SELF are one with just two different expressions and most important,
God with form with whom we have to merge or Formless Brahman to be discovered
within us as SELF / Atman - only these experiences are NOT subject to the
limitation of DESA, KALA and VASTU as explained above.
Love.
