I am sharing a story which my friend shared it with me.Its a wonderful story in a simple language, which when paid a thought and observe the meaning, would be so amazing to understand.
It is an easy and a great reference for me in the process to understand the minds voices and its nature. The story is from Srimad bhagvad gita, of gita press, Gorakhpur press.
It also helps us to find " who our real enemy is".
Once upon a time there was kingdom of Jeevan Singh whose prime minister's was Gyanasagar. The nodal agency of prime minister was cooperative minister named Chanchal Singh. The king and his minister used to live in their capidal city called Madhya puri.His kingdom was divided in to 10 districts and each district was governed by a nominated head.
The king was a thinker( Vichaar sheel), dynamic( kaampurush) and polite( susheel) person. His kingdom was living in peace and happiness and was growing day by day.
one day a leader of thugs( a sort of dacoit who creates illusion and loot either by force or by sweetness) named Jagmohan came to his kingdom. He was wicked( kuchakri) and jaal saaj. He was full of deceit and fraud, yet he spoke very soft and sweet language. Whoever he spoke to , they got attracted with his charm and beauty of words. He introduced himself as businessman and introduced to district heads and seeked permission to run his business in the entire kingdom. He assured lots of promises and other pleasures in return, for favouring them.
He lured every district with pleasures and kickbacks and sought permission to run the business in the entire state. They all agreed but couldnot give permission for they needed the consent of the higher authorities. With Jagmohan's advice and with tempted minds they all went to meet minister , Chanchal Singh.
The wicked businessman Jagmohan showed lots of benefits to the state and to the minister with lucrative offers. Chanchal singh was also trapped under Jagmohan's sweet talk, but he also couldnot permit. So they all went to prime minister, Gyansagar.
Gyansagar was an intelligent person, knower of wisdom words, but he was weak headed person he merely believed what had been told , couldnot analyse properly. Hence along with his assitant, Chanchal Singh and the 10 district heads often used to take advantage of his weakness. He moved by their demands and could not resist them. Today also he got tempted with their talks. With Jagmohan and his luring words, he agreed to give permission to operate in the entire state but with the consent of Jeevan Singh. So they went to the king, the thug was very clever, he again spread his net by talking to him juicily and giving him lucrative offers. Falling for his talks and intelligence the king Jeevan Singh agreed to him to operate in the entire kingdom.
King gave permission to him for the entire and 10 districts and assured without his intervention he could expand and make big buildings and operate.
After giving some kickbacks to all the district heads he started to operate his network everywhere. His network had gone to every corner of the state then and he started looting people without the intervention of governance. There was no indulgence at all from anyone from top to bottom of authorities. He shared a large sum of booty to the king, officials and ministers. So everyone was enjoying the new found happiness with the pleasure derived from Jagmohan.
He always used to make promises and talked in charismatic style and made everyone fall in his plan. Within a short period of time everyone got lethargic and become part of his wicked plans and gradually became weak, lazy and addicted to malign habits.
Meanwhile Jagmohan increased his strength and power in the entire kingdom, he looted everything whatever he could and after sometime entire kingdom got in to his control and he made the king Jeevan Singh under house arrest, King lost his control and surrendered to him completely.
The characters in the story:
JEEVAN SING(KING): The embodied soul( jeevatma),
GYANSAGAR(PRIMEMINISTER): Intellect (Buddhi)
CHANCHAL SINGH( MANH): Mind,
MADHYAPURI(CAPITAL CITY): Heart where they lived,
10 HEADS: Ten sensory organs ( das indriyaan),
10 DISTRICTS: Places where these sensory organs live
JAGMOHAN( THUG LEADER): Lust ( kaam or kamnaye) or indulgence in lusty things.
Moral of the story:
Subjective indulgences of pleasures, luring to tempt towards the pleasure, which gives temporary happiness, is the work of Jagmohan, which he promised to give everyone. Having been seduced to this lusty thoughts everyone gets trapped in to this temptation and get away from real hapapiness. This is the looting of Jagmohan. The shiny, glittering, illusionary fashionable promises made the king Jeevan singh trapped in his own house and lost his own kingdom, the own YOU(SELF).If Jeevan Singh refuses to get trapped by this ever powerful Jagmohan he can see the real light of life( paramatma) or else Jagmohan destroys entire life in form of delusionary state. Jagmohan will rule on senses, mind and intellect and will make JEEVAN SINGH , a captive.
When you Demolish the walls of Turbulence, you will find city of PEACE. .
Kaal Kare So Aaj Kar, Aaj Kare So Ub
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Translation
Tomorrows work do today, today's work now
If the moment is lost, the work be done how
this Kabir Doha clearly teaches us to shed all procrastination and lethargy. It motivates us to do whatever we have to do, and do it now. If we will keep postponing it, then the work will never be done....I am the first person who should learn this anduke..i have posted here..
Neither illusion nor the mind, only bodies attained death
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this is for me too..infact just for me for i can relate to procrastination and lethargy from whose clutches i find it hard to escape.however..im still trying to fight them and overcome them,now that i am identifying them..and thank uu for always conveying the message to me in a beautiful way which energises and boosts me up.
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