Suffering without grief.

A tragic story comes in the very first shoulder of Srimad Bhagavatam. The king has gone to test the deer. Finds a place to rest somewhere due to thirst and fatigue. There they see an ashram. Shamik sage is sitting in samadhi in the ashram. Parikshit's I also think that this sage does not even have the conscience to respect a king like him! They get angry. He calls the sage but Shamikarishi does not answer in Yogadasa. The king wraps the dead snake lying in the ashram in the tested sage's village with a sword. When this is reported to the sage's son Shrungi. Then he also gets overwhelmed. He curses the king who insults his father. 'Kulangar Parikshit has violated the limits by insulting my father. So on the seventh day from today, with my inspiration, Takshak Nag will bite them. (Skandha 1-12-2). '

To bite a Takshak snake is to die. The culmination of suffering is death. Does anyone know in advance that he is going to die on the seventh day? So let him do as much as he can to survive. Good hospital, good doctor, good medicine. Everything is done. But the examinee did not do so. Nowhere in the Bhagavad-gita is there any text that says that he took the services of a high-class physician or that he found a way to get rid of the poison spread by the bite of a Takshak. He accepted the curse from the heart. And the quiet leopard thought that death was yet to come on the seventh day. Why die before that? Why spend so many days in sorrow? Why suffer without pain? The breaths that have survived. Why not do work for the welfare of the soul?

The 'seventh day' is really the symbolic language of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Any day of the week can be considered the seventh day. King Parikshit meditated on Lord Krishna on the banks of the Ganges, renounced all attachments and decided to fast.

In modern life we ​​are often aware of the sorrow that will come in the near future. How do we live then? Before giving the exam, the student and his parents are saddened by the thought that he will pass with good marks or not? After getting a degree, a person is sad to think whether he will get a good job or not! Parents are saddened by the thought that the boy is fat or the girl is gaining weight, whether he will find a suitable life partner or not. Kate How much mental anguish we are suffering before the anguish comes! Why does this happen? Because we consider ourselves doers. We are not ready to accept God's power, God's grace, God's math. First we are saddened by the thoughts of the coming sorrow and then we really suffer if the sorrow comes. Thus we are sad twice.

If we look at the accounts of happiness and sorrow once in rupee accounts, we will understand that the sorrow we suffered months ago was just a fantasy. In fact, such grief never came to life! Saddened by the wrong thoughts.

Every mother who gives birth to a child suffers physically. But he knows that suffering is the gateway to happiness. The baby's first voice erases his grief in the slightest. There must be dust, debris or thorns all around. We have to save and pick the flower. Recognizing the painless pain like Raja Parikshit is to spend the rest of his life in joy.

- Surendra Shah