“Jo bhi aye jaye vah Govinda Radhey.
Koi jaye rote koi hasatey bata dey.”
“Whoever comes into this world, must one day leave.
Some go crying, some go laughing.”
(Synopsis of a talk by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj at Bhakti Dham, Mangarh, on August 7, 2009, explaining this new kirtan verse)
This world is known as jagat, that which moves swiftly away. “Gacchati iti jagat”, in Sanskrit it is said the jagat refers that that which keeps on moving.
Whoever comes into this world, has to go. Whether he goes in a normal and natural way or in an unusual way, he will still have to go. This happens in two ways.
Souls under the bondage of Maya, who have not God realized, are forced by death to leave the body. They do not want to leave their bodies due to their attachment to their father, mother, wife, son, daughter, and so on. The attachment they have with their family members doesn’t allow them to happily move towards death.
The Gita (2/27) states,
“Jatasya hi dhurvo mrityurdhruvam janma mritasya cha.”
Whoever comes into this world one day must die. He must leave. But the soul never dies. What it has to do is leave its body. So the body of a sinner, meaning a soul under Maya, is forcibly taken away from him at the time of death.
For example, when a girl gets married, her parents force her to go to her in-laws place. She doesn’t want to go there because she is attached to her parents. Similarly, the soul has to leave its body in any case. It is very difficult to leave someone who you are attached to. The greater the attachment, the greater the pain in leaving that personality.
When a man dies, his wife experiences the greatest pain of loss as she had the most attachment to him. His son experiences less pain as compared to his mother. The family servant experiences less pain than the son. The next door neighbor doesn’t feel any pain at all, as he barely knew the family. We experience the pain of loss according to the degree of our emotional attachment.
The bodies of those who attain God realization are not taken forcefully from them by death, rather they leave their body according to their own will. They leave the world smiling. Because they know that now they are free of this impure body and in God’s divine abode they will get everything that is divine – a divine body, heart, mind, knowledge, everything.
Another category of soul leaves this world smiling and that includes those gyanis who attain liberation. But once they attain liberation they can never come back to the world or do any kind of service to God.
A God realized devotee keeps coming and going from this world according to God’s wish to spiritually uplift the souls. The rules of death do not apply to him. He comes and goes freely.
For example, prisoners are confined to a prison for the term of their sentence. Yet some people freely keep coming and going from the prison. The jailer who looks after the prisoners welfare is free to come and go. The chief minister who has jurisdiction in that area also may come from time to time to inspect the prison. Doctors also come to treat the patients and go at will. Similarly, God and Saints come and go from this world at will. When they are here, their only concern is to spiritual welfare and advancement of the souls.
This is the brief meaning of this verse.
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