YOU CAN SURELY BEAT THE GRAVE.

YOU CAN SURELY BEAT THE GRAVE.

Do stretch the hands of help to the poor

Do sweeten their lives tortured and sour.

Do cater to the needs of the needy

Do leave the company of the greedy.

Be the  props of the crippled and the lame

Avoid all that showers ignominious shame.

Quit the queue that runs after name and fame

Play honestly and heroically this life’ game.

Be a kerchief for someone’s tears

Be Lord Ram’s squirrel to gift cheers.

Be as generous as the king Harischandra

Be as kind as the great Rain god Indra.

Dig not a ditch ever for other

Be for the thirsty a cool pitcher.

Be for the diseased a supporting stretcher

Be not a mean, malicious and selfish creature.

Flow, like the Ganga, your munificence

Bear, like the coconut shell, all essence.

Be unperturbed like the tolerant mountain

Spread joy in others’ life like a fountain.

Refresh your aura with the scent of noble deeds

Sow in the fallow lands your virtue action seeds.

Bury your corpse of vicious and hateful habits

In life, only a diligent, triumphs, never defeats.

Be softer than heavenly flowers

Be fresher than spontaneous showers.

Be sweeter than delicious honey

Be more precious than magical money.

Be not ever a pestering insect

Be not prone to detect others’s defect.

Be ever kind like Kindness to all

You can surely beat the grave, my pal mortal.

Ref. courtesy: Google

*Lord Ram’s squirrel - Lord Rama and his army of monkeys were preparing for war with Ravana.

Rama asked his army to build the bridge over the sea. Work began at once on a stone bridge.

The monkeys pulled out rocks and heavy stones from the mountains, and carried them to the sea.

One day, Rama saw a small brown squirrel going up and down the seashore with little pebbles in his mouth. He carried the pebbles from the seashore and dropped them into the sea. Being pleased with the little squirrel's love for him, he gently stroked the back of the squirrel with his fingers, and three lines appeared where the Lord’s fingers had touched it.  Then it was believed that the marks on the back of the squirrels were the marks of Lord Rama’s fingers.

*Harishchandra - Harishchandra is a legendary Indian king, who appears in several legends in texts such as Aitareya Brahmana, Mahabharata, the Markandeya Purana, and the Devi-Bhagavata Purana.The most famous of these stories is the one mentioned in Markandeya Purana. According to this legend, Harishchandra gave away his kingdom, sold his family and agreed to be a slave – all to fulfill a promise he had made to the sage Vishwamitra.

* Rain god Indra - In the Vedas, Indra is the king of Svarga (Heaven) and the Devas. He is the god of lightning, thunder, storms, rains and river flows. ... Indra destroys Vritra and his "deceiving forces", and thereby brings rains and the sunshine as the friend of mankind

* munificence - generosity

* pal – friend

©Shankar D Mishra 15.05.2017

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