Ganga, Vedanta and Kabuliwala
Ganga, Vedanta and Kabuliwala ....... Ever since I heard the song - Ganga aaye kahan se Ganga jaye kahan re .... गंगा आए कहाँ से गंगा जाए कहाँ रे .... (Where does Ganga come from, where does she go to), in touching voice of Hemantkumar in the film “Kabuliwala” - based on an equally touching story by Rabindranath Tagore - I was fascinated by it. The song kept gradually revealing a deeper and deeper meaning along my journey on the spiritual path. As Krishna says in Bhagvad Geeta (Ch. 2: 28) the life before our eyes, in the present moment, is the only form that is expressed, and that is the middle portion of the entire life thread; neither the beginning nor the end of this life force is ever revealed to us. ( अव्यक्तादीनी भूतानी व्यक्त मध्यानी भारत अव्यक्त नीधनान्येव तत्र का परीदेवना ). In the same manner, the water of the flowing river that you touch at this very moment is the only reality before you; the water that has passed has gone, and the...