WHO AM I?--SIX QUESTIONS

WHO AM I?--SIX QUESTIONS


Six questions have not allowed
Me mental peace somehow.
But on reading the scriptures
I have the answers now.

WHO am I? From WHENCE I came?
WHY came I? For HOW long?
WHAT is my reality?
WHERE , in fact, I belong?

WHO am I? I am His part,
Known to all just as God.
Some call him as Ram, Rahim
Some simply as Our Lord.

WHENCE I came? I cannot say.
He is omnipresent.
He pervades everywhere, it’s
Him that I represent.

WHY came I? To help fulfil
His will, doing my part.
His will is that I love all,
As He loves in His heart.

HOW long will be my sojourn?
Why this question I ask?
I will be in His service
Till I have done His task.
.
WHAT is my reality?
It is His own image.
He made me in it so that
I may, myself, salvage.

WHERE in fact do I belong?
Why, at all, this question?
I belong just here and now,
In my earthly session.

The lesson is simply this:
“Dwell in present. Love all.
Do your duty fearlessly.
Forget the reward’s call”.


* Written in abcb 7-6-7-6 format.

• The last line specifically refers to the essential message of Hinduism, enshrined in chapter 2, verse 47, of Gita [pronounced—Geethaa], one of the core books of Hindu religion: “Do your duty; don’t covet the reward; don’t to be a means of getting the reward; but, beware, don’t ever be idle”. It can be viewed at http://www.bhagavadgitaasitis.com/2/47/en

* Essential messages of all religions are the same. Only the words differ. For example, while Hindu philosophy, after deep analysis, concludes that desire is the cause of all grief and that bliss lies in renunciation, Jesus simply preaches: Give us this day our daily bread [and, implicitly, covet no more]. He further says: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to pass through the gate of heaven.


M C Gupta
26 July 2003