Rajinder Singh ‘Arshi’
River flows, it moves and meanders seeking the ocean.
Some water may branch out from the river and the rivulet takes a separate route. It may later join the original river or seek its own path.
It may, equally, lose its way or hit a rock – back it goes into the clouds to drop again on to earth. It may land anywhere:
• on soil/sand and get absorbed, trapped under the earth;
• on rocks and find its way into the river, the process begins again;
• into a sea, but still bound by land – again the vicious cycle, back to the skies and some day return as rain;
• in to the ocean, which is not bound by land but surrounds it. It’s reached its destination. The drop which separated from its source is back in its Real Home. Will it remain there or will the cycle start again? Well, it’s up to your Karma, up to the Lord.
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The water within the river has limited free-will, just like us human beings. It my stay within the fold or branch out. It may even land in a trough, a pool.
The rocks a river hits of are like people we meet. The good ones will redirect us back to the river. The bad ones will lead us astray into the vicious cycle.
Landing in a pool or a sea is akin to joining a small or a large group of people. The good ones, in the form of Saadh Sangat will show us the way to escape the cycle of life and death whilst the bad ones will only take us deeper into the vicious circle and into the grips of Maya.
The fortunate drops which land in the ocean have transcended the Three Khands (Dharam, Gyan and Saram) and reached the Karam Khand (Realm of Grace) where it awaits the Lord’s Call into Sach Khand.
Some may be called in whilst others may leave the ocean to return as saints, seers and philosophers to show us the way.