QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY
Don’t Forget The Law Of Nature
Life that looks spectacular and successful today becomes a broken stone tomorrow. Every flower withers and every house turns into ruins. But it is strange that man does not take any lesson from it.
The head of the family should possess a spiritual character, because only then will he be successful in preventing other family members from adopting a material culture.
When a visitor to the Red Fort, New Delhi passes through imposing buildings and reaches the museum, one of the things he finds there is the broken stone which is kept in one corner of the vast hall. On it is engraved an inscription describing some “Khas Mahal” which was built by a Mughal emperor in 1642. But this particular palace does not exist anywhere today. However, it was found lying in the old fort of Delhi. It was picked up from there and placed in the Red Fort museum along with other historical objects.
This inscription is written in Persian with excellent calligraphy. A portion of the inscription is translated here:‘ May the kingdom of the Emperor who built this Khas Mahal last forever.’ However, today there is no existence of ‘Khas Mahal’ or the Emperor who built it. Even the poet who composed the inscription and saw in it a sign of everlasting glory of the Emperor and his palace is not known now. Only a broken stone remains as a reminder that three hundred years ago there was such an incident in this country that the Emperor built a palace as a sign of his greatness and power, and the artist of the time glorified it through rhyme. These words were then engraved on a stone tablet.
Whenever someone achieves power on earth, he thinks that his power will last forever. He considers a momentary event to be a permanent event. But time has not supported this view of any ruler. But it is strange that the next ruler who keeps the broken stone of the previous ruler’s palace in the museum again falls into the misconception that his power will always remain on the ground.
The most common event in the world is that a person inevitably dies. He falls prey to the law of rise and fall. But man takes the least advice from this most common occurrence. Life that looks spectacular and successful today becomes a broken stone tomorrow. Every flower withers and every house turns into ruins. But it is strange that man does not take any lesson from it. In the crowd of broken stones, he continues to think about himself that his stone will never be broken.
