When I was uneducated, when I didn’t know…a stone was a stone.
I gained education, and became learned…when I knew…then a stone was not a stone.
Then I reached the pinnacle of knowledge, and I again didn’t know…and a stone was a stone.
We spend our whole lives trying to find a purpose, to find a meaning, to find God, and then, if you by chance reach the pinnacle of knowing, when you become knowledge…then a stone is a stone – you are the stone, and everything else around you. There are no more boundaries of identity, and you know that God is nowhere else, but within you, as much as you are within God.
Unfortunately, not many of us have the patience to get to this pinnacle of knowledge, and we instead stay content with our degrees instead.
And so Sri Krishna says – it is ok if you cannot seek the way of Hatha (physical) or the way of Karma (action), or the way of jnana (knowledge). There is still one more way, and oddly enough, it is the easiest and the best.
Just surrender to me.
श्याम पिया मोरी रंग दे चुनरिया ।
ऐसी रंग दे, के रंग नहीं छुटे ।
धोभिया धोये चाहे सारी उमरिया ॥
लाल ना रंगाऊं मैं, हरी ना रंगाऊ ।
अपने ही रंग में रंग दे चुनरिया ॥
बिना रंगाये मैं तो घर नाही जाउंगी ।
बीत ही जाए चाहे सारी उमरिया ॥
मीरा के प्रभु गिरिधर नागर ।
प्रभु चरनन ने लागी नजरिया ॥
श्याम पिया मोरी रंग दे चुनरिया ।
Shyam Piya More Rang de Chunaria
Aisi rang de ke rang nahi choote…Dhobiya dooye chahe ye sari umariya
Lal na rangavu Mei…Hari na rangavu…Apne hi rang me rang de chunaria
Bina rangaye mai to ghar nahi javongi…beet hi jaaye chahe saari umariya
Meera ke prabhu, giridhar nagar…prabhu charanan ne laagi najariya