Chapter – 115- Sur -Vinaya – Pathrika –
Sri Surdas Maharaj speaks “Oh! Mind, leave
interest in worldly matters of fleeting nature and contemplate and meditate
upon supreme Lord Sri Govind, sing in praise of him in the remaining days of
your life. Oh! Ignorant, the seconds spend without remembering the compassionate
Lord Sri Hari is the most inauspicious and unfruitful in your life. Oh!
Brother, the later years of age are miserable with illnesses, fear of death, and
grief of separation from the beloved ones. During the old age, the mind and
movements of the body become sluggish, limbs will not co-operate with the mind,
it becomes fragile and motionless, you need the help of someone to perform the
daily routine, and the sensory organs won’t work like the olden days, the audacity becomes
dull, the airways get disrupted with air and water, eyesight become poor. Oh!
Ignorant, after achieving the rarest birth as a human, don’t you want to achieve
fruitfulness of it? Therefore, before it gets late, do not wait too long to
take up austerities, practice vow, celibacy, Swadhyaya, Sathyam, Dhaya, Dhanam,
Shamam, Dhamam, Astheyam, Ahimsa, Arjjavam, etc. and contemplate and meditate
upon Lord Sri Hari. Oh! Mortals, do not take pride in lovely bodily appearance,
youthfulness, clan, wealth, fame, richness, money, family, possession, etc. it
is perishable, it is mere illusion like the dream gets disrupted immediately
the person awake. The ignorant drenched in the Kama, Krodha, Lobha, Moha, Madha,
Mathshcharya, Ahamkara, and Mamakara, would not understand the arrival of the noose of
death, Oh! Manushya, how could you dig a well for water, when your house is on
the fire? Likewise, how can you take up the austerities or remember the sacred
names of the Lord when the noose of death falls on your neck? Oh! Mortals, abandon
your interest in worldly matters of possession, money, richness, fame, wife,
children, companion, relatives, etc. and surrender at the lotus feet of Lord Sri
Hari, and get rid of sufferings of worldly existence and repeated births.”
Dhin Dhasa Lehi Gobindh Gayi | Cchin
Na Chiththa Charanambuja Badhi Jeevan
Jayi || Dhoori Jab Lau Jara Roga Ru Chalathi Indhri Bhayi | Aapunau Kalyana
Kari Lai Manushi Than Payi || Roopa
Joban Sakala Miththya Dhekhi Jani Garbayi | Yesehi Abhimana Alasa Kala Grasihai
Ayi || Koopa Khani Kath Jayi Re Nara Jaratha Bhavana Bujjayi | Sur Hari Kau
Bhajana Kari Lai Janana Marana Nasayi ||
