मेरा अपना कुछ नहीं
पारसी धर्मगुरु रवि मेहरके तीन पुत्र थे। वे तीनोंके तीनों महामारीकी चपेटमें आ गये और अच्छी दवाके अभावमें जीवित न रह सके। मेहर उस समय बाहर गये। हुए थे। सन्ध्या-समय जब वे घर आये, तो उन्हें बच्चे दिखायी न दिये। उन्होंने सोचा, शायद सो गये होंगे। भोजन करते समय उन्होंने पत्नीसे पूछा- ‘क्या आज
बच्चे जल्दी सो गये ?’ पत्नीने इसका उत्तर दिये बिना उनसे कहा – ‘स्वामी! कल हमने पड़ोसीसे जो बर्तन लिये थे, उन्हें माँगनेके लिये पड़ोसी आये थे ।’ मेहरने कहा- ‘बर्तन उनके थे, इसलिये लेने आये थे । परायी वस्तुका मोह हम क्यों करें ?’ पत्नीने कहा- ‘आप ठीक कहते हैं। मैंने उन्हें वे बर्तन दे दिये।’
भोजनके उपरान्त सन्तको बच्चोंका फिर स्मरण हो आया और उन्होंने पत्नीसे उनके बारेमें पूछताछ की। तब पत्नी उन्हें शयन कक्षमें ले गयी और उसने चारपाईके नीचे रखे तीनों बच्चोंके शव दिखाये। यह देखते ही सन्त फूट-फूटकर रोने लगे। तब पत्नी बोली- ‘स्वामी! आप अभी-अभी तो कह रहे थे कि ‘कोई व्यक्ति अपनी वस्तु लेना चाहे, तो हमें वह वस्तु दे देनी चाहिये और उसके लिये दुःख नहीं करना चाहिये, लेकिन आप स्वयं ही भूल रहे हैं। बच्चे भगवान्ने दिये थे, सो उन्होंने ले लिये, फिर हम उनके लिये क्यों वृथा शोक करें ?’
इन शब्दोंसे सन्तका चित्त हलका हो गया और वे भगवद्-भजनमें लीन हो गये।
i don’t own anything
Parsi religious leader Ravi Mehar had three sons. All three of them fell in the grip of epidemic and could not survive due to lack of good medicine. Meher went out at that time. Had happened When he came home in the evening, he could not see the children. He thought, maybe he must have fallen asleep. While eating, he asked his wife- ‘Is today
Did the children sleep early?’ The wife said to him without answering it – ‘Swami! The neighbors came to ask for the utensils we had taken from the neighbor yesterday.’ Meher said- ‘The utensils belonged to him, that’s why he had come to take them. Why should we be attracted to someone else’s thing?’ The wife said – ‘ You are right. I gave them those utensils.’
After the meal, the saint remembered the children again and inquired about them from his wife. Then the wife took them to the bedroom and showed the dead bodies of the three children kept under the cot. Seeing this, the saints started crying bitterly. Then the wife said – ‘Swami! You were saying just now that ‘If a person wants to take his thing, then we should give that thing and should not suffer for it, but you yourself are forgetting. Children were given by God, so they took them, then why should we mourn for them in vain?’
With these words the saint’s mind became light and he got engrossed in Bhagavad-Bhajan.
