REHNA NAHIN DES BIRAANA HAI.

                                                                         

 REHNA NAHIN DES BEERANA HAI..,KABIR

( No, No stay over here. This visible world is a desolate space ) 

Many times many among  us have felt mild forms of Vairagya( detachment to the visible and material world )  . This could be like realising futility of money as one matures to old age  , a feeling of strange loneliness even being connected to family and friends or an understanding that stay in the material world has given them nothing except entanglement with Maya-Jaal. However, the grip of the visible world or the material world is so strong that this Vairagya  stays for a brief period. The best example of this could be the Shamshan Vairagya that visits some people at the cremation ground .

When a serious feeling like " Rehna Nahin Des Beerana( Veerana )  hai or No place  to live here, this world is nothing but a desolate space  " dawns upon any person in his spiritual journey, he has arrived. Arrived into the world of Vairagya cutting the Maya web that had entangled him. According to Kabir, to handle this spiritual Vairagya, one needs a true  Master or Satguru. All are not perfect and experienced to handle it.Before the onset of spiritual Vairagya, the mind feels as if the world is a field of thorny bushes only. Why get entangled and tear apart your apparel ( Chunri ) and die ?  It looks to a Vairagi, that his attachment to the world was false. This  attachment to the  world  is through a  piece of paper and even  a drop of water is sufficient to break  it. 

Kabir's Vairagya  is not the negative, indifferent state of non‑caring for anyone or anything. On the contrary, it  is a positive, love‑filled quality of caring for all without the attachment that brings bondage.This Vairagya is also related to letting go of feelings like pride, ego, aversion, inferiority and superiority complexes, false identities, and fear.It is a "dis-passionate" stance on life. Vairagya is of two kinds, viz., (i) Karana Vairagya (Vairagya on account of some miseries) and (ii) Viveka-Purvaka Vairagya (Vairagya on account of discrimination between real and unreal). The mind of a man who has got the former type of Vairagya is simply waiting for a chance to get back the things that were given up. 

The Vedas prescribe two different types of occupation for the human being. One is called the pravritti-marga, or the path of sense enjoyment, and the other is called the nivritti-marga, or the path of renunciation. The scriptures say that the  path of enjoyment is  inferior as it is for the body or senses and the path of sacrifice for the supreme cause is superior as it is for the soul.

"Vairagya is the state of supreme mastery, where there is no desire for experiences, that are either seen or heard.....". (Patanjala Yoga Darshan I:15)

In the Yoga Vasishtha, Maharishi Vashishta tells  this to Sri Rama:-

“You can uproot the Himalayas, you can drink the waters of the whole ocean, you can swallow balls of fire, but it is difficult to destroy trishna, cravings that cause incessant trouble. These cravings are the seeds of samsara that can be overcome only by vairagya”.

" In enjoyment there is fear of disease, in social position the fear of falling off, in wealth the fear of (hostile) kings, in honour the fear of humiliation, in power the fear of foe, in beauty the fear of old age, in scriptural erudition the fear of opponents, in virtue the fear of traducers and in the mortal body, the fear of death. All the things of this world pertaining to human beings are attended with fear; renunciation alone stands for fearlessness."

( Poet Bhartrihari in Vairagya Shatkam )

Now let us know what Kabir says in his Nirguna Bhajan, "Rehna Nahi Des Beerana ( Veerana ) Hai . Singers like Kumar Gandharva. Jagjit Singh and many more have sung this great Nirguna Bhajan but I prefer to listen its rendering by Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki. 

"Rahana nahin des biraana hai.

Yah Sansaar Kaagad Kee Pudiya,

Boond Pade Gali Jaana Hai.

Yah Sansaar Kaante Kee Baadee,

Ulajh Pulajh Mari Jaana Hai.

Yah Sansaar Jhaad Aur Jhaankhar

Aag Lage Bari Jaana Hai.

Kahat Kabeer Suno Bhaee Saadho,

Satugaru Naam Thikaana Hai."

My understanding of this Nirguna Bhajan goes like this :

"(Not to this world I belong,

No way to stay in this sapless desert  .

To this world, I am tied by a knot of paper,

Even a drop is enough to dissolve this attachment.

This world is like a field of thorny bushes, 

Why get entangled and die aimlessly ?

This world is nothing but dry weeds and dry shrubs,

A little fire can turn all this to ash.

So says Kabir,

" Listen you seekers,

Only true master is your destination "

( Avtar Mota)

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