ISON: The Song of Fire and Ice

Disclaimer: This post has nothing to do with GRR Martin’s novels or HBO’s TV series. But no other name suits this event than The Song of Ice and Fire. I’d have thanked GRR Martin for the name, but there’s no “Thank You” in Dothraki.

                                              

Few weeks ago I told you a story, about Betelguese. Today, I want to tell you a story about a different celestial object. My favorite in 2013 which I tracked for months. You might have read its name in the newspapers sometime – ISON.

 

In the far boundaries of the Solar System within the Oort cloud, a little pack of dust and gas was once called upon by the mighty Sun. As the dust started to make its way towards the Sun, it started collecting more dust, gas, and ice. As it approached the Sun, the ice began to glow, leaving a brilliant tail behind. It travelled for hundreds of years, collecting gas, becoming stronger, speeding up, approaching the Sun when finally in September 2012 I first heard of its name – comet ISON. I looked forward to it but knew it’d be until atleast October 2013 when I’d really get interested.

 

As time went on and October 2013 came, I started to track ISON everyday. It was beautiful. It was not a comet in the usual sense. One, it was never going to come back. It was a hyperbolic comet, which means once it went around the Sun it’d never come back ever. It’d keep moving out into space until some other star called it. Two, it’d go strikingly close by the Sun. To the extent of grazing it. This was a dangerous thing for ISON, but astronomers like me were hopeful. Three, it’d be visible in daylight. Once it came, every human alive on the northern hemisphere of the planet would be able to see 2 Suns in the day. 2 moons at night. The Sun wouldn’t be able to block it out. It’d be as bright as the moon. In December, it’d outshine the moon. It’d be historic, brilliant, something which comes once in centuries. And we’d be alive to see it.

 

But first, ISON had to go by the Sun. Its real challenge. Given the intensity of the Sun and the immense gravitational pull, there was a slight chance that the SUN would break ISON apart. Tear it down to its nucleus and then break the nucleus into the dust which it once was. And then when ISON would be entirely defeated, the Sun would engulf the remnants. People on Earth were to be mere spectators in this battle between father and son. And it was to be an epic battle indeed. NASA called it comet of the century. People from all over the world met on the night of November 28^th, 2013 on a Google Hangout with eminent scientists from across the world to talk about this battle of ice and fire. I was awake that night.

 

Be what may, I learnt one thing from the anticipation. If you have to write history, you need to burn yourself. You need to risk going farther than anyone else has ever gone. Only then will you be bright enough to outshine the status quo. To give something revolutionary, you need to risk burning out yourself. That’s what ISON was doing. ISON was no longer just a sungrazing comet. It was a symbol of hope, courage and revolution. And geeks like me watched in anticipation.

 

Finally, on 2:30 AM on November 29^th, 2013 (CST), the moment of truth arrived. I was following the comet through the kinematic update on Emory University’s Physics Department’s website, NASA’s Google Hangout and the Solar System-scope website. The comet went so close to the Sun that no man-made instrument was able to observe it and then it was a matter of time when we’d see comet ISON again. It might have died out in the Sun, or it might have come out victorious, to be seen by humans in mid-December. We waited in anticipation, until something began to be visible again. Something came out. Very weak. Very pale. The nucleus of the comet had broken. Now it was just a matter of time when it’d disintegrate into nothingness again leaving behind nothing but a story. It went too far. It took a risk and it didn’t pay off. Nature, perhaps isn’t always fair to the struggling. Or this is what nature had always intended.

 

This was one of the many celestial phenomena which keep happening in the Universe all the time. This one was special just because it happened so close to the Earth that people could observe it. And this was revolutionary. To me, this was a lesson. To be brave and go for the goal. Only after scorching yourself you can expect to glow brightly. And that whatever I do, nature will prevail. Destiny has a story decided for me. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have to play my part. I have to do what I need to, and nature will do what it needs to. And together, we write history. Because only then will life would have been worth living. And that is the message I want to leave you with. It’s not always going to be easy. But only when you take a great risk will you come up with a great story.

 

Vishal Gupta

December 2013

Vishwakriti – Part 2/4

-           4          -

 

I feel as if time had stopped, to listen to me talk to myself

at the crossroads of my life, time too wants answers it had not found yet

I wonder, am I talking to myself, or am I talking to time?

Am I talking to myself, or my past, present and future?

Are my questions only mine, or have they been sought before?

Are my questions relevant today, will they be tomorrow?

Till time continues to flow, humankind will need to face these questions

I am not the only one asking these questions, time is asking them with me

every day, in every era, there have been crossroads, and there will be crossroads

So if you wish to face your past and present,

so turn towards your dilemmas and find your answers within yourselves

a voice will speak to you, the voice of reason, the voice of your heart, the voice of God

and find the answers to your questions, which have bothered you perpetuity

 

Yet, I am unable to stand up

something held me back from action

I still do not understand the use of action

I still do not know, what action might convert to

I know you want neither materialistic pleasures nor fame nor heaven

Look beyond happiness sadness profit loss victory defeat

Till now I spoke in terms of knowledge and wisdom

which can look through life

and can reach to the depth of truth to understand the voice of its soul

But maybe you got lost in its immortality

 

So weight this moment on the scales of treatment and behavioral duty

even then, you shall reach the same conclusion

Decide your action on the basis of your behavioral duty

you will reach the same conclusion, that your action in your duty is essential

The only reason why you are indecisive

is because you are judging this moment from a personal stance

This is the bond of love; this is the root of your misery

And this is why this coward, disgraced and dastardly grief is neither in your well being

not in the welfare of the society

This grief is neither good for the present, nor the future

Do not be swayed in these hopes of benefit and loss

only do your duty

 

Duty itself is holy, pure and good for the society

Action itself is the fruit

But if you mix your own benefits in social welfare then that action of yours

will be impure and wretched

So walk on the path of selfless action

because the result of the action is not in your hands

So perform your duty, and do not worry about the fruit it bears

 

I wonder, how is this selfless action possible?

the vision of the result is the motivation for action

So if the vision of the result is not present

then why would I do anything at all?

 

You shall do anything, because deedless life is not possible

You will do something

Either you’ll eat, or you shall stay hungry

You shall feed, or you shall starve

Or you shall perform your duty, or you shall not

These are the only options you have,

but the results of your deeds  are not in your hands

Your rights end on the boundaries of your decisions and deeds

the results of the deeds are not in your hands

Even if you wish to win, it would not result in you winning

you might lose too

But, if you are not attracted towards victory, then defeat too wont scare you

If you think that victory and defeat do not matter

yet you shall perform your acts because it is your duty

then there arises no question of the glory of victory or sorrow of defeat

And the man who is neither happy in victory nor sad in defeat

only that man is unmoved in all circumstances

So, do not think of the rewards or loses of your actions

do what you can do, that is, your duty

Understand this, that you have only the options of action and inaction

but the scope of your rights end with your deeds

The result of the actions is not your right

You may be a great thinker,

but if the truth does not match to your ideas in the slightest

then you are wrong

Your rights are on your understandings; your rights are on your theories

but you have no right on the truth

Good men never cross the boundaries of their rights

So be firm in your actions

Because the efficiency of your actions, is Yog

 

Yog! What is Yog?

 

Yog is the efficiency of deeds

Rejection of attractions is efficiency of deeds

Being free of attractions and performing your duties is the efficiency of deeds

Being steady in both victory and defeat is efficiency of deeds

 

I find myself intrigued

till yesterday, I faced these confusions of action and procrastination

Were these answers always within me?

or has divine light today shined on me

These are answers, I find within

answers I have known all along

Is it something new I’ve been told

or has my soul carried this knowledge from time immemorial

Perhaps till yesterday, the noise of the world blocked out this knowledge from me

but today, I hear myself in silence

So was the world my enemy till now, or was I myself mine?

 

But right now, I cannot stop to think this

right now, I am the medium this divine energy flows to the world

So this is not the time to stop myself and ponder away

this is the time, to do my duty of the medium I am

 

So I turn to myself again, and ask the signs

of an ideal man steady in action

I wish to be one, but I do not know the traits of one

How does he behave, how does he communicate?

 

There is no difficulty is knowing the ideal man

Like him, free yourself from your desires

and be free of your personal desires

Go beyond happiness and sorrow and be content in yourself

Then you shall neither burn in the fire of sorrow nor shall you wet in the rain of happiness

The ideal man is the person, who stays the same in happiness and sorrow

and none can break this balance of his

When he speaks, then he does not speak from the shallows of happiness or sorrow

but from the depths of his soul

he speaks not of attraction, but of selfless action

 

He sits within himself, like a tortoise

he is his own fort

Meaning, his senses are in his control

and only that man can control his senses,

who can control his mind

 

The ordinary man thinks of the object

and the attachment to an object makes him vulnerable

This attraction gives birth to yearning

When the yearning is not satisfied, then anger is born

This anger increases the love for the object

This love takes away the strength to think

When thought is lost, wisdom is destroyed

And when wisdom is destroyed, then the man is destroyed

 

Your attachment is taking you to the destruction of wisdom

Just think, if one doesn’t have the wisdom then how will he find peace?

He cannot distinguish peace from turmoil

and how can one who cannot distinguish peace from turmoil be happy?

The way gusts of wind disturb the path of a boat,

desires disturb the path of thoughts

 

Ancient words come back to be

as I think of what I learn

A great slave your mind is to you

but at the same time a terrible master

 

So keep your senses in your control,

do not come in their control

Listen to me and understand

that when the world sleeps, then a sage awakens

and when the world is awake, the sage sleeps

 

What are these sleep and awakening?

What are these night and day?

 

I never spoke of night and day,

I merely spoke of sleep and wake

The wake of the ordinary man, is to earn and enjoy something

this is the aim of his consciousness

If he is hungry then he looks for food

if he is thirsty, he looks for water

if he wants to save himself from seasons, he looks for a house

His thought is for himself

 

But a sage does not think of objects

he thinks beyond personal hunger and thirst

he does not think of the fruit fallen from the tree,

he thinks of the tree and the forest

 

The ordinary man needs wood for fuel

so he will cut trees till forest are destroyed

The sage thinks of the importance of forests in nature

he thinks of the balance of nature

of the relationship between forests and nature

 

So, what is day for the senses of ordinary men

is night for the sage

because he has crossed the boundations of senses

And what is night for the senses of ordinary men

is day for the sage

because in that silence, his sentience rises

The sage thinks of the problems, and also their solutions

And this is what separates him from ordinary men

 

Truth is beyond the reach of senses

It’s not that the sage does not feel hungry, he does

but he looks beyond his hunger

and thinks, what is the answer to hunger

That is why the day of ordinary man, is the sage’s night

and the one who saves himself from this ordinary man’s night

is the ideal man

 

Ordinary men are like those rivers, who flow with anxiousness

but they do not know their path

they just flow without a vision because for them, only flowing is their duty

And they let out all their water, all their anxiety in the ocean

Yet, the ocean does not cross the boundaries of its shores

Likewise, the rivers of desires take ordinary men flowing with them

but when they come to a sage, the sage absorbs them

and does not cross the boundaries of his rights

So, you should also be the ocean

The ocean is a sage, the ocean is wise

You should also be wise, because wisdom is right

 

Startled, I ask my inner voice

if wisdom is right, then why do you suggest this tough path of action

You have confused me,

if wisdom is better than action, then why should I act at all?

Why shouldn’t I turn a sage, and pursue the path of knowledge

I ask for the path of felicity, please show me that path

 

-           5          -

 

There are 2 kinds of people in the world

Introverts and extroverts

The introverts try to find God within themselves

this is the Yog of knowledge

And the extroverts try to find God outside themselves

but there’s no recluse from action

Because finding it within is action too

So, these are the only 2 paths

one of knowledge, another of action

 

So why shouldn’t I walk on the path of knowledge?

 

But even knowledge is not the path to abandon action and gain success

because life itself is not possible without action

If you have eyes then they will inevitably see

if you have eyelashes then they will inevitably wink

if you have ears then they will inevitably hear

One who stands in the way of senses,

one who forcibly suppresses them and thinks

he is not a Yogi, not wise, he is a living lie

 

The wise comes to control his senses, not to suppress them

he doesn’t live closing his eyes

The journey of life is not possible without action

People will atleast breathe!

If there is a scent or stench in the environment,

then he is subject to experience it

If there is a song or sound or clamor near him

then his ears won’t wait for his permission to hear it

 

That is why one who keeps his senses in balance

one who keeps his senses within the boundaries of rationality

one who turns them towards action and shows them the path of action

only he is supreme

 

He understands his options and uses his willpower

and, doing fated tasks is better than doing nothing

Now this is true that eyes see

but what they see and what they do not see is determined by the wise himself

He does not give complete freedom to his eyes to see

to his ears to hear or to his legs to walk

 

At this point of options,

the difference between wise and ordinary is realised

that is why action is essential,

because it is impossible for the body to live without it

But act like the wise

 

Perform your duties like an oblation

because action is an oblation

and its source is the indestructible universe

and so the path of action goes straight to the universe

And so, the man who does not contribute in the universal cycle

his life becomes valueless

Do not go towards that worthlessness

 

One who thinks only of his problems is a sinner

so come out of this web of fascination and realize your duties and follow them

The desire of the fruit of action is the obstacle in the way

The aspiration of the fruit of action is the rock around one’s neck

which does not allow them to come above their own surface

This cuts the person from the society

and pushes him in the marsh of personal gain or personal loss

 

The society is not within you, you are in the society

so consider public charity and public welfare as your primal duty

because what will be good for the society will also prove good for you

The action for public charity will bring you success

Personal benefit is the foundation of sin

because it strays the person for self-accomplishments

 

And do not forget that you are a great man

and people will see you as an ideal and follow you on the path of lust and greed

because the behavior of a great man predictably becomes a parable

Take me for instance

 

There is nothing in the 3 worlds which is essential for me to do

and there is nothing in the 3 worlds which I wish to attain, and I cannot

yet I speak to you, performing my duty

showing that, proving that it is possible to live with selfless action

 

I’m startled, what is this voice saying to me

at this point the voice talking to me seems to have changed

as if it is not me, but someone else speaking

But who? I don’t understand. None but God can speak in this manner

None other can say that there is nothing in the 3 worlds

which they wish to attain, and cannot

It says there is nothing in the 3 worlds worth doing for it

yet, it is acting

That if it does not act, then the world will see it as an example

and will denunciate action and the action-cycle will stop

And if it is stopped then society will be destroyed

and it will be held responsible for this destruction

 

These words couldn’t have been made in my mind

these are not the words of any ordinary or special man

Even if a learned sage uttered them,

it would still be called a display of arrogance

Yet, this voice did not seem to speak in arrogance at all

 

This scares me,

If this voice asks me to battle now,

then forgetting all my weaknesses even I would arm myself

So will I act now? I know the answer to this question

but acting out of time is not my right

God did not want me to step up yet,

and I was not going to leave the present I was experiencing

So I wait for my future to be born from the present

This wait is also my action

So I return to the voice which talks to me about my battles

 

Even ordinary men act, but only with the vision of their own greed

the action of the wise is selfless,

to preserve the balance of the world, for public welfare

So do not take any burden on your soul

dedicate your actions to me and fight your battles

Even death in the part of duty is celebratory

even the most heinous acts on the path of duty do not sin you

because following your duty is sin ridden

Those who are a part of your action become noble,

so will you on your path of action

So follow your duty, because the path of righteousness cannot be the path of sin

 

When you speak of sin then tell me,

why is man compelled to sin sometimes

what compels him?

 

He is compelled by his lust; he is compelled by his selfishness

he is compelled to sin by his anger, by his affection

recognize these enemies

The way smoke covers fire, or dust covers mirror, or Moon covers Sun

wisdom is covered by lust, anger and desire

 

The fire of lust and greed destroy wisdom,

and is the enemy of the wise

Purify the fire, cleanse the mirror,

and moderate your senses

to kill these enemies of wisdom and knowledge

 

Senses are superior to objects, and the mind is superior to the senses

Wisdom is superior to mind, and the soul is superior to wisdom

So worry for the soul, and try to rise above the body, senses, mind and wisdom

You are my friend, and my disciple, so I wish to tell you that knowledge

which has been lost for a long time

But in the beginning of the universe, I gave this to the Sun

and the Sun gave it to Adam, who gave it to the first king

 

What am I hearing! Knowledge to the Sun?

But I and surely this voice I hear are of the modern day

and the Sun is ancient

so how could this knowledge have been given to the Sun

at the beginning of the Universe?

Betelguese: The Lesson of Life

I want to tell you a little story. Not too long, don't worry. It's not a story about something from my life either. It's the story of something bigger. A story of a star.

 

Next time when you're at the balcony of your home, or at the roof on a clear moonless cloudless night, look up to the stars. You'll find a strip of 3 stars in a line. Easy to recognize. Just a little far away from that strip is a fascinating star named Betelgeuse. It's a very special star to me. It's my favorite star. It's the 8th brightest star in the sky. But that's not why Betelguese is special.

 

Betelguese is a star which will explode one day. Stars are usually unstable. After the fuel inside them burns out, they either die quietly like our Sun will one day, or they go out with an explosion. Betelguese is one of the exploding types! This could happen anytime; anytime in the next million years that is. You see they die in a slow fashion and are unpredictable sometimes. Betelguese is 640 light years away from us. That means the most powerful telescopes on Earth will take 640 years after Betelguese’s demise to record its explosion. Ofcourse it could be happening right now and we wouldn't know in our lifetimes. Or it might've happened 639 years ago!

 

When Betelguese explodes, its light will light up our sky. It will outshine everything apart from the Sun. It'll be the only star visible during the day and the moon will seem dark compared to it. It'll stay like that for 2-3 months. A very special time for Earth.

 

But this is still not why Betelguese is special.

 

When Betelguese explodes, it will send off 2 gamma rays bursts in the sky. Luckily, its rotational axis is not pointing towards our solar system. This means, we'll only see it exploding. We won't be harmed due to the explosion. Had the axis pointed anywhere near the Earth, all plants would've died, the soil would've been contaminated because of the radiation and all electronic devices would’ve gone dead. Betelguese is only going to be a subject of beauty for Earth. But there are other stars out there, we don't know. Others which might explode anytime. Which might have already exploded. Which might be pointing at us. A gamma ray burst might hit you tomorrow, or next year, or your child after you die, or may not hit the Earth ever at all. No one can tell. But it makes me think how fragile life is. Something from so far away might kill us all just because we were unlucky enough to fall in its path. So when I look up at Betelguese, I think about the other stars just waiting to kill us. I think about life just waiting to end. I think about the little time I have to fulfil my destiny. It does not allow me to think small. It forces me to work hard. It asks me to follow only what I truly believe in and I do it without a question. Next time when you see Betelguese, ask yourself if you'd live the way you are living had it pointed towards you. You'll get your answers.

 

Vishal Gupta

December 2012

Vishwakriti – Part 1/4

-           1          -

I come to sing a distant tale,

lost in sands of times and screams of war

It gave a warrior his strength to fight

and I go to it when I need mine

 

I do not trust the story

nor believe it to be true

It might be the exaggerated vision of a poet

or a story distorted in hapless translation

 

Yet, I know if I believe in this myth

it gives me strength to fight my wars

And it is a story which now has me by the hook

for now that I know it, I can’t overlook

 

So I don’t ask you to trust the story

nor believe in the imagination of an astute

I merely ask you to heed his offer

and make your decision after

 

So I go up to the crossroads of my life

And stand there for a while to ponder

Which road should I take for my salvation?

In this time of helplessness, which the right decision

 

-           2          -

 

Time and again, I feel confused

about right and wrong and good and bad

For these definitions change with time and circumstances

and there is no one principle on which one may stand

 

Surrounded by peers and family

I find eyes boring into me

Tried I am, not only by them

but also by my own sense of judgment

 

Misjudged I am, at every action

even my thoughts and considerations are judged

Some, do not understand but are patient

some, who I know are with me at heart

 

I see my actions beyond me

I wonder if I’m right or wrong

Would I hurt the ones I love

or would my life be a legacy they shall cry upon

 

I need not do anything I doubt today

but I wonder if inaction too is right or not

All I want is peace of mind

All I do not know is where it can be found

 

I desire not to rule a land

neither I wish for fortunes mammoth

All I desire are answers and peace

All I have is confusion and grief

 

I look up to the heavens

with tears flooding my eyes

when I hear a small within myself

It sounded as if it were dejected for long

but today was speaking to me on my crossroads

 

Before seeking answers, first let me know

that when destruction steps into time and lives

when time demands you of deeds

when despair and difficulties have surrounded time

and righteousness itself looks up to you for protection and victory

how did you dare to let such pity thoughts enter your heart?

 

Great men do not fall in despair like this

when time comes for action, they do not seek to desert

These emotions you have will take all glory from your life

and you yourself will be the cause of your criticism

 

Your actions are not to recognize or establish relationships

Find your duty and then take a decision,

because you are the only one who can take a decision

Because this life is yours, and its consequences would also be yours

 

I understand now my life and decisions are mine

but I yet don’t know which decision to take

I know I stand amidst values right and wrong

yet I’m unable to tell one from another

My senses fail me, they take me to despair

they make me feeble, unable to act

So I dig deeper into my soul, asking questions

and thus began, one of the greatest lessons I embanked

 

-           3          -

 

Those dead can never be called back

and the wise do not cry over corpses

they grieve neither for birth nor death

You think like a wise man, but your questions are foolish

before grieving just think, is the live you grieve for worth it?

 

You must understand that the true element is not the body

it is the soul

And death is not the end of its journey

because its journey is endless

Death is just station, a momentary lapse

just like the end of breaths, is not the end of the wind

the end of a body, is not the end of the soul

 

Take it this way that a child is born

that child grows to me a man

the man grows old, and finally dies

But this is the journey of the body,

the soul goes beyond

It simply abandons the body,

and finds a new one to embrace

So the journey which ends with death,

is only the journey of the body

 

The journey of the soul is endless

and at some point in its journey, the body is left behind

and the soul moves on

And just like you change your clothes

the soul changes its

 

Death and destruction can never touch the soul

So grieve for what? And for whose loss?

Would you cry over the death of the cloth?

But the cloth was never immortal

it was meant to be discarded one day

And the soul does not die, it never dies

 

There was never a time, when I was not there

there was never a time, when you were not there

there was never a time, when anyone was not there

So how is to be or not to be relevant

Because there would never be a time, when I would not be there

or you would not be there, or anyone would not be there

 

So how can you believe, that the present life is all life

The present is not eternity, you are for eternity

And on this grand scale of time, what happiness and sadness

These are merely seasons, which inevitably come and go

 

The man who is unmoved in happiness and sorrow,

and takes on them uninfluenced

only he is ideal, only he deserves salvation

 

Only that can die which has been born

the soul is beyond birth and time

Laws of birth are applicable to creatures, not souls

and if the soul cannot be born, then how can it die?

the soul is just… there. It exists

It exists on both ends of time, and it makes time flow

Soul is beyond birth, beyond time, beyond religion, shapeless, deathless

Death only affects the body, not the soul

because weapons don’t penetrate it, fire doesn’t burn it

water doesn’t wet it and wind doesn’t dry it

 

I remember the times, when I have lived

when I have written across pages in ink

When I entered a trance, taking no trace of my own

when bereft of sanity, only the task at hand matters

that is the time, when the soul lives

It is unaware of the body, unaware of life and relationships

and what matters is the soul, and the task at hand

We are born with it, and we die with it

and the soul is the only thing which journeys along

There’s something about me which hasn’t changed since birth

the soul it is undoubtedly

It has put on layers during this life so it’s difficult to discover it now

but sometimes it comes up

and when this body dies, all layers will come off

and once again I shall go forward with the soul

or perhaps, the soul shall go forward with me

 

But then, I think, the soul never dies

but people do

The soul is indestructible

but relationships die

People aren’t just souls, relationships aren’t a myth

they are real people with real feelings and real relations

So isn’t the loss real

I close my eyes again and ask the calm in me

In my mind, I receive the reply

 

Yes, people are born,

so let’s take your argument further

One who is born, will certainly face death,

so why lament the certain?

Whoever is born, has to die

and this death is not the end

Because the person dying will be reborn

This is an unshakable truth which none can change

So in this endless cycle of birth, death and rebirth

where is the place for grief?

 

Everyone you see, was there before this life

but you don’t know what they were

They will be there after this life

but what, you don’t know even that

Their existence is not confined between the points of birth and death

and the existence beyond life, is unknown, untold

Meaning, they were not there for you before this life

and they won’t be there for you after this

So why worry for this small part of their existence

Their life’s inescapable end is death

and this end can neither be eluded nor changed

so why do you mourn for death?

You knew none of your peers and relations before this life

and you won’t know them after this

Then, to grieve for them is useless isn’t it?

 

Like tearing is the last truth for a cloth

death is the last truth of life

So why lament the truth?

Man is not a mixture of body and soul, mortal and immortal

The body is just a tool for the soul

So without worrying for the body, one must follow one’s duty

And if you wish to live like a warrior, a man synonymous with victory

then also only your duty will bring you peace

And when wrong stands infront of righteousness

then you must face it and defeat it

So your duty is the only option you have

 

So I ask myself, what is the right thing to do?

What is the duty I must follow?

What am I? Who am I?

Am I a warrior? I am a warrior of life. A warrior of light

 

Life, is a war, of which we all are warriors

And the duty of a warrior is your duty

To fight the wrong is your duty. To fight immorality is your duty

And if in times of decision you do not stand for the truth and against evil

then with your devoir your glory will also be destroyed

And if this happens then not only your enemies

but the entire world will call you disgraced and dastard

and coming generations will call you a coward and sinner

So do not be lost in the questions

of victory and defeat, life and birth, happiness and sorrow

and do your duty

If you win in your life, then you shall enjoy the pleasures and fame of the world

and even if you lose, then also you’ll go to heaven with eminence

So get up, happiness, sadness, birth, death, victory, defeat; treat them all the same

and do your duty

For this is your warrior code, and human duty