A question once arose in the mind

How would you like to be known?
After you have lived your life and
From this world you are gone

By  your wordly achievements?
Amount of money you made?
Or how many people you helped?
How many lives better, you made

Buildings you constructed
Or institutions you created?
Achievements of your children
Or alms you distributed!

By the vehicles you drove
Or the countries you visited?
Books you read or wrote
Or the knowledge accumulated!


Professional excellence
Or academic achievements
Responsibilities discharged
Fulfilled religious commitments?

Having furthered the endless
Cycles of births and deaths
What possession or ambition
You most desired on this earth?

The pride in achievements
Or how you would be known
How will it matter to you
The moment you are gone?

To be freed of  fetters
Of body and mind
To be totally free of desire
If the God be so kind!


To know oneself as indestructible
Eternal immortal  unborn undivided
Unbound to body, untouched by desire
Blissful awareness and truth  unveiled