By Asutosh Varshney
No matter how wealthy, influential, or powerful a person may become, not even a grain of this world can be carried beyond death.
Once one understands life through the eyes of saints, spiritual reasoning, and eternal universal laws, sorrow quietly disappears from existence.
The greatest illusion of human life is the belief that everything we possess—money, objects, relationships, status, and prestige—is truly ours.
We spend our entire lives claiming ownership over these things, yet the truth is entirely different. In the history of the world, not a single person has ever taken even a straw with them when they departed this earth.
Saints repeatedly remind us: “Everything the eyes can see is Maya.” Maya means that which appears real but is not truly real.
Whatever we have—our home, car, property, family—remains “ours” only as long as the soul resides in the body.
The moment the soul departs, even the body does not belong to us. So how can anything else truly be ours?
A man once argued with a saint, saying, “How can this not be mine? I earned it. The land is registered in my name. This is the fruit of my hard work.”
The saint smiled gently and replied, “If all this is truly yours, then take it with you at the time of death.
What cannot accompany you beyond life was never yours to begin with. Realizing this simple truth shatters the illusion of Maya.”
Whether king or beggar, wealthy or destitute, everyone has left the world empty-handed.
History stands witness—there has never been an exception. No one’s wealth has ever followed them to the funeral pyre; no bank balance has ever been deposited with Yama; no one has returned in the next life to reclaim the land they once owned.
But one thing does accompany us: our actions, our character, and the intentions behind our deeds.
These shape the destiny of our next birth.
When we understand that everything is temporary, life becomes easier. From the body to the breath, everything in this world is borrowed.
When the time is up, everything must be returned. True wisdom lies not in hoarding, but in using what we have meaningfully.
( The Writer Asutosh Varshney has been in the field of Astrology for the past thirty years and has written several books on the subject.)
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