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Maaya Mari Na Man Mara

The teacher gives his last piece of advice to students - to cross the river on their way home but not get their feet wet. This advises living in the world but not being affected or corrupted by it. Like crossing a river without getting wet, the wise person lives in the flow of the world but does not allow it to change them. This idea is captured in a verse that says the speaker lives in the world but does not desire it, and roams the market but is not a buyer. A champion is someone who remains undefeated even in defeat - victory does not inflate their ego nor does defeat diminish them.

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Maaya Mari Na Man Mara

The teacher gives his last piece of advice to students - to cross the river on their way home but not get their feet wet. This advises living in the world but not being affected or corrupted by it. Like crossing a river without getting wet, the wise person lives in the flow of the world but does not allow it to change them. This idea is captured in a verse that says the speaker lives in the world but does not desire it, and roams the market but is not a buyer. A champion is someone who remains undefeated even in defeat - victory does not inflate their ego nor does defeat diminish them.

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‘Maaya mari na man mara, mar mar gaya sharir’.

(Neither the illusion dies nor does the mind, the body dies)

A teacher was on his death bed, he was dying. So his student asked him, “Sir, can you please
give us one last advice”. He said, “I will expire and then you will return to your homes, and
while returning to your homes, there is this river in between, and you will cross that river”.
The student said that “Yes sir, that’s true. When we will go back, we will cross the river”. The
teacher said, “Cross the river, but don’t wet your feet”.

Cross the river but don’t wet your foot. That is how the intelligent man
lives. He does live in the flow as well, but he does not allow the flow to corrupt
him, to change something in him. He does not allow the flow to wet him. So
even when he is in the river, he is not wet. That’s quite special, isn’t it? To be in
it yet not of it.

Akbar Allahabadi captured it beautifully in his verse when he said:

Duniya mein rehta hun duniya ka talabgar nahi hun

Bazar se guzra hun kharidar nahi hun

(I live in the world, but I do not desire the world. I roam around in the market, but I am
not the buyer of the market)

A champion is one is who is not defeated even in defeat.

Neither victory makes me big nor does defeat make me small.

That’s a champion.

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