Words have Spirits

An old saying goes: A bullet fired from a gun, an arrow targeted from a bow and the words uttered from the mouth never come back.

But wait....   there’s a new theory to it now!!!

Some day back when I and my friend Sourav were talking something, he eventually said: “Words have Spirits”(Shabdon ki v atmayein hoti hai) which caught up my imagination. I began to wonder and gave it a deep thought and also discussed with him. A comparison flew out.

Just as our Spirits/Soul is a part of ‘the Supreme’-God which when breaks apart from his divine presence has to complete its lifecycle (which may consist of many rebirths due to indulgement in wrong deeds and inactivity) in order to again become a part of the God.

In the same way, the words (or spirits) when uttered from ‘our tongue’(the Supreme) will have to complete a lifecycle (or several) till they can be taken back. This eventually means that ‘It is possible to take back your words(having souls).

Words too attain Moksha

        But perhaps it may not be too easy... Just as people go through several hardships, even several rebirths to attain moksha. Some even need help of other mortals(e.g someone who guided them to the path of enlightenment, truth or taught them about good deeds, etc.) and yet others consider going for a pilgrimage to regret their sins and become pure. In the same way the words uttered when guided to the correct path with the help of some other words (uttered to regret for the words spoken earlier) attain moksha. Remember these words are all part of your soul just like you are part of the God. Just like God sends hi souls in the form of mortals to support other mortals; the word also support the words spoken earlier and guide them to moksha(i.e they return to you positively).

        So, one may ask what might happen if the words uttered later were also negative. The answer is simple the time lag for the word to attain moksha(or to positively resign) will increase in the same way as a good person guided by a bad company indulge in wrong deeds.

The underlying phenomenon is that the next time if you say something which was not meant to be said. Say a few good lines from the bottom of your heart with full zeal(that will surely guide your wrong words to correct path and help it to attain moksha) And then there will be no one in this world who will not forgive you...

in the end i remember when i was in 5th standard- hindi class - Kabir Ke Dohe:

ऐसी वाणी बोलिए, मन का आपा खोय |

औरन को शीतल करे, आपहु शीतल होय ||

                                                        Abhinav Gupta