THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT

THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
by my revered father, HH Shri Bhola Nathji ( 1902-1992) Great Spiritual Luminary of His time.
HH Shri Bhola Nathji often narrated this parable about Alexander the Great to illustrate the transient nature of the wealth of this world and material possessions after which everyone is running in a restless rat race without finding any peace in life.

"Alexander the Great, the mighty king and Emperor of Macedonia, whose kingdom spread far into the East and far into the West, whose enemies bowed down before his sword, who was known from continent to continent and whose words was Law, is dead and gone, his ashes mingled in dust.
The world did not stop revolving around the sun; people did not stop living their lives, the affairs of mankind went on. The rolling wheel of time went on.
It is said that when Alexander was on his deathbed he expressed a very strange desire:
“Yes, allow my hands to dangle at the sides of my body, so that when people look upon them and see them, they may know that these hands – the hands of Alexander the Great, - the hands that sought to possess the whole world, are today going away empty.
"So If Alexander the Great left the world empty handed we should all ask ourselves what we will take from this world when we leave."