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Religion

  

 

Truth and Morality are twin treasures

 

 

 

 

CHENNAI

AUG.2

 

.. People have different notions about our culture. Some think that it is archaic

and outdated. This term can be defined as the process, which destroys beastly

instincts, fosters humanness and makes the individual divine. The achievement of

a person before his exit from this life is to strive to rise to the level of

Divinity. Our sages in the past spent their lives in dense forests amidst wild

animals without any sense of fear. Lions and similar ferocious beings used to

lie on their path when the Rishis went to take bath in rivers. These animals

never harmed them because there was absolutely no trace of hatred in these noble

souls and consequently the former too were friendly. The sages never carried

with them any weapon except the "Divine Names of the Lord". Even now if one goes

with this potent "rifle" with him others can do no harm to him. So too, our

ancients used to offer foodgrains to birds and rice flour to ants (to feed

them). This was because the "Bharatiyas" had fir!

m faith in God and believed that He is present in every creation. This

represents our glorious culture, which had its basis on observing "Truth" which

the ancients considered as supreme wealth and as the source of all prosperity.

They held "Truth and Morality" as twin treasures.

 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba, in a lecture, referred to several characters in our

scriptures who were mighty, powerful, intelligent and educated, but yet were

ruined since they forsook "Truth" and failed to uphold Morality and Integrity.

Truth and Righteousness will always protect everyone and the youth of today

should have these virtues as the goal of life. At no point of time did the main

player in the Mahabharata (Yudhishtira) transgress this sacred path. The last

word in the first verse of the Bhagavad Gita is "Dharma" and the last in the

final sloka is "Mama". Together it becomes "Mamadharma" (my foremost duty).

Safeguarding this eternal virtue will make mind tranquil. While on his ascetic

practices, Buddha told a woman who offered him alms that he was actually in

search of the "food of knowledge". Once a farmer mocked at him as a lazy monk

and so he would not give him anything. Buddha told him that he was cultivating

the land of the heart, watering it with love, removing the we!

eds of evil tendencies, harvesting the grains of wisdom and that he gets the

fruit of Bliss. The mind of a man can become steady once he believes that God

resides in him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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