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Ever-watchful eyes of God

 

 

CHENNAI NOV.14 . Anyone, who presumes he can commit

any type of misdeed without being seen by any other

person, particularly when he had indulged in it within

the four corners of a room and can get away with it,

will be sadly mistaken. Such a foolish man fails to

realise that there are two "ever-watchful eyes"

witnessing the act of all individuals. They are those

of God from whom no one can escape. There is a story

of a king who with bad intentions asked a woman

attendant to come to his chambers alone and asked all

the windows to be closed. Having done this she still

hesitated and when she was questioned, her reply was

that she was unable to shut two more, viz. the eyes of

the Almighty. In the Mahabharatam, Krishna once sought

to know from Kunti whether she had done any wrong

unnoticed by anyone in her life. She then owned the

responsibility for having deserted a child procured

out of spiritual powers granted by a sage, when she

was young.

 

It is to be remembered by all that no plan, however

scrupulously drawn up, can succeed unless it has the

approval of God. With Divine Grace any scheme can be

executed. Likewise it should be the characteristic of

a true follower of Saivism to shed tears on seeing

another suffer. Differences there may be between the

two, but when one is in distress quarrels should be

forgotten and the victim should be encouraged to come

out of it, by both offering prayers to God. From the

life of Thirugnanasambandar one can learn how he had

prayed to God to help a girl, whose bridegroom died of

snakebite. Her decision to come out of the house was

only to save the honour of her family and her plea

moved him and his heart was full of mercy.

 

In a lecture on "Thirumandiram", Sri M. Sivachandran

explained how its author, Thirumoolar (one of the 63

Nayanmars), had a mission to learn from Sage Agasthya,

but he was led to perform an entirely different

compassionate act. The lives of our forbears bring out

the fact that only an educational system based on

religion can properly shape a man's future.

Thirumoolar was a student along with seven others

(including Patanjali and Vyagrapda) in Lord Siva's

abode and then he came down south to seek guidance

from Agasthya. His work consists of three parts

dealing with Mantras, Tantras and Yantras. What should

be culled out from his teachings relate to the

management of the household, efficiently and secondly,

how a country could register progress by the ruler

taking steps to correct the erring persons.

 

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