Priests - Indian Rituals

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Oh! Brahmin priests! Even today you are the qualified agents for the propagation

of divine knowledge of the Lord. Even today the public is inviting you only for

the ceremonies, which are either auspicious or in-auspicious. Every human being

is attending the ceremonies and is spending some of his time, energy and money

either willingly or unwillingly. Every body is forced by the tradition to attend

these ceremonies. Even a human being who is fully busy with his business or

profession and does not spend a single minute for spiritual knowledge and the

God is attending these ceremonies and is spending at least one full day for

these functions. If these ceremonies are done in real spirit, every human being

should slowly turn towards God and must have attained some spiritual knowledge.

But, unfortunately there is no iota of change in any human being after these

ceremonies. If at all there is any change, such change is coming only due to the

spiritual functions conducted by

spiritual preachers heard by these human beings when they attend these special

spiritual meetings. In fact, in the olden days all these ceremonies were only

spiritual preaching and every priest was really a spiritual preacher. The priest

conducting these ceremonies was called as Vasista.

 

Vasista was a great spiritual preacher who preached Jnana Vasistam (Divine

Knowledge). Vasista was attending all the ceremonies like the ceremony of birth,

thread marriage, marriage of Rama. Vasista attended all the ceremonies and

conducted them as functions of materials (Dravya Yajna) and occasion of chanting

prayers (Svadhyaya Yajna). When the Vedic hymns are chanted by using some

materials like sticks, fire etc., such function becomes a mixture of these two.

In fact, today every ceremony performed by Hindus is a mixture of these two

sacrifices only. Once the meaning of hymns is revealed, then the interest and

quest for God starts. Such quest is called as Tapo Yajna. Then these hymns are

explained, discussed and analysed deeply. The final conclusion of such

discussions is called as Jnana Yajna. Today the spiritual function where the

audience with interest and the preacher giving right knowledge through sharp

discussions, is a mixture of Tapo Yajna and Jnana Yajna. Thus,

the Yajna or the ceremony (function) has two sides. The external side is the

mixture of Dravya Yajna and Svadhayaya Yajna and the internal side is the

mixture of Tapo Yajna and Jnana Yajna. When Vasista conducted a ceremony, both

these sides were fulfilled. Vasista is the priest externally and spiritual

preacher internally. Such a person who is both priest as well as spiritual

preacher can be only called as Vasista. The degree M.B.B.S. trains the doctor

both in medicine as well as in surgery. But now the doctor giving medicine and

doctor doing the surgery are completely separated. A priest is not acting as

spiritual preacher.

 

A spiritual preacher is not acting as priest. Therefore, today every human

being has to spend the time separately for the priest and for the spiritual

preacher. But the priest is inevitable because the ceremonies are compulsory.

The spiritual functions are optional. A person is attending the ceremonies

without failure but is not attaining any spiritual knowledge. Suppose he does

not attend the spiritual function, in such case what is the result? He or she is

not getting any spiritual knowledge and lives and finally dies like an animal

involved only in the welfare of his or her body and his or her family. Majority

of the people belongs to this category only.

 

In the absence of spiritual knowledge even justice (Dharma) is cracked. Simply

preaching about not doing injustice and threatening about the hell cannot

control the injustice. Suppose there is a corrupt person. If you say that the

corruption is not good, nobody will hear. If you say by corruption one will be

arrested by police, he will find the ways to divert the police. If you say that

the corrupt fellow will fall in the hell, the corrupt fellow does not believe

this and asks for the proof of the hell. Even if somebody believes in the

existence of hell, the priests also are becoming corrupt by showing the corrupt

methods to escape the hell. Therefore, mere propagation, threatening by showing

police, courts and hell are not effective in controlling the injustice. Unless

the injustice is controlled, the society cannot be reformed, which will be

constantly subjected to disturbance and social evils continuously. The permanent

solution to establish social justice or for the

liberation of an individual soul is only the spiritual knowledge. The knowledge

of mere ethics including the threat regarding liquid fire etc., cannot control

the elite intellectuals. The spiritual knowledge alone can establish the real

justice and also can give the liberation of the soul. Thus, Gita, which is the

best spiritual knowledge, is competent to establish justice in the society and

to give liberation of spiritual soul. Thus, Gita mentions about the

establishment of justice (Dharma Samstapanarthaya…) and also mentions the

liberation or Moksha (Muchyante…), achievement of God (Mameti…) and also

pleasing the Lord (Mama Priyah…). Thus, Dharma, Moksha and Kaivalya are the

three birds for one shot, which is the spiritual knowledge.

 

 

 

at the lotus of shri datta swami

surya

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

 

 

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