Fwd: [bramhandnayaka] QUALITIES TO BE ATTAINED BY A HINDU.

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A lovely reply to the message I sent--- In

bramhandnayaka,

Saurabh Deshpande

<saurabhd2110> wrote:

It is a

very good list although some points

missing. I have added my comments

below. Please feel to correct me if I am

wrong.

 

So long as people don't

threaten you, practise ahimsa. Self

defense is allowed. Himsa for the sake

of dharma sansthapana is also

allowed, (killing of the wicked)to

uphold the dharma.

 

This is only in

the case of brahmacharya ashram,

in grishatashram it is allowed to have

sex with your lawfully wedded wife

for prajanana ( creation of offspring

for the continuation of the vansha),

although lust should not be

there.

 

Accumulation of wealth to

the tune of 10-12 times your annual

needs was allowed. Anymore than

that was a sin. Brahmins were not

allowed to accumulate wealth. In

Rama rajya I think, the enitre wealth

was redistributed by Rama to the

people every 12 years.

 

As for as

the unslefishness here is a nice

shloka

Sarve sukhina santu sarve

santu nirahmaya

sarve bhadrani

pashyantu ma kaschitta dukkha

mapnuyat

 

For the devotion to

the duty also another one from

Gita

Karmanyeva dhikaraste ma

faleshu kadachan

 

Nevertheless

it is a great compilation. Please do

post more of this sort.

 

Regards,

 

 

Saurabh.

 

devishakti_india

<devishakti_india>

wrote:

 

||JAI MA MAHASARASWATI

||

||JAI MA MAHALAKSHMI ||

||JAI MA

MAHAKALI ||

 

 

QUALITIES TO BE

ATTAINED BY A HINDU.

 

 

1.

HARMLESSNESS <Ahimsa>: means

refraining from injury

to anyone

through mind,speech or action.

 

2.

TRUTH : means serpenting a thing

precisely as one

has perceived it

through the mind or the senses,

and

in agreeable language.

 

3.

NON-STEALING : means refraining from

all forms of

theft illegal possession

of others property.

 

4.

BRAHMACHARYA : consists in

abstaining from all the

forms of

sexual gratification ( like looking at

a

member of the opposite sex with

lustful eyes,

indulging in amorous

talks, uttering words

denoting

it.)

 

5. NON-

ACCUMULATION OF THINGS: means

refraining from

accumulation from

a sense of possession.

 

6. PURITY :

connotes freedom from bodily and

mental

impurities.

 

7.

CONTENTMENT : means complete

absence of thirst of

material

objects.

 

8. AUSTERITY : means

enduring one's

religious

obligations.

 

9.

SCRIPTURAL STUDY: includes study of

sacred books,

repetition of Divine

Names and recounting the

virtues

of the Lord.

 

10.

DEVOTION TO GOD: This is expressed

through faith

in and attachment to

God.

 

11. SPIRITUAL WISDOM: means

discrimination between

what is

real and what is unreal.

 

12.

DISPASSION : denotes complete

absence of

attachment to

anything pertaining to this world or

the

next.

 

13. SELF-DISCIPLINE: is

exercising control over

the

mind.

 

14. CONTROL OF THE

SENSES: There are five senses

of

perception and five organs of

action. Their control

means

bringing them all under subjugation

and using

them according to one's

discretion.

 

15. ENDURANCE: means

the capacity to bear heat and

cold,

and to remain unaffected by

pleasure and pain

etc. that is not to

be influenced by

diverse

experiences.

 

16. PIETY:

means absolute faith in the Vedas,

the

scriptures and the teachings

of the Hrishis<Sages>,

one's

preceptuor and the Lord as though

they were

directly perceived

truths.

 

17. FORGIVENESS: means

entertaining no thought

of

punishment on one who has

wronged you.

 

18. COURAGE:

means absence of cowardice.

 

19.

COMPASSION: means the melting of

the heart at the

right of suffering

of a creature.

 

20. SUBLIMITY: is

that power of superior souls

under

whose influence even those

who are attached to

worldly

enjoyments and are of a

base nature are deterred

from

sinful acts and take to noble

pursuits.

 

21. UNSELFISHNESS:

means not seeking satisfaction

of

any selfish desire connected

with this world or the

next.

 

22.

AMANITVA: means not seeking

honour, respect,

or

homage.

 

23. FREEDOM FROM

HYPOCRISY: Hypocrisy consists

in

ruthog up a false show of piety

and thus should be

scrupulously

avoided by all.

 

24. ABSENCE ON THE

BACKBITING SPIRIT: Backciting

or

slandering proceeds generally

from jealousy and this

should be

completely avoided.

 

25.

STRAIGHTFOWARDNESS: It means not

attempting to

conceal anything

from a selfish

motive.

 

26.HUMILITY: consists in

having a low estimate

of

oneself.

 

27. FORTITUDE: means

not to be perturbed in the face

of

the greales difficulty and

danger.

 

28. SPIRIT OF SERVICE:It

mans constantly striving to

the

best of one's ability through

mind,speech and body

and in a

disinterested spirit to contribute to

the

happiness of all creatures

according to their

respective

needs.

 

29. SATSANG: means

association with saints and

holy

men.

 

30. JAPA: is mental

repetition of a Name of God or of

a

Mantra< sacred formula>.

 

31.

MEDITATION: means concentration of

the mind on a

Form of God to Which

one is specially attached.

 

32.

FREEDOM FROM MALICE: means

entertaining no enmity

towards

an enemy.

 

33. FEARLESSNESS:

means complete absence of

fear.

 

34. EVEN - MINDEDNESS: means

looking on all as equal

from the point

of they of the soul from the point

of

view of the soul even though

differences may be

observed in

dealing with them according to the

caste

and order to which they

belong, just as one uses the

limbs of

his own body differently.

 

35.

ABSENCE OF EGOTISM: means absence

of feeling of I

in respect of the body,

mind and intellect and of the

sense

of doership in respect of actions

performed

through them.

 

36.

FRIENDLINESS: consists in all

extending the

feeling of love

towards all creatures, whether high

or

low.

 

37. CHARITY: consists in

gratuitously supplying that

which

is needed in a particular place, at a

particular

time and respectfully,

without expecting any return

or

reward.

 

38. DEVOTION TO

DUTY

 

39. TRANQUILITY: This state is

attained when the mind

is

completely free from desires and

peaceful and

contented.

 

 

 

Taken from:

WHAT IS DHARMA?

WHAT IS GOD?

By Jayadayal

Goyandka

<Gita Press

Gorakhpur>

 

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