Satyopanisad

[Guest guest]

Swami! Kindly instruct us in the main principles making for progress in spheres

such as Science, Politics, Ethics, Religion, and Spirituality.

 

If you follow three main principles, all round progress is ensured. You will

undoubtedly progress in all fields of activity, individual and collective.

 

The first principle is daivapri ti, Love of God. The second is papabha ti, Fear

of Sin. The third is sanghan i ti, Morality in Society. Unless you love God

immensely, you cannot fear sin. With fear of sin, morality gets automatically

established in society. Thus, the three principles are interdependent and

interrelated.

 

I often tell my students, " Before you do anything, just put this question to

yourself: Will Swami approve this action? Is this going to please Swami? " Your

intense love for Swami will not allow you to do anything wrong. Evidently, love

of God leads to fear of sin. We find turbulent and raging waves in the sea

dashing against boulders that stand steady and unshaken. In the same way your

faith should be steady, strong, unshakeable, and unwavering, irrespective of

losses, failures, defeats, troubles, difficulties, and problems. For instance, -

if anyone says to you, " There is no God, " what reply should you give? You should

reply in this way, " All right, you don't have your God, but what right do you

have to deny my God? "

 

Never forget God, remember pancaksari, the five lettered mantra - ` devudunnadu

' - (1) de, (2) vu, (3 ) d u , (4) nna, (5) du , (Telugu sentence with five

letters meaning God exists). In order to see that you don't doubt this, repeat

astaksari , the eight lettered Sanskrit mantra, sams'ayatma vinas yati, (1) sam,

(2) s'a, 3) ya, (4) tma , (5) vi, 6) na, 7) s'ya, 8) ti which means `doubt is

death'. Never doubt God. In a sentence like this, " God is nowhere " reflects your

pitiable plight of being denied His presence. Now, take out `w' from the

beginning of the fourth word `where', and join it at the end of the third word

`no'. Then the sentence reads, `God is now here'.

 

Man most unfortunately commits sins but is not prepared to face their

consequences. He expects pun yam, merit, the result of good actions, but does

not refrain from doing papam, sin. Nor would he do any meritorious deeds to get

good results. Is there any logic or rationale for him to get good results? How

foolish are such expectations? How do you expect one kind of result from an

altogether different and opposite kind of action? Always bear in mind the whole

thing comes back to you in the form of reaction, reflection, and resound. You

cannot escape them. When you fully realise this, you will not commit sins or

involve yourself in harmful deeds. So you should `Love God' and `Fear Sin'. With

these two, there will be `Morality in Society'.