Satyopanisad

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Swami! Why do we differ? Why does our behaviour vary? What is the root cause

behind these differences? How are we to cultivate ideal and good ways in life?

 

Since you have not studied and understood human nature wholly, you get this

doubt. Man is a combination of three main qualities, demonic, bestial and human.

It is the human quality that helps you to attain divinity.

 

You take, for example, an orange fruit. In it there are an outer bitter skin,

hard seeds and soft juicy pulp. So also a human being has a demonic nature like

the outer bitter skin of an orange, bestial temperament like the hard seeds; and

finally the human values like the soft juicy pulp. Take for example a ripe

tamarind fruit. Its outer skin is the bestial nature, its hard seeds symbolise

demonic nature while its soft pulp is the human behaviour. If the pulp joins the

seed, i.e., if human nature is in association with demonic behaviour, it

expresses itself like a demon. If the soft pulp associates itself with the outer

skin, i.e. if human nature joins bestial behaviour, it manifests itself as a

beast.

 

So, more or less, this depends on the association, be it demonic or bestial.

This is the root cause of all the differences. But it is human value that makes

you ideal and enables you to experience divinity. There lies the sweetness and

purpose of life.