VOICE OF THE RISHIS-59

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PRIYA BHAGAVAT BANDUVULLARA!

 

VOICE OF THE RISHIS: 59

 

COURTESY: SHRI RAPARLA JANARADHANA RAO

 

" NA SREY NIYAM VINAA "

 

" No glory (sreyo), without a principled life (niyamam vinaa) " This

text contains the summum bonum of a successful life. There can

never be a great achievement or a successful career, without strict

adherence to discipline with rules and regulations to life. Obeying

rules of life as enumerated by the society, parents, the state, the

teachers and the holy scripts is given only to a selected, few

people with innate culture and good upbringing. Following rules

laid down by parents and teachers, in a given area, leads to happier

and easier way of life. And the nation that has such law abiding

citizens occupies a higher status in the comity of nations. So this

adage to adhering the laws is helpful not only to the individual but

to the state also.

 

Health laws, dietary restrictions, hygienically principles of

ethical norms, form the fundamental basis for leading a good,

healthy successful life to a man. However it may be argued that

imposition of too many rigid rules undermines freedom to think and

act by the individual promptings. Doubtless too many restrictions

imposed on person, become shackles for individual freedom. While

freedom of the individual allowed by a society is a " sine qua non "

in its process, rigidity in rules may be discouraged. Too much of

flexibility in following the rules is also not worthy for progress

of an individual and that of the nation.