Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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Your Primary Aim Determines Your Actions

 

A very important point that needs special attention. A person

performs actions according to his egoism, and the direction of the

actions strengthen the direction of his egoism. When a man's egoism

is of the conviction - " I am truthful " - he will speak the truth,

and this truthfulness further strengthens his conviction and egoism,

towards truthfulness. Thus, he will be unable to tell a lie.

 

Whereas a person who regards himself as worldly and hankers after

worldly pleasures and prosperity, who is of the belief that in this

modern world of falsehood, such lies are inevitable and

indispensable, such a person whose egoism is established in evil and

worldliness, finds it impossible to tell the truth, to get rid of

evil and vices.

 

A man being a part of God cannot be void of virtuous feeling, and at

the same time having a relationship with this body and a feeling of

mine-ness and egoism, he is unable to be totally void of evil

feelings. But in spite of the coming of evil feelings, the ever

present virtues cannot be entirely destroyed, because the latter are

real and the real never ceases to be (Gita 2:16). On the contrary,

evil feelings are born of bad company and whatever is born, is

surely to perish, because the unreal ceases to be. It has no

existence (Gita 2:16).

 

A person's deep rooted inner feeling of either goodness or evilness,

drive all his behaviors and actions. A person whose aim is God

Realization invokes virtuous feelings and performs virtuous actions

and in him the evil actions are ultimately wiped out, whereas one

whose aim is towards worldly pleasures and enjoyment and prosperity,

he has a predominance of evil and thus engages in evil actions and

in him the goodness becomes hidden.

 

In Gita 16:6 " Lokesmin " specially denotes human beings as being

graced with all the resources, including the discriminative faculty,

to attain Salvation. But Gita 9:29 also says that the Lord is

equally present in all beings. Where there is God, there is His

divine nature. So the expression " Bhootasargau " has been used in

Gita 16:6 to denote that all beings can follow the spiritual path.