Sri Sadhguro Pahimam Parama Dayalu Rakshamam

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Dear Members

" Hindu Dharma " is a book published by Bharatiya Vidya

Bhavan which contains English translation of two volumes of the Tamil

Book " Deivatthin Kural " ; which is a collection of invaluable and

engrossing speeches of Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi

MahaSwamiji.

 

http://kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap41.htm

 

My Duty

 

My duty is to impress upon you again and again

that it is your responsiblity to keep the Vedic tradition alive.

Whether or not you listen to me, whether or not I am capable of

making you do what I want you to do, so long as there is strength

in me, I will keep telling you tirelessly: " This is your

work. This is your dharma. " It is for the sake of the Vedas

that the Acarya established this Matha. So, no matter how I keep

deceiving you in other ways, as one bearing his name I should be

guilty of a serious offence if I failed to carry out with all

sincerity at least the responsibility placed on my shoulders of

protecting the Vedic dharma. That is why I keep speaking again

and again, and again, not minding the tedium, about the need to

sustain this dharma.

 

It

has not been all talk. A number of concrete schemes have been and

are being implemented in pursuance of our ideal. I have come here

to beg of you for your help. If you think I am not begging for

your help, take it that I am issuing you a command to serve the

cause of the Vedas. However it be, the work I have undertaken

must be done.

 

Vedam

odiya Vediyarkkor mazhai

 

Niti

mannar neriyinarkkor mazhai

 

Madar

karpudai mangaiyarkkor mazhai

 

Madam

munru mazhai enappeyyume

 

According

to this well known Tamil poem, the earth will become cool and the

crops will grow in plenty only if it rains thrice a month. It

rains once for the Brahmin who chants the Vedas in the right

manner; it rains once for the king who rules justly; and again it

rains once for the woman who ramains true and constant to her

husband.

 

It

is not in my hands to make sure that the rulers rule justly,

strictly adhering to dharma. Sannyasins like me have nothing to

do with the government. But I believe that, as the head of a

Matha with the duty of protecting dharma, I have a responsibility

with regard to the other two matters. How does a religious head

see to it that a woman adheres to her dharma, remains true to her

husband? The trends seen today are contrary tc stridharma (code

of conduct for women). I have the title of " guru " and

so it is my duty to warn womanhood against things that are likely

to undermine their dharma. When child marriages were prevalent

there was little opportunity for women to go astray. If a girl is

already married before she attains puberty she will develop

strong attachment for her husband. If she is not married at this

age she is likely to feel mentally disturbed. But our hands are

tied because of the Sarda Act.

 

But,

if I have not entirely washed my hand of the subject, it is

because of the hope that public opinion could be created against

the Sarda Act and the government compelled to respect it. After

all, so many other laws have been changed in response to public

opinion or otherwise. Unfortunately, the attitude of parents and

of women in general has become perverse. Instead of trying to

conduct the marriage of their daughters in time, parents send

them to co-educational colleges and later to work along with men.

When I see all this I inwardly shed tears of blood: I am losing

my confidence in my ability to arrest this trend.

 

If

Brahmins keep chanting the Vedas, the rulers will rule justly and

women will remain steady in their wifely dharma. It is in this

hopw that all my efforts are turned to maintaining the Vedic

dharma.

 

You

must make a gift of your sons for this purpose, also of your

money. Well-to-do people must help children of the poor with cash

so that they may be encoruaged to learn the Vedas. We need money

to pay the teachers, to buy books, to administer the Vedic

schools. We have drawn up a modest scheme to raise funds. You pay

one rupee a month and in return you will receive (by post), apart

from the belssings of the Veda Mata(Mother Vedas), the prasadas

of Sri Candramaulisvara after the puja performed to him at the

Kanci Matha. If you send your donation mentioning your naksatra

[the asterism under which you are born] the prasada will be sent

to you every month of the day on which the asterism falls.

 

Nowadays,

we receive " chain letters " invoking the name of Sri

Venkatacalpati (of Tirupati) and with the threat added, " if

you don't send copies of this letter to such and such number of

people, you shall turn blind or shall be crippled. " Out of

fear many people make copies of the letter to be sent to various

addressees. I too sometimes wonder whether we could do something

similar to promote the Vedic dharma!

 

I

do not ask you much- just one rupee a month. Don't you pay the

government taxes, whether or not you like to do so? Take this -

the one rupee- as a levy imposed by me. It is a tax you pay to

run my government, my sarkar which is no bigger than

a mustard seed. You deny yourself a

bit of your pleasure for this, your outing to beach or your visit

to the cinema. You will thus carry out a fraction of your duty

and my duty will have been fulfilled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JAYA JAYA SANKARA HARA HARA SANKARA

 

Thwameva Maathaa Cha Pithaa Thwameva Thwameva Bhandhuscha Sakhaa Thwameva

Thwameva Vidhyaa Dhravinam Thwameva Thwameva Sarvam Mama Dheva Dheva.