Contentment
(Want of thirst for worldly things,, Endurance (Bearing contradictory
experiences like heat and cold, pleasure and pain, etc, Satsanga, Spirit of
Service, Sacrifice, Charity, Austerity (Sufferings undergone for the practice
of one's own Dharma), Study (study of the Vedas and other elevating scriptures
and practice of Kirtana of God's Name and glory), Mind-control, Sense-control,
Humility, Straightness (this means straightness of the body and mind, together
with the senses), Compassion, Faith
(Belief, as strong as in things directly perceived, in the Vedas, in the
scriptures and in the sayings of saints, the preceptor and God), Discrimination
(Real knowledge about what is true and what is false), Dispassion (Total lack
of attachment for anything belonging to any region up to Brahmaloka), Living in
seclusion, Poverty ( Want of accumulation of wealth with the sense of meum),
Lack of doubt and distraction, Cessation of Desires, Personal Magnetism (It is
that power of superior souls under the influence of which even wicked, worldly
minded men generally abstain from sinful conduct and engage themselves in
virtuous deeds according to their behests), Forgiveness (Lack of desire to
inflict any form of punishment on one who does an injury), patience (Not to get
upset even in the face of the greatest difficulty), Absence of malice (Not to bear malice even against
one who is maliciously disposed), Fearlessness (Total absence of fear),
Pridelessness Peace (Total absence of desires and cravings and maintenance of
constant cheerfulness in the mind), Exclusive Devotion to God, etc, naturally
make their appearance.
Thus
through the total lack of desire and egotism in regard to all objects,
including the body, constant maintenance intact of identity with God is the
mark of the person who has attained ripeness in the third stage of Wisdom
Some
of the virtues mentioned above appear in the first and second stages, but all
the virtues make their appearance generally in the third stage. For these are
the marks of persons, who have reached very near God-realization, and are the
means of attainment of direct knowledge of God. That is why in Chapter XIII of
the Gita (Verses 7-11) Bhagavan Sri Krishna enumerated most of these virtues as
knowledge and in Chapter XVI (Verses 1-3) described them as the divine
qualities
Moreover,
the scriptural authorities regard these virtues as the common Dharma of
humanity. All men are entitled to them. Therefore, depending on God, all should
make special effort to develop the above virtues in their mind.
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