SPIRITUAL SALVATION

Meaning: Yajurved's line 34/2 has given the information that — the means for spiritual salvation and material happiness are obtained through mind only. It is in every person. Therefore our mind should always be engaged in auspicious thoughts for the welfare of all.

Message: We get this human life only as a result of innumerable good deeds. This human life is a means, a vehicle for good deeds. Man can get eternal bliss only by using it properly. The Vedas preach that man should always progress. He should never get pushed into the chasm of downfall. He should make life immortal by diligence, enthusiasm and self-reliance, always move forward on the path of progress without rear of death, and obtain a long life.

Firm will-power is the principle means for achieving success in any Endeavour. A man with firm will-power rests only after completing a task. His involvement, engrossment, tremendous faith and dedication give him success. Such a man obtains money, prosperity, skills, everything. The great power of firm decision makes possible even those tasks which seem impossible. A man with firm determination never wavers from his path of progress. Even big obstacles do not deter him and the gleam in his eyes is more powerful than even the rays of the sun.

In this way, with tremendous will-power and firm determination, man is able to obtain all material happiness. Not only that, but on the strength of his good deeds and divine sentiments, he obtains many types of means of comfort also. Our future is also decided on the basis of our deeds only.

Firmness of the mind is possible only when our mind is clean, innocent and pure. If we wish to become firmly established, excellent, achieve progress and supremacy in personal and social life, then we must recognize the intense power of mind and must remove from the mind all the dirt, garbage and bad thoughts. It is essential that we keep clean, pure and free form dirt our mind and body, means and ends man and society all of them.

For the material and other worldly individual and social success, for success in everything, purity and cleanliness is a very necessary condition. Real purity of mind means proper expression of all divine qualities. Freedom from dirt means cleanliness which means cleanliness which means 'saatvikta' (all that moral goodness stands for) and 'saatvikta' means achievement for welcoming God. The opposite of it is 'malinta' (ordirtness) which produces 'aatmaglaani' (or gloom and dejection) and tamogun (or darkness of mind). Dirtiness of mind means doors closed for the entry of God. Such dirtness means destruction of the soul and movement towards social suicide. Man himself has to decide whether he has to accept dirtiness of mind or keep his mind clean and pure. He has to decide by his own discretion and select the path which he wishes to tread.

Material and other worldly bliss can be experienced only by making the mind a playground of auspicious and beneficial thoughts.