CONSTANTLY STRIVING FOR PROGRESS

Meaning: According to the Athervaved 8/1/4 -"O men!  You should not be satisfied with your present situation. You have to move forward and have to exert with body and soul's strength.

Message: Is there any limit to progress? Has anyone been able to know all the knowledge and science or wisdom in this world? Has anyone been able to find the deep secrets or mysteries of the Vedas? Even today man is busy in trying to find out the secrets of the world.

This is the basis of progress and uplift. Arise, start walking, fall down, and get up again progress. Do this again and again. Work constantly. Lose not your heart. Gradually you will reach the top. Be not afraid of failure. One can only know from it that the attempt for success was not done with full determination. Involve yourself with double enthusiasm.

Is this all possible merely by saying it? Will it be possible with physical and spiritual strength? No. For this the body will have to be made so strong by austerity, restraint and celibacy that it will be able to face all the material difficulties. Gandhiji had made his body so strong that even the cold weather of England was not able to influence his open body. Only such control over the body facilitates the endeavor of restraint. This is the first step towards the control of the senses. It increases spiritual power or the strength of the spiritual which is the soul, and because of it the mind does not wander here and there. With it, one develops other strengths. Spiritual power is very necessary for becoming great. With the power of money and intelligence, material progress is possible and comforts available, but spiritual power gives much more. One whose spiritual power is strong, he imbibes ideals and principles in his personal life and progress continuously.

Our life's ideal should be the Sun-god or the Sun. Every moment, he goes ahead towards his goal. He is eager to give his entire life as a gift to the world. He is involved with full spiritual power to give light, heat and energy to the world and also to help in drying up the dirt and garbage for destruction. Constantly endeavoring, he never thinks of halting even for a moment. He has no self-interest. This is the secret of success in life.

Our Rishis (sages) and munis (monks) have given the assurance to the whole world that if a man strives, he can rise to the level of a deity. They have also given the direction. But how to carry out this process? What is its fundamental basis? We should never lag in putting into our conduct the qualities of divinity. With those qualities in our conduct we succeed in rising to the level of a deity.

Life means constantly striving for progress like the Sun. That is the duty of a Brahman