............. This, in short is the
four fold duty of a person who puts on Yagyopaveet. He has to develop his
capabilities, has to be generous and utilize his talents in the service of
others. Thus alone can he attain peace and happiness for himself and help
others to attain these.
According to Gaya tri-Geeta, nine fibers of Yagyopaveet
represent nine virtues which are as important and precious as gems. These
virtues are:- the science of life, awakening of inner hidden energies,
superiority, purity, divine insight, righteousness, wisdom, self control, and service.
By achieving knowledge of the science of life man
understands the mystery behind birth and death. He has no fear of death and is
always fearless. He has no attachment to or craving for worldly objects. He,
thus, escapes from the pendulum like swings of ups and downs of life created by
the illusory play of dualities of success and failure, pleasure and pain, birth
and death etc from which ignorant people are perpetually tormented.
A person who is able to awaken his dormant energies
becomes more and more healthy, learned, wise, generous, cooperative and
respectable, as the inner energies gain prominence in his soul. A weak person
is often a victim of bad habits, destined and of wicked persons who are
stronger than him, but a strong and noble person himself enjoys life and
extends a helping hand to those weaker to him. Injustice flourishes when there
are no checks and balances in the exercise of power. Acquisition of power by
persons of nobility of character acts as an antidote to this unbridled and evil
exercise of power by those who are evil-minded tyrants.
Superiority does not lie in power and pelf but in the
richness of high ideals and aims and feelings of compassion, kindness, sharing
and carrying. Persons who possess only power and pelf and lack inner refinement
and balance are crude, fickle-minded, mean and disturbed. They live lives of
utmost inferiority. On the other hand, persons of high thinking generosity of
nature and noble actions lead lives of superior quality even if they are not
materially affluent. It is this aristocracy of spiritual richness that gives
unshakable peace and unalloyed happiness.
Purity is true beauty. Not only human beings but even
animals and birds, insects and worms like beauty. Wherever there is impurity,
ugliness is bound to be there and nobody would like to stay there. A person
having impurities in his body is bound to be weak and sick. Then what to say of
a person whose mind, intellect and inner-self are full of dross? He is no
better than an animal or devil. The only way to rise above these infirmities is
to cultivate all-round purity. One who is pure internally as well as
externally, whose means of livelihood, ideology, body, speech, dress, residence
and other materials of use are clean and pure, will be happy, cheerful,
sweet-tempered and contented.
Divine insight means establishing relationship with
divine qualities of the world. Like attracts like that. Persons having an
outlook of seeing goodness in the world find good persons all around them. If
we pay attention to philanthropic deeds, goodness, service-mindedness,
cooperation and good deeds done by the people we will find that by and large
there is far better in the world than evil. To a person with perverted mind,
all objects and person will appear perverse. Likewise one who looks with eyes
of love and understanding will find the same qualities reflected back from all
around him. He will discover that the world is a multi-hued, beautiful and
sweet-smelling garden of God.
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