Apply All Good Moral in the Conduct

Meaning: According to the line of Rigved 10/71/4 — "One who hears good advice but not imbibe it in one's conduct is like a blind and deaf person."

Message: Rishis Parampara (the tradition of sages) is the main basis of Nepalese culture. The society consists of both intelligent and unintelligent persons. Every man is not able to read and write nor can a literate person be able to understand the real meaning in the scriptures, whereas the rishis used to spend their entire lives in studying and acquiring knowledge. Every time while thinking and contemplating they used to worry about the fulfillment of the mental needs of man. The religious heads and the learned ones have always very seriously and eagerly made an analysis of the human mind. By finding out the solution to unfavorable situations according to the requirement of the time, they have saved man from wandering in the darkness. Religious programs used to be conducted with this aim at pilgrimage centers and other convenient places. In these meetings people used to be given guidance through discourses, to enable them to be free from their difficulties. This knowledge used to give so much capability to the listeners, that it enabled them to discard their bad tendencies and fill the gap with good qualities and make their lives excellent.

This tradition is alive today also. The aim in the religious programs and discourses in institutions, temples etc is this only. These discourses are not mere debates, but meant for implementing into one's conduct. The learned and knowledgeable sages by their own deep thinking, contemplation and experiments have found out the truth and kept before the audience what is useful for them. If we doubt them, then we are making ourselves laughable only.

But today the situation is somewhat like this, that the more ignorant a man, the more he wants to show himself as intelligent. He does not like to hear anything good at all. Even though the advice is from the parents or a learned saint, he thinks it insulting to listen to it and act accordingly he ridicules them.

No intelligent person can have any opposition to the spiritual principles of religion given to us by our ancient sages. What is religion? It is nothing but a collection of moral rules only. Without practicing these rules, neither man's personal nor his social life can go on properly. Only by not observing these rules, man's life gets disturbed. If these rules are practiced properly, then man's life will be full of peace, joy and goodwill. Where these rules are not adhered to, the atmosphere of sorrow, quarrels and mental-disturbance prevails.

The discourses of saints fulfill this aim (of bringing peace, joy and goodwill in man's life), but it is our misfortune that like the blind and the deaf we do not pay any attention to it and lose the golden opportunity for self-progress.

Putting into our conduct the good advice of religious discourses must become a part of our nature.

Oota tvaha pashyanna dadarsha vaachamuta

tvaha shrunvanna shrunotyenaam (Rigved 10/71/4)