Person with Good Moral Conduct

Meaning: According to the line of Rigved 1/41/8 — "Those who befriend people who are religious and with good conduct, protect them and honor them with good dealing, meals, clothes etc, they always get happiness. One should always be away from wicked people. Those who befriend religious souls are learned."

Message: The relationship of father and son, mother and son and husband and wife exist in animal species also, even though it may be for a short time only. But the 'Guru-shishya' relationship i.e. the one between the teacher and the student, more specifically the one between the saint or sage and the disciple exists only among human beings. Animals and birds do not impart their knowledge and skill to others. This specialty is in human beings only. It is man's natural activity to give others the benefit of his knowledge and to benefit through others. Man constantly gives and takes knowledge, experience, imagination and feelings or sentiments. Because of this specialty only, the tradition of 'Guru and shishya' has developed.

Animals of various types are physically more powerful compared to man, but in intelligence, only man is the best and the fruit of knowledge available through this intelligence is in itself like nectar. Everything in the world is perishable. Man also is subject to death, but becomes immortal because of his knowledge. There is great importance of sympathy and compassion in human-life. It is animalism to use alone whatever is available. The activity of distributing the available so that others too benefit by it, makes the person a human being. A Guru gives not only the knowledge from the books, but also contributes to a man's culture. Only school-teachers or some people in charge of a hermitage are not the only teachers. We keep on learning something or other from innumerable religious men of good conduct. Sometimes we come into contact with such people whose conduct has molded our conduct, whose life has influenced our life, whose personality has shaped our personality. Without their saying anything, we imitated them and learnt quite a lot.

It is man's pious duty to serve, welcome and honor such learned great men. The friendship of such men is always helpful in increasing the god qualities within us, and brings happiness, peace and prosperity.

But today, the situation has turned upside-down. Why blame the teacher only? Everywhere in the society uncultured men with bad tendencies are found. At a very tender age,, the minds of children are influenced with very bad type of culture. As a result, all-round indiscipline and anarchy prevail. Wherever you see, you find wicked men of bad conduct. Men of good conduct can be counted on fingertips only. Even then if we wish, good men also can be found.

We must always protect ourselves from wicked men of bad conduct and keep friendship of religious, gentlemanly persons of god conduct only.

Maa vo dhanantum maa shapantum

prti voche devayantum

sumnairidva aa vivaasay. (Rigved 1/41/8)