Many people think that they have
committed so many sins, such wicked deeds and the list of their known and
unknown sins is so big, that they cannot be reformed, so how can they achieve
salvation? People who think in this manner should know that as soon as they
take a vow to walk on the path of good deeds, the old dirty lice-ridden cloak
of vices is automatically cast off. By shedding off sins and desires and
sincerely repenting for them, we are liberated from the bad results of our bad
deeds. Only those traits of acts of our past births which are destined to be
borne as prarabdha (fate) have to be born at some time or other during this
vehicle of more sins. The punishment under God's law of fate can be lightened
by not resorting to wickedness and repenting for earlier sins and it is also
possible to be forgiven.
The mental strength through
Gayatri -worship definitely helps to remove innumerable bad tendencies, habits
and sinful attitudes of the worshipper. Many people ask, "I have so-and-so
bad tendency, I have not paid any attention to avoiding non-vegetarian food, I
have committed certain bad deeds. Can I be deserving of Gayatri-worship?"
Such people should very well understand that Gayatri is a kind of soap. When soap
has been created for removing dirt, then it is useless to think whether dirty
clothing deserves the use of soap. The use of Gayatri is like a spiritual soap
to remove the bad impressions and influences and dualities and controversies
within the mind. Hence a sinful person should not hesitate to use it.
Liberation from evil tendencies
is definite and easy with inner transformation. It is neither impossible nor
surprising if to-day's sinner becomes a saint to-morrow. Authors of scriptures
have told this straight-forward tale with great emphasis on the destruction of
sins through Gayatri-worship.
It is understood that one can be
freed from the punishment for past deeds by certain means, and then evil people
will go on committing sins and then resort to the above means by thinking that
now their past sins have been annihilated. They will think of further
committing the sinful acts and resorting to the prayers for destroying the sins
thus mistakenly thinking that they will get the benefit from their bad deeds
and simultaneously get the added benefit of freedom from the sins.
One must remove this
misconception from its roots. If man goes on committing more sins, he remains
sinful only. There is no question of his sins being washed out through prayers.
If simultaneously he commits sins also. When man starts despising sinful acts
and saves himself from bad thoughts - like cleansing from urine and faces -
then on achieving this state of mind, he will not have the inclination to adopt
the path of sin. He will not expect that God will accept a small bribe of
prayers and forgive his continuity of sins.
But in God's office, those person
cases are considered with a liberal attitude, who has given up bad deeds, and
not only given up bad tendencies but repented for past mistakes. For the
banishment of crimes, the rule of punishment is put into effect - when children
do something wrong, the mother scolds them, when a disciple becomes tardy, the
teacher takes up the cane, when the societal rules are disturbed, the local council
dispenses punishment, when the law is broken, fines, jail, extolment or
death-sentence is their. God has provided for punishment of sins through
punishment from deities, bodily ailments and material wants or scarcity. This
rule of law is not meant as revenge or 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for - a
tooth'; but it is created on the basis of highspiritual science. The reason is
that as a result of the unhappiness caused by 'punishment' there is a commotion
within man's mind, a certain reaction, which shocks his hidden, thinking and he
gives up the faulty path to return to the proper path.
Through punishment from others,
we are forced to commit penance for our purification. If we willingly adopt this method for
ourselves, willingly undergo penance for our open and hidden sins, and then it
is innumerable times better compared to the penance forced on because of
others. There is neither insult, nor revenge nor dejection - instead, because
of woeful penance there is spiritual joy, and valor and courage manifest and
our prestige increases in the eyes of others. The fire of the soul is required
for the eradication of sins. The creation of this fire gives double benefits,
one - destruction of harmful tendencies, sins, and two - development,
nourishment and increase in divine qualities through the same warmth and
brightness, and as a result the seeker becomes an ascetic, mentally strong and
luminous.
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