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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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