The line of Rigved 1/97/7 instructs us that — O omnipresent Agnidev (God of fire)! Like the oarsman of the boat, save us from all the enemies in crossing the river of the world. Kindly destroy our sins.
In this mantra God has been compared with a judge who, for protecting the public, will even pursue the criminals into the jungle and punish them, who sits in teh boat and protects the people at sea, and by making all arrangements for man's happiness and peace, provides real joy to them. He only is sachchidanand, (sat + Chit + Anand, Sat = truth, chit = pulsating vitality as well as the fountainhead of knowledge and anand = bliss), a combination of all these all knowing life-giving, eternally blissful and bliss-giving God Himself. Those who sincerely worship God have no fear of any kind from desires, lust, anger, greed, attachment, disease and sorrow. Such persons become 'jeetendriya' (one who has conquered his senses by controlling his desires) by not desiring anything and get benefits and fame everywhere.
There are 84,00,000 species of life on this earth. Of these only teh human body is the best creation of God. Complete with 'gyanendriya' (5 sense organs) 'Karmendriya' (5 action organs including limbs for carrying out various activities), 'pran' (life's breathe force), 'mun' (mind) buddhi (intelligence) etc; this human body has been created with the aim of protection and progress of all living beings in this world. Since God has blessed His human prince in innumerable ways, and is ever ready to protect him in every situation every time, it is also man's duty that he remains alert for the nurture and progress of all life i.e. insects, plant life, animal life etc on this earth. Let us not go on merely exploiting and consuming the available means on the earth, but also try to conserve, preserve and strengthen them. But man today, blinded by his selfishness, does not pay any attention to it at all, and sinks deeper and deeper into the mire of sins.
We have been praying to God to destroy our sins but we are not trying to prevent ourselves from sinful acts, let alone repent for them. When this is the situation, how can God save us from the innumerable difficulties and help us cross the river of life? We are getting roasted in the earth, only with the cooperation of God, but we neglect to pay attention to that. The temptations of bad customs, bad thoughts and bad habits all around keep on attracting us to them. We are not even able to use our discretion and are not able to understand the difference between as sinful act and an act of virtue. As a result we keep falling into the chasm of sin day by day. God, the Supreme Father is available everywhere to help at every moment. Whether we can recognize Him or not. He never neglects, because when a man goes on to the path of wrong conduct. His voice echoes within his heart to alert him. Should we hear it and become alert by making us stumble. We wish to be busy in sinful acts and yet expect God to open up the doors of heaven and salvation for us what can be more foolish than this?
To achieve freedom from our own faults and wicked tendencies, we ourselves only have to strive.
In this mantra God has been compared with a judge who, for protecting the public, will even pursue the criminals into the jungle and punish them, who sits in teh boat and protects the people at sea, and by making all arrangements for man's happiness and peace, provides real joy to them. He only is sachchidanand, (sat + Chit + Anand, Sat = truth, chit = pulsating vitality as well as the fountainhead of knowledge and anand = bliss), a combination of all these all knowing life-giving, eternally blissful and bliss-giving God Himself. Those who sincerely worship God have no fear of any kind from desires, lust, anger, greed, attachment, disease and sorrow. Such persons become 'jeetendriya' (one who has conquered his senses by controlling his desires) by not desiring anything and get benefits and fame everywhere.
There are 84,00,000 species of life on this earth. Of these only teh human body is the best creation of God. Complete with 'gyanendriya' (5 sense organs) 'Karmendriya' (5 action organs including limbs for carrying out various activities), 'pran' (life's breathe force), 'mun' (mind) buddhi (intelligence) etc; this human body has been created with the aim of protection and progress of all living beings in this world. Since God has blessed His human prince in innumerable ways, and is ever ready to protect him in every situation every time, it is also man's duty that he remains alert for the nurture and progress of all life i.e. insects, plant life, animal life etc on this earth. Let us not go on merely exploiting and consuming the available means on the earth, but also try to conserve, preserve and strengthen them. But man today, blinded by his selfishness, does not pay any attention to it at all, and sinks deeper and deeper into the mire of sins.
We have been praying to God to destroy our sins but we are not trying to prevent ourselves from sinful acts, let alone repent for them. When this is the situation, how can God save us from the innumerable difficulties and help us cross the river of life? We are getting roasted in the earth, only with the cooperation of God, but we neglect to pay attention to that. The temptations of bad customs, bad thoughts and bad habits all around keep on attracting us to them. We are not even able to use our discretion and are not able to understand the difference between as sinful act and an act of virtue. As a result we keep falling into the chasm of sin day by day. God, the Supreme Father is available everywhere to help at every moment. Whether we can recognize Him or not. He never neglects, because when a man goes on to the path of wrong conduct. His voice echoes within his heart to alert him. Should we hear it and become alert by making us stumble. We wish to be busy in sinful acts and yet expect God to open up the doors of heaven and salvation for us what can be more foolish than this?
To achieve freedom from our own faults and wicked tendencies, we ourselves only have to strive.
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