Meaning: Man has to struggle continuously to achieve the
objective of life. Tremendous will-power is required for facing the widespread
bad customs, wicked activities and corruption and to adopt good activities and
honesty in life. Information on mantras which help to achieve this aim is given
in the Rig-Veda 1/164/4 -"To achieve the spiritual knowledge of the self
is the main goal of man's life. What is the main reason for the manifestation
of matter? Man must obtain the knowledge of the body, the strangeness of the
blood, muscles, bones, etcetera within it and their being different from the
soul (or the spirit)".
Message: The human body is the most excellent gift from
the God. After wandering in countless species we have obtained this human from
due to virtuous deeds in earlier births. The arrangement of the body of any
animal in this world is not as excellent as man's. Only man has been given a
body perfect with all qualities. Every part and organ of man is unique in its
capability.
Most men believe this human body as their total existence
and do not think it necessary to look beyond that. Every moment they are busy
in decorating this body only. Such men are busy in nurturing their desires only
and totally forget the extremely valuable soul residing within the body. They
forget that this body is perishable while the spirit or the soul is immortal.
In fact God has graced us with his blessing by giving this body for some time
only. This body is an instrument only; it is the place for the residence of the
soul. With this body as a medium, the soul can progress on the road of
salvation and achieve salvation.
What is the objective of human life? Most people think
that achievement of 'swarg' (heaven) is the one and only objective. But where
is this heaven? Heaven is created by the condition of our mind only. We
ourselves only produce the situation of heaven or hell by our conduct. Hence it
is very necessary that we must determine very clearly the objective of life.
The only single objective of our life is to realize our real authority (the
soul) by very firmly expressing the unexpressed divinity residing within us.
God is hidden within us and thoroughly interwoven (or united) within us and
that God is the 'antaratma' (the conscience) of all. HE only gives us the
fruits of our deeds (i.e. 'Karmaphal' as reward or punishment) and resides
within all of us. Every man is a form of a 'devata' (deity) only; he has
strayed away from the excellent path only because of his ignorance. In reality
man is like a wandering deity. After knowing this great truth, our most
important duty is only to implement divinity into our conduct.
It is not possible to obtain this type of spiritual
knowledge until we make pure our mind, speech and deeds. Our mind never remains
empty. Either it wants to enjoy the lust for evil deeds or else it intensely
aspires to spread the fragrance of good deeds. Such thoughts arising in the mid
are expressed by speech and the deeds are only carried our accordingly. After
self-realization, only pious thoughts arise in his mind. Only by discarding the
ego and with the feeling of 'aatmavat sarvabhooteshu' by accepting the fact
that God resides in every creature, can man be saved from sinful deeds and
increase divine qualities within himself.
The meaningfulness of human life lies in that only.
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