STRONGEST SOUL

Meaning: As maintained in the Atharvaved 5/3/1 - Men should never be swayed because of struggle. By worshipping God make your soul and body strong, so that no one in this world is able to harm them.

Message: In this world, big, difficult and strange situations constantly occur in a man's life. A man who carries our justly proper task, others undo it by their bad deeds and he has to suffer defeat upon defeat. He is unable to find a solution for this bad situation. All-round there is an empire of worry, fear, sorrow, disappointment, jealousy, desires and lust. For the fulfillment of their desires, people are falling like sheep into the deep well of downfall and are pulling others too. Then what should be donning? Should one give up the truthful path and choose the suicidal path of downfall?

Man has not been given this life merely for passing the days. He has been given this life for achieving excellence, greatness and doing some great deeds. Blessed are those who are striving for excellence and greatness. For this, one has to be alert and struggle constantly. The mind has to be made determined and one has to move forward towards one's goal, and follow ideal persons.

What is our ideal? A man greedy for the fulfillment of desires and wealth, when he cannot achieve these by proper means, he resorts to many immoral, wrong paths for fulfilling his selfish interests. Should we make such people as our ideals? No, never. The real ideal is our Father, God himself. His order is that we should always fulfill our duties and responsibilities. Without getting swayed by whatever difficulties on the path of truth, we should be involved in our work with cheer. They really worship God, who are not afraid of the difficulties on the truthful path and strive hard to remove them.

Life is struggle itself. The meaningfulness of life lies in constantly struggling against the wicked activities going on everywhere in the world. Struggle rouses simplicity, moral goodness and self-respect in man. Love for spirituality, god emotions, and faith in God get strengthened. Ideals become the focus of man's life and he tries to conduct himself according to the ideals. Hardships, big and small, come in a man's life. But those who do not get afraid are not swayed, patiently fight them, shine with brightness like gold refined in fire and succeed in life. These difficulties manifest in our lives to test our patience, courage and valor and we are blessed with God's grace only by defeating them.

To make the soul and body powerful and strong by restraint and to plunge into life's struggle is the distinctiveness of an ideal Brahman.