One of the oldest Grantha of our Hindu Mythology is the
Atharvaved. The lines 19/51/1 of this Vedas explain that the capacity of
individual is ten thousand times more than the person is utilizing his
capacity. One who wants to improve his power he is able to do this. Because our
soul is one of the greatest thing and it helps to the individual to improve it.
It also stated that —I myself am equal to ten thousand people. The strength of
my soul, of my praan (life breath in the body), my eyesight and hearing are
also equal to that of 10000 men. My 'apaan and vyaan' are also equivalent to
that of 10000 men. In every respect I am equal in strength to that of ten
thousand men. (Apaan and Vyaan - The life's vital force or prana or life sustaining
breath is sub-divided into 5 and exists as such in the body. The five
sub-divisions of the vital breath-force called panch pran. They are — pran,
apaan, vyan, udaan and samaan.
Message: Joy and cheerfulness are extremely necessary for
the development of atmabal (strength of the soul) and pranbal (strength of
life's vital breath force). But all this is possible only when eyesight,
hearing, respiration and all the organs and limbs of the body are happy.
What does this happiness and joy mean? We get real joy
and inner cheer by working for the welfare of others while observing personal
restraint. By moral discipline, when the body becomes strong, there is mental
stability; there is spiritual sublimation of one's wishes and a definite
mental-level achieved by surrender to God. Then there will be joy and only joy
all-round and the same will ultimately prove useful for achieving pranm anand
(or bliss).
A man full of joy and cheer is like the Sun whose rays
dispel the sorrowful darkness from a number of hearts. A man should always
remain cheerful. Cheerfulness is also very good for health and it also fills
the soul with extraordinary strength. All sorrows of a man who always remains
cheerful disappear.
All can smile in their happy days, but that man is ideal,
who can remain cheerful and enthusiastic even in sorrow. A man who is not
afraid of sorrows and troubles, but remains smiling and cheerful, is not a man
but like a deity. All the great men of the world had humorous natures. The
atmikbal (strength of the soul) increases manifold by remaining cheerful, and
it gives rise to tremendous inner power and energy to fight adverse situations.
With it, a man becomes divine, excellent, valorous and with a bright
countenance.
Look at the lives of Bhagwan Shri Ram and Yogeshwar Shri
Krishna. They smilingly faced all the troubles during innumerable adverse
situations and hardships and came out shining like gold in their test by fire.
Maharshi Dayanand, swami Vivekananda, Balganadhar, Tilak, Madanmohan Malaviya,
etc have also performed such tasks with the energy obtained through inner
cheer, which were not possible even for millions of men.
Today's man is covered up by selfishness and his sense of
divinity has disappeared. If a man keeps his life always full of cheer and joy,
then the soul-strength will increase manifold and such a single man will be
powerful as ten thousand men.
There is tremendous power in atmabal or strength of the
soul.
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