According to the Sam Veda 22 our ancient Rishis says
that: O deity of fire! You are always doing justice to all. Please destroy
wicked persons and obstructive elements by your powerful flames and please give
strength and divinity to those who are religious souls, who worship you and
praise you.
Message: God's justness is praised in this mantra. He is
not partial to anyone. it is impossible that we turn him in our favor by any
type of sycophancy and make him do whatever we want him to do. We can see
clearly all around us that innumerable people worship God in various ways, do anusthans (reciting certain prayers for
a specific number of times) and rituals; even then they remain in want, misery
and bad conditions. The reason for this is that their sentiments are always of
narrow selfishness and wicked activity. In the scale of justice of God, this
type of act of worship is pretentious and deceitful and deserves punishment.
On the other hand those persons who do not perform
ritualistic prayers but always behave themselves as ordained for religious
conduct (i.e. truthful, fair, just dealing, goodwill, honesty etc), are
continuously showered with the grace and blessings of God. All human beings are
the children of God and are al alike. They get the results of their deeds
according to the type committed by them. "Avashyamewa bhoktavyam krutam
karma shubhashubham" i.e. one certainly has to bear the consequent result
of the good or bad deeds committed by him or her. We actually forget this fact.
We will certainly get the results of our deeds today or tomorrow, in this birth
or the next, but nobody can save himself from the consequences of fruits of the
karma or the deeds. This is the form of the justness of G od. The more firm our trust in this fact, the
sentiment of moral goodness and simplicity will develop more within us. Moral
goodness and simplicity is nothing but the destruction of the lowly tendencies
of the mind and its moving towards higher thinking. When the aspiration to
develop excellence of character is roused within us and we start striving for
it, that I scaled moral goodness and simplicity. The entire universe has sa
tva, rajas and tama characteristics in it - satva element means the
characteristics of morality, goodness, simplicity, love, forgiveness,
compassion etc; rajas element means the characteristics of continuously running
after material wants, riches, luxury, indulgence of desires etc; tamas element
means darkness, anger, lust, greed, attachment, lowly and heinous tendencies
etc. Man's mind is also made up of all these three tendencies. Man has to
strive to evolve from lowly 'tamas' tendencies to the 'rajas' tendencies and
then to discard even these 'rajas' tendencies and develop the 'satva' or
'satvik' tendencies - that is the ultimate goal of Vedic dharma (or Vedic
religion). Only this knowledge saves us from bad deeds and wicked tendencies
and this knowledge, by manifesting in every aspect of life, makes it beautiful,
excellent and 'satvik' as described above. When so evolved, the person's vision
is always towards 'satva' characteristic while doing any task, big or small.
The person is always alert with discretion which does not allow any deed by
which one has to suffer the anger of God.
Everyday and every moment we must remember the good
resolve that we shall always believe God as just and present everywhere and
adopt His law in our lives. Therein lays our salvation. With its help we shall
be liberate from the desire for sons, money and fame and save our soul from
sins. Only then shall we get the strength of soul, the strength of
intelligence, the strength of money and divinity.
That itself is called the worship of god.
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