Meaning: According to the Rigved 6/19/5 - "The ocean
has no desires, even then innumerable rivers merge into it. Similarly wealth is
always in th eservice of industrious men, i.e. those who work and are diligent,
never feel the want of money".
Message: "Seva paramo dharmaha" - To serve
others is the most pious and pure act in this world. One principal part of
religion is a feeling of togetherness. Because of man's nature of working
together and helping one another in innumerable fields such as education,
health, culture, science, trade and architecture etc man has reached the zenith
of progress. It is our duty to use our talents in the uplift of society, to
help the wretched, sorrowful, ill and helpless person, and to donate to social
institutions engaged in good activities and working for good purposes.
It is a misconception in people's minds that by giving in
donation, they suffer financially. The actual truth is that the money used for
other's welfare is returned to us many more times. The religious books enjoin
us to "earn with a hundred hands and distribute with a thousand
hands". Those helping others do not remain wretched and unhappy. It is an
act of sowing seeds in God's farm. Each grain produces thousands of grains. Man
should never be lethargic in work and diligence. Earn to the maximum extent
with hard work and honesty and after fulfilling your meager needs as befits a
Brahman, use the remaining in helping others.
The ocean has immensurable quantity of water, but does
not utilize it for own use. With sun's cooperation he gives away water as vapor
which in turn comes down as rain to quench the thirst of the world. The ocean
has no self-interest, no wish, nor any desire. Still does its water ever
decrease? No, innumerable rivers always go on filling it with their waters. For
a man connected with diligence and helping others in this way, there is never
any dearth of money. When the desire for helping others is aroused in one's
mind, then one's life is uplifted, wretchedness gets destroyed; new capacity is
stirred up in the body, the capability to bear hardships increases and in every
way, the path to progress manifests before the self. When one's talent and
capacity is utilized for welfare-work, then God's help and blessings are
automatically received. Not only that, cooperation from others too is easily
available. The difficulties in the path of self-progress automatically start
disappearing and achievement of life's goal becomes easy.
The learned ones and the Brahmans must try to tread this
royal road to success.
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