Thursday, February 11, 2016

FREE FROM MATERIALS IN LIFE


Meaning: Vedas are the store of knowledge. In the four Vedas all the knowledge and Science of the universe are kept. Stanza of the Rigveda 1/25/21 states that -"Freeing ourselves from the desire for sons, money and reputation, we should move ahead, because with that (desire) our soul becomes tainted and suffers sorrow.
Message: All the creatures of this world always have a desire for happiness and always make efforts for constantly increasing their happiness. The basic belief in materialistic culture is that happiness lies in obtaining various means and facilities for comforts. Without thinking of morality or immorality or what is proper or improper, man wants to pounce and grab anyhow all the material things for himself. Man is making himself spiritually hollow by getting engrossed in indulgence of his senses and even loses the strength to enjoy the comforts because of that reason. There is a certain type of sorrow in too much 'happiness'. There is always pain in grabbing pleasures like this.
The Nepalese spiritual culture goes beyond even happiness and gives importance to satisfaction and bliss. There is a vast difference between happiness and satisfaction or contentment like the difference between day and night or between the earth and the sky. Happiness is material in nature whereas satisfaction or contentment is spiritual in nature. Happiness can be enjoyed through material comforts whereas satisfaction is a personal experience. Man always wishes for achieving self-satisfaction and joy or bliss. Man sometimes enjoys contentment through achievement of happiness and sometimes through giving up happiness. It is not possible to explain the pleasure of spiritual peace and satisfaction which one gets while nursing a sick person day and night and undergoing even hardships in that process. In fact, happiness does not depend on material means; it depends actually on the mental state. That is why we see that most people are unhappy despite having luxurious comforts, whereas the farmer is lacking in proper means or a man doing server labor as a worker is found happy, pleasant and always cheerful.
To-day most men everywhere are involved in such wrong notion and are walking on the wrong path for achieving happiness. When man starts worrying only for personal happiness, then he does not care at all for others. Such a man becomes extremely selfish and makes other unhappy also. The quantity of available means for enjoyment is limited, but the desires are endless. Very few people get the benefit in pursuit of selfish-interests but it leads to the exploitation of most people in the society. People indulging in such conduct are immoral, opportunists and known despicably as exploiters. They rob the world to fulfill their desire for sons, money and reputation.
Outwardly such people appear very happy, but despite having all the means internally, in their heart, they do not experience happiness. Not only their sons but every member of their family starts treading the wrong path and ultimately they are discredited from all sides. The ideal society is one in which every man has the freedom to develop his full talents and capabilities for increasing his happiness and means. But along with that every person should not obstruct another's freedom, but cooperate with him, if, by understanding this aspect, man liberates himself from greed, attachment and selfishness, then there will be no limit to his progress.

Only the power of the soul can inspire man for that. The more a man is replete with the power of the soul or the strength of the soul, the more he will be capable of breaking the bond's of worldly attachment.

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