Our ancient Rishis has said in the Rig Veda 1/86/10 that O Lord! We have fallen in a dark cave. In this severe darkness many demons are harassing us. We pray to you to destroy this darkness and bless us with the donation of brightness so that we can be liberated from these enemies.
Message: The prayer to God in this mantra is not for removing ordinary darkness which can be dispelled by lighting a lamp or pressing an electric-switch. Here the reference is to the darkness of ignorance. We are surrounded from all sides by this darkness of ignorance in which lust, anger, attachment, selfishness etc are always striving to throw us into the deep chasm of downfall. Thus we are not able to do good to us or to this world.
God gave us this human body as a result of our virtuous deeds in the past births. We are very fortunate to obtain this human body. And He gave it to us for the reason that we make this beautiful world-garden more beautiful by working like a gardener. But gripped by ignorance we are not at all willing to look towards it and remain continuously busy for fulfilling our lowly and base selfish aims. Every time we are manipulating and satisfying our greed, attachment and desires and when faced with obstacles in the path we become angry. We are not able to see beyond the desire for children, fame and money. We want everything in this world without worrying about whether others die of hunger. We become blind to others for fulfilling our selfish desires. We erect such high walls around us that God's divine light is unable to reach us.
Surrounded by darkness, our soul is crying out loudly and we are not able to hear it. We require that divine light, with whose help we can see our soul, can hear its voice and spread all around the divine light of the union of the soul with the Supreme. The brightness of a thousand suns also looks dim in front of the brightness of the soul. "Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya, asato ma sadgamaya', this prayer is for leading from darkness to light and from untruth to truth. With the exit of ignorance the flame of truth enlightens our life. "Mrutyor ma amrutamgamaya" - we proceed from mortality to immortality. Only by obtaining the true knowledge, it becomes possible to identify the demons obstructing the true path and then only we realize that those whom we consider our well-wishers, they are digging our graves and those whom we considered our enemies they are our real friends.
This is the essence of the Nepalese way of life. this is the aim of Nepalese religious books and knowledge. By enlightenment of the ultimate knowledge, guidance should be available throughout the life - such is the total arrangement here. With the dawn of knowledge in the mind, all the deeds are carried out accordingly and man proceeds with ease on the path of spiritual salvation.
No sooner the ignorance is removed, the achievement of life's goal becomes possible.
Message: The prayer to God in this mantra is not for removing ordinary darkness which can be dispelled by lighting a lamp or pressing an electric-switch. Here the reference is to the darkness of ignorance. We are surrounded from all sides by this darkness of ignorance in which lust, anger, attachment, selfishness etc are always striving to throw us into the deep chasm of downfall. Thus we are not able to do good to us or to this world.
God gave us this human body as a result of our virtuous deeds in the past births. We are very fortunate to obtain this human body. And He gave it to us for the reason that we make this beautiful world-garden more beautiful by working like a gardener. But gripped by ignorance we are not at all willing to look towards it and remain continuously busy for fulfilling our lowly and base selfish aims. Every time we are manipulating and satisfying our greed, attachment and desires and when faced with obstacles in the path we become angry. We are not able to see beyond the desire for children, fame and money. We want everything in this world without worrying about whether others die of hunger. We become blind to others for fulfilling our selfish desires. We erect such high walls around us that God's divine light is unable to reach us.
Surrounded by darkness, our soul is crying out loudly and we are not able to hear it. We require that divine light, with whose help we can see our soul, can hear its voice and spread all around the divine light of the union of the soul with the Supreme. The brightness of a thousand suns also looks dim in front of the brightness of the soul. "Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya, asato ma sadgamaya', this prayer is for leading from darkness to light and from untruth to truth. With the exit of ignorance the flame of truth enlightens our life. "Mrutyor ma amrutamgamaya" - we proceed from mortality to immortality. Only by obtaining the true knowledge, it becomes possible to identify the demons obstructing the true path and then only we realize that those whom we consider our well-wishers, they are digging our graves and those whom we considered our enemies they are our real friends.
This is the essence of the Nepalese way of life. this is the aim of Nepalese religious books and knowledge. By enlightenment of the ultimate knowledge, guidance should be available throughout the life - such is the total arrangement here. With the dawn of knowledge in the mind, all the deeds are carried out accordingly and man proceeds with ease on the path of spiritual salvation.
No sooner the ignorance is removed, the achievement of life's goal becomes possible.
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