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Thursday, April 1, 2010

The Real Preacher

The real preacher is one who-whatever he has in his soul, expresses it in the mind and expresses the same also in his speech. That is he preaches whatever he puts into his own conduct, so that there is development of knowledge, strength and wealth in all the people. This itself is good preaching.
Message: Nepal is a country of Rishis (sages) and gurus (spiritual teachers) through whom the world has been getting enlightment. It is from here that the rishis gave the tradition of high thinking. Earlier on in the past, the lives of all were happy and of an excellent level, because the tradition was of high-thinking and simple-living. Today the tradition is of low-thinking. Because of this, the leaders of the country are of lowly-thinking with a desire for selfish gains and they are spreading only such lowly thinking.
The religious heads of monasteries and preachers have interpreted the meaning of Brahmanism and spirituality so as to fool the ordinary innocent people by preaching somehow whatever right and wrong that comes to mind. The thoughts of such preachers are of a third rate level. Their conduct is also lowly. Their only basic maxim is "fool the people in the name of religion". Today our society has become dilapidated because of the orthodox thinking and corrupt conduct of these preachers. Their speech has no effect because of the lack of excellence in their conduct and even if they tell something good, the people do not accept it. When Gandhiji spoke, the effect was on the hearts of millions of people. Preaching is a very sharp weapon but the condition is that first it has to be implemented into one's conduct.
On the day of the Shravani Parva (the full-moon day in the Shravan month of the Hindu calendar) when wearing the new holy-thread, we perform a ritual worship of the sapta-rishi (seven sages). We remember the 7 sages because they have preached us to be engrossed in good work mentally, physically and financially with total honesty. They are our ideal. But today the Brahmanism is sinking very low. Therefore, the total onus of the 'revival of the rishi-tradition' is on all of us. The need is to bring unity in our speech and conduct. This is possible only when man adopts the ideal of 'simple living and high-thinking' and always keeps in his heart pure emotions and pure sentiments. If the life is used to simplicity, the mind is neither tempted towards material riches nor does jealousy arise towards others. The emotional perversities of greed, attachment, anger automatically disappear and in their place good qualities and good emotions prosper and flourish.
Our ancient rishis had adopted this way of life. They used to surrender themselves to works of public-welfare while also being absorbed in the worship of G od. To develop arts with a strong moral base they always used to give proper guidance. To make the people bright (with knowledge), luminous, spiritually powerful and knowledgeable, strong and wealthy, they provided proper guidance.
The meaningfulness of Brahmanism lies in this only.

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