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Tremendous Spiritual Power

Meaning: As stated in the Rigved 9/83/1 and Samved 565 that — this world is full of good, beneficial and pleasant materials, but such materials are obtained by only those who are ready to pay its real price through austerity. By austerity performed with discretion, one gets learning money, everything.

Message: We are not able to think even a millionth part of the skill of God in making this vast creation. For the 84, 00,000 species of life on this earth this world is full of ever type of matter. Vegetables, medicinal plants, wealth, grains, diamonds, and pearls - all this is there and all of it is good and pleasantly fruitful for every one.

Just as God is every where and his light can be seen everywhere, similarly the great authority of paramkrupalu (the most beneficent, the most graceful) God, filled with total supremacy is in every pore of every life. Even then it is not so easy to receive His graceful blessings. Despite the presence of all types of beneficent materials, man is seen to be in want, every moment. He is deprived of the 'aanandras' (the blissful nectar) of God's grace. It is like dying of thirst despite living in a lake of water. The main reason for this is that man has not developed his worthiness by austerity. His mind is filled with faults and wicked tendencies. He is surrounded on all sides by malice and enmity. Because of the darkness of ignorance he has become like a frog in a well i.e. his vision is narrow and limited and also he does not have the enthusiasm to look beyond. His mind is not interested in celibacy, exercise, yogic, exercises of aasan (physical yogic exercises of the body) and praanayam (yogic exercise of breath-control), restraint, manoyog (mental concentration) etc. Every time man is involved only in the greed for enjoyment of the senses.

To obtain something in life, it is most essential to perform austerities. Austerity does not necessarily mean to fast and make the body thin and dehydrated by unnecessary suppression. Austerity means to overcome the difficulties in the path of life with all the available capacity and insight, without being swayed by the difficulties and hardships. The faithful endeavor carried out for this purpose is austerity. God helps only those who labor hard and He helps them and graces them with every type of material wealth.

The saying in the Vedas is 'obtain knowledge and money by austerity' and for austerity tremendous will power is required. Only with that is a man saved from the temptations of the senses and able to walk with concentration on the path of the truth. Man goes on moving in the vicious circle of earning more and more money and for that he does not even think of what is moral or immoral, what is proper or improper. But when man achieves the spiritual knowledge of God by purifying his mind through austerity, then by discreet conduct he earns money honestly through hard work.

Tremendous spiritual power is required for honesty and only that is capable of taking us on the path of success.

We should be Good Everywhere

Meaning: 7/112/1 line of Athervaved gives us the information about the good morality. The Veda also express that — Just as the sun and the earth do the good of the people through rein, light and food by following specifics rules, similarly men too must get involved in the works of public welfare by controlling their senses and always strive to save themselves from committing crime.

Message: The Supreme Father administering the entire universe has made such a special arrangement that all the work goes on automatically at a definite speed. The sun, earth, stars, the moon has been moving in their orbits, at their own speeds, for millions of years and nowhere any disorganization occurs. The change of seasons, farming, water, air etc also go on automatically according to the set time table.

While reciting the Gayatri mantra, we too perform the dhyan (meditation) and aavaham (invitation) of the most brilliant Sun-God but we are full of laziness and lethargy when it comes to implementing the Sun-God's ideals in actual life. We are unable to regularize our life and waste our time in bad thoughts and wicked deeds by becoming slaves of the senses.

Maximum self-restraint and purity are required for leading a spiritual, happy and satisfied life. We go on wandering for fulfilling the desires of the senses, but they never get satisfied. We have forgotten that supreme truth, that obtaining realistic and true bliss is possible only when we start leading a life, not indiscipline, but a disciplined and regularized life. A pure life does not necessarily mean making the senses and sense-organs useless or suppressing them, but to discipline them and put them to good use. We should conquer by the good quality of restraint the impure tendencies and thoughts arising in our minds through bodily temptations.

We should pay careful attention to our senses and sense-organs. We should make only proper use of them. No impure and wicked tendency should be allowed to enter into any sense or sense-organs. Many types of impure tendencies have filled our mind. We should pull them out with the root and throw them out, and firmly establish good tendencies in their place. We should frequently go on thinking about the divinity within our minds. The mind is extremely flighty therefore we must pay very careful attention to it. Never trust the mind even for a moment. Some bad activities subtly tempt us in the form of quality, pity or friendship. By that we get trapped in its attachment because of emotions or desires. Therefore we must always be alert.

Man's life on the earth is full of temptations. We are surrounded by varieties of temptations, desires and wishes. It is the pious duty of every man, that by careful vigil, they must constantly struggle to save themselves from innumerable temptations, so as to prevent the demons of such temptations from controlling us. We should develop the mind properly by its skilful training and discipline. If we wish to come out of the present situation and progress, and then we should learn to practice patience and discretion. By that, we will be able to conquer our temptations.

Temptation can be conquered only by spiritual power.

The Power of mind is Endless

Meaning: I will keep the bad, wicked thoughts away from my mind. I will not destroy myself by them. My mind's power and capacity is endless. I will not allow it to be ruined.

Message: Whatever we see happening in the world, whatever progress is there in human society, whatever is happening around us, it is merely a game of the mind. All this is happening regularly through 'karma' (deeds). Any deed first manifests as a thought in the mind, then internally there is reflection and contemplation in it and after that the desire arises for converting it into action. A man's character is ultimately formed by his actions.

There is only one way to maintain a strong grip on one's own life and that is by proper and deep thinking. These days there is a fashion to praise 'free' thinking and we are not shy in praising 'freedom' in thinking. Mukta (or free) thinking is not bad, but proper thinking is even better and it is excellent to turn such proper and useful thinking into deep thinking or contemplation. Without the habit of introspection (i.e. constantly observing the self for defects and wickedness), the task of keeping proper control over the thoughts running here and there is almost impossible. there are three types of faults in the mind, they are — mala (or dirt), vishep (or obstruction and confusion) and aavaran (or covering or curtain). Faulty thoughts go on arising in the mind unless the mind is cleansed, purified and made free by removing these faults. Only after achieving the purity of thought, excellence is seen in our conduct and deeds.

The message of the holy Gita is that man should go on performing deeds. We cannot perform any deed which is not beneficial to someone. Similarly, there can be no deed which may not harm someone. Every deed invariably is mixed with virtues and faults. The inspiration for carrying out the truthful or untruthful deeds develops in our mind only. If good thoughts are born in the mind, then our deeds also will be good and if wicked thoughts are produced, then their result will definitely manifest in the form of ashubh (or inauspicious) deeds. The wicked thoughts born in our mind, draw us towards bad activities and become the cause of our destruction. Therefore we should constantly try to pull out by their roots and throw out the bad thoughts as soon as they sprout in the mind.

The Nepalese culture is always full of praise for the endless power and the unlimited capacity of the mind. The fundamental basis of our culture is to establish good qualities in place of undesirable elements and wicked tendencies and faults in the mind by refinement, purification and constant search of the mind. By this method, bad tendencies, bad thoughts and sorrowful elements can be prevented from entering the mind and in their place auspicious philosophy, auspicious thinking and good qualities spread their fragrance.

This process of self-purification should continue throw out the life. This helps the progress of man's life towards divinity. Wicked thoughts and wicked tendencies do not dare to enter our mind and life becomes dirt-free and pure.

We should make good use of the strength of soul.

Profound Strength of the Will-Power

Every person is the powerful of all things. They can perform everything whatever they like, but if the person have no self confidence he can do nothing in his life. So every person should develop their self-confidence. From the stenza of the Rigved 10/27/5 has given the meaning to every individual that - "O men! Profound is the power of your self confidence. Nobody can crush your determination. When big obstacles of the size of mountains cannot obstruct your path, what is the significance of ordinary obstacles? Men! you are more powerful than even the Sun.

Message: The biggest power in the world is the power of the soul, which arouses the dormant powers of man and brings out the extra-sensory capacity by developing them and gives the capacity for increasing the material prosperity. All the activities for sustaining the life by obtaining the menas for facilities and for their proper planning are carried on with the soul's powers (spiritual powers). The capacity for working for personal benefit and for the benefit of a few others is obtained by our intelligence. But with the strength of the spirit such profoundness is possible, by which not only personal, but the entire world's upliftment becomes possible. A man who lacks spiritual strength cannot experience happiness even though he has all the material means. But if a man becomes rich with spiritual strength he achieves heavenly bliss in this life itself and by establishing oneness with God, constantly moves towards the real objective of life.

Normally with external physical vision we believe this body to be the be-all and end-all, but our life is created with the body, the pran (life's breath force), the mind, the intelligence and the five subtle covers sorrounding the soul (the annamaya kosh, the pranamaya kosh, the manomaya kosh ,the vigyanmaya kosh and the anandmaya kosh). The soul is a part of the paramatma (the supreme soul), i .e. God) and is alwas trying for going towards the Supreme. The power which the vast Godhead, the Creator of this world has for Himself, the same power is within us (because of God being within us). Self-confidence is nothing but having faith in this fact. Once a man filled with glorious self-confidence takes a decision, then no power on earth can sway him.

Hanuman was able to cross the ocean with just one jump, on the profound strength of self-confidence. Arjun achieved victory in the great Mahabharat war only because his self confidence was roused. All the achievements of man in the present times are a result of his firm and tremendous will power. Man has climbed to the top of Himalayas, flies in the air, is making discoveries at the bottom of the sea - all this is miracle of only the profound power of his self-confidence.

The problem is only one that man has niether been able to know his soul (or spirit) nor God, the supreme soul. He has started wondering after material pleasures and suffers sorrow, but does not make an attempt to find the ultimate truth. Usually most people do not get even an inkling of the soul and God. What is the means of bringing about this arousal? What is the real path for recognising the tremendous power of our soul and by its energy increase the happiness and prosperity of the self as well as the world? That path is "Total faith only in God's Authority". Once this faith or confidence becomes firm we always get the experience that God is within our soul only. His presence automatically goes on inspiritng us towards good deeds.

The other term for God's authority is nothing byt the strength of the soul or will power.

Spiritual Salvation

Meaning: Yajurved's line 34/2 has given the information that — the means for spiritual salvation and material happiness are obtained through mind only. It is in every person. Therefore our mind should always be engaged in auspicious thoughts for the welfare of all.

Message: We get this human life only as a result of innumerable good deeds. This human life is a means, a vehicle for good deeds. Man can get eternal bliss only by using it properly. The Vedas preach that man should always progress. He should never get pushed into the chasm of downfall. He should make life immortal by diligence, enthusiasm and self-reliance, always move forward on the path of progress without rear of death, and obtain a long life.

Firm will-power is the principle means for achieving success in any Endeavour. A man with firm will-power rests only after completing a task. His involvement, engrossment, tremendous faith and dedication give him success. Such a man obtains money, prosperity, skills, everything. The great power of firm decision makes possible even those tasks which seem impossible. A man with firm determination never wavers from his path of progress. Even big obstacles do not deter him and the gleam in his eyes is more powerful than even the rays of the sun.

In this way, with tremendous will-power and firm determination, man is able to obtain all material happiness. Not only that, but on the strength of his good deeds and divine sentiments, he obtains many types of means of comfort also. Our future is also decided on the basis of our deeds only.

Firmness of the mind is possible only when our mind is clean, innocent and pure. If we wish to become firmly established, excellent, achieve progress and supremacy in personal and social life, then we must recognize the intense power of mind and must remove from the mind all the dirt, garbage and bad thoughts. It is essential that we keep clean, pure and free form dirt our mind and body, means and ends man and society all of them.

For the material and other worldly individual and social success, for success in everything, purity and cleanliness is a very necessary condition. Real purity of mind means proper expression of all divine qualities. Freedom from dirt means cleanliness which means cleanliness which means 'saatvikta' (all that moral goodness stands for) and 'saatvikta' means achievement for welcoming God. The opposite of it is 'malinta' (ordirtness) which produces 'aatmaglaani' (or gloom and dejection) and tamogun (or darkness of mind). Dirtiness of mind means doors closed for the entry of God. Such dirtness means destruction of the soul and movement towards social suicide. Man himself has to decide whether he has to accept dirtiness of mind or keep his mind clean and pure. He has to decide by his own discretion and select the path which he wishes to tread.

Material and other worldly bliss can be experienced only by making the mind a playground of auspicious and beneficial thoughts.

Soul is Bright

One of the strongest and powerful elements is our soul. For this our ancient Athervaved 13/2/29 explain about our soul that — O man! Your soul is bright, luscious and great just like the Sun. At least try to know your strength and know how vast your glory is.

Message: There is a very close relationship between the soul (atma) and God (the supreme soul- paramatma). The soul residing in the body is a part of the Supreme Father, the God. His authority is present within all the living beings. We can also say that God has put this soul in our body as his representative, which through the medium of this body, constantly moves forward towards divinity. It is our greatest misfortune that due to ignorance we have forgotten our own soul and have suppressed it under the garbage of faults and wicked tendencies.

Just like the Sun giving brightness, light, heat, energy, and life to the whole world our soul is also equally powerful Atma is also called Indra. 'Ahamindro na parajigye' means 'I am Indra who never gets defeated'. Endless is the power of the soul. The man who possesses the strength of the soul is never defeated. Victory lies in the strength of the soul and defeat lies in its absence. When man accepts with faith and trust the relationship of his soul with God, then he starts experiencing that he is also all powerful and becomes free form the feeling of wretched lowliness. After that he never gets defeated in any task. With the strength of the soul, man achieves victory over death also, that means he is not afraid of death.

'Atmabal (the strength of the soul) is an inner flame. The power of the soul burns away disease, sorrow and similar affections. The affections of the soul are removed by doing good deeds, the burnished soul's divine light shines forth as 'atmic-shakti' (or the power of the soul) and through it the affections gets destroyed. As a result, the entry of wicked tendencies into the heart stops altogether. This is a great power which brings freshness and luminosity, sharpening of faculties and creates the capacity of carrying out the biggest tasks. It makes the impossible possible by removing even the unimaginably big and difficult obstacles.

Atmabal is called 'ashmavarma mayasi' meaning this is my armor of stone. The Vedas have given to this unbreakable, un-diminishable inner power the simile of stone because it can face each and every disaster. The power of the soul is unconquerable and free from the effect of conflict. This power destroys both - the sins as well as the sinners.

A man with the soul-power never lives a life of helplessness and dependence. Such a man becomes successful and a leader in the society.

It is our duty to recognize the profound power of our soul. We should, by constant introspection, go on removing the faults and wicked tendencies covering the soul so that our life shines brilliantly with atmaprakash (the brightness of the soul) and becomes bright and powerful or authoritative. this power of the soul makes possible even the impossible tasks of this world. If there is any power after the power of God, it is of our own soul only. To know one's own power is actually the worship of God.

Life's objective is achieved by atmadarshan (seeing one's soul i.e. by self-realization

Salvation of the Soul

The line of the Atharvaved 19/41/1 says that — the person who desires spiritual salvation of the soul is first initiated into austerity. Bodily strength, mental strength, status and happiness are obtained with it.

Message: All the great men of the world have laid an emphasis on performing austerities. It is necessary for attaining more and more happiness and joy. But what is austerity? These days a lot of hypocrisy is practiced in the name of austerity. Austerity does not mean troubling our body by various hardships. Austerity means - to go on moving forward on the path of religion and duty, truth and justice and go on bearing the hindrances and hardships coming in the way. 'Tapa' or austerity means bearing with composure or balanced mind hunger, thirst, heat or cold, happiness-unhappiness, joy or sorrow, and honor or insult. 'Tapa' means proper conduct in respect of diet, clothes, exercise, rest and religious study as required so that the body remains completely healthy.

According to the holy Gita, Tapa is of three types - viz bodily tapa, tapa of speech and mental tapa. By our body we make a ritual worship of our Guru (spiritual teacher), Brahman, the learned ones etc, become humble and discreet, remain clean and pure and see to it that we do not trouble any animal by our eyes, ears, hands, feet, tongue, etcetera, by keeping these organs under control. This is physical or bodily tapa. We should see to it that we should never speak words that hurt anyone. Always speak the truth but never speak a bitter truth. Speak the truth that is liked and speak sweetly. This is th e tapa of speech. 'Manasik' or mental tapa consists of study of excellent books and reflecting and contemplating on them, remaining cheerful, at peace, observing 'mouna' (silence) and try to keep the mind under control and keep heart clean.

The petty selfishness of man opposes these high sentiments that are why, our ancient sages had to bear innumerable hardships and had to carry out extremely severe austerities to rouse these sentiments in initiated. Assume that they had taken the birth for carrying out this aim and that is why they could fulfill their pledge. They had no personal interest. They underwent the severe austerities only for the welfare of the public.

Most people are under the illusion that 'tapascharya' (austerities with meditation) can be carried out only in dense jungles, in which one should dehydrate or dry up one's body remaining hungry and thirsty. This thought is utterly false and baseless. The fact is that the real 'tapascharya' is to go on fighting adverse situation while remaining in this world. That increases the power of the body, mind and the soul.

The realistic meaning of 'tapa' is that man should give up his selfish interest, all people should think of each-other's welfare and a feeling of togetherness should develop in them. A nation is nothing but a reflection of the collective sentiment in man. The tapa-shakti (the power resulting from austerities) of such religiously disciplined men only, makes the nation strong and glorious. Only because of the 'tapashcharya ' of great sages like Bhagirathi, our nation was called 'swargadapi gariyasi', (i.e. greater than heaven) and was titled as the 'golden sparrow'. To sacrifice everything for the welfare of the society and the nation is actually called 'tapa'.

We too can achieve the zenith of progress if we imbibe in our daily life the true meaning of tapa.

Objective of the Human Life

Meaning: As stated by the line of Yajurved34/6 — just as the charioteer of a chariot drawn by ten horses controls the horses by the reins, similarly, o men you also keep your ten senses and sense-organs under control through the mind.

You will have to resolute for that

(The ten senses and sense organs are as follows: five sensory senses viz; skin, eyes, ears, tongue and nose and five organs for carrying out the commands of the senses are the speech, hands, legs, the anus and the sex-organ)

Message: In trying to achieve the ultimate goal of spiritual salvation, our desires are the main obstacles. If we are trapped in the desires and continuously wander after gratifying them, then we will become their servants. If we think continuously about satisfying our senses, then they will inspire only the desires for obtaining the material means for satisfying them and due to that we will go on wandering in trying to fulfill the various sense desires. It all thinking about, is gradually transformed into action. Thus some intense desire manifests in our mind to enjoy something and it is seen externally in our action.

Individually we go on thinking about the senses and sense organs, mentally we want to obtain the gratification, but we also expect to save ourselves from them. Such people are hypocrites. More and more thinking about enjoyment of senses drawn us towards successive temptations and we will be attracted towards committing countless sins one after another. The uncontrollable thinking about fulfilling the wishes of the senses destroys man's restraint and sense of shame, and his conduct becomes senseless immoral and harmful to others. Such a person gets trapped into the mire of the desire for satisfying his senses.

Wise men, men with discretion must save themselves from falling into the chasm of downfall. The only solution for that is that the activities arising in our mind and encouraging the gratification of desires must be stopped. The indulgence of senses is the root cause of the evil in man. Just as we have to use many types of medicines and other means for being saved from physical diseases, similarly for our mental health and also for saving us from the disease of materialism we will have to have the strictest control of gratification of the senses.

The Sanskrit saying is "sansar deergha rogasya, suvicharo mahowshadham" i.e. this world is full of innumerable diseases. Everywhere in it, there are mountains of faults and wicked tendencies. Only good thoughts can act as medicine for getting freedom from thoughts and we should not be slaves to our senses. Just as the charioteer of a ten horse chariot controls all the ten horses by the reins and takes the chariot where he desires, similarly we too must keep the rein of the mind very strictly pulled up, so that we can exercise moral restraint over the senses. With the help of discretion and abnegation or renunciation, we must keep our mind away from material objects and make real attempt to lead the life according to our actual, realistic authority.

We will be able to achieve the best objective of this human life, only if we develop the spiritual power and firm desires to do as above.

Make your mind Pure

Meaning: The line of Yajurved 34/5 gives us the information about the purity. This can be given as — O men! May your minds become pure, your hearts be pure with religion and morality good conduct so that you can obtain the knowledge regarding God and practical conduct.

Message: Among all the creatures of the world, man is nearest to God. No animal in the world has been able to achieve the closeness which man has achieved with God. God has given all types of means to the man so that if he desires to progress, there are no limits and if he wishes to go on the path of downfall, then also there are no limits. All this depends on his mental condition. The biggest spiritual endeavor and spiritual discipline is to keep the mind under control. A man is known only by his mental attitudes. Morality covers a vast area. Therefore to develop humanness, first of all man has to cleanse his mental activities, and has to make his heart clean and pure by removing the accumulated dirt in the mind.

The dirt or the wicked tendency which has once entered the mind cannot be easily removed. The dirt of selfishness, desires, like-dislikes, attachment is stuck so intensely with the subtle power of the mind that sometimes unknowingly the mind gives birth to wicked thoughts.

By identifying and recognizing the power of the mind and constantly making it stronger, the mind becomes clean and can develop good resolves.

Our mind is a store-house of unfathomable knowledge. The mind which contains every type of thought, the vast dictionary of refining them, endless desires including those of the past birth in other species of life, the same mind also contains the complete true knowledge. All this good knowledge or the knowledge of Rigved, Yajurved and Samved can manifest only when our mind becomes free form bad tendencies. Only with the light of the knowledge of the Vedas, auspicious, beneficent resolves and sat-sankalp are produced. Through them we achieve both practical and spiritual knowledge.

When we remain away from sinful acts, then it becomes possible to establish in the heart real religion and morally good conduct. 'Sin' and 'virtue' are both controversial subjects. Whenever our soul inspires the mind, and the mind in turn inspires the senses to do some act, then at that very moment its good or bad effect is felt. When doing a bad act, we feel rear, doubt and a sense of shame or guilt and diffidence, and by doing good deeds we do not feel fear, but confidence and joy. By this test only, we can recognize the sunful deeds and good moral deeds and can be free from sinful deeds. One must constantly be alert and on the look-out to see to it that no sinful thought, then with very firm and strict resistance, such thought must be thrown out. If this process of thinking is profound, then the emotion of sin will never be able to enter our mind.

There is constant increase in the strength of the soul, i.e. spiritual power only with clean and pure heart and the practical form of true knowledge.

Do Not Think Bad (Negative)

Meaning: As stated in the Atharvaved 6/45/1 that we have to keep our mind always busy. In order that your mind does not wander away in bad thoughts, keep it busy in some work or the other, that is do not allow it to remain idle.

Message: In His message to Arjun, Lord Shri Krishna has said that some people in the world possess divine wealth (daivee sampada), while others have aaswri sampada i.e. demoniac tendencies. The people with divine thoughts and tendencies are free from fear because of their pure hearts and are capable of knowing the philosophy because of dhyaanyog (i.e. paying careful attention). They are always doing 'saatvik' works i.e. good works with morality and honesty. They keep their senses under control and study scriptures regularly. Their speech is pleasant and they do not trouble anyone through their minds, bodies and speech. Pride is not able to sway them and despite carrying out their deeds in the world, they remain unattached and fulfill the aim of human life. There is no need to say anything about people with demoniac nature. Such people are seen everywhere undergoing unbearable sorrow of various types from all sides.

Divine or demoniac wealth is the name for emotions or tendencies only. Demoniac tendencies are produced in such men who constantly think of perishable things of the world by mistakenly thinking them as permanent. \the main reason for divine or demoniac tendencies is our heart. Usually the man is swayed away by the demoniac tendencies of the heart and gets deeply trapped in them without intention.

Today's men look physically healthy, but they do not have anything except restlessness in their minds. The only reason is that bad thoughts are continuously hovering in their minds. Mental pollution is increasing so much that wicked and obscene thoughts arise while in sleep or when awake, while getting up or sitting down, day and night, constantly. There is only one solution for saving ourselves from this sorrowful situation and that is, to keep the mind continuously engaged in clean and pure thoughts. It should never be allowed to be idle. It is said that 'an idle mind is the devil's workshop', therefore we should never keep the mind idle. \by keeping the mind constantly engaged in works which are constructive and for the benefit of people, bad thoughts are not able to enter in ite.

It is extremely necessary to develop the habit to keep the mind busy in this way right from the childhood. \the impression of the thoughts during childhood remains permanent. Therefore, children must always be kept in such atmosphere whereby they constantly receive good thoughts. It is essential that they see only good thins, hear good things and read best books filed with good thoughts which increase knowledge. We should save ourselves and especially our children from the blows which the foreign media are making on our culture and make constant efforts to develop the wealth of divine tendencies.

'Be busy, be happy and be healthy'. However a man is busy in some work or the other, he is immersed in joy. With that his mental and physical health also improves and there is an increase in the strength of his soul also.

Capacity of Individuals

One of the oldest Grantha of our Hindu Mythology is the Atharvaved. The lines 19/51/1 of this Vedas explain that the capacity of individual is ten thousand times more than the person is utilizing his capacity. One who wants to improve his power he is able to do this. Because our soul is one of the greatest thing and it helps to the individual to improve it. It also stated that —I myself am equal to ten thousand people. The strength of my soul, of my praan (life breath in the body), my eyesight and hearing are also equal to that of 10000 men. My 'apaan and vyaan' are also equivalent to that of 10000 men. In every respect I am equal in strength to that of ten thousand men. (Apaan and Vyaan - The life's vital force or prana or life sustaining breath is sub-divided into 5 and exists as such in the body. The five sub-divisions of the vital breath-force called panch pran. They are — pran, apaan, vyan, udaan and samaan.

Message: Joy and cheerfulness are extremely necessary for the development of atmabal (strength of the soul) and pranbal (strength of life's vital breath force). But all this is possible only when eyesight, hearing, respiration and all the organs and limbs of the body are happy.

What does this happiness and joy mean? We get real joy and inner cheer by working for the welfare of others while observing personal restraint. By moral discipline, when the body becomes strong, there is mental stability; there is spiritual sublimation of one's wishes and a definite mental-level achieved by surrender to God. Then there will be joy and only joy all-round and the same will ultimately prove useful for achieving pranm anand (or bliss).

A man full of joy and cheer is like the Sun whose rays dispel the sorrowful darkness from a number of hearts. A man should always remain cheerful. Cheerfulness is also very good for health and it also fills the soul with extraordinary strength. All sorrows of a man who always remains cheerful disappear.

All can smile in their happy days, but that man is ideal, who can remain cheerful and enthusiastic even in sorrow. A man who is not afraid of sorrows and troubles, but remains smiling and cheerful, is not a man but like a deity. All the great men of the world had humorous natures. The atmikbal (strength of the soul) increases manifold by remaining cheerful, and it gives rise to tremendous inner power and energy to fight adverse situations. With it, a man becomes divine, excellent, valorous and with a bright countenance.

Look at the lives of Bhagwan Shri Ram and Yogeshwar Shri Krishna. They smilingly faced all the troubles during innumerable adverse situations and hardships and came out shining like gold in their test by fire. Maharshi Dayanand, swami Vivekananda, Balganadhar, Tilak, Madanmohan Malaviya, etc have also performed such tasks with the energy obtained through inner cheer, which were not possible even for millions of men.

Today's man is covered up by selfishness and his sense of divinity has disappeared. If a man keeps his life always full of cheer and joy, then the soul-strength will increase manifold and such a single man will be powerful as ten thousand men.

There is tremendous power in atmabal or strength of the soul.

Unity is Power in all Aspects

Meaning: Our ancient Rigved10/191/4 has given us the information that - Let all people have the same resolve. Let the hearts of all be one and there be mental unity so that they never remain unhappy.

Message: Man is a social animal. His relationship is with the society. He is a part of the society. He can carry on his life's activities only with the cooperation of the society. Social organization can make a weak person strong and a powerless man powerful. The saying in Sanskrit language is 'sanghe shakthiby kalowyuge' i.e. in this kaliyug (the sinful era) strength lies only in organization.

If there is an organization of even a few men with good qualities, it proves very beneficial for the society. Thin strands, when woven together, make a powerful rope with which even a mad-elephant can be kept in leash. Let men full of the feelings for public welfare become united and work if they want to remain as reputable men of the society.

Organizations of demoniac men can be seen everywhere. Even at the risk of lives, thieves, robbers, dacoits, corrupt men and adulterers help each other. Gangs of thieves and criminals go on spreading a polluted atmosphere by working internationally. Ancient sages laid a lot of emphasis on the strength of organization by understanding the importance of unity for fighting such calamities.

There are 3 basic elements of organization - unity of thought, unity of heart and unity of mind. The first requirement for any type of organization is that in all men wanting to be organized, there should be a unity of thinking. If there is no unity of thinking, if there are differences of opinion, then that organization can never be strong. Where there is a unity of thinking, there the aim and goal of everyone will be the same. That aim will keep them together. Second essential is the unity of the heart. The goal may be common but unless we work with a clean heart and full feelings, total success cannot be achieved despite the common objective for all.

Mental unity too, is extremely essential. The goal may be the same, there may be full sympathy in the heart, but if there is no involvement, no inspiration or no maturity of mind, then that organization also cannot become strong. When the mind is reined properly and the work pushed ahead with full mental concentration, only then can the organization remain properly organized and strong. There is a significant effect of the thoughts alone can throw man into the chasm of downfall. Man becomes what he thinks. Our thinking plays a very important role in all our work. That is why there should be constant effort at keeping the mind free from bad thoughts. We can protect ourselves from the temptations of evil thoughts only by firm will power.

For the creation of a healthy and lively society, only an organization of men, rich with tremendous spiritual power, can prove reliable.

The Soul's Strength

One of the strongest elements is our soul. For this statement the stanza of the Rigved 10/151/4 states that - "Shraddha (truth) is the symbol of the high sentiment of the heart. With it man's spiritual life becomes successful and he becomes happy by earning money".

Message: Faith is our life's most tender, pleasant and excellent experience. There are three steps of progress in life- faith, trust and love. Every issue becomes achievable with faith. Trust makes even a difficult task easy, and love makes it the easiest. By imbibing these three good qualities and putting them into practical conduct, our life's path becomes free from all types of difficulties and hardships. A faithful man achieves success in every task.

Tulsidas also began the salutation prayer to his beloved God by saying "shraddha vishwas rupeenow" (like faith and trust) and then successfully wrote the great epic Ramcharit Maanas for the benefit of the common people. God manifested from the stone-idol given to the medieval princes saint Meerabai because of her sheer faith and the same idol absorbed the poison which Meerabai was made to drink. Ramkrishna Paramhans fed th eGoddess, Mother Mahakali with his own hands - so helpless did she become by his faith and love for her as God in the form of Mother.

A man thoroughly immersed in faith invariably achieves success in whatever task that he carries out. The company of faith is the biggest company in a man's life. The main pillars of our life are faith in mother, father and Guru (spiritual teacher), faith in religion and 'sadachar' (good moral conduct) and faith in one's own work. It increases man's self confidence and develops firmness of resolve; la ziness and lethargy disappear and by total involvement of mind, the path for the fulfillment of the resolve becomes wide open. The hypocrisy of success and wealth also crumbles to dust before faith. Whatever the hardship and howsoever tough the situations, they can never become obstacles in our path.

A combination of faith and trust gives rise to cheerfulness in the mind. A man with cheerful heart is like the mid-day sun, whose rays drive away the darkness of sorrow in the hearts of countless sorrowful people and fills their hearts with cheer. Cheerfulness is like the fragrant sandal paste - when applied on the foreheads of others, it makes our own fingers fragrant.

The flame of faith must always be kept kindled in our hearts. Without the flame of faith we are not able to complete any task successfully. Our life should be soaked with faith and no task should be undertaken without faith, in fact, every task should be completed with total faith. Prayers and rituals such as sandhya-pujan must be performed with faith. The reign of faith must be present at every time, every moment, i.e. all the twenty-four hours of the day in our lives.

By becoming faithful, money, strength, knowledge, intelligence, credit or fame, all this is obtained, and success is achieved in every task. We should never give up the support of faith but at the same we should also save ourselves from bline faith and blind trust. We must faithfully believe whatever is praper, but only after discriminating between the proper and the improper. Without giving proper thought any task performed by imitating others is blind faith only and is harmful also.

The so ul's strength or self-confidence becomes strong with faith only.

Strong Spiritual Power

Meaning: As explained in the Atharvaved 4/9/7 — keeping in minds the peculiarity of the world, let us always speak the truth and obtain self confidence.

Message: God has filled the world with innumerable types of peculiarities. Man is continuously engaged in trying to find their secrets by the strength of his intelligence. 'Asto ma sadbamaya' man wishes to remove the veil of the darkness of untruth and endeavors to move forward towards the light of truth.

There is a lot of importance and virtue for truth. There is great strength and power in truth. There is nothing more beneficial than being truthful. The meaning of 'truth' is to know everything as it is, to believe in it and to disclose or proclaim it as it is. The religious books have symbolized truth as austerity and religion. A man cannot remain as man in the absence of truth. Brightness cannot remain on the face of a liar. Everyone distrusts a lair and his reputation gets destroyed, and even friends become enemies. Man must take a vow to speak the truth always but at the same time he must also be careful to se that the truth uttered by him should not be painful to someone, should not hurt someone's heart, and should be beneficent and also pleasant.

'Satyameva jayate naanrutum' i.e. truth always wins, while untruth never wins. This solemn adage is enshrined in our national logo. We should delve deep into our hearts and find out how much we observe this in practice.

By speaking the truth man saves himself from the biggest sins and becomes a real pilgrim on the path of truth. Truth has tremendous power. It has endless virtues. Truth is the highest religion and a ladder to heaven. Truth itself is an austerity and a yog (yog' means to join with or to combine with. Here it means joining with God), and truth is the best yagya. In the great epic Mahabharata it has been said to the extent that 'there is no religion beyond truth and no sin greater than untruth, therefore discard untruth and accept the truth'. Raja Harischandra, Swami Dayananda Saraswati (the founder of the Arya Samaj sect) and Mahatma Gandhi have glorified the human race by their excellent experiments in truth.

Truth by itself is fire. Nobody and not even fire can influence it. By being near the fire one feels the heat and may get brunt but 'saanch ko aanch nahin' - means that a truthful person will not be harmed. The purifying fire of the truth cleans a man's heart free from dirt, and purifies it. The false allegations of a lair have absolutely no effect on a truthful person. One speaks a lie either for selfish interest or with the only intention of finding faults with others. In both the situations ultimately it becomes the cause of his own downfall. A man seeing faults in others and always speaking bitterly is looked down by the society. The conduct itself of such men destroys them.

Only the man of truthful conduct is a man of good conduct. Such a man always goes ahead on the best path and becomes praiseworthy, spiritually powerful and bright. The flag of his fame always flies high in the world. Such a man is always filled with divine light. A man of bad conduct does not have the courage to face him and a man of good conduct is moved with emotion in the cool breeze of his pleasantness.

Only a man replete with strong spiritual power can implement truth in his conduct.

Stay in the Yogic Discipline

Meaning: The line of Yajurved 34/4 has explained that - the mind which, with yogic discipline, obtains the indestructible knowledge of the past, present and future, the mind by which all the tasks of life are properly carried out, may that mind of ours be perfect with good, auspicious and beneficent thoughts.

Message: We are imagining here men of three levels i.e. maanav (or human being) daanav (or man with demoniac tendencies) and devata or (man with divine tendencies). In that daanav is at the lowest level maanav is at the middle level and devata is at the highest level. The daanavs are full of wicked tendencies, men possess a mixture of good and bad tendencies, therefore their life is tainted, whereas the divine men are perfect with all qualities and they are obliging and bright. They have extraordinary power and brightness. God is in every particle and in everything but we can experience Him only when we possess the necessary brightness.

The Vedic religion is based on the principle of Karma or "as you sow, so shall you reap". The first point is that man cannot remain without doing work even for a moment. The second point is that one always receives the result or fruit one's deed and the third point result of inauspicious and bad deeds is bad only. Inscrutable is the effect of Karma's results. Many-a-time we start doubting the principle effect of Karma, i.e deeds. When we see sinful people becoming rich, prosperous and enjoying luxurious living, doubt creeps in our ever-wandering mind. But this doubt is without any base. The last wish of the criminal is also fulfilled before hanging. God's plan is also something like that.

Our mind is so powerful that if it thinks with discretion and constantly contemplates deeply on own past, present and future, then it can certainly understand the reality of the situation also. We can ourselves know by experience whether our mind is becoming like human beings or is getting trapped I demoniac tendencies or whether by doing divine deeds, is becoming praiseworthy and bright like that of the devatas. Brightness is the most excellent inherent part of our nature. Without worrying about any trouble or hardship, to be enthusiastically busy in excellent deeds is this brightness. In reality, in this struggle some world, only that person is alive who is bright. Only he will achieve progress and all his tasks will be properly completed in his journey of life.

But all this is possible only when we always think auspicious and the mind will never get trapped in the net of desires, lust, anger, greed, attachment, vanity, malicious, jealousy etc: when there will be no emotion for committing any sin: when we save ourselves from going on the wrong path and always go on throwing out bad thoughts and resolve to perform only good and beneficent deeds. But nothing will be achieved by merely thinking like Sheikh Chilli or Don Quixote. Success is achieved only when the deeds are carried out according to the resolve. Most men constantly build castles in the air. Such people merely talk big but do not make even the smallest effort for giving a concrete shape to their plans. When they neglect in this way, the good, auspicious thoughts which arose in their minds, gradually vanish.

We should never be lazy in putting into action our good thoughts.

Sources of Good Qualities

Meaning: The line of the Yajurved 34/3 expresses all the sources of good qualities within our bodies. It can be expressed as - Our mind is the source of good qualities of excellent knowledge, contemplativeness and patience etc. In order that it is not dragged into darkness, that is, wicked deeds, may our mind be filled with auspicious and beneficent thoughts?

Message: For our material and other worldly progress, the biggest means is our body. The all powerful mind within the body administers all our senses. Both auspicious and inauspicious or good and bad flow knowledge starts from there only after reflection and contemplation. The mind is also the source of patience, restraint, cleanliness, tenderness, discretion etc. To a large extent the people's lives are peaceful, tender and clean by all such qualities as discipline, organization, the habit of consistency in every work, respect for other, the desire not to hurt others etc. For obtaining these qualities, we will have to worship and cultivate 'satvagun'. Thoughts full of 'tamogun' like hardship, cruelty, disrespect, hatred, etcetera will have to he thrown out of the mind.

'Tamaso ma Jyotirgamaya' (kindly lead from darkness to light) is our principal prayer as well as teaching. We should remove our mind's darkness by lighting up the flame of knowledge. With that, mind becomes clean and pure, and the deeds that are worth discarding, are unable to enter the mind.

Deeds worth discarding are those which are harmful to the society and the country. By giving up such acts any society or nation moves forward on the path of progress, and our interest lies only in the progress and interest of all. It is every man's duty to give up all his bad qualities and wicked acts. Untruthful speech causes man's moral downfall. Those who make false allegations on others, they invite their own destruction by themselves. Therefore untruthful speech is worth discarding.

Man is destroyed by sins; therefore sins must be completely given up. There is a saying in the Vedas that those who do not work at all and the non-believers (those who do not believe in God) die under the weight of their own sins only. Their supremacy passes on to others. It is not that sins are committed by deeds only; sins are also committed by thoughts. One, who steals, also commits mental sin. Similarly thinking about another woman, reading of obscene literature, exhibition of perverse and obscene dance of another woman etc are considered mental sins. The wicked thoughts arising in the mind inspire a man towards sinful acts. Such a man gets trapped in various immoral and undesirable acts which are fit for discarding only. If there is any power capable of saving us from the temptation of sinful acts, it can only be the firm power of the strength of the soul i.e. will power. Only that power is able to save us from the dark well of wicked acts.

The reflection of our spiritual power lies in freeing the mind from all types of sinful thoughts and to awaken 'saatvik' thoughts (i.e. morally good thoughts). Only such men can achieve success in life. We should recognize the endless power of our mind and open up the road for personal development.