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.