Meaning: According to the line of Rigved 1/89/8, Yajurved 25/21 and Samved 1874 — "In the company of learned men; let us hear beautiful words, see the truth and worship of God, so that our longevity may increase. Let us not speak untruth, nor hear words of false praise, nor see what is bad and let us keep away from adultery."
Message: Why has God made this human body? He has created it for the purpose that we obtain longevity by conducting ourselves like deities. Brahma has decided in advance the life-spam of every creature. Man has been usually granted a life of one hundred years. It is in man's hands to fill his life with happiness and prosperity and by divine conduct, increase his life's spam to over a hundred years or getting trapped in wicked actions, and destroy his life by physical and mental diseases. Of course it is a different story if man's life ends through divine intervention or natural calamities.
Man's body has a natural tendency to be attracted towards bad tendencies, bad conduct and bad activities. Wicked thoughts and similar culture snare a man into their net because of their glamour. Various attractive and intoxicating temptations cheat our physical senses and our control over these senses is lost. Uncontrolled senses cross their natural and required limits and become so willful and lusting after gratification that they create trouble for health and religious conduct.
Control over the senses opens the door to heavenly bliss. That itself is the real worship of God and with that only there is happiness, peace and joy. With unrestrained senses, restlessness and darkness prevails everywhere and man lives in a state of hell-like atmosphere. Every moment of his life, man must give priority to self-restraint and denial to gratification of the senses. Let us use our ears in hearing always good and cultured subjects, and accept only those thoughts which are benevolent, and beneficial to all. With our eyes also, let us see only good things, let us not see what is improper. Let us avoid our total destruction by avoiding looking at obscene, lust-exciting scenes and thinking over such scenes. Let our hands, legs and all the parts of the body do only good deeds in service to others. Merely for our own selfishness, let us not do any improper work on behalf of others. Let us not cause pain to any form of life.
This does not mean that we crush the sensitivity of our senses; it only means that we make their proper and restrained use, resulting in health and strength to the limbs and the organs so that the body becomes energetic, dynamic and lustrous. In this way man becomes long-lived while performing deeds of service to the society.
The mental attitudes given to us by the Supreme Father are all very important and useful. We will be able to lead a happy and peaceful life only by their proper use.
May God grant us the proper to keep our senses under control?
Bhadrum karnobhihi shrunuyaam devaa
bhadrum pashyemaakshabhiryajatraahaa
Sthirairange stushtuvaa ngum
sastanubhirvyashemahi
devahitum hadaayhu. (Rigved 1/89/8, Yajurved 25/21 and Samved 1874)
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