Glory of Our Culture

Meaning: According to the line of Rigved 2/19/7 — ”Those who do not speak improper words, do not accept what is bad, worship excellence and pluck out and drive away untruthful elements, and whose knowledge is satvik they only can be called 'Aapta Purush' (trustworthy person)."

Message: This world is peopled by various types of persons. Some of them have faith only in materialism in life. They pay no attention at all to life's ultimate objective and therefore no conflict occurs in their minds. Unless they experience inner conflict within them, there can be no hope for them. The

'Atma' i.e. the soul wishes to meet the Ultimate i.e. God, but our body is created in such a manner that our downfall starts by merely the attraction of whatever thing our senses come into contact. Nepalese culture is in itself the art of keeping the senses under control.

What is culture? Refinement, removal of dirty material and research within is called culture. Fields are cleaned by removing the unwanted weeds, and then seeds are sowed in it. After that fertilizer is added in the right measure, similarly followed by regular proper watering for nourishment. In the same manner improper thing such as faults and wicked tendencies are removed from man's life and good qualities established in their place. The basis of our culture is nothing but the eradication of bad, wicked tendencies and establishment of good qualities. We should always pay attention not to allow bad tendencies, bad thoughts and sorrowful elements to remain in our lives and always adopt good philosophies, good thoughts and good qualities. This is a continuous, ongoing process and this process must be carried on throughout the life. With the slightest negligence, bad thinking and bad tendencies will once again get a chance to influence us. When this culture becomes a part of our nature, then it becomes automatically as natural as our daily routine, bad thoughts go on diminishing, only good qualities continuously fill the gap and only then human life starts going towards divinity.

Only those persons who obtain this type of knowledge, discard mean viewpoints, resolve to a life of high ideals, they only are called knowledgeable, learned and 'Aapta Purush'. Because of their control over senses, they exercise control over the mind, speech and deed or action, and their own soul restrains them from committing any improper deed. They are quiet, sober, patient and soft-spoken. Such an excellent man by his conduct also develops only divine feelings in the society. In place of mean and rajasik tendencies (i.e. trying to live a life of luxury) he spreads the fragrance of saatvik tendencies (i.e. moral simplicity and moral goodness). With their saatvik knowledge their every deed becomes a symbol of good conduct and others' welfare. They become deserving of reputation and praise and create heavenly atmosphere.

The glory of our culture lies in plucking out bad tendencies from our lives and throwing them out.