TO DESTROY OF OUR INNER AND OUTER FAULTS

Meaning: According to the Athervaved 5/23/13 — Let us destroy our inner and outer faults in the same way that we destroy something by burning it in fire or crushing it under a stone.
Message: By hints, suggestions, discretion, logical or proper explanation, tender and simple persons can be brought on the right moral path. But for cruel hard-hearted and evil persons one has to adopt only tough measures for changing them, just s the blacksmith heats the iron repeatedly and hammers it on the anvil to mould it. When Lord Shri Krishna could not persuade the evil Duryodhan in negotiations, then He had to resort to pitting Arjun with his arrows against him for a lasting solution. Ferocious animals do not understand the language of humbleness and propriety and only weapons can control them. Thus God has had to repeatedly appear on the earth as incarnation for re-establishing religion and removing the evil or demoniac tendencies.
In personal life also manifestation of divine qualities is doubtless a creative work. For that one has to strive constantly for increase in good qualities and simultaneously one has to battle against the faults and wickedness within the heart. If these bad tendencies are not eliminated, then good qualities cannot develop and all the strength will be destroyed in mental distortions only. Laziness, negligence, excitement, lack of restraints will have to be fought ruthlessly and one has to be ready to fight them at every step. The mysticism of Gita tells the atma (the soul) to fight these enemies within the heart and fight a decisive battle against them. He is the true victor who has won a victory by fighting with his own self (i.e. the enemies within his heart).
These days the power of under serving elements has increased so much in the moral intellectual and social spheres that there is nothing but trouble and hardship as far as peace and organizations are concerned. Deceit, untruthfulness and breach of trust have become so commonplace, that it has become dangerous to put even a little trust in someone. From the point of thinking, man is becoming very narrow-minded, selfish, low-level and heartless. Evil social customs have taken us very strongly in their grip. Idealism and excellence are now only for telling and hearing. When man's thinking has become so polluted, to expert excellence in his conduct is like the wise to squeeze out oil from sand. When the mind is filled with wickedness and bad thoughts, then how can it be expected to think of God?
For fighting personal and societal wickedness and for making life clean and pure, if one has to fight bad habits and bad thinking, then one must fight. In place of dynastic traditions for keeping only certain persons in high places and some persons always as servants, a new system of organization will have to be established in which all get their just rights, benefits and the opportunity for work and cooperation. We will have to become ready to fight the demon of immorality. The resistance against under serving and undesirable persons will have to be so active that they cannot raise their heads at all and they should be crushed at the beginning itself.