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.
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