Meaning: According to the line of Athervaved 10/1/13 — "Man should not delay in accepting morally good advice and should very quickly give up bad deeds."
Message: Some people think that they will never be able to make any progress in spiritual life because they are born with bad tendencies and their life will end in failure only. This way of thinking is completely wrong. We should remove the influence of this thinking by positive thoughts. Just as aw gust of wind lifts up dust particles and also pushes clouds over long distances, similarly by the whirlwind of good thoughts, bad thoughts in the mind must be driven away.
Within every man divine and demoniac tendencies exist and their battle is going on constantly within man's mind. For obtaining petty benefits and in the pursuit of pampering our physical desires, we ourselves strengthen our demoniac tendencies and thereby suppress divine emotions. We must repeatedly think about the divinity within us and go on trying to make it stronger. We must think that purity is our birthright. Man ultimately becomes what he thinks.
It is easy to be born a human being, but man achieves humanness only by strong efforts. We also will require constantly exerting very hard and being constantly alert to make our life pure and cultured. Even the smallest habit becomes a part of our nature as time goes on, and then we have to suffer heavy loss. It is our duty to save ourselves from such harmful excitements.
Our mind is highly mobile. It cannot be trusted even for a moment. Sometimes a bad habit in a subtle way comes in the form of quality, helpfulness and friendship, infatuates us and clouds our mind. If we do not remain alert, then the sentiment of attachment is born, which suppresses the original sentiment of helpfulness and friendship and inspires the person towards greed and selfishness.
For real spiritual life, the requirement is of maximum self-restraint and purity, and one has to pay its price since there is no question of any deal about it. While discharging our deeds of daily life, we have to adopt self-restraint, and only with it is real self-development possible. Many a time we think that if we maintain restraint and purity in mind, in our speech and in our deeds, we will be deprived of much material happiness and therefore we must enjoy in the material world. We are forgetting that real joy is not in unrestrained life but in leading a life of restraint. Man's liking increases in self-restraint through the self-study of morally good books, the company of saintly persons and the advice of learned persons. We should always keep our eyes and ears open and adopt good qualities.
It is possible to give up wicked activity only through self-restraint.
Yatha vaatashchyaavayati bhoomya
renumantarikshaachaabhrum
eva mata sarvam durbhootum
brahmanuttamapaayati (Athervaved 10/1/13)
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