Deity of Fire

According to the Sam Veda 22 our ancient Rishis says that: O deity of fire! You are always doing justice to all. Please destroy wicked persons and obstructive elements by your powerful flames and please give strength and divinity to those who are religious souls, who worship you and praise you.

Message: God's justness is praised in this mantra. He is not partial to anyone. it is impossible that we turn him in our favor by any type of sycophancy and make him do whatever we want him to do. We can see clearly all around us that innumerable people worship God in various ways, do anusthans (reciting certain prayers for a specific number of times) and rituals; even then they remain in want, misery and bad conditions. The reason for this is that their sentiments are always of narrow selfishness and wicked activity. In the scale of justice of God, this type of act of worship is pretentious and deceitful and deserves punishment.

On the other hand those persons who do not perform ritualistic prayers but always behave themselves as ordained for religious conduct (i.e. truthful, fair, just dealing, goodwill, honesty etc), are continuously showered with the grace and blessings of God. All human beings are the children of God and are al alike. They get the results of their deeds according to the type committed by them. "Avashyamewa bhoktavyam krutam karma shubhashubham" i.e. one certainly has to bear the consequent result of the good or bad deeds committed by him or her. We actually forget this fact. We will certainly get the results of our deeds today or tomorrow, in this birth or the next, but nobody can save himself from the consequences of fruits of the karma or the deeds. This is the form of the justness of G  od. The more firm our trust in this fact, the sentiment of moral goodness and simplicity will develop more within us. Moral goodness and simplicity is nothing but the destruction of the lowly tendencies of the mind and its moving towards higher thinking. When the aspiration to develop excellence of character is roused within us and we start striving for it, that I scaled moral goodness and simplicity. The entire universe has sa tva, rajas and tama characteristics in it - satva element means the characteristics of morality, goodness, simplicity, love, forgiveness, compassion etc; rajas element means the characteristics of continuously running after material wants, riches, luxury, indulgence of desires etc; tamas element means darkness, anger, lust, greed, attachment, lowly and heinous tendencies etc. Man's mind is also made up of all these three tendencies. Man has to strive to evolve from lowly 'tamas' tendencies to the 'rajas' tendencies and then to discard even these 'rajas' tendencies and develop the 'satva' or 'satvik' tendencies - that is the ultimate goal of Vedic dharma (or Vedic religion). Only this knowledge saves us from bad deeds and wicked tendencies and this knowledge, by manifesting in every aspect of life, makes it beautiful, excellent and 'satvik' as described above. When so evolved, the person's vision is always towards 'satva' characteristic while doing any task, big or small. The person is always alert with discretion which does not allow any deed by which one has to suffer the anger of God.

Everyday and every moment we must remember the good resolve that we shall always believe God as just and present everywhere and adopt His law in our lives. Therein lays our salvation. With its help we shall be liberate from the desire for sons, money and fame and save our soul from sins. Only then shall we get the strength of soul, the strength of intelligence, the strength of money and divinity.

That itself is called the worship of god.