Liberate from the Feeling of Enmity

Meaning: According to the line of Rigved 2/7/3 — just ad flowing water can never remain at one place, similarly enmity also should not remain (i.e. one should not harbor enmity). One should renounce inimical feeling and create friendship.

Message: The main reason, for all our collected bad tendencies, influences and bad habits is our ignorance and lack of knowledge which becomes an obstacle in our progress. We remain neither alert towards our divine form nor do we get the knowledge of our divinity. The rise of ego and egoistic arrogance is only because of this ignorance. The arrogance of 'I an so and so' etc inspires us to consider us as separate from others. With that arise the emotions of attachment, condemnation, 'mine and yours' and like and dislike or malice and we stray away from the path of spirituality and cause the downfall of our own life.

With the constant thinking of enmity, an increase in wicked activities takes place and accordingly man's behavior, man's conduct comes to low level. There is only one constant thought of how to take revenge, how to case maximum harm, and how to insult him. Constantly this agitation is going on in the mind. By adopting the attitude of accusation, taunts, sarcasm and bitter conduct man causes the downfall of his own personal character; to add to that, others coming in his contact suffer mental tension. Such inferior men continuously think of destroying their opponents and also show their meanness by showing happiness with even a slight harm to these opponents.

How clean and pure is flowing water! Rivers brooks and streams give joy to one and all. But if the water is halted and kept stagnant in a pit, it starts rotting and smelling. The same condition prevails in our mind when we store enmity and malice there. In such people's minds instead of the emotion of love, there is hatred and there is an all round harmful atmosphere of enmity and non cooperation.

The number of innocent men in this world is very little. Every man will have some faults, deficiencies and some bad tendencies. We ourselves also are not an exception. But man never pays attention to his own bad tendencies and even on a small matter, creates enemies. Today the society's economic and political atmosphere has become so unnatural that people are wallowing in the stinking mire of an attitude of revenge. There can never be an atmosphere of peace and happiness in the society as well as the family unless the attitude of enmity is given up and until the feeling of mutual friendship does not flourish. For this is the most important feeling, the feeling of tolerance and truce. As far as possible if the situation is studied with a cool mind, then it will be understood that the other person's conduct was not with a feeling of enmity or malice. If we were in the same situation, may be, we too would have acted similarly. With this thinking, there will not be any unnecessary malice in our mind and the attitude of cooperation and forgiveness will arise.

One can be liberated from the feeling of enmity only by total purity in the mind, speech and action.