Passionate thoughts enter a person through two portals:
1) The eyes: By seeing a movie (film), or seeing a boy a girl with licentious purpose, or seeing mouth-watering delicious foods or drinks.
2) The ears: By hearing praise or censure about somebody, or listening to music or lewd songs.
The good and bad of the world are relative and fancied. They enter our mind through the eyes or ears. We do not know the real good. Real good lies in the Being of God that is both formless without attributes and with a form and attributes.In order to understand and appreciate God, we always need a propitious outlook and we must behold Him in all. Darshan of an idol of God, or God-realised Saint and chanting the Lord’s name are various means to increase our virtues, thus helping us on our path to God-realization.
What if you do not believe in God?
Those people who do not live in the company of Saints and do not listen to satsang are more passionate. The behaviour and the eating habits of the populace of a city or village that has not been visited by a Saint for the last 5 to 15 years becomes devilish and they suffer from restlessness and violence.
If one does not believe in God, then vanity and arrogance, the root cause of vice and strife, will increase. The attributes of purity of heart and equanimity in happiness or sorrow will not develop if one has no belief in God. One becomes puffed up with pride and joy in favourable circumstances and terribly frightened and unhappy in adverse conditions.
Once there was a wave of political propaganda in Japan, “There is no use believing in God. All the places of worship-temples and churches should be shut down; if we get elected, we will put an end to all this hypocrisy and pretence.”
They were elected and then appointed the priests and clergy as manages and the other attendants as workers. All the temples and churches were converted into small or big industrial firms so that they would double production for the development of the nation.
At the end of the year, instead of doubling, production had halved even though the industrial establishments and the labour force had been doubled.
It was found that earlier the people used to believe in God, visit places of worship and would experience some inner peace and tranquility. A good achievement was thought to be God’s grace thus keeping the ego under control. People used to have brotherhood towards each other. If an individual would fall sick or an operation would fail, the doctors would say, “It is God is will.”
Now God was no longer in the picture and there was death of solace and peace. Therefore human behaviour became devilish.
The Japanese had no alternative but to reopen the place of worship. Imbibing the virtues of Indian Vedic culture in its daily life, Japan today has reached the pinnacle of achievements. Now they meditate and also believe in God. Belief in God brings forth peace and solace. And sooner or later and path of God-realization is revealed and finally one attains salvation.
How can one attain God? Develop a strong desire to attain God। Keep chanting the Lord’s name, practice spiritual discipline, prayer and ‘anushthan’ in solitude, keep the company of holy Saints, look after one’s parents, serve Saints and attend satsang. Then one will be able to attain God soon.
1) The eyes: By seeing a movie (film), or seeing a boy a girl with licentious purpose, or seeing mouth-watering delicious foods or drinks.
2) The ears: By hearing praise or censure about somebody, or listening to music or lewd songs.
The good and bad of the world are relative and fancied. They enter our mind through the eyes or ears. We do not know the real good. Real good lies in the Being of God that is both formless without attributes and with a form and attributes.In order to understand and appreciate God, we always need a propitious outlook and we must behold Him in all. Darshan of an idol of God, or God-realised Saint and chanting the Lord’s name are various means to increase our virtues, thus helping us on our path to God-realization.
What if you do not believe in God?
Those people who do not live in the company of Saints and do not listen to satsang are more passionate. The behaviour and the eating habits of the populace of a city or village that has not been visited by a Saint for the last 5 to 15 years becomes devilish and they suffer from restlessness and violence.
If one does not believe in God, then vanity and arrogance, the root cause of vice and strife, will increase. The attributes of purity of heart and equanimity in happiness or sorrow will not develop if one has no belief in God. One becomes puffed up with pride and joy in favourable circumstances and terribly frightened and unhappy in adverse conditions.
Once there was a wave of political propaganda in Japan, “There is no use believing in God. All the places of worship-temples and churches should be shut down; if we get elected, we will put an end to all this hypocrisy and pretence.”
They were elected and then appointed the priests and clergy as manages and the other attendants as workers. All the temples and churches were converted into small or big industrial firms so that they would double production for the development of the nation.
At the end of the year, instead of doubling, production had halved even though the industrial establishments and the labour force had been doubled.
It was found that earlier the people used to believe in God, visit places of worship and would experience some inner peace and tranquility. A good achievement was thought to be God’s grace thus keeping the ego under control. People used to have brotherhood towards each other. If an individual would fall sick or an operation would fail, the doctors would say, “It is God is will.”
Now God was no longer in the picture and there was death of solace and peace. Therefore human behaviour became devilish.
The Japanese had no alternative but to reopen the place of worship. Imbibing the virtues of Indian Vedic culture in its daily life, Japan today has reached the pinnacle of achievements. Now they meditate and also believe in God. Belief in God brings forth peace and solace. And sooner or later and path of God-realization is revealed and finally one attains salvation.
How can one attain God? Develop a strong desire to attain God। Keep chanting the Lord’s name, practice spiritual discipline, prayer and ‘anushthan’ in solitude, keep the company of holy Saints, look after one’s parents, serve Saints and attend satsang. Then one will be able to attain God soon.
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