Character Formation
Message-1: Human life is an invaluable gift from God. Man has received the facilities not granted to any other life-form. He has been granted a family, medical-care, industry, housing, vehicles and entertainment and the power to talk, laugh, read, write and think. Do other animals enjoy all these? Why all this special grace of God on man only? Every animal born in this world, meets death after some time. No one knows when he will die. God has given the facility to man only to push death on one side and achieve immortality. He should not lead the life of a mortal, but live determinedly like an immortal.
By studying the history and the characters of excellent men, it becomes clear that some qualities are extremely essential for man’s progress. These qualities by themselves are the test of man. Man will become excellent with immortality of name in proportion to the qualities possessed by him. The lives of all great men of the world are replete with these qualities. No man will achieve immortality of name without the help of these qualities. The grandeur of these qualities has been mentioned in many places in many ways in the holy books. These qualities are called ‘Daivee Sampada’. Man can become immortal in this world only by adopting these virtues in his life. Ours is the country of great men. From the time of Lord Ramachandra (or Ram), up to to-day, world-famous men have been born here. But it will be of no use to create only great men. It is both improper and impossible that people who can be counted on finger-tips become great by imbibing divinity and the rest live the life of hell. The level of our ordinary, very ordinary people also should be excellent.
Our bodily requirements, like other animals, are ordinary and can be easily fulfilled. But we utilize our extra capacity for indulging in our desires, for luxurious living, for hoarding and for satisfying our ego. We stray from aims of this life and like a dying man just pull on with the burden of our lives.
By proper diet, proper daily routine, exercise, austerity etc we should keep the body clean and the mind pure and live our life (i.e. live for others’ welfare). In that case we can ‘live over a hundred years by doing good deeds, enjoy the happiness of excellent wealth and children and enjoy the bliss of immortality of the soul.
How surprising it is that it does not occur to us to take advantage of the invaluable opportunity of human life and we waste it away just like that in childish games. Not only that, but we utilize the human life in various wicked activities and take away with us the heavy burden of mountains of sins and hellish tortures for our next birth. On the contrary, the animals are better, who leave just as they came into this world. Is this the only intelligence of man? Is man incapable of using proper discretion after obtaining so much knowledge, wisdom and education?
We may boast of ourselves as knowledgeable, clever, and shrewd by knowing the ways of success in the material world, but it is not the less important that we understand the fundamental aim of life and seriously think about it. We should also think ‘who am I? what am I? and how do I achieve meaningfulness of my existence ? If man does not develop this knowledge, then he will be forced to live a contemptible life similar to an animal.
Every man with discretion must think on his current situation, and if possible should venture to employ his life in fulfilling God’s expectation and thereby saving himself from repentance. When such an inspiration arises in the heart, then you should understand that God’s brightness has started shining and God’s grace is manifesting. Most people are not prepared to amend their bad conduct. They are not willing to replace wicked conduct with good conduct and they expect God to fulfill their desires. They are doing ritual-worship, sing hymns etc with desires. They think that praising God, prostrating before him, by imploring or by making offerings, they can get their work done through Him. The real meaning of worship is that God’s qualities be firmly impressed on our memory, and to create maximum cleanliness, discretion and purity in our minds. Depending on his situation, every man can contribute in some way to raising the level of sentiments of the world’s humanity. The extent to which we can devote our time, labor, intelligence, money etc for this purpose, to that extent we have ventured for fulfilling God’s wish. For that we should include the maximum purity, generosity and excellent ideals in our thinking, attitudes, qualities, deeds, nature and activities. Simultaneously we should be dedicated to surrender with enthusiasm and feelings our insight and capacity for people’s welfare.
!!!Will Continue!!!
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