Save from Laziness

Meaning: As stated on the Rigved 8/48/14 - "To be saved from laziness and useless talk, one should always be busy. Let us keep away from bad tendencies, give birth to excellent children and let our knowledge be discussed everywhere.

Message: Every man wants to spend his life on the basis of "less work and more talk". This makes the man lazy and leads to false self-praise. This is a manifestation of tamogun and rajogun. (In short tamogun refers to faults, all under one term "mental darkness" and rajogun refers in short to materialistic tendencies). This bad tendency becomes a part of his nature. A lazy man leads an unnatural life and harms himself. With ignorance and laziness he wanders in darkness and makes vain boasts and blames others for this failure. A knowledgeable person understands his moves, and nothing is hidden from God's observation. Again and again he alerts such persons, warns them, but their eyes and ears remain closed because of 'tamasik' and 'rajasik' activities (activities of tamogun and rajogun). They do not care to see anything or hear anything. They are full of ignorance and laziness and immersed in self-praise.

We should restrain ourselves properly by control on our diet, sleep and rest and should not allow them to hold sway over us. That way we shall become excellent, and be able to make creative around us an atmosphere of, pleasantness, cleanliness, simplicity and goodwill or gentlemanliness. If we are able to control our time wisely, then after finishing our tasks, we shall have more extra time which we can use for eradicating the bad customs in the society.

We should educate our children, dependents and co-workers about keeping away from laziness. By our conduct, we should set before them an example of a hard-working and restrained person. We should go on sowing the seeds of good qualities in their minds right from childhood. This is not a one-day job but a continuous process. A child's mind is very easily trapped in temptations and bad tendencies. We should pay attention with full alertness that bad tendencies do not enter into them. Like a careful farmer we should constantly clean the field by carrying out the weeding. Bad tendencies must be crushed in the beginning only, so that they do not increase. Children should always be employed in creative works by inspiring them to good deeds, so that they become successful citizens. The parents must sacrifice their children cultured and strong in character. One has to present an ideal through personal conduct by removing faults and bad tendencies. This is the message of Vedas.

Always save yourselves from laziness sand meaningless talk. This is the  real duty, real religion of a Brahman.