Get early

Meaning: According to the line of Samved 135 – the air in the dawn, i.e. before sunrise, is clean. Therefore, one must breathe this pure air by getting up early in the morning. With that the health remains stable and one earns wealth.

Message: There is every type of strangeness and abundance in the nature. There is no limit to joy and good health for us. Enjoying good health, all the living creatures, whether insects, birds or animals enjoy their lives. Drawing their requirements from water, air, light and food they enjoy the happiness of longevity.

God has put health in every particle of nature, in leaves, flowers, and fruits and in every drop of water. Every part of air every gulp of water, every particle of fruit, grains and vegetables, which we take in our breath, drink and food, is very health giving and strength giving for us. For all round development and strength Nature possesses every type of means.

Daily life begins by arising during the dawn only. All birds and animals get up in the       dawn and giving up their laziness, join in their daily routine. There are many benefits in getting up early. The air at dawn is health giving and pollution free. It is also called ‘praan vayu’ or ‘veer vayu’ because it contributes to life and strength. By breathing in this fresh air, there is increase in strength, in the luster of the faced, the mind always remains cheerful and the intelligence becomes sharp and all the organs of the body remain disease free. By getting up early in the morning, the body feels fresh and energetic. Contrasting with this, those who remain sleeping after sunrise, their laziness and carelessness increases, they suffer from various types of diseases, they feel dull throughout the day and they cannot apply their mind in any work.

Dawn has been lovingly called ‘Usha Devi’ (the Goddess dawn) because of its benevolence like a mother. She gives generously with her hands health, intelligence, strength, and the blessing in longevity and all those get these, who get up at that pleasant time. Those who get up early they gain in life, those who sleep late, they lose in life. Man’s life starts at this pious time in the dawn only. The gentle breeze of this pure air fills every pore of the body with energetic freshness and stirs up enthusiasm in life’s creation, progress and development and the feeling arises in the mind to go ahead and do something for the world to see. The beautiful and pleasant atmosphere of the dawn, the singing of the birds and the play of the animals help greatly in awakening our inner vitality for a new life.

We should never keep away from this blessing of Nature. All birds and animals breathe this air in the dawn and never fall ill. Getting up at dawn is very useful to man for his health, mind, intelligence  and soul. It stirs up vitality in the body.

Men wishing bodily, mental and spiritual progress must get up at four o’ clock in the morning, get out of the bed and come out into the open air

Excellence in Life

Meaning: According to the line of Athervaved 9/15/20, has explained about the excellence of the human beings. The line says us that - O men! Just as the cow by eating hay and drinking clean water, gives to the world the excellent materials like milk and ghee (butter-oil), similarly you too oblige the world by taking 'saatvik' (simple) food.

Meaning: The cow has been considered the most pure and venerable in the Nepalese religious scriptures and ahs been kept on a pedestal, and the protection of cow, cow-rearing and maintenance and worship of the cow has been given the maximum importance. The human race gets mother's love and loving help from the cow only. For man's health and protection, cow's milk is an excellent and nutritious diet. No other diet contains the number of useful minerals, salts, disease-resisting and strength giving elements as found in cow's milk. According to the text of Ayurved, cow's milk is the best from every view-point, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a saatvik drink and its use increases spiritual qualities in man.

The cow gives us not only milk and ghee (butter-oil) but also dung and urine which are very good antiseptics and fertilizers. After cow's death, her skin is very useful as leather. In this way the entire life of the cow is spent in benevolent service for the progress of man. The best example of 'plain living and high thinking can be seen in the life of the cow. Her requirements are the least and yet she does maximum good to the world.

If man too would adopt these ideals in his life, this earth would become heavenly. Simplicity is meals and moral simplicity or moral goodness are most important in this. We must always kpay attention to the fundamental questions of what to eat, how much to eat, when to eat and how to eat? Eating a meal is a very pious responsibility of man. This is a 'yagiya prakriya' in the God-given body to make it strong and taking food is a 'pavitra yagya-karma' (pious ritual of yagya). When putting food into the mouth, we must have the same feeling of excellence, ,purity, and cheerfulness that we have in our mind when gibving 'aahuti' (offering) into the holy-fire of the yagya. Food and drink taken with this sentiment increase spiritual qualities in the body. Even insufficient and simple food when taken with love and contentment, becomes like nectar. Clean, simple, 'saatvik' and fresh food is beneficial for our body, mind, intelligence and the soul. The intelligent person's way of thinking is 'we eat to live, not to live to eat. We must not eat merely for the sake of taste'.

In this way with 'saatvik' diet, the resolve for observing 'Brahmacharya' is easily carried out. Each pore of his body is filled with joy and enthusiasm and the person develops the courage to offer his body, mind and money fo rdoing good to others.

Only the 'saatvik' diet is the basis for excellence in life.

Conversation of the wise

Interfaith dialogue in our time is going beyond the first step of appreciating other religions to a growing recognition that the religions of the world have much in common. The Christian participant may find something in Islam, for example, that can deepen his or her Christianity, and the Muslim participant may find something instructive from the teachings of Buddhism. The common ground between religions becomes more apparent as the dialogue partners penetrate beneath superficial disagreements in doctrine.

Without proverbs (traditional wisdom), language would be but a skeleton without flesh, a body without a soul.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity / and many deeds of teh past, in order to strengthen his character, thereby.

The huge treasures begin valued at more than Rs one lakh crore found in sree Padmanabha Swami temple in Thiruvananthapuram were the "exclusive property" of the Tranvancore royal family that dedicated their kingdom to the presiding deity of the temple. Kanchi Sankarcharya Jayendra Saraswati said, "The treasures were offerings made by erstwhile rulers to the temple, hence the recoveries belonged to the royal family"

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

 The love, kindnesses and value we have given authentically to others will be our remaining treasures at the end of life

 Fasting of the body is food for the soul. As bodily food fattens the body, so fasting strengthens the soul.

Fasting daily rituals, and austere self-discipline -those who keep the practice of these, are rewarded with less than a shell

Consciousness is a Guide

There are infinite levels of consciousness; all is consciousness. This play is infinite; the Divine is infinite; the levels are infinite. God is infinite so everything is infinite. We cannot say that there are 10 levels, 20 levels it’s infinite.

That means the distance between two things. Most of the time we are in the past and when we are in the past, we create a distance. So if we want to go out from the time, we must get free of the past. Or may be we are in the future, and then again, we create a distance between the future and ourselves. We wait for the future and we don’t live now, in the present.

Time is now, but we create distance; we are either in the past or in the future. If we want to get free from time, we must get free from past and future. We have to be always in the present, with the present time in our hands. If we become servile, we lose our freedom with our way of thinking. If we don’t hold on to anything, we are free. If we learn to leave, we will be free.

We hold on and then we say we are not free. Learn to leave fast, never possess, get free from past and future; time will be with you and you will be fully free.

It would be easier to do so by realizing the value of life, of existence. We don’t know the importance of our lives, and that’s why we waste the present moment. We are always absent from life. We are in the past or future with memories of the past and fears of the future. This is normal human life, the way of living always absent from the present.

The power, the joy of the present is so strong, so beautiful and big, that you will not miss your memories. Why do you invoke memories? Because you miss something and when you miss something, you open the album. The power of now, of the present is so great and full that you won’t miss anything.

When we live in the present our capacities grow more. Generally, we have memory of the past to enable us to remember the past. When we live in the present we do not need to rely on memory.

The ultimate aim of nature’s process of making the human consciousness grow is to give us the realization, to increase our consciousness. That’s the only object of life. All the rest are processes or experiments with or without love, with or without suffering. All the tools of nature are working to make humanity more conscious.

Spirituality means to live with that consciousness. Everything is moving and changing but we are witnesses watching the play, not disturbing it, not interfering, just enjoying.

The self is a big word. Bring your self to the front seat so you can direct your own moments. That’s why Sri Aurobindo said: “to grow your consciousness, grow your awareness, your understanding, and your knowledge. If you exist with consciousness, with good understanding, with knowledge, you are able to give direction to your movements. Then, you can tell your mind where to go. But now you have no control; if the mind wants this you go there.” Life is movement and the movement needs a guide. Consciousness is the guide.

Body should spritially strong

Meaning: The line of Athervaved 5/3/1 says us that – for victory in the struggle in this world, it is necessary that the body be healthy and strong. A weak body does not have that strength and luster by which to rule and lead.

Message: Man is a social animal. He shines with the qualities of mutual cooperation and generosity. He opens many varieties of doors to knowledge, experience, means, production, contemplation and development by cooperating with others through intellectual and active cooperation and can move forward on the road to progress. But not every man can do this. There are also wicked, men with bad tendencies and bad conduct in the society who work for harming others, instead of mutual cooperation. They go on spreading bad thoughts, bad habits, bad customs and anarchy everywhere. Government can punish some criminals, provide the means for economic progress, but it is beyond
Government’s control to abolish individual foolishness, wickedness, social corruption and disorganizations.

In a democracy, the responsibility for human and societal reforms is that of public servants or social workers. They have to provide leadership to the society on this front. Only such men can be capable in raising high the level of the society and the nation. For that, first one’s own individual life has to be made of a high level so as to be able to influence others properly. He has to lay an ideal before the society by his own conduct. By looking at the sorrows and difficulties of others, he has to reduce his own facilities, has to deal courteously and in a civilized manner with others, speak pleasantly and keep his promises, has to adopt the policy of honesty and present the ideal of fulfilling properly his responsibility to the society. It is very difficult to change the bad customs in the society. For that he has to establish the traditions of healthy customs. For reforming the society, for running it and for spreading healthy traditions, constant struggle is required.

To develop such capacity for leadership, physical and spiritual strength is necessary. It is most important that the body be well built and disease-free. Gandhiji was extremely weak in built and very thin, but he had the brightness of spiritual strength which astounded the whole world. The daring produced by profound spiritual strength becomes capable of battling the bad customs of the society. In this battle there is resistance from every side, ridicule and non cooperation from the people and the social reformer has to make the tremendous effort of swimming against the current. Only with strong health at both individual and societal levels, the bliss and contentment of material and spiritual progress like that of civilized and organized people can be achieved.

This is the only royal road to victory in the struggle in this world.