Spiritual Power

Meaning: Man has to struggle continuously to achieve the objective of life. Tremendous will-power is required for facing the widespread bad customs, wicked activities and corruption and to adopt good activities and honesty in life. Information on mantras which help to achieve this aim is given in the Rig-Veda 1/164/4 -"To achieve the spiritual knowledge of the self is the main goal of man's life. What is the main reason for the manifestation of matter? Man must obtain the knowledge of the body, the strangeness of the blood, muscles, bones, etcetera within it and their being different from the soul (or the spirit)".

Message: The human body is the most excellent gift from the God. After wandering in countless species we have obtained this human from due to virtuous deeds in earlier births. The arrangement of the body of any animal in this world is not as excellent as man's. Only man has been given a body perfect with all qualities. Every part and organ of man is unique in its capability.

Most men believe this human body as their total existence and do not think it necessary to look beyond that. Every moment they are busy in decorating this body only. Such men are busy in nurturing their desires only and totally forget the extremely valuable soul residing within the body. They forget that this body is perishable while the spirit or the soul is immortal. In fact God has graced us with his blessing by giving this body for some time only. This body is an instrument only; it is the place for the residence of the soul. With this body as a medium, the soul can progress on the road of salvation and achieve salvation.

What is the objective of human life? Most people think that achievement of 'swarg' (heaven) is the one and only objective. But where is this heaven? Heaven is created by the condition of our mind only. We ourselves only produce the situation of heaven or hell by our conduct. Hence it is very necessary that we must determine very clearly the objective of life. The only single objective of our life is to realize our real authority (the soul) by very firmly expressing the unexpressed divinity residing within us. God is hidden within us and thoroughly interwoven (or united) within us and that God is the 'antaratma' (the conscience) of all. HE only gives us the fruits of our deeds (i.e. 'Karmaphal' as reward or punishment) and resides within all of us. Every man is a form of a 'devata' (deity) only; he has strayed away from the excellent path only because of his ignorance. In reality man is like a wandering deity. After knowing this great truth, our most important duty is only to implement divinity into our conduct.

It is not possible to obtain this type of spiritual knowledge until we make pure our mind, speech and deeds. Our mind never remains empty. Either it wants to enjoy the lust for evil deeds or else it intensely aspires to spread the fragrance of good deeds. Such thoughts arising in the mid are expressed by speech and the deeds are only carried our accordingly. After self-realization, only pious thoughts arise in his mind. Only by discarding the ego and with the feeling of 'aatmavat sarvabhooteshu' by accepting the fact that God resides in every creature, can man be saved from sinful deeds and increase divine qualities within himself.

The meaningfulness of human life lies in that only.

Spiritual Salvation

Meaning: Yajurved's line 34/2 has given the information that — the means for spiritual salvation and material happiness are obtained through mind only. It is in every person. Therefore our mind should always be engaged in auspicious thoughts for the welfare of all.

Message: We get this human life only as a result of innumerable good deeds. This human life is a means, a vehicle for good deeds. Man can get eternal bliss only by using it properly. The Vedas preach that man should always progress. He should never get pushed into the chasm of downfall. He should make life immortal by diligence, enthusiasm and self-reliance, always move forward on the path of progress without rear of death, and obtain a long life.

Firm will-power is the principle means for achieving success in any Endeavour. A man with firm will-power rests only after completing a task. His involvement, engrossment, tremendous faith and dedication give him success. Such a man obtains money, prosperity, skills, everything. The great power of firm decision makes possible even those tasks which seem impossible. A man with firm determination never wavers from his path of progress. Even big obstacles do not deter him and the gleam in his eyes is more powerful than even the rays of the sun.

In this way, with tremendous will-power and firm determination, man is able to obtain all material happiness. Not only that, but on the strength of his good deeds and divine sentiments, he obtains many types of means of comfort also. Our future is also decided on the basis of our deeds only.

Firmness of the mind is possible only when our mind is clean, innocent and pure. If we wish to become firmly established, excellent, achieve progress and supremacy in personal and social life, then we must recognize the intense power of mind and must remove from the mind all the dirt, garbage and bad thoughts. It is essential that we keep clean, pure and free form dirt our mind and body, means and ends man and society all of them.

For the material and other worldly individual and social success, for success in everything, purity and cleanliness is a very necessary condition. Real purity of mind means proper expression of all divine qualities. Freedom from dirt means cleanliness which means cleanliness which means 'saatvikta' (all that moral goodness stands for) and 'saatvikta' means achievement for welcoming God. The opposite of it is 'malinta' (ordirtness) which produces 'aatmaglaani' (or gloom and dejection) and tamogun (or darkness of mind). Dirtiness of mind means doors closed for the entry of God. Such dirtness means destruction of the soul and movement towards social suicide. Man himself has to decide whether he has to accept dirtiness of mind or keep his mind clean and pure. He has to decide by his own discretion and select the path which he wishes to tread.

Material and other worldly bliss can be experienced only by making the mind a playground of auspicious and beneficial thoughts.

Strength of the Will-Power

Every person is the powerful of all things. They can perform everything whatever they like, but if the person have no self confidence he can do nothing in his life. So every person should develop their self-confidence. From the stenza of the Rigved 10/27/5 has given the meaning to every individual that - "O men! Profound is the power of your self confidence. Nobody can crush your determination. When big obstacles of the size of mountains cannot obstruct your path, what is the significance of ordinary obstacles? Men! you are more powerful than even the Sun.

Message: The biggest power in the world is the power of the soul, which arouses the dormant powers of man and brings out the extra-sensory capacity by developing them and gives the capacity for increasing the material prosperity. All the activities for sustaining the life by obtaining the menas for facilities and for their proper planning are carried on with the soul's powers (spiritual powers). The capacity for working for personal benefit and for the benefit of a few others is obtained by our intelligence. But with the strength of the spirit such profoundness is possible, by which not only personal, but the entire world's upliftment becomes possible. A man who lacks spiritual strength cannot experience happiness even though he has all the material means. But if a man becomes rich with spiritual strength he achieves heavenly bliss in this life itself and by establishing oneness with God, constantly moves towards the real objective of life.

Normally with external physical vision we believe this body to be the be-all and end-all, but our life is created with the body, the pran (life's breath force), the mind, the intelligence and the five subtle covers sorrounding the soul (the annamaya kosh, the pranamaya kosh, the manomaya kosh ,the vigyanmaya kosh and the anandmaya kosh). The soul is a part of the paramatma (the supreme soul), i .e. God) and is alwas trying for going towards the Supreme. The power which the vast Godhead, the Creator of this world has for Himself, the same power is within us (because of God being within us). Self-confidence is nothing but having faith in this fact. Once a man filled with glorious self-confidence takes a decision, then no power on earth can sway him.

Hanuman was able to cross the ocean with just one jump, on the profound strength of self-confidence. Arjun achieved victory in the great Mahabharat war only because his self confidence was roused. All the achievements of man in the present times are a result of his firm and tremendous will power. Man has climbed to the top of Himalayas, flies in the air, is making discoveries at the bottom of the sea - all this is miracle of only the profound power of his self-confidence.

The problem is only one that man has niether been able to know his soul (or spirit) nor God, the supreme soul. He has started wondering after material pleasures and suffers sorrow, but does not make an attempt to find the ultimate truth. Usually most people do not get even an inkling of the soul and God. What is the means of bringing about this arousal? What is the real path for recognising the tremendous power of our soul and by its energy increase the happiness and prosperity of the self as well as the world? That path is "Total faith only in God's Authority". Once this faith or confidence becomes firm we always get the experience that God is within our soul only. His presence automatically goes on inspiritng us towards good deeds.

The other term for God's authority is nothing byt the strength of the soul or will power.

Strong Spiritual Power

Meaning: As explained in the Atharvaved 4/9/7 — keeping in minds the peculiarity of the world, let us always speak the truth and obtain self confidence.

Message: God has filled the world with innumerable types of peculiarities. Man is continuously engaged in trying to find their secrets by the strength of his intelligence. 'Asto ma sadbamaya' man wishes to remove the veil of the darkness of untruth and endeavors to move forward towards the light of truth.

There is a lot of importance and virtue for truth. There is great strength and power in truth. There is nothing more beneficial than being truthful. The meaning of 'truth' is to know everything as it is, to believe in it and to disclose or proclaim it as it is. The religious books have symbolized truth as austerity and religion. A man cannot remain as man in the absence of truth. Brightness cannot remain on the face of a liar. Everyone distrusts a lair and his reputation gets destroyed, and even friends become enemies. Man must take a vow to speak the truth always but at the same time he must also be careful to se that the truth uttered by him should not be painful to someone, should not hurt someone's heart, and should be beneficent and also pleasant.

'Satyameva jayate naanrutum' i.e. truth always wins, while untruth never wins. This solemn adage is enshrined in our national logo. We should delve deep into our hearts and find out how much we observe this in practice.

By speaking the truth man saves himself from the biggest sins and becomes a real pilgrim on the path of truth. Truth has tremendous power. It has endless virtues. Truth is the highest religion and a ladder to heaven. Truth itself is an austerity and a yog (yog' means to join with or to combine with. Here it means joining with God), and truth is the best yagya. In the great epic Mahabharata it has been said to the extent that 'there is no religion beyond truth and no sin greater than untruth, therefore discard untruth and accept the truth'. Raja Harischandra, Swami Dayananda Saraswati (the founder of the Arya Samaj sect) and Mahatma Gandhi have glorified the human race by their excellent experiments in truth.

Truth by itself is fire. Nobody and not even fire can influence it. By being near the fire one feels the heat and may get brunt but 'saanch ko aanch nahin' - means that a truthful person will not be harmed. The purifying fire of the truth cleans a man's heart free from dirt, and purifies it. The false allegations of a lair have absolutely no effect on a truthful person. One speaks a lie either for selfish interest or with the only intention of finding faults with others. In both the situations ultimately it becomes the cause of his own downfall. A man seeing faults in others and always speaking bitterly is looked down by the society. The conduct itself of such men destroys them.

Only the man of truthful conduct is a man of good conduct. Such a man always goes ahead on the best path and becomes praiseworthy, spiritually powerful and bright. The flag of his fame always flies high in the world. Such a man is always filled with divine light. A man of bad conduct does not have the courage to face him and a man of good conduct is moved with emotion in the cool breeze of his pleasantness.

Only a man replete with strong spiritual power can implement truth in his conduct.

Strongest Soul

Meaning: As maintained in the Atharvaved 5/3/1 - Men should never be swayed because of struggle. By worshipping God make your soul and body strong, so that no one in this world is able to harm them.

Message: In this world, big, difficult and strange situations constantly occur in a man's life. A man who carries our justly proper task, others undo it by their bad deeds and he has to suffer defeat upon defeat. He is unable to find a solution for this bad situation. All-round there is an empire of worry, fear, sorrow, disappointment, jealousy, desires and lust. For the fulfillment of their desires, people are falling like sheep into the deep well of downfall and are pulling others too. Then what should be donning? Should one give up the truthful path and choose the suicidal path of downfall?

Man has not been given this life merely for passing the days. He has been given this life for achieving excellence, greatness and doing some great deeds. Blessed are those who are striving for excellence and greatness. For this, one has to be alert and struggle constantly. The mind has to be made determined and one has to move forward towards one's goal, and follow ideal persons.

What is our ideal? A man greedy for the fulfillment of desires and wealth, when he cannot achieve these by proper means, he resorts to many immoral, wrong paths for fulfilling his selfish interests. Should we make such people as our ideals? No, never. The real ideal is our Father, God himself. His order is that we should always fulfill our duties and responsibilities. Without getting swayed by whatever difficulties on the path of truth, we should be involved in our work with cheer. They really worship God, who are not afraid of the difficulties on the truthful path and strive hard to remove them.

Life is struggle itself. The meaningfulness of life lies in constantly struggling against the wicked activities going on everywhere in the world. Struggle rouses simplicity, moral goodness and self-respect in man. Love for spirituality, god emotions, and faith in God get strengthened. Ideals become the focus of man's life and he tries to conduct himself according to the ideals. Hardships, big and small, come in a man's life. But those who do not get afraid are not swayed, patiently fight them, shine with brightness like gold refined in fire and succeed in life. These difficulties manifest in our lives to test our patience, courage and valor and we are blessed with God's grace only by defeating them.

To make the soul and body powerful and strong by restraint and to plunge into life's struggle is the distinctiveness of an ideal Brahman.

Strength of Soul

The Soul's Strength

One of the strongest elements is our soul. For this statement the stanza of the Rigved 10/151/4 states that - "Shraddha (truth) is the symbol of the high sentiment of the heart. With it man's spiritual life becomes successful and he becomes happy by earning money".

Message: Faith is our life's most tender, pleasant and excellent experience. There are three steps of progress in life- faith, trust and love. Every issue becomes achievable with faith. Trust makes even a difficult task easy, and love makes it the easiest. By imbibing these three good qualities and putting them into practical conduct, our life's path becomes free from all types of difficulties and hardships. A faithful man achieves success in every task.

Tulsidas also began the salutation prayer to his beloved God by saying "shraddha vishwas rupeenow" (like faith and trust) and then successfully wrote the great epic Ramcharit Maanas for the benefit of the common people. God manifested from the stone-idol given to the medieval princes saint Meerabai because of her sheer faith and the same idol absorbed the poison which Meerabai was made to drink. Ramkrishna Paramhans fed th eGoddess, Mother Mahakali with his own hands - so helpless did she become by his faith and love for her as God in the form of Mother.

A man thoroughly immersed in faith invariably achieves success in whatever task that he carries out. The company of faith is the biggest company in a man's life. The main pillars of our life are faith in mother, father and Guru (spiritual teacher), faith in religion and 'sadachar' (good moral conduct) and faith in one's own work. It increases man's self confidence and develops firmness of resolve; la ziness and lethargy disappear and by total involvement of mind, the path for the fulfillment of the resolve becomes wide open. The hypocrisy of success and wealth also crumbles to dust before faith. Whatever the hardship and howsoever tough the situations, they can never become obstacles in our path.

A combination of faith and trust gives rise to cheerfulness in the mind. A man with cheerful heart is like the mid-day sun, whose rays drive away the darkness of sorrow in the hearts of countless sorrowful people and fills their hearts with cheer. Cheerfulness is like the fragrant sandal paste - when applied on the foreheads of others, it makes our own fingers fragrant.

The flame of faith must always be kept kindled in our hearts. Without the flame of faith we are not able to complete any task successfully. Our life should be soaked with faith and no task should be undertaken without faith, in fact, every task should be completed with total faith. Prayers and rituals such as sandhya-pujan must be performed with faith. The reign of faith must be present at every time, every moment, i.e. all the twenty-four hours of the day in our lives.

By becoming faithful, money, strength, knowledge, intelligence, credit or fame, all this is obtained, and success is achieved in every task. We should never give up the support of faith but at the same we should also save ourselves from bline faith and blind trust. We must faithfully believe whatever is praper, but only after discriminating between the proper and the improper. Without giving proper thought any task performed by imitating others is blind faith only and is harmful also.

The so ul's strength or self-confidence becomes strong with faith only.

We should be Good Everywhere

 Meaning: 7/112/1 line of Athervaved gives us the information about the good morality. The Veda also express that — Just as the sun and the earth do the good of the people through rein, light and food by following specifics rules, similarly men too must get involved in the works of public welfare by controlling their senses and always strive to save themselves from committing crime. Message: The Supreme Father administering the entire universe has made such a special arrangement that all the work goes on automatically at a definite speed. The sun, earth, stars, the moon has been moving in their orbits, at their own speeds, for millions of years and nowhere any disorganization occurs. The change of seasons, farming, water, air etc also go on automatically according to the set time table. While reciting the Gayatri mantra, we too perform the dhyan (meditation) and aavaham (invitation) of the most brilliant Sun-God but we are full of laziness and lethargy when it comes to implementing the Sun-God's ideals in actual life. We are unable to regularize our life and waste our time in bad thoughts and wicked deeds by becoming slaves of the senses. Maximum self-restraint and purity are required for leading a spiritual, happy and satisfied life. We go on wandering for fulfilling the desires of the senses, but they never get satisfied. We have forgotten that supreme truth, that obtaining realistic and true bliss is possible only when we start leading a life, not indiscipline, but a disciplined and regularized life. A pure life does not necessarily mean making the senses and sense-organs useless or suppressing them, but to discipline them and put them to good use. We should conquer by the good quality of restraint the impure tendencies and thoughts arising in our minds through bodily temptations. We should pay careful attention to our senses and sense-organs. We should make only proper use of them. No impure and wicked tendency should be allowed to enter into any sense or sense-organs. Many types of impure tendencies have filled our mind. We should pull them out with the root and throw them out, and firmly establish good tendencies in their place. We should frequently go on thinking about the divinity within our minds. The mind is extremely flighty therefore we must pay very careful attention to it. Never trust the mind even for a moment. Some bad activities subtly tempt us in the form of quality, pity or friendship. By that we get trapped in its attachment because of emotions or desires. Therefore we must always be alert. Man's life on the earth is full of temptations. We are surrounded by varieties of temptations, desires and wishes. It is the pious duty of every man, that by careful vigil, they must constantly struggle to save themselves from innumerable temptations, so as to prevent the demons of such temptations from controlling us. We should develop the mind properly by its skilful training and discipline. If we wish to come out of the present situation and progress, and then we should learn to practice patience and discretion. By that, we will be able to conquer our temptations. Temptation can be conquered only by spiritual power.