By Chitra Devraj
Today’s satsangh is the concluding part of the Vidura Neethi.
WHAT IS ‘AARJAVAM’?
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(Guruji often used to say that mere reading of cookery book is of no use. That will never quench our hunger or thirst. We need to practically cook and thus become knowledgeable).We should never be satisfied by simply attending and hearing the discourses. Intellectual knowledge of the Atman is only the first stage. There are many more ladders we need to climb on after the acquisition of this intellectual knowledge. Up to this level the knowledge is only indirect knowledge. Let us all strive to become and be. (Guruji often used to say that mere reading of cookery book is of no use. That will never quench our hunger or thirst. We need to practically cook and thus become knowledgeable).
We will be free from all miseries and bondage, if we understand ‘who am I?’If one relies on the desires, he dies every moment of his life. If one relies on the knowledge, he lives happily every moment of his life without any fear of death. The death itself is destroyed when it comes under the influence of knowledge.
By Chitra Devaraj
The soul is eternal and everlasting.Vidura said to Dhrithrashtra, “Virtue is everlasting; pleasure and pains are transitory. Life is, indeed, everlasting, but its particular phases are transitory. Forsaking those which are passing, betake thyself to that which is everlasting and let contentment be thine, since contentment is the greatest of all acquisitions”.
WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES OF A FOOL? (Shlokas 14-20)1. A fool is one who thinks that he knows everything, without reading scriptures under proper guidance. Scriptures are closed book as far as he is concerned. (Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita that the scripture is the measuring scale for one’s thoughts and actions. It teaches us what we should do and what we should not do. There are many stories in the epics about great people who thought that they knew everything but fell prey to situations. What to talk about a person who has not read the scriptures at all! Surrender is next to impossible for such people. Whatever they do is always right as far they are concerned. Being highly egoistic they cannot accept anything which proves them wrong. They think the body as real and do not believe in God as also the scriptures which talks about God. In Tamil there is a proverb which says that whatever we know is only a drop in the ocean. It is foolish to think that we know everything. Submissiveness comes to us when we read the stories of the Lord and great saints around us).2. A foolish man dreams to achieve bigger things without the basic necessities for the work. He has a knack of desiring what he has no right to desire. (Bhagavad Gita says that one should understand the scriptural injunctions and then set to work. The basic necessity for any work is the knowledge of the work and the guidance of a wise person. A foolish person who does not know what is right ends up in doing works only to satisfy his senses. His works are unbeneficial and harmful which leads to the destruction in the world).
Happy Dassarah!
WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES OF A WISE MAN?Let mother mahaa maaya remove our ignorance and lead us in the path of light. With prostrations to our guruji and all the sathsangees, we will continue with the topic:
WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES OF A WISE MAN AND A FOOLISH MAN?Vidura told the king Dhrithrashtra “Even if asked one should speak only truth, be it good or bad, hateful or pleasing. That is why I do not wish to tell you what is good for Kuru. I will say only what is both beneficial and consistent only with morality. My dear king you are foolish. You are not wise”.
WHO IS VIDURA?
