22/12/2022
Instead of Good Morning, I would rather prefer to enlighten you all , this morning , with a Verse from our Sanatan Dharma scripture....
कठोपनिषद् : अध्याय १ : वल्ली ३ : Verse १४
Verse :-
**_उत्तिष्ठत जाग्रत प्राप्य वरान्निबोधत।
क्षुरस्य धारा निशिता दुरत्यया दुर्गं पथस्तत्कवयो वदन्ति_ ॥* *
Transliteration :-
uttiṣṭhata jāgrata prāpya varānnibodhata |
kṣurasya dhārā niśitā duratyayā durgaṁ pathastatkavayo vadanti ||
English Meaning :-
Arise, awake, find out the great ones and learn of them; for sharp as a razor's edge, hard to traverse, difficult of going is that path, say the sages.
Hindi Meaning :-
''उठो, जागो, वरिष्ठ पुरुषों को पाकर उनसे बोध प्राप्त करो। छुरी की तीक्ष्णा धार पर चलकर उसे पार करने के समान दुर्गम है यह पथ-ऐसा ऋषिगण कहते हैं।
Society represents nation, civilisation and humanity. As Swami Vivekananda had said that an individual is a representative of God itself and one is born to follow the righteous way to attain mental peace and spirituality. All the problems surrounding mankind is due to self-ignorance which cause misery to the conscience.
Unity of God and an individual is clearly mentioned in the Geeta, which states :-
*“Mamaivamso jiva-loke, jiva-butah sanatanah, manah-sasthanindriyane, prakrti-sthani karsati”* ,
-- (the living entities in their conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind)”.
In Swami Vivekananda’s words, weakness is death and potentiality is life; indolence comes from mental weakness which also creates negativity. Inadvertence of self-knowledge is death. Therefore, he hailed the shloka from Kathopanishada, stating,
---- *“Uttisthata jagrata prapya varan nibodhata"* (arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached)”.
The primary goal of an individual is to gain knowledge and know his inner soul which exposes the reason of one’s existence and also guides him to a spiritual path. About the righteous path, he said that the way followed by our virtuous saints and great souls must be the ultimate pursue .
The Maharishi Kanada’s philosophy of Dharma says,
“ *Yato’bhyudaya-nihshreyasa siddhih sa Dharmah”* ,
which means, higher thoughts, emotions and goals that lead to our uplift is the ultimate Dharma. While defining the true essence of Shashtra he repeated Swami Vivekananda’s words, according to which ‘Shashtras alleviate us from depression to contentment, mortality to immortality and from incompleteness to totality’.
Hari Om Tat Sat.
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti.
Jai Mahakaal.
Har Har Mahadev.
Jai Maa Bhavani.
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