Service to God, (A fruitful life)
The body of frail and
perishable. That which is born will surely die; and that which has come to be will
definitely be dissolved. But if one meets with death in the service of God, his
death has yielded fruit. If, on the other hand, one dies a victim of
sense-enjoyments, his life has ended in failure. His life alone is fruitful, who
dedicates it to the service of God.
He whose body meets its end
after remaining employed in doing good to others, relieving the distress of the
poor, removing the afflictions of the afflicted, serving others, discharging
its duties in a selfless spirit, serving the parents and elders in a selfless
spirit, serving the parents and other elders, vindicating virtue, protecting
the pious, strongly defending and promoting the growth of one’s country,
serving humanity at large and the entire living creation, wagging a righteous
war, pursuing noble sentiments like self abnegation, forgiveness , compassion,
modesty, non- violence and love, worshiping Gods, adoring and contemplating on
God and practicing blissful devotion to God, reaches a happy state after death
and highest goal in the shape of realization if he does all these in a
disinterested spirit. Those men alone whose life is thus dedicated to the
service of God are human beings in the true sense of the term. They alone are
God like man and they alone do real good to the world by ideal existence.
He whose body meets its end
after remaining employed in harming others, oppressing the poor, aggravating
the miseries of others, selfishly robbing others of their wealth, carnally
gratifying their senses, insulting the elders, subverting religion, tormenting
holy men, doing harm to the country and exposing it to foreign invasion, jeopardizing
the interests of mankind and other living beings, wagging unrighteous and
selfish war, indulging in evil practices under the sway of ignoble sentiments
like concupiscence, anger, greed, arrogance, cruelty, violence, ill-will, animosity
etc., worshiping demons – men swayed by demoniacal sentiments, indulging in
devilish sense –enjoyments, revolving in one’s mind on – indulging in
sense-enjoyments and devoutly pursuing the baneful enjoyments of the senses –
enjoyments which bring misery in their wake, is consumed by the fire of worry,
sorrow, despair, sin and anguish of body and mind during his lifetime and meets
after death with an evil destiny, is consigned to demoniacal wombs and hurled
into frightful hells etc. Men whose life is thus frittered away in unholy pursuits
are beasts, fiends or ogres in human garb. They alone are demoniac man and the
world suffers much by their birth and existence. They not only die the death of
dog; dog or ass but carry with them the seed of a rich harvest of suffering. This
constitutes the greats failure of a human life.
Real manhood of a man
commences when the river of life takes turn towards God – when he begins to practice virtue imbued with self-abnegation and asceticism in a spirit of
service to God. That alone which is ultimately conducive to the supreme food
not only of one’s own but also of others is virtue. The human body has been
vouchsafed only for practicing such virtue.
The right of man is to act
only. The human body is not only the medium of reaping the consequences of one’s
pat deeds but also the medium of action. Through his actions he can carve for
himself a future full of extreme anguish and realize God – the self, which is
the highest goal of life, by taking to the right types of discipline.
He alone who, having grasped
this principle turns to account his right to act is wise. Therefore, completely
abandon sins—evil deeds, pursue virtues—pious deeds and that too with the sacred
motive of worshiping God—serving and pleasing him. If you act in this way,
your life will have completely achieved its end.
- Service to God
- fruitful life