आस्थाओं के सहारे आस्थाओं को उभारा जाए
शिक्षा का प्रवेश प्रायः शरीर एवं मस्तिष्क तक ही सीमित रहता है | अंतःकरण का स्तर बदलने में तथाकथित ज्ञान संपादन की कोई विशेष उपयोगिता सिद्ध नहीं होती | यदि मस्तिष्कीय शिक्षण से आस्थाएँ बदली जा सकतीं तो हर राजनेता सच्चे अर्थों में देशभक्त होता – हर कर्मचारी लोक-सेवा में उसी निष्ठापूर्वक संलग्न रहता जैसा की उसे ट्रेनिंग की पाठ्य पुस्तकों में पढ़ाया गया था |
तब प्रश्न उत्पन्न होता है कि व्यक्तित्व को सच्चे अर्थों में सुसंस्कृत और समुन्नत बनाने के लिए क्या किया जाए ? इसके उत्तर में एक ही तथ्य सामने आता है कि आस्थाओं के सहारे आस्थाओं को उभारा जाए | जंगली हाथी पकड़ने में प्रशिक्षित हाथियों का उपयोग होता है | काँटे से काँटा निकालना और विष से विष को मारने की कहावत प्रसिद्ध है | लोहे को लोहे से काटा जाता है। डूबे को पानी में से निकालने के लिए स्वयं डुबकी लगानी पड़ती है | अंतःकरण के आस्था क्षेत्र को कुसंस्कारों से मुक्त करने के लिए सदुद्देश्यपूर्ण आस्थाओं की नए सिरे से प्रतिष्ठापना करनी पड़ेगी |
-पं. श्रीराम शर्मा आचार्य
जीवन देवता की साधना-आराधना (२) – ३.६५
Utilise faith to evolve faith!
The impact of conventional education mostly remains limited to the sphere of body and mind, i.e. the development of physical and intellectual capacities. Acquiring so-called conventional knowledge hasn’t proved to be of much help in realizing individual’s even farther or deeper transformation. Had the conventional bookish education been really capable of moulding the core beliefs, every politician would have surely been true patriots and every public servant would have been discharging his/her duties with total dedication, exactly the way they were taught during their training.
Now the question arises as to what should be done to cultivate and uplift the personality (i.e. the sum total of feelings, thinking, actions and nature) of an individual in a very real sense? The only answer to this question would be to make faith (i.e. the core inner beliefs) of an individual evolve with help of faith (worthy beliefs having high values and principles). Trained elephants are used to capture wild ones. A thorn lodged under the skin after a prick can be removed with help of another thorn! Venom can be neutralised using anti-venom which itself is a product of venom. Iron can be cut using tools made from iron itself. To get someone drowning out of the water, one will have to plunge into the same water. Similarly, one will have to replenish worthy beliefs having high values and principles (faith) to get rid of the corrupted beliefs residing deep inside their inner core.
-Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya
Translated from – Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya’s work
Jeevan Devta ki Sadhna Aradhana Page 3.65
I have no words to thank & appreciate the efforts taken by the great persons to enlighten the common person with these valuable thoughts & ideologies.
Modern society is far away from these basic principles of life.
Inner world is equally important.By publishing these thoughts everyone who reads gains a lot.
Thanking you once again for this endless effort & dedicated spirit.
May God Bless All.
Your’s,
Rajinder Sandhir
How to know if some action is good or bad? Which duty is prime?
Our duty towards God is prime. What is God? God is an embodiment and dense gathering of noble thoughts. How to best serve God – by best serving the society. First starting with your own self, then family and then the society you live in. Any action which benefits yourself and makes you a better person than the moment before however small is a good action and an actual worship of a living God. Any action, work or thought which takes you away from this worship is evil.
Hope this answers your queries.
Please refer to The Bhagawad Gita – 3/9 and also 4/23.
yajnarthat karmano ‘nyatra
loko ‘yam karma-bandhanah
tad-artham karma kaunteya
mukta-sangah samacara (3/9)
gata-sangasya muktasya
jnanavasthita-cetasah
yajnayacaratah karma
samagram praviliyate (4/23)
Performance of Yajna is the prescribed action or ordained action. Now, what is yajna? Please read through 4/24 to 4/33.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Akhilesh Sinha
Thanks a lot Akhileshji for this reference.
Here is a link for the online Bhagwat Geeta with translations:
http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/
Thanks again for the comments.
Namaskar, i am highly thankful to you for the nice very meaningful quotations. I would expepect bi-lingual educational, philosophical quotes/ thoughts everyday which will faciltate-enrich me to my teaching at college level.
Thanks.
Regards,
Prof. Rana
I Will lot thanks to gayatri pariwar