Question: The Vedas say that we must treat our friends and foes alike. Does that mean we were to treat gently our foes who've harmed us in any way, and still continue to do so?
That's absolutely right when we say stern action must be taken against foes who are out to harm us. And at no point do the Vedas ever say we should be passive sufferers against enemies. What the Vedas say is that we must treat our foes and friends alike at a mental level. This means that we should not hate our foes. This is because hatred doesn’t hurt the object of hatred but it harms the person who hates. Yet, we must take the necessary physical action to deal with enemies.
Even in the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna encouraged Arjuna to fight the battle to kill his own cousins and uncles. Lord Krishna said so not because he disliked the enemy but to uphold righteousness.
Similarly, we need to stand up to a person who wants to cause harm.
Dear All
We are now living at the beginning of the 21st century.The age of globalization as well as the age of Technological Revolution. Can we look at this time from another perspective. The age of degeneration.The age of humiliation.The age of declaring self superiority.The age of lust.The age of annihilated morality.
The present happenings all around the world are themselves self exemplary.People are starving for food.Selling their children for food.Selling their daughters and wives for money .One killing people in the name of community without any reason or with some deeply ingrained reason.Is this what they were taught long time back.
When I started looking back to find out the reason of such moral degeneration ,I discovered some very interesting facts .But this might not be the real place to share those facts which laid the road to perdition.
Any way One basic reason that I would like to share with you people is the lack of RIGHTEOUSNESS. A strong character can only help a person to bring back his righteousness.But Alas present system of education is producing a great amount of hindrance for making a righteous character.Most importantly I found a perplexing reason behind this situation.It is our apathy towards our heritage and indigenous culture. Today children are encouraged to learn mastering computer.Instead a little introduction of character building philosophy from our ancient heritage could have become much more interesting and could have become much more helpful for our young Guns.As we are allowing a distance to make in between our children and our culture ,we are slowly but surely approaching towards the destruction.This is high time that we must start working on putting the things back on the track so that we can realize the word of the Great Visionary NOBLE Laureate Rabindranath Tagore as he said in his poem"INDIA WILL ONCE AGAIN TRIUMPH WITH HER SUPERIORITY IN THE STAGE OF THE WHOLE WORLD".
This is one small steps towards the true realization of the Poet and the Swamiji Himself.
Many thousand years ago the saints from this sacred land discovered many truth about human value and life. They compiled it together for us. But due to the sense of self supremacy of contemporary Brahmins it was left confined inside a very small circle of learned people. But it was intended to the common ordinary people around the world. As we all know that the truth is for everyone as it is eternal.
We need to bring out the essence of Vedanta and spread the fragrance among the every corner of the human world.This is a small step to decode the encrypted knowledge or message whatever you say out of the box and make it available for those who are very much lost in the midst of their daily responsibility. Thanks to the Vedanta Asiatic Society to take a wholesome effort in realizing our dream .
On behalf of the member of the International Vedanta Awareness Foundation I really appreciate your effort to spent your precious time for reading the blog and leaving your valuable comment on the prosperity of our intention. I would be extremely grateful to all of you who are very much interested in spreading the message of Vedanta
across your locality.Please feel free to contact us so that we can make a successful effort in making a whole new world of people with strong character.
After all a strong character can build a person full of RIGHTEOUSNESS .We need thousands of persons like them who will help us to make a better India in the 21 st Century .Also to hep us realize the dream of Swami Vivekananda .
Vandemataram
The present happenings all around the world are themselves self exemplary.People are starving for food.Selling their children for food.Selling their daughters and wives for money .One killing people in the name of community without any reason or with some deeply ingrained reason.Is this what they were taught long time back.
When I started looking back to find out the reason of such moral degeneration ,I discovered some very interesting facts .But this might not be the real place to share those facts which laid the road to perdition.
Any way One basic reason that I would like to share with you people is the lack of RIGHTEOUSNESS. A strong character can only help a person to bring back his righteousness.But Alas present system of education is producing a great amount of hindrance for making a righteous character.Most importantly I found a perplexing reason behind this situation.It is our apathy towards our heritage and indigenous culture. Today children are encouraged to learn mastering computer.Instead a little introduction of character building philosophy from our ancient heritage could have become much more interesting and could have become much more helpful for our young Guns.As we are allowing a distance to make in between our children and our culture ,we are slowly but surely approaching towards the destruction.This is high time that we must start working on putting the things back on the track so that we can realize the word of the Great Visionary NOBLE Laureate Rabindranath Tagore as he said in his poem"INDIA WILL ONCE AGAIN TRIUMPH WITH HER SUPERIORITY IN THE STAGE OF THE WHOLE WORLD".
This is one small steps towards the true realization of the Poet and the Swamiji Himself.
Many thousand years ago the saints from this sacred land discovered many truth about human value and life. They compiled it together for us. But due to the sense of self supremacy of contemporary Brahmins it was left confined inside a very small circle of learned people. But it was intended to the common ordinary people around the world. As we all know that the truth is for everyone as it is eternal.
We need to bring out the essence of Vedanta and spread the fragrance among the every corner of the human world.This is a small step to decode the encrypted knowledge or message whatever you say out of the box and make it available for those who are very much lost in the midst of their daily responsibility. Thanks to the Vedanta Asiatic Society to take a wholesome effort in realizing our dream .
On behalf of the member of the International Vedanta Awareness Foundation I really appreciate your effort to spent your precious time for reading the blog and leaving your valuable comment on the prosperity of our intention. I would be extremely grateful to all of you who are very much interested in spreading the message of Vedanta
across your locality.Please feel free to contact us so that we can make a successful effort in making a whole new world of people with strong character.
After all a strong character can build a person full of RIGHTEOUSNESS .We need thousands of persons like them who will help us to make a better India in the 21 st Century .Also to hep us realize the dream of Swami Vivekananda .
Vandemataram
Sunday, December 14, 2008
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