The eternal values

Ajit Singh Nagra
We live in deeds not years, in thoughts not breaths, In feelings not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives, who thinks most, feels the noblest acts the best and considers that the spirit alone is substance and the matter is a manifestation of spirit and that as divorced from spirit matter is illusory. All worldly pleasures are momentary and entail pain that consume our body slowly like sweet poison.
We are living in the age of mental stress and strain, storm and strife due to attachment with the perishable material things. Our unquenchable thirst for gold and ungovernable madness for transitory pleasures have landed us into the vortex of mental affliction, irritation and restlessness. We have become morally corrupt, intellectually dud, socially alienated, economically wretch to float aimlessly in all directions to swoop down upon the heap of dirt and dust to swell our pockets and purses with money and material. Our defective system of education lays stress on bookish knowledge through parroting without understanding to obtain high percentage, to become a corrupt bread earner who works little and gains more. This cancer of corruption percolates in our whole system from top to bottom in all fields of public life and due to absence of moral values, none is to ameliorate this rotten system.The man has lost his mental peace and he has to thrive on dose of some narcotics or liquor to sleep at night.
The advanced nations are also worst hit due to lack of moral education and cut -throat competition for material gains. Mrs Hillary Cliton, the consort of the former U. S. A. President presents a meaningful picture of the American society when she visited the ailing Senator Atwater in a hospital to know his health as he was suffering from dreadful cancer. He was groaning with deep agony and anguish and he remarked that there was ”Spiritual Vacuum”” in the American Society because their hearts throb without love and fellow- feelings. People love to tame the pets[Dogs and cats] but they have no time for their aged and sick parents who languish in all solitude in the old people ‘s houses due to erosion of moral values in the selfish young generation of present times.
Our and saints have given the gospel of universal love and compassion by inculcating in us the virtues of Truthfulness,charity hospitality, generosity magnanimity pity, benevolence sacrifice renunciation and tolerance to knit the mankind into one family.Their wisdom, enlightenment and awakening aim at dispelling the mist of ignorance.The universe is the composition of five elements- the earth Air, Water, Fire Ether [sky] and all living beings undergo four stages-birth, growth decay and death or dissolution. But the spirit or soul is imperishable as it is a part of God or divine illumination that acts as living force to provide vigour, vitality and vibration.The knowledge of spirit is spiritualism.The word moral has come from mores that means conventions or norms. Ethics is called the science of morality and it is rooted in ethos which signifies character. The religion is derived from Latin word Rigare that means to unite, to solidify as it cements man with man and man with God.Our eastern philosophy teaches us to love each other but the cunning and callous people use it as a tool to divide each other by fanning the fire of hatred and communalism.
Mind is an illumination provided it is tamed through discipline self- restraints rigorous mental exercise and austerity.It needs spiritual nourishment. The body is a vehicle and mind is its horse to draw it. Our five senses are its reigns and it is controlled by reasoning. Greed , Lust and anger are the gateways of hell. The senses are the windows of knowledge. Mind can be tamed by shutting the doors of senses.
Anger is a madness that causes more harm to our personality, deforms our looks, disturbs our peace and deprives us of good digestion and sound sleep. It spreads like fire through transformation from husband to wife, from parents to children and vice versa in the family and from boss to subordinates in the office and and it finds its target on the meek or the harmless innocent. When you are angry, clip your mouth tightly and donot utter any word .Any word spoken in anger will hurt the feelings of others and will end in repentance.Physical injury sustained can recover, its scar will heal up and be forgotten but the harsh words cut deep irritate and the heart bleeds.
One should cultivate the habit of early rising, the ambrosial hour to enjoy the tranquility, calmness and divine bliss. We should sit in meditation for a little time in quiet posture to have an introspection to find the nectar through super consciousness, illumination and contemplation. Mind is a seat of eternal bliss and it is not a matter.Lord Buddha advocates that the eightfold path—Right Faith,Right Action ,Right Speech Right Efforts, Right Mindfulness, Right View, Right livelihood and Right concentration can tame the mind.Every religion is based upon eternal values .The suffis or the mystics propagate Wahad-ul-wujud or unity of Being, Haq and Khalaq, the creator and the created, craving for direct communion with Him and attaing absorption in Him through Tauba[repentance] Wara [abstinence] Zuhd [piety] Faqr [poverty] Sabr [Patience] Shukr [gratitude] Khauf [Fear] Raja [hope] Tawakkul [contentment] and Riza [submission to the divine will] The eternal values are the precious treasures of our wisdom and they have universal application and our existence is not worthwhile without them.

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