brahman
30 May 2012, 01:25 AM
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Every man at every time makes effort in every way
Aiming at his self-happiness; therefore in this world
Know faith as one; understanding thus,
Shunning evil, the inner self into calmness merge.
If we should look at men anywhere in the world, as they pass their lives in their normal activities, and observe them for any length of time, examining their actions in relation to their life-motives, we shall be able to make an over-all generalization which may be said to be the master-motive regulating human conduct in the most general terms.
No one will be seen to be doing anything with pain or unhappiness as the object in view. Even in austerities that may appear in the form of self-inflected suffering, the regulating motive-principle will be Happiness, as perhaps distinct from mere pleasure. All humanity in this sense can be said to seek the supreme felicity implied in Happiness with a capital ‘H’.
If this generalization is correct, we arrive at the notion that Happiness of oneself, as the basic motive force of all human striving hereunder, for all time and anywhere. Happiness, in other words, refers to a supreme human value in whose light all other motives are only secondary considerations or particular instances. Happiness as the aim of man gives unity to human purpose and brings all religions, faiths or creeds under its single sway.
If this verity should become properly understood by followers of different religions, we would be able to arrive at one single value common to all faiths or religions whatsoever, past, present, or possible in the future, in any part of the world. Such a view must imply also its most important corollary that would exclude any possibility of saying that one religion differs fundamentally from another.
The ”one faith” or “One Religion” that is the dear dream of every religionist to see established in this world, can thus become easy of realization when approached in the way of the wise. Thus, much bloodshed in the name of religious rivalry could be avoided at least in the future.
The Guru, not only presents here the happy prospect of “One religion” for all mankind in a scientific or public sense, but, more pointedly than that, asks each man to adopt this attitude so that he could find peace of mind for himself and attain the goal of happiness. The “One Religion” of mankind would thus follow as night the day, or as a natural corollary to the common human goal of Happiness as the highest of unitive human values.
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Guru Nataraj interpreting the 49th verse of ‘One Hundred Verses of Self Instruction’, originally written by Naryana Guru as ‘Atmopadesha Shatakam-’
Every man at every time makes effort in every way
Aiming at his self-happiness; therefore in this world
Know faith as one; understanding thus,
Shunning evil, the inner self into calmness merge.
If we should look at men anywhere in the world, as they pass their lives in their normal activities, and observe them for any length of time, examining their actions in relation to their life-motives, we shall be able to make an over-all generalization which may be said to be the master-motive regulating human conduct in the most general terms.
No one will be seen to be doing anything with pain or unhappiness as the object in view. Even in austerities that may appear in the form of self-inflected suffering, the regulating motive-principle will be Happiness, as perhaps distinct from mere pleasure. All humanity in this sense can be said to seek the supreme felicity implied in Happiness with a capital ‘H’.
If this generalization is correct, we arrive at the notion that Happiness of oneself, as the basic motive force of all human striving hereunder, for all time and anywhere. Happiness, in other words, refers to a supreme human value in whose light all other motives are only secondary considerations or particular instances. Happiness as the aim of man gives unity to human purpose and brings all religions, faiths or creeds under its single sway.
If this verity should become properly understood by followers of different religions, we would be able to arrive at one single value common to all faiths or religions whatsoever, past, present, or possible in the future, in any part of the world. Such a view must imply also its most important corollary that would exclude any possibility of saying that one religion differs fundamentally from another.
The ”one faith” or “One Religion” that is the dear dream of every religionist to see established in this world, can thus become easy of realization when approached in the way of the wise. Thus, much bloodshed in the name of religious rivalry could be avoided at least in the future.
The Guru, not only presents here the happy prospect of “One religion” for all mankind in a scientific or public sense, but, more pointedly than that, asks each man to adopt this attitude so that he could find peace of mind for himself and attain the goal of happiness. The “One Religion” of mankind would thus follow as night the day, or as a natural corollary to the common human goal of Happiness as the highest of unitive human values.
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Guru Nataraj interpreting the 49th verse of ‘One Hundred Verses of Self Instruction’, originally written by Naryana Guru as ‘Atmopadesha Shatakam-’