Sunday, May 9, 2010

Vedastras boundary

The main discipline is to remember the Almighty . Goswamiji fixes the hindu limitations . A load of jewels is of no use without clothes; an enquiry about Brahman (the Absolute)
is of little use without dispassion; abundant enjoyments are of no use to a diseased body;
of little use are Japa (muttering of prayers) and Yoga (exercises of mind-control) without
devotion to Hari . Go on grieving and Pitiable is the Brihmn who is ignorant of the Vedas, and who has
abandoned his own duty and is engrossed in the pleasures of sense; pitiable the king
who has no knowledge of politics and who does not love his people as his own life:
pitiable the Vaish (a member of the trading class) who is niggardly though rich, and
who is not perfect in hospitality nor in devotion to Lord ; pitiable the shdra (a
member of the labouring or artisan class) who is disrespectful towards the nobles,
loquacious and proud of his knowledge and loves to be honoured. Pitiable, again, is the
woman [ above all the varnas ] who deceives her own husband, is crooked and quarrelsome and follows her
own will; pitiable the religious student who breaks his vow and obeys not the orders
of his preceptor
, pitiable is the householder who out of ignorance forsakes the path of duty,
and pitiable the recluse who is attached to the world and lacks discretion and
dispassion
.Pitiable is the anchorite who has given up penance and developed a liking for
luxuries; pitiable the backbiter who is angry without cause and an enemy of his own
parents, preceptor and brothers. Pitiable in everyway is he who harms others, cherishes
his own body and is exceedingly heartless. And pitiable in every respect is he who is
not sincerely devoted to Hari. There are sins , .The sins attaching to the
murder of one.s mother, father or son and to the act of setting fire to a cowpen or a village
of nobles, and those incurred by slaying a woman or child and by administering
poison to a friend or a monarch,and who forsaking the feet of Hari and
Lord shiva worship frightful ghosts and who sell
the Vedas, exploit their piety, are given to backbiting and expose others. sins, who are
deceitful, wicked, quarrelsome and irascible, who revile the Vedas and are hostile to the
world, who are greedy and lecherous and behave as the repacious do, and who
cast their eyes on others. wealth and others. wife. Sin is the fate of those wretches who love not the company of the
virtuous, who have rejected the path leading to God-Realization, who worship not
Hari even though blessed with a human form, and take no delight in the glory of Hari
and Lord shiva, who have abandoned the path of the Vedas and follow the contrary way,
and who are impostors and deceive the world by assuming false appearances..

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