sumitsehrawat
July 7th, 2005, 10:11 AM
Human reason, unaided and unsupported by scriptures, cannot take man very far. He cannot pull himself in this world by his own bootstraps. He needs Divine grace, which is there always, but his foolishness does not raise the sails to receive it from God. Unless we are base ingrates, we should love God because we belong to Him. His, then, is the right to command us. Ours, is the sacred duty to obey whether He speaks to us directly or makes His will conveyed to us through scriptures or His messengers. Some shrink from making an appeal to God for the fear that it fall on unheeding ears. This is the danger of atheism.
It is the adherent nature of the turbulent to feel proud and lock up their sorrows, refusing to bring them before the Almighty. To acquire amiability and imbibe charity, we should repose confidence in god. His grace raises our drooping faith in moral values, gives us the nerve to take up new endeavours and strengthness our perseverance. Faith is the only solvent which can help us to live sanely. But faith is not belief without proof; it is trust without any reservation. Singleness of mind gears us on the purpose of life and secures concentration.
The physical basis of human life, the lure of the Senses, emotional upheavals, changes in circumstances and the irresolute nature of human will as well as its fickleness, have been taken into account by the Lord in his message to posterity. Worldly temptations and the threat of violence will make man give up their convictions. The Lord says "Do not yield to this unmanliness". This imperative is the most important among the 60 commands which God has given to set right the faltering humanity in general. Religion is a force. The potential good in men can become dynamic only when we make an effort to put down the lethal elements which coexist within him. Devotees who analyse God's message discern in it the fundamental tenets of a liberal religion, acceptable to all because it is catholic in its outlook, comprehensive in its scope and concrete in is treatment of human problems.
January 27, 1987
The Hindu
It is the adherent nature of the turbulent to feel proud and lock up their sorrows, refusing to bring them before the Almighty. To acquire amiability and imbibe charity, we should repose confidence in god. His grace raises our drooping faith in moral values, gives us the nerve to take up new endeavours and strengthness our perseverance. Faith is the only solvent which can help us to live sanely. But faith is not belief without proof; it is trust without any reservation. Singleness of mind gears us on the purpose of life and secures concentration.
The physical basis of human life, the lure of the Senses, emotional upheavals, changes in circumstances and the irresolute nature of human will as well as its fickleness, have been taken into account by the Lord in his message to posterity. Worldly temptations and the threat of violence will make man give up their convictions. The Lord says "Do not yield to this unmanliness". This imperative is the most important among the 60 commands which God has given to set right the faltering humanity in general. Religion is a force. The potential good in men can become dynamic only when we make an effort to put down the lethal elements which coexist within him. Devotees who analyse God's message discern in it the fundamental tenets of a liberal religion, acceptable to all because it is catholic in its outlook, comprehensive in its scope and concrete in is treatment of human problems.
January 27, 1987
The Hindu