Faith Makes the Sentiment of Dedication

Meaning: In the line of Rigved 10/151/3 gives us the instruction about sentimental dedication. According to the Mantra — "The sentiment of dedication is produced towards the country, race, caste and culture when there is faith in the heart for them. Only faith has that strength to produce solid dedication for any work."

Message: No deed in this world can be carried out without the flame of faith and no renunciation, nor sacrifice can be made without faith. For any achievement, some sort of renunciation or sacrifice is necessary. Whatever direction we wish to progress, we should always be ready for self-sacrifice. The objective for which sacrifice is to be made, that objective should always be within our mind. It is not possible without faith.

Faith and intelligence are not mutually opposite. Some people make innumerable types of arguments to prove faith as blind-trust of fools and unintelligent people. But in reality faith becomes firm with arguments and intelligence, and intelligence develops with faith. Life becomes meaningful with faith, it gets a direction, and it takes a definite turn. Gradually such a person's level of quality rises. With such qualities as responsibility towards his trade, profession, industriousness, humility, abnegation, life blooms again. Once this ripple of faith is produced, it spreads in the entire society. What did our sages and saints do? They have sowed the seeds of faith in the society. Only that produced good qualities which produced an all-round development of the society. With the establishment of faith in every part of the society, a vast disciplined power manifests and the nation achieves happiness, prosperity and supremacy.

A man without faith is full of doubts, skepticism and anxiety. Today in all the fields like the nation, religion and culture only worry, instability, failure, dejection and sorrow prevail. The hearts of the people have become like the dead, and the bodies have become lethargic. The entire society is being attracted towards destruction. The situation is that today people have no faith in themselves, no faith in others, not even in God. The patient does not have faith in efficacy. The student has no faith in the teacher and does not have trust in the future after his education. The factory owner does not trust the workers and they do not trust the owner. What is all this? This entire downfall has occurred because of lack of faith.

Just like lack of faith, blind-faith and blind-worship also destroys men's vitality. Blindly following what others are doing, without using our own discretion, becomes the main cause of our downfall. Our faith should be focused on only the proper subjects after testing on the touch-stone of discretion.

Unless and until real faith and deep dedication is aroused in our hearts for the nation, religion, and culture, till then we will not have love for them, the sentiment of self-denial and sacrifice for them will not arise and the eagerness to give up our all will not manifest.

Let us make our life full of faith