Meaning: The line of Rigved
1/113/11 states that – God makes those men intelligent and religious, who, upon
getting up at dawn meditate upon Him. Those men and women maintain harmonious
with God as witness are always
Message:
Among all the natural elements, air is subtler than earth, water and fire.
Because of that, its qualities and influence are also more. Man can live for
some time with food and water, but cannot remain alive for even a moment
without air. The pollution of other elements is not as harmful as the pollution
of air. It becomes difficult to breathe in dirty, unclean, rotten, stinking air
and one feels suffocated. During day-time we have to go to various places for
our work and can hardly get pure air to breathe. In such a situation, it is foolishness
of the first order to ignore the easily available life-giving air of the dawn.
After
the ablutions after getting up in the dawn, along with breathing the fresh air,
exercise and thinking about God must be carried out. This wonderful nature,
fruits, flowers, grains and water, all this has been produced by our Supreme
Father for our use. By meditating upon that God, we must express our thanks to
Him. To resolve to observe his commands is in itself thanking or meditating
upon God. It is not necessary to go to a temple, offer flowers, fruits, water
and milk, to light a lamp and incense, to ring the bell, and to bow down and
prostrate in reverence. The good use of life is in obeying God’s advice or
orders. We must be alert to see that demoniac tendencies do not enter our daily
activities, and that our individual, familial and societal activities be
inspired with divine qualities and that the demons of selfishness, attachment,
greed and anger do not harass us. This is realistic thinking about God.
Our most
important problems is how to put our life to good use and farsightedness lies
in solving it. For this the best period is the dawn. By meditating for some
time, we are able to obtain the divine message regarding the objective of life.
Whatever wickedness and faults we have will disappear, good qualities will
increase. Wicked thoughts and sinful sentiments will disappear from our mind. A
direct connection is established with the omnipresent authority of God by
contact with nature in the dawn and the mind vibrates with waves of pleasant,
pure and beautiful thoughts.
God’s
grace is bestowed on this type of conduct of man, who obtains happiness, peace,
name and fame by doing his deeds throughout the day with energy and enthusiasm.
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