Learned People Never Quarrel and Gives us Right Path.

Meaning: According to the line of Athervaved 3/30/4 — "The learned people never quarrel or indulge in jealousy and malice. Study of good literature is required to make man's thinking appropriate."

Message: The world is full of men with different streams of thought. Each one's method of assessing a situation, arriving at a conclusion and then acting on its basis is different. It is not at all necessary that every man's thinking is in agreement with ours and that he will act accordingly. Jealousy and malice are born out of conflicts in thinking only. What follows is criticism and counter criticism, increasing bitterness and difficulties in the road of progress. People slander each other as a result of obstinate insistence for their vain knowledge, vain pride, vain talk and falsehoods. The mind becomes malicious because of frequent slander and with repeated talking about others' bad tendencies; those very bad tendencies crop up in the slanderer also.

Spiritually inclined people must completely give up malice to make their material lives happy. Where there is malice, there is jealousy, arrogance and enmity, which create doubts and gear. It is necessary to free our hearts from malice. Love gives rise to love and despise creates despise. Only the atmosphere of love is the happy alternative of freedom from fear.

For freedom from fear and for proper organization, happiness and peace in the society, men who are always busy in their jealousies and malice, who create everywhere an atmosphere of quarrel, must be despised. Such men because of their selfishness, continuously exploit others, keep them trapped in arguments and quarrels and try to humiliate them.

Only the study of good books has the power to inspire man's thinking for treading the path beneficial to all. Men develop real knowledge and their difference of opinion gets dissolved and their thinking gets in the right direction. Through self-study the cobwebs of false thinking and false-beliefs get removed, the hunger of intelligence for proper guidance is satisfied and mental excellence gets enhanced. It develops the feeling of generous cooperation in the society, and doubts and fears are replaced by deep love and trust and the mutual feeling of brotherhood is increased. Swadhaya is like the 'kalpavruksh' (the wish granting tree in the Nepalese religious lore). Sitting under this kalvavruksh-like tree of self-study, one's desires are fulfilled, all worries are dispelled and life becomes pleasant and filled with moral simplicity. Through self-study we get the benefit of satsang (the good company) of learned men who were the ornaments of this earth. Through their books, our contact is established with them and we get a feeling that we are actually talking with them and they are solving our difficulties and showing us the right path.

Just like our daily prayers, we must also include self-study in our daily routine. This is the key formula for every individual to walk in the righteous path…..