Namokar Mahamantra Ek Anushilan

Author(s): Hukamchand Bharilla
Publisher: Todarmal Granthamala Jaipur

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GREAT HYMN OF OBEISANCE: A CONTEMPLATION
tense or would be afraid of others due to the tendency of dependence, would indulge in their flattery, undertake their slavery, would feel miserable if fails to please them and would feel destitute and become tense.
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If this soul accepts and believes according to the directions of Acharya Kundkund that neither it can kill or save anybody, nor can it make anybody happy or miserable, also nobody can kill-save it nor make it happymiserable, it (soul) would be relieved of all tensions, it would become natural, it would become simple, it would be free from all anxieties.
Some people ask what is the expectation of Acharyadeo from general public on revelation of this supreme truth? The purport is, "What is the benefit to the general public on account of this revelation?"
Acharyadeo says that every living being has ample benefit owing to the revelation of this supreme truth before the general public. Reduction in tension is an achievement by itself, which certainly gets reduced on understanding this supreme truth. Other thing is that simple living beings in this universe, impose the responsibility of their good or bad consequences on the neighbours and thereby indulge in attachment-aversion unnecessarily. In case they internalise this truth, the enmity with neighbours would certainly get reduced.
When some young man goes today for seeing a girl with the objective of selecting her as his life partner, he reaches the decision at the first sight as to whether or not the relationship is worth undertaking. Although it does not take hours to arrive at the decision, it certainly does not take months; even then he does not disclose his sentiment; he merely says, yes, yes, everything is all right, but we would send our reply after reaching our house.
Why?
Because he knows very well that if he expresses his disapproval, the atmosphere would become heavy and the tea party would be in jeopardy and expressing approval at this stage would deprive his father from bargaining; therefore he acts cleverly.
Suppose, he goes to your neighbour after seeing the girl at your place because he (neighbour) is an old acquaintance, as it happens of
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When the reply is received several months after arrival at home that our son does not intend to marry for the next three years, you feel agitated.
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Oh Brother! If the intention was not to marry now then why did he go to see the girl? But the fact is that this is the way of Indians to decline and this is correct also; because to term the girl unsuitable and then refuse is not a good thing; therefore, intelligent people give such reply.
On receiving this reply, a suspicion arises in your mind that the neighbour might have instigated because he had gone to the neighbour after seeing and liking the girl and therefore the negative reply has come. Imagining like this, you start indulging in aversion towards the neighbour unnecessarily.
I don't say that the neighbour might not have instigated because there is no dearth of such neighbours in India, you will find such neighbours in every street; but I would certainly like to say that nothing happens on account of the instigation of neighbours. If the relationships could be stopped by the instigation of neighbours, then the wedding of not a single girl would have been possible because there is no dearth of neighbours who instigate, but due to this not a single girl has remained spinster. The fact is that persons who themselves do not approve of the relationship, get entangled in the instigation of others; those who approve fully, they are not influenced by the instigation of others; because all the worldly activities of all living beings occur in the sequence of the bondage of karmas and as per the rise of their karmas.
There are thousands of examples in Purans and history that the boy gets attracted towards some girl and would not listen to his parents despite numerous pleadings and despite the fact that he might have even to abandon kingdom, money-wealth, home-family.
If this truth is understood properly by us all, then we can save ourselves from unnecessary infinite attachment and version. Nothing good or bad happens to us on account of thinking, saying or doing of others, our good or bad happens entirely in accordance with our own karmas.
In this regard if someone says that if it is so then we would not indulge in attachment-aversion with neighbours but we would do so