SATYARTH
PRAKASH - THE LIGHT OF TRUTH
Summary of Satyarth
Prakash Telephone Sermons of May 2013
By Acharya Vedshrami, Resident Priest, Greater Atlanta Vedic Temple
English Translation by Raj Bhalla,
Phd (President, Arya Samaj of Suburban New York)
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(1)What Tamas guna leads to?
"Vegetables (as trees),
worms and insects, fish, snakes, tortoise, cattle, and deer, and like, are the
forms which the lowest degree of Tamas attain."
"Elephants, horses,
extremely stupid and dull persons, men of dirty habits and uncouth speech and
manners, ferocious animals, such as lions, wolves and boars, are the forms that
proceed from the medium degree of Tamas."
"Flatterers,* beautiful
birds, braggarts, cruel blood-thirsty men, and those who drink wine and other
intoxicants habitually and are dirty in their habits, are the conditions which
proceed from the highest degree of Tamas."
(2)What
Rajas guna leads to:
"Fencers, gardeners,
sailors, acrobats, armed servants and those who are addicted to drinking and
gambling result from the Rajas of the lowest degree."
"Rulers, men of the
governing class (statesmen, soldiers, etc.), king's chaplains,
controversialists, ambassadors, lawyers, judges, heads of the army and the like
are occasioned by the Rajas of the medium degree."
"Singers, musicians, men
of great wealth and resource, companions or associates of the great and good
men of vast learning or those who wait upon them, and women of great beauty and
physical charms are caused by the Rajas of the highest quality."
(3)What
Sattva guna leads to:
"Those who are strictly
devoted to their duties, truth and righteousness, masters of their passions,
altruistic teachers of humanity - Sanyaasis,
teachers of the Veda, aeronauts, astronomers, physicians or hygienist, i.e., those
who devote themselves to the science and art of the perfect development of the
human body, proceed from the Sattva of
the lowest degree."
"Philanthropists, seers of
the Veda, godly learned men, great scholars of the Veda,
professors of the science, of electricity, astronomy, geology, etc. (literally,
the science of time), those who possess true knowledge and power which they use
for the good of others, and great Teachers result from the Sattva
of the medium degree.
"Masters of all four
Vedas, masters of all the sciences and arts, who invent (or construct) air
ships and such machines, those who are embodiments of righteousness and wisdom,
those who acquire control over the elementary* result from the Sattva of the highest degree."
(4)Became a great Yogi:
Thus whatsoever act a man sows by virtue of the Sattva, Rajas and Tamas,
the same shall he reap. Those who are emancipated are beyond the pale of these
three qualities. Let every man, therefore, endeavor to become great Yogi
(altruistic teacher) by the practice of Yoga, and employ himself in the pursuit of those means that lead to Emancipation.
"Let a man restrain his mind from the doing of acts
that proceed from Rajas and Tamas and
thereafter even from those that result from Sattva,
and become imbued with purity and such other good qualities."
"Let him then withdraw his mind from the senses, aim
it at righteousness, and make it concentrate on God. This withdrawal of the
mind from all things, and concentrating it on one point is called Yoga."
YOGASUTRA I: 2, 3.
"After
the mind is withdrawn and concentrated, the soul is centered in God - the Seer
of all - and finds rest in Him." YOGA I: 2, 3.
SAANKHYA SHASTRA, 1:1.
Let a man practice all the above described means of Emancipation
and understand that "Exemption from pain which is of three kinds -
that from physical disorders, hunger and thirst, etc., that from other living
beings and that from natural causes such as excessive heat or cold, or
excessive or deficient rain, or from the restlessness of mind and the senses -
and the consequent attainment of Emancipation is the highest work”.
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