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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We are continuing our discussion on
whether it is a sin to go abroad as was being propagated by false Pandits in
old times.
When you go abroad, each country will have good and bad
qualities. We should not eat meats, drink wine and other liquor because if you
do so, then your body, virile fluid, mind and intellect will get corrupted. If
we adopt their good qualities and reject what is bad, then there is no harm in
associating with them. Some fools hold the view that it is a sin to even touch
and see the foreigners. If we go according to this, then we will not win a war
against them as sight and touch become necessary in case of war.
Good conduct consists in the avoidance of attachment,
hatred, untruthfulness, injustice and other evil habits, and in the practice of
love and kindness towards all, and to work for the goodness of society. When we
live righteous lives, foreign land can do us no harm. We should understand what
Dharma (religion) is? Whatever is listed in the Vedas, to follow those
doctrines is Dharma.
A country can never make any progress unless its people
trade with or extend their rule over other countries. What can you expect but
misery and poverty, when the people of a country trade only among themselves,
while the foreigners control their trade and rule over them? This is what
happened in our past. The British opened a trading company called the East
India Company and ruled over us by following the principal of divide and rule.
These so called priests (better if we call them imposters)
perfectly understood that if they had allowed people to go abroad, then these
will get educated and consequently will no longer fall in the mesh of their
fraud. These imposters will then lose their lively hood.
It
is quite true that under no circumstances they should eat meats and any form of
liquor. And if they have been doing this then they should stop it now, because
there is a phrase in Hindi, जभी जागे तभी सवेरा (whenever you
wake up, that is morning).
Some people in the past had made a rule to cook and eat
food within the Chauka (a marked area square foot long) even at the time of
battle. This will sure be the cause of defeat. The good conduct of a Kashtriya
(warrior) is to fight the battle with one hand and eat with the other hand
wherever he is. The greatest loss of religion for a Kashtriya is his defeat in
the battle field.
One
thing is no doubt very much necessary. The kitchen at home should be duly
swept, washed and kept clean.
Question: Should the
Brahmins, Kashtriyas, Vaishyas eat the food cooked by their own hands or can
they eat food cooked by Shudras.
(Please
note that Arya Samaj does not regard Shudras as of low caste but anyone who is
uneducated.)
Answer: They can eat
the food cooked by a Shudra, because Brahmins, Kashtriya and Vaishyas have to
perform their respective duties of teaching, protecting the nation and
business. But they should not eat food cooked in the utensils of a Shudra as it
could be unclean.
[Eating of meats and drinking of liquor is strictly
prohibited by Mahrishi Dayanand as is evident from the discussion above. These
affect your brain and thinking power. These are considered to be Tamasic (तामसिक ) foods and
increase anger (क्रोध ), lust (काम), greed (लोभ), attachment
(मोह) and ego (अहङ्कार ). Thus
eating of these will take you away from God. If you continue to eat them then
you will stay away from God, does not matter how much worship you do or how
many Yajna you attend, because you have taken the life of an innocent animal to
satisfy your hunger when there is a plenty of vegetarian food available. God
has never given you this right to kill a life that He created. Remember you
never created that animal life. Vedas strictly prohibit eating of meats.]
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