This happened 2 months back. I was talking to a person.
He was telling me about how the same atma is in everyone and everything, including friends, enemies and how these concepts have been beautifully brought into our daily samskaras and anushtanas. He was stressing the importance of these and asking me to do sandhyavandanam atleast once daily etc etc to ensure we shed the acquired gunas and follow a sva-dharma more natural to us. This is what is maturing of mind, he said. I accepted it all.
Then his speech turned to politics. He was of the opinion that this particular party should not win election. Then he talked of a particular MLA , who he said was nAstik totally, though his wife and sons worship in temples. Then he said due to his pApA and the party he was in, he got covid, died and was cremated by Govt. Even his family was unable to see him.
I was taken aback at this duplicity. On one end he spoke about how that paramatma dwells in everyone and in the same breadth insulted a person who died of covid, blaming it on his pApA and his political party.
Then I said even our relatives have died of covid and were cremated unable to see their face. And did paramatma not dwell in that MLA who died of covid..? Then he adjusted saying covid is natural disease etc etc..
What made him say that probably is the hatred he acquired in the process of his growing up. It could be the '(brahmin) hate environment' that instilled hate on others, in him. But yet, people have to grow out of these kind of acquired gunas like hate and return to their sva-dharma devoid of acquired gunas in the process of growing up. All the samskaras and anushtanas were supposed to mature the mind and shed our acquired gunas (according to him).
But unfortunately people preach a lot, talk a lot of concepts, but when it comes to practise, they cannot overcome their acquired gunas and fall victim to it. They not only hate, but also preach hate and other vices.
mahA -periyava once said in a discourse, 'we can even kill a person, if that becomes dharma or karma, but that has to be without hate for that person". (somewhat similar to kamal killing nassar in climax in devar magan, it's inevitable, but not out of hatred. somewhat similar to soldiers fighting in the border to protect boundaries. It's inevitable to stop intrusion, but not out of hatred for them.).
It is tough to shed our acquired gunas and return to our sva-dharma.
The result is like we preach love, but actually love the hatred.
He was telling me about how the same atma is in everyone and everything, including friends, enemies and how these concepts have been beautifully brought into our daily samskaras and anushtanas. He was stressing the importance of these and asking me to do sandhyavandanam atleast once daily etc etc to ensure we shed the acquired gunas and follow a sva-dharma more natural to us. This is what is maturing of mind, he said. I accepted it all.
Then his speech turned to politics. He was of the opinion that this particular party should not win election. Then he talked of a particular MLA , who he said was nAstik totally, though his wife and sons worship in temples. Then he said due to his pApA and the party he was in, he got covid, died and was cremated by Govt. Even his family was unable to see him.
I was taken aback at this duplicity. On one end he spoke about how that paramatma dwells in everyone and in the same breadth insulted a person who died of covid, blaming it on his pApA and his political party.
Then I said even our relatives have died of covid and were cremated unable to see their face. And did paramatma not dwell in that MLA who died of covid..? Then he adjusted saying covid is natural disease etc etc..
What made him say that probably is the hatred he acquired in the process of his growing up. It could be the '(brahmin) hate environment' that instilled hate on others, in him. But yet, people have to grow out of these kind of acquired gunas like hate and return to their sva-dharma devoid of acquired gunas in the process of growing up. All the samskaras and anushtanas were supposed to mature the mind and shed our acquired gunas (according to him).
But unfortunately people preach a lot, talk a lot of concepts, but when it comes to practise, they cannot overcome their acquired gunas and fall victim to it. They not only hate, but also preach hate and other vices.
mahA -periyava once said in a discourse, 'we can even kill a person, if that becomes dharma or karma, but that has to be without hate for that person". (somewhat similar to kamal killing nassar in climax in devar magan, it's inevitable, but not out of hatred. somewhat similar to soldiers fighting in the border to protect boundaries. It's inevitable to stop intrusion, but not out of hatred for them.).
It is tough to shed our acquired gunas and return to our sva-dharma.
The result is like we preach love, but actually love the hatred.