Complete Surrender - by Shri M. M. Amingad (Sai Leela Magazine August 1974)

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COMPLETE SURRENDER

 

      Man is an organised being having sensation and voluntary motion typically

distinguished from animal which is organised and has life but apparently no

knowledge, intellect or reasoning power. This goes to prove that man is also

an animal but a social and an intellectual being having the power of

reasoning. This quality of sociability and intellectuality has segregated

him, and has made him hold his head high above all animal world. But the

seeds of Rise and Fall of man are sown and are latent in this so-called boon

of sociability and intellectuality as it always is double-edged like a blade

of a razor or a knife.

 

      The sane man and the one whose line of thinking is right and judicious will

make the best use of these qualities to cross the boundaries of all senses,

the passions, the internal enemies-Passion or lust (Anuraag), Anger or wrath

(raag), jealousy or malice (matsar), Pride or vanity (ahankar), greed or

avarice (lobha), enticement or infatuation (moha), and to keep them within

bounds. But this does not mean that one should not possess these qualities.

One should have these qualities to make the best use of them to serve the

noble cause such as, speaking and establishing truth, protecting the weak

and fragile, to emancipate the suffering souls from their grief, to free the

poor souls from the clutches of the inhuman, vicious, malicious, mischievous

and sinful hands and at large in doing good to the human society of which he

is a part and parcel, as he can discriminate between good and bad, well and

ill and justice and injustice and can try to imbibe and inculcate the one

and avert and abrogate the other. His judicious power helps him to sublimate

his senses and illuminate thereby in him a sense of selflessness and

selfless service to the human society. Here his intellect works like a

knife, an inanimate object, in the hands of a doctor, that effects operation

on the living being and feels proud of itself for having saved the life of

an animate object. Here even this inanimate object has the sense of joy and

satisfaction of having done some useful and yeoman service to the humanity.

 

(To be contd...)

(Source Sai Leela Magazine August 1974)

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