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Shri Sharnamkumarji Mahodayshri

Today we all are standing at the gateway of our lives, the time of youthful days. We all should positively and constantly remember that we are associated in building a new task to revolutionize our lives. We all have been sent to this universe, for that purpose only because we are deserving of our desires. If you make use of your rights fully for that purpose, you will be able to render the performance of your duties most efficiently- Then the people of the world will gladly offer congratulations to you. If you have full faith the subject matter of puranas, the deities from Heaven or Dev Lok will shower the torrent of flowers on you.
Today we observe with our own eyes as witness to the fact of showering of flowers through airplanes. Then we must acknowledge and accept the fact of showering of flowers by Gods of Heaven, in ancient times. So we should think of the subject matter of ancient anecdotes from a new perspective and modern view point.
Whenever somebody talks to us about the ancient anecdote or stories, we should not express either feelings of hatred or dispassion towards them. We should evaluate the subject matter of the religious discourse from scientific view point, shouldn't we? What is its scriptural view point? What are the inner most thoughts that work behind that belief or concept? Always try to understand the ancient, religious discourses with full faith, new spirit and novel perspective.
One will be very much pleased if you cultivate that habit and are able to comprehend in a better manner, ancient elements, beliefs, viewpoints perfectly in the light of modern view point and perspective. For example, this has become a habit for all of us to look at a person with eyes of condemnation and hatred, if he/she recites the names of God, Glories of God.
Singing devotional, songs in eulogy of God and getting associated Awakening Pushti 9 with 'Good Company' by calling him in a derogatory manner as 'Bhagat'. Bhagat is ridiculed by people by telling him that he runs away from the worldly life. But really speaking, a person who remains absorbed in listening to devotional songs in praise of God, is not a 'Bhagat' but A BHAKTA-A DEVOTEE. A devotee is one who is not separated from the Divine, even for a moment. He always remains united with recitation of names of God.
A devotee should not remain away from his adoration and worship, from his ideals and values, from most honourable objectives, from nationality, even for One MOMENT. If he remains away from many moments of his life-career, he will live in isolation. He cannot be called a devotee at all.
A devotee of God always remains united with remembrance and recitation of name of God for all the moments of his life. Just as, if all the moments of his life are associated with thinking of the welfare of the nation, he can be called A TRUE DEVOTEE OF THE NATION (RASHTRA BHAKTA).
Every individual is in a way, a devotee of one kind or the other. Some are devoted to the Nation. Some are devoted to God. Some are devoted to their wives. Some are even devoted to cinemas or a particular actor or actress.
When a person's heart is united with the Supreme Element, with great respect, it is the devotion of truest type. The qualitative superiority and greatness of devotion increases in intensity and profundity in accordance with the innermost feelings that prevail inside his heart.
When a person is devoted to family, the feelings of his heart become broad- based. He becomes a devotee of society. When his feelings become more broad based and extensive, he becomes a devotee of the nation. When his heart becomes meritorious and still more broad based, he becomes a devotee of the world. But a devotee of God possesses the heart which is the most broad based and expansive, as compared to above mentioned kinds of hearts Thus with the help of development of depthness, profundity and breadth of the heart of a devotee, the inner most feelings of the heart become greater and greater, from humanitarian view point and He is considered to be a jewel among men.
Many divine devotees are born in our country. There is no State of India, where a divine devotee has not taken birth. When crooked policies have tried to bring division between men, divine devotees have made maximum efforts to unite and integrate them with feeling of TRUE LOVE AND GOODWILL.
When people have been terried by political tyrannies of the country, the divine devotees have done the magnificent work of awakening spirituality with the help of their speech and benevolent lives.
When all the people of the world are deeply absorbed in selfish spirit and spirit of 'mineness' only, the divine devotees have given the message of spirit of selfessness. They have said “People of the world yearn for worldly objects and are tempted by outward glory but they do not know that their lives will no longer exist in the world tomorrow as human life is transitory.
Why do they wander after aimless lives? If you desire to work hard, work only for the supreme prosperous life that you will attain after death. One poet has rightly said and I like I most.
“ I saw a wonderful way of life. All things of the world are transitory and momentary I saw arrival of old age that cannot be prevented I saw dispersal of youthful days, which cannot be regained.”
Once you lose your life of youthful days, can you bring back those days? .... If you happened to meet a doctor who has obtained great degrees like F.R.C.S., M.R.C.P. in the field of medical science, and if you ask him, “I want to regain my youthful days and I want to become a dazzling man of 20 years with everlasting youthful spirit and for that purpose, I am ready to offer you the fees of 10 crores of rupees, he will give the reply “Oh brother! Even if you pay 100 millions, not crores of rupees, the days of youthfulness are gone and they cannot be regained. Once lost – Always lost”. So can he bring back youthful days?..... No.
Due to that reason, that reason, that poet has uttered the above mentioned fact. The saints and sages have repeatedly told us” A day will come when you will have to repent of your deeds, if you adopt unfair and dishonest means to acquire more and more money and wealth” Because, by the time, you will have committed a number of sinful deeds. They will not remain with you for a long time. They will disappear from your hands, without your knowledge.
Just try to inquire the history of any country of the world. Whether they belong to East or West. People of the world become more and more egoistic if they yearn for or crave for money, wealth, power, name and fame, reputation. They all have reached a very condemnable stage of their lives.
He may be Hitler or Mussolini, or Napolean or Alexander, The Great...... They all have been drowned by the foods of water in the form of repentance and remorse..... Take examples from the East, Karna, Jarasangh, Ravana, Duryodhana, etc they all have wasted their precious human lives by not performing their duties efficiently because they lost their conscience and spirit of consciousness as they were after money, wealth, property, power, fame etc. They abandoned the pious word 'Services' from their lives. Their hearts were decorated with spirit of selfishness and atlast they themselves died a miserable tragic death. So let us try to root out from our thoughts, and day to day actions of our of vanity, egoism bitter speech, selfish attitude and addiction of narcotic drugs which come in the form of Putna. Let Putna be departed for ever let us dedicate our lives for the sake of rendering divine services, love, self dedication and good company. Let our wealth in the form of youthful life rest in engagement of His playful activities. These are my innermost feelings of the heart, that I intend to convey.
- Shri Sharnamkumarji Mahodayshri