...contd....
‘Sat karmon
se sat sangh bhala’.
‘Company
of pious and noble souls is better than good deeds’.
Good
company or the company of pious and devotees of Gods is thousand times better
than a good or noble deed.
Now it so
happened that Sage Vashista and Sage Vishwamitra had an argument where Sage
Vashista declared that ‘company of pious and pure, noble souls and true
devotees of lord’ is far better than ‘sadhan’. Sage Vishvamitra who had risen
to the level of Rishi i.e., seer didnot agree on that account and said that ‘only
sadhan was the highest souls especially when compared to company of pious souls
and devotees of Lord’.
To resolve
their fight, they approached ‘Adishesha’ the serpent-king and the bed of Lord
Vishnu. In reply he said “I can’t think straight while holding this heavy earth
on my head. Please hold it on my behalf as i do some thinking on this issue”.
Sage Vishwamitra
immediately exchanged his 1000 years of tapas-shakthi (power of penance) for holding it for just
half a second and then gave it to Sage Vashista.
Sage
Vashishta just exchanged half a second of punya-karma (merits earned) of his
satsang to holding the earth for 1000 years. Later when Sage Vishwamitra asked
Adisesha as to what his verdict was, he replied “Isn’t it obvious that your
1000 years of penance power could match not even half a second of merit earned
in company of noble souls’. They both left satisfied with the answer.
Now, that
doesn’t mean that we stop doing noble deeds and instead go in search of noble
souls so that we get ‘punya karma’ (rewards of good deeds) by simply being in
their company.
This one
act of Dhritarashtra earned him his merit to have a ‘darshan’ or vision of Lord
in his glorious form.
Understand
this point correctly here. His ‘good deed’ of being in company of ‘noble and
pure soul and an ardent devotee of’ Krishna gave him sight to see the vision,
but they get exhausted with that mercy. Moreover, his attitude hadn’t changed
and as already told millions of time and attitude is the deciding factor is our
destiny.
To understand it better read link given on attitude and character and destiny“http://kantipadam.blogspot.insearch?q=character+and+destiny
And that
gets changed only with our effort in the form of some sadhan like hands-on, pranayamam,
meditation etc. To understand these techniques read link http://kantipadam.blogspot.in/search?q=meditation for meditation
read link "http://kantipadam.blogspot.in/search?q=pranayamam for queries on pranayamam
....contd.....
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