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)
Saileela Magazines can be read at www.saileelas.org
By Shri M. M. Amingad
Gulunche, Tal; Purandhar, Dist: Pune
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