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THE BASICS OF RELIGION
MOOKAM KAROTI VACHALAM PANGOOM LANGHAYATE GIRIM ||
YATKRIPA TAMAHAM VANDE PARMANAND MADHAVAM ||
(Salutations to the ultimate bliss Madhava, by whose grace, a dumb man becomes the most talkative and a physically disabled man crosses the highest mountain)
Religion is a matter of faith. Our revered Maharishis with their divine sight, which they acquired with the help of supernatural powers of the Yoga, wrote down those minute mysteries in the scriptures as they saw and experienced it. It was not merely their imaginations or presumptions. These were the theories and principles, which were experienced by them. Hence, there is no question of putting a question mark on the principles propounded by them. The universe is working smoothly since the beginning of creation till date only because we have been following the path shown by these Maharishis because even the earth cannot remain stable and in balance without religion and virtue. There are numerous violence, calamities, hurdles and hindrances which keep happening in this world i.e. violence, disturbances are prevalent in all parts of the world. Hence, our ancient sages and Maharishis who could read all the three dimensions of time i.e. past, present and future had cautioned the common man of the world to follow the virtuous path and the path of religiousness.
SRUNUSVA DHARM SARWASWAM SRUTVA CHA AVADHARYATAM ||
ATMANAH PRATIKULANI PARESAN NA SAMACHARET ||
(After the Mahabharata war ended, Lord Krishna said to Arjun that "O Partha, now that you have been victorious in the war. I am going to tell you the summary of Dharma (or religion) which you should listen to it attentively and accept it only after understanding it. Your behaviour should never be such that you don't expect others to behave like you do." Some sages have gone to the extent of saying that there is no distinction between man and animal if a man lacks religiousness like:
AAHAR NIDRA, BHAYA MAITHHUNAM CHA, SAMANAMETAD PASHURBHIHSAMANA ||
DHARMO HI TESANMADHIKO VISHESAN DHARMEN PASHUBHIHSAMANA ||
(It means that the cravings for food, sleep, intercourse are the same in both man and animal. Both man and animal are affected by fear. The only thing, which differentiates man form animal, is the quantity of religion. Man is more religious. If a man lacks religiousness then he is more like an animal.)
The whole world is the expansion of nature. The sight of nature's greatness, vastness and magnificence is omnipresent. Nature is the cause of the origin of this universe.
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