Questions
- A few months back "THE HINDU",
the English Daily, carried an article that said that all those
who were in sorrow were shudras and all those who were in joy
brahmanas. The article further declared that as all the people
of India were in sorrow they were all shudras. What is your answer for this?
- Recently an Indian flight
was hijacked and the passengers suffered untold miseries. In spite
of innumerable sages and yogins in our country why weren't they saved?
- I always like to keep on
listening to Bhagavata when rendered by someone, but I am unable
to do japa or meditation. What am I to do?
- Yesterday in his lecture a
person said that Veda was God and spoke very well about the need
to protect the Vedas.
Question:
A few months back "THE HINDU", the English Daily, carried
an article that said that all those who were in sorrow were
shudras and all those who were in joy brahmanas. The article
further declared that as all the people of India were in sorrow
they were all shudras. What is your answer for this?
Swamigal:
In the world all those who are steeped in ignorance are
in sorrow. Hence, they are all shudras. Likewise, those who
are full of knowledge are those in joy. Hence they are brahmanas.
So it shows that those who have attained knowledge are brahmanas
and the rest shudras.
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Question:
Recently an Indian flight was hijacked and the passengers
suffered untold miseries. In spite of innumerable sages and
yogins in our country why weren't they saved?
Swamigal:
From your question it appears as if in India there has
been just this one suffering. People in different parts of
our country are everyday undergoing untold miseries in the
hands of the terrorists. In the recent monsoon there was vast
destruction in Orissa. Everyday innumerable murders, robberies
are taking place. Everyday people are dying of diseases,
accidents and starvation. Don't these also occur in our
country where there are innumerable sages and yogins?
The reason for these is only man's avarice, ego and covetousness.
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Question:
I always like to keep on listening to Bhagavata when
rendered by someone, but I am unable to do japa or meditation. What am I to do?
Swamigal:
It is enough if one can keep listening to Bhagavata.
Did not Parikshit attain liberation just by listening to
Bhagavata told by Sukar? Parikshit did not do any meditation.
Similarly, brahmarakshas DunduKari got liberated just by
listening to the Bhagavata. Hence, sincere listening will suffice
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Question:
Yesterday in his lecture a person said that Veda was
God and spoke very well about the need to protect the Vedas.
Swamigal:
Today, there are ever so many who speak vehemently
on public platforms that Veda is God and the need to
protect It as It is everything. It has become a fashion
to do so. Majority of these speakers do not send their
sons to study the Vedas. Nor do they offer their daughters
in marriage to one who has studied the Vedas. Of what use
is there then to just speak of the greatness of the Vedas.
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