Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 10: Navratra Festival organized by Swami Paul’s Meditation Home, Jammu concluded with the ‘Purnahuti’ of Maha Gayatri Yagna on Mahanavmi, today.
During the festival of nine-days, apart from Gayatri Yagnas, the Dhyan Sessions with Kirtan and devotional singing and discourses by the spiritual head of the Meditation Home, Swami Paul Ji were organized.
Addressing the gathering, Swami Ji described the path of religion as the ultimate key for peace and progress. “It is the religious teaching and Godhood put to practice while leading the normal family and social life which takes man to virtues. Being religious, listening to His glory, hearing about Him again and again and participating in the religious activities is the beginning of spiritual awakening, which undergoes transformation of mind, heart and soul”, Swami Ji said.
In the present scenario, Swami Ji pointed out that religion based perception of life and living in glory of the divine is more relevant and of utmost urgency for maintenance of peace and tranquility in the social order. Religion means the quest for divine truth which every culture and every individual around the world seeks.
Referring to the saints and Rishis, Swami Ji said that they professed different faiths but their objective has been to establish dharma which believes in one God as propitiated by founders of all religions. The basic goal of dharma is to enable man to make efforts to realize the innate divinity which manifests in every human being. This is the reason that the principles of dharma which are inherent in human consciousness exert their impact over all human deeds.
He however expressed his concern that religions are being exploited for narrow political gains by politicians who have utmost duty to devote towards maintenance of social and communal harmony.
Swami Ji emphasized that our society needs enlightened and righteous individuals as leaders who could draw strength from religion to lead the society. He further stressed the need for transformation of minds of the leaders through religious inspiration so that they could rise above narrow personal motives and shun the lust for power and money.
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