Arun Kumar Gupta
The word self-introspection seems to be a very simple word, which we must have heard very frequently. However, in our day-to-day lifestyle, a person does not perform his activities according to these words, thus, the result is that the life of the person does not progress.
Introspection means looking at yourself, looking at your life, looking at your behaviors, looking at your speech, looking at your thoughts, looking at your rituals, and comparing all these with rishi munis, teachers, gurus, acharyas and feeling the difference between the humans and these noble people. The act of bridging this gap while keeping in mind the teachings of these venerated people and our actions are termed as Introspection.
There is a great deal of progress in life. This is especially in the spiritual field which we can also call an infallible weapon. This is similar to Parasmani which you may have heard. In fact, Parasmani is not an object, but it is believed that the Parasmani with which it is attached becomes gold. This introspection is like parsmani. In the olden days, India was also called as a Parasmani country as whosoever came in its contact, became gold.
Nowadays, a condition of the person (most of the persons) is that they are not ready to know their activities by closing their eyes. When a person closes his eyes, panic starts, because the misdeeds come to the fore, what he has done, what he is doing and is going to do. All these three types of bad tendencies come in front of him, he gets scared and leaves. He is clearly aware of all these bad tendencies. That he is doing wrong. Rishi Dayanand has clearly written in his book Satyarth Prakash, “As soon as you close your eyes, you will know that today you have stolen, lied, raised wrong thoughts. I have slandered, harmed, insulted, accused, all of this is now known.”
That’s why this person thinks that he is very intelligent. By stopping the negative actions that come to the fore, that’s why they stopped seeing and stopped introspection but this style of the people is not good. The instructions God has given to the sages, every aspect of life especially the spiritual without inspection and test, a person cannot achieve progress. One cannot know those sanskaras which make a person dance and go towards misdeeds. Knowing them as harmful, there is no feeling to stop them. Doesn’t find a way to destroy them, doesn’t make effort to cure them, doesn’t do penance, because it knows that the way or the level at which today’s man is leading life, he accepts that it is right.
Such a person believes himself that what he was speaking, thinking, and doing was right, in that there was no need for improvement. Such a person behaves very angrily and considers himself everything. Lies fifty times a day, but considers himself right. He uses a lot of violence, malice, backbiting, and blasphemy, yet he considers himself right. He is very much attached to the objects of the senses, he is livid, and he is full of desires, yet he considers himself right.
No huge amount of money is required to upgrade ordinary life. It is not like if we have 10-20 50 lakh rupees only then our standard of living will improve. There is no need to read any grammar, Upanishad, or closed books to make life advanced, no one can read all the books. There is no need for any great force to make life advanced, holy, pure, and fearless. It is not that if one reads all the Vedas then one will lead a better life. A religious pious person, a contented person, a happy person, or a contented person can become an ideal person by knowing, conducting, and understanding the general rules and conducting them properly.
In general, we know that we have two types of lives, one is internal and the other is the life we take from others, his clothes are like this, his house is like this, his language is like this, your car is like this, his bank account is like this, the degree is like this, how much he has. All life is apart from this, there is an inner life whom only God knows or that person himself knows. We ourselves know how many times a feeling of fear, anger, and jealousy has arisen in us today. The wife cannot know the mind of the husband and the husband cannot know the mind of the wife. The son does not know the matter, the brother cannot know about the brother, how many disputes arose in the brother’s mind, nor can we know. The inner life is more important than life itself.
Any person whose life is different from the outside is considered evil, a wicked and bad man. Mansi Ekam, Varchis Ekam, Karmani Ekam Mahatamneyam – A person who is similar on the inside as well as the outside is considered to be a Saint i.e. Mahapurush, as his actions match his words and vice versa.
When a person comes to the spiritual world and progresses slowly, he comes to know that God is seeing, hearing, and knowing me everywhere, then he starts thinking about his deeds. Thinks about what deeds he has been doing in the last 10-20-30 years, then the deeds done come to the fore, and thinking about those black deeds, he cries and cries. Seekers, Without introspection, defects are not detected and further defects are not prevented. When it is known that the wrong actions will be rewarded with wrong results, punishment, sorrow, then there will be a break in future misdeeds. This is the only way to bring improvement in life and go closer to the Supreme Lord.
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