Humanity = Pujya Gurudev

A Universal Religion for Humanity 

=Pt.ShriRam Sharma Acharya

Man must continuously strive to enhance his qualifications, mental sharpness, skills, capabilities and prosperity. No one can deny the necessity of this materialistic progress. However it needs to be kept in mind that man’s progress should never be one-sided; materialistic progress needs to be combined with the furthering of good human qualities like gentleness, nobility, generosity and compassion as well. Only a balanced and coordinated physical and intellectual progress with a noble character can be beneficial. 

It is true that an empty gunnysack cannot stand erect by itself and a man with an empty stomach would behave like a wolf. The saying ‘what all sins would a starving person not commit’ cannot be belied. So all efforts must be made to acquire economic, intellectual and all other kinds of prosperity, but it also must be kept in mind that single-tracked progress creates imbalance and that it does more harm than good. If someone’s affluence rises but virtues like modesty, gentleness and sensitivity do not grow, then the acquired wealth would not be used properly, would be drained in the mire of addictions and pompous showoff, or would be misused in harming others. In such cases, there may be prosperity on some fronts of life but it would only lead to complexities, problems and adversities in one form or the other. 

A vehicle with one wheel big and the other small cannot move anywhere. A person with one leg thin and the other stout, one hand long and the other short, would not only look ugly, but his work efficiency would also be low. Both components that make a pair should be equal. It is necessary to enhance righteousness along with materialistic affluence. Happiness can last only if it is fairly shared with others. There is nothing wrong in earning wealth; but while spending it they also should be included who, for some reason, by themselves could not become prosperous like them. Eating up the earnings all alone leads to harmful indigestion.

The selfishness of unrestrained expenditure or unnecessary accumulation may be a sign of cleverness and success for some, but when the ill-effects of such narrow-mindedness are looked at, it becomes clear that adopting such a way of life seems gainful only in the short run; it eventually results in great harm. Everyone gets envious and jealous of a selfish person’s progress. It is natural to expect that those who gain more by the grace of God must become more kind and generously distribute the benefits of their accumulations to the entire society. Those who do not do so and indulge in narrow selfishness, even if they are not called guilty or offenders, actually break the universal rule of God’s creation in which it is expected that more prosperous and successful individuals would try to be more useful to the society. 

Thanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma