Conduct

Human Conduct has direct relationship with the food that is consumed. A person should be extremely cautious and should not lunch or dine with everyone. He should refrain from eating with men who have dubious distinction about their status or prosperity. He should not consume food at odd hours or stuff his stomach when it is already full. There should also be restriction on the quality of the items taken. An episode recalls how a gentleman offers his lunch with a friend unwittingly carried away a silver tumbler. Later he came to regret about this incident and tendered his apology. The host enquired his wife whether there was anything wrong with the food served. She then recalled that the rice was borrowed from a neighbor who had been in the habit of pilfering stocks from carrier vehicles.

A great social reformer and philosopher Ram Theertha राम तीर्थ has narrated this to impress on the public that there should be control over dietary habits. The success the Saintly man with was due to contentment and making himself ever happy. The cheer that a person radiates or his sullen outlook depends on his attitude towards worldly activities. Born amidst chill penury, he rose to the position of a professor, a dream that he had cherished. He preached and practiced the rules of virtue. He spread the message of God through popular tales and parables. No one should get upset by problems.

Rama Theeratha राम तीर्थ , who renounced everything of a young age, has referred to the tendency to get deeply dejected. He has compared the general behaviour of a human being to that of a dog pushed into a chamber on whose walls were fixed innumerable mirrors. Seeing the reflection of its own, it started barking endlessly, and ultimately collapsed. Similarly man gets agitated over imaginary problems and gets lost. He is always selfish and his actions can be likened to the monkey that carried its three off springs across a swollen river but when its own existence was threatened discarded the young ones.

One of the bitterest results of India’s unconsciousness of her spiritual unity is communalism and all ideologies which separate man from man, and religion from religion are born of ignorance of the spiritual unity and solidarity of humankind.

Communalism, which has entered into the depth of the body politics and is eating into its vitals, is a mere symptom of India’s National disease. All aberrations and their expressions will be eliminated from her national body, only when her life-force, which is spirituality, is awakened and brought to bear an all aspect of her life. By proper education and by a new order established in culture, society, and economic life on her own national basis. The first thing necessary therefore is to awaken the consciousness of India’s own distinctive life-force, which is spiritual oneness, other wise called religion.