RSS Sarsanghachalak Shri Mohan Bhagwat participated in the Chaturmas Vrat event organized by Acharyashree Mahashraman Chaturmas Pravas Vyavastha Samiti in Chennai today, 23rd July 2018.
Meeting Acharyas, the spiritual leaders recharges your mind, get guidance, reform yourself and it equally helps in reforming your service to the society and nation, says Mohan Bhagwat. Responding to Acharya’s thoughts advocated on anger, Bhagwat ji said anger which we have cannot be controlled by external factors. It prevails in our heart. One has to control himself so as to get control over his anger. Happiness or sadness, love or hatred everything affects our mind equally. The spiritual leader who are born in India have gained complete control over these factors. So we have to go to these people to acquire these qualities.
Foremost challenge we face every day is the ‘self’ because the challenge is not to change the world but to change yourself. To control ‘anger’, it should come from the self. As such, to run a family, to maintain a sankatan, to work with togetherness you need satya, karuna, ahimsa, suchita and tapas. India has seen many invasions. But because of the abundance of spirituality in this land whoever invaded eventually got destroyed. This land was there, it is still now and it will go on. Don’t fight with the nature of Satya. Satya cannot be comprehended by one individual. Many together can of course comprehend ‘satya’. So what is truth? Arguing about ‘what is truth’ is a waste of action. Truth is everywhere. So accept a person you as he is. What is Ahimsa? You have to think of the welfare of all the people you should not maintain enemity in your mind. Instead try to remove the enmity from the opponent. Enmity can be won over only by kindling the love in the opponent’s heart. So Ahimsa is not cowardice. It is an act of bravery. In order to maintain peace in the mind of the self, peace in the family, peace in the society, I should change myself. Here, the first challenge is correcting yourself. Everything gets reformed. Make your life pure, efficient, remove your defect make your life useful, without this we cannot change the world. The world to obtain these virtues, we should get the holy presence and guidance of the spiritual leaders, and we are responsible for the action through good deeds in the society, said Mohan Ji Bhagwat.