| Essence Of Hinduism |
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HINDU ETHICS |
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| But, first of all
the moral standards of those who run the institutions should be improved. This is one of
the important lessons that our great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata teach us.
Again, the various stories in our Epics and Puranas indirectly teach us how those
who are morally advanced have to meet the hardships of life and what reactions they should
offer to the inevitable calamities which overtake us. We are taught that all the hardships of life are not only the results of our past lives but also opportunities for building up our future. Just as we use dumb-bells and other physical appliances to strengthen th muscles of our body, so should we us the hardships of life for strengthening the moral fiber of our souls. In other words, we have to pit our souls against all evils of life, and by struggling against them, gain moral and spiritual strength. In fact, that seems to be the very purpose for which evil exists in this world of God's creation. And as for the great calamities of life, which overtake us now and then, we have to remember that though we have no power. to control them we have or should try to have the power to control our reactions to them. These reactions may be classified into (1) those that pertain to ourselves (2) those that pertain to the society we live in and (3) those that pertain to the Divine Providence we believe in. |
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