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Ravi Chandran

Austerity : A way towards enlightenment

A characteristic that one should own to embellish one’s personality is austerity. Austerity is non indulgence or refraining from worldly pleasures. To cultivate this divine characteristic, one has to rigorously practice the art of detachment. Once conscientious practice towards austerity starts then the nature i.e GOD helps the person because he/she has shown the proclivity towards attaining spiritual horizon through practice of austerity.

When a person is born, he/she takes birth with an empty mind. A mind that is pure; a mind that is divine. With the advancement of age, the child’s mind starts getting contaminated after seeing the activities around. With extraneous subjects like movies with obscene scenes and dialogues, internet, mobiles in which obnoxious pictures are cascaded through Whats App influencing the subtle mind, the child’s mind get polluted. By the time the child reaches the teenage, a period when biological changes begin to appear, fantasies of sexual intimacy, infatuation towards opposite sex also grow vitiating the mind to the hilt. As one passes the teenage level, the degraded fantasies and obsessions occupying the mind are also carried forward to the age when one becomes a major. Voyeurism; pugnacious attitude; irreverence towards elders; voraciousness to gain wealth by adopting unlawful means; all these characteristics personify a malignant personality.

Negative conduct can never render good or positive result. In fact, continuous dispensation of bad and abominable deeds would inevitably culminate into a disaster for the youngsters impacting their life and the families too for having to endure the ignominy in the society. Everything happened because the mind of the child was not tamed at the right age by the teachers and parents.

This is the sole reason, I have been vehemently expressing about induction and impartation of spiritual knowledge in the educational institutions which would condition the minds of children. Spirituality would enable the mind to evade negative thoughts and develop a feeling of aversion for unwarranted materialistic gains and physical attraction. As and when one passes from adolescence to adulthood, the acquired spiritual knowledge would encourage the person to adopt austerity in order to lead a disciplined life and to achieve a highly spiritual or intellectual state. Leading such a life and discharging every responsibility towards the family and society, one would always be in a state of internal bliss and outward contentment. Hence, a human kind should conform to asceticism and ascend towards enlightenment.

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