Deivathin Kural.. DEIVATHIN KURAL (THE VOICE OF GOD) – IN SHORT FORM
Deivathin Kural, The Voice of God, is a collection of divine lectures delivered by Sri Kanchi Paramacharya, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Swamigal. For the sake of easy understanding, I am hereby given the details in a short form.
Some of the contents present in the wonderful epic, Deivathin Kural are as follows:
By going to Kashi, and taking an oath to avoid our favourable vegetables is a good task only, but at the same time, we have also to take an oath to permanently erase our bad habits like lust, anger and greed!
Just by doing good things, don’t consider yourself as a saintly person, for becoming a saintly person, you have to do good things and you should be pure and kind-hearted person.
Don’t blame on the god, for your own personal problems, since you are only responsible for your own acts, whether it is good or bad.
Behave properly, be precise and just, act softly, politely and gently, since these things are most liked by the god. Have faith on god, since after all, we are the servants of the god.
If any problems arise in the family, we see the head of the family trying to bring peace to the family. If political problems or unrest arise in the country, we see the leaders and the government intervene and quell it. If the dharma of the age is disrupted and the world suffers, who can resolve it?
Only God can do that. Only God can take human form and become a god and solve the world’s suffering.
Today, the great sages who shine as incarnate beings – as Nayanmars – as world gurus are capable of explaining the path to the doubts and difficulties that arise for their families, their country, and their world, and are capable of dispelling suffering.
When we go to the elders, our sufferings become pleasant. The mind finds happiness. When we stand before that divine shrine, we find peace. A feeling of cool breeze falls on our face. A courage, enthusiasm, and self-confidence arise in life. These are the truths that those who are fully committed to them feel daily, (Only a group with full devotion to God and the elders can get such a sense of pleasure and fertility before that shrine.)
The great ones have great love for the people of the world. They suppress themselves, shrink themselves, and melt themselves, suppressing all the sorrows of the people of the world, and they chase away suffering. They perform puja every hour for the benefit of the people of the world.
We can clearly see that the penance they have performed, the great grace they are performing, and the great charity they are preserving are enriching this world.
Elders are people with versatile knowledge and concentration. They are not only walking gods. They are also walking universities. From that university, so many languages of knowledge have come in the form of knowledge envelopes so that people can gain good knowledge, the country can prosper, and the world can prosper.
To enrich and sanctify human life, they have spoken on various occasions, citing many quotations from the Vedas, epics, and Puranas. The voices that arose from time to time did not blend with the wind, but remained forever, becoming the voice of the deity. They have been recorded in print and have now taken the form of a great book. The thought forms of Sornamurthy have become the forms of ideas.
The love of the priests and Swamijis is imbued with grace. Not everyone can read the Puranas, the Itikasa, the Vedas, or the Dharma Shastras in their entirety. The great ones have read them all in their entirety and have given us their juice in this book. All of them are the juices of the blessed fruit.
We can hear and read the glory of Hinduism, the beauty of our culture, the forms of God, the scriptures, the grammar of life, all the disciplines, and philosophical truths, all in a way that even the layman can understand.
“OM SRI KANCHI DEIVAME NAMO NAMAHA”
COMPILED BY
R. HARISHANKAR