Rişhi: Bhāradwāja (RV 6.12.6)
veşhi rāyo vi yāsi duchchhunā madema shatahimāĥ suvīrāĥ,
May we revel in the raptures strong with the
strength of the Heroes, living a hundred winters.
Life, especially human life, is a god-given
opportunity and one must make the most of it. The life-span must
be fully extended and the maximum experience derived from it for
the evolution of the soul. The wider and the richer the
experience, the more the soul develops in the scale of its upward
progress. Life yields its sap of delight to one who pursues this
object consciously and incessantly. But not every one can contain
this rasa, the intense joy of life-experience. One needs to
have a strong system adhara to bear and hold this Soma for
the Lord of one’s existence. This strength comes from discipline,
conservation, purification and enlargement of consciousness.
Joy of existence, strength of heroism,
amplitude of life are the marks of full manhood.
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