How Do You Become A Better Person Assimilating The 3 Eternal Values?
The purpose of religion is certainly to make us a better human being. It helps us manifest the god or goodness within us for the benefit of oneself and the world. The Three Disciplines The basic tenets of Hinduism highlight three qualities to groom the physical, mental and intellectual facets of your personality. The most fundamental of the eternal values can be classified into these three disciplines: • Self control (Brahmacharya) Regulates the physical personality • Non-injury (Ahimsa) Regulates the mental personality • Truthfulness (Satyam) Regulates the intellectual personality Lessons from the Gita The Bhagavad Gita has clearly defined the ascetic simplicities that every individual should aim at the austerity of body, speech and mind: • “Worship of the Gods, the twice born, the teachers and the ‘wise’; purity, straightforwardness, celibacy, and non-injury; these are called the ‘austerity of the body’.” (The G
