The presence of demoniacal qualities in humans results in sorrow and sufferings for the individual and his surroundings, says Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj Ji
According to scriptures, there are 36 divine qualities in a human being (36 gun). If one does not possess any one out of these, it means s/he has the opposite — demoniacal qualities — which result in sorrow and sufferings. Most people do not know that the absence of these qualities is the major cause of misery. They, therefore, try to find out its cause in political, economic, cultural or social system. The truth, however, is that positive or negative qualities manifest themselves through human behaviour or activity, whether it be political, economic, cultural or any social activity. One should, therefore, try to trace the negativity and work for positivity rather than searching for the cause elsewhere.
Society has made progress in various fields but emotionally it is much weaker than before. Man has not been able to control his impulsiveness, ambitions, anger and anxiety. Imbalance has been created by rapid advancement in science and technology on the one hand and lack or absence of parallel progress in emotional maturity, self-control and ethics on the other hand. This has resulted in many problems that we are facing today. It can thus be said that the qualities in a person determine the quality of his/her life whether it is peaceful and happy or peaceless and sorrowful. But, it is a pity that people are trying to find happiness in ruling over big territories, possessing a large amount of property or wealth. Therefore all efforts are directed towards economic prosperity even at the cost of adopting demoniac qualities. People try to achieve success, name and fame or political and economic power even if the soul has to give up divine qualities. This has, evidently, led to corruption of the soul, degeneration of the society and to disturbance and sufferings. If we accept this analysis of our present predicament, then we have to admit that our moral values and divine qualities have fallen and what we require today is to extricate and uplift ourselves from this situation with the help of education that can restore these. All our other efforts to make the world a better place to live in would be of no avail until and unless there is a qualitative change in our nature and behaviour. Complete peace, it should be remembered, comes from complete purity or divine nature. Even a fraction of one demoniacal quality leads to lessening of peace in that proportion if not more. It should also be noted that demoniacal qualities have linkages among themselves even as divine qualities are connected among themselves and strengthen and sustain each other. So liberation from one negative quality leads to at least some liberation from other negative qualities. Thus even our little effort to inculcate, in ourselves, some divine qualities leads ultimately to a great over-all change in our nature and results in enhancement in the quality of our inner happiness. One must, therefore, in one’s own interest and in that of building a better world, pay attention to the task of restoration of divine qualities and elimination of the devilish qualities or negative traits. In doing this lies the hope of our own liberation and improvement of the world-conditions.