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28 RELIGIOUS RITES falling into the traps of many vices, such as drinking, consuming tobacco, smoking, hashish etc. In fact, a person wearing ‘TILAK’ on his forehead would shy away or feel ashmed of practising any activity of vice, since his conscience would constantly rebuke or admonish him saying ‘are you not ashamed of doing such evil things, even when you are wearing the TILAK on your person?’. Thus by abstaining from vices, such as indulging in tobacco, wine etc, one truly benefits such as saving money, which shall rightfully go towards the upliftment of the family and other justified obligations. Apart from this the person who gives up such viceful practices,would re-establish himeself and achieves a respectable position in the eyes of the society. If any ‘TILAK’ bearer is tempted to carry out practices of vice, he will first remove the ‘TILAK’ from his person andonly then will he down to perform bad or evil things. Such is the magical power of ‘TILAK’. A TRUE INCIDENT RELATING TO THE POWER OF TILAK A long time ago, the writer of this article was travelling by train from Baroda to Chennai in
RELIGIOUS RITES 29 a reserved compartment. His co-passenger was a friendly young man, who had applied ‘URDHVA PUNDRA TILAK’ and who was regularly uttering ‘JAI SWAMI NARAYAN’. This writer soon came to learn, that his co-traveller was a (‘Hari Bhakt’), and he was in the business of supplying raw materials to a factory dealing with plastic goods. On one occasion his boss, who had in his possession Rs.3 lakhs handed over to him Rs.2 lakhs towards some payments while actually his intension was to give him only Rs.1 lakh, for the same purpose. Later, the boss left the factory for some routine work elsewhere leaving behind only Rs. 1 lakh in his office, Following his departure there occured a theft in the office, and on coming to know the incident, the boss soon lodged a complaint with the police reporting a theft of Rs.2 lakhs instead of 2 lakh. However, on return to the office , the co-passenger learnt of the whole story, but was in an acute dilema, whether to reveal or not about receiving the additional Rs.1 lakh. However, at this point of time he was strongly prompted by an inner voice which urged him to be honest and thus he decided to reveal the truth and return Rs.1 lakh to his boss, which he did.
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