The words you utter sometimes convey different meanings. Hence, you should be very careful while speaking. (SSS Vol.39)
Man should use his words with utmost care and caution. It is important that man uses words after weighing pros and cons. Words give life and take away life.
Words are dainty delicacies.
Words are aromatic fragrance.
Words are the essence of nectar.
Words are the essence of the Vedas.(Telugu Poem)
The words uttered by Rama were sweet and delicious. Words should be pleasant and they should be used in moderation.
Words were the cause of Rama’s exile into the forest. Kaika’s infamy and Dasharatha’s death. As words contain potent sounds, we should use them with utmost care and caution and discrimination. The words of promise given by Dasharatha to Kaikeyi at the time of battle brought sorrow and suffering to him. So we should use words with utmost care.
Life is impermanent.
Impermanent are wealth and youth.
Wife and children are also impermanent.
Only truth and good reputation are permanent.(SanskritVerse)
(SSB 2002, pp. 75-76)
It is God’s word that if you have devotion to God, He will look after your future. He will look after all the welfare that is due to you.
There are three things, which one should keep in mind, namely, I will not think of anything else except God; I will not do anything without the permission of God, and I will have my attention completely fixed in God. It is only when you accept and put into practice these three things, that the Lord says, He will look after your welfare. God said, ‘If you want to deserve My love and you want to get My affection, then you should think of Me, you should do obeisance to Me and you should put your faith in Me and you should trust in Me. Then of course you can claim and will get in full measure My love and My affection. (SSB 1972, p. 106)
A word is just sound but it indicates something existing. (SV, p. 123)
Word involves speech. It means Pada, in Sanskrit. Every object in the world is called in Sanskrit, a ‘Padartha’, ‘word-meaning’. The hill is the heap of earth indicated by the word ‘hill’, similarly, the word Brahmin and Shudra inform us that there were persons answering to those words. The questions, ‘Who is a Brahmin? Who is not a Brahmin?’ are irrelevant now. What is being made known is only the conception of ‘word’ and ‘meaning’. The entire cosmos is subsumed under ‘word’ and ‘meaning’, it is sheer name and form (the name being the word, and the form, the meaning). The Srutis (Vedas) declare so: ‘Vacharambhanam Vikaro Namadheyam’, ‘name and form are one single indivisible unit’, just as Shiva and Parvati; active and inert, object and image, the moon and moonlight. (SV, p. 124)
वागर्थाविव सम्प्रुक्तौ वागर्थप्रतिपत्तये
जगतः पितरौ वन्दे पार्वतीपरमेश्वरौ
Vagarthaviva Sampruktau Vagarthapratipattaye
Jagatah Pitarau Vande Parvatiparameshvarau
– Opening sloka in Divine poet Kalidasa s Raghuvamsam.
I salute the parents of this Universe Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati who are inseparable like the word and its meaning.
Yet, for dealing with the world, the word is all-important. The word arises from thought; thought is shaped by experience; experience depends on desire and desire springs from ignorance,Ajnana,Maya, Avidya or Prakriti, which too is fundamentally based on the Divine. (SV, p. 124)
Words can confer strength, they can drain it off. Words can gain friends; they can turn them into enemies. They can elevate or lower the individual. One must learn the habit of making one’s words sweet, soft and pleasant. A person is judged by his words. Words inflict damage in other ways too. Whenever we talk disparagingly or defamingly or sarcastically or hatefully of others, they get recorded on the tape, which is our mind. When we record on the tape the talk given by some one, it lasts even after his passing away. So too, even after we pass away the impressions and impacts of evil thoughts, spiteful words and wicked words and wicked plots survive physical disappearance. Never, therefore, use or listen to words that ridicule, scandalise or hurt others. Slander is the direct sin. The ancient seers have prescribed Mounam (silence) as a Sadhana. Students and teachers today can benefit greatly by limiting talk to the absolute minimum, using it only for promoting joy and harmony. (SSS Vol.11, pp. 143-144)