There are mainly three gunas which we call satthva, raja, thamo gunas.. This entire universe is consists of these three gunas basically.. Sattva guna is mainly represents lord Vishnu, he who posses sattva Guna is free from evil stuff kama, krodha, lobha,moha,mada, mathsarya. These cannot be seen in Krishna and he did all not for any benefits.. So sattva Guna is the highest. Rajo Guna represents working for himself or his family with some selfishness. Rajo Guna person does good for his own people but he will fight back or possess kama-mathsarya when he got attacked.. Thamo Guna is basically full of kama,krodha,lobha,moha,mada and mathsarya.. They will go to any extent to prove their point and will kill others to satisfy themselves.. Every creature on this earth posses these three qualities of gunas..
Now let's try to create combinations.. Total of six possibilities.. Sattva,raja,thamo;sathva,thamo,raja;raja,thamo,sattva;raja,sattva,thamo;thamo,sattva,raja;thamo,raja,sattva..
Out of which two cannot be possible as sattva and thamo are quite opposite.. So one who posses more sattva Guna cannot have thamo Guna as another highest.. Similarly thamo Guna cannot be combined with sattva Guna.. So of the six possibilities, only four left..
They then named these four combinations are brahmins, Kshatriyas, vaishyas, sudras.. A person can be called as brahmin if he posses highest quantity and quality of sattva and moderate quantity of rajo, very minute quantity of thamo Guna.. Kshatriya posses more of rajo Guna, moderate sattva, less thamo Guna.. Vaishya posses more of rajo Guna, moderate thamo Guna, less sattva Guna.. Sudra posses more of thamo Guna, moderate rajo Guna, and less sattva Guna.. This is how our religion is formed.. Its not by heritage or inheritance.. Son of brahmin might posses qualities of sudra Guna.. So guru used to predict the qualities of the person and then they made them to move to respective sects..
Now Vedas mainly focussed on how everyone can benefit or improve themselves to higher stage.. They defined a person who has qualities of brahmin, should pray to god for the benefit of society and preach to others about Vedas, god etc without expecting anything in return.. It was mentioned brahmin should not posses any wealth or anything to be stored for next day.. He should live with what he had posses.. So that his sattva Guna will be improved and rajo,thamo Guna will be reduced.. Kshatriya should work for people, he can fight or do wars but for benefit of his people.. He can possess wealth but should not take a single penny from that for his benefits..it should be used for benefit of people.. So his rajo Guna slowly decreases and sattva Guna improves much. Vaishya should do farming or business but should not do for more profit.. It should be for less profit.. It is said a vaishya if he earns 100rs, then he can spend 25rs for his expenses and 25rs for savings and 25rs for godly activities, 25rs for society.. So overall his rajo thamo Guna will be reduced and sattvic nature increases.. Last one is sudra .. Sudra is basically has more of thamo and rajo Guna.. So it was mentioned in scriptures that he should completely surrender to his owner and do the work according to his owner's instructions ..he should never think of himself and completely forget about himself.. So his thamo Guna and rajo Guna will be reduced much and sattva Guna improves.
Now why do we need to worship god? .. Where does god exist in ourselves? One of the quality of God exists in the form of chitta.. Everyone might have heard that chithragupta records every activity or thought .. This chithragupta is nothing but chitta in our body.. Chitta records every thought and action we perform.. Also it records about our feelings on objects, people etc..its mainly a hard disk that stores everything.. Our mind reacts based on the record collected from chitta and reacts to that particular situation.. People who do not believe in god also need to clean records of the hard disk . all our thoughts are based on chitta records.. We always tend to think about past or future actions..so our first priority is to clean these records in chitta.. This will help us to be peaceful and makes us happy.. Our happiness is depends on chitta..how this chitta can be cleaned? It should start with thoughts..we should start thinking about something that cleans the bad records.. There is nothing permanent in the world..so worshipping anything not eternal cannot help cleaning chitta.. So we should always try to think about the eternal personality.. Krishna.. Why? It is to help us to make our mind to act like Krishna in certain circumstances... We usually expect something in return for any thought or action .. But Krishna did everything without expecting anything in return. If we indulge such quality in our daily lives then we can clean chitta slowly and improve sattvic nature of ourselves. That's why continuous thinking about lord is very much needed..
Our karma is mainly based on the reactions formed from chitta records.. Because every thought is also a karma.. If we think about bad of a person then it yields something bad to us in return as karmic reaction.. It is very much important to do karma without expecting anything in return..
That is called akarma.. Means worshipping god is like doing akarma..which deletes past records in chitta.. And help us to be in present than past or future.
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