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Mythology describes Rakshasas. And rakshasas or demons are not dead and gone. They are very much among us as anti-social elements. They are a menace to society. Rowdies, loafers, dacoits and murderers are but the demons of the modern age. They are selfish, aggressive, indulgent, materialistic, possessive, haughty, cruel and frightening.
Hiranyakasipu and Hiranyaksha, Ravana and Kamsa, Sisupala and a host of rakshasas were a terror to society. To do away with them and thereby restore peace, God had incarnated again and again.
In our minds too, we have the demoniac thoughts and feelings cropping up repeatedly along with divine thoughts and emotions. We have to subdue or kill the former to allow the divinity to manifest itself.
Anybody who is selfish causing terror to others is a rakshasa. Anybody who is kind and useful to others is an angel.It is only a question of degree. Some are less angelic and more demonic and vice versa.
Let us strive to be cent per cent angelic, so that we may reign supreme in the kingdom of peace and piety; nobility and kind heartedness.
"All the strength and succour you "want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. 'Let the dead past bury its dead.' The infinite future is before you, and you must always remember that each word, thought, and deed, lays up a store for you and that, as the bad thoughts and bad works are ready to spring upon you like tigers, so also there is the inspiring hope that the good thoughts and good deeds are ready with the power of a hundred thousand angels to defend you always and for ever. "--- Swami Vivekananda
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