PUBLIC CONDUCT AND PRIVATE CONDUCT

Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Mahaswamiji

The enactments of legislatures regulate public conduct. But what about individual morality? What is the criterion of personal action, of what a man should do by himself and for himself? In our religion, it has been declared that in matters of conduct one should be guided by the ordinances of the Vedas. ‘Vedokhilodharma moolam’: the Veda is the source of all Dharmas. The Vedas are authorless, apaurusheya; they are not manmade. They are intuitions of Yogic sages into eternal Truths.