Try your best to keep cool and calm in difficulties, adversities and trying conditions of life.
Pray fervently from the bottom of your heart and wait. Help is bound to come. Have firm, perfect
and one-pointed faith in God.
Develop universal sympathy and cosmic love of pure nature. Lead a life of oneness and
unity. Have deep concentrated right thinking.
Forget not the goal. Everyday place a step further towards the goal. Maya will assume
various forms. Watch, pray, conquer obstacles.
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Courage, power, strength, wisdom and joy are your Divine heritage, your birthright from
the Absolute. You are the centre of thought, influence and power. Never forget this.
The world is assailed by death. Days and nights are falling incessantly like bolts. When one
day passes away, remember that a part of one’s life wears away with it.
Apply yourself diligently to Yoga. Remember the Sages and Saints. Be sincere. Develop
mercy, love, friendship, feeling of brotherhood. You will become one with all. Y
Purify your mind. Withdraw all the senses from their objects. Bring the mind under your
control. Introspect. Direct your attention towards the knowledge of God.
Become a true Brahmachari. Get established in mental and physical Brahmacharya. Take
Sattvic food. Develop Vairagya. Have perfect faith in God.
Put on the armour of discrimination. Wear the shield of dispassion. Blow the conch of
courage. Kill the enemies of doubt, ignorance, passion and egoism and enter the illimitable
kingdom of the blissfu
(straight forwardness). Try to keep up balanced mind. Be cheerful always. Keep up Shuddha
Bhava. Try these three kinds of Tapas (physical, verbal and mental) and control your actions.
Be careful in your speeches. Speak little. Speak sweet loving words. Never utter any word
of harshness that can affect the feelings of others. Try to speak the truth. Thus put a check on the
Vak Indriya and the impulses of speech.
Kill
have a broad vision. Beware of bad company. Even a sober man begins to drink in the company of
drunkards.
Be patient in difficulties, danger, troubles. Stand adamant and overcome obstacles. Have a
burning desire for liberation. Annihilate Ajnana through Satsanga, Sravana, Manana and
Nididhyasana.
Master your emotions, impulses. Be strong in your determination. Be firm in your
resolution. You will get success in e
discussions, lingual warfare and intellectual gymnastics. Give up arguing and discussions entirely.
You will progress in the spiritual path.
Expel delusion and cultivate devotion unto Siva, the Lord of Lords, the Deva of Devas, the
Yogi of Yogis.
If you meditate for half an hour, you will be able to face the daily battle of life with peace
and spiritual strength for one week through the force of meditation. Such
for the destruction of evil-doers and for the sake of firmly establishing righteousness. Lord Krishna
says: “The foolish disregard Me when clad in human semblance ignorant of My Supreme Nature,
the great Lord of all beings.”
Do not be carried away by the turbulent senses and the influence of the Mayaic forces. By
devotion and faith know Him in essence and through His grace attain Supreme Bliss, Supreme
Peace and
qualification for an aspirant. No faith, no devotion. No faith, no Jnana.
Bad company, lust, greed, infatuated love for wife, son and property and unwholesome food
are the enemies of faith. Take bland, light, substantial food.
Meditate. Realise Him intuitively this very second and enjoy the Bliss of the Self.
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Look at the stupendous and magnanimous work turned out by Lord Buddha, Sri Sankara
and other Karma Yogins of yore. Their names are handed down from posterity to posterity. Their
names are still remembered. The whole world worships them with reverence. Can you attribute an
iota or grain of selfish motive to their actions? They lived for doing service to others. They had
absolute self-abnegation.
Work cannot bring misery. It is the attachment and identification to work that brings in all
sorts of worri
through repetition and form tendencies. Tendencies develop into habits and character. The sum
total of the tendencies of a man is his character. Character generates Will. Therefore, if the character
is pure and strong the Will also will be pure and strong and vice versa.
Therefore sow the seed of good habits at once. It will grow gradually. It will assert itself to
gain a seat in the body and mind, and work by it
all opportunities to the best possible advantage. There is no such thing as bad. Your capacities and
will-power will develop. You will receive more of Divine Light, Knowledge, Purity, Peace and
Spiritual strength.
Smile with the flowers and the green grass. Shake hands with the shrubs, ferns and twigs.
Develop friendship with all neighbours, dogs, cats, cows, human beings, trees, in fact, with all
nature’
and the senses. These are your real enemies. Live under lifelong vows. Conquer your internal and
external nature. Fight against the dark antagonistic evil forces, through Japa and meditation. Soar
high always in the realms of higher spiritual knowledge. Show your manliness and spiritual
strength now.
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control, and bring the mind under your control with the help of the intellect strengthened by Sattva.
Be slow to make a promise but be quick to carry it out. Cultivate an amiable, loving nature
and adaptability. Be courageous. Never despair. Draw strength from within. Feel the divine
presence everywhere. Dive deep into the Divine source. You will realise the infinite bliss.
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pure, pure you will become. Think that you are a man, man you will become. Think you are
Brahman, Brahman you will become. Become an embodiment of good nature. Do always good
actions. Serve. Love. Give. Observe Brahmacharya and Mouna. Control anger. Make others happy.
Live to serve others. Then only will you enjoy happiness.
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opportunities to serve. Work is worship of the Lord.
Have an amiable, loving, social nature. Have sympathy, adaptability, self-restraint,
tolerance, love and mercy. Adjust yourself to the ways and habits of others. Be balanced even when
you are insulted, when others use harsh words against you. Have equal mind in pleasure and pain,
heat and cold.
Karma Yoga prepares the mind for the reception of Light and Knowledge. It exp
become a Yogi or Jnani by right thinking and right action. Man is not a helpless being. He has a free
will of his own. Therefore overcome all your unfavourable circumstances. Have courage. Be bold.
Never despair. You will succeed. There is nothing in the world which cannot be achieved by a man
by the right sort of efforts.
Wake up now. Open your eyes. Become a virtuous man. Do good actions. Sing Hari’s name.
Have con
Be kind to all. Conquer wrath. Become master of self. Get rid of envy. You will soon attain
God-realisation.
Take refuge in the Name of the Lord. Do not think very often of your defects and weaknesses. Aspire fervently. Grow in spirituality. You will attain Divinity.
Meditate on the glory and splendour of the Supreme Being who illumines everything, who
is indivisible, the Existence-Knowledge-Bliss-Absolute. You
Be cheerful and happy. Away with depression and gloom. There is nothing more infectious
than depression. Drive the feeling of depression and gloom at once by enquiry, singing divine
songs, prayers, Pranayama, a brisk walk in the open air, the thinking of the opposite quality viz., the
feeling of joy.
Live only to be a blessing to others. Feel that all is light and Bliss only. Do not allow the
mind to see any external objects. Collect all the dissipated rays of mind. Develop the power of
attention. Th
temperate in eating, drinking, sleeping, amusements and in all other things. Cultivate a very strong
faith in God.
Silence the surging emotions and bubbling thoughts. Do not be carried away by the
temptations of the world. Be careful. Be wise. Get away from the company of worldly-minded
persons. Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even in your smallest act. Always act with faith and
determination. Be firm
Lord Jesus says, “Charity covereth a multitude of sins.” In the Gita you will find: “Yajno
danam tapas-chaiva pavanani manishinam: Yajna, charity and austerity are purifying to the wise.”
Doing abundant, spontaneous and unrestrained charity to relieve the pains of suffering
humanity is an effective means to destroy evil nature; give money like water. If you give, the whole
wealth of the world will be yours. Money will come to you. This is the immutable, inexorable,
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