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Develop joyful nature. Have an amiable nature, a modest and unassuming temperament.
Understand the secrets of nature. Develop your will-power. Conserve all leaking energy. Move
Do not waste your precious hours in idle talk. Cut short the conversations. Be humble and
simple. Do everything as Ishvararpana. Accept your faults openly and endeavour to rectify yourself
in future. Pray fervently to the Almighty God. You will realise Him quickly.
From "Light, Power and Wisdom" by Swami Sivananda (1987-1963)

Have an eager, receptive attitude to imbibe the teachings of your master. Be absolutely
guileless, frank and candid like a child. Have unshakable faith in the words of your Guru or Srutis.
Be ever ready to serve. Serve with pure love, kindness, and courtesy. Never show a weary or
gloomy face when you serve. Live a life of utter devotion to service.
Develop sympathy, affection, benevolence, tolerance and humility. Have a catholic or
liberal view. Give a place for the views of all. You will have an ex

Understand clearly the aim of your life. Chalk out the line of work that is congenial to your
aim. Work hard to realise the ideal. Have your ideal before you and try every second to live up to it.
Develop a strong desire to remove carelessness and forgetfulness. Have confidence in your
own powers and faculties.
Keep up your mental poise amidst the changes of the world without consideration of
success or failure, gain or loss, pleasure or pain. Have the mind always rooted in God amidst
activities. Use

Lead a life of intense activity. Keep always a calm mind. Mentally repeat your Ishta Mantra.
Mix with all. Serve all with Atma Bhava. See God in them.
Do not be afraid of difficulties and failures in the spiritual path. Difficulties will develop
your will-power. Failures are stepping stones to success. Use your intelligence, sagacity,
discrimination and commonsense. You will overcome the difficulties one by one.
Stand adamant. Be cheerful. Dismiss fear and anxiety. March boldly in the spiritual path

Cultivate right understanding and right thinking. Develop cosmic love. Eradicate
selfishness. Practise Yama and Niyama. Develop virtuous qualities. Have faith in the existence of
God. Pray to the Almighty daily. The Divine Grace will descend upon you.
Kill unholy desires through holy desires. Do not become lazy. Be ever up and doing. Break
the evil of ignorance. Know thyself and be free.
Worship God in the poor and sick. Serve every one with intense love. Give your hands to
work and mind to God. You

Wake up from the dream of forms. Do not be deceived by these illusory names and forms.
Cling to the solid living reality only. Love your Atman alone. Atman only persists. Live in Atman.
Become Brahman. This is real life.
Approach the sages, the doctors of divinity with faith, devotion and humility. Take a dose of
medicine called Jnana. Then the disease of Ajnana will be eradicated completely. You will attain
everlasting peace.
Do not be deluded by Maya. Be calm as the waveless ocean. Be broad-minded

Nitya Sukha (eternal happiness) and Paramasanti (Supreme Peace) can be had only in God.
Therefore pray to the Almighty Lord: “O My Lord! By entertaining various useless
thoughts, by vain and wild imaginations by entertaining myriads of Sankalpas my heart and mind
are afflicted with severe sores. Enough! protect me. O Lord, do protect me. Turn my mind towards
Thy lotus feet. Make it rest in Thee for ever. This is my fervent prayer. This is all I want. Thou
knowest my heart.” He. will guide you in all

Lead a life of intense activity. Do not depend upon anybody. Rely on God alone. Give up
idle talking. Remember God at every moment. Utter in every breath the name of the Lord. Centre
your thoughts upon His lotus feet. Have strong faith in Him. Endeavour to make your faith a matter
of adoration and love. You will enjoy Supreme joy.
Think rightly and clearly. Become a man of measured words. Do selfless service. Surrender
the fruits of action unto the Lord. Pray to God for His mercy, Divine Light, puri

Do not be guided and influenced by public opinion. March boldly and cheerfully in the path
of Truth, consulting your conscience and hearing the inner, small, sweet voice of the soul.
Keep company with one Sattvic man. Spend every second profitably. Serve sick people.
Share what you have with the poor people. Unfold the Divinity hidden in the chambers of your
heart. Repeat your Guru Mantra or the Mantra of the Ishta Devata mentally. Associate the idea of
purity, infinity, eternity, immortality, Vyapa

Collect all the rays of your mind. Turn the mind towards God. Persevere seriously in the
pursuit of knowledge of God. Struggle hard. You will succeed.
Give up all sorts of fears, cares, worries and anxieties. Rest in the ocean of silence. Destroy
all sorts of fears by the rod of Viveka and the sword of Vairagya.
Pray to the Almighty Lord for help and guidance. Thirst for His grace. Place your trust in
Him. Do not be moved by difficulties. Difficulties strengthen your will and augment your power of
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Be still and realise the Truth. Be vigilant and destroy the Vasanas and Vrittis. The more the
thinning of the Vasanas, egoism and Dehadhyasa, the greater the bliss of the Self.
May you attain Kaivalya or peace of the Eternal, leading the divine life, serving the poor and
the sick, feeling the Divine presence everywhere at all times, in all faces and radiating joy and peace
to all those who come in contact with you.
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Be calm under all circumstances. Cultivate this virtue again and again through constant and
strenuous endeavour. Serenity is like a rock. Waves of irritation may dash on it, but cannot effect it.
Meditate on the ever tranquil Atman within, which is unchanging. You will attain calmness.
The Divine Light will descend on a calm mind only. An aspirant with a calm mind only can enter
into deep meditation and Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
Be sincere at heart. Care not for the perishable things. Care for the ever-la

When you do Japa and meditation, if evil thoughts enter your mind, do not use your
will-force in driving them. You will lose your energy only. You will tax your will only. You will
fatigue yourself. The greater the efforts you make, the more the evil thoughts will return with
redoubled force. They will return more quickly also. The thoughts will become more powerful. Be
indifferent. Keep quiet. They will pass off soon. Or substitute good counter thoughts or think of the
picture of thy Ishtam and the

Concentration is the only way to get rid of the worldly miseries and tribulations. Your only
duty is to practise concentration. You have taken this body to practise concentration and through
concentration to realise the Self.
When you read a book you must read it with concentration. There is no use of skipping over
the pages in a hurried manner. Read one page in the Gita. Close the book. Concentrate on what you
have read. Find out parallel lines in Mahabharata, Upanishads and Bhagavata. Compare and
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Do not give a loose rein to the mind. Curb it ruthlessly. Annihilate it. You will soon cognise
the Truth and attain the final emancipation. All pains, sorrows and delusions will terminate.
Renounce all your sorrows, fears and anxieties, and walk in the path laid down by the
scriptures. Abandon the impure Vasanas, cultivate the pure Vasanas and practise regular meditation
on the pure, All-pervading Atman.
Meditate on the Lord who is an embodiment of Light, Peace, Bliss and Knowledge. Do not
waste the

God is great. Resign yourself completely to His Will. His Will is great and His actions are
wise. Nobody can grudge or complain when the collective Karma is in operation. There is always a
chapter of accidents in the history of Nature’s work. Let us be sincere and offer our actions and
fruits at His feet as Ishvararpana. Let us never forget Him. Let us pray for the Peace of the whole
world.
May you be ceaselessly engaged in the pursuit of Atmic enquiry! May peace abide with you
forever!
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Stick to any rule that, appeals to your reason. Follow it with faith and attention. You will
evolve and reach the abode of eternal happiness. Performance of one’s own duties brings happiness,
quick evolution and freedom.
Events occur in succession or order. There is perfect harmony. The three things viz., desire,
thought and action always go together. It is thought that moves the body to action. There is thought
behind every action. If you entertain bad thoughts you will do bad actions.
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Purify your heart and meditate. Dive deep into the innermost recess of the heart. You will
find the Atmic pearl. If you search in deep water only, you will find the pearl. If you keep only to the
shore, you will find broken shells only.
O friend! Wake up. Sleep no more. Meditate. It is Brahmamuhurta now! Open the gate of
the temple of the Lord in your heart with the key of love. Hear the music of the soul. Sing the song of
Prem your Beloved. Play the melody of the infinite. Melt your mind in His con

Worry does great harm to the astral body and the mind. Energy is wasted by worry. It causes
inflammation and drains the vitality of man. Nothing is gained by the worry-habit. Be vigilant.
Keep the mind fully occupied. The habit will be eradicated. Keep the Divine Flame burning
steadily. Have strong determination and strong will. Have courage, fixity of mind and a definite
purpose of life. Be not wavering.
Wake up now from the deep slumber of ignorance. Never become a fatalist. Think rightly.
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