Dear All,
We read the 46 maxims given to us by Swami, let us re-classify them under few important path, as under.
 Karma / Action |
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| 1 | Have undiminished kindness toward all beings and also the spirit of self-sacrifice. |
| 2 | The mind speeds fast, pursuing wrong actions. Without letting it hurry like that, remember the name of the Lord at that time or attempt to do some good deed or other. Those who do thus will certainly become t for the Lord’s grace. |
| 3 | Those anxious to live in joy must always be doing good. |
| 4 | Whatever acts a good or bad person may do, the fruits thereof follow them and will never stop pursuing them. |
| 5 | Try, as far as possible within
your means, to satisfy the needs of the poor, who are really God as poverty.
Share with them whatever food you have and make them happy at least at that
moment. |
| 6 | It is easy to conquer anger through love, attachment through reasoning, falsehood through truth, bad through good, and greed through charity. |
 Bhakti / Love for God |
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| 1 | Divine love (prema) should be considered as the very breath of life. |
| 2 | The love (prema) that is manifest in all things equally —believe that that love is Supreme Atma(Param- atma). |
| 3 | The one Supreme Atma is in everyone, in the form of divine love. |
| 4 | More than all other forms of love, one’s first effort should be to fix one’s love on the Lord. |
| 5 | Such love directed toward God is devotion (bhakthi); the fundamental test is the acquisition of devotion. |
| 6 | The Lord, who is the embodiment of truth (sathya), grants His sight (darshan) to those of truthful speech and loving heart. |
| 7 | First give up the evil tendency to feel impatient at the prosperity of others and the desire to harm them. Be happy that others are happy. Sympathise with those who are in adversity and wish for their prosperity. That is the means of cultivating the love for God. |
| 8 | The Lord is understood only by the devotee; the devotee is understood only by the Lord. Others cannot understand them. So don’t discuss matters relating to the Lord with those who have no devotion. Such discussion will diminish your devotion. |
| 9 | Give up all doubts regarding the guru and God. If your worldly desires don’t get fulfilled, don’t blame it on your devotion, for there is no relationship between such desires and devotion to God. These worldly desires have to be given up some day; feelings of devotion (bhakthi) have to be acquired some day. Be firmly convinced of this. |
 Jnana / Knowledge |
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| 1 | Truth (sathya) must be treated as life-giving as breathing itself. |
| 2 | Just as a body that has no breath is useless and begins to rot and stink within a few minutes, so life without truth is useless and becomes the stinking abode of strife and grief. |
| 3 | Believe that there is nothing greater than truth, nothing more precious, sweeter, more lasting. |
| 4 | Truth is the all-protecting God. There is no mightier guardian than truth. |
| 5 | Those who conquer states and earn fame in the world are hailed as heroes, no doubt, but those who have conquered the senses are heroes who must be acclaimed as the conquerors of the Universal. |
| 6 | If your meditation (dhyana) or
soft prayer (japa) doesn’t progress properly or if the desires you have
entertained don’t come to fruition, don’t get dispirited with God. It will
dispirit you even more and you will lose the peace, however small or big, that
you might have earned. During meditation and soft prayer, you should not be
dispirited, desperate, or discouraged. When such feelings come, take it that
it is the fault of your spiritual exercises and endeavour to do them
correctly. Continued...... Love |
