- Speak a little. Speak sweetly. Always utter encouraging words.
- Lead a happy, contented life. Avoid unnecessary worry.
- Be mentally detached.
- Have plain living and high thinking.
- Reduce your wants. If you have four shirts, reduce the number to three or two.
- Think of those who do not possess even one-tenth of what you have. Share with others.
- Do not depend upon servants. Self-reliance is the highest of all virtues.
- Never hurt anybody. Control anger by love, forgiveness and compassion.
- Do not brood over past mistakes.
- Never fail to fulfill your duties.
Swami Sivananda (1887 – 1963)
Source: Excerpts from the teachings of Swami Sivananda.
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Very nice. Thanks for posting the swami's good advice.
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I love Swami Sivananda. I followed one of his disciples for a few years, Swami Satyananda. Although now I accept that the personal form of the Lord is beyond the impersonal, it doesn't stop me from really appreciating so much of what Swami Sivananda has written, and this advice is really wonderful.
Root cause Analysis / Self Introspection
1) Release me from the never-ending chain of desires
So I may live in peace with Absolute contentment
2) Free my mind from the darkness of lust
And fill my soul with the light of divine Love
3) Let me not live to eat & indulge in the unreal outer shelf
Eat but to live & realize my Real Inner Self
4) Let me not use words as missiles that injure
Use them but gentle sparingly for comfort & cure
5) Let me not forget my brittle dwelling of glass
So throw not I stones wherever I glance
6) Enlighten my mind with the knowledge of thee
And releasing the weight that scholarship brings
7) Detach my SELF from the bondage of my ego
So differentiated am I no more
8) Let good tidings of others forever bring joy unqualified
And merge my soul with that of one & all
9) Inspire in me the sense of surrender at thy Lotus Feet
So sorrow not I see, but your dance to stay on my feet
10) Let me not do any work for rewards & fame
But let every act be dedicated to thy Name
11) Help me eliminate the chatter in my mind
So I stay connected with thy Name on my mind
12) Help me to enrich & protect my subjective mind
To filter & deflect the objective mind
13) Help me to rid the fear so I am ever fearless
So I am true to Your Will & nature as a free Will
14) When you finally Grace me to thy shore
Let me please come with my friends Galore
By Nate Natesan
(Natestennis@yahoo.com)
thanxxxx
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