Four tenets for life

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Four tenets for life

 

1. Discriminate. Think what is good and what is bad.

 

Think what is permanent and what is transitory. Develop a sense of

value

to things. Choose people over material assets. Choose cooperation

over

confrontation. Anything that brings people together is good. Anything

that creates division is bad. Choose mental values over physical

values.

Choose moral values over mental values.

 

Now, it is also understood that you always keep your head above your

shoulders. Anything that makes you lose your power of discrimination

has to be avoided. This includes intoxicants, anger, lust, elation,

depression, etc. You have to be fully alert at all times.

 

This also means that you spend time with yourself silently to

understand

yourself and your motives. You need to review your reaction to the

world outside and the incidents that happen. You need to correct your

thought process to keep your sword of discrimination in perfect

condition.

 

2. Be stern. Be ready give your life for what you think is right.

 

Once you have discriminated and come to an idea of what is right and

what

is wrong, stick to it. The only way to move you from your position

has to

be to reason with you and make you discriminate again based on a new

set

of facts.

 

3. Be open. Let your life be an open book.

 

Be transparent. Have no secret agenda. Be open, trustworthy and

friendly

to all. Speak what you think. Do what you say. Let there be no

secrets

in your life. Let the person whom you are be the person people know

you

to be.

 

This has two important implications: Don't do anything that you

cannot

proudly tell you mother that you did it. Don't tell anything about a

person that you cannot tell him that you told it.

 

4. Give. Let there always be an outflow.

 

Give physical work. Give money in charity. Teach people what you

know.

Give emotional support. Give, give, give. You will never lose by

giving.

Nature has its balance. If you don't give, you will be robbed. If

you give

willingly, you will be rewarded. Give happiliy and willingly.

 

This also means that you should not be idle. Always be doing

something

constructive - physically or mentally - for yourself or for others.

 

If a person lives these four tenets, it will be a fulfilling life.

gokulmuthu narayanaswamy <gokulmuthu