Analects of Swami Sivananda

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(iii) How to Live?

 

30. Be pure. You can see the truth of life.

31. Lead a dedicated life of service, sacrifice, love, renunciation and

meditation. This is above all power and statesmanship.

32. Renounce everything. Possess nothing. Let the Lord take possession

of your heart.

33. Poverty is a virtue. Embrace poverty and converse with the Lord.

Rejoice in poverty.

34. He who is not doing Japa, Kirtan and Meditation, lives in vain. He

is a brute only.

35. If you have a heart which shares your best with others and bears

the sorrows of the suffering ones, it is the richest divine gift indeed.

36. Kill out all sense of separateness. Live in Unity.

37. Death is easy. It is life that is taxing.

38. Attain Self-realilsation. You will know the meaning and mystery of

life.

39. Self-control, self-restraint and self-denial are very much needed

by a man to become more efficient and to ralise greater ends of life.

40. What is true, simple and sincere, is most congenial to your growth

and evolution.

41. If you observe Brahmacharya, if you lead a divine life and lead a

life of system and regularity, you have nothing to fear.

42. Abstain from injury to living beings. Slay anger, lust, greed,

hatred, resentment and revenge.

43. Restrain from taking other people's possessions. Develop charity of

body and mind. Speak the truth. Do not exploit others.

44. Correct in yourself whatever youlike in another person.

45. Be polite, kind and considerate to all.

46. Be kind-hearted, unselfish and cheerful.

47. Annihilate the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the

pride of life.

48. Root out selfishness, greed, lust. Root yourself in the Atman, thy

innermost Self and be happy for ever.

49. He who is full of lust and anger, who is addicted to violence and

greed is hurled down from the human status and is born among the beasts.