Success in Life

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Ask, " What can I do for others? In what way can I be helpful, in what

way can I benefit other people with whom I am living, with whom God

has put me, be they young or old, healthy or ailing? In what way can I

be useful? In what way can I help to benefit this planet Earth which

is our Great Mother and gives us life? How can I help to preserve her

beauty and resources and rectify the callousness of modern man? "

Selflessness and a spirit of service is one principle and objective to

which we may be committed in our day-to-day living.

 

Then, commit yourself to devotion to God and daily worship. Commit

yourself to discipline, self-control, control of the senses, conquest

of the desires of the mind, and unfailing daily meditation upon the

Supreme.

 

Lastly, but not leastly, be committed to discrimination, asking: " Who

am I? What is this world? Am I this perishable cage of flesh and

bones? Am I this nonsense of a mind that is ever bothering me, ever

making me restless, creating complication? Am I this unreliable

intellect? No! As scriptures say, " Neither am I the mind, nor the

intellect, nor egoism, nor mind-stuff. I am Consciousness-Bliss, part

of God. " Thus, through discrimination between the Real and unreal,

through self-analysis and investigation, attain Self-realisation.

 

So, therefore, commit yourself to all of these as part of your

day-to-day living. And commit yourself to the triple principles of

non-injury, truthfulness, and purity of conduct and character. Cherish

these three great principles: compassion and kindness to all

creatures, self-control and purity in thought, word and deed; and

truthfulness. " Let even death overtake me, but I will not leave these

three principles. " In this way, pledge yourself to abide by these

great principles. Then there is no power on earth that can stop you

from attaining the highest, the Supreme Good, that can stop you from

becoming a perfect gem, a rare and unique phenomenon int his world

able to bless your own times and benefit your contemporary human

society. May God bless you in this noble endeavour.