MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1218

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION1218

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADAPTABILITY

Swami Sivananda

The wife does not know how to adapt herself with her husband. She displeases her husband and makes room for quarrels in the house and gets a divorce. So also with the husband. The clerk does not know how to adapt himself with his boss or superior. He quarrels with him and gets an immediate sack. The businessman does not know how to adapt himself with the customers and therefore loses his customers and business. The world runs on adaptability. He who knows the art or science of adaptability gets on quite well in this world and is always happy under all conditions of life. It does not need much wisdom and ingenuity for developing adaptability.

Prarabdha is a bundle of past actions which has given rice to the present birth. Sanchita ii the storehouse of accumulated actions. Kriyamana or Agamya are actions that are done in the present life.

- Swami Sivananda

Remove Identification With Desires
These are the commonsense methods which a man who wants to live a life of Yoga and
practical Vedanta should have as his equipment. As I told you, we cannot run away from our senses
and mind.
We have, therefore, to understand the working of the mind, and therefore, when a Vritti
arises, do not think about it, let it sink back. Do not imagine. It is imagination that strengthens it. Do
not identify yourself with the desire, and if the worse comes to the worst, if the desire is strong, be
stubborn, do not give expression to it. Gurudev has always said, “Try always to nip the desire in the
bud. When a desire comes in the form of a ripple, try to liquidate it then and there itself. But if due to
lack of your vigilance it takes the form of a desire, see that it is not fulfilled. Do not make Cheshta
outwardly. If a desire comes, ‘I could go and gossip,’ say, ‘No,’ “I will not allow the body to move.”
If the body does not move, the mind is helpless, and ultimately the reverse process will happen. The

desire will sink back into the mind and there will be calmness.

Swami Chidananda

Chant  the Maha Mantra.

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1217

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1217

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADAPTABILITY

Swami Sivananda

Adaptability is a virtue or noble quality by which one adapts or fits himself with others, whatever their nature may be. A man of adaptability accommodates himself with others, whatever their temperaments may be. This is a most desirable habit or quality for success in life. This has to be developed slowly. Adaptability is a peculiar knack or pluck to win the hearts of others and ultimately the battle of life by a little bit of bending. Man must be flexible if he wants to adapt himself.

Remove Identification With Desires
These are the commonsense methods which a man who wants to live a life of Yoga and
practical Vedanta should have as his equipment. As I told you, we cannot run away from our senses
and mind.
We have, therefore, to understand the working of the mind, and therefore, when a Vritti
arises, do not think about it, let it sink back. Do not imagine. It is imagination that strengthens it. Do
not identify yourself with the desire, and if the worse comes to the worst, if the desire is strong, be
stubborn, do not give expression to it. Gurudev has always said, “Try always to nip the desire in the
bud. When a desire comes in the form of a ripple, try to liquidate it then and there itself. But if due to
lack of your vigilance it takes the form of a desire, see that it is not fulfilled. Do not make Cheshta
outwardly. If a desire comes, ‘I could go and gossip,’ say, ‘No,’ “I will not allow the body to move.”
If the body does not move, the mind is helpless, and ultimately the reverse process will happen. The

desire will sink back into the mind and there will be calmness,

Swami Chidananda

Self-restraint, sense control, does not mean pressing down the existing desires into the subconscious, but burning them down in the fire of restraint.

- Swami Krishnananda

Chant  the Maha Mantra.

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1216

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1216

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADAPTABILITY

Swami Sivananda

Adaptability is a virtue or noble quality by which one adapts or fits himself with others, whatever their nature may be. A man of adaptability accommodates himself with others, whatever their temperaments may be. This is a most desirable habit or quality for success in life. This has to be developed slowly. Adaptability is a peculiar knack or pluck to win the hearts of others and ultimately the battle of life by a little bit of bending. Man must be flexible if he wants to adapt himself.

Remove Identification With Desires
These are the commonsense methods which a man who wants to live a life of Yoga and
practical Vedanta should have as his equipment. As I told you, we cannot run away from our senses
and mind.
We have, therefore, to understand the working of the mind, and therefore, when a Vritti
arises, do not think about it, let it sink back. Do not imagine. It is imagination that strengthens it. Do
not identify yourself with the desire, and if the worse comes to the worst, if the desire is strong, be
stubborn, do not give expression to it. Gurudev has always said, “Try always to nip the desire in the
bud. When a desire comes in the form of a ripple, try to liquidate it then and there itself. But if due to
lack of your vigilance it takes the form of a desire, see that it is not fulfilled. Do not make Cheshta
outwardly. If a desire comes, ‘I could go and gossip,’ say, ‘No,’ “I will not allow the body to move.”
If the body does not move, the mind is helpless, and ultimately the reverse process will happen. The

desire will sink back into the mind and there will be calmness,

Swami Chidananda

Self-restraint, sense control, does not mean pressing down the existing desires into the subconscious, but burning them down in the fire of restraint.

- Swami Krishnananda

Chant  the Maha Mantra.

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1215

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1215

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ABSTINENCE

Swami Sivananda

Abstinence is abstaining or refraining especially from some indulgence. Abstinence is temperance. Abstinence is refraining from the use of intoxicating drinks, self-denial, self-restraint, and abstaining from sexual indulgence and over-eating. Abstinence is continued temperance which gives longevity, good health, and keeps the body free from diseases. Abstinence is a discipline which gives dispassion and helps the aspirant to march forward in the spiritual path. The aim of abstinence is to set the mind above the lower appetites. Drunkenness, excess, gluttony, greed, intemperance, intoxication, revelling, self-indulgence, sensuality and wantonness, are the opposites of abstinence. Abstemiousness, continence, fasting, moderation, self-control are synonymous with abstinence.'

To be like God is your main mission in life. He has sent you to this earth so that you might shine like Him.

- Swami Chidananda

Chant  the Maha Mantra.

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1214

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1214

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day.

BE MODERATE

Swami Sivananda

Be moderate in eating. Study more, play less. Sit less, walk more. Chat less, learn more. Sleep less, pray more. Take less, give more. Speak less, act more. Weep not, laugh more. Be good. Do good. Be wise. Be cheerful. Smile. Be active. Have regular physical exercise. Pray. Laugh. Serve. Love. Give. Control. Purify. Meditate. Realize. Cultivate the virtues that are given in the following pages.

Learn to control the mind and the senses. Learn to fix the mind on God or Atma. First become the master of yourself. Then you can govern others.

- Swami Sivananda.

SADHANA FOR MODERN MAN
I wish to give you a few ideas which I think will be of great practical benefit to all those who
have seriously made God-realisation the main end and aim of life. Sadhana is the purpose for which
we have come to this plane. This is called the Sadhana-Bhumi and it is this earth-plane alone upon
which Sadhana for Self-realisation can be done. Not so in the other planes: the lower ones in hell are
for working out one’s bad Karmas, wrong actions, paying the penalty for sins, and the higher
planes, the heavens, are for enjoying the happy fruits of merits. But from either of these, man has to
come back once again to where he was before he went there. But on the earth-plane he can so live
that he may pass on to an abode, an abode of eternal existence from which he need not once again
return to this plane of pains, suffering, birth and death. Having come to this plane and having also
known that the central purpose is to go above phenomena into eternity, man is faced with serious
problems. On every side he sees that he is severely limited and his efforts at perfection are thwarted
by these limitations. In the present age, the one vehicle for Sadhana which is very important—the
human body—has degenerated most frightfully. The span of life is short and the physique is
 veryweak. But strange and contradictory as this may seem, there arises the statement that in spite of this
degeneracy on the physical plane, man has evolved enormously. Mentally he has evolved a great
deal. We are at present on the threshold of a glorious dawn. We have passed through the darkest
period of spiritual life. We are now about to enter into a period which will be full of spiritual
illumination and quick progress. If this were so, it must indicate a certain change from a lower to the
higher, a certain change from the lesser to the greater. If this were so, man has really evolved
mentally, and this assumption that he has evolved, we cannot deny because we see that in Puranic
times more stress was laid upon the external and the outward than the internal: might was measured
in terms of lifting mountains and drinking oceans. But now we see that the emphasis has been

shifted. The emphasis is laid upon Vedanta. That is the modern method.

Swami Chidananda

Chant  the Maha Mantra.

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1213

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1213

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADVICE TO STUDENTS - BE A GOOD BOY

Swami Sivananda

Dear Govinda! Do not fight with your brothers and class-mates. Obey your parents and teachers. Do not smoke. This is a bad habit. Give up bad company. Do not use vulgar words. Do not abuse anybody. Be kind to all. Serve all. Love all. Respect elders. Do not steal anything. Do not hurt anybody. Speak gently. Speak sweetly. Be punctual in your school attendance. Study your daily lessons well. Stand first in the class. Do not play much. Do not hurt animals. Do not kill bugs and scorpions. Do not waste time.

And ultimately I conclude by recalling to you the two great instructions given by Sri
Krishna—Vairagya and Abhyasa; for when all these things have been said and done, the underlying
secret of overcoming this Vikshepa of the mind is Vairagya only. Why are you not able to control
the mind through meditation? Because it runs after things. What things? It runs after the things to
which it is attached. Raga is at the root of Vikshepa. Raga comes through Avichara. You imagine
that the objects of the world will give you happiness. This is Avichara. You should do Vichara,
discrimination; you should find out the defects of worldly pleasures and develop Vairagya towards
all kinds of earthly pleasures. So there should be Vichara, there should be Vairagya, and combined
with these, if you practise the things already mentioned, you will be able to progress on the path of

Yoga and Vedanta, on the path of divine living.

Swami Chidananda

Self-realisation is synonymous with the attainment of unlimited spiritual strength. It is the strength born of independence, freedom in the highest sense. Power that is a result of the idea of possession is imaginary.

- Swami Krishnananda

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADVICE TO STUDENTS - BE A GOOD BOY

Swami Sivananda

Dear Govinda! Do not fight with your brothers and class-mates. Obey your parents and teachers. Do not smoke. This is a bad habit. Give up bad company. Do not use vulgar words. Do not abuse anybody. Be kind to all. Serve all. Love all. Respect elders. Do not steal anything. Do not hurt anybody. Speak gently. Speak sweetly. Be punctual in your school attendance. Study your daily lessons well. Stand first in the class. Do not play much. Do not hurt animals. Do not kill bugs and scorpions. Do not waste time.

And ultimately I conclude by recalling to you the two great instructions given by Sri
Krishna—Vairagya and Abhyasa; for when all these things have been said and done, the underlying
secret of overcoming this Vikshepa of the mind is Vairagya only. Why are you not able to control
the mind through meditation? Because it runs after things. What things? It runs after the things to
which it is attached. Raga is at the root of Vikshepa. Raga comes through Avichara. You imagine
that the objects of the world will give you happiness. This is Avichara. You should do Vichara,
discrimination; you should find out the defects of worldly pleasures and develop Vairagya towards
all kinds of earthly pleasures. So there should be Vichara, there should be Vairagya, and combined
with these, if you practise the things already mentioned, you will be able to progress on the path of

Yoga and Vedanta, on the path of divine living.

Swami Chidananda

Self-realisation is synonymous with the attainment of unlimited spiritual strength. It is the strength born of independence, freedom in the highest sense. Power that is a result of the idea of possession is imaginary.

- Swami Krishnananda

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADVICE TO STUDENTS - BE A GOOD BOY

Swami Sivananda

Dear Govinda! Do not fight with your brothers and class-mates. Obey your parents and teachers. Do not smoke. This is a bad habit. Give up bad company. Do not use vulgar words. Do not abuse anybody. Be kind to all. Serve all. Love all. Respect elders. Do not steal anything. Do not hurt anybody. Speak gently. Speak sweetly. Be punctual in your school attendance. Study your daily lessons well. Stand first in the class. Do not play much. Do not hurt animals. Do not kill bugs and scorpions. Do not waste time.

And ultimately I conclude by recalling to you the two great instructions given by Sri
Krishna—Vairagya and Abhyasa; for when all these things have been said and done, the underlying
secret of overcoming this Vikshepa of the mind is Vairagya only. Why are you not able to control
the mind through meditation? Because it runs after things. What things? It runs after the things to
which it is attached. Raga is at the root of Vikshepa. Raga comes through Avichara. You imagine
that the objects of the world will give you happiness. This is Avichara. You should do Vichara,
discrimination; you should find out the defects of worldly pleasures and develop Vairagya towards
all kinds of earthly pleasures. So there should be Vichara, there should be Vairagya, and combined
with these, if you practise the things already mentioned, you will be able to progress on the path of

Yoga and Vedanta, on the path of divine living.

Swami Chidananda

Self-realisation is synonymous with the attainment of unlimited spiritual strength. It is the strength born of independence, freedom in the highest sense. Power that is a result of the idea of possession is imaginary.

- Swami Krishnananda

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADVICE TO STUDENTS - BE A GOOD BOY

Swami Sivananda

Dear Govinda! Do not fight with your brothers and class-mates. Obey your parents and teachers. Do not smoke. This is a bad habit. Give up bad company. Do not use vulgar words. Do not abuse anybody. Be kind to all. Serve all. Love all. Respect elders. Do not steal anything. Do not hurt anybody. Speak gently. Speak sweetly. Be punctual in your school attendance. Study your daily lessons well. Stand first in the class. Do not play much. Do not hurt animals. Do not kill bugs and scorpions. Do not waste time.

And ultimately I conclude by recalling to you the two great instructions given by Sri
Krishna—Vairagya and Abhyasa; for when all these things have been said and done, the underlying
secret of overcoming this Vikshepa of the mind is Vairagya only. Why are you not able to control
the mind through meditation? Because it runs after things. What things? It runs after the things to
which it is attached. Raga is at the root of Vikshepa. Raga comes through Avichara. You imagine
that the objects of the world will give you happiness. This is Avichara. You should do Vichara,
discrimination; you should find out the defects of worldly pleasures and develop Vairagya towards
all kinds of earthly pleasures. So there should be Vichara, there should be Vairagya, and combined
with these, if you practise the things already mentioned, you will be able to progress on the path of

Yoga and Vedanta, on the path of divine living.

Swami Chidananda

Self-realisation is synonymous with the attainment of unlimited spiritual strength. It is the strength born of independence, freedom in the highest sense. Power that is a result of the idea of possession is imaginary.

- Swami Krishnananda

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1212

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1212

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADVICE TO STUDENTS - STUDY WELL

Swami Sivananda

Do not cram a subject. When you study, understand the sense well. Study intelligently. Then it is easy to remember what you have studied. Be very attentive when you study. Be very hopeful always. Read everything thoroughly. Study your old lessons again and again. If you do not do so you will forget them. Try to reproduce what you have learnt in writing. Pray to the Lord daily and ask for His blessings. Possess an exemplary moral character. There can be no real, lasting success without good character. Character is power. Without it life is a failure.

Without knowing your source and origin and your ultimate destination, life cannot be meaningfully lived.

- Swami Chidananda

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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