OUR GOOD THOUGHTS

                                        WHAT YOU THINK YOU BECOME....

       1. THE ONLY REMEDY FOR BAD HABITS IS COUNTER HABITS, ALL THE BAD HABITS THAT HAVE LEFT THEIR IMPRESSIONS ARE TO BE CONTROLLED BY GOOD HABITS. GO ON DOING GOOD, THINKING HOLY THOUGHTS CONTINUOULSY, THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO SUPPRESS BASE IMPRESSIONS. NEVER SAY ANY MAN IS HOPELESS, BECAUSE HE ONLY REPRESENTS A CHARACTER, A BUNDLE OF HABITS, WHICH CAN BE CHECKED BY NEW AND BETTER ONES. CHARACTER IS REPEATED HABITS, AND REPEATED HABITS ALONE CAN REFORM CHARACTER.

     2. VIVEKANANDA WAS BORN ON JANUARY 12, 1863, IN CALCUTTA. FROM THE BEGINNING HE WAS A PRECOCIOUS BOY OF EXPECTIONAL ENERGY. YET HIS INNATE TENDENCY TOWARD MEDITATION SHOWED ITSELF EVEN IN HIS EARLY LIFE. FOR ALONG WITH THE ORDINARY CHILDHODD GAMES, HE WOULD PLAY AT MEDITATION.

    3. IT IS ATTACHMENT, IDENTIFICATION, WHICH MAKES US MISERABLE. THAT IS THE SECRET, TO THINK THAT I AM THE SPIRIT AND NOT THE BODY, AND THAT THE WHOLE OF THIS UNIVERSE WITH ALL ITS RELATIONS, WITH ALL ITS GOOD AND ALL ITS EVIL, IS BUT A SERIES OF PAINTINGS- SCENES ON A CANVAS- OF WHICH I AM THE WITNESS.

  4. BE GRATEFUL TO HIM WHO CURSES YOU, FOR HE GIVES YOU A MIRROR TO SHOW WHAT CURSING IS, ALSO A CHANCE TO PRACTISE SELF RESTRAINST, SO BLESS HIM AND BE GLAD. WITHOUT THE MIRROR, WE CANNOT SEE OUSELVES.

  5. THE MIND UNCONTROLLED AND UNGUIDED WILL DRAG US DOWN, DOWN, FOR EVER REND US, KILL US. AND THE MIND CONTROLLED AND GUIDED WILL SAVE US, FREE US.

  6. FIRST HEAR, THEN UNDERSTAND, AND THEN LEAVING ALL DISTRACTIONS, SHUT YOUR MINDS TO OUTSIDE INFLUENCE, AND DEVOTE YOURSELVES TO DEVELOPING THE TRUTH WITHIN YOU. 

 7. WHAT IS MEANT, THEREFORE, BY THIS MORTIFICATION? HOLDING THE REIN FIRMLY WHILE GUIDING THE BODY AND THE ORGANS, NOT LETTING THEM DO ANYTHING THEY LIKE, BUT KEEPING THEM BOTH UNDER PROPER CONTROL.

 8. THERE MUST BE  A CONTINUOUS STRUGGLE, A CONSTANT FIGHT, AN UNREMITTING GRAPPLING WITH OUT LOWER NATURE, TILL THE HIGHER WANT IS ACTUALLY FELT AND THE VICTORY IS ACHIEVED.

 9. AS TO THE THIRST AFTER KNOLEDGE, IT IS AND OLD LAW THAT WE ALL GET WHATEVER WE WANT. NONE OF US CAN GET ANYTHING OTHER THAN WHAT WE FIX OUR HEARTS UPON.

 10.MAN IS A SLAVE OF NATURE, AND SLAVE ETERNALLY HE HAS GOT TO REMAIN. WE CALL IT KARMA. KARMA MEANS LAW, AND IT APPLIES EVERYWHERE. EVERYTHING IS BOUND BY KARMA.

 11. HE WHO IN THE MIDST OF INTENSE ACTIVITY FINDS HIMSELF IN THE GREATEST CALMNESS, AND IN THE GREATEST PEACE FINDS INTENSE ACTIVITY, THAT IS THE GREATEST( YOGI AS WELL AS THE WISEST MAN)

 12. IN SEARCH OF WEALTH IN THIS WORLD, THOU ART THE ONLY WEALTH I HAVE FOUND. I SACRIFICE MYSELF INTO THEE. IN SEARCH OF SOME ONE TO BE LOVED. THOU ARETHE ONLY ONE BELOVED I HAVE FOUND, I SACRIFICE MYSELF UNTO THEE.

 13. WE THINK AND OUR BODIES DO NOT FOLLOW. OUR ACTIONS DO NO HARMONISE WITH OUT THOUGHTS.

 14. ANIMALS CANNOT HAVE ANY HIGH THOUGHTS, NOR CAN THE ANGELS OR DEVAS ATTAIN TO DIRECT FREEDOM WITHOUT HUMAN BIRTH.

 15. EVEN SO THE SAGE CAN DRAW ALL HIS SENSE ORGANS INSIDE, AND NOTHING CAN FORCE THEM OUT.

 16. NOTHING CAN SHAKE HIM, NO TEMPTATION OR ANYTHING.

 17. WHERE IT IS DARK NIGHT FOR THE (SENSE BOUND) WORLD, THE SELF CONTROLLED (MAN) IS AWAKE.

 18. THE HEART AND CORE OF EVERYTHING HERE IS GOOD, THAT WHATEVER MAY BE THE SURFACE WAVES, DEEP DOWN AND UNDERLYING EVERYTHING, THERE IS AN INFINITE BASIS OF GOODNESS AND LOVE.

 19. GOD GAVE ME NOTHING I WANTED HE GAVE ME EVERYTHING I NEEDED.

 20. PEOPLE LAUGH AT ME BECAUSE I AM DIFFERENT, I LAUGH AT PEOPLE CAUSE THE ARE ALL THE SAME.

 21. THE SUCCESS SOMETIMES MAY COME IMMEDIATELY, BUT WE MUST BE READY TO WAIT PATIENTLY EVEN FOR WHAT MAY LOOK LIKE AN INFINITE LENGHT OF TIME. THE STUDENT WHO SETS OUT WITH SUCH A SPIRIT OF PERSEVERANCE WILL SURELY FIND SUCCESS AND REALISATION AT LAST.

 22. OUR DUTY IS TO ENCOURAGE EVERY ONE IN HIS STRUGGLE TO LIVE UP TO HIS OWN HIGHEST IDEA, AND STRIVE AT THE SAME TIME TO MAKE THE IDEAL AS NEAR AS POSSIBLE TO THE TRUTH.

 23. A FEW HEART- WHOLE, SINCERE, AND ENERGETIC MEN AND WOMEN CAN DO MORE IN A YEAR THAN A MOB IN A CENTURY.