THE MEANING OF GREAT

                                                           GREATNESS

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               WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE GREAT? SOME PEOPLE LOOK UPON OTHERS AS GREAT BECAUSE THEY ARE FAMOUS. MOVIE AND TV STARS, SPORTS CELEBRITIES, ELECTED OFFICIALS, BUSINESS TYCOONS ARE RECONGNIZED, ADMIRED AND OFTEN IDOLIZED. BUT ARE THEY TRULY GREAT?

              GREATNESS IS MORE THAN FAME, IT'S MORE THAN WEALTH, IT'S MORE THAN JUST BEING AS ACHIEVER. A GREAT PERSON IS ONE WHO HAS EARNED THE RESPECT AS ADMIRATION OF OTHERS BY THE WAY HE OR SHE THINKS, ACTS AND LIVES HIS OR HER LIFE. YOU NEED NOT BE FAMOUS TO BE GREAT. INDEED, MANY GREAT PEOPLE ARE KNOWN ONLY TO THEIR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS.

              YOU SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT GREAT THINGS UNTIL YOU ARE READY TO DO THEM IN A GREAT WAY, IF YOU UNDERTAKE TO DEAL WITH GREAT MATTERS IN A SMALL WAY - THAT IS FROM A LOW VIEWPOINT OR WITH INCOMPLETE CONSECRATION AND WAVERING FAITH AND COURAGE - YOU WILL FAIL. DO NOT BE IN A HURRY TO GET TO THE GREAT THINGS. DOING GREAT THINGS WILL NOT MAKE YOU GREAT, BUT BECOMING GREAT WILL CERTAINLY LEAD YOU THE DOING OF GREAT THINGS. BEGIN TO BE GREAT WHERE YOU ARE AND IN THE THINGS YOU DO EVERY DAY. DO NOT BE IN HASTE TO BE FOUND OUT OR RECOGNIZED AS A GREAT PERSONALITY. DO NOT BE DISSAPOINTED IF YOU ARE NOT NOMINATED FOR OFFICE WITHIN A MONTH AFTER YOU BEGIN TO PRACTICE WHAT YOU READ IN THIS CHAPTER. GREAT PEOPLE NEVER SEEK RECOGNITION OR APPLAUSE, THEY ARE NOT GREAT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE PAID FOR BEING SO. GREATNESS IS REWARD ENOUGH FOR ITSELF. THE JOY OF BEING SOMETHJING AND OF KNOWING THAT YOU ARE ADVANCING IS THE GREATEST OF ALL JOYS POSSIBLE. 

             YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO  CHANGING ABOUT THE WORLD LIKE DON QUIXOTE, TILTING AT WINDMILLS, AND OVERTURNING THINGS IN GENERAL, IN ORDER TO DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU ARE SOMEBODY. IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO GO HUNTLING FOR BIG THINGS TO DO. ALL YOU MUST DO - AND YOU MUST TRULY DO THIS - IS TOO LIVE A GREAT LIFE WHERE YOU ARE, AND IN YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES, AND GREATER WORKS WILL SURELY FIND YOU OUT. BIG THINGS WILL COME TO YOU, ASKING TO BE DONE.

               

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                    FOLLOW THE STEPS DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS AND IT WILL NOT BE LONG BEFORE YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS WILL BEGIN TO DEFER, MORE AND MORE, TO YOUR JUDGMENT AND TO BE GUIDED BY YOU. SOON YOUR NEIGHBORS AND TOWNPEOPLE WILL BE COMING TO YOU FOR COUNSET AND ADVICE, SOON YOU WILL BE CALLED UPON MORE AND MORE TO TAKE CHARGE OF LARGER THINGS.

                      TRULY GREAT PEOPLE WILL LET THIS DEFERENCE AND RESPECT AFFECT THEIR EGO. YOU MUST CAST OUT PRIDE AND VANITY, AND HAVE NO THOUGHT OF TRYING TO RULE OVER OTHERS OR OF OUTDOING THEM. THIS IS A VIRTAL POINT, THERE IS NO TEMPTATION SO INSIDIOUS AS THE SELFISH DESIRE TO RULE OVER OTHERS. NOTHING SO APPEAL TO THE AVERAGE MAN OR WOMAN AS TO SIT IN THE UPPERMOST PLACES AT FEASTS, TO BE RESPECTFULLY SALUTED IN THE MARKETPLACE, AND TO BE CALLED MY LORD, YOUR EXCELENCY OR MASTER. TO EXERCISE SOME SORT OF CONTROL OVER OTHERS IS THE SECRET MOTIVE OF EVERY SELFISH PERSON. THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER OVER OTHERS IS THE BATTLE OF THE COMPETITIVE WORLD, AND YOU MUST RISE ABOVE THAT WORLD AND ITS MOTIVES AND ASPIRATIONS AND SEEK ONLY FOR LIFE. CAST OUT ENVY, YOU CAN HAVE ALL THAT YOU WANT, AND YOU NEED NOT ENVY ANY PERSON WHAT HE OR SHE HAS. ABOVE ALL THINGS, SEE TO IT THAT YOU DO NOT HOLD MALICE OR ENMITY TOWARD ANYONE, TO DO SO CUTS YOU OFF FROM THE MIND WHOSE TREASURES YOU TO SEEK TO MAKE YOUR OWN. LAY ASIDE ALL NARROW PERSONAL AMBITION - AND DETERMINE TO SEEK THE HIGHEST GOOD AID TO BE SWAYED BY NO UNWORTHY SELFISHNESS.
      

               YOU MUST LEARN NOT TO LOOK UPON THE WORLD AS A LOST AND DECAYING THING BUT AS A SOMETHING PERFECT AND GLORIOUS, WHICH IS GOING ON TO A MOST BEAUTIFUL COMPLETENESS. YOU MUST LEARN TO SEE MEN AND WOMEN NOT AS LOST AND ACCURSED THINGS, BUT AS PERFECT BEINGS ADVANCING TO BECOME COMPLETE.

                LET YOUR ATTITUDE IN BUSINESS, IN POLITICS, IN NEIGHBORHOOD AFFAIRS, AND IN YOUR OWN HOME BE THE EXPRESSION OF THE BEST THOUGHTS YOU CAN THINK. LET YOUR MANNE TOWARD ALL MEN AND WOMEN, GREAT AND SMALL, AND ESPECIALLY TO YOUR OWN FAMILY CIRCLE, ALWAYS BE THE MOST KINDLY, GRACIOUS, AND COURTEOUS YOU CAN PICTURE IN YOUR IMAGINATION. REMEMBER YOUR VIEWPOINT, YOU ARE A GOD IN THE COMPANY OF GODS AND MUST CONDUCT YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY.

                 STUDY CAREFULLY THE SECRETS OF ACHIEVING GREATNESS THAT YOU WILL FIND IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES. PRACTICE WHAT YOU READ. GREATNESS WILL NOT BE THRUST UPON YOU, BUT STEP BY STEP, YOU WILL INEXORABLY MOVE TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WILL BE RESPECTED, ADMIRED AND LOOKED UPON AS A GREAT PERSON.

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OPPORTUNITY MONOPOLIZED

                                              NO ONE KEPT POOR

              NO ONE KEPT POOR BECAUSE OPPORTUNITY HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY OR BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE MONOPOLIZED THE WEALTH AND HAVE PUT A FENCE AROUND IT. YOU MAY BE SHUT OFF FROM ENGAGING IN BUSINESS IN CERTAIN LINES, BUT THERE ARE OTHER CHANNELS OPEN TO YOU.

              AT DIFFERENT PERIODS THE RIDE OF OPPORTUNITY SETS IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, ACCORDING TO THE NEEDS OF THE WHOLE, AND THE PARTICULAR STAGE OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION THAT HAS BEEN REACHED. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTY - FIRST CENTURY IN AMERICA, MANUFACTURING AND RELATED INDUSTRIES ARE DECLINING. BUT NEW OPPORTUNITIES ARE OPENING IN MANY AREAS SUCH AS HEALTH CARE, COMPUTERS AND SERVICE INDUSTRIES.

               IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN ASIA, AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA, TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITIES ARE OPENING IN MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE INDUSTRIES. MANY MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES ARE OUTSOURCING PRODUCTION AND EVEN SERVICE ACTIVITIES TO ENTERPRISING ENTREPRENEURS IN THESE NATIONS, OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME RICH ARE GROWING RAPIDLY. THERE IS ABUNDANCE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PERSON WHO WILL GO WITH THE TIDE, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO SWIM AGAINST IT.

               NOBODY IS DEPRIVED OF OPPORTUNITY. WORKERS ARE NOT BEING KEPT DOWN, BY THEIR MASTERS, THEY ARE NOT BEING GROUND BY CONGLOMERATES OR CARTELS. PEOPLE CAN MOVE UP FROM LOWER LEVEL JOBS OR POORLY PAID OCCUPATIONS WHEN THEY BEGIN TO DO THINGS IN A CERTAIN WAY. THE LAW OF WEALTH IS THE SAME FOR THEM AS IT IS FOR ALL OTHERS. THIS THEY MUST LEARN. AND THEY WILL REMAIN WHERE THEY ARE A LONG AS THEY CONTINUE TO DO AS THEY DO. NO ONE IS KEPT IN POVERTY BY SHORTNESS IN THE SUPPLY OF RCHES, THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR ALL. A PALACE AS LARGE AS THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON MIGHT BE BUILD FOR EVERY FAMILY ON EARTH FROM THE BUILDING MATERIAL IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE. UNDER INTENSIVE CULTIVATION, THIS COUNTRY COULD PRODUCE WOOL, COTTON, LINEN, AND SILK ENOUGH TO CLOTH EACH PERSON INT HE WORLD FINER THAN SOLOMEN WAS ARRAYED IN ALL HIS GLORY, TOGETHER WITH FOOD ENOUGH TO FEED THEM ALL LUXURIOUSLY.

                       THE VISIBLE SUPPLY IS PRACTICALL INEXHAUSTIBLE, AND THE INVISIBLE SUPPLY REALLY IS INEXHAUSTIBLE.

                       EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON EARTH IS MADE FROM ONE DIVINE SUBSTANCE, OUT OF WHICH ALL THINGS PROCEED.

                      NEW FORMS ARE CONSTANTLY  BEING MADE, AND OLDER ONES ARE DISSOLVING, BUT ALL ARE SHAPES ASSUMED BY THE ETERNAL GOD.

                     THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE SUPPLY OF DIVINE STUFF, THE UNIVERSE IS MADE OUT OF IT, BUT IT WAS NOT ALL USED IN MAKING THE UNIVERSE. THE SPACES IN, THROUGH, AND BETWEEN THE FORMS OF THE VISIBLE UNIVERSE ARE PERMEATED AND FILLED WITH THE DIVINE STUFF, WITH THE RAW MATERIAL OF ALL THINGS, TEN THOUSAND TIMES AS MUCH AS HAS BEEN MIGHT STILL BE MADE, AND EVEN THEN WE SHOULD NOT HAVE EXHAUSED THE SUPPLY OF UNIVERSAL RAW MATERIAL.

                     NO PERSON, THEREFORE, IS POOR BECAUSE NATURE IS POOR, OR BECAUSE THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TO GO AROUND.

                     NATURE IS AN INEXHAUSTIBLE STOREHOUSE OF RICHES, THE SUPPLY WILL NEVER RUN SHORT. DIVINE SUBSTANCE IS ALIVE WITH CREATIVE ENERGY, AND IS CONSTANTLY PRODUCING MORE FORMS. WHEN THE SUPPLY OF BUILDING MATERIAL IS EXHAUSTED, NEW RESOURCES WILL BE DEVELOPED TO REPLACE THEM, WHEN THE SOIL IS EXHAUSED WILL BE DEVELOPED TO REPLACE THEM, WHEN THE SOIL IS EXHAUSEE SO THAT FOOD STUFFS AND MATERIALS FOR CLOTHING WILL NO LONGER GROW UPON IT, IT WILL BE RENEWED BY NEW DEVELOPMENTS OF SCIENCE.

                              THIS IS TRUE OF THE HUMAN RACE COLLECTIVELY, THE RACE AS A WHOLE IS ALWAYS ABUNDANTLY RICH, AND IF INDIVIDUALS ARE POOR, IT IS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT FOLLOW THE CERTAIN WAY OF DOING THINGS THAT MAKES THE INDIVIDUALS RICH.

                 THE DIVINE STUFF IS INTELLIGENT, IT IS STUFF WHICH THINKS, IT IS ALIVE, AND IS ALWAYS IMPELLED TOWARD MORE LIFE.

                   IT IS THE NATURAL AND INHERENT IMPULSE OF LIFE TO SEEK TO LIVE MORE. IT IS THE NATURE AND INHERENT IMPULSE OF LIFE TO SEEK TO LIVE MORE. IT IS THE NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE TO ENLARGE ITSELF, AND OF CONSCIOUSNESS TO SEEK TO EXTEND ITS BOUNDARIES AND FIND  FULLER EXPRESSION. THE UNIVERSE OF FORMS HAS BEEN MADE BY DIVINE LIVING SUBSTANCES, THROWING ITSELF INTO FORM IN ORDER TO EXPRESS ITSELF MORE FULLY.

                THE UNIVERSE IS A GREAT LIVING PRESENCE, ALWAYS MOVING INHERENTLY TOWARD MORE LIFE AND FULLER FUNCTIONING.

               NATURE IS FORMED FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LIFE, ITS IMPELLING MOTIVE IS THE INCREASE OF LIFE. FOR THIS CAUSE, EVERYTHING THAT CAN POSSIBLY MINISTER TO LIFE IS BOUNTIFULLY PROVIDED, THERE CAN BE NO LUCK UNLESS GOD IS TO CONTRADICT HIMSELF AND NULLIFY HIS OWN WORKS. 

                YOU ARE NOT KEPT POOR BY LACK IN THE SUPPLY OF RICHES, IT IS A FACT THAT SHALL BE DEMONSTRATED A LITTLE FARTHER ON THAT EVEN THE RESOURCES OF THE DIVINE SUPPLY ARE AT THE COMMAND OF THE MAN OR WOMAN WILL ACT AND THINK IN A CERTAIN WAY.

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THE SPRING(HIMALAYA'S)

                                                           SPRING SEASON

              

              THE SNOW BEGAN MELTING FROM THE TOWERING MOUNTAIN SLOPES. WITH THE ADVENT OF SPRING, BIRDS ONCE AGAIN HOPPED THROUGH THE GREEN WOODS, SINGING THE GLORY OF THEIR CREATOR. PATCHES OF DRY GRASS GRADUALLY BEGAN TURNING GREEN WHILE THE MEADOWS PROVIDED A FESTIVE LOOK OF DANCING JOY AS TINY, EXQUITE FLOWERS SHOT FORTH EVERYWHERE. STREAMS ROARED DOWN ON THEIR GREAT MISSION TO SOOTHE THE BURNING THIRST OF THE MULTITUDE. GRAY SKY HAD TURNED TO CRYSTAL CLEAR BLUE. AND THE MORNING SUN, SHINING IN FULL GLORY, GLISTENED BRILLIANTLY THROUGH COUNTLESS DEW DROPS PERCHED UPON THE VERDANT GRASS.

                

                SATYAKAM WAS SILENCE INCARNATE. ONCE COULD CALL HIM A CONSCIOUS STONE OR SOLID SILENCE. HE SEEMED UNAWARE OF ANYTHING AROUND HIM, BUT WAS HE REALLY? NOW HE WAS ALL THE WHILE IN SILENT COMMUNICATION WITH HIS MASTER. NAY, AND HIS MASTER RESIDING IN HIM PERMANENTLY. HE AND HIS MASTER HAD BECOME ONE.

         

                   AFTER LEAVING HE CAVE. HE BEGAN CLIMBING HIMALAYA. IN THE PRIME OF SPRING, THE PLEASANT CLIMATE INVITED MORE VILLAGERS AND PASSERS-BY-TO CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN PATHS. OFTEN THEY GREETED SATYAKAM WITH AWE AND DEEP REVERENCE, BU SATYAKAM WAS SATYAKAM! HE LEFT THEM ALL BEHIND TO FINISH WHAT HE HAD BEGAN.

                    AFTER A DAY'S JOURNEY. HE REACHED A SPOT ABOUT TNE MILES FROM DARJEELING. THE PLACE WAS RUGGED AND UNINHABITED AND NO ONE EVER PASSED BY. FINDING A SMALL CAVE, HE SPREAD HIS BLANKET INSIDE AND CAME OUT.

                        

                    TO THE END STOOD MOUNT EVEREST AGAINST THE CLEAR BLUE SKY, MAJESTICALLY COVERED WITH PERENNIAL SNOW. ITS LOFTY HEAD PENETREATED THE HEAVENS, HALOED BY INEFFABLE PURITY AND GLORY. ITS CHALLENGING MESSAGE. COME YE WHO ARE HEAVY WITH BONDAGE AND FIND FREEDOM IN THE ABODE OF YOUR TRUE SELF, AND TO THIS, THE KANCHEJUNGA RANGES TO THE WEST PROVIDED SILENT AFFIRMATION AND INSPIRATION.

                    HERE, AMIDST ONE OF THE MOST RAPTUROUS LANDSCAPES OF MOTHER EARTH, SATYAKAM SETTLED FOR A FINAL ASSAULT.

                  

 

                  DAYS PASSED ON. HE NEVER LEFT HIS SEAT EVEN FOR A MOMENT. ONE RARE CLEAR NIGHT BROUGHT THE FULL MOON OUT, AS IF TO WITNESS AND UNSPEAKABLE SILENT GLORY. THE REST FO THE SKY WAS NOT BARREN. TWINKLING STARS DECORATED THE FIRMAMENT UP TO THE VISIBLE DEPTHS.

                  SATYAKAM SAT ON HIS SEAT LOOKING TOWARD SERENCE EVEREST. HIS EYES CLOSED. WAS HE MEDITIATING ? WAS HE ENTHRONED IN THE GREAT SILENCE? OR WAS HE WAITING? 

                     AS HE WAS SITTING WITH EYES CLOSED, A QUESTION, LIKE A BEAM OF LIGHT, PIERCED HIS SILENT SCREEN OF CONSCIOUSNESS, WHAT IS OBSTRUCTING ME STILL FROM FULL ENLIGHTENEMENT?

                       YOU, AROSE A SILENT ANSWER FROM WITHIN HIM.

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                 ENLIGHTENMENT IS ABSOLUTE AND NOT OBJECTIVE. EITHER EGO OR ENLIGHTENMENT.

   

                ANOTHER QUESTION FROM WITHOUT HIM FOLLOWED, I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN GOD'S EXISTENCE BUT HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM! DOES GOD EXIST?

 

               YES, AND WITH THAT, THERE APPEARED IN HIS CONSCIOUSNESS THE FULL VISION FO  RADIANT FORM - MORE RADIANT THAN THOUSANDS OF SUNS. HIS GOLDEN FACE, WITH A DIVINE SMILE HAVING NO OUTLINE, PERMEATED THE LIMITELESS SPACE, AND THE LIGHT GRAYISH BODY SPREAD OVER THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. SATYAKAM BEHELD, IN NAKED GLORY, GOD'S UNIVERSAL FORM.

                  THE LAST QUESTION AROSE IN HIM, WHAT IS YOUR NAME? NARAYAN BUT MANY ARED MY NAMES. I APPEAR IN THE FORM IN WHICH YOU WORSHIP ME.

                 THEN THE FORM DISSAPEARED , AND SO DISAPPEARED WHAT WAS HITHERTO SATYAKAM, LIKE THE NIGHT WHICH TERMINTATES WITH THE RISE OF THE SUN. THE SEVENTH CHAKRA BECAME LUMINOUS. SATYAKAM PLUNGED INTO SAMADHI.

                  THE EPIC JOURNEY HAD ENDED. SATYAKAM BECAME SATYANANDA. HE SAT THERE IMMERSED OF THE UNIVERSE IN LIGHT AND BLISS. THE MYSTERIES AND POWERS OF THE UNIVERSE WERE SPONTANEOUSLY REVEALED TO HIM ONE BY ONE. HE WAS NO LONGER HAVING KNOWLEDGE, WHICH DOES  CHANGE, BUT WAS NO LONGER HAVING KNOWLEDGE, WHICH DOES CHANGE, BUT WAS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH DOES CHANGE BUT WAS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH DOES NOT CHANGE. GOD, SATYANANDA AND THE VAST UNIVERSE HAD BECOME ONE, AND THUS HE REALIZED THE IMMUTABILITY OF THE LAW OF ONE. SATYANANDA WAS ENLIGHTENED. THE INVISIBLE ANGELS APPEATED, TO BEHOLD THE VALIANT FIGHTER OF THE GREATEST VICTORY- THE VICTORY IN WHICH NO ONE ELSE KNOWS DEFEAT. THE ANGELS SHOWERED ETHEREAL FLOWERS OVER THIS CHILD OF THE VIRGIN SPIRIT  OF HIMALAYA. HE BATHED IN TRANSFORMING ECTASY.

                           HE REMAINED THERE, LOST IN SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS, FOR WHO KNOWS HOW MANY DAYS. AND THEN ONE DAY HE AROSE AND LOOKED ABOUT. HIS EYES WERE SHINING WITH DIVINE LUSTER, THE SAME AS HE HAD BEHELD LONG AGO IN THE TWO SWANS ON THE LAKE. A HALO OF LIGHT SURROUNDED HIS HEAD. HE LOOKED MAJESTIC IN HIS LORD' GLORY.

                         HE GLANCED AT EVEREST, THE MOUNTAIN SEEMED HUMBLE. STEP BY STEP, AS A KING OF KINGS, HE DESCENDED THE SLOPES UNTIL HE REACHED A TRAIL. IT HAD BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE HE HAD SEEN HUMAN FIGURES PASSING BY. NONE COULD RESIST THE PULL AND THEY SPONTANEOUSLY BOWED DOWN TO HIM. THEIR FACES ALSO SHONE FOR A WHILE AS THEY BEHELD SATYANANDA'S DIVINE GLOW. AWESTRUCK AND HUMBLED IN HIS PRESENCE, THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE WAS NOR DID THEY DARE TO ASK.

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HUMANITY

                                                        PRACTICE HUMANITY

                  CONFIDENCE WITHOUT HUMILITY IS ARROGANCE. HUMANITY IS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL VIRTUES. IT IS A SIGN OF GREATNESS. HUMANIT DOES NOT MEAN SELF-DEMEANING BEHAVIOR THAT WOULD AMOUNT TO BELITTLING ONESELF. BEHAVIOR THAT WOULD AMOUNT BUT FALSE HUMANITY DETRACTS.

                   MANY YEARS AGO, A RIDER CAME ACROSS SOME SOLDIERS WHO WERE TRYING TO MOVE A HEAVY LOG WITHOUT SUCCESS. THE CORPORAL WAS STANDING BY AS THE MEN STRUGGLED. THE RIDER ASKED THE CORPORAL WHY HE WASN'T HELPING. THE CORPORAL REPLIED, I AM THE CORPORAL, I GIVE ORDERS. THE RIDER DISMOUNTED WENT UP TO THE SOLDIERS AND HELPED THEM LIFE THE LOG. WITH HIS HELP, THE LOG GOT MOVED. THE RIDER QUIETLY MOUNTED HIS HORSE AND WENT TO THE CORPORAL AND SAID, THE NEXT TIME YOUR MEN NEED HELP, SEND FOR THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, AFTER HE LEFT THE CORPORAL AND HIS MEN FOUND OUT THAT THE RIDER WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON.

                        THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR. SUCCESS AND HUMANITY GO HAND IN HAND. WHEN OTHERS BLOW YOUR HORN, THE SOUND GOES FURTHER. JUST THINK ABOUT IT? SIMPLICITY AND HUMANITY ARE TWO HALLMARKS OF GREATNESS.

                                                     BE UNDERSTANDING AND CARING 

                IN RELATIONSHIPS WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES AND SOMETIMES WE ARE INSENSITIVE TO THE NEEDS OF OTHERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE VERY CLOSE TO US. ALL THIS LEADS TO DISAPPOINTMENT AND RESENTMENT. THE ANSWER TO HANDLING DISAPPOINMENT IS UNDERSTANDING.

                RELATIONSHIPS DON'T COME ABOUT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE PERFECT. THEY COME ABOUT BECAUSE OF UNDERSTANDING.

                THERE IS MORE GRATIFICATION IS BEING A CARING PERSON THAN IN JUST BEING A NICE PERSON. A CARING ATTITUDE BUILDS GOODWILL, WHICH IS THE BEST KIND OF INSUREANCE THAT A PERSON CAN HAVE AND IT DOESN'T COST A THING.

             SOME PEOPLE SUBSTITUTE MONEY FOR CARING AND UINDERSTANDING. BEING UNDERSTANDING IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN MONEY AND THE BEST WAY TO BE UNDERSTOOD IS TO BE UNDERSTANDING. THE BASIS OF REAL COMMUNICATION IS TO UNDERSTAND.

                                                             PRACTICE GENEROSITY

                       GENEROSITY IS SIGN OF EMOTIONAL MATURITY.  BEING GENEROUS IS BEING THOUGHTFUL AND CONSIDERATE WITHOUT BEING ASKED. GENEROUS PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THE RICHNESS OF LIFE THAT A SELFISH PERSON CANNOT EVEN DREAM OF .

                    BE CONSIDERATE, SELFISHNESS BRINGS ITS OWN PUNISHMENT. BE SENSITIVE TO OTHER PEOPLE'S FEELINGS.

                                                                        BE TACTFUL

                         TACT IS VERY IMPORTANT ANY RELATIONSHIP. TACT IS THE ABILITY TO MAKE A POINT WITHOUT ALIENATING THE OTHER PERSON.

                                                                        KINDNESS

                               MONEY WILL BUY A GREAT DOG BUT ONLY KINDNESS WILL MAKE HIM WAG HIS TAIL. IT IS NEVER TOO SOON FOR KINDNESS BECAUSE WE DONT'T KNOW HOW SOON IS TOO LATE.

                             KINDNESS IS A LANGUAGE THE DEAF CAN HEAR AND THE BLIND CAN SEE. IT IS BETTER TO TREAT A FRIEND WITH KINDNESS WHILE HE IS LIVING THAN DISPLAY FLOWERS ON HIS GRAVE WHEN HE IS DEAD.

                            AN ACT OF KINDNESS MAKES A PERSON FEEL GOOD REGARDLESS OF WHETHER HE IS DOING IT OR IT IS DONE TO HIM. KIND WORDS NEVER HURT THE TONGUE

                                             HOW DO WE JUDGE OUR VALUE SYSTEM

                    THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS ACCORDING TO MAHATMA GANDHI ARE:

                      ❤ WEALTH WITHOUT WORK

                      ❤ PLEASURE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE

                      ❤ KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT CHARACTER

                      ❤ COMMERCE WITHOUT MORALITY

                      ❤ SCIENCE WITHOUT HUMANITY

                      ❤ RELIGION WITHOUT SACRIFICE

                      ❤ POLITCS WITHOUT PRINCIPLE

                        EACH OF THESE PERVERSIONS REFLECTS TO LACK OF VALUES. HOW DO YOU PUT OUR VALUE SYSTEM TO THE TEST ? I BELIEVE THERE ARE ONLY TWO TESTS.

                     OF THESE THE ULTIMATE TEST IS THE MAMA TEST, WHATEVER. YOU ARE DOING, AT HOME OR AT WORK, ALONE OR WITH SOMEONE - IF VALUES ARE IN QUESTION - ASK YOURSELF,  IF MY MAMA WERE TO SEE ME DOING THIS, WOULD SHE BE PROUD OF ME AND SAY, ATTABOY, OR WOULD SHE HAND HER HEAD IN SHAME? YOUR VALUES WOULD THEN BE CLARIFIED RATHER QUICKLY. IF YOU PASSED THE MAMA TEST FAILED ALL OTHER TESTS, YOU HAVE PASSED. IF YOU FAILED THE MAMA TEST AND PASSED ALL OTHER TESTS, YOU HAVE FAILED.

                    IF THE MAMA TEST DOESN'T DO IT, I HAVE ANOTHER TEST CALLED THE BABA TEST. WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING, AT HOME OR AT  WORK, ALONE OR WITH SOMEONE - IF VALUES ARE IN QUESTION - ASK YOURSELF, IF MY CHILDREN WERE TO SEE ME DOING WHAT I AM DOING, WOULD I WANT THEM TO SEE IT, OR WOULD I BE EMBARASSED ? AGAIN THE CLOUNDS WILL CLEAR RATHER QUICKLY AND YOU WILL GET YOUR ANSWERS.

                      IF THESE TWO TESTS DON'T CLARIFY PERSON'S VALUES - WHAT WOULD?

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ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE OF HIGH MORAL CHARACTER

                                             HIGH MORAL CHARACTER

              ASSOCIATE YOURSELF WITH PEOPLE OF GOOD QUALITY IF YOU ESTEEM YOUR REPUTATION, FOR IT IS BETTER TO BE ALONE THAN TO BE IN BAD COMPANY.

                                                      TEST OF FRIENDSHIP

                      NEGATIVE INFLUENCES COME IN THE FORM OF PEER PRESSURE. PEOPLE SAY, AREN'T YOU MY FRIEND? REMEMBER TRUE FRIENDS NEVER WANT TO SEE THEIR FRIENDS HURT.

                     IF I EVER SAW THAT A FRIEND HAD ONE DRINK TOO MANY, I WOULD PUT MY FOOT DOWN AND NOT LET HIM DRIVE. I WOULD RATHER LOSE THE FRIENDSHIP THAN LOSE A FRIEND.

                   IT IS COMMON TO SEE PEOPLE DOING WRONG THINGS TO GET ACCEPTED SAYING IT IS COOL, NOT REALIZING THEY WILL BE LEFT COLD.

                   WHAT STARTS AS PEER PRESSURE MAY BE IN REALITY A TEST OF FRIENDSHIP. WHERE WILL THEY BE WHEN YOU ARE IN TROUBLE? HOW FAR WILL THEY GO TO HELP YOU? AND THE BIGGEST QUESTION IS . IF THEY GO TO HELP YOU? AND THE BIGGEST QUESTION IS, IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE CHARACTER TODAY, HOW WILL THEY HAVE THE CHARACTER TOMORROW TO HELP YOU? ASSOCIATING WITH PEOPLE OF HIGH MORAL CHARACTER HELPS BUILD SELF-ESTEEM.

                                                              PEER PRESSURE

                  WHEN THE DESIRE TO BELONG TO THE HERD BECOMES STRONGER THAN THE DESIRE TO STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, IT IS EVIDENT THAT WHAT IS LACKING IS COURAGE AND CHARACTER. GOING ALONG TO GET ALONG IS A SAFER PATH, KEEPS ONE'S PEERS HAPPY, AND ONE DOES NOT RISK BEING LAUGHED AT. THAT IS WHERE PEOPLE WITH HIGH-ESTEEM DRAW THE LINE. THAT IS WHAT SEPARATES THE MEN FROM THE BOYS.

                                                                   EXAMPLE :

             ❤ SCHOOL KIDS CONFORM BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT TO BE LAUGHED AT.

              ❤ STUDENTS DON'T GIVE THE ANSWERS BECAUSE OTHERS WILL MAKE FUN OF THEM.

              ❤  FACTORY WORKERS KEEP PERFORMANCE LOW TO KEEP PEERS HAPPY.

                                                                MODERATION

                    MANY PEOPLE SAY, MODERATION IS OK. I TRY A LITTLE AND QUIT. THE QUESTION IS IN MODERATION IS IT REALLY OKAY? 

                    ❤  TO CHEAT?

                     ❤  TO LIE?

                     ❤  TO STEAL?

                     ❤  TO TAKE DRUGS?

                     ❤ TO HAVE ILLICIT AFFAIRS?

                SOME PEOPLE FREQUENTLY RATIONALIZE I CAN QUIT WHENVER I WANT, THEY DON'T REALIZE THAT NEGATIVE INFLUENCE ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN WILL-POWER. 

 

                                                                       MOTIVATION

                   ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT CAUSE MOTIVATION, YOU CAN MOTIVATE YOURSELF AND ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS - AND YOU CAN MOTIVATE OTHERS TOO.

                YOUR INTERNAL MOTIVATION IS YOUR DRIVE AND ATTITUDE. IT IS CONTAGIOUS. YOUR ATTITUDES ARE THE KEY TO GETTING THE RESPONSE YOU WANT FROM OTHERS.

               HOW DOES A PERSON STAY MOTIVATED AND FOCUSED? ONE IMPORTANT TOOL THAT HAS BEEN USED BY ATHELETES FOR A LONG TIME IS AUTO-SUGGESTION. AUTO-SUGGESTIONS ARE POSITIVE STATEMENTS MADE IN THE PRESENT TENSE AND REPEATED REGULARLY. IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS POSITIVE SELF-TALK.M FOR EXAMPLE LET'S SAY YOU'RE JUST STARTING A NEW JOB.

              SEVERAL TIMES EACH DAY YOU MIGHT SAY TO YOURSELF, I FEEL MORE AND MORE CONFIDENT EVERY DAY. OR LET SAY YOUR TEENAGED SON IS GOING THROUGH A STAGE WHERE EVERYTHING HE SAYS SEEMS TO IRRITATE YOU. YOU MIGHT REPEAT TO YOURSELF, I WILL BE CALM AND PATIENT WHEN I TALK TO JOHN.

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