1st December 2022- Use your own minds, control your body and mind yourselves, remember that until you are diseased person, no extraneous will can work upon you; avoid everyone, however great and good he may be, who asks you to believe blindly. All over the word there have been dancing and jumping and howling sects, who spread like infection when they begin to sing and dance and preach; they also are a sort of hypnotists. They exercise a singular control for the time being over sensitive pers
5th December 2022- Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action, than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as a result of such desires.
6th December 2022- Well, the work of the Mother will not suffer, because it has been built and up to date maintained up to truth, sincerity and purity. Absolute sincerity has been its watchword.
7th December 2022- Be in the open air as much as possible, and take good long walks and work hard. The muscles of the leg should be as hard as iron.
8th December 2022- While the Western man tried to measure how much it is possible for him to possess and to enjoy, the Eastern seens to take the opposite course, and to measure how little of material possession he can do with.
9th December 2022- How are we to know a teacher? The sun requires no torch to make it visible. We do not light a candle to see the sun. When the sun rises, we instinctively become aware of its rising; and when a true teacher comes to help us, the soul will instinctively now that it has found the truth.
12th December 2022- When we complain that we have not got the truth, and that we want it so much, instead of complaining, our first duty ought to be to look it our own souls and find whether we really want it. In the vast majority of cases we shall find that we are not fit; we do not want; there is no real thirst for the spiritual.
14th December 2022- Renunciation is the very soul of the Upanishads. Illumination born of discriminative reflection is the ultimate aim of Upanishadic knowledge. … Never was a great man of such renunciation born in this world as Buddha.
15th December 2022- The greatest men in the world have passed away unknown. The Buddhas and the Christs that we know are but second-rate heroes in comparison with the greatest men of whom the world knows nothing. Hundreds of these unknown heroes have lived in every country working silently. Silently they live and silently they pass away, and in time their thoughts find expression in Budhhas or Christs, and it is these latter that become known to us.
16th December 2022- No impure soul can be religious. Purity is the one great condition- purity in every way is absolutely necessary.
19th December 2022- Ignorance is the great mother of all misery, and the fundamental ignorance is to think that the infinite weeps and cries, that the Infinite is really finite.This is the basis of all ignorance that we, the immortal, the ever pure, the perfect Spirit, think that we are little minds, that we are little bodies; it is the mother of all selfishness.
20th December 2022- In reality all pity is darkness, because whom to pity? Can you pity God? And is there anything else?
22nd December 2022- The yogi must always practice. He should try to live alone; the companionship of different sorts of people distracts the mind; he should not speak much, because to speak distracts the mind; not work much, because too much work distracts the mind; the mind cannot be controlled after a whole day’s hard work. One observing the above rules becomes a yogi. Such is the power of Yoga that even the least of it will bring a greatest amount of benefit. It will not hurt anyone, but will benefit everyone.
23rd December 2022- In the presence of an ever active Providence who notes even the sparrow’s fall, how can we attach any importance to our own work? Will it not be a blasphemy to so when we know that God is taking care of the minutest things in the world? We have only to stand in awe and reverence before God, saying, “Thy will be done.”
27th December 2022- Not satisfied with the anthropometric idea of God, Hindus in ancient India gave up searching God in the outer world of sense and matter, and turned their attention to the inner world. Is there an inner world? And what is it? It is Atman. It is the Self, it is the only thing an individual can be sure of. If he knows himself, he can know the universe, and not otherwise.
28th December 2022- Don’t allow all that worthless nonsense to occupy your mind. Always discriminate between the real and the unreal, and devote yourself heart and soul to the attempt to realize the Atman; everything else is Maya, mere jugglery. The Atman is the one unchangeable Truth. This I have come to understand, and that is why I try to bring it home to you all.
29th December 2022- The Sanskrit name for a student, brahmacarin, is synonymous with the Sanskrit word kamajit, “one who has conquered lust.” Our goal os life is moksa, spiritual freedom. How can that be ever attained without brahmacarya, or absolute continence? Hence it is imposed upon our youth as an indispensable condition during their studentship.
30th December 2022- Plunder and fight as you may, the enjoyment that you seek can be found only in peace; and peace is only in the renunciation of sensual pleasures. Enjoyment lies not in physical development but in the culture of the mind and the intellect.
31st December 2022- When Buddha was on the point of merging in Samadhi, Mara made his appearance. There was really no Mara extraneous to the mind; it was only the external reflection of the mind’s previous samskaras.