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BAALBIKAAS COURSES FIRST CLASES FIRS STEP - Prayer Mantras

• Asato Ma Sat Gamaya. Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya. Mrityor Ma Amritam Gamaya.

• Om Shaantih, Shaantih, Shaanti

• Lead me on from unreal to Real, from darkness to Light, from mortality to Immortality.

• This is the best prayer; the prayer for the Light, for the Truth, for Immortality.

• Om Saha Naa-Avatu | Saha Nau Bhunaktu | Saha Viiryam Karavaavahai |

• Tejasvi Naav[au]-Adhiitam-Astu Maa Vidvissaavahai |

• Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih || Meaning: 1: Om, Together may we two Move (in our Studies, the Teacher and the Student), 2: Together may we two Relish (our Studies, the Teacher and the Student), 3: Together may we perform (our Studies) with Vigour (with deep Concentration), 4: May what has been Studied by us be filled with the Brilliance (of Understanding, leading to Knowledge); May it Not give rise to Hostility (due to lack of Understanding), 5: Om Peace, Peace, Peace. (May that Knowledge give rise to Peace in the three levels - Bhautik, Pranik and Aatmik)

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Chapter -08

-Perform the good habit and character

-Removal Habits, character and behavior

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Perform the good habit and character • Control desires. Begging is deplorable and is a practical death.

• Persevere. Be patient.

• Nil desperandum (never despair). Be grateful to that man who has helped you.

• Learn when you are young. Protect creatures or dumb animals.

• Become a vegetarian. Feed another and then eat.

• Share what you have with others. Develop Udarata (nobility or large heart).

• Develop mercy and cosmic love. Whatever work you do, do it thoroughly.

• Protect those who take shelter under you. Till the fields and eat. Prepared by Vivekananda Saraswati 4

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Perform the good habit and character

• Do daily charity.

• Worship God.

• Keep daily memorandum note-book for jotting down.

• Keep a daily spiritual diary.

• Have a definite aim and ideal in life.

• Discipline the Indriyas.

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• Take daily exercise.

• Control breath.

• Do selfless service in society.

• Cultivate Sraddha and Bhakti.

• Relieve the pains of others.

• Give up pride, hypocrisy and cunningness.

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Perform the good habit and character • Preserve Veerya.

• Serve Mahatmas with devotion.

• The world is unreal.

• Give up back-biting and fault-finding.

• Lead a life of contentment. Control mind.

• Seek happiness within.

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• Give up attachment, "I-ness" and "mine-ness".

• Treat respect and honour as dung and poison.

• Remember God at all times.

• See God in all faces and objects.

• Learn to discriminate.

• Get knowledge of Self.

• Rest in your Satchidananda Svaroopa

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Perform the good habit and character • Go through these instructions carefully with one-pointed mind daily in the

morning and live in the spirit of these instructions.

• This contains the essence of all Sadhana, the essence of four Vedas. Here is an inexhaustible spiritual wealth. Here is a spiritual treasure, which no dacoits can plunder.

• The unemployment problem is solved now. The miseries of the world are removed now. You will have a glorious and brilliant life, which is ineffable.

• You will have neither wants nor desires, neither torments nor anxieties, neither worries nor fear.

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• You will attain immortality and everlasting bliss if you strictly adhere to these instructions.

• Become a practical Yogi. This is what I expect of you. This is the spiritual fee.

• This is the remuneration for the spiritual doctor who takes care not only of your physical body but of your mind and soul also.

• Dive deep and enjoy the spiritual bliss.

• Farewell Friends! Peace be with you all!

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REMOVABLE HABITS, CHARACTER AND BEHAVOUR

• Don't do wrong actions to gain something.

• Don't speak harsh words.

• Don't prevent anyone from doing charity.

• Don't harm others.

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• Do those actions that are pronounced to be right by the Sastras.

• Don't make friendship with childish persons.

• Don't believe your enemies.

• Don't eat much.

• Don't talk much before great souls.

• Don't be partial.

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REMOVABLE HABITS, CHARACTER AND BEHAVOUR

• When you talk, don't omit anything.

• Don't brag or self-glorify.

• Don't exaggerate or concoct or twist when you talk.

• Don't sleep too much (sleep maximum six hours).

• Don't kill.

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• Don't gamble.

• Develop Sattvic virtues.

• Don't speak anything that will provoke another's anger.

• Don't speak words despicable to wise men.

• Don't visit the houses of prostitutes.

• Don't go to law courts.

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REMOVABLE HABITS, CHARACTER AND BEHAVOUR

• Don't get discouraged under any circumstance whatsoever.

• Don't indulge in idle talk.

• Don't do any action harmful to any one.

• Don't eat too many sweetmeats.

• Don't indulge in the use of intoxicants and liquors.

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• Don't attend cinemas.

• Don't follow the evil advice of your wife.

• Don't fight.

• Don't blaspheme.

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• Don't do sinful actions

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• Don't talk about your possessions

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REMOVABLE HABITS, CHARACTER AND BEHAVOUR

• O man! It is very difficult to get a human birth. Life is meant for God-realisation.

• Perennial joy and eternal bliss are in God. Do not waste this precious life in drinking, gambling, smoking and meat-eating.

• What will you say to the God of Death at the time of your death? No one will help you. You will carry your own thoughts and actions.

• Give up gambling, meat-eating, drinking, cinema and smoking from this very second. Give me a definite promise now. I am your friend and well-wisher. Wake up now. Open your eyes.

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REMOVABLE HABITS, CHARACTER AND BEHAVOUR

• Become a virtuous man. Do good actions.

• Sing Hari's Name. God's Name is a potent antidote for all evil habits.

• Study religious books. Seek the company of sages and devotees. All evil habits will be eradicated.

• Serve. Love. Give. Purify. Concentrate. Meditate. Realize this very second.

• Time is the most precious thing in the world.

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REM0VABLE HABITS, CHARACTER AND BEHAVOUR

• Ignorant people waste their whole time in playing cards and in gambling. What a horrible state of affairs! Highly deplorable!

• How powerful is Avidya or ignorance! People are lamentably sunk in the mire of darkness! Pitiable specimens of humanity!

• Slayers of Atman! May Lord Krishnaswami, Antaryami, the Indweller of your heart, give you strength to overcome all these evil habits!

• May His blessing be upon you all!

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REMOVABLE HABITS, CHARACTER AND BEHAVOUR

• Gambling is another dreadful curse. It is a great friend of Satan or anti-God. It is Maya's great weapon.

• It has broken the hearts of many. It tantalises, tempts and deludes.

• A little gain in the first betting itches the nerves of the gamblers and forces them to bet a large sum. Eventually they lose everything and return home with black or weeping faces.

• Man becomes bankrupt by gambling. He weeps bitterly. Yet he will not leave it.

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REMOVABLE HABITS, CHARACTER AND BEHAVOUR • Maya havocs through wrong habits, wrong thinking, wrong Samskaras and

through bad company, gambling, cinema, drinking, smoking and meat-eating.

• The intellect becomes clouded and blunt. Reason and discrimination fail. The intellect becomes perverted. No virtue will dwell in the heart of a man who gambles.

• Gambling is a net spread by Maya to entrap the bewildered souls. There is no evil greater than gambling. All vices cling to a gambler.

• No real gain will come to a gambler. He is always drowned in sorrow. He drags a cheerless life from day to day. Card-play and horse-racing are modifications of gambling only.

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