January 31 THE PROP As children hold on to a pillar and circle round it, may I, O Lord, make you the prop of my life so that I may not fall. Electricity energizes the bulb, the call bell, the heater and the motor. Energy is the prop to div…

January 30 WORTHY CHANNEL If the channel be properly constructed all the available water can be taken through it to the desired place. Nature can be taken advantage of in this wise. This privilege of man is to become the channel of the Div…

January 29 ABUNDANT JOY The joy given by the things external comes and goes. Actually it is the joy innate in man transplaced on matters outside. The glamour for the perceived objects must vanish. Mind should obtain quietude within. The se…

January 28 UPRIGHTNESS Clean deal elevates man. Foul deal debases him. His conscience is the recorder of both. An upright man sees into their relative value. A wrong done in secret does not enjoy immunity any more than an unnoticed fire bu…

January 27 SIMPLICITY Nature in her entirety shines in her original simplicity. Man alone wantonly puts on complexity. The schooling that the child gets leads it astray from simplicity. The social customs and manners cast the adolescent in…

January 26 YOGA I Yoga is not magic. There is no mystery in it. Making man wholesome is the purpose of yoga. Very many people have false notions of yoga. They associate it with abnormality. According to them a yogi is not a social being. H…

January 25 TIME There is compensation for every other loss. There is no compensation for the loss of time. What is wasted is gone once for all. Time is the interval between tow incidents. It is without beginning and end. Man gets quota in …

January 24 SUBLIMATION The energy of one kind can be converted into the energy of another kind. Nature does it and science also does it. It is open to man to do it. Lust is a potential energy. Falling victim to it man damns himself. But by…

January 23 TRUTHFULNESS The Ordinary man thinks that he gains by telling lies. Whereas the profit of truthfulness is incalculable. Clean conscience is the immediate reward. When the utterance comes into conflict with the occurrence it is a…

January 22 QUIETUDE All nature is in quietude at dawn and dusk. Let man take advantage of it and attune himself to that stillness for some time. Ceaseless activity ruins the personality. Resting for a while recoups it. Nature is both kinet…

January 21 THE SPECTACLES The spectacles are made to modify the vision. Mind also functions as the spectacles. As is the mind so is the view of the world. When a man puts on green spectacles the world appears green So is the case in regard…

January 20 THE POWER OF THOUGHT Power is potent in everything. Power stored up in the mind is incalculable. It expresses itself as thought. Thought can move mountain. When the body falls ill its power weakens. The same is the case with the…

January 19 VIRTUE The difference between man and man is not in his origin or the profession of faith. It is in the intensity of his adherence to virtue. The concept of virtue may vary from country to country. But its effect on character is…

January 18 RIGHT ATTITUDE As is one’s attitude so is the reaction of the world towards that individual. The mirror faithfully reflects the expressions on the face. This world is something like a mirror. It responds precisely to man’s relat…

January 17 STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS A child is simple and straightforward in its behaviour. A cultured man ought to be likewise. Crookedness and craftiness are characteristic of the foul dealer. But the fair dealer is guileless and frank. The f…

January 16 PATIENCE Man’s attainments are in accordance with the patience he evinces. Patience is not inborn; it is cultivated. Conscious attempt at it is imperative. Heat, cold, illness, discourtesy, calumny and such like factors give man…

January 15 OPPORTUNITY The mediocre waits for and opportunity. The enthusiast makes opportunity. He is ever alert. He is up and doing. To the ardent one every moment is an opportune time. He knows what to do when. When man makes himself co…

January 14 NARA YAJNA Service to mankind is known as Nara Yajna. Treating man with dignity is a mark of culture and civilization. Treating foreigners with contempt is the way of the semi-refined people. Exploiting the poverty-stricken peop…

January 13 IMMORTALITY All beings, high and low, are mortal. They seek to avoid death. But there is no escape. Still, Immortality can be gained. Man is actually the immortal Atman. He deludes himself into the belief that he is the body. Ch…

January 12 MIND AND MATTER What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. This was the old concept in regard to mind and matter. But they are one and the same. That is the truth. Matter is gross and it occupies space. Matter in its s…

January 11 GOOD TURN Any trifling service voluntarily rendered to any person, known or unknown, is a good turn. Opportunity to do good turn is constantly presenting itself. Conceit or false notion of non-intervention prevents that neighbou…

January 10 HOLINESS I Holiness is not a conventional title of any dignitary. It is the divinity latent in all. It can be made patent. Religionist may hold that holiness is peculiar to their respective sects and unknown to others. But the f…

January 9 THE FLINT It is through ignorance that man vegetates in base life. When the higher possibilities in life are known he is bound to rouse himself up to them. A flint is age long buried in a brook. On that ground it does not lose it…

January 8 ENDURANCE The development of the power of endurance is part and parcel of life process. One has to cultivate it assiduously. The plan of Nature is to impose hardship on beings now and then. Heat, cold, hunger, thirst, illness ---…

January 7 CONTROL OF THE SENSES The senses, five in number, are so constituted that they range over objects outside. The man of sense-control has to see to it that their alighting on the objects ought to be in conformity with ethical codes…

January 6 DHARMA I The word Dharma has no equivalent term in the other languages. A few at least of its connotations require to be studied. The core of a thing is its dharma. The dharma of fire is to burn. The dharma of water is to wet. Th…

January 5 THE BEE Man has a lot to learn from the bee. It lives for the collective good for the hive. Selfishness is alien to it. Between the bee and the housefly there is a world of difference. The latter now sits on pure edibles and next…

January 4 LOVE Love permeates the universe. Love is evident at all levels of life. It manifests itself as lust at the blooming physical level. As sex attraction it engenders jealousy, poisons the system and clouds the mind. Pure love is co…

January 3 SELF-MASTERY AND SELF-SURRENDER Lord, may I gain mastery over my elements, good and bad. After perfecting myself may I surrender my individuality to you. The commoner is the creature of the impulses of his mind. The yogi subdues …

January 2 THE AUSPICES Nature is full of obstacles to the inexperienced man. But as he attunes himself to the environment the seeming hurdles turn into auspices to him. Man is born into this world to undergo training. As he progresses in s…