HABITS

GOOD AND BAD HABITS

Thoughts to remember 

You are the sole creator of good or bad habits. Therefore till the soil of your mind with discipline, and sow the seeds of good habits. To replenish your mind thoroughly with good habits you must be patient in cultivating them, while you continuously keep weeding out the bad habits.

Distinguish between the soul's lasting happiness and the temporary pleasures of the senses. Strengthen your willpower. Do not be enslaved by bad habits, but be guided by good habits, formed through cultivating good company and practicing meditation. Above all, be guided by wisdom. Stay away from evil by exercising good judgment and discrimination: do not allow yourself to be compelled by habit, Exercise your power of free choice to adopt the good in everything.

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SENSE SLAVERY

If you are a slave to your senses, you cannot be happy.

If you are a master of your desires and appetites, you can be a really happy person you overeat against your will: if you wish anything contrary to your conscience; if you act wrongly, forced by your senses, against the wish of your inner Self: then you cannot be happy. People who are slaves to the senses find that their evil habits compel them to do things which will hurt them. Stubborn bad habits bludgeon your will power every time it tries to take the lead and guide your thoughts to the kingdom of right action. The remedy lies in rescuing your will power from the imprisoning power of the senses.

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SENSE SLAVERY

यदि आप अपनी इंद्रियों के दास हैं, तो आप खुश नहीं हो सकते।

यदि आप अपनी इच्छाओं और भूखों के स्वामी हैं, तो आप अपनी इच्छा के विपरीत एक बहुत खुश व्यक्ति हो सकते हैं: यदि आप अपनी अंतरात्मा के विपरीत कुछ भी चाहते हैं; यदि आप गलत तरीके से कार्य करते हैं, अपनी इंद्रियों द्वारा, अपने भीतर की इच्छा के विरुद्ध: मजबूर, तो आप खुश नहीं हो सकते। जो लोग इंद्रियों के गुलाम होते हैं, वे पाते हैं कि उनकी बुरी आदतें उन्हें ऐसे काम करने के लिए मजबूर करती हैं, जिनसे उन्हें नुकसान होगा। जिद्दी बुरी आदतें आपकी इच्छाशक्ति को हर बार रोकती हैं, जब आप लीड लेने की कोशिश करते हैं और अपने विचारों को सही कार्रवाई के राज्य तक पहुंचाते हैं। उपाय इंद्रियों की कैद से अपनी इच्छा शक्ति को बचाने में निहित है।

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THE POWER HABITS

The power of habit rules the day-to-day actions of the average person A good many people let their whole life go by making repeated good resolutions to improve, without ever succeeding in establishing and following new patterns of action that are wholesome. More often than not we find ourselves doing, not what we wish to do, but what we are accustomed to doing. That is why materially minded people find it difficult to be spiritually minded even when they try hard. Spiritual people find it similarly difficult to be material even when associating with worldly persons. It is difficult for vicious people to be good and kind; it is just as unthinkable for noble persons to behave meanly,

Habits are automatic mental machines installed by man to exercise economy in the initial use of willpower and effort required to perform specific actions. Habits make the performance of such actions easier Friendly good habits are very helpful in making the performance of difficult good deeds easier Evil habits, however sympathetic, are deadly, inasmuch as they are diehard and keep on disturbing the senses even when strongly commanded to cease doing so. Bad habits and sin are temporary misery-making grafts on the soul. They must be thrown out sometime, as they are not a part of man's free nature and therefore cannot be tolerated indefinitely by his soul.

Very seldom do we realize that the health. success, and wisdom outlook of our life entirely depends upon the issue of the battle between our good and bad habits: Henceforth we should not allow our bodily kingdom to be occupied by bad habits. We should put bad habits to light by training all our diverse good habits in the art of victorious psychological warfare.

The soldiers of bad habits and of ill health and negation are invigorated by specific bad actions; whereas the soldiers of good habits become stimulanted by specific good actions. Do not feed bad habits with bad actions. Starve them out by self-control. Feed good habits with good actions.

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THE POWER OF HABITS

आदत की शक्ति औसत व्यक्ति के दिन-प्रतिदिन के कार्यों को नियंत्रित करती है। कई अच्छे लोग अपनी पूरी जिंदगी को बेहतर बनाने के लिए बार-बार अच्छे संकल्प करके जाने देते हैं, जो कभी भी कार्रवाई के नए पैटर्न को स्थापित करने और उनका पालन करने में सफल नहीं होते हैं। अधिक बार हम खुद को ऐसा नहीं करते हैं, न कि हम क्या करना चाहते हैं, लेकिन हम जो करने के आदी हैं। इसीलिए भौतिक रूप से दिमागी लोगों को कठिन प्रयास करने पर भी आध्यात्मिक रूप से दिमाग लगाना मुश्किल लगता है। आध्यात्मिक लोगों को सांसारिक व्यक्तियों के साथ जुड़ने पर भी सामग्री के समान कठिन लगता है। शातिर लोगों के लिए अच्छा और दयालु होना मुश्किल है; यह उचित व्यक्तियों के लिए उचित व्यवहार करने के लिए अकल्पनीय है,

आदतें मनुष्य द्वारा स्थापित स्वचालित मानसिक मशीनें हैं जो विशिष्ट कार्यों को करने के लिए इच्छाशक्ति और प्रयास के प्रारंभिक उपयोग में अर्थव्यवस्था का उपयोग करती हैं। आदतें इस तरह के कार्यों के प्रदर्शन को आसान बनाती हैं कठिन अच्छे कामों के प्रदर्शन को आसान बनाने में मित्रवत अच्छी आदतें बहुत सहायक होती हैं, लेकिन बुराई की आदतें, सहानुभूतिपूर्ण, घातक होती हैं, क्योंकि वे मर रही हैं और इंद्रियों को परेशान करना जारी रखती हैं, जो दृढ़ता से संघर्ष करने की आज्ञा देती हैं इसलिए। बुरी आदतें और पाप आत्मा पर अस्थायी दुख पैदा करने वाले ग्राफ्ट हैं। उन्हें कुछ समय के लिए बाहर फेंक दिया जाना चाहिए, क्योंकि वे मनुष्य की स्वतंत्र प्रकृति का हिस्सा नहीं हैं और इसलिए उनकी आत्मा द्वारा अनिश्चित काल तक बर्दाश्त नहीं किया जा सकता है।

बहुत कम ही हमें पता चलता है कि स्वास्थ्य। हमारे जीवन की सफलता, और ज्ञान का दृष्टिकोण पूरी तरह से हमारी अच्छी और बुरी आदतों के बीच की लड़ाई के मुद्दे पर निर्भर करता है: इसलिए हमें अपनी शारीरिक स्थिति को बुरी आदतों के कब्जे में नहीं जाने देना चाहिए। हमें विजयी मनोवैज्ञानिक युद्ध की कला में अपनी सभी विविध अच्छी आदतों को प्रशिक्षित करके बुरी आदतों को प्रकाश में लाना चाहिए।

बुरी आदतों और बीमार स्वास्थ्य और नकार के सैनिकों को विशिष्ट बुरे कार्यों द्वारा प्रभावित किया जाता है; जबकि अच्छी आदतों के सैनिक विशिष्ट अच्छे कार्यों से उत्तेजित हो जाते हैं। बुरे कार्यों के साथ बुरी आदतों को न खिलाएं। उन्हें आत्म-नियंत्रण द्वारा भूखा रखें। अच्छे कार्यों के साथ अच्छी आदतें खिलाएं।

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INFLUENCE OF EARLY HABITS

The habits that were formed earliest in your life have kept you quite busy until now; unwelcome habits have perhaps crowded out many worthwhile activities. The social world moves on the wheels of certain habits. Few people notice whether it is headed for the mire of piety engagements that choke the progressive activities of life, or if it perchance is rolling recklessly toward the chasm of spiritual ignorance.

People should he taught from childhood to develop discrimination by meditative contact with the superior pleasures of peace, harmony, and joy, and should form spiritual habits early. Since we are ruled by habits, which form our tendencies. moods and desires, are bad habits are in the lead our moods and actions become evil. So, the precedence of good habits is desirable. as they can guide our actions and moods to a happy goal.

Wrong habits may promise a little temporary happiness, but ultimately they bring misery and destroy happiness. People who yield to the temptation of harmful habits do not fully realize this. Eventually they become so used to these habits that they helplessly drift on, becoming more and more inured to the subtle tortures of continuing their wrong habits. Finally they reach a state where the thought of forsaking the poisonous comfort of their wrong habits is actually shocking. Persons used to the darkness of bad habits naturally hate the light and comfort of good habits.

ENVIRONMENT AND COMPANIONS

Undiscriminating association with the world creates bad habits in you, but the world will not be responsible for your wrong actions springing from those habits. Then why give all your time to the world? Reserve at least an hour a day for actual soul-inspiring God-realization. Doesn't the Giver of the world itself, of your family, money, everything, deserve one twenty-fourth part of your day?

Material habits keep millions of people away from God. People of bad habits seek bad company, People of worldly habits seek materially minded companions. People of meditative, peaceful habits seek the company of Christlike saints. There is one thing very good about bad habits: seldom do they keep their promises. Bad habits are easily found to be habitual liars and deceivers. That is why souls can never remain perpetually in bondage. Never condemn the sinner, for he knows too well the fears and tortures of sin, Do not drown him in your hatred, but give him a chance to have his own knocks: then he will be only too willing to be lifted up.

People do not intentionally turn to evil, nor do they really enjoy being evil. They are evil because they do not know the greater charm of good habits, and are unable to compare and select the best. Or 'they fall under the influence of others' opinions, and unconsciously are led to evil, Some people are evil owing to the precedence of evil in their environment in early life: and some people are evil because they do not know any better. People who are evil behave so because they wrongly think that through evil they will get happiness easily. People cling to evil because they falsely magnify the dread and torture supposed to be involved in self-control. People are evil because they think they are compelled to be so by the powerful influence of evil instints, or wrong determinations