In English
When you return to your places, avoid bad friends and fill your minds with noble and elevating things. Chant the name of God and practise in the early hours of the day and remember the name of God throughout the day. Though you have now developed the habit of getting up at 4 or 5 o’clock, you may relapse into the habit of getting up at 9 o’clock at home. Then there is no person more idle than you. You will be humiliating yourself. When you get up in the morning, sit on your bed and think of the Lord. Think that your getting up from the bed is like rising from the womb, that you are just born. As soon as you get up, throw your troubles and burdens at the feet of the Lord and pray to Him to guide you through life and give you only good thoughts and noble ideas which always serve as uplifting factors in life. When you go back to bed at night, imagine that to be a state of death. Tell yourself that during the day, you have acted according to the Lord’s orders. Ask for forgiveness if there is anything wrong and ask to be led on the path of righteousness. If you begin and end your day with such prayers, it will help you reach higher attitudes of living. Even during your bath, if you remember the name of God, it will be like bathing the form of God.