← Guru-Bhakti YogaHis teaching on the Guru

WISDOM NECTAR

1. Remember God at all times.

2. Enquire ‘who am I?’ and realise the Self.

3. Make friendship with any one after studying him very carefully.

4. Do always virtuous actions.

5. Hear the wise words of great souls and follow them.

6. Do those actions that are pronounced to be right by the Shastras.

7. Don’t make friendship with childish persons.

8. Move with the world tactfully. Adapt.

9. Give up bad company.

10. Don’t talk much before great souls.

11. Avoid unnecessary discussions.

12. Don’t exaggerate or concoct or twist when you talk.

13. Develop mercy and cosmic love.

14. Share what you have with others.

15. Good and bad, friend and enemy, pleasure and pain, virtue and sin are in the mind only.

16. Mind when purified by the removal of six passions becomes your Guru.

17. Patience, perseverance and vital will are indispensable for reaching the goal.

18. Purity of food leads to purity of mind.

19. Don’t do any action harmful to anyone.

20. Guru is necessary to show you the path to peace.

—Swami Sivananda.