Swami's Ten Directives

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Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Ten Directives for Students

to

Discipline the Mind

 

 

1. The first is the purity of the place where you live. Room

should be clean, free from anything impure. You must only place

pictures or objects that can fill you with peace and pure thoughts.

Those that create in your mind bad thoughts should have no place.

Where you live and study must have a satwic atmosphere.

 

2. You must strive to create a harmonious atmosphere in your

family. Disagreements or tensions are unsuitable for living or

studying.

 

3. Avoid tamasic and rajasic food. Do no eat food that is

excessively sour or spicy. Avoid non-vegetarian food. Satwic and

vegetarian food is best suited for a good and godly life.

 

4. Never consume alcoholic drinks. The fluid you consume must

be pure and satwic.

 

5. You should make an effort to cultivate good feelings and

thoughts to keep out wrong ones.

 

6. If you want to develop pure thoughts, then it is necessary

to look at only the sights that are fit for that. You must look at

every elderly woman as your mother and those who are younger than

you, as sisters.

 

7. Be very selective in the books you read. Avoid books that

create wrong feelings in you. Read those that can help you develop

purity in your life. If any improper books are prescribed for

studies treat then as only textbooks and not as guides for life.

 

8. Be selective of the service activities you undertake. Choose

only those that can help you cultivate purity and give you joy. The

service you carry out should also make others who receive your

service happy. Look upon every person whom you do your service as an

embodiment of Divine.

 

9. You should practice sadhana (spiritual disciplines

regularly), only then can you maintain a pure mind. Sadhana should

help you develop pure and selfless love for one and all and to see

the Divine in everyone and everything.

 

10. You should choose the right profession that suits you. It is

the nation or the community that helps you earn your livelihood.

Continuously look for opportunities to be of benefit to the

community. Always be fair, just, truthful and righteous while

discharging your duties.

 

 

 

Jai Sai Ram

Unnikrishnan

Australia

 

 

reference: sathyam sivam sundaram vol 5 pg 342