[Hearing the spiritual knowledge (Śravaṇa), discussing it through analysis (Manana) and coming to a firm decision (Nididhyāsa) constitute the field of spiritual knowledge. You have to take necessary steps like memorization and discussion of spiritual concepts by frequent thinking, discussions and propagation for impression of new pattern of psychology. The practical steps and precautions for such strong impression of right knowledge constitute Yoga. A devotee without spiritual knowledge has to collapse one day or the other. Therefore, devotees must revise all the important spiritual points every day because revision alone gives strength to the impression of knowledge. Propagation is the best revision for your benefit only, which is in disguise of introduction of spiritual knowledge to others for their benefit. Prahlāda left father, Shankara left mother, Ramanuja left wife, Meera left husband and Buddha left wife, son and wealth for the sake of God. Remember these divine personalities every day.]

[If a devotee cannot control its fascinations, excitements and tensions, then all of them must be turned towards God. Try to have fascination to God. Try to be excited in His devotion. Try to face the tensions in doing His service. When God is goal, any path becomes holy and when the world is goal, any path becomes unholy. Although emotion spoils health, emotion regarding God will never harm the devotee and moreover improves the health. However, one must try to control emotions also because balanced mind is needed to serve in the mission of God. One must remember that sacrifice of pleasures is divinity and enjoyment of pleasures is death. If one is controlled by the senses of his/her body, it is impossible to reach God. Eating excess food and earning excess money will certainly spoil any human being. Everyone must have faith in God that He will give you whatever is required for you. A devotee having faith in God eats little and earns little since he/she knows that God will always give the required food and required money whenever needed (like ATM card).]

[Every devotee must save the money, energy, work and time from the world like a greedy person for the sake of God and concentrate all the fascination towards the divine personality of God. Devotee must feel proud that he loves God and that God loves him. Every devotee must do merit because it pleases God and must avoid sin because it displeases God. Harming other souls is sin. A greater sin is carelessness towards God. Still greater sin is atheism. Still greater sin is scolding God. It is the highest sin to blame God because you are taking the love of God as vengeance. Hell is an example of God's unlimited love towards souls to reform even the worst sinner through severe punishments. But, ignorant people mistake the hell as an expression of vengeance of God. Therefore, one should not criticize any divine preacher or divine human incarnation in anyway and think about your level before criticizing others. God loves every soul and is helping every soul in this world. He never hates any soul. The punishment in the hell is to reduce the madness of materialism present in the soul.]

[Helping all people without discrimination is not correct. Helping good people gives merit and helping bad people gives sin. Most human beings incur sin by helping their friends and relatives, who are worst sinners in the eyes of God. One should use the intelligence to discriminate good people from bad people and judiciously avoid helping bad people. If one is capable, he/she must also harm unjust bad people to please God. If one is incapable, he/she can leave it in the hands of God. Such person is a real Yogi, who spends time and energy for the basic needs only and spends the rest of time and energy in God’s service. More food is eaten due to ambition for self only. Since limited food is converted into limited energy, this limited energy should be carefully and precisely used in worldly activities so that more and more energy can be available for divine service as far as possible.]

[One should never ask God to protect his child. The devotee is the father to the child in this birth alone and God is the real father of both the child and his biological father from millions of births. Parent’s love is just a drop before the ocean of love of God for the child! Every devotee must put the highest efforts to excel in devotion to God and the quality of jealousy is created by God to help the souls excel in good path. One must develop jealousy towards great devotees so that it can be used in one’s personal development in the spiritual line. Jealousy should be positively used in the development to become equal with the great devotee (Spardhayā vardhate…). It should not be used in negative way to suppress that devotee to become equal to that devotee!]

[Devotion means to feel that “God’s pleasure is my bliss”. If God is pleased with others and not with you and if you like God to be pleased with others only without any jealousy, that is true devotion! If God is pleased by giving difficulties to you and if you are pleased by such action of God (appearing as sadist), that is true devotion! God created this world just to enjoy by seeing a devotee, who has no ambition for this world and has ambition only for God. The devotee’s effort must be to improve the quality of the devotion, which comes only by removing the aspiration for any fruit in return. Aspiration for fruit in return lowers the value of devotion. The root cause of the diseased devotion is only aspiration for fruit, which is responsible for the negligence of God towards devotees like our negligence to beggars.]

[Projection of self-capability is ego. When there is no ‘I’ (ego or ahaṅkāra), there is no ‘my’ (fascination or mamakāra). One’s attachment with own body is the reason for attachment to all the family bonds and the other worldly bonds. When the devotee identifies itself with its soul, the attachment exists with God alone. Whatever may be the path, as long as the ego or ‘I’ exists in the devotee, God’s grace cannot appear. Although God is guiding the humanity as contemporary human incarnation, God is also internally guiding every soul by advising it behind the consciousness. The ego develops deafness due to which souls do not hear His voice. However, this dangerous ego (ahaṅkāra) can be easily destroyed in fraction of a minute when God gives the punishment of a severe sin. But, fascination (mamakāra) towards worldly bonds can’t be destroyed even if a thousand punishments are given at a time to the soul. Hence, there is no need to destroy fascination and simply, one can turn that fascination towards God from worldly bonds.]

[Mind requires variety because it is unstable in one mode. It likes different forms of God and different modes of worship in different times. In the earlier stage, one shall try to serve God adjusting oneself to the external atmosphere (one’s family and society) and change the modes of worship from time to time to suit to the unstable nature of the mind. One should not criticize any mode of worship because the selection of mode of worship depends upon the specific liking of mind, which differs from one person to the other. Don’t fix place and time-span for worship to God. Let it be any place and the time span shall be as long as the free mind follows it. One should always be frank before God. All the entire humanity is running after God only for benefits from Him, if we are frank for a minute! Souls are ungrateful to God although every living being is indebted to Him forever. The reason is the lack of true knowledge about the true love of God on us. God loves all souls a billion times more than a father loving his children. Once a devotee is interested in God, God gets million times interested in the devotee. If a soul walks one step towards Him, He will walk thousand steps towards the soul.]

[Leave everything to the will of God and submit your prayers to Him without aspiring any fruit from Him. God does not require your potential capability for His service. He likes only your dedication to His service. If the devotee serves God, God will take care of the entire family of devotee in most perfect way. In this world, money is the master of all worldly bonds. Total sacrifice of total money is the highest goal of the test like the final examination. Money is the white paper along with question paper given to the soul on which sacrifice is the answer to be written in the examination. In the eyes of God, percentage of sacrifice in the total possessed wealth of the soul is important and not the magnitude of single sacrifice.]

[The deity of justice is the dearest family member of God. There is nothing in this world, which does not come under the rule of God and hence, there is no need to question anything here as uncontrolled injustice. The cycle of deeds is specific to a particular individual soul only and cannot affect any other individual soul, be it child or spouse. The Vāstu and Muhūrta are only the partial components of the Astrology and cannot totally control any result. The Astrology is only the subject of the mechanical implementation of the fruits (of the respective deeds of soul) as per the will of God in His psychological treatment of His issues. If a devotee is really attached to God by involving in practical sacrifice and practical service without aspiring any boon in return, I assuredly tell that the devotee is above the plane of Astrology.]

[Every animal is basically made of ignorance. One should cut one’s own ignorance but not the actual animal as per the Veda (Manyuḥ paśuḥ). Vegetarian food is considered to be superior to non-vegetarian food based on ethical as well as health grounds. When plenty of vegetarian food is available, killing innocent and gentle-natured animals for the sake of food is unethical. Ahiṃsā or non-violence is a highly cherished principle in Hinduism and forms the very basis of justice (Ahiṃsā paramo dharmaḥ). If any merit is expressed by you and people praise you, pass on the credit to God, who is the real Hero. If any defect is expressed by you and people scold you, own the defect. Always pass on the credit to God and own the defect in every work throughout your life. As you suppress your ego more and more to lower and lower levels, God will bring you up more and more to the higher levels. If you want to rise in life to higher and higher spiritual levels, you need not pray to God for that, because God is always anxious to bring you up to the highest level. God wants every soul to come up to His level or even to rise up higher than Him.]

[If there is really full faith in God, the anxiety and tension for fruit should not exist in the devotee. A person having hundred percent faith on God will really have zero percent tension. When God has sent the soul to this world, will He not take care about its barely needed facilities like food, drink and cloth? Every human incarnation of God preaches that one should not worry about the suffering on the death bed for a short time and one should worry about the long stay in the hell after death. The bond with issues is based on blind ignorance of previous births and the bond with God is based on the light of true spiritual knowledge.]

[If the spiritual knowledge is perfect and complete, the devotion and practice are the spontaneous subsequent steps for which there is no need of any effort. If the practice is perfect and complete, the fruit is spontaneous. Therefore, all the efforts should be put only to gain the perfect and complete spiritual knowledge. Practical sacrifice or donation to God must be done with lot of shy and humility because all this creation is wealth of God only. The characteristics of the deserving receiver are: divine knowledge and non-aspiration of anything from the world. God in human form as Sadguru is the most deserving of any donation.]

[All the souls are equally related to each other and the entire world is a single family of God as its head. With the help of analysis of Māyā, all the devotees of God in this universe should be united as one family irrespective of religion, caste, etc. Theoretical romantic love towards God is not considered a sin because it is inevitably present as a form of love in the souls travelling from Dushpravrutti to Pravrutti. But, practical lust with God is denied at all times because in practical lust, there is aspiration of devotee for selfish enjoyment. Aspiration for any fruit in return related to selfish enjoyment or selfish benefit shall be absent in the spiritual path.]

[Intelligence means wisdom of common sense and not literacy and education. If somebody is defective in the spiritual path, explain the truth by friendly discussion and don’t enter into hot arguments. When one feels that the jealousy towards a co-devotee is going towards negative side, remember that the merits possessed by the devotee is given to the devotee temporarily by God. Such remembrance will pacify the jealousy towards the co-devotee. God gives such merits to anyone, who puts proper consistent efforts. When the devotee becomes undeserving, those merits are withdrawn by God immediately. In Kali Yuga, the mentalities of humanity are worst and hence, the spiritual aspirant must always be a Sthitaprajña, who controls the climax devotion without going to the state of madness and does both the worldly duties and practical service to God. A Sthitaprajña does:- i) Worldly duties without any error and without any attachment to the world. ii) Learns spiritual knowledge from Sadguru. iii) Attains theoretical devotion as a result of learning the spiritual knowledge. iv) Does sacrifice of service to God to prove the true theoretical devotion and v) Does sacrifice of fruit of work to God to prove the true theoretical devotion. All these five characteristics make the soul to be called as Sthitaprajña since he/she (Sthitaprajña) balances all these five activities simultaneously.]