WILL AND WISDOM - Personal Challenges for Chapter Two

WILL AND WISDOM - Personal Challenges for Chapter Two


when completed Discipline

1. Memorize the twelve beliefs of the Creed and then recite them to a family elder from memory.

2. Memorize the yamas and niyamas and recite them to a family elder from memory.

3. Go two full consecutive days without getting angry.

4. Read the chapter in the Hindu Catechism "Marriage and Family Life."

5. Spend ten minutes on three consecutive mornings praying intensely to Lord Muruga to unfold the mysteries of your inner intelligence.

6. Look at yourself in the mirror and ponder the fact that you have had many bodies in your many incarnations on earth. Realize that you are not your body, your mind or your emotions, but the immortal soul.

7. The next time you feel yourself getting depressed, call on your inner forces to lift yourself into an unburdened state of mind.


Source: Saivite Virtue