October
11th
Salient Thought
for the Day
Freedom is a condition of greatness; it is self-caused. We bind and free ourselves.
Lines
to Memorize
Those who constantly practice this teaching of Mine with true faith and devotion and unflinching heart, they too are freed from the fetters of action. But those who find fault with My teaching and do not follow it, such self-deluded ones, devoid of all knowledge and discrimination, know them to be ruined.
~Bhagavad Gita
Lesson
As long as our mind is confined and narrow and self-centered, we can never bring anything fruitful into our actions. We must live in the material world without becoming material. We must gain knowledge without the arrogance that learning sometimes brings. From our thought comes our inspiration for action. When our mind is peaceful and focused, we gain a tremendous power for usefulness.
Prayer
All-beneficent Spirit, who alone knows my innermost feelings, who alone can answer my prayers,
I open my heart to You with childlike and guileless simplicity.
Free me from all that is unworthy. . .from pride, ambition, vanity and egotism:
From all that binds me to my lower selfish nature.
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