Friday, March 15, 2013

10 Commandments of Life by Swami Vivekananda


1. Life is Beautiful
First, believe in this world - that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves and you will realize that Life indeed is Beautiful!!

2. Set Yourself Free 
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

 3. Love is the Law of Life
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore, love for love's sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live, live to love.

4. It's Your Outlook That Matters 
It is our own mental attitude, which makes the world what it is for us. Thoughts gets converted into actions. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

5. Don't Play the Blame Game 
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless others, and let them go their own way.

 6. Help Others
If money helps a man to do well to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

7. Uphold Your Ideals
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

 8. Listen to Your Soul and
 You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

9.  You Have the Power
 All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. Nothing in this world is impossible if you focus.

10. Be Yourself
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves! 


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