swamiji's time

SWAMIJI'S TIME J.K. SIVAN

A TIME TABLE FOR US

Swami Vivekananda once set a time table for everyone of us to follow regularly. I have briefly listed it below:

Partiality is the chief cause of all evil. If you show towards any one more love than towards somebody else, rest assured, you will be sowing the seeds of future troubles.

If anybody comes to you to speak ill of any of his brothers, refuse to listen to him in toto. It is a great sin to listen even. In that lies the germ of future troubles.

Bear with everyone's shortcomings. Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another. As soon as they fully understand that the interests of one depend upon those of others, everyone of them will give up jealousy. To do something conjointly is not in our very national character. Therefore you must try to inaugurate that spirit with the utmost care, and wait patiently. Dont find among people any distinction of great or small: everyone has the capacity to manifest, in times of need, the highest energy. Every one of us has a tremendous energy.

You are all of infinite strength — how long does it take you to keep off petty jealousy or egoistic ideas! The moment such propensity comes, resign yourselves to the Lord! Just make over your body and mind to His work, and all troubles will be at an end for ever.

Every morning there should be a little reading from the scriptures. In the evening there should be another class, with a little practice in meditation and Sankirtanas etc. You may divide the work, and set apart one day for Yoga, a day for Bhakti, another for Jnâna, and so forth: It will be excellent if you fix a routine like this, so that outside people also may join in the evening classes. And every Sunday, in the morning and evening there should be a class and Sankirtanas etc. If you take the trouble to continue this kind of routine work for some time, it will gradually make itself easy and smooth.