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Instructions: [ Rev. Lalaji] “You should not fill the organization with undeserving people, as I did. You take care of your health. You have much work ahead of you. Medicine alone will not be of help. There must be movement of limbs as well. If you are not able to go for a walk in the morning, then you go in the evening. You are wasting a lot of time. There is need to increase educational capability.”
I submitted: [Pujya Babuji] “To some extent health, and to some extent idleness, hinders me to devote to work. In this regard, I alone am at fault.”
Answer: [Rev. Lalaji] “That is my fault. All of your faults shall equally be my faults.”
The instruction continued: “ I feel pained to observe your health (feeling of pain occurred). Take meals on time. Have rest, when the time for it is there. Milk will be good for you; ghee will not be good enough.
“Two things you have to bear in mind: (1) health, and (2)self-respect.”
I submitted: [Pujya Babuji] “Self-respect, as I understand it, means that one should not do unto others, what one would not like to be done unto oneself.”
Answer: [Rev. Lalaji] “All this belongs to very good old ages (Sat Yug). It means: being reserved with everybody; not giving opportunity for too much talk to anybody, i.e. not giving long rope for discussion, not revealing one’s household secrets to all and sundry; not considering oneself as weak; not to utter something that may drive others to become unmannerly to you-all this constitutes the definition of self-respect.”
[15-07-1944: pg. 60 (A.BII - I)]
Right company –a necessity
“About bad company, you have mentioned just now of hearing the sound of the particular musical instrument (Tabla) while sleeping today. It was really (the effect of ) an impression, which I have cleaned off. Here, you have seen the effect of company. What do I say about those, whom an idea about it does not strike even! In most cases there is no sense at all of discrimination about good and bad company. Any company, which is against one’s idea (concept of good) on minute observation, is harmful. The atmosphere of the place (A..), where you

























































































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