Sri Ramchandra's Commandments
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- Rise before dawn. Offer your prayer and puja (worship) at the fixed hours, preferably before sunrise, sitting in one and the same pose. Have a separate place and 'asan' (seat) for worship. Purity of mind and body be specially adhered to.
- Begin your puja with a prayer for spiritual elevation with a heart full of love and devotion.
- Fix your goal which should be 'complete oneness' with God. Rest not till the ideal is achieved.
- Be plain and simple, to be identical with Nature.
- Be truthful. Take miseries as divine blessings for your own good and be thankful.
- Know all people as thy brethren and treat them as such.
- Be not revengeful for the wrongs done by others. Take them with gratitude as heavenly gifts.
- Be happy to eat in constant divine thought whatever you get, with due regard to honest and pious earnings.
- Mould your living so as to rouse a feeling of love and piety in others.
- At bed time, feeling the presence of God, repent for the wrongs committed. Beg forgiveness in a supplicant mood, resolving not to allow repetition of the same.
Excerpted from 'The Commentary on Ten Commandments' of Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur. |