Such a long, long time to be gone—and a short time to be there. —Robert Hunter

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The Ten Maxims 

Rise before dawn and offer your prayer and meditation at a fixed hour, preferably completing them before sunrise. 

Have a separate place and seat for meditation. 

As far as possible, develop the habit of sitting in one and the same pose.

 Give special attention to purity of body and mind. 

Begin your meditation with a prayer for spiritual elevation. 

Offer your prayer in such a way that the heart is filled with love. 

Fix your Goal, which should be complete oneness with God. 

Rest not till the ideal is achieved. 

Simplify your life so as to be identical with Nature. 

Always be truthful, accept miseries as coming from God for your own good and be thankful. 

Know all people as thy brethren and treat them as such 

If you are feeling wronged by anyone, do not wish for revenge. 

Instead, think this comes from God and be grateful. 

Be happy to eat in constant Divine thought whatever you get, with due regard to honest and pious earnings. 

Mould your behaviour and way of living to such a high order as to rouse a feeling of love and piety in others. 

10. At bedtime, feeling the presence of God, repent for any wrongs committed unintentionally. Beg forgiveness in a supplicant mood and prayerfully resolve not to allow repetition of the same.

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Creativity, as usually understood, entails not only a “what”, a talent, but a “who”—strong personal characteristics, a strong identity, personal sensibility, a personal style, which flow into the talent, interfuse it, give it personal body and form. Creativity in this sense involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one’s mind—while supervising all this with a critical inner eye. Creativity has to do with inner life—with the flow of new ideas and strong feelings. 

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phase of manifestation relates to the material exposition of the objects of Nature. People remain entangled in it, forming numerous ideas and desires. Generally, our eye is attracted by anything bright and glaring, which we commonly misunderstand as Sat. This bright object is nothing except maya, and those who talk so highly about it are in fact far away from the sphere of spirituality even, not to say of Reality. But people have developed such a state of torpidity that they are neither prone to hear nor perceive anything in this connection. They have lost sight of the true Reality, which is beyond both light and darkness. 

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