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any wisdom in it ? In the same way, you go on repeating your sins and keep on begging forgiveness of God. In this there is no sense of religion or morality at all.
Be the same Within and Without
O man, why do you exhibit your false outer self ? You show yourself as you really are within. Real humanity lies in being without what you are really within. If you show yourself to the world exactly as you are within, you will be liberated.
Not Words but Conduct
Swami Ram Tirtha Paramhansa once rightly said, “Your actions speak more loudly than your words." Therefore the ascetics should hold their tongue and let their actions speak. The world is eager to learn more from your character and conduct than from your lectures.
Continenc
Do you keep your wealth in the safe made of gold ? The reply to this question will explain the relationship between continence and physical beauty. Where there is indisciplined and indecent ornamentation and display of physical beauty to excite your passions, your continence cannot be safe.
Continence is the spark of life, the lustre of life. Its light and glow are absolutely necessary for life. Every kind of health, whether physical or spiritual, corporeal or mental depends upon continence.
Continence does not mean merely the preservation of the quintessence of life, the semen ; it really means
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