Keep constant Isvara-cintana (remembrance of God). Let the hands and legs work and move about; let your heart and head function; but keep yourself in an atmosphere of constant Isvara-bhavana. It is not so much a mere mechanical repetition that is wanted. Read. Digest. Reflect. Meditate.
Not only is it sufficient that you read, think and meditate, but you must live fully the life of spiritualism. With open eyes you must live the world seeing the same one eternal Factor, glittering as the many around you – as good, bad, indifferent.
Keep smiling on all occasions. Learn to remain unaffected or untossed about by the happenings at your body, mental or intellectual levels. Nothing in the world is important enough to make you feel miserable. There is nothing in life that can ever happen, which is serious enough to deserve our tears.
You are the all-important. Everything depends upon you. A temple of God is not so glorious as the house of His devotee. For, in the latter He lives while in the former He only waits! Exert on the right lines. Stifle not the unheard music of Truth that prompts us to do the right thing at the right time.
In tuning up this radio and to have an unbroken and an undisturbed reception chant Om, sing Om, meditate. Whatever idea or thought that strikes you as you walk out of your puja-room is true and right – consult thus yourself in all difficult situations.
Sometimes that inner prompting may look as even against all reason or logic – but courageously act up to it. It will never fail you. Don’t give up sadhana. One who has given it up is, thereafter, a mere cattle balancing on its hind legs. Be regular. That is the secret of success.