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18. INSTRUCTIONS TO DEVOTEES
193
You must not give leniency to the mind. You
must rigidly follow all the rules prescribed in the
Bhakti Sastras. Then alone you will evolve quickly.
You must keep up daily routine and programme and
follow it strictly at all costs. If you are lenient to the
mind, laziness will overtake you and you will pro-
crastinate everything. That 'tomorrow' will never
come. Even if you are of advanced age, think you
are a college-student and follow the daily routine.
The benefits of keeping up daily routine and daily
spiritual diary cannot be adequately described. This
is the master-key for success in spiritual life.
सुखदुःखेच्छालाभादि त्यक्ते काळे प्रतीक्षमाणे
क्षणार्धमपि व्यथं न नेयम् ॥ ७७ ॥
Sutra 77. Sukhaduhkhechchalaabhaadityakte
kaale prateekshyamaane kshanaardham-
api vyartham na neyam.
One should not waste even half a second, as all
the time one has for meditation is the little that re-
mains after what is spent in experience of pleasure
and pain, desire, gain etc.
सुखदुःखेच्छालाभादि त्यक्ते :
Sukha-duhkha-ichchaa-
laabhadi Tyakte: freed from pleasure, pain, desire,
का ले : Kaale: in time; प्रतीक्षमा णे
:
gain etc.;
Prateekshyamaane: when expectantly waited upon;
Kshanaardham: half a moment;
क्षणार्धम् :
Api: even;
व्यर्थम् : Vyartham: in vain; 7:
not; Neyam: should be spent.
अपि :
Na:
193
You must not give leniency to the mind. You
must rigidly follow all the rules prescribed in the
Bhakti Sastras. Then alone you will evolve quickly.
You must keep up daily routine and programme and
follow it strictly at all costs. If you are lenient to the
mind, laziness will overtake you and you will pro-
crastinate everything. That 'tomorrow' will never
come. Even if you are of advanced age, think you
are a college-student and follow the daily routine.
The benefits of keeping up daily routine and daily
spiritual diary cannot be adequately described. This
is the master-key for success in spiritual life.
सुखदुःखेच्छालाभादि त्यक्ते काळे प्रतीक्षमाणे
क्षणार्धमपि व्यथं न नेयम् ॥ ७७ ॥
Sutra 77. Sukhaduhkhechchalaabhaadityakte
kaale prateekshyamaane kshanaardham-
api vyartham na neyam.
One should not waste even half a second, as all
the time one has for meditation is the little that re-
mains after what is spent in experience of pleasure
and pain, desire, gain etc.
सुखदुःखेच्छालाभादि त्यक्ते :
Sukha-duhkha-ichchaa-
laabhadi Tyakte: freed from pleasure, pain, desire,
का ले : Kaale: in time; प्रतीक्षमा णे
:
gain etc.;
Prateekshyamaane: when expectantly waited upon;
Kshanaardham: half a moment;
क्षणार्धम् :
Api: even;
व्यर्थम् : Vyartham: in vain; 7:
not; Neyam: should be spent.
अपि :
Na: