TO BECOME AN IDEAL STUDENT

Swami Vivekanda
• Respect: Respect your parents, your teachers and elders.

• Love: Love your country, your culture and your ancestors.

• Service: Serve the poor, the illiterate and the diseased.

• Self-Discipline: Discipline your body, your senses and

your mind.

• Self-Control: Control your words, your thoughts and your

actions.

• Faith: Have faith in yourself, in others and in God.

• Truthfulness: Be truthful in words, thoughts and actions.

• Hard Work: Work hard to acquire knowledge, skills and

wisdom.

• Strength: Be strong, physically, mentally, intellectually,

morally and spiritually.

• Conviction: Have conviction in the power of the goodness,

purity and honesty.

• Devotion: Have devotion for duty, scriptures, holy people

and God.

• Habits: Cultivate regular habits of prayer, meditation and

reading inspiring and strengthening literature.
• Firm Determination: Have firm determination and strong will-

power to cultivate good habits in order to achieve permanent

happiness, peace, success and fulfillment in life.

Every time you smile at someone. It is an action of love, a gift to
that person, a beautiful thing. ---------Mother Taresa.

SOURCE: WISDOM May 2011



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Self-Control

Swami Sivananda says that Self-Control is control exercised over one’s self. It is the power or habit of having one’s emotions, desires and appetites, senses and mind under control.

Control yourself first. Then you can control others.

Self-control clears the mind, strengthens will-power and judgment. It elevates your character. It gives you freedom, peace, bliss and joy.

He who conquers himself is greater than the commander-in-chief who conquers a country.

Control the senses and mind. You will attain self-realisation.

Conquer thyself. Till you have done this, you are only a slave of your senses.

He who rules his passions, desires, cravings and senses is the real king of kings. Crowns are nothing for him.

Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is overcome, every desired or craving that is destroyed, every wrong action that is checked paves a long way to the attainment of everlasting peace and bliss.

Self-control gives you power to withstand trial, to bear suffering and to face danger.


Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do.
– Lou Holtz.


Source: Editor Speaks, Wisdom May 2011.

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