The Vedas teach that you should adore and worship God in gratitude for His benedictions. The Bible teaches that one should pray for peace and practice charity. Quran impresses upon you to show mercy to the suffering and to surrender your will to the All High. Buddhist texts teach the lesson of detachment and sense-control. The Zend-Avesta exhorts you to get rid of evil propensities and shine in your own innate glory. Hence all of you must realise that the teachings of all religions are One and that prayer in any language and addressed to any Name reaches the same God. Understand that God can be invoked through a picture or an idol to fulfil your sincere desire, provided it is helpful to others as well as to yourself. The Balvikas guru has to imbibe all these qualities and then teach them to the Balvikas children by precept and example.

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Balvikas is the primary basis of the great movement to restore righteousness (dharma) in the world. The ideal of the Balvikas is to raise a generation of boys and girls who have a clean and clear conscience. Children must be led into good ways of living, into simplicity, humility and discipline. As you know, you cannot draw children to your side if you hold a stick in your hand; you will have to hold some sweets instead. So the gurus have to be embodiments of love and patience. The actual syllabus is not so important as the creation of an atmosphere where noble habits and ideals can grow and fructify. The pupils follow Balvikas discipline and curriculum only for one day in the week and attend their usual schools on the other days. So the impact of the guru has got to be extra strong if it has to act as a catalyst in the process of modification of the behaviour patterns of these children.

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Every year, since the beginning of history of mankind, people bid grand farewell to the old year and welcome the new year! What happens during the year? Only despair and distress, anxiety and insane fear, isn’t it? Use this year to enquire and discover how you can earn everlasting peace! You can earn it only through Love! Peace is the fruit of the tree of life! Without the fruit, the tree is a barren stump with no value or validity. This fruit is encased in a bitter skin, so that the sweet juice is preserved and guarded! Remove the skin and you can taste the sweetness within and strengthen yourself. The thick rind is symbolic of the six evil passions that encase the loving heart of every human – lust, anger, greed, attachment, pride and hate. Those who remove the rind and contact the sweetness within through hard and consistent discipline, attain the peace we all desire; that peace is everlasting, unchanging, and overwhelming!

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Under any and all circumstances, let your feelings and actions be pure, noble and ideal. Let all your actions be for the highest good of all. Your heart is the centre of sacred feelings. It is filled with compassion. It is compassion that gives rise to sacred feelings. You must develop compassion, spread the light of love and cultivate Divine feelings. Without doing so, how can you expect time to confer happiness on you? If you expect good results, you must cultivate good feelings. With purity of heart, steadiness of mind and selfless actions, you can become the recipient of Divine grace, which will remove any amount of suffering in a trice. Hence always discriminate and undertake such activities which will confer Divine grace, which will in turn, bless you with peace and happiness!

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EarthSky’s most popular photos of 2018

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The Nature around us and with us is the vesture of God. We have evidence of His beauty, goodness, wisdom and power all around us, wherever we turn our eyes. But the art of recognising Him is strange to us and so, we deny Him and live in darkness. We have all around us the music emanating from all the broadcasting stations of the world, but they do not assail your ear at any time. But have a receiver and tune in to the correct wavelength, you will hear the broadcast! If you fail to tune it correctly, you will get nuisance instead of news! So too, the Divine is everywhere – above, around, below, beside, near as well as far. For cognising Him, you require not a machine (yantra) but a mystical formula (mantra). Meditation (Dhyana) is the fixing the exact location of the station in the band, love is the correct tuning in, and realising the reality and the bliss it confers is the happy clear listening!

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Everyone has faith in the power of love. When people ask, “How can we develop our love for the Lord?” The answer is: “There is only one way – to put into practice the love in which you have faith, then that love will grow.” Because you do not practice what you profess, your faith gets weakened. A plant will grow only when it is watered regularly. When you plant the seed of love, you can make it grow only by watering it with love every day. The tree of love will grow and yield the fruits of love. Men and women today do not perform those acts which will promote love. When you wish to develop love for the Lord, you must continually practice loving devotion to the Lord. Devotion should flow from the heart, as was the case with the Gopikas. Much of what passes for devotion nowadays is artificial. Develop pure and sincere devotion, and sanctify your lives.

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Like a hat in the sky

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What is it that people should acquire today? It is the broadening of the heart so that it may be filled with all-embracing love. Only then the sense of spiritual oneness of all mankind can be experienced. Out of that sense of unity will be born the love of God. This love will generate pure bliss in the heart that is boundless, indescribable and everlasting. For all forms of bliss, love is the source. A heart without love is like a barren land. Foster love in your hearts and redeem your lives. Whatever your scholarship or wealth, they are valueless without love. Without devotion all other accomplishments are of no avail for realising God. Men aspire for liberation. True liberation means freedom from desires. Today people cannot go to forests for penance or engage themselves in meditation and other spiritual exercises. The easiest spiritual path for all people is to dedicate all their actions to God.

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50th anniversary of 1st Earthrise photo from moon\

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