Burlingame, CA
Our direction in life depends on our habits. Over time, it’s natural to slide into bad habit patterns, especially if one doesn’t consciously develop good habits.
A few bad habits engaged in every day over a span of month and years lead a man to an unproductive life or even to disaster. A few good habits – developed through cultivating knowledge and applying discipline – lead a man to countless benefits.
Watch yourself closely for a few days and notice what habits you engage in throughout the day.
If you are reading this text, it means that you are in a human body, and that’s a good thing because it means that you have the capacity to drop bad habits and consciously develop new, good habits.
How?
Knowledge and practice.
Seek knowledge from those more advanced than yourself and in whom you see good qualities and habits that you’d like to adopt. Watch what these successful people do, read what they write, and if possible, seek personal advice and guidance from them.
Next, practice. Your brain and your willpower, like your muscles, grow stronger and more capable when you practice a new skill.
Amazingly, even a little daily practice of a new discipline each day starts the practitioner on the path to preeminence. Stick to your discipline and soon you will develop a knack for it, then an expertise, and then mastery.
Experienced bhakti yogis know about and utilize the twin engines of knowledge and practice to advance their spiritual lives.
Any human being can.
Beginning on an auspicious day like Ekadasi, decide on a new habit favorable to your spiritual development, write it down, and begin to practice it.
Start small, but stay steady, and soon you’ll develop a new habit that will improve your life and your service to Krishna.
Remember, “Drops a day wear the stone away.”
Om Tat Sat
Vaisesika Dasa
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