I think this self-examination is required not only in spiritual or religious sadhana, but also in any other walk of life. For any individual, aspiring for a prosperous life in the world, a thorough evaluation of his personality is required in order to find out what must be incorporated and what must be overcome or avoided.

Learn to seek refuge under the indwelling Lord, the indweller of your heart. And in so doing do not be unnecessarily selective or specific or choosy. All the things that come from your mind use everyone as if it were a flower and then use it as an offer to the indwelling Lord.  To the indweller you cannot make any offer of material, gold, silver, dress or anything like that. So you have to approach the indwelling Lord through your mental products. What are these products? Attitude on the one hand, like love, fondness, respect, regard and then a decisiveness that should adorn your mind and intelligence. What is that decisiveness? Whoever is residing in my heart is the Lord of the whole universe. And He is the one who revolves you in the body, in the mind, and intelligence, and He is the one who revolves this earth, who keeps the universe constantly revolutional or revolutionary, revolving.

While we do consider good behavior, bad behavior etc. let us understand the cardinal truth that anyone who has got a wrong behavior, he is not ultimately to be blamed for it. Once you accept you will not resent and revolt against the irregular behaviors of the others. Now, when you live in your own house, the members of the house are there. If you are in an ashram, the inmates of the ashram are there. I don’t think at any point of time you can have a feeling that, ‘He is not alright, so I will not get along with him.’ I say, you become the second criminal. The first criminal is his behavior is not alright. Seeing his misbehavior or wrong behavior if you feel, ‘I cannot get along with him’, I believe you are a double criminal or you incur a double crime. While you complain about his misbehavior, you are displaying a much greater misbehavior. ‘His behavior is not alright, it becomes difficult; still I will get along with you.’ If this is your attitude then you can be approved.

What is happening to the mind? The same mind produces a number of thoughts, emotions, everything comes and goes. Endless is the process but mind is the same. How can the single mind give rise to myriad thoughts? How does this magic take place? How does it produce? Where the produced thoughts are reigning, and where do they disappear? They go on, go on, go on…(observing). The mind produces infinite length of thoughts, variety of thoughts. So what would be the source mind like, its potential? They start imagining, observing, experiencing, and then they become delightful. Oh! My dear mind, you are the magic that I know. There is nothing greater than that. You produce a number of thoughts, try to get me involved in them. Ultimately all thoughts disappear. Then why did I get involved? Why did I become miserable? Misery is uncalled for. Agitation is nonsensical. Tension is unfounded. Nevertheless I am victimized by all these things. What is this jugglery? How long can it go?

Any person, if he creates a certain reaction or an emotion, adverse emotion in you, understand, in the whole process you are the originator, the sustainer and dissolver and the other person is only a cause for it. Every action is generated by the mind. So if somebody is causing irritation, understand the irritation is a reaction from your inside from the mind and our mind has got infinite potential, capacity, to do anything it wants. If you encourage the reaction, the reaction will go on increasing. If you discourage it and you are determined to dissolve it, it will get dissolved.