Masters Commands

1. Do not think of evil things.

2. Think only pure thoughts.
3. Do not resist evil, but face it.
4. Blame none when evil comes. Blame yourself.
5. Sacrifice yourself for others.
6. SACRIFICE EVERYTHING FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS.
7. See God in man.
8. If you have to think, think good thought, great thoughts.
9. Work, but let not the action or the truth produce a deep
impression on the mind. Let the ripples come and go, let huge
actions proceed from muscles and the brain, but let them not
make any deep impression on the soul.
10. Therefore, be “unattached”; let things work, let brain centers
work; work incessantly, but let not a ripple conquer the mind.
Work as if you were a stranger in this land, a sojourner; work
incessantly, but do not bind yourselves; bondage is terrible.
11. Work through freedom! Work through love!
12. Do you ask anything from your children in return for what you
have given them! It is your duty to work for them, and there the
matter ends. In whatever you do for a particular person, a city,
or a state, assume the same attitude towards it as you have
towards you children----------------expect nothing in return. If
you can invariably take the position of a giver, in which
everything given by you is a free offering to the world, without
any thought of return, then will your work bring you no
attachment. Attachment comes only where we expect a return.
13. Be beyond the common worldly motives. “To work you have
the right, but not to the fruits thereof”.
14. Give up all the fruits of work, and be unattached to them.
15. Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems of yoga
should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In
religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens
you, have nothing to do with it.
16. Stand sane and motiveless.
17.Renounce and be happy.
18.Face facts as facts.
19.Speak out the truth boldly.
20.Remain pure always.
21.Preach the highest truths.
22.Do not want this world.
23.No desire for the world!
24.Expect nothing in return.
25.Always talk and hear and reason about this Atman.
26.Be the servant of all.
27.This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it
may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.
28.Do not search for God in obscure places, for God is there in front of
you in millions forms. He who loves creation is serving God…………
….Throw away the paraphernalia of worship! Go out and worship
man, for God has appeared in the form of man, and to worship man is
to serve man and to serve is to toil and labour.
29.Help thyself out by thyself. None else can help thee, friend. For thou
alone art thy greatest enemy, thou alone art thy greatest friend.
30.You have to realise truth and work it out for yourself according to
your own nature.
31.Do not talk religion.
32.Preach the highest truths.
33.Be true to your mission.
34.Remain pure always.
35.Become a dynamo of spirituality.
36. Do not want this world.
37.Do not despair!
38.Learn obedience first.
39.Keep to the ideal.
40.Control the senses.
41.Work to lift people!
42. Save yourself by yourself.
43.Speak out the truth boldly.
44.Make men first.
45.Avoid jealousy and selfishness.
46.Avoid weakness and slavery.
47.No desire for the world!
48.We must not hurt others.
49.Renounce and be happy.
50.Seek not, and that is God.
51.Speak of this Atman to all.
52.Be bold and fear not.
53.Off with laziness.
54.Stand sane and motiveless.
55.If you have, then give.
56.Love them that hate you.
57.Do not be proud.
58.Dream no more!
59.Don’t despond in the least.
60.Work in harmony.
61.Feel first for the world.
62.Work on with a heart.
63.Always hold on to the highest.
64. Struggle, still I say.
65. Work on with all energy.
66. Assert everything that is God.
67. Cherish positive thoughts.
68.Know truth for yourself.
69.Beget no evil.
70.Beware of falsehood.
71.Injure no living creature.
72.Be the servant of all.
73.Let not the fire die out.
74.Never say man is weak.
75.Go on working.
76.No one is greater.
77.Have thou no home.
78.Off with laziness.
79.Think away everything.
80.We must reason.
81.We must love all.
82.Be jealous of none.
83.Renounce and give up.
84.Be moral. Be brave.
85.We must become thinkers.
86.Think of Him, speak of Him.
87.Be a heart-whole man.
88.Work to lift people.
89.Bring truth out.
90.Have patience and work.
91.Renounce everything.
92.You must be as free as the air, and as obedient as the plant and the
dog.
93.Do not try to disturb the faith of any man. If you can, give him
something better; if you can, get hold of a man where he stands and
give him a push upwards.
94.Do not be anxious, do not be in a hurry. Slow, persistent and silent
work does everything.
95.Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do.
96.Go on saying, “I am free”.
97.Be selfless.
98.Bow down to nothing but to your own higher self.
99.Be brave, be brave! Man dies but once.
100.Only know the truth and realise it.
101.Do not give up anything! Things will give you up.
102.Be bold and fear not.
103.Do not fight with people; do not antagonize anyone.
104.“Give up”, says the Veda, “Give up”.
105.Renounce everything.
106.Renounce and give up.
107.Be pure and be good; be pure and love everyone.
108.Believe nothing until you find it out for yourself.
109.Give up desire.
110.Do not drag others down to where you are.
111.“Be practical”.
112.Do things for others; expand!
113.Be beyond the common worldly motives.
114.Do not disturb your mind by vain arguments.
115.Be beyond both freedom and bondage.
116.Believe in nothing until you know it
117.Do not despair!
118.Believe first in yourself, then in God.
119.Identify yourself only with God.
120.Don’t despond in the least.
121.Do not care what be your lot.
122.Reason out what is true from what is untrue.
123.Realise yourself. That is all there is to do.
124.Hope and do not despair.
125.Purify yourself, and the world is bound to be purified.
126.Never tell yourselves or others that you are weak.
127.Do not talk religion.
128.Have faith in yourselves.
129.Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things!
Let not the barks of puppies frighten you------------------no, not even
the thunder bolts of heaven-------------------but stand up and work!
130.Have faith in yourselves and stand upon that faith and be
strong.
131.Doing is very great, but that comes from thinking………
……….. Fill the brain therefore, with high thoughts, highest
ideals; place them day and night before you; and out of that
will come great work.
132.Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the
Guru, and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is
to be achieved.
133.Learn whatever good things you may come across anywhere.
134.Arise, ye mighty one, and be strong! Work on and on, struggle
on and on!
135.Be moral. Be brave. Be a heartwhole man. Strictly moral,
brave unto desperation. Don’t bother your head with religious
theories. Only cowards sin, brave men never; no, not even in
mind. Try to love anybody and everybody.
136.Face the truth as it is.
137.You must have strict morality. Deviate an inch from
this and you are gone for ever.
138.Banish all superstition.
139.Be good and have mercy on those who suffer.
140.Be steady. And avoid jealousy and selfishness.
141.Keep yourself holy and pure.
142.Never say, ‘no’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite.
Even time and space are as nothing compared with your
nature. You can do anything and everything, you are
almighty.
143.NEVER SAY “MINE”. WHENEVER WE SAY A
THING IS “MINE”, MISERY WILL IMMEDIATELY
COME.
144.Set yourselves wholly to the service of others.
145.Beware of everything that is untrue; stick to truth
and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.
146.Choose the highest ideal and live your life upto that.
147.Face the terrible, face it boldly.
148.Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do.
149.Learn to work unitedly for others.
150.Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal
mania for leading has sunk many a great ship in the waters of
life.
151.Do not look to others for help.
152.Be free, hope for nothing from anyone.
153.Believe in the omnipotent power of love……………Have
you love? You are omnipotent. Are you perfectly unselfish? If
so, you are irresistible. It is character that pays everywhere.
154.Accept the “beneficial” and discard the “pleasant”.
155.The seeing of many is the great sin of all the world.
See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness
go.
156.This life comes and goes------------wealth, fame,
enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far
better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth,
than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!
• Get up, and put your shoulders to the wheel-------------how
long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave
some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference
between you and the trees and stones? They, too, come into
existence, decay and die.
• This life comes and goes------------wealth, fame, enjoyments
are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the
field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a
worldly worm. Advance!
• Life is short: Give it up to a Great cause. Arise! awake! and
stop not till the goal is reached.
• No amount of ignorance or wrong ideas can put a barrier
between the soul and God. Even if there be no God, still hold
fast to love. It is better to die seeking a God than as a dog
seeking only carrion. Choose the highest ideal and give your
 life up to that. Death being so certain, it is the highest
thing to give up life for a great purpose.
Love will painlessly attain to philosophy; then after knowledge
comes Parabhakti (supreme devotion).
Knowledge is critical and makes a great fuss over
everything; but Love says ‘God will show His real nature
to me’ and accepts all.
157.Do not go against anything-----------------------ours is to put
the chemicals together, the Lord knows how and when the
crystal will form.
158.Desire nothing for yourself. Do all for others. This is to
live and move and have your being in God.
159.Please be careful not to become impure even in thought, as
also in speech and action; always try to do good to others as far
as in you lies.
160.Have no idea of proprietorship, possessorship.
161.Let not a ripple conquer the mind.......................................
BE ‘UNATTACHED’; let things work; let brain-centers work; work
incessantly, but let not a ripple conquer the mind. Work as if you were
a stranger in this land, a sojourner; work incessantly, but do not bind
yourselves; bondage is terrible.
162.IT IS PREFERABLE TO LIVE ON THE GRASS FOR
THE SAKE OF DOING GOOD TO OTHERS.
163.Have faith in the Lord.
164.Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very
devil himself.
165.Day and night tell yourself, “I am He”, “I am He”.
166.Combine seriousness with childlike naiveté.
167.Condemn none!
168.You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate
as to look for results.
169.Spread ideas--------------go from village to village,
from door to door---------------then only there will be
real work.
170.Above all, work for the good of humanity.
171.Kill self first if you want to succeed.
172.Go to hell yourself to buy salvation for others.
173.Put your whole heart and soul in the work to which I have
consecrated myself.
174.Do not destroy. Iconoclastic reformers do no good to the
world. Break not, pull not anything down, but build. Help,
if you can; if you can not, fold your hands and stand by and
see things go on. Do not injure, if you cannot render help.
Say not a word against any man’s convictions so far as
they are sincere.
175.A man must desire nothing else but the truth, and truth for
truth’s sake.
176.Remember your great mission in life.
177.Arise and awake, for the time is passing and all our energies
will be frittered away in vain talking.
178.As Shri Ramakrishna used to love you, as I love you, come,
love the world like that.
179.Be not disheartened. When good nectar is
unattainable, it is no reason why we should eat poison.
180.Be not ruffled by vain arguments. Come to your own
realisation. You alone can do it.
181.Do not give up the world; live in the world, imbibe its
influences as much as you can; but if it be for your own
enjoyment’s sake, work not at all.
182.Say, ‘This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing,
and that very thing, proves that it will have to be undone by
me alone.’ That which I created, I can demolish; that which is
created by someone else, I shall never be able to destroy.
Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole
responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are
the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor
you want is within yourselves.
183.Let things come as they may.
184.Be positive; do not criticise others. Give your
message, teach what you have to teach, and there stop.
185.Never fear what will happen of you, depend on no
one.
186.Know that you are always free.
187.Keep yourself holy and pure.
188.Hate not the most abject sinner, look not to his
exterior.
189.Go on loving. If a man is angry, there is no reason
why you should be angry; if he degrades himself, that
is no reason why you should degrade yourself.
190.Plunge in! Do the duty at hand.
191.Do not take any hasty step.
192.Be the witness. Learn never to react.
193.Appreciation or no appreciation, sleep not, slacken not.
194.Stand firm like a rock. Truth always triumphs.
195.Be a man first, my friend, and you will see how all those
things and the rest will follow of themselves after you.
196.Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery.
Can you sleep?
197.Help, if you can; but do not destroy.
198.Purify yourself, and the world is bound to be purified.
199.Do not be cowardly and hypocritical.
200.Try to love anybody and everybody.
201.Hold fast to your only true aim-----------------God.
202.Love all alike, then all desires fall off.
203.Give this life for the service of others.
204.Be beyond the common worldly motives.
205.Stand upon Truth, and you have got God.
206.The body must be properly taken care of.
The only way of getting our divine nature
207.
manifested is by helping others to do the same. If
there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance
for all--------------or if greater for some and for some
less-----------------the weaker should be given more chance
than the strong. In other words, a Brahmana is not so much in
need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmana
needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. For greater
help must be given to him whom nature has not endowed
with an acute intellect from birth. It is a madman who carries
 coals to Newcastle. The
poor, the downtrodden,
the ignorant------------------let these be your
God.
208.The first duty is to educate the people.
209.Denunciation is not at all the way to do good.
210.Do not denounce.
211.One has to be free, and as broad as sky. One has to
have a mind that is crystal clear; only then can truth
shine in it.
212.Let there be action without reaction.
213.Ask not anything in return for your love.
214.Each duty has its own place, and according to the
circumstances in which we are placed, we must perform our
duties.
215.Ask nothing; want nothing in return.
216.Conquer yourself, and the whole universe is yours.
217.Keep the ideal in view and work towards it.
218.Man must love others because those others are himself.
219.We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care of what
you think.
220.Do not judge any man from his defects.
221.