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and piety amongst others. My way of looking at it has been always that this is the goal of life. If there is one goal about which I am very clear, it is this one goal that is very clear for me. We should live in such a way that other person develops love towards God because love towards God means love towards all. The world is definitely a better place to live. When all of us love God and mutual love is there and mutual dependency starts, we become interdependent not only amongst ourselves, but with God in every sense of the term then life is definitely much more worthwhile to live than the present day of strife, conflict, war unnecessary bickerings, all the time mind being in turmoil, allowing ourselves to be exploited by all sorts of fellows. These things will not happen once we mould ourselves in such a way. This is one of the greatest commandments. This is something that has been common for the Vedic period, common for the Buddhism. The concepts of maitri, the concepts of prema all these things are dependent upon this, this is the practical way of putting it. Develop love, develop friendship, all these things but we have to mould ourselves for that. Moulding is a bit much more difficult than the other things because when you mould yourself, you become an object of attention if not adoration for somebody else and what a beautiful world it would be when all of us are equally lovable. Some of us are more lovable today I agree, at least to some people. If all of us are lovable to each other, I think world could be the kingdom of God, which really it is. It is a kingdom of God today but then we made it a kingdom of asuras that is the trouble, so let us turn back.
All said and done there will be certain lapses in our behaviour due to either animal instincts or due to human considerations or other reasons, many reasons. Then before going to bed, pray to God, feel bad about what you have done, repent for it and then don't repeat it tomorrow. Repent it and take a resolve not to repeat it next day because most of us know how to repent but none of us know how not to repeat, next day morning we do same thing again. We repent, in all our humility we cry before God, please excuse me for whatever I have done etc. things. Excuse upto that extent it is fine, you repent, seek excuse but no decision to resolve not to repeat it. So that is another aspect of it SriRamchandraji Maharaj stresses it here, resolve not to repeat it. That is a very very significant point, practical point for us to note because most of us know, when we go to bed most of us pray. Normally coming from any fairly good family he will pray before going to bed but then for what?