Our Efforts in the Evening

 Our Efforts in the Evening

Having acted thus during the day-time, now after return from our shop, office or factory as the Case may be, our professional duties being over, we should rest a while, or attend to household Jobs, have a wash and, drawing in our sense-organs like a tortoise, sit alone or with members of Our family in the sweet remembrance of God, the Blissful Father. If we mold ourselves in the manner And make our endeavors as has been already indicated, our mind will not wander like a horse without reins, running aimlessly in all directions. He who can detach himself from the Sense-organs of his body, and draws his mind inwards and tries to be fixed firmly in the deep and Love full meditation on God, alone attains succession Yoga.

Practice of Yoga in the evening has its own dividends. It gives the mind a feeling of freshness and makes one’s thought pure and inclinations righteous. So, we should follow it as a rule to have Yoga in the evening. Then we have to have our supper and have

to attend to our duties of the household and to the society because these are also obligatory. But this does not imply wasting one’s time in gossip and useless conversation and sundry useless topics.

Well, if one feels that some sort of entertainment is needed, let it be of a kind that does not

leave behind it any evil impressions on our mind or lead to bad habits. Then about 10 O’clock in the night, after having a talk or a chat about Godly Knowledge, we should be ready for the night’s rest. Here, for one short while, we should remember our beloved Almighty God-Father. Going to sleep with thoughts of Him makes

sleep Sattwic (righteous) and keeps it free of any disturbances by the old samskaras (resolves). Next morning at 3 or 4, we should be up again and should automatically remember that we are souls and we should also meditate on God and only, thereafter, start our day’s work.