July 24, 2026
Every moment of your life, there must be discrimination, of the real from the unreal. It must be vigilance, alertness, discrimination with willpower, for you yourself and not because someone else says so. In reality you are alone responsible for all your actions, no one else.
You may say I misled you, but how can I mislead you? You can safely walk behind someone provided only that you have a light in your hand. We can all follow one another provided we do not walk in each other's shadow. If I hold a candle in my hand I do not walk in his shadow, but by the light in my hand. Only then can I walk behind him without danger.
Keep your eyes open, your discrimination alive and choose your own path. I followed Swami Sivananda implicitly and I am glad to have done so. No doubt he asked me to do things and I did them because I knew it was right to do them; the responsibility was mine all the time.
I must know the alternatives. I can do this, I cannot do that. Every moment I must discriminate with open eyes. Face the question. What am I going to do, what is the right action for me? If you do this, the religion is real; otherwise you get into muddle after muddle.