THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF LIFE SEVEN SECRETS THE NUCLEUS OF THE UNIVERSE AUTO-SUGGESTION AND OUTER SUGGESTION THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF LIFE official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14 cross-references: also published in Ba'ba' in Taiwan this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14, 1st edition, version (spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition. Recently in Thailand, I said something regarding certain fundamental principles of human life. As these are the guiding principles of life, there is no harm in repeating the same points again. You know, in each sphere of our life we should follow a code of discipline. Knowing or adhering to the code of discipline means 60% success. To become one with the Supreme Entity, with the Parama Purus'a is an innate human urge. Knowingly or unknowingly everybody loves the Parama Purus'a. The movement of a spiritual aspirant towards this goal is his spiritual progress, and it is achieved through spiritual cult. For proper movement, an aspirant should follow certain rules, should know certain important factors. Regarding these indispensable items for spiritual progress, Lord Buddha said that there are eight codes. You should remember these points. First is Samyak Darshana. What is Darshana ? In ordinary Sanskrit, Darshana means to see, and in philosophical language, or in spiritual and psychic strata, Darshana means seeing anything with the proper spirit of a scholar, with the spirit of an aspirant. Darshana means guiding philosophy. A man is walking, but if he has no fixed destination, all his endeavours, all his exercise will be meaningless. A man may do so many things, but all his gain will be meaningless if he does not know what his goal is, where he is going. So each and every man must have a philosophy of life, without which there cannot be any progress. You should remember, it is the first point, the first important factor. The second important factor is Samyak Sam'kalpa. Samyak means proper. Sam'kalpa means determination. Here, Samyak Sam'kalpa means proper and firm determination. "I will do it, I must do it". This firm determination is the secret of success in each and every human life. Where there is no firm determination, one will never be successful in any arena of human life. "I must do it ! I must come in contact with the Supreme Entity ! I must be one with the Parama Purus'a. This is firm determination. So Lord Buddha said that this is the second important factor, the second important principle that an aspirant must adhere to. The third item is Samyak Va'k. In Sanskrit, the ordinary meaning of Va'k is expression of vocal cord, but in philosophical language, Va'k means all the expressions of efferent nerves. Whatever we see, whatever we touch, whatever we speak, all these expressions are found within the scope of Va'k. Therefore, a man while expressing himself in any stratum of life, must have proper control over himself, he must have proper control over his sensory and motor nerves. This is Samyak Va'k. You know, Lord Buddha said so many things, but all were not noted properly. However, the collection of what he himself said in poetic form, is known as Darshan Pada. In the Darshan Pada, Lord Buddha said, "Cak's'un'a' 'Sam'varo Sa'dhu 0 spiritual aspirant ! 0 Bhiks'u ! 0 monk! 0 devotee ! You should have proper control over your eyes ; whatever will have bad effect on your mind, you must not see it. 'Sa'dhu Sotena sam'varo'. Whatever will have bad effect on your mind, 0 good man, you must not hear it. 'Gha'nena Sam'varo 'Sa'dhu.' You should have control over your nose, 'Sa'dhu Jibha'ya Sam'varo.' ' You should have control over your taste. 'Ka'yena Sam'varo Sa'dhu.' You should have control over your body. "Sa'dhu Va'ca'ya Sam'varo.' You should have control over your language also ; and 'Savvatha Sam'varo Bhiks'u.' If you want emancipation, if you want liberation from worldly fetters, you must have all-round restraint. This third item is Samyak Va'k. The fourth instruction is Samyak A'jiiva. One can earn money by many unfair means--by stealing, by selling wine, by money-lending business. There are so many bad things one can do. A good man should have a clean occupation ; he must not be engaged in unclean means of livelihood. Not only his physical occupations, but also his mental occupation should be neat, clean and pure. His objects of thought should be in good taste, and he should not try to do anything bad to another good man. This is called Samyak A'jiiva, and this is the fourth item. Then the fifth is Samyak Vya'ya'ma. You know, many boys do so many physical exercises to make the body strong. This is physical exercise. A human entity, however, is not only physical. It is physical, mental and spiritual. Physical exercise is good, but you should do mental exercise and spiritual exercise. In that case, not only the physical body, but also the psychic body and the spiritual body will be very strong. A good man, an ordinary man, a farmer, a labourer, a soldier, a teacher, everybody has got these three bodies. Practising some physical exercises is good, similarly you should also practise psychic and spiritual exercises. You should know the style of exercise from an A'ca'rya, and you should practise it regularly. As you eat regularly, as you bathe regularly, similarly you should practise these exercises, the psychic and spiritual exercises regularly. This is the fifth item, Samyak Vya'ya'ma. The sixth one is Samyak Karma'nta. When you start a work, you should finish the work properly, and in a very nice way. Don't leave the work in a half-finished condition. The finish should always be good. The finishing touch should always be a nice and sweet one. There are three kinds of men--Uttama, uttama means best; Madhyama--Madhyama means ordinary, and Adhama-Adhama means, of lower grade. Now those who come within the lower status are afraid of undertaking anything, afraid of doing anything. "Oh ! these whole-time workers, these Da'da's and Didis, their life is very troublesome, they have to undergo so many troubles, so many afflictions. Oh, it won't be possible for me to accept the life of a monk. It is very difficult." Similarly, in other spheres of work, these lower-grade people are afraid of undertaking any challenge. Then, there ane ordinary-grade people, Madhyama. They start a work ; suppose, a gentleman of the town doesn't know how to till the land. Out of fascination he starts tilling, and then he finds that it is very troublesome, so he gives up the duty, gives up the work in a half-done condition. This is what is done by ordinary people. It is also not good. But the best people--Uttama, who are they ? It is their principle to feel that 'When I have started a work, I must complete it in a nice way, in a fine way, in an excellent way.' The Lord Buddha said, Samyak Karmanta i.e, when you have started a work, you must finish it in a nice way. The Seventh advice is Samyak Smrti. In Sanskrit, Smrti means memory. What is memory ? Whenever you see, or you hear, or you smell something with the help of your efferent or afferent organs, what happens ? Your mind gets compartmentalised. One portion of the mind takes the subjective form, and another portion takes the objective form. You are seeing a tiger. One portion of your mind becomes the seer and another portion of your mind takes the form of the tiger; then you think that you are seeing a tiger. Now after some time, when you can create the tiger once a day in your mind, without seeing a tiger, you are creating the tiger in the objective portion of your mind. This re-creation of tiger in your mind is called Smrti or memory. Then what is Samyak Smrti ? You boys and girls, you know that one should go on repeating one's Is't'a Mantra. Always you are doing your work, but you are not repeating your Is't'a Mantra in your mind. Why ? Because you have forgotten the fact that you should repeat it in your mind. Your memory is not strong. That's why you have forgotten it. Here Lord Buddha said, Samyak Smrti, that is, you must not forget, you must never forget that it is your foremost duty to take the name of the Lord, to repeat your Is't'a Mantra. It is Samyak Smrti, proper memory. The last item is Samyak Sama'dhi, i.e., proper suspension of mind. When you are hearing an excellent expression of music, your mental object is that music, and while hearing, your subjective mind gets suspended in that objective portion. It is suspension of mind in hearing. Similarly when you see a rose, while seeing the rose, you are very much charmed by the beauty of the rose; so your subjective mind gets merged with your objective mind, that is, with the rose. It is suspension in the rose. Similarly, while meditating on the Supreme Entity, the Parama Purus'a, your mind gets suspended in Him. It is proper Sama'dhi; it is proper suspension of mind. These are the eight-fold codes of discipline, an indispensible part of an aspirant's life. You should always remember that for proper success, to attain the Supreme Bliss, adherence to these eight-fold codes of discipline is a must. You should always keep this in mind. 16 August 1979, Taipei SEVEN SECRETS official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14 cross-references: also published in Ba'ba' in Taiwan this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14, 1st edition, version (spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition. Each and every man--whatever his status of life, whatever his psychic or spiritual status--each and every human being wants success in life. Whenever you are doing something, success is not in your hands. Success comes as a reaction. When the original action is good, the reaction is also good, and that reaction is the success. For a spiritual man, for a spiritual aspirant, for a good soul who renders service to the Society, the service itself is the prize. He wants no other prize, no other success. Suppose a man is dying. You are nursing and helping him, and finally he is cured. This cure is the prize. You require no other better prize. Now, everybody wants success. Human activities, human existence is trifarious. Man is present in physical stratum, his body is something physical. For the material, physical body, he requires physical things--water, air, and light. His existence is also psychic, and for this, he requires psychic stimulation. His existence is also spiritual; and for this, he wants union with the Supreme, which is the goal of life. Now, in Sam'skrt, there are three different words for success in the three different strata. As human existence is trifarious, so human expression and human activity are also trifarious. Human success in physical strata is called Pratis't'ha' in Sam'skrt. Human success in psychic strata is called Sarvajinata' in Sam'skrt, and human success in spiritual strata is called Siddhi in Sam'skt. Now, I told you that man wants success in all three spheres of life. Once Pa'rvatii asked Shiva, "Oh Lord, what is the secret of success ?" Here, success means Siddhi; that is, success in spiritual strata. An ordinary man wants success in physical strata. That success is known as Pratis't'ha'. An ordinary man is always obsessed with this. A bit developed man, a wise man, an intellectual, wants success in psychic strata, which is known as Sarvajinata'. He has got more attachment to Sarvajinata' than to Pratis't'ha'. And a devotee is always after success in spiritual strata, that is, he wants Siddhi. Pa'rvati's question was, "What are the secrets of Siddhi, success in the sense of Siddhi?" In reply, Shiva said, "You know, there are seven secrets of success, seven secrets of Siddhi." He said, 'phalis' yatiiti vishva'sah siddhirprathamalaksanam 'I must be successful in my Mission.' "This--firm determination is the first secret of success". Suppose, you have got a lofty goal, but you haven't got the mental stamina to move towards that ideological goal. Then you will never be crowned with success. You must have the high ideology, and at the same time, you must develop the stamina to move along that path. So Shiva said, suppose you want to do something, but your friends, relatives, or enemies don't want that you should do that job. In that case, only if you have got the stamina to fight against so many attachments, only under such circumstances will you be successful. So Shiva said, phalis'yatiti vishva'sah siddherprathama laks'an'an'am. "I must be successful in my Mission" is the first secret of success." "Dvitiiyam' shraddhaya' yuktam'. You should develop some Shraddha' for your Ideology. What is Shraddha' ? In Sam'skrt, Shrat means the authentic spirit of veracity. When truth has got universal recognition, then that truth is called Shrad, and the mental movement towards that Shrat, towards that Supreme Truth is represented by the word dha'.' Shraddha' means acceptng the Ideology as Supreme Truth, and moving towards that Truth is Shraddha'. A spiritual aspirant must have Shraddha' for his goal. This is the second requisite. The third one is Gurupu'janam. One should have proper respect for one's Guru. What is Guru ? The Sam'skrt word Guru has got two parts. It is a compound word. The first portion 'Gu' means darkness. 'Ru' means dispelling entity. He who dispells is called Ru. Guru means the entity who dispells darkness from the mind. Now, Parama Purus'a teaches the spiritual secret known only to Him. His secret is known to Him and to no one else. Parama Purus'a teaches His secret through a physical medium. So the physical medium through which Parama Purus'a dispells all darkness of the mind of the spiritual aspirant is Guru. So a spiritual aspirant must have proper regard for the Guru. Gurupu'janam is the third secret. 'Samata' Bha'vo' means psychic equilibrium or psychic equipoise. Now, the Supreme Entity, the Parama Purus'a is the Supreme Progenitor, the Supreme Creator, the Supreme Father. I think you know the meaning of the word God. The Supreme Entity, the Parama Purus'a creates everything. He is the generator. The first letter of generator is G. He is the operator of everything. The first letter of operator is O. Finally, everything is destroyed by Him. Everything is coming back to Him. This destruction is not a horrible destruction. It's a sweet destruction, going back to the lap of Parama Purus'a. So He destroys. The first letter is D. G-O-D. That word is God. He is the Supreme Progenitor, and everything in this Universe is His progeny. He is the Supreme Father, and others are His children. Then, when all are the children of the Supreme Father, the relationship between man and man is that of fraternal bond. You have got a universal tie of brotherhood because everything created has got the same father. The source is the same. When the spiritual aspirant knows this fact, he cannot get any kind of inferiority complex or superiority complex in his mind. He is not inferior to anyone, as he is one with his brothers and sisters. Samata' Bha'vo, the fourth factor, means that the spiritual aspirant must develop a sense of equipoise. Indriya Nigrahah means, one should have proper restraint over afferent and efferent organs. While thinking you should have proper control over your thoughts. While doing anything, you should have proper control over your dealings. This all-round self restraint is known as Indriya Nigraha. This is the fifth requisite factor. Pramita'ha'rah: to maintain the physical body, you require physical food, air, water, light. But physical food is not simply for the physical body. It has got its effect on the spiritual body. The cells of your physical body are created from the cells that you receive from your physical food, and your psychic body is also influenced by these cells. So while taking food, you should be very careful. You should always try to take sentient fbod, and on rare ocassions you may take mutative food. You should never take static food. Not only that, but your diet should be balanced. You must not take too much or too little. The food should be substantial. When it is balanced or measured, and, at the same time, substantial, that type of food is called Pramita'ha'ra in Sanskrit. The sixth factor is Pramita'ha'rah. The sixth requisite factor is balanced and substantial, sentient food. A voracious man can't attain success. A voracious man always suffers from so many stomach diseases. So, you should neither encourage voracity, nor should you undergo fasting for a long period of time. I have prescribed that our monks should undergo fasting four days per month, two Eka'dashis, one Ama'vasya', and one Pu'rn'ima', and Grhiis, non-monks or family men are to undergo two fasts in a month, two Eka'dashis in a month. Fasting is also included in the scope of Pramita'ha'ra because it gives rest to the digestive organs and frees the body from so many ailments. So the sixth requisite factor is Pramita'ha'ra. Then the Lord Shiva says, there is no seventh factor. The sixth one is the last one. Now, this reply by Lord Shiva 7000 years ago has got its value even today. You, boys and girls, should remember the points and do accordingly. It will help you in your all-around success, in your attainment of Siddhi. 17 August 1979, Taipei THE NUCLEUS OF THE UNIVERSE official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14 cross-references: also published in Ba'ba' in Taiwan this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14, 1st edition, version (spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition. The Purus'ottama is the nucleus of the Universe, the centre of the Universe, just as the Sun is the centre of this solar system. Similarly Purus'ottama--the Parama Purus'a is the centre of this entire cosmos. Just as so many planets directly and so many planets indirectly are moving around the Sun knowingly or unknowingly, similarly, so many animate and inanimate objects are moving around the Parama Purus'a knowingly or unknowingly. They will have to. There is no other alternative. In the case of a solar system, a planet may go beyond the range of a solar system and come within the range of another solar system. But in the case of the cosmological order, the system is a singular one. For the entire cosmos, there is a singular cosmological order, and Parama Purus'a is the centre--the nucleus. Nobody can go beyond the periphery of this cosmological order. All are moving around Him. Those who do not practice Sa'dhana'--unknowingly they are moving away from Him. Their radius, the radius between that entity and the Parama Purus'a increases, but he cannot go beyond the cosmological order. Not to meditate on Him, not to do His work means increasing the length of the radius, going away from the nucleus of the Universe. But they will have to remain within the cosmological order. Those who meditate on Him, those who are on the path of Sa'dhana', the radius between that spiritual aspirant and the Cosmic Nucleus, the Parama Purus'a, goes on decreasing and decreasing. The position of a man doing Sa'dhana' is like this ( Baba makes hand motions showing an object moving closer to the center of a circle--publisher). For men of materialistic outlook, going away from Him, but moving around and around Him, this is the position (Baba makes hand motions showing a large circle--publisher). Suppose a man is a very bad man, a depraved man, he is here ( far away ). But if he will do Sa'dhana', what will happen ? ( Baba shows with motions the circle getting smaller and smaller until the circling finger touches the stationary finger in the centre of the circle--publisher). He will become one with Him. Even if he is a bad man, a degenerated, depraved person, if he practices Sa'dhana', does meditation, leads a pure life, his radius with the Parama Purus'a will go on decreasing, and a day will come when his radius will be zero and he will be one with the Parama Purus'a. That is the goal of human life. You should always remember that you are the children of Parama Purus'a and it is your birth-right to be one with Him. It is your birth-right to sit upon His lap. Nobody can debar you from this birth-right. That is why, knowingly or unknowingly, consciously or unconsciously, you should all move towards Him and be one with Him. This is the path of humanity, and this is the main factor that differentiates an animal from a man. When one doesn't do Sa'dhana', what will happen? The distance will go on increasing. He will drift away from the Parama Purus'a. It is the path of animality. You should never support any ideology--any philosophy that goads a man into the path of animality. Yours is the path of spirituality. When you have been blessed with a human body, be cent percent human, and go on decreasing your distance from the Parama Purus'a. And finally, be one with Him. 20 August 1979, Taichung AUTO-SUGGESTION AND OUTER SUGGESTION official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14 cross-references: also published in Ba'ba' in Taiwan this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14, 1st edition, version (spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition. Words in square brackets [ ] are corrections that did not appear in the printed version. Regarding psychic waves and parallelism, I said that there are two things for auto-suggestion and outer suggestion. Auto-suggestion is done through what? Your own incantation. The incantation, what is it? Is it an internal or external acoustic expression? When you say something, you suppers are saying, 'Rama', it is a vocal expression, external expression. So while using your incantation, what do you do ? Just the internal vocal expression. When you think, what do you do? You say something internally. What is thinking ? To say something internally. To think means to speak within. Just try to think something, to speak within your mind. In that case, no one else will hear. And when you speak externally, use the vocal cord externally, then others may hear. And there is a third style of expression. There is external expression but only you can hear. It is called what? What is its name in Sanskrit? Upa'm'shu. (speaks loudly). Ra'ma, Ra'ma, Ra'ma. External vocal expression. ( Baba closes his eyes and pauses ) Internal. ( Baba mouths the words 'Rama') You can hear, others can not. Upa'm'shu. I told you in [Tainan] that actual progress is in spiritual level, not in physical or psychic level. Your progress is auto-suggestion or outer suggestion, when you say something like ...... "Sudarshan, be an ideal man. Sudarshan be an ideal man," When you say internally, what is it? It is auto-suggestion. Sudarshan is giving suggestion to Sudarshan. The conscience goads Sudarshan's mind towards the idealistic stance of Sudarshan.--"Be an ideal man." The mental picture is in the mind of Sudarshan. And the conscience of Sudarshan says, "Sudarshan, be an ideal man." The conscience of Sudarshan goads towards that ideal figure. Do you follow the psychology? What is it? It is auto-suggestion. "I must be a good man. I must be a good boy. I must do something concrete for the world. I won't be afraid of anybody in this world. I must be a good boy. I must do something concrete for the world. No power in Heaven or Earth can check me." What are these things ? Auto-suggestion. I think now the term auto-suggeston is clear to you. I used the word in DMC. When someone else is saying, "Sudarshan, be a good boy. Sudarshan, be an ideal man. Sudarshan, start your life afresh, forgetting all your past mistakes and misdeeds." what are these things? Outer suggestion. Suggestion coming from the outside. What is the best auto-suggestion, on what you are to do? You are to use your incantation, always use your Is't'a Mantra. That is the best auto-suggestion. Auto means what ? Auto means self. Autonomy means self government. Automatic-done by self. Then what is the best outer suggestion ? When you are in good company, from that good company there comes outer suggestion. Here you are getting outer suggestion. This outer suggestion strengthens the vitality of auto-suggestion. So, outer suggestion is a necessity, is indispensible for a man's spiritual progress. This outer suggestion is called Satsaunga in Sanskrit. What is Satsaunga? Have you understood what is outer suggestion? So many good discussions are there. These discussions will have an effect on your mind--Effect of outer suggestion. Now all the company or all the associations can not give you outer suggestion. If you are in the company of thieves, they can say, "Steal, steal, go on stealing." This is also a sort of outer suggestion. In case of auto-suggestion, you are sure that there will be cent per cent success because of that mantra, that incantation. In the case of outer suggestion, there will be good company and bad company. And the outer suggestion coming from bad company may be detrimental to your progress; and not only your progress, but the progress of the entire humanity. If you become a giant. then so many people will be destroyed by you. So there must be a careful selection of company. That is what in Sanskrit is called Satsaunga. Sat means good, and saunga means association = Satsaunga. Sadvipra, one who is a good intellectual. What is good and what is bad ? A constant fight is going on between good and bad. In your mind, in our society, in the country, in the entire human society. Never-ending fight between good and bad. When good is established over bad, when the result goes in favour of good, that result is known as conscience, the authentic and established power of discrimination. It is called conscience in Latin. As a result of fight between good and bad, when the resultant goes in favour of good, that resultant is called power of discrimination or conscience. The English meaning of conscience is power of discrimination. For conscience the Sanskrit term is Viveka. Now, what is good and, bad ? What is Sat and what is Asat ? The physical, mental, or spiritual action that helps you, or your association in developing vour spiritual life, that lessens the distance between you and your Lord is good. And your physical, psychic, or spiritual actions that increase the distance between you and your Lord is bad. That which encourages the proximity between you and your Lord, your goal, your idealistic goal, and the distance is decreased, lessened, is good. And when it is increased, it is bad. So while selecting company, you should be careful whether its discourses, its activities, its plans or programmes are to decrease the distance between you and your Lord. This is Satsaunga, good company. 0therwise it is Asatsaunga. Even intellectual discussions of a high order may not be Satsaunga if it has got nothing to do with lessening the distance between you and your Lord, you and your Goal. That type of intellectual discourse, in my language is called intellectual extravaganza. Baoddhika Amitavyayita'. Satsaunga and Asatsaunga. When it goads you on the path of the Lord, it is Satsaunga. From this moment, you should always try to have Satsaunga. That Satsaunga will give you outer suggestion. Those who are engaged in Satsaunga and lessening the distance between the Lord and the aspirant, their actions are called Pun'ya. And those who try to increase the gap, their actions are known as Pa'taka. Pun'ya and Pa'taka--virtue and vice. In the scriptures, it is said, 'Kuru Puiiyam Ahora'tram' "You should always be engaged in doing Pun'ya." Ahora'tram, day and night. 'Ahoh' means sunrise to sunset, not to zero hours in the nights, sunrise to sunset. And 'Ra'tri' means sunset to sunrise. Ahoratri means 24 hours. 'Kuru Pun'yam Ahoratram' You should be engaged in Pun'yam-virtuous work for all 24 hours. You may ask, "How can I do Pun'yam while sleeping ? In the wakeful state, I may do Pun'yam. But while sleeping, how can I do Pun'yam ? Can you ? Yes, you can. What's the difference between habit and nature? When habit becomes one with your existence, it is called nature. Suppose you are a teetotaler. What is the meaning of 'teetotaler'? Now, a friend offered you some alcohol, then after three days, the friend offered you another glass of alcohol and you accepted it. After that it is your habit that you won't be able to be without alcohol. Then it is a habit. Finally, alcohol will be drinking you, you won't be drinking it. That is why the doctor will tell you to stop it. Everyone will tell you to stop because you have become helpless. It has become your nature. By constant practice or under pressure of circumstances, one becomes habituated, and by encouraging this habituation, it finally becomes nature. This is auto-suggestion. "Now it is time for my meditation", what is it ? You are trying to habituate yourself. But when you cannot live without puja, then it has become your nature. Try to make it what--habit or nature ? Nature. I never take a drop of water without doing puja. Why ? It has become my nature. And I want that all of you should make it your nature also. When auto-suggestion will become your nature, what will happen ? While sleeping you will be repeating that japa (repetition of mantra) in your unconscious mind. You are sleeping, so conscious mind is not active. You are not having any dream, so your sub-conscious mind is also not active. But unconscious mind is there. Automatically there will be japa. 24 hours you are doing Pun'ya. While you are sleeping, you will be engaged in doing japa and using your incantation. Kuru pun'yam Ahora'tram. Be engaged in doing Pun'ya all 24 hours. And you should always encourage the company of Satsaunga -- those who are engaged in Pun'ya. And always avoid the Saunga of Pa'takiis-those who are engaged in Pa'taka. That company will deprave the people, degenerate the people. Among Pa'taka, there are two classes, two branches. One is Pa'pa, the other is Pratyava'ya. Pa'pa means to do the 'don'ts' of life. Don't steal. If you steal,. it will be Pa'pa because you are doing the 'don'ts' of life. Pratyava'ya means not to do the 'do's of life. You should help a man in distress. You should help the suffering humanity. These are the do's of life. If you do not do them, you are doing Pratyava'ya. Pa'pa plus Pratyava'ya is Pa'taka. There are two kinds of Pa'taka. Always be engaged in Pun'ya and always avoid Pa'taka. Always try to be with those people who are engaged in Pun'ya. Never be with those people who are engaged in Pa'taka. This is because these Pun'yava'na people who are engaged in Pun'ya will give you outer suggestion, good outer suggestion, positive outer suggestion. Pa'takiis will give you negative outer suggestion, and their suggestions are detrimental to the progress of the human society. 23 August 1979, Taipei