How to discipline ourselves?

Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.

This man had been in stone-age and now he is flying in the skies and tomorrow he shall be residing in other planets.  The people who had disciplined themselves and the people who could know the purpose for the fulfillment of which they had been sent on this earth are the people who had been taking us forward and therefore, we too must join this band of wise people.  First of all we shall have to discipline ourselves and only they we shall be able to know the purpose for the fulfillment of which we had been created by God.  For disciplining ourselves, we shall have to take the following minimum steps:

1. We shall have to be punctual and we should establish a time-schedule for ourselves and then we must follow that time-table strictly.
2. We must take care of our health.
3. We must be taking care that we are having proper education and training so that we could adjust ourselves in life and be on our own feet and we should not be dependant upon others.
4. We should respect our elders and we must have respect and love for others too who are in contact with us.
5. We should not create enemies.
6. We should adopt a profession, trade, calling and employment in which there are opportunities for advancement.
7. We should develop a habit of listening to others and we must be in a position to help the people who have come to us and are seeking our help and guidance.
8. We must behave properly with others and should forget that we are senior to them or we are junior to them.
9. We must be secular in nature and our religion should be our own private affair having nothing to do with others.
10. We must accept that all human-beings are the creation of one God and none is better and none is bad.
11. We should read books, news papers and we should have a look on TV too so that we could be well versed with the current news and events around us.
12. We should try to increase our income so that we could be able to accept the new challenges in our life and could face increasing responsibilities.
13. We must create self-confidence in us and must come out of inferiority complex.
14. We should not produce more children because it is our duty to give better citizens to our country and the responsibility of bringing up our children, giving them proper education and training and then proper adjustment in life, shall be our duty and if the number of children is on higher side, we shall not be able to give proper citizens to our country and the world around us.
15. We should have a proper life partner and we must have proper relations and connections with that life partner, be sincere, faithful and respectful to the other partner.
16. We should produce proper number of children in our house so that we could give them proper bringing up, proper education, proper training and proper adjustment in life.
17. We must keep a good health.
18. We must have proper information about the social life around us.
19. We must be having a few friends, but the number of enemies should never be allowed to increase because enemies are hurdle in our way and we shall not attain what we could attain in normal life.
20. We must have a good reputation.

These are some of the points which we should try to attain.

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