Living a Moral Life

An Explanation by Maharaj Charan Singh

If we don’t have good moral character outside, we can never make progress within at all. There are so many temptations within. If you are weak outside, you’ll be more miserable and weak within: you’ll never be able to make much progress. Then, if our attention is always dropping to lower centres, it is difficult to withdraw our consciousness up to the eye centre. Unless we lead a good, clean life, and unless we are able to concentrate here at the eye centre, we can never make progress at all.

And we are also sowing seeds. Christ made this very clear in the Bible when the people were about to stone a lady who committed adultery. Of course he saved her, but he advised her also: “Go, and sin no more.” And to the man whom he cured, he said: “You have become whole; go, and sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.” You must abstain from all these things, and since you have been put on the path, you have the opportunity to become whole now. And “a worse thing come unto thee” means you may have to come back to this creation again to pay for all those karmas if you don’t abstain from these acts.
_{Die to Live}

God is the only possession who can assure our happiness. Wisdom then is the knowledge of God, and this wisdom cannot be attained at one stroke. What is needed is a rigorous discipline, a regulated mode of life, moral order, and moral and intellectual studies. We must live rightly, pray rightly and study rightly.
_{Saint Augustine, Lover of Truth}