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(teachers) and the Lord Almighty. Greeting these three in standing is just to insult them. Pay your respects to them by kneeling before them with folded hands and bent head and let their hands come to your head or back in order to bless you. Then the energy of their hands, shadowy rays, aura and affection will accompany us forever.
The second thing is to develop a habit of smiling. Meet anyone smilingly, talk anyone smilingly and even smile smilingly. Smiling is like the sandal which will scatter its fragrance everywhere. Smiling is a flower that costs nothing when you give it to someone but who gets it, becomes much pleased. You can not get or give the gifts daily but smiling is such a gift that can be given anytime to anyone. Begin your day with a smiling face and keep on smiling till the day is over whatever you do, do it smilingly. If you open the shop, smile first and then make the shutter up. Even if you go to temple, offer your prayers with smiling make yourself cheerful and feel overjoyed and then pray to God. Make the smiling a part of your personality and nature. Keep on smiling under any circumstances.
If you want happiness for an hour in your life, have a nap for sometime wherever you are sitting or working. If you want happiness for a day, take a day's leave from your office; go for a picnic if you want happiness for a week. If you want a month's happiness get yourself married and become an adopted child of any millionaire for a year's happiness. But if you want happiness for the whole life then develop a habit of smiling and to be overjoyed at any cost under any circumstances. Never let your smiling and cheerfulness be broken. Now people have forgotten even to smile so they are made to listen to some jokes so that they might laugh a little. But if you keep on smiling naturally, there will be no need to make you listen to jokes. Smiling itself becomes a joke and seeing someone smiling, people begin smiling and laughing happily. My dear! keep yourself overjoyed so
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