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If you are the head of a religious order, start the day by criticizing your ill conduct.
If you are vicious, start the day by thinking over ill health, fear, dependence, and the concept of happiness.
If you are miserable, start the day while expecting sustenance for the day
Start the day while examining your pattern relating to food, movement and excretion.
Whatever occupation you might have, don't get unjustifiable earning even for livelihood.
If you have been encouraging an oppressor, passionate or irrational, stop it.
Spend at least an hour and a half in religious or learning activity.
Life is short and there are too many anxieties; if you reduce the anxieties, leading the life at ease will be found long enough.
Even if you have all sorts of happiness in the form of wife, son, family, wealth etc. some unhappiness is involved therein. Start the day while keeping that in mind.
Virtue is the root of purity
Start this day by taking a vow to speak quiet, sweet, delicate, true and pure words.
The body conveys the existence of urine, stool etc. As such, think today, 'What pleasure do I fantasize by behaving improperly in this way?'
If today you are inclined to sleep during the day, use that time in devotion to God or in reading a sacred book.
I know, it is hard to do so, but practice makes everything possible.
Even if lot of wealth is gong to be obtained at the cost of someone's life, stop it.
Make use of today's 86400 seconds while keeping in mind that time is invaluable.
True happiness lies in detachment; as such don't add to internal snare by resorting to external anxieties.
Even if you are a high officer, do not forsake public well-being, because your chief also is a public servant.
Behave today with a vow of remaining meticulously discerned even in routine dealings.
Sacrifice all the comforts, if that helps you in accomplishing something great today.
Keep routine under regulation and at leisure look for retreating from it.
As stated by the saint Vidur, do something today whereby you can sleep during the night at ease.
If possible, stay away from the sensuous attraction today even towards your spouse.
'That is the root of physical and spiritual divine capability' says the experience of the enlightened.
