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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
Chitta will contain good impressions and you will possess a good character If you do evil deeds there will be evil impressions in the subconscious mind, and you will have a bad character. Good Samskaras force a man to do good actions and vice versa If you have a great asset of good Samskaras, you will not do any evil action at all. You will have an established good character. Mara or Satan can have no influence upon you
Actions produce Samskaras or impressions or potencies. The impressions coalesce together through repetition and form habits Tendencies develop into habits and character. The sum-total of the tendencies of a man is his character. Karmas manufacture character and character manufactures will It the character is pure and strong, the will also will be pure and strong, and vice versa
It is said that habit is second nature. I always say that habit is all nature. Control of habits is control of nature Old, evıl habits can be changed into healthy and desirable habits through the force of the pure irresistible will A weak, impotent man is a slave of habits He always imagines that habits are innate and that they cannot be changed in one's life-time. This is a mistake If you want to change the old, morbid evil habits and establish new, healthy and good habits, you will have to st.uggle hard. The old habits will try to return, resist, persist and recur Internal fight will go on between the old and new Samskaras,
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