The most important recipes for the common man for daily practice and constant watchfulness are ( A ) to ( C)

Religiosity is not only an intellectual assent to a certain set of beliefs and opinions of the external observance of certain practices, labelled as religious. It is determined effort to live once life in a different way with different ways of thinking and a different definition of progress and a different goal.

Religiosity must be measured in terms of denying ourselves, controlling ourselves in midst of temptations, tribulations and the natural desires to run towards the objects and actions of our sensual desires, and of our being useful to others around as well. Such people as are extremely reluctant to bear any wear and tear, on account of and for any other things, are treated with indifference, antipathy and obstructions, by all around them, especially by the irreligious men. The more irreligious and self-seeking the society around you becomes, the higher is the price to be paid by a truly religious person for being permitted to progress in his different ways. That is the true situation in the newly - developed circumstances. YOU want self-improvement and facilities for a different type of achievement, whereas the world around you wants the maximum benefit from you. Love, service and sacrifice, therefore, come in demand, even though you may not recognise them as final requirement of religiosity, just by way of gagging by the mouths of irreligious obstructions around you, and securing their greatest non-interference and sympathy.In a practical sense, truely religious people are foreigners in the country of worldliness, and can have a smooth running of their life with required facilities, only on rendering solid service and immense sacrifice for the natural residents of a country foreign to them.

First of all, let there be a true picture before your eyes of what true religiosity is. No haziness. No indefiniteness. Follow and catch the truth. See for yourself, what is merely a shadow and what is the substance. That itself is the basic foundation of true religiosity. First, from your full conception, your picture and your wish to be identified with it. Thereafter follow the ways of approaching the picture. The nearer you go you like it and love it; and more and more indifferent and relish-less you become, about all other things around you. The more you love the more you loose yourself. The greater the loosing of yourself, the greater the extinction of all struggles, worries, anxieties and useless activities, resulting in the experience of unprecedentedpeace and happiness.

No haphazardness. No doing something some how, in some manner in some moment. No half-heartedness. No living with one foot on land and another in water, except to the extent you are pulled in, and are unable to hold your own.No wrong notion of attaining true religiosity, which costs you nothing physically, mentally or financially. No exaggerated misbelief of Grace-showers without real deservedness. No dependence on, and expectation of, religious institutes and preachers around you, to keep everything ready for you. No dream of someone exerting for you and your getting the fruits.

Religious irreligiousness is much worse and more dangerous that open irreligiousness.

Hinduism and Hindu saints are welcome to have their own definitions. With them it may be enough that a man is born in the Punyabhumi of Bhatratvarsha and that he is born of sages or a Brahmin family. Mai-ism does not accept that. You must prove your deservedness, no assumption and no exception. If you are big cipher you have no right to be called religious. You have to acquire a certain stage. If you do not have it by natural gift you must acquire it by exerting for it in a regular disciplined manner.

Make a simple chart of these recipes. Cast your eye on any window of Mai-Niwas, and you read the casting 'MAI'. Similarly enter your room and your eyes must fall on a picture of your God, Guru and your chart, which latter you may change as you advance.

Even if you do such a simple thing, as, repeating a prayer, while you go to bed and leave your bed, that will bring a marvelous

change, in less than six months. Let the prayer be in your natural language. Repeat this: -

(1) Oh Mother, enable me to live my life with sincerity, purity, austerity and charity.(Stop at each of the four words, to enable you to form a picture of what each word means).

(2) Oh Mother, let me not utter a word of falsehood.Let me not harm anyone.Let me not covet anyone's wealth or possessions.Let me not have any sexual agitation. Let me not drifted away by my body-senses or mind to do anything which does not please Thee.

(3) Oh Mother, emancipate me from the enslavement of these six enemies over me that have taken full possession of my life - wrathfulness, pride, greed, infatuation, envy and desire.

(4) Oh Mother, teach me to be contented with my lot. Let my relishfulness for the pleasure of the world, gradually dry away. Let me have full faith in Thy protection and help; enable me to bear my burden with every endurance.

Not only such a prayer elevating, but whether you feel pleasure and continue your prayers or feel disgusted and stop (except when you rise higher), is in itself an indication and a proof where you stand.

Just turn your eyes around you, like a practical man. Have not observed, how much every man is anxious to have a companion in however small an undertaking he enters? Do we not require some one to remind us in hundreds of matters? A true wife or husband, a true friend and the true Guru are the most precious possessions in life.

A wise man voluntarily establishes over himself the control fear of someone interested in his welfare, with love for him and greater experiences and capacities. If you have no companion, all your ambitions rise at some unexpected moment and soon have their natural fall, after giving you some temporarily imaginary joyfulness.

Mother has made man perfectly happy, provided he obeys Divine Laws and leads a good life, becomes happier and happier as he goes nearer Mother. Our obedience pleases Mother and She blesses us with greater and greater happiness as reward.In course of time our experience shows us that pleasure does not satisfy us, we get craving more and more and we soon get tired.It makes us soft and weak and often our health also suffers. We come to the conclusion that we can get maximum happiness out of this life, only by doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.In due course we get a conviction that there is no action as happiness bringing as doing good to others, with Love and Service.

We often find in this world, that due reward and punishment are not dealt out to all persons in this life, where we often find the good suffer and the wicked prosper. The answer to that is, there is a future life, and this life that we live is not simply to end with our death. This life is a serious and responsible thing, not to be trifled with, as our fancies drives us.

We are bound to avoid all bad actions and thoughts.We can not always stop bad thoughts coming to us, but we can at least be displeased with them and try to banish them and refuse to yield to them. Regarding what is good or bad, and right or wrong, in the preliminary stages, it is enough if one obeys inner voice of Mother, which people call ' Conscience '.

Even the highest man have to actually pass through a period of practice. Don't hope getting anything free without exerting hard and going through a regular practice. And even that simple practice has under Mai-ism, an importance of a Sadhana.

Although, by one's own efforts in the routine life by frequent references on his charts as to his doings during the day and going to bed with a prayer, a creditable mastery is attained, which is on a much higher plane than that of an average man, the constant alertness and subtle understanding and its working remains at all times necessary, except for the periods he is merged in devotion.On the higher plane, after there is a mastery over the usual vices and virtues, there is the further possibility of a slip, because of strong temptations and ungovernable passions. The nature of these temptations and passions, at least generally as also in one's own particular case, should be very precisely studied.

It should upset one on being told, that even temptations are Mother sent and for making stronger and better, if you are a staunch devotee and have surrendered yourself in Her charge. Such temptations and even passions have their particular purpose to serve, in the matter of preparing the Mother's favorite to be better and better, stronger and stronger.

Provided you have handed over yourself to Mother, these temptations are also a part of the programme set up by Mother, to mature Her pets.For mother's surrendered She manages temptations. She gives the strength. She gives the failure. She gives the success and pulls Her pets up.There is nothing to be disheartened. Only mind the proviso viz., if you surrender.

It is quite a fallacious idea that if you go the end of worst experiences, you automatically, by a reaction become better. It is a satanic idea and a theory of demand head plunged in badness. I go deeper and deeper in a river, there is absolutely no guarantee of my being not drowned.The fact of facts is, you may not be drowned, only if higher power saves you. The proviso works. Once you have lost your own balance, discrimination, control and upward going force, what is more clear than that some other force alone can save you? It may be any, your God or Guru, or your merit (Punyam) or your invisible better Prarabdha, or Universal Love etc.