If you are not able to do any service, just carry on with your worldly responsibilities and keep praying to God. This too is Yoga.

If you take up some service, aim at perfection.

Wisdom can be attained through focused meditation too; but the mystic poet Bharathiyar's definition of Yoga is, 'Oorukku uzhaithidal Yogam' – rendering service to society. And, you can evolve gradually from perfection to excellence.

Karma Yoga (performance of one’s ordained duties) too is an effective instrument for meditation. Meditation is focusing your mind on something. So, if you involve yourself totally, with absolute concentration on whatever task you have on hand, that becomes meditation. The mind must not waver anywhere.

Everything that you do at Samratchana is tailored towards helping you become enlightened.

It is my duty as an Acharya (spiritual guide) to point out where you are right and where you are wrong. That is the only way you can progress spiritually. If a teacher does not correct the answers of the students, how can he claim to be a good teacher? And I am not just a teacher; I am a Master and therefore I guide you along the right path, despite whatever effort or time it takes to train each one according to his or her capacity.

You can be either a good student or resign yourself to some manual labor. If you decide to be a student, you must work hard. Similarly, it is your choice to serve or not. Once you decide to enter into service, you have to perform. Remember that performance is penance. You have to give it your 100% best.

Do not seek appreciation. When you perform to excellence, performance is itself your reward. Do not be affected by any criticism. The more of such criticism you face, the harder you must strive for excellence. Learn to look at praise and criticism with equanimity of mind, unaffected.

Remember that whatever I say is for your good only. I have nothing but your progress in mind. when I point out your faults, it is only because I want you to improve, I want to bring out the divinity that is hidden in you. More importantly, I want to destroy your ego, because ego impedes progress.

The highest state of yoga is to conquer bodily ego. Once you realize that you are not the physical form but the container for a spirit that cannot be affected by anything, you will let go of ego. And that is the start of spiritual attainment.

You have decided to take part in this drama. You must play your role to perfection. If you falter somewhere, the director is bound to find fault. Since he has rehearsed the whole drama in his mind, he can very easily guide you to do well. And if you obey him, you will win the best actor award, wouldn’t you? So too, when you render service, you are playing a role. As a director, I am duty bound to correct you to be more practical or more emphatic or tell you whatever is required of you to play your role to excellence.

Our aim at Sree Ramarajya is to achieve the excellence that God has set as the standard for humanity. When you choose to abide by this process, you are choosing the right option.

I am a meticulous person. This is not ego. It is a sense of achievement. Whatever I do, I do with careful attention to minute details.

You may differ with me at present; you may even be angry when I steer you. But a time will come in your life, when you recollect all of life’s incidents in a mellowed frame of mind; and you will understand what a highly positive contribution I have made towards your progress to your personality.

I can train you in management the way no university can teach you. I know so much by intuition. Remember what Vivekananda said, ‘Education is the manifestation of perfection that is already in you’. I have become a perfectionist, and whatever I do, my perfection manifests itself in that.

It is because you wanted to make a difference to your life - - not just love and die - - that you are here. So, shred all the negative qualities that are obstacles in fulfilling this aim of yours.

And remember this: I have no difference of opinion with any of you. When I criticize something, I am not criticizing personalities; I am criticizing the work. This is my role as your spiritual guide and as in anything else, I will play my role perfectly, and I am accountable to God for it. I gain nothing from what I do or from whatever you do as service.

If you are working in a company, are you not accountable there to some boss? We are serving God, the Supreme Boss, and we are accountable to Him. We must not waste even a single second, because Time is His.

If you have understood all that I said so far and you still choose to serve, then shed your ego.

Face yourself boldly, understand your faults and follies and work at improvising your strengths and getting over your weaknesses. And then when you look hack at life, you will be immensely happy with what you have accomplished for yourself.