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-Swami Sivananda-
Hope, all of you are keeping good health, now probably you are preparing for a programme as to how you will pass the summer vacation. But remember, do not while away all your time in play or useless talks. Make out a daily routine and stick to it. Get up early in the morning and utter the Name of the Lord. Wash your hands and feet and say your prayers and sing Bhajans for at least half an hour. Then go to study. Plan how you will study on different days. Say, after two and a half hours' study take some milk and biscuits or the like. Then assist your mother or others in the household in their duty. Then take your bath, and then take the Lord's Name, say for fifteen minutes. Take your meals. Don't take too much, even if it is most palatable to you. This will make you drowsy and your health will not be fit. Rest for an hour. Again go to your study and do all the home-work you have to do for the day. Take a little rest, and during the rest you can talk with your parents or brothers and sisters on healthy and divine subjects. In the afternoon you must go out for play. Just before evening go out for a walk. In the evening wash your hands and feet and pray for half an hour, and then go to study. Then take your night meals. Take rest or stroll for fifteen minutes. By 9.30 at night go to bed, but before that, you should pray to God for at least fifteen minutes, and think about God while in bed.
Then you will be a very good child, loved by all. God will love you. May God bless you!
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Note: You may supplement this letter with another letter written by Swami Sivanandaji to a student on September 14, 1949. A few portions of this letter are reproduced below. Both the letters together should be taken as your all-time guide.
Sri S. Mani, Doon School,
Adorations and Salutations.
Get up at 4.00 a.m. and study your lessons. They will be indelibly impressed in your mind. Study for one hour in the early morning hours is equal to study for four hours after sunrise.
Be patient and persevering. Avoid bad company. Obey elders, teachers and parents. You will have success in life and in all class examinations. You will have peace.
With regards, Prem and Om.
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