Message #30685

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Lesson 98

First, the evil thought in a individual leads him to an evil environment to express himself in like manner. Then again, another free act of will, he can change his mind and consequently change his environment. But when one constantly remains mentally in an evil environment , that environment begins to strongly affect him and to exert an almost unconscious upon him, and in time he almost entirely loses his freedom to choose a different environment or the power to become free from the resented, undesirable influence over the specific evil environment.

Even though you believe yourself to be strong, evil environment has a subtle influence that gradually undermines your fortifications, and so every effort must be made to attain good environment. Seek soul joy instead of mere sense pleasure. To exterminate a bad habit, negativity avoid everything that occasions it for stimulates it. Then positively plant a good habit and cultivate it with great intensity until it becomes a part of yourself. P.Y.