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Q:	What is Baba’s advice to school children - - at the start of this academic year?

Have these as your fundamental plans across all your academic years:

1. Study well

2. Be physically fit

3. Be a Good citizen

4. Nurture and Develop skills.

Examine your personality to monitor your progress. If you do not find any improvement, you have wasted one more year. If you have become a better person this year than you were during the previous years, then that is progress. That is the only growth; that is the only revolution. If you have not progressed but deteriorated, then something is wrong and you have to plan and improve at the earliest.

There can be three outcomes: (a) stagnation (b) degradation (c) progress. Obviously option (c), i.e. progress is the desired outcome.

If you are good, God will protect you. If you are always good, and remembering God all the time and thanking Him for the good, He has done to you, then whatever be the ordeal you face in life, He will help you overcome it. Thank God for all His blessings and strive to be good children, God—loving children; children whom God will be proud of. Then whatever happens you will be protected.

You are entering a New Year. What must be your aim?

1) Study well. Take a resolution to concentrate and study well. Improve your learning skills and attempt to score 100% in everything you do.

2) Improve on your physical fitness. Exercise - - do some jogging, yoga etc. Keep yourself clean and hygienic. Develop better civic sense.

3) Be a good citizen. How will you become a good citizen? By looking after your school; caring for your classroom; being clean. You should be calm and obedient children. Be well behaved so that you earn a good name for your family, class, school and country.

In the year 2005, I should see you as a better person. Better person - - if you replace the ‘E’ with an ‘I’, what happens? You will end up as a bitter person. Better person is loved; a bitter person becomes a burden to society.

(4) Nurture your talents and develop more skills. This school has plenty of opportunities; it is up to you to make use of them. You can learn music - - vocal and instrumental, dance, excel in sports and games. You should be able to balance yourself in life. Study well and focus on extra curricular activities as well.

Six to eight hours is sufficient rest time for maintaining a healthy body. That leaves you with 18 hours per day. Out of those 18 hours, you spend totally 8 hours in the school. You have 10 hours at your disposal. You can make effective use of that - - learn something new, and read a lot of books. If you waste time, the lost time cannot be retrieved. Already one year has gone; it is no longer at your disposal. Lost is lost forever. This year will also roll by as preceding years have done. So, plan and make the best use of this year.

Every minute, you should be useful to somebody.

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