UNFORGETTABLE GUIDELINES
‘Unforgettable guidelines” are morally
sound. They are not short-lived for temporary gains. Their validity is
everlasting. They have an essence of divinity in them. We can call them eternal
virtues or immortal values. They can be defeated in any situation but not
substantially and perpetually. Their failure is ephemeral. For example, truth
can be beaten but not killed. It
continues to survive so long as God is there as the ruler of the world.
Here is a short list of such
guidelines found in great writers’ books.
1.
Return
good for evil.
2.
Forgiveness
is the noblest form of punishment.
3.
Conquer
anger by the power of non-anger and evil by the power of good.
4.
The
power of good must prove its truth and strength by its fearlessness, by its
refusal to accept any imposition, which depends for its success upon its power
to produce frightfulness and is not ashamed to use is its machines of
destruction to terrorize a people completely disarmed.
5.
Moral
conquest does not always consist in success because failure does not deprive it
of its dignity and worth.
6.
Pray to God to give you the faith of love, the
faith of the life in death, of the victory in defeat, of the power hidden in
the frailness of beauty, of the dignity of pain that accepts hurt, but disdains
to return it. ,
7.
Nothing
is impossible for a true devotee who is ever absorbed in God.
8.
Without
devotion, action, and knowledge are cold and dry, and may even become shackles,
9.
The
faith in one’s ideals constitutes true life: in fact, it is man’s all in all.
10.
Modesty and humility nourish man and make for
his growth.
11.
To be happy, the temperament must be cheerful
and gay, not gloomy and melancholy.
12.
A quiet conscience makes one perfectly serene.
13.
Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
14.
Blessings
always wait on virtuous deeds.
15.
A blush is the colour of virtue.
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G. R. Kanwal
9 November 2026
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