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Integrate Yourself to Better Serve Others
As long as your personality is imbalanced and eccentrically developed, the Divine quality of compassion cannot manifest in your thoughts and actions. In an imbalanced personality, the egoistic sentiment of attachment is mistaken for tender Divine Love, and sel sh actions are mistaken for sel ess service of humanity. Therefore, bring about integration and balance in your personality by the practice of a harmonious blend of wisdom, devotion, meditation and action in your daily life. Without integrating your personality properly and disciplining yourself, you will probably go off on tangents as you try to practice any virtue, and the chances are great that you will fail terribly.
Practicing Yoga to remove suffering from your own heart will allow you to understand the suffering in others from a more profound point of view. As you integrate yourself and root out the causes of misery within yourself, you become more quali ed to understand people and their miseries, and you will be able to help them to a much greater extent by sharing your knowledge.
Rise beyond Ego
If a person has offended you, and you cling to your ego, whenever there is a threat, calamity, or adversity there will arise a deep-rooted despair