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Worksheet 51

 

Living a Divine Life

 

Self-Inquiry – Appraising Your Divine Traits:

 

(a) Rate yourself 1-9 (see sample scale) on each of the 18 traits

below on the extent you actually are it in your daily life.

 

1--------2--------3--------4--------5--------6--------7--------8--------9

Rarely                Seldom               Sometimes                Often               Always

 

(b) Choose the five most important traits to you and rank them based

on how significant they are to you now.

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In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says:

 

“These are the Divine traits, the distinctive qualities and practices of persons with Divine tendencies…

 

___ 1) Fearlessness

 

___ 2) Purity (of heart and emotions, of thought, word,

        and deed)

 

___ 3) Steadfastness (persistence in the pursuit of Atma)

 

___ 4) Charity (alms giving)

 

___ 5) Control of senses

 

___ 6) Sacrifice (in the positive sense, as worship)

 

___ 7) Study of scriptures

 

___ 8) Austerity (purification, tapas literally to ‘melt’ and recast)

 

___ 9) Straightforwardness (integrity, sincerity)

 

___10) Non-injury (ahimsa, doing no mental, physical, or spiritual harm to any being)

 

___11) Truthfulness

 

___12) Absence of anger

 

___13) Renunciation (turning away from worldly attachments)

 

___14) Equanimity (even-mindedness)

 

___15) Not slandering

 

___16) Compassion

 

___17) Not coveting (no desire)

 

___18) Gentleness

 

___19) Modesty

 

___20) Not fickle (no vacillations of mind)

 

___21) Vigor

 

___22) Forgiveness

 

___23) Fortitude (courage, endurance, putting up with)

 

___24) Cleanliness (saucham, clean mind and body)

 

___25) No hatred

 

___26) No pride

 

___27) It is not what you are but what you do; it is your behavior that defines whether you are divine or degenerate.”

 

– Krishna

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