The shapes our behaviour are:
(a) Let us not complain about our environment: Some people may not be happy with their parents, their financial status, or social status. They may not be happy about their physique, looks and brain. They always look at others, envy them and feel sad! They think, if only "I had a mother like that", ‘or’ "Had I been in the place of that scholar or that champion!". It is not healthy to complain about what we have; it is good to think of how we can make the best of it. Many great persons in the world fought against physical disabilities and adverse circumstances and became successful. Everyone of us is gifted in some way or the other. Let us find out our own gift. It may not be academic intelligence, it may be social or other type of intelligence. We may not be good with books but we may be very good with machines, which is equally valuable. We may have a potential to become a singer, a painter or a stage-actor. Let us have a goal and take steps to move towards it. Yogic techniques make our body, mind and intellect strong. We become competent to make decisions.
(b) Let us train the body first: Yoga Asanas shake off our lethargy and idleness. They bring fresh vigour to our body. They free us from tensions and diseases, so that we can focus our attention totally on our goal. Let us take care of our food. Let us avoid eating very less or eating unnecessarily. Select the food that agrees with us and brings harmony to our body. Digestion of food, its assimilation in the body and excretion of unwanted stuff, must be regular. Rest and proper sleep is also necessary to keep our body fit.
(c) Let us train our mind: Self-education is very important in Yoga. If we train our mind to become strong, it will be strong. If we let it be weak like a pampered child, it will become weak and brittle. It would collapse at the smallest shock. Let us avoid self-pity because it makes us weak. Let us avoid all kinds of negative thoughts like envy, jealousy and narrow-mindedness. Some students do not exchange notes because they feel that somebody would ‘steal’ their knowledge! They forget that the more we give, the more our knowledge grows! Also, let us
give up the ideas of dependence. There is no person or thing in the world without whom or without which it is impossible for us to live. Nothing is indispensable. There are persons, communities and nations who have rebuilt life from ashes.
(d) Let us train our intellect: If we don’t give challenging work to our intellect, it gets rusted, it loses its capacity to do mighty things. In fact we do not use our brain to the fullest extent. If the brain does not get enough exercise, it gets tired easily.eeing dreams and exerting all our energies to fulfil them makes our intellect strong. Let us teach our intellect by taking wise decisions and staying firm with our decisions.
