WRITTEN BY LONDON SWAMINATHAN

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Date uploaded in London – –   26 December , 2023                  

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January 1 – New Year Day;  12- Swami Vivekananda Jayanthi;  14- Bogi Pandikai; 15- Makara Sankranathi- Pongal  16- Cow/Go Pongal , Tiruvalluvar Day; 17 Farmers day; 25 Thai Poosam, 26 Republic Day ; 30 Gandhiji Death Anniversary .

New Moon Day – January 10; Full Moon Day 25. Ekadasi Hindu Fasting Days- 7, 21

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January 1 Monday

The wise are cheerful and content with their lot in life.

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January 2 Tuesday

If you are wealthy, be humble. Plants bend when they bear fruit.
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January 3 Wednesday

Spend money in charity; be generous and munificent but not extravagant.

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January 4 Thursday

Get on with your worldly activities cheerfully, but do not forget God.

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January 5 Friday

Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.

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January 6 Saturday
See the divine in the human being.

Do not bark at people and don’t be aggressive, but put up with others’ complaints.

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January 7 Sunday

God is not so far away. He is not in the heavens above, nor in hell below. He is always near you.

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January 8 Monday

If anyone gets angry with another, they wound me to the quick.
If you cannot endure abuse from another, just say a simple word or two, or else leave.
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January 9 Tuesday

I stay by the side of whoever repeats my name.

Do not be idle: work, utter God’s name and read the scriptures.

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January 10 Wednesday

What God gives is never exhausted, what man gives never lasts.

Be contented and cheerful with what comes.

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January 11 Thursday

If you avoid rivalry and dispute, God will protect you.
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January 12 Friday

I have to take care of my children day and night and give an account to God of every paisa.

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January 13 Saturday

People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth. Why then come to Shirdi and slander people?
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January 14 Sunday

What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get.

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January 15 Monday

I will not allow my devotees to come to harm.

If a devotee is about to fall, I stretch out my hands to support him or her.

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January 16 Tuesday

I think of my people day and night. I say their names over and over.
My treasury is open but no one brings carts to take from it. I say, “Dig!” but no one bothers.
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January 17 Wednesday

My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.
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January 18Thursday

This body is just my house. My guru has long ago taken me away from it.

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January 19 Friday

Those who think that Baba is only in Shirdi have totally failed to know me.
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January 20 Saturday
I cannot do anything without God’s permission.

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January 21 Sunday

God has agents everywhere and their powers are vast.

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January 22 Monday

Give food to the hungry, water to the thirsty, and clothes to the naked. Then God will be pleased.

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January 23 Tuesday

Saburi (patience) ferries you across to the distant goal.

The four sadhanas and the six Sastras are not necessary. Just has complete trust in your guru: it is enough.

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January 24 Wednesday

Why fear when I am here?

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January 25 Thursday

I am formless and everywhere; I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space.

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January 26 Friday

If one devotes their entire time to me and rests in me, need fear nothing for body and soul.

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January 27 Saturday

My business is to give blessings. My eye is ever on those who love me.

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January 28 Sunday
I get angry with none. Will a mother get angry with her children? Will the ocean send back the waters to the rivers?
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January 29 Monday
Surrender completely to God.

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January 30 Tuesday

Trust in the Guru fully. That is the only sadhana.

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January 31 Wednesday
I am the slave of my devotee.

Whatever you do, wherever you may be, always bear this in mind: I am always aware of everything you do.
—subham—

BONUS QUOTES
Do not be obsessed by the importance of wealth.

Do not kick against the pricks of life.

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Speak the truth and truth alone.
No one wants to take from me what I give abundantly.

Do not fight with anyone, nor retaliate, nor slander anyone.

—–SUBHAM—

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