(k) In your efforts to develop Will-Power, be not afraid that your health will break down.  In fact, Perfect Health is the result of a perfect Will.  Deny the power of disease and weakness over yourself. “I can never be ill.  My body is my slave.  It shall always manifest perfect health.”  Convince your passive mind—­which has charge of your body—­of this by repeated commands, demands and assertions.  Always think of your body as being as strong as adamant.  Never talk of either health or disease or weakness.  You must be above caring for these.  They are your Natural rights.  Only when you lower yourself they have power to trouble you.  Go beyond the lower self.  Your business is to care for the Higher-Self—­that in which “You” live, move, and have your being.  Also teach and train your Will to move along negative lines of self-repression as well as along positive lines of Self-Expression.  Balance both.  The former precedes the latter.  Now I will pass on to the subject of SELF-CONTROL, with the distinct understanding that Self-Control and Will-Power are inextricably bound up in each other.  You Get the real “practical work” in the endeavour for Self-Control.

SELF-CONTROL.

Rightly has it been remarked that is easy to talk of and write upon this subject but most difficult to possess it.  Perfect Self-Control means infinite power.  Only the Buddas and the Christs of this World manifested Perfect Self-Control.  “Anything short of the absolute control of thought, word and deed is only sowing wild oats,” said Vivekananda.  It is with no little diffidence that I approach this subject as whoever handles this subject is rightly culpable as being a “Do-as-I-say-and-not-as-I-do” class of writers.  Still you can make appreciable progress in this direction by mastering these instructions, going through the exercises and last but most important by “carrying the principles in your mind” and applying them as far as you can in your daily life.  Nothing is more conducive to rapid growth and development as the making of the “little and big” affairs in your work-a-day life, the occasion for the practical expression and conscious translation of your ideals.  We all are guilty of a serious mistake in setting apart our higher ideals for regular ‘practice’ hours and leading a life of low and quite different ideals in our ordinary life.  The natural process, as you can see, is to LIVE OUT your highest ideals every minute of your life.  Nothing is more important than the daily occupation of a man and if he fails to bring his ideals right into these little things, then Success will ever elude him.  A mental scientist has summed up the entire secret of Character-Building in this valuable advice on Objective Concentration:  the simple task of mental concentration on whatever task, business or profession a man is engaged in is the beginning of the mastery which is the perfection of Objective