of fact fear is starved off to death.  Be progressive.  Take an interest in the affairs of this world and be a force for good.  Raise yourself first.  Then give others a lift.  Have an Increasing Purpose in your life.  Work towards its accomplishment.  The man who renounces the world does not become a burden unto others.  He helps others to shoulder their responsibilities.  Nature aids at building up strong individuals.  It has no use for barnacles and is always scraping them off.  Nature does not tolerate leeches, vampires and parasites.  Aspire to do something great in life “for the good of many, for the happiness of many.”  Live to some purpose.  When you have a positive life-purpose, your tone of mind shall be dominant and positive and your thoughts shall match.  All-strength shall come to you.  Bad health, fear, worry and the whole array of disintegrating forces are set into active motion by a purposeless life.  The Purposeful Man has no time to bother about them.  Understand clearly, spirituality is not laziness, whatever else it may be.

AFFIRMATIONS.

1.  I have perfect Self-Confidence.  I am a Divine Being.  I lower not myself—­I lower not others.

2.  My Life-Purpose is Constructive—­not Destructive.

3.  I will be great spiritually and mentally.  I will make others great.  I am an irresistible force for good.

4.  I live to some great purpose.  I am an Individual.  I recognise the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man.

HEALTH, CHASTITY AND SELF-CONTROL.

Chastity and Self-Control bring to you a clean healthy physique.  Strong health means strong brain.  And strong brain means abounding vitality, magnetism and ambition.  Remember our aim is the development of courage.  The Chaste brain has tremendous energy.  You should observe Bramhacharya—­the conservation of vital energy in the body.  You should acquire control over your passions and appetites.  The energy generated in your body should not be drawn off at the lower end of your being, but should be transmuted into creative activity mentally and spiritually.  Get a clean body, first.  You can get it by fasting, breathing and exercise.

FASTING AND SELF-CONTROL.

If you feel heavy in body and brain, if you feel mentally sluggish it is a sure indication that your system is “clogged” with waste matter, due to partial or total inactivity of the physical channels of elimination.  You have been indulging in high living and gluttony or you have been indulging in physical gratifications and have thus exhausted the vital fibres of your body.  Perhaps you have drunk very little water which is nature’s demand for cleaning the vessels of the body.  Perhaps you have exercised little and thus the supply of oxygen required for burning off carbon and energising the blood has been rather limited.  Mental depression, ‘weak nerves,’ melancholy, despair, fear, lack of concentration and lots of other mental weakness