553 – Introspect on your actions

It is said that meditation creates a fire which burns away our sins. What is sin? Actions which create uneasiness and abnormal feelings in the mind are sins. – Swami Satyananda Saraswati

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it. – Genesis 4:7

What comes out of a person is what defiles them. – Mark 6:20-23

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. – Proverbs 17:22

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456 – Why do we sing Christmas carols?

Christmas carols are sung because it is a way of telling the story of the nativity and the birth of Jesus Christ. It also enables one to express joy and hope. However, when we hear the carolers, we just listen to the carols without registering their actual meaning.

They are joyful hymns and the seven lessons that we can learn from them are: Continue reading