Without exercising thought or having to be taught, all children know how to show filial affection towards their parents, and when grown a little they demonstrate that they know how to respect their elder and younger siblings.    

Among the birds and the beasts even a young crow is able to demonstrate filial concern to its old mother who is too feeble to take flight, by feeding her worms beak to beak.  Man being richly endowed by nature can perform much more than that.  It is unnatural to refrain from carrying out his rightful duty of filial piety because: “In most cases filial piety runs supreme.  Of all the virtues filial piety is the most important.”

EQUAL TREATMENT WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION:

This heading can be summed by having and demonstrating, respect towards superiors, consideration towards all inferiors and showing sympathy to the poor and destitute.  Holding on to grudges against others, or mocking others weaknesses is man’s reckless mistake because indirectly he is advertising his own ungracious character.  Similar aspects of unfairness reside alongside prejudice in man’s attitudes towards those whom he loves and those whom he hates.  He sees not the faults in those whom he likes, nor the goodness in those whom he dislikes.  “Many can pass unkind remarks: few can find remedies.” 

When you do not have a compassionate mind, how can you love others?  When you are not the forgiving kind, how can you forgive others?  A person who bears no trace of resentment neither any thought for revenge but instead, is able to find more than enough room in his mind to “love his enemies; bless them who curse him; return kindness to them that hate him; and pray for them which despitefully use him, and persecute him” (Luke 6: 27, 33, 35) because he sees the good in every one of them and is ever willing to help them see it in themselves.  In so doing, he has not erased the divine gift of UNIVERSAL LOVE in his nature.

ON THE STRENGTH OF ONE’S RIGHTEOUSNESS:

Though scissored between poverty and sickness, man is yet able to stand resolutely to the Law of Spiritual Truth no matter how others try to coerce and tempt him.  

A man of wisdom realises that though the world around him is ever changing it has no pressurising influence or control over his eternal nature.  With his inherent serene quality he finds extraordinary strength and patience to endure various kinds of hardship or suffering that cross his path; whether the road on which he is traveling is rocky or smooth, whether it be slippery or level, whether there be rain or shine; he will not succumb to the temptation of capricious riches because a superior man honours his virtuous nature.  His success in life lies in his CONSTANCE of Spiritual Purpose. 

The quality of gold is proved by fire; the REALITY of man is proved by adversity.

SET AN EXAMPLE WITH ONE’S OWN CONDUCT:

To instill moral conduct in others, a man must first embody the cultivated qualities in himself. 

Good advice is good for conduct, and people will comply when they see that what a man practices does not differ from what he says.  Therefore he must first purge from himself any impediments which he wishes to eradicate from others.  There has never been any man, from time immemorial down to the present day, who GENUINELY treads the path of Truth who has failed to regard others as himself and been able to improve them. 

In The Great Learning:

“A man must strive to remove any bad qualities within himself, so that he may then require that they shall not be in others.  Never has there been a man, who not having reference to his own character wanting to be dealing with others was able to effectively instruct them unless this was so.” 

Proverb:

“A man of words but not of deeds, is just like a  garden full of weeds.”

Only a man of sincere morality is able to command trust and respect.  Being able to render practical spiritual service unto the world is an accomplishment of self-responsibility, and he who does good works with humility and reverence for the very sake of goodness, seeks neither praise nor reward because duty fulfilled, is the greatest blessing conferred on man.  When showered with compliments or bombarded with criticisms, yet able to accept with equanimity, he is completely free from the pitfall of flattery or criticism.