When you are found fault with, do not fly into a rage; examine your own conduct and discover the faults in yourselves; self-examination is the first step to self-improvement and peace. Do not exaggerate the faults of others, but, give them a wide margin and see them as small, exaggerate yours, see them big and strive to remove them fast. Take all faultfinders as your friends and well wishers for they give you warning-signals in time.

I find that now-a-days, the art of cynical argumentativeness has spread everywhere. This is dangerous sign. On account of this, reverence has disappeared; respect for the teacher has also gone. (SSS Vol.3, p. 64)

Develop renunciation about your own needs and wishes. Examine each on the touchstone of essentiality. When you pile up things in your apartments, you only promote darkness and dust; so also, do not collect and store too many materials in your mind. Travel light. Have just enough to sustain life and maintain health: The pappu must have only enough uppu to make it relishing; that is to say, do not spoil the ‘dal’ by adding too much salt. Life becomes too difficult to bear if you put into it too much of ‘desire’. (SSS Vol. 6, p. 71)

(S.S.S. Vol. IV - p. 71)

‘Examine every day what you do and with what motives; then you can yourself pronounce judgement on your progress ... ‘It all looks so easy, but it is one of the hardest assignments’. (SV90, p. 13)

Oh man! Examine and enquire for yourself what great happiness you have achieved by spending all the time from dawn to dusk in acquiring knowledge and earning wealth while forgetting God.(Telugu poem) (SS July 05, p. 201)