Three requisites are essential for all advancement: courage, enthusiasm and joy (dhairyam, Utsaham and Anandam). (SSS Vol.II, p. 3)

There are five requisites for developing true devotion. The first is Dedication (offering everything to God). Ego is the bar to developing the spirit of dedication.

Next, Devotion should be regarded as an expression of gratitude for all that one receives from Providence.

The third requisite is Discipline. In almost every action in life, the recognised limits and regulations have to be observed. Discrimination is the fourth requisite. Discrimination has to be used in every aspect of daily living - In what you see what you listen to, what you speak and what you consume.

Last comes Determination. Without determination no great thing can be achieved in life. It is all the more needed in spiritual field so that you may face all difficulties and obstacles and overcome them you must hold what you consider as good what you regard as sacred and what you recognise as the truth. That is real penance. (D3, p.140)

Every country, wherever it may be and whatever its stage of progress, must have three requisites: material resources, protective power and a proper educational system (producers, security personnel and teachers). The peace and prosperity of the world depend on the work of these three classes of people. They form the legs of a tripod. Even if one leg is weak, the other two cannot sustain. When production is plentiful, it has to be guarded aright against loot and plunder. When soldiers and security men become powerful, while production declines they turn into a menace to the country. When production and protection are adequate, if the educational system takes a wrong track, the country, is weakened. The development of material resources and the defence of the country ultimately depend on the kind of education that is imparted.

But a tripod is not ‘three legs’ only! How can one sit on three legs? There should be a plank, resting on them - the plank of Love, that is to say, Love of Country. ‘Country’ does not mean a specific area on the map, the soil. It means the human community inhabiting the territory. And ‘Love’ means the sense of interrelationship and involvement of the Individual with that community. (SSS Vol.11, p. 131)