Ramayana and Mahabharata are very sacred books, which will directly tell us about many things, especially the ways in which we have to conduct ourselves. Ramayana and Mahabharata will help us in our daily life, like our two eyes. We are not able to know the true value of these jewels and we think that Mahabharata is merely a battle between the sons of two brothers, and that Ramayana is a story wherein a demon stole away the wife of Rama and Rama again won her back. It is not like that and these two epics are like the heart and the head of India,  and are as vital to India as the heart and the head are to a human body.  (SSS Vol.26, p. 120)

Have a time-table for spiritual sustenance, just as you have now for physical sustenance. A breakfast of pious repetition of Lord s name (japa) and meditation (dhyana), a lunch hour of ritual worship of the Lord (puja), tea and snacks of reading scriptures or sacred books (pravachana) in the afternoon and a light dinner of devotional music (bhajana) in the early hours of the night. If you follow this regimen, you can sleep soundly and wake up refreshed. (SSS Vol.1)