Discipline is most essential for students. From the moment you wake up, you have to carry out your morning ablutions, meditate on God, and then do your prescribed duties in an orderly manner without deviating from the regular routine. Variations in the routine are undesirable. You should not wake up at one hour on one day and at a different time on another day. The day’s activities should be regulated by the same schedule. Immediately after finishing the chores, in the calm and serene atmosphere of the morning, one should devote at least a few minutes to the loving meditation on God. The human state is based upon regulation and self-control. These have to be strictly adhered to in daily life.
Then comes Discrimination. The world is a mixture of good and bad, of joy and sorrow, right and wrong, victory and defeat. In a world replete with such opposites, man has to make constantly the choice between what is right and proper and what is wrong and undesirable. Man should not let himself be guided by the mind. He should follow the directions of the Buddhi (Intelligence). Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. (Divine Discourse, Jan 16th, 1988).