In order to live the prescribed 100 years one has to perform certain noble acts. One who observes these principles simultaneously fulfils both the objectives viz maintenance of positive health and control of sense faculties. These are listed by Sage Caraka.

1)One should pay respects to the Gods, cows, Brahmins, preceptors, elderly people. Those who have accomplished spiritual perfection and teachers.

2)One should offer oblation to the fire

3)One should wear good herbs

4)One should perform Sandhya worship during dawn and dusk

5)One should clean excretory passages and feet frequently

6)One should have a hair cut, shave and nail cut-thrice every fortnigh

7)One should wear good apparel

8)One should be happy, apply scent, wear good dress, comb the hair

9)One should have a delightful face

10)One should protect people in affliction

11)One should perform religious ceremonies

12)One should donate

13)One should pay respect to cross roads, offer religious oblation called bali

14)One should honor guests

15)One should offer pindas ( meaning a ball of lump rice to the manes) to the departed ancestors

16)One should speak timely, beneficial, measured, sweet words

17)One should be self controlled and virtuous

18)One should envy in action but not in the results thereof

19)One should be careful and fearless

20)One should be bashful and wise

21)One should have enormous enthusiasm

22)One should be clever, forbearing, virtuous

23)One should have faith in God

24)One should be devoted to teachers who have attained spiritual perfection and Are advanced in modesty, intellect, learning, heredity and age

25)One should use umbrella, a stick and shoes

26)One should always acquit himself in auspicious way and display good manners

27)One should avoid places with dirty apparel, bones, thorns, impure hair, chaff, garbage, ash, fragments of earthen vessels and the places of bath and worship

28)One should stop exercise before exertion

29)One should be friendly to all creatures, reconcile the angry, console the frightened, be merciful to the poor, be truthful and be predominantly of compromising nature and tolerant towards un palatable words uttered by others

30)One should be controller of intolerance

31)One should be peaceful disposition and conquer the very roots of attachment and hatred.

These thirty one acts will prevent any psychosomatic disturbances. Further, Caraka also prescribed the code of general ethics which are to be followed for a healthy long life. These will be enumerated in the next article.