Sivananda quotes
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Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
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Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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Giving is the secret of abundance.
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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
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The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
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Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
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Look within. Within you is the hidden God. Within you is the immortal soul. Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure. Within you is the ocean of bliss. Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.
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Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
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Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
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Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
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Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
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This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!
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This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
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Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.
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Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.
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Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart.
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Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.
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How will you get God's grace? When you discipline yourself. How will you know how to discipline? By observing others that had walked the path successfully to the goal of perfection. Who are these men who had walked to the goal? It is these that are known as Gurus. So you need their help, their personal example, their encouragement and their grace. Thus, we have come round to the answer that a Guru is necessary as well as his grace. Everything is necessary-\-\ Atma Kripa, Guru Kripa and Isvara Kripa.
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Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
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The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.
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Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
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Life is a series of awakenings
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To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.
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Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.
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If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Change the mind, and you can change the body.
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Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
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The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.
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Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
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The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
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A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
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The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts.
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It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
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Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
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Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we
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