Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
SIVANANDAEradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.
More Sivananda Quotes
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Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.
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You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.
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Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.
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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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The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.
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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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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 royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.
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Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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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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Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.
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The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
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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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Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.
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