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The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

Sivananda

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
SIVANANDA

Desire Give Up Happiness
Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.
SIVANANDA

Love Meditation Peace Wisdom
There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
SIVANANDA

Aspect Different Opinion Truth View
Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
SIVANANDA

Forget Future Hope Live Past Present
Bear insult, bear injury.
SIVANANDA

Injury Insult One Liner
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.
SIVANANDA

Divine Expectation Love Reward Serve Share
Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.
SIVANANDA

Intuition Reason Transcendence
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
SIVANANDA

Coward Humility Power Spirituality
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
SIVANANDA

Character Form Law Right
Regular meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling, and brings the practitioner in contact with the source of his/her very being.
SIVANANDA

Himself Intuition Knowledge Meditation Practice Regular Source
This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
SIVANANDA

Body Greatness School Silence Teacher World
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
SIVANANDA

Goodness Reveal See Time Yourself
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
SIVANANDA

Body Disease Health Intense Mindset Thinking
An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!
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Practice Theory Worth
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
SIVANANDA

Capacity Himself Man Path Understand
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
SIVANANDA

Culture Law Moral Regulation Value

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