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Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!

Sivananda

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
SIVANANDA

Future Moments Present
Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
SIVANANDA

Character Degree Man Need Wisdom
Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
SIVANANDA

Belief Creation Faith Finding God Healing Light Mountain
The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
SIVANANDA

Benefit Silence
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
SIVANANDA

Alone Crave End Happiness Satisfaction
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
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.
SIVANANDA

Destination Domain Life Man Pilgrimage Ultimate Wisdom
Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.
SIVANANDA

God Life Purpose Realize Worth
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
SIVANANDA

Born Ignorance Mindset Rise Temptation Yourself
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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Act Heart Mindset Secret Success
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
SIVANANDA

Body Disease Health Intense Mindset Thinking
There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.
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Development Emotion Feeling Hands Intellectual Known Man Willing
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Character Form Law Right
Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.
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Intuition Reason Transcendence
Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.
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Capacity Life Soul
The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
SIVANANDA

Awareness Practice Yoga

Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!

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