Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.
SIVANANDAMeditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
More Sivananda Quotes
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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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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.
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Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
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Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.
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Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.
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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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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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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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Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
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Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.
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A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.
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The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
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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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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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Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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