The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
SIVANANDALife is a series of awakenings.
More Sivananda Quotes
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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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Giving is the secret of abundance.
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Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
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Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.
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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
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Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.
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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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Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.
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Conquer your thoughts and you will conquer the world.
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A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
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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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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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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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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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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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