Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
SIVANANDADo 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.
More Sivananda Quotes
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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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Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
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The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
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Bear insult, bear injury.
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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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Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.
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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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There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
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Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.
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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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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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Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.
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The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
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