A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
SIVANANDAMoral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
More Sivananda Quotes
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Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.
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Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women.
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To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.
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Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.
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When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
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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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Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.
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This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
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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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The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
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Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.
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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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The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
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The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
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