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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.

Sivananda

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

Alone Crave End Happiness Satisfaction
You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.
SIVANANDA

Freedom Known Realize Truth
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
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Education Enjoyment Experience Life Secret
This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
SIVANANDA

Body Greatness School Silence Teacher World
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
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Culture Law Moral Regulation Value
When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
SIVANANDA

God Heart Himself Success
Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.
SIVANANDA

Expectation Fold Hands Learning Love Yourself
An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!
SIVANANDA

Practice Theory Worth
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.
SIVANANDA

Alone Knowledge Man Student
Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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Meditation Purity Realize Serve
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Desire Give Up Happiness
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
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Body Disease Health Intense Mindset Thinking
Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp god.
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Blade Humble Joy Pain Taste
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
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Desire Greatness Impurity Poverty Spark
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.
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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 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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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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