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Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Sivananda

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
Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.
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Love Meditation Peace Wisdom
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Character Form Law Right
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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Depression Failure Future Mistake Past Regret
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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Future Moments Present
Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.
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Capacity Life Soul
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
The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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Benefit Silence
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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Destination Domain Life Man Pilgrimage Ultimate Wisdom
The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
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Experience Mindset Present Product Thinking
Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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Character Degree Man Need Wisdom
If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.
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Finding Goal Name Peace Power Wealth
Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
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Anand Thakur
Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don’t die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.
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Creation Drink Eat Planet Sleep Tears Wake Up Yourself
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
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Control Mindset Pain Responsibility Yoga
The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
SIVANANDA

Awareness Practice Yoga

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