Sivananda on bliss
Sivananda101 quotes“Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.”
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The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.
SivanandaSivananda Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
SivanandaSivananda Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
SivanandaSivananda The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
SivanandaSivananda The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
SivanandaSivananda Bear insult, bear injury.
SivanandaSivananda Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
SivanandaSivananda Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
SivanandaSivananda The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
SivanandaSivananda Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.
SivanandaSivananda Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
SivanandaSivananda 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.
SivanandaSivananda Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
SivanandaSivananda 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.
SivanandaSivananda Giving is the secret of abundance.
SivanandaSivananda Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
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MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on bliss
The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
Meher BabaMeher Baba The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
AberjhaniAberjhani How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
PetrarchPetrarch