The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
SIVANANDABe 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.
More Sivananda Quotes
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Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.
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You are the Master of your own Destiny.
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Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
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The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.
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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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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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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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Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
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An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!
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Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.
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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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Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
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Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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