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The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

Sivananda

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
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Leisure Love Realize Truth Wasted Time
The goal of life is god realisation.
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Goal God Life Realize
Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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Forget Future Hope Live Past Present
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
When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
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God Heart Himself Success
There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
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Aspect Different Opinion Truth View
You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don’t keep your word.
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Promise Vow Word Yourself
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
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Crave Follow Object Yourself
There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.
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Development Emotion Feeling Hands Intellectual Known Man Willing
Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.
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Fear Mindset Yourself
Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.
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Condition Discipline Factor Forever Fundamental
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Desire Give Up Happiness
The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
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Awareness Practice Yoga
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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Ability Inheritance Mental Mystery Shut Teaching Thinking
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
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Goodness Reveal See Time Yourself

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