The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.
SIVANANDAOne can realize God through kirtan alone.
More Sivananda Quotes
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Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.
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Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives – does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
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The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
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God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
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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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Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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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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Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women.
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The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
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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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You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.
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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
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Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.
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Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
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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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When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.
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Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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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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Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
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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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You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don’t keep your word.
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When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
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Bear insult, bear injury.
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You are the Master of your own Destiny.
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Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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