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Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.

Sivananda

The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.
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Battle Mindset Past Residue
Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.
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Action Horrible People Thinking Word Yourself
Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.
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Conscience Happiness People Right Thinking Worry
Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.
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Fame Jealous Success
Giving is the secret of abundance.
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Abundance Secret Yourself
Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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God Manifestation Responsibility Treat
An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.
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Destroy Development Evil Finding Future Goodness Man
Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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Character Degree Man Need Wisdom
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
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
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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Desire Greatness Impurity Poverty Spark
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
Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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Meditation Purity Realize Serve
Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.
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Forever Freedom Lying Mindset
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
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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Children Forget Hate Heart Injury

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