Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
SIVANANDAThere is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
More Sivananda Quotes
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Bear insult, bear injury.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
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Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.
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The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.
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Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.
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Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.
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Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.
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Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
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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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Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.
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When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
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Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.
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Be 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.
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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
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One can realize God through kirtan alone.
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