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.
SIVANANDAThinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
More Sivananda Quotes
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If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.
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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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Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!
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The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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One can realize God through kirtan alone.
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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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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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Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
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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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This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
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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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Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.
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