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Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don’t die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.

Sivananda

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
SIVANANDA

God Manifestation Responsibility Treat
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
SIVANANDA

Awareness Consciousness Forever Meditation Purity Thinking
The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.
SIVANANDA

Anand Thakur
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
SIVANANDA

Capacity Himself Man Path Understand
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
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
SIVANANDA

Achievement Measurement Reality Spirituality Tranquility
Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
SIVANANDA

Anand Thakur
The goal of life is god realisation.
SIVANANDA

Goal God Life Realize
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.
SIVANANDA

Depression Failure Future Mistake Past Regret
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.
SIVANANDA

Blade Humble Joy Pain Taste
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
SIVANANDA

Compassionate Life Meditation Realize Time Yourself
A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
SIVANANDA

Mindset Purity Subject Transcendence Understand
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
SIVANANDA

Education Enjoyment Experience Life Secret
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
SIVANANDA

Beginning Bliss End Immortal Joy Meditation
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.
SIVANANDA

Desire Greatness Impurity Poverty Spark
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.
SIVANANDA

Book Greatness Heart Knowledge Reading Yourself

Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don’t die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.

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Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don’t die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.

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