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This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

Sivananda

Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.
SIVANANDA

Fear Mindset Yourself
You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don’t keep your word.
SIVANANDA

Promise Vow Word Yourself
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Character Form Law Right
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
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Divine Freedom Goodness Life Mental Salvation
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
Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.
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Alone Ego Yourself
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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Divine Expectation Love Reward Serve Share
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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Himself Intuition Knowledge Meditation Practice Regular Source
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
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Capacity Himself Man Path Understand
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
You are the Master of your own Destiny.
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Destiny Master Yourself
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
Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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Forget Future Hope Live Past Present
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
Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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Character Degree Man Need Wisdom
To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.
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Discipline Mindset Obedience Spirituality

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