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

Sivananda

Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.
SIVANANDA

God Leaving Patience Practice Regular
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.
SIVANANDA

Destroy Development Evil Finding Future Goodness Man
The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
SIVANANDA

Demand Hard Struggle Success
A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
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Mindset Purity Subject Transcendence Understand
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
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
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
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Culture Law Moral Regulation Value
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
Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
SIVANANDA

Belief Creation Faith Finding God Healing Light Mountain
The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
SIVANANDA

Awareness Practice Yoga
Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
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Conquer Fight Terrible Yourself
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.
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Born Ignorance Mindset Rise Temptation Yourself
Giving is the secret of abundance.
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Abundance Secret Yourself
There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
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Aspect Different Opinion Truth View
Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.
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Fame Jealous Success
Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path.
SIVANANDA

Growth Path Spiritual Tolerance

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