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An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

Sivananda

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
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Character Form Law Right
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
Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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God Manifestation Responsibility Treat
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
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
Man is a bridge between the two worlds – the visible and the invisible.
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Bridge Invisible Man Visible World
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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Future Moments Present
The goal of life is god realisation.
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Goal God Life Realize
Giving is the secret of abundance.
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Abundance Secret Yourself
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
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History Human Intellectual Noble Teaching World
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
Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.
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God Life Purpose Realize Worth
Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women.
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Expression Heart Medium Men Music Voice Woman
When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
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God Heart Himself Success

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