One can realize God through kirtan alone.
SIVANANDARegular 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.
More Sivananda Quotes
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You are the Master of your own Destiny.
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Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.
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If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
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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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The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
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Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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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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Life is a series of awakenings.
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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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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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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
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Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
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Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.
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Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
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Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.
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Giving is the secret of abundance.
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Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
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When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.
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The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
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Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.
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Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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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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Bear insult, bear injury.
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