Life is a series of awakenings.
SIVANANDAIf you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
More Sivananda Quotes
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Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!
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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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Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.
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Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.
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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
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Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
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Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
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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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Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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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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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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The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
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Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.
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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don’t keep your word.
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Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.
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It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
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Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.
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Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.
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You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.
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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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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
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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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