Bear insult, bear injury.
SIVANANDAServe, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
More Sivananda Quotes
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Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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The goal of life is god realisation.
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Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.
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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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Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
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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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The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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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.
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Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.
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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.
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Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.
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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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A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
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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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Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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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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Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.
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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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Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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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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Life is a series of awakenings.
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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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Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
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There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.
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