Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
SIVANANDAChange the mind, and you can change the body.
More Sivananda Quotes
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Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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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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Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.
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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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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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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
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Life is a series of awakenings.
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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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God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
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Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.
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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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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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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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This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
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Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
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