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.
SIVANANDABe 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.
SIVANANDAThere is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
SIVANANDAFear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.
SIVANANDAYou are the Master of your own Destiny.
SIVANANDAModern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
SIVANANDAThinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
SIVANANDAThe 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.
SIVANANDAGiving is the secret of abundance.
SIVANANDADesire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
SIVANANDACommon sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.
SIVANANDAThe mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
SIVANANDAIt is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
SIVANANDAConquer your thoughts and you will conquer the world.
SIVANANDAThere is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
SIVANANDAServe, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
SIVANANDAIf you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.
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