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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Sivananda

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
SIVANANDA

Demand Hard Struggle Success
You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don’t keep your word.
SIVANANDA

Promise Vow Word Yourself
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
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Crave Follow Object Yourself
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.
SIVANANDA

Development Emotion Feeling Hands Intellectual Known Man Willing
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.
SIVANANDA

Book Greatness Heart Knowledge Reading Yourself
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.
SIVANANDA

Alone Knowledge Man Student
Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.
SIVANANDA

Emotion Faith Religion Respect Tolerance Unity
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
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Artificial Civilization Complication Harm Modern Oneself
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.
SIVANANDA

Creation Drink Eat Planet Sleep Tears Wake Up Yourself
The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
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Experience Mindset Present Product Thinking
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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Complete Mental Peace Wave
Change the mind, and you can change the body.
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Body Change Inspirational Mindset
Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
SIVANANDA

Anand Thakur
Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.
SIVANANDA

Alone Ego Yourself
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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Act Heart Mindset Secret Success
Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.
SIVANANDA

God Life Purpose Realize Worth

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