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Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Sivananda

Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.
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God Life Purpose Realize Worth
Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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Meditation Purity Realize Serve
Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.
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Forever Freedom Lying Mindset
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
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Beginning Bliss End Immortal Joy Meditation
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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Blade Humble Joy Pain Taste
The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.
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God Humanity Life Love Secret Service
The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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Benefit Silence
You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.
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Freedom Known Realize Truth
Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.
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Fear Mindset 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.
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Alone Knowledge Man Student
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Character Form Law Right
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
Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.
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Capacity Life Soul
Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.
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Emotion Faith Religion Respect Tolerance Unity
Common 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.
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Condition Discipline Factor Forever Fundamental
Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.
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Fame Jealous Success

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