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Desire 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.

Sivananda

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.
SIVANANDA

Divine Expectation Love Reward Serve Share
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
SIVANANDA

Born Ignorance Mindset Rise Temptation Yourself
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.
SIVANANDA

Expectation Fold Hands Learning Love Yourself
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
SIVANANDA

Complete Mental Peace Wave
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
You are the Master of your own Destiny.
SIVANANDA

Destiny Master Yourself
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Character Form Law Right
Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
SIVANANDA

Death Ignorance Knowledge Pain Sorrow
Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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Character Degree Man Need Wisdom
Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path.
SIVANANDA

Growth Path Spiritual Tolerance
Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
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Anand Thakur
Life is a series of awakenings.
SIVANANDA

Awakening Life One Liner Series
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
SIVANANDA

Children Forget Hate Heart Injury
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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Book Greatness Heart Knowledge Reading 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.
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Development Emotion Feeling Hands Intellectual Known Man Willing
Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.
SIVANANDA

Butterfly Love Receive

Desire 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.

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Desire 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.

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