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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

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
SIVANANDA

Future Moments Present
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.
SIVANANDA

Condition Discipline Factor Forever Fundamental
One can realize God through kirtan alone.
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Alone God Realize
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
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
SIVANANDA

Divine Freedom Goodness Life Mental Salvation
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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Anand Thakur
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
SIVANANDA

Compassionate Life Meditation Realize Time Yourself
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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Divine Expectation Love Reward Serve Share
Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
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Leisure Love Realize Truth Wasted Time
The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
SIVANANDA

Demand Hard Struggle Success
You are the Master of your own Destiny.
SIVANANDA

Destiny Master Yourself
Change the mind, and you can change the body.
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Body Change Inspirational Mindset
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
Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.
SIVANANDA

Authentic Beautiful Essential Heart Spirituality
Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
SIVANANDA

God Manifestation Responsibility Treat
Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
SIVANANDA

Beginning Ourselves Sick

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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