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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

Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.
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Love Meditation Peace Wisdom
Change the mind, and you can change the body.
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Body Change Inspirational Mindset
God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
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Forever God Satisfaction
Conquer your thoughts and you will conquer the world.
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Conquer Thinking Willing World Yourself
Regular meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling, and brings the practitioner in contact with the source of his/her very being.
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Himself Intuition Knowledge Meditation Practice Regular Source
The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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Benefit Silence
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
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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Complete Mental Peace Wave
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
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
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Act Divine End Shape Thinking Word
The 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.
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History Human Intellectual Noble Teaching World
Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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Forget Future Hope Live Past Present
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Character Form Law Right
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.
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Creation Drink Eat Planet Sleep Tears Wake Up Yourself
When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.
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Death Desire Heart Immortal Mortal
Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.
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Forever Freedom Lying Mindset

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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