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The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.

Sivananda

The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts.
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Ability Inheritance Mental Mystery Shut Teaching Thinking
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
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
Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
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Calm Greatness Humanity Pave Peace World
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
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Culture Law Moral Regulation Value
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
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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Complete Mental Peace Wave
Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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Meditation Purity Realize Serve
Change the mind, and you can change the body.
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Body Change Inspirational Mindset
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
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Capacity Himself Man Path Understand
Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
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Beginning Ourselves Sick
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Desire Give Up Happiness
Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.
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Attachment Goodness Man Performance Reach
You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don’t keep your word.
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Promise Vow Word Yourself
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Character Form Law Right
Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.
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Alone Ego Yourself

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