Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.
SIVANANDAAlways 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.
More Sivananda Quotes
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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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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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Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
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A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.
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Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path.
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Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
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Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
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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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Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.
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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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Change the mind, and you can change the body.
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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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Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
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Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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