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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.

Sivananda

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
SIVANANDA

Demand Hard Struggle Success
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
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
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
SIVANANDA

Crave Follow Object Yourself
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
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
SIVANANDA

Desire Give Up Happiness
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
Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.
SIVANANDA

Authentic Beautiful Essential Heart Spirituality
The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
SIVANANDA

Awareness Practice Yoga
A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
SIVANANDA

Mindset Purity Subject Transcendence Understand
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.
SIVANANDA

Anand Thakur
This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
SIVANANDA

Body Greatness School Silence Teacher World
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
SIVANANDA

Beyond Reality Religion Science
Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
SIVANANDA

Belief Creation Faith Finding God Healing Light Mountain
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
SIVANANDA

Capacity Himself Man Path Understand
Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
SIVANANDA

Beginning Ourselves Sick

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