The goal of life is god realisation.
SIVANANDAThe mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
More Sivananda Quotes
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The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
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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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Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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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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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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Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path.
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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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Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.
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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
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Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
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Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!
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Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
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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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Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
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Conquer your thoughts and you will conquer the world.
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