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The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

Sivananda

A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
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Mindset Purity Subject Transcendence Understand
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
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Crave Follow Object Yourself
The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.
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Battle Mindset Past Residue
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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Goodness Reveal See Time Yourself
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
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Education Enjoyment Experience Life Secret
The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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Demand Hard Struggle Success
Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.
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Emotion Faith Religion Respect Tolerance Unity
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
Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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Meditation Purity Realize Serve
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.
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Compassionate Life Meditation Realize Time Yourself
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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Depression Failure Future Mistake Past Regret
You are the Master of your own Destiny.
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Destiny Master Yourself
Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.
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Intuition Reason Transcendence
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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Energy Eyes Influence Person Smile Wisdom Yourself
Giving is the secret of abundance.
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Abundance Secret Yourself
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
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Destination Domain Life Man Pilgrimage Ultimate Wisdom
Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.
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Action Horrible People Thinking Word Yourself
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
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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Complete Mental Peace Wave
Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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Character Degree Man Need Wisdom
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
God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
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Forever God Satisfaction
One can realize God through kirtan alone.
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Alone God Realize
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.
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Born Ignorance Mindset Rise Temptation Yourself
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
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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Beyond Reality Religion Science
Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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God Manifestation Responsibility Treat

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