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The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.

Sivananda

Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don’t die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.
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Creation Drink Eat Planet Sleep Tears Wake Up Yourself
Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
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Bliss Forever Meditation Practice Regular
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
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
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Beginning Bliss End Immortal Joy Meditation
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
Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.
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Conscience Happiness People Right Thinking Worry
Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.
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Authentic Beautiful Essential Heart Spirituality
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
One can realize God through kirtan alone.
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Alone God Realize
Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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God Manifestation Responsibility Treat
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
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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Bliss Drink Eat Immortal Laughter Sleep Wake Up
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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Blade Humble Joy Pain Taste
Always 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.
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Divine Freedom Goodness Life Mental Salvation
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
Conquer your thoughts and you will conquer the world.
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Conquer Thinking Willing World Yourself
The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
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Awareness Practice Yoga
Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
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Conquer Fight Terrible Yourself
An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.
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Destroy Development Evil Finding Future Goodness Man
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
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Character Form Law Right
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
Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.
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God Leaving Patience Practice Regular
Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.
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Brain Divine Learning Mindset Thinking
Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women.
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Expression Heart Medium Men Music Voice Woman
Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
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Leisure Love Realize Truth Wasted Time
Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
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Belief Creation Faith Finding God Healing Light Mountain

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