The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
SIVANANDAMeditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
More Sivananda Quotes
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There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
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This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
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The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
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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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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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Giving is the secret of abundance.
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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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Life is a series of awakenings.
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Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
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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.
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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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Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
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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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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
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Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.
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