The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
SIVANANDAMeditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
More Sivananda Quotes
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Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.
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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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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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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
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Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
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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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The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.
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When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.
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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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Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
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Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.
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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
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The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
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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.
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Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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