Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
SIVANANDAMeditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
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The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
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Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.
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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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The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.
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Giving is the secret of abundance.
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Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path.
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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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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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Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
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Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
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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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If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.
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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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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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