A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
SIVANANDAAn 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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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.
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The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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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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You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.
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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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Conquer your thoughts and you will conquer the world.
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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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Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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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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Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!
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Change the mind, and you can change the body.
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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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When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
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