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.
SIVANANDABe 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.
More Sivananda Quotes
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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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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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The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
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Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.
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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
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You are the Master of your own Destiny.
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Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
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God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.
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There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.
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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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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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If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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