Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
SIVANANDAFear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.
More Sivananda Quotes
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The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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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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Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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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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The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.
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Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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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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If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Life is a series of awakenings.
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Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path.
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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
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When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.
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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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Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
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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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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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Change the mind, and you can change the body.
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Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.
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Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
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Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
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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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