Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
SIVANANDAYou are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.
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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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Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.
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The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
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It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
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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 thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.
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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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Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.
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Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
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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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Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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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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Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.
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Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
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Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.
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Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.
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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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God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
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When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.
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Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.
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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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Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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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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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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An 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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Bear insult, bear injury.
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