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A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.

Sivananda

When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
SIVANANDA

God Heart Himself Success
This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
SIVANANDA

Body Greatness School Silence Teacher World
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
SIVANANDA

Crave Follow Object Yourself
The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
SIVANANDA

Awareness Practice Yoga
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.
SIVANANDA

Book Greatness Heart Knowledge Reading Yourself
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.
SIVANANDA

Alone Knowledge Man Student
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.
SIVANANDA

Blade Humble Joy Pain Taste
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.
SIVANANDA

Finding Goal Name Peace Power Wealth
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
SIVANANDA

Control Mindset Pain Responsibility Yoga
God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
SIVANANDA

Forever God Satisfaction
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
SIVANANDA

Future Moments Present
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
SIVANANDA

Children Forget Hate Heart Injury
The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.
SIVANANDA

Battle Mindset Past Residue
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.
SIVANANDA

Depression Failure Future Mistake Past Regret
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
SIVANANDA

Beginning Bliss End Immortal Joy Meditation
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
SIVANANDA

Complete Mental Peace Wave

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