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

Sivananda

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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Complete Mental Peace Wave
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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Anand Thakur
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
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Crave Follow Object Yourself
Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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Meditation Purity Realize Serve
Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.
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God Life Purpose Realize Worth
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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Blade Humble Joy Pain Taste
This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
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Body Greatness School Silence Teacher World
A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.
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Energy Eyes Influence Person Smile Wisdom Yourself
Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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God Manifestation Responsibility Treat
Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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Character Degree Man Need Wisdom
A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
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Mindset Purity Subject Transcendence Understand
The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.
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Battle Mindset Past Residue
You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don’t keep your word.
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Promise Vow Word Yourself
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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Action Horrible People Thinking Word Yourself
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Desire Give Up Happiness
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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Expression Heart Medium Men Music Voice Woman
Change the mind, and you can change the body.
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Body Change Inspirational Mindset
Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.
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Capacity Life Soul
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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Future Moments Present
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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Children Forget Hate Heart Injury
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
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Destination Domain Life Man Pilgrimage Ultimate Wisdom
The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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Benefit Silence
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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Depression Failure Future Mistake Past Regret
Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don’t die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.
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Creation Drink Eat Planet Sleep Tears Wake Up Yourself
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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Desire Greatness Impurity Poverty Spark
The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.
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Anand Thakur
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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Divine Freedom Goodness Life Mental Salvation

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