Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.
SIVANANDAWhen you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
More Sivananda Quotes
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You are the Master of your own Destiny.
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If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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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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It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
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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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Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
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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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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.
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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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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 benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.
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Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
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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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An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!
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You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don’t keep your word.
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Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
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To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
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Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives – does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
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Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.
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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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The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.
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Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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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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