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One can realize God through kirtan alone.

Sivananda

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
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
SIVANANDA

Crave Follow Object Yourself
Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
SIVANANDA

God Manifestation Responsibility Treat
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
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
SIVANANDA

Compassionate Life Meditation Realize Time Yourself
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.
SIVANANDA

Condition Discipline Factor Forever Fundamental
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
SIVANANDA

Beginning Bliss End Immortal Joy Meditation
The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
SIVANANDA

Demand Hard Struggle Success
Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.
SIVANANDA

Intuition Reason Transcendence
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
SIVANANDA

Beyond Reality Religion Science
Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.
SIVANANDA

Forever Freedom Lying Mindset
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.
SIVANANDA

Action Horrible People Thinking Word Yourself
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
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
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.
SIVANANDA

Energy Eyes Influence Person Smile Wisdom Yourself
God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
SIVANANDA

Forever God Satisfaction

One can realize God through kirtan alone.

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