Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.
SIVANANDAOne can realize God through kirtan alone.
More Sivananda Quotes
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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
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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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Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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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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Life is a series of awakenings.
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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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Regular meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling, and brings the practitioner in contact with the source of his/her very being.
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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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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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Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.
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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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An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!
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If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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You are the Master of your own Destiny.
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