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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.

Sivananda

The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
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Awareness Practice Yoga
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Character Form Law Right
Man is a bridge between the two worlds – the visible and the invisible.
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Bridge Invisible Man Visible World
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
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Capacity Himself Man Path Understand
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
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Control Mindset Pain Responsibility Yoga
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
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
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Desire Give Up Happiness
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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Finding Goal Name Peace Power Wealth
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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Artificial Civilization Complication Harm Modern Oneself
Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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Forget Future Hope Live Past Present
When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.
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Death Desire Heart Immortal Mortal
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
Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
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Death Ignorance Knowledge Pain Sorrow
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
You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.
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Freedom Known Realize Truth

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.

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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.

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