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.
SIVANANDADo 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.
More Sivananda Quotes
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Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
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Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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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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Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
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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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Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
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Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
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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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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
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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.
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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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The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.
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