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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Sivananda

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
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Beginning Bliss End Immortal Joy Meditation
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.
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Alone Knowledge Man Student
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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Condition Discipline Factor Forever Fundamental
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
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Awareness Consciousness Forever Meditation Purity Thinking
Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.
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Butterfly Love Receive
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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Book Greatness Heart Knowledge Reading Yourself
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
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Destination Domain Life Man Pilgrimage Ultimate Wisdom
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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Future Moments Present
Giving is the secret of abundance.
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Abundance Secret Yourself
Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.
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God Leaving Patience Practice Regular
An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!
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Practice Theory Worth
Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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God Manifestation Responsibility Treat
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
The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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Benefit Silence
Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.
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Alone Ego Yourself
The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.
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