Sivananda Quotes

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• This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!

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  Motivational, Uplifting, Faith

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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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  Names, Goal, Achievement

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• The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

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  Pain, Yoga, Inspiration

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.

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  Character, Heart, Self

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• Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony.

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  Inspirational, Weed, Heart

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• Don't fear the darkness if you carry the light within.

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  Light, Darkness, Light Within

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• Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.

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  Love, Spiritual, Thinking

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• An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

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  Practice, Theory

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• Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we

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  Wellness, Illness

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• Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.

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  Cheer, Giving, Joy

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

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  Children, Heart, Hatred

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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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  Brain, Mind, Use

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• Look within.
  Within you is the hidden God.
  Within you is the immortal soul.
  Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure.
  Within you is the ocean of bliss.
  Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.

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  Spiritual, Ocean, Soul

  Swami Sivananda (1944). “Gyana Yoga”

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• If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

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  Focus, Mind, Rays

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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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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  Kindness, Heart, Life Is Short

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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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  Laughter, Drinking, Sleep

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• Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom; you will have everything.

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  Sleep, Medicine, Sound

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• Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.

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  Hands, Giving, Expectations

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• To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.

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  Self, Lasting Happiness, Perfect

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• Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality.

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  Character, Evil, Temptation

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• Truth is complete in itself. Truth has a strong foundation in itself. It is bold, it has no fears. It has no limit of space or time. It is a fearless, free bird in the sky. It does not care for status. It is wealth in itself. Truth stands even when there is no public support.

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  Strong, Sky, Space

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• Giving is the secret of abundance.

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  Giving, Secret, Abundance

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• Conquer your thoughts and you will conquer the world.

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  Conquer The World, World, Conquer

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• Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.

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  Thinking, People, Worry

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