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• Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.

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  Pain, Ignorance, Joy

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• Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Follow Your Heart

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• When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

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  Heart, Men, Desire

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• Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire.

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  Wise, Spiritual, Giving Up

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• Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.

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  Men, Done, Action

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

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  Inspiring, Stay Strong, Struggle

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• To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.

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  Spiritual, Discipline, Mind

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• Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

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  Giving Up, Yoga, Future

  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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• 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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  Knowledge, Men, Needs

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• 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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  Hate, Simple, World

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• The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.

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  Humanity, Secret, Life Is

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• Eating, drinking, sleeping
  a little laughter ! much weeping!
  Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm.
  Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!

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  Laughter, Drinking, Sleep

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• You are not bound. You have got free will. You cannot change the experiences, the results of Prarabdha but you can change your future by right thinking and right action and thus make your will pure and irresistible. You can attain Self-realisatio n with the help of a dynamic will.

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  Thinking, Self, Helping

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• The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.

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  Silence, Benefits

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• The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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  Secret, Life Is, Enjoyment

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• Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.

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  Prayer, Heart, Light

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• 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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  Spiritual, Discipline, Common Sense

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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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  Past, Mind, Battle

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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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  Moksha, Selfless, Way

  "Immortal Teachings of Sri Swami Sivananda". Book by Swami Sivananda, p. 29, 1957.

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• Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.

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  Fame, Penalties

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• Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride.

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  Honesty, Hate, Character

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• Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

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  Fighting, Perception, Conquer

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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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  Real, Religion, Argument

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• 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 goad

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  Pain, Humble, Agony

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• Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind. Serve Bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, remove faecal matter. Do not revenge, resist not evil, return good for evil, bear insult and injury. Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

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  Children, Giving Up, Revenge

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