Control over one’s speech
Control over one’s speech is more important than complete silence. The best thing is to learn to say only what
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Month: July 2017
Not to be bound by the environment
It is your vital attachment to family ties and the ordinary social ideas and feelings that has risen in you and creates
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Entrust oneself totally to the Divine
So long as you oscillate between wanting to transform yourself and not wanting to transform yourself—making an effort to progress and becoming
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Attitude towards Animals
Q) In our yoga, what attitude should we take towards animals? A) One can have the true attitude only when
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The Divine is the motive and the goal
Errors have become stepping-stones, the blind gropings conquests. Thy glory transforms defeats into victories of eternity, and all the shadows have fled
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Essentials for a happy and effective life
For a happy and effective life, the essentials are sincerity, humility, perseverance and an insatiable thirst for progress. Above all, one must
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Never lose your temper
You have reached a point of inner progress when you can no more get into fits of anger without feeling the results
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Abhimana in a Sadhak
It is very silly and childish to have abhim¯ana; for it means that you expect everyone including the Mother and myself
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Calmness belongs to the strong
Quietude is a very positive state; there is a positive peace which is not the opposite of conflict—an active peace, contagious, powerful,
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