SWAMI SIVANANDA |
DIVINE MESSAGE
People are unreasonable, illogical and self centred, love
them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior
motives, do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true
enemies, succeed anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and
frank anyway.
People favour underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for some underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but attack you if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have got anyway.
To raise the fallen, to lead the blind.
To share what I have with others.
To bring solace to the affected.
To cheer up the suffering are my ideals.
To have perfect faith in God, to love my neighbours as
my own self, to love god with with all my heart and soul.
To protect cows, animals, women and children are my aims.
My watchword is love.
My goal is sahaja samadhi avastha
or the natural continuous, superconscious state.
SWAMI SIVANANDA(1942)
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INTRODUCTION TO YOGA
WHAT IS YOGA?
Yoga is a way of life, an integrated system of education for
the body, mind and inner spirit.
This art of right living was perfected and practiced in India
thousands of years ago but since yoga deals with universal truth,
it's teachings are as valid today as they were in ancient times.
Yoga is a practical aid, not a religion, and it's techniques
may be practised by buddhists, christians, muslims, jews, hindus
and atheists alike. Yoga is union with all.
THE YOGIC PATH OF INNER PEACE
Yoga is a life self-discipline based on the tenets of "simple
living and high thinking". To the ancient yogis the body
was seen as a vehicle for the soul and this is a useful metaphor
in the modern context.
Just as a car requires a lubricating system, a battery, a cooling
system, the proper fuel and a responsible driver behind the wheel,
so the body has certain needs if it is to function smoothly.
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