Healthy and Wealthy

Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge.

Observe your discipline. Arise.

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Delusion arises from anger.

The mind is bewildered by delusion.

Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered.

One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.

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Perform your obligatory duty,

because action is indeed better than inaction.

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The power of God is with you at all times;

through the activities of mind,

senses, breathing, and emotions;

and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.

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The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.

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One who has control over the mind is tranquil in heat and cold,

in pleasure and pain,

and in honor and dishonor;

and is ever steadfast with the Supreme Self.

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The wise sees knowledge and action as one; they see truly

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You have the power to act only-

-you do not have the power to influence the result-

-therefore you must act without the anticipation of the result-

-without succumbing to inaction.

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A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time

and at the right place,

and when we expect nothing in return.

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The disunited mind is far from wise;

how can it meditate?

How be at peace?

When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

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Man is made by his belief.

As he believes, so he is.

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A person is said to have achieved yoga,

the union with the Self,

when the perfectly disciplined mind gets freedom from all desires,

and becomes absorbed in the Self alone.

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The mind is restless and difficult to restrain,

but it is subdued by practice.

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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort,

the mind will become stilled in the Self.

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People will talk about your disgrace forever.

To the honored, dishonor is worse than death.

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There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.

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Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed.

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Fix your mind on Me, be devoted to Me, offer service to Me, bow down to Me, and you shall certainly reach Me. I promise you because you are very dear to Me.

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Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

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To the illumined man or woman,

a clod of dirt,

a stone,

and gold are the same.

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One can become whatever one wants to be

[if one constantly contemplates on the object of desire with faith].

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A Karma-yogi performs action by body,

mind, intellect, and senses,

without attachment (or ego),

only for self-purification.

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed,

nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.

As the same person inhabits the body through childhood,

youth, and old age,

so too at the time of death he attains another body.

The wise are not deluded by these changes.

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Fear not what is not real,

never was and never will be.

What is real,

always was and cannot be destroyed.

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice.

Better than knowledge is meditation.

But better still is surrender of attachment to results,

because there follows immediate peace.

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Knowledge,

the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action;

the senses,

the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

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Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf,

a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy.

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Consciousness is eternal it is not vanquished with the destruction of the temporary body.

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Whatever you do,

make it an offering to me -- the food you eat,

the sacrifices you make, the help you give,

even your suffering.

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A man's own self is his friend.