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613. Swami Sivananda

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, March 29, 2021.07:33.AM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching."  =========================================================================

612. Swami Chidananda

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  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, MARCH 28, 2021. 08:12.AM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Essentially, each seeker should know "What am I aspiring for? Is my aspiration being fouled by the occasional reverse gear—if not frequent reverse gears or a permanent inbuilt reverse gear—or am I totally out of gear?" All the calls of the Gita to Arjuna are to stand up and shake off weakness. "Strive" is what all the scriptures say.” =========================================================================

611-Swami Krishnananda

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  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, March 27, 2021. 09:21. AM. On Character : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Character is one's inward disposition necessitated in terms of the law of the Universal Presence of the Supreme Being at any given level of its expression in empirical life. The implementation of this law in outward behaviour is conduct. Hence one's character and conduct have to be assessed, not in the light of what a book has said, what a community or society considers as its tradition and culture, or even what all humanity in its human judgment of good and evil may regard as right, but in consonance with that principle of existence in accordance with whose requirements all life is one organism of indivisible interdependence of existence and value. It is the law of the higher level that decides the worth of the lower, and as long as any particular disposit...