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• ‘Elevate yourself through the power of your mind, and not degrade yourself, for the mind can be the greatest assistant of the self, and also its vilest enemy.’
• for a purpose, and they remain until the purpose is served. When we have learned the lessons intended for us, the environment naturally changes and leads to a new set of situations that carry within them another lesson.
• The more we win our inner battles, the more we will find external success knocking at our door. It’s quite simple―thought by thought, we forge our destiny.
• Thus, desire is the mother and anger is its child. Sometimes people come to me, saying, ‘Swami-ji, everything is okay in me except for anger.’ ‘You do not have any affliction apart from anger?’ I ask. ‘No, Swami-ji. Anger is my only problem.’ ‘Impossible! If anger is present, its cause, desire, must also be present.’ We have learned that the cause ...
• The uncommonly known secret of this world is that desire can never be eliminated by satiating it. It is like attempting to extinguish a fire by pouring clarified butter on it. The fire does seem to go away, but only momentarily. It then flares up with redoubled vigour. Thus, like anger, greed is also the child of desire. The Ramayan states: