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 Saturday 24 October 2026

MIND DECEIVES

Swami Sivananda

The mind of the cat is ever on the milk pot. The mind of the snake is ever on the frog. Even so, the mind of a passionate man is ever on the small, vulgar pleasures of the senses. O ignorant man! aspire for the Big Eternal Bliss. What you pursue here fails to give you what you truly seek and recedes like a mirage. Sensual pleasures, like Ghee when poured on fire, intensify all the more, when enjoyed. Only a dispassionate heart, guided by a dis criminative intellect, can succeed in fighting the battle of life. Indulgence in objects is the effect of the failure of the individual to discriminate the Truth from untruth. Desire to have contact with the objects and enjoy them, is the outcome of the ignorance of the Truth or God. The lack of the character of self-sufficiency discloses the deceitful nature of the objects of this universe. Materialistic life leads you to fear, anxiety, birth, decay and death, as there is no essence of the Immortal Soul in it.


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This is to caution all the devotees of Gurudev that some fraudsters have launched a website impersonating the official website of The Divine Life Society, in order to mislead the public and collect money in the name of booking rooms, joining Yoga Courses, etc. Devotees are advised to beware of the fake website with the address https://sivanandaashram.co.in/, email Id info@sivanandaashram.co.in & phone number 9668461538 and take necessary precautions from falling prey to such scammers. It has never been a practice of the Ashram to let the devotees book rooms or register for Yoga Courses through phone or Whatsapp.

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In svadhyaya, you do not read a book merely for the sake of information. Svadhyaya means a regulated daily disciplined study of a chosen text or a chosen group of texts. It is a discipline of the soul, and not merely study for an examination or a hobby or just for recreation, as you do in a public library. It is a disciplined sacred study.

- Swami Krishnananda
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