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 Wednesday 25 February 2026

CAUSE OF SUFFERING

Swami Sivananda

All at once you cannot attain the desireless state. Hence the need for spiritualization of desires. Unrestricted gratification of desire, if it is within the scope of realization, diminishes the power of the mind and ruins the health. It depraves one's conscience. All suffering is due to selfish desires. If you are truly selfless, you will have less of suffering. Unselfishness is not merely giving up preferences to objects but all that is related to the individual personality. It is denial of preferences to the individual self. To say "I am mentally detached" and indulge in sensual pleasures, is hypocrisy. Mental detachment, without a corresponding effect on the physical plane, is only self-delusion.


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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.

Those who are devoted to the Ashram and Gurudev know very well that the Ashram does not charge anything for any Seva at the Ashram. Please take note that the official websites of The Divine Life Society are https://www.sivanandaonline.org and https://www.dlshq.org, email Ids are generalsecretary@sivanandaonline.org and gs@sivanandaonline.org and the online donation portal is https://donations.sivanandaonline.org

Act not from your human level but act from your divine level, for your human personality is only temporary.

- Swami Chidananda
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