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“Progress is not gauged by improvement in the comfort of our situation. Progress happens when the situation is adverse and we remain normal.”
― Swami Mukundananda

“remembered wellness”
― Swami Mukundananda, 7 Mindsets for Success, Happiness and Fulfilment

“When we repeatedly bring certain types of feelings to our mind, they develop into an attitude. And that attitude, when it hardens and becomes natural to our personality, develops into a mindset.”
― Swami Mukundananda, 7 Mindsets for Success, Happiness and Fulfilment

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
― Swami Mukundananda, 7 Mindsets for Success, Happiness and Fulfilment

“Itihās’ (Ramayan and Mahabharat), eighteen Puranas, Ṣhaḍ Darśhan (six treatises on philosophy), hundred Smṛitis (books of dharma) and thousands of Nibandhs (philosophical thesis by great sages).”
― Swami Mukundananda, 7 Mindsets for Success, Happiness and Fulfilment

“absurdity”
― Swami Mukundananda, 7 Mindsets for Success, Happiness and Fulfilment

“The beauty of the power of mindset is that it is an internal resource we all are possess.”
― Swami Mukundananda

“The mind is the cause of bondage and the mind is the cause of liberation.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“Everyone has the right to say what they want, as long as it does not break the rules. We also have the right not to feel bad about it. They have the right to their opinion, and we have the right to disregard it. What people say and think about us does not define who we are. Their views are not what decides our self-worth. It is best to let them deflect off us like water rolls off a lotus leaf.”
― Swami Mukundananda, 7 Mindsets for Success, Happiness and Fulfilment

“irrespective of our behaviour and attitude, we always expect justice and compassion from others.”
― Swami Mukundananda, 7 Mindsets for Success, Happiness and Fulfilment

“The sentiment of gratitude has a very powerful positive impact upon the mind. In fact, it is the second most positive sentiment after selfless love.”
― Swami Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“pūrva janma kṛitaṁ karma taddaivamiti kathyate”
― Mukundananda, 7 Mindsets for Success, Happiness and Fulfilment

“Mind (Mana): When the inner machinery gives birth to thoughts, we call it mana, or the mind. Intellect (Buddhi): When it engages in analysis and decision-making, we refer to it as buddhi, or intellect. Subconscious mind (Chitta): This is the repository of memories and inner convictions. It includes impressions continuing from past lives. Ego (Ahāṅkār): When it identifies with the attributes of the body and manifests pride, it is called ahāṅkār, or ego.”
― Swami Mukundananda, Spiritual Secrets from Hinduism: Essence of the Vedic Scriptures

“Stress creates a gamut of negative emotions like tension, fear, distress, apprehension, and anxiety.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“When we repeatedly harbour a pattern of thoughts, their neural circuit becomes etched in the brain.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“Good habits are hard to come by and easy to live with. Conversely, bad habits develop easily and are hard to live with.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“In this analogy: the chariot is the body the horses are the five senses the reins in the mouth of the horses is the mind the charioteer is the intellect the passenger seated behind is the soul Ideally, the passenger should give directions to the charioteer, who should pull the reins to guide the horses in the proper direction. In the same way, the soul should direct the intellect, which should govern the mind. Then the mind should control the senses. But in this case, the soul (passenger) is asleep, and the chariot is going awry: the senses (horses) desire to see, taste, touch, feel, and smell various things the mind (reins), rather than controlling the senses, supports their desires the intellect (charioteer), instead of directing where to go, submits to the pulls of the senses seated on this chariot, the soul (passenger) is moving around in this material world since eternity We are like the passenger, asleep in the chariot, who has relinquished control. As a result, the driver of the chariot (the intellect) has no clue in which direction it should go. The soul (passenger) needs to wake up and become proactive. It can then steer the intellect in the right direction.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping that the other person dies.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“have been insulted! I have been hurt! I have been beaten! I have been robbed! Anger ceases in those who do not harbour such thoughts.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“The moment we relinquish the intellect’s power of discernment between right and wrong, we fall to the level of animals”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“Life is like a book that is constantly teaching us lessons. Having come in this world, improve we must. Be open to this learning.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“if we repeatedly think that happiness is in becoming wise, we will become attached to good knowledge. This will lead to the yearning to gather more knowledge. The desire for knowledge—which is good—will not bind us; rather, it will uplift us.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“By repeated contemplation of happiness in the objects of the senses, one develops attachment to them. Attachment creates desire, and from desire arises anger.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“The science of mind management requires us to empower the intellect with right knowledge from the scriptures and then use that illumined intellect to properly govern the mind.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“It is our attachment to an object, not its intrinsic properties, which create desire for it.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“It was Mark Twain who observed: ‘The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”
― Mukundananda, 7 Divine Laws to Awaken Your Best Self

“We shall now use the technique of Reductio ad absurdum to disprove fatalism. This is a method where the statement to be invalidated is accepted as the premise. Then it is shown to lead to a logical inconsistency. Let us start with the premise that everything is predestined.”
― Mukundananda, 7 Mindsets for Success, Happiness and Fulfilment

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a while but it ain’t going away.”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management

“Good ideas are a dime a dozen, but they are not worth a single nickel if they are not put into practice’. In”
― Mukundananda, The Science of Mind Management