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In our ancient scriptures, the learned seers, the rishis, the saints, have given us a formula for being an effective student, a sincere seeker. The formula is Shravan, Manan, Nidhidhyas. Shravan means listening, receiving open-heartedly;
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“To love anyone personally is bondage. Love all alike, then all desires fall off.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Do not spend your energy in talking, but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state, you are unconscious of it.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Concentration of the powers of the mind is our only instrument to help us see God.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Virtue is the only friend which follows us even beyond the grave. Everything else ends with death.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The cow never tells a lie, and the stone never steals, but, nevertheless, the cow remains a cow and the stone a stone. Man steals and man tells lies, and again it is man that becomes a god.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
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