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and practices. Accept them with all your mind and heart. I have already told you that your mission is not small. Do not go after petty achievements. You have to conquer the mind. To be crowned with the title of 'World Conqueror', you must follow this path of restraint. You will then be able to see your inner soul, but there is no other way to see God than the one described above. You may not accept it today, but you will realize this, if you go ahead on the path of yoga and achieve restraint of the chitta vritti.
There is a description of three kinds of knowledge in the 18th chapter of the Gita: sattvic knowledge, rajasic knowledge and tamasic knowledge. Almighty God, who is truth, consciousness and bliss, is present in all beings right from an ant up to Brahma. The knowledge which leads you to God is sattvic knowledge. Your penance and sadhana is for that knowledge. Only that knowledge can put an end to all sufferings.
From the platform of the World Yoga Convention, I summon not only the sadhaks and this audience, but the whole world. If you want peace, if you wish to conquer the world, if you want to be free from desire and suffering, practise restraint of mind. This is the cure for all diseases and this has been preached by Shankaracharya and practised by Paramahamsa Satyananda. You can be free from the bondage of birth and death by coming close to God. The literature published here shows you the path. Start practising yoga and you will obtain the result. Your face will be glowing with bliss. The face is the mirror of inner actions and reactions. Any kind of pain and strain makes the face dull and faded, and any kind of satisfaction and pleasure makes the face bright. If your face brightens after eating 200 grams of food, then no doubt your face will be blooming and beaming with eternal pleasure after practising yoga, after achieving self-realization and God-realization.
The sadhaks should keep smiling all the time. Swami Vivekananda once advised one of his disciples to keep himself locked in his room if he was irritated and sad. He said he had no right to spread this infectious disease of sadness and irritation and make others mournful, sorry and tense. Always keep smiling, even on the death bed.
See how much glory, grandeur and wealth Paramahamsa Satyananda has earned. But leaving all aside in a moment, he
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