“One should have living faith in higher things. One should have an aim. This is very important. The moment one loses faith and forgets the aim, one succumbs to anger, jealousy, greed, passion or delusion”
As quoted in Swami Sivananda's 18 ITIES & the Practice of Pratyahara (2013), p. 87
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