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 Monday 23 February 2026

CAUSE OF SUFFERING

Swami Sivananda

Attachment is the root cause of all suffering. You think that the body is real and become attached to it, and thereby come to grief. Attachment springs from desire. Desire is the psychic life-force. Desire generates impulse, and impulse produces action. Desire for mundane life leads to disillusionment. Desire for material objects involves you in the cross-currents of the world, and you become restless and discontent. Satisfying desire should lead to an understanding of it, rather than its increase. But normally such is not the case. Fulfilment of desire momentarily lulls the mind into quiescence, but soon it hankers after it with a greater longing. Contd…


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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

Any river can take you to the ocean because all the rivers commingle in the ocean. So whatever be your idea of God, you will be taken to the ultimate God. You may be a Christian, you may be a Hindu, you may be a Muslim; it makes no difference. Your God and my God are not two Gods.

- Swami Krishnananda
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