Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

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• If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
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