Swami Sivananda Quotes
"God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: God, Satisfaction, Self)
"Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord ."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Love, Duty)
"Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Peace)
"Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Will)
"Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Action, Desire, Evil, Force, Mind, Motive, Poverty)
"Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!"
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Love, Truth, Leisure, Waste)
"Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Religion, Science, Argument, Metaphysics)
"Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Cowardice, Humility, Spiritual, Weakness)
"If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Character, Laws, Right)
"It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Thoughts, Divinity, Words)
"Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Beginning, End, Joy, Meditation)
"Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Life, Salvation)
"Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Meditation, Practice)
"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Success, Soul, Heart, Mind)
"Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Fight, Senses)
"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Self, Struggle)
"The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Progress, Spiritual, Tranquility)
"Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Body, Disease, Mind, Thinking, Will)
"Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: May, Today, Tomorrow)
"Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Desire, Nothing)
"Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Life, Inns, Man, Pilgrimage, Rest)
"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Love, Thought, Desire, Hate, Mind)
"Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Heart, Forget, Hatred, Injury)