Top 29 Quotes & Sayings by Swami Sivananda

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian philosopher Swami Sivananda.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Sivananda Saraswati was a yoga guru, a Hindu spiritual teacher, and a proponent of Vedanta. Sivananda was born Kuppuswami in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism.

Indian - Philosopher | September 8, 1887 - July 14, 1963

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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Swami Sivananda

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

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

Swami Sivananda

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

Swami Sivananda

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. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Swami Sivananda

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Swami Sivananda

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Swami Sivananda

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

Swami Sivananda

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Swami Sivananda

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Swami Sivananda

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

Swami Sivananda

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Swami Sivananda

God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.

Swami Sivananda

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

Swami Sivananda

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

Swami Sivananda

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Swami Sivananda

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Swami Sivananda

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

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Swami Sivananda

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Swami Sivananda

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Swami Sivananda

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Swami Sivananda

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

Swami Sivananda

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

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

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Swami Sivananda

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Swami Sivananda

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Swami Sivananda

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

Swami Sivananda