Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati was an Indian yoga guru known for his teaching of asanas, a disciple of Sivananda Saraswati, and founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams. He established the Sivananda Yoga Teachers' Training Course, possibly the first yoga teacher training programs in the West. His books The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga (1960) and Meditation and Mantras (1978) established him as an authority on Hatha and Raja yoga. Vishnudevananda was a peace activist who rode in several "peace flights" over places of conflict, including the Berlin Wall prior to German reunification.

Indian - Author | December 31, 1927 - November 9, 1993

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An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Real peace comes only to those who control the body and mind with self-discipline.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Far beyond your intellect, far beyond your understanding, lies inexhaustible knowledge and wealth, strength and power, peace and joy. Do not use your intellect to find the answers for God and his manifestations. Everything is God.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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