Sivananda Saraswati > Quotes

“This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!”
― Sivananda

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

“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.”
― Sivananda

“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”
― Swami Sivananda Saraswati, Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life

“Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.”
― Sivananda

“Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
― Swami Sivananda

“An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.”
― Sivananda

“Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we”
― 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

“Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.”
― Sivananda

“Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.”
― Swami Sivananda

“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”
― Swami Sivananda

“It is Maya that makes you feel, “This man is inferior and the other man is superior.”
― Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati, Satsanga and Svadhyaya

“Fewer the thoughts, greater the peace.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, THOUGHT POWER

“Give up all sorts of fears, worries, anxieties and cares. Do not be disheartened by failures and setbacks. Draw strength and courage from God dwelling in the chamber of your heart. Pain is the best thing in the world. It is an eye-opener. It awakens your dormant faculties. Never forget this.”
― Sivananda Saraswati

“Thoughts are giant-powers. They are more powerful than electricity. They control your life, mould your character, and shape your destiny.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, THOUGHT POWER

“Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, THOUGHT POWER

“Isavasyamidam Sarvam: every content of the universe is throbbing with the Life of the Lord. Smile with the flowers and the green grass. Smile with the shrubs, ferns and twigs. Develop friendship with all neighbours, dogs, cats, cows, human beings, trees, in fact, with all nature’s creations. You will have a perfect and rich life.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, THOUGHT POWER

“You create your future by your thoughts now; if you think nobly, you will be noble in conduct. If you think basely no environment will make you different. Thus, thoughts and actions are interdependent. Be vigilant and allow only good thoughts in your mental field.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, THOUGHT POWER

“Man is not a creature of circumstances. His thoughts are the architects of his circumstances.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, THOUGHT POWER

“Let a man lift himself by his own Self alone, let him not lower himself; for the Self alone is the friend of oneself and this Self alone is the enemy of oneself (5).”
― Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati, Bhagavad Gita for Busy People

“Blessed is he who keeps daily diary and compares the work of this week with that of the last, for he will realize God quickly!”
― Sivananda Saraswati, Sure Ways for Success in Life and God Realisation

“SUCCESS TONIC
• 1 tsp confidence
• 1 tsp courage
• 2 tsp patience
• 4 tsp prayer
• 4 tsp perseverance
• 4 tsp joy
• 6 tsp enthusiasm
Take one teaspoonful of this tonic three times daily.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, Samadhi Yoga

“The energy that is wasted during one sexual intercourse is tantamount to the energy that is spent in physical labour for ten days or the energy that is utilized in mental work for three days. Mark how precious is the vital fluid, semen! Do not waste this energy. Preserve it with great care. You will have wonderful vitality. When Veerya is not used, it is all transmuted into Ojas Sakti or spiritual energy and stored up in the brain. Western doctors know little of this salient point. Most of your ailments are due to excessive seminal wastage.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, PRACTICE OF BRAHMACHARYA

“That man who is regular and punctual will get sure success in all walks of life.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, Sure Ways for Success in Life and God Realisation

“The secret of success in life is time rightly used.”
― Sivananda Saraswati

“The spiritual path is very, very easy for a man of determination, patience, endurance, self-sacrifice, dispassion and a strong will.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, Sure Ways for Success in Life and God Realisation

“The difficulty in weaning the mind from worldly thoughts, from external objects, and fixing it on God is the same as in making the Ganga flow towards Gangotri instead of its natural flow towards Ganga-Sagar. It is like rowing against the current of the Yamuna.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, THOUGHT POWER

“Mind, Prana and Veerya are one. By controlling the mind, you can control Prana and semen. By controlling Prana you can control the mind and semen. By controlling semen, you can control the mind and Prana.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, PRACTICE OF BRAHMACHARYA

“You are the author of your own fate. You yourself have created this. You yourself are entirely responsible for this. You are the architect of your joys and sorrows. Just as the spider or the silkworm creates a web or cocoon for its own destruction, so also you have created this cage of flesh by your own actions, attractions, repulsions and false egoism. You have become the slave of the flesh, slave of your body and mind, slave of countless desires. You are sunk in the quagmire of deepest ignorance.”
― Sri Swami Sivananda, Pratical Lessons In Yoga By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA