Motivational Quotes - Swami Shivanand

[Top] “Swami Sivananda Quotes” on Death, Yoga, Motivation, Meditation, etc…

Swami Sivananda Quotes: Here we present with you the quotes of Swami Sivananda. Swami Sivananda’s thoughts given here are based on various topics like Motivation, Death, Meditation, Yoga, etc … First, let us know about the life of Swami Sivananda. Below we have given his Biography along with his quotes.

Swami Sivananda, also known as Sivananda Saraswati, was born on 8 September 1887 in Pattamdai. He was a spiritual guru, as well as a staunch supporter of yoga and Vedanta. He was a physician in his early life after which he retired and spent most of his life in Rishikesh.

He founded the “Divine Life Society” in 1936, followed by the Yoga Forest Academy in 1948. He has authored 296 books on various topics. Even today, Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center is run in the country and abroad by “Divine Life Society”.

In his ashram, knowledge, and practice of four types of yoga (Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Rāja Yoga) are imparted and practiced.

Swami Sivananda died, known as entering “Mahasamadhi” on 14 July 1963 in his Ashram(Sivanandanagar).

Swami Sivananda Quotes

“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
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
“Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.”
Swami Sivananda
“Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.”
Swami Sivananda
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
Swami Sivananda
“Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.”
Swami Sivananda
“The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.”
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
“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
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Swami Sivananda
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
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
“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
“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
“Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.”
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
“If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.”
Swami Sivananda
“Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.”
Swami Sivananda
“Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.”
Swami Sivananda
“Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.”
Swami Sivananda
“Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.”
Swami Sivananda
“Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.”
Swami Sivananda
“Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.”
Swami Sivananda
“The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.”
Swami Sivananda
“God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.”
Swami Sivananda
“Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.”
Swami Sivananda
“Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.”
Swami Sivananda
“Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!”
Swami Sivananda

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