Swami Sivananda's 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

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

Swami Sivananda

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

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

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

Swami Sivananda

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

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

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

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

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

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