Quotes from Swami Sivananda

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

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

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.

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

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

Meditation is an effort in the beginning. Later on it becomes habitual and gives bliss, joy and peace

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

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

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

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

Regular meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling, and brings the practitioner in contact with the source of his/her very being