Quotes from Sivananda

Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.

Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.

The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.

Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.

Man is a bridge between the two worlds - the visible and the invisible.

Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women

When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

You are the Master of your own Destiny

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

Don't fear the darkness if you carry the light within.

Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.