Quotes from Sivananda Saraswati

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

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

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.

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

Thoughts are giant-powers. They are more powerful than electricity. They control your life, mould your character, and shape your destiny.

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.

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.

Man is not a creature of circumstances. His thoughts are the architects of his circumstances.

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.

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!

That man who is regular and punctual will get sure success in all walks of life.

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.

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.

The secret of success in life is time rightly used.

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.

The spiritual path is very, very easy for a man of determination, patience, endurance, self-sacrifice, dispassion and a strong will.

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.

if you have a strong power of endurance, patience and fine health, if your dispassion is intense and of a sustained type and if you are willing to do some selfless service to mankind, you need not worry about money.

Maranam Bindu Patanat, Jivanam Bindu Rakshanat.

Sattva brings non-attachment and infuses in the mind discrimination and renunciation. It is the Rajasic mind that causes the ideas 'I' and 'mine' and the difference of body, caste, creed, colour, order of life, etc.

O Man! Be ever prepared. Live this moment as though it is your last moment on this earth and acquire the maximum spiritual wealth here and now.

Adaptability is a most desirable habit or quality for success in life.

Every depressing and disturbing thought that enters your brain, has a depressing effect on every cell of your body, and tends to produce disease. All negative thoughts are forerunners of disease, and they are messengers of death.

A knowledge more secret than the Svara Yoga, a wealth more useful than Svara Yoga, have never been found.