Sivananda Saraswati Quotes & Sayings

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

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! — Sivananda Saraswati

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

Fewer the thoughts, greater the peace. — Sivananda Saraswati

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

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. — Sivananda Saraswati

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. — Sivananda Saraswati

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

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

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. — Sivananda Saraswati

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. — Sivananda Saraswati

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. — Sivananda Saraswati

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. — Sivananda Saraswati

Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we — Sivananda Saraswati