Quotes & Sayings About Saraswati

I was told that Ganesha sat between Lakshmi and Saraswati. My quest to attain the blessings of both goddesses explains my physique. — Ashwin Sanghi

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Taste goodness before you recommend it. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone. — Krishnananda Saraswati

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not. — Dayananda Saraswati

An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory. — Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India. — Dayananda Saraswati

People don't realise that to be free means to be firmly attached to a system, that discipline is the road to a higher freedom. — Chandrasekharendra Saraswati

Remember, 'Even this will pass away! — Chinmayananda Saraswati

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

Brahma and Airavata
Long ago in lands of golden sand
Brahma turned to Saraswati
and gently kissed her inked hand ... — Muse

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

Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Man is subject to all kinds of hardships and misfortunes. — Chandrasekharendra Saraswati

The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within. — Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion. — Krishnananda Saraswati

The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

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

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts. — Chinmayananda 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

Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity. — Krishnananda Saraswati

We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very near, in our throat itself. — Krishnananda Saraswati

If you want to prove yourself to God, improve yourself. Words of guidance are so simple, yet so deep - anybody can win, if he be the soul entry.
Unfortunately, in every field, there are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands. — Krishnananda 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

Janaka gave his daughters to the sons of Dashratha, saying, 'I give you Lakshmi, wealth, who will bring you pleasure and prosperity. Grant me Saraswati, wisdom. Let me learn the joy of letting go.' This ritual came to be known as kanya-daan, — Devdutt Pattanaik

The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy. — Dayananda Saraswati

Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves. — Dayananda Saraswati

The gutters in the lane overflowed with an odd, languid grace. Water filled the lane; rose from ankle-deep to knee-deep. Insects swam in circles. Urchins splashed about haphazardly, while Saraswati returned from market with a shopping-bag in her hands; insects swam away to avoid this clumsy giant. Her wet footprints printing the floor of the house were as rich with possibility as the first footprint Crusoe found on his island. — Amit Chaudhuri

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future
And focus intelligently on the present.
This is the best way of ensuring a positive future. — Chinmayananda 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

Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are. — Krishnananda Saraswati

Far beyond your intellect, far beyond your understanding, lies inexhaustible knowledge and wealth, strength and power, peace and joy. Do not use your intellect to find the answers for God and his manifestations. Everything is God. — Vishnudevananda Saraswati

The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth. — Vishnudevananda Saraswati

In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied - 'This should not happen to me.' It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being. — Dayananda Saraswati

Geography is not just about the physical terrain, but also about the meaning that we attribute to it. Thus, the Saraswati flows, invisibly, at Allahabad. — Sanjeev Sanyal

Yoga is anything which reveals or reflects the wholeness that we truly are, and the world is anything that makes us feel that we are fragmented, dissected, cut into pieces and out of tune with ourselves. — Krishnananda Saraswati

As the thoughts so the mind. If thoughts are good, mind is good. If thoughts are bad, the mind is called bad. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does. — Chidananda Saraswati

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

The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk. — Chidananda Saraswati

Just love. The rest is bullshit. — Satyananda Saraswati

Yoga nidra is the yoga of aware sleep. In this lies the secret of self healing. Yoga Nidra is a pratyahara technique in which the distractions of the mind are contained and the mind is relaxed. — Satyananda Saraswati

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined. — Dayananda Saraswati

There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America. — Dayananda 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

By introducing you to yourself it enables you to discover for yourself the true meaning of life and thus enrich every moment of it. Such self-discovery can lead to greater understanding of fellow-beings and therefore to true love. — Venkatesananda Saraswati

Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow — Satyananda 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

Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality. — Krishnananda Saraswati

Lakshmi is Vishnu's bhoga-patni, connecting him with the earthly needs of man. Saraswati is Vishnu's moksha-patni, connecting him with the spiritual needs of man. — Devdutt Pattanaik

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice. — Dayananda Saraswati

It makes no difference whether you worship God, Jehovah, Allah, Mohammed, Buddha, Christ or Krishna- it is still and always one and the same God. — Satyananda Saraswati

Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It would be like putting a high voltage into a small bulb - it is bound to explode. — Sivananda Radha Saraswati

They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now. — Venkatesananda Saraswati

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age. Why? Because it is there in everybody. It's experienced by people occasionally. — Dayananda Saraswati

"Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage. — Krishnananda Saraswati

The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady. — Krishnananda Saraswati

Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Presently we have to train our unconscious to function better. Then we can depend upon our instincts, that will be noble instincts. At this moment, our instincts are very impure. When we have practiced for a long time, living the higher values of life and following the instructions of great masters or the Scriptures, that is when you have trained your unconscious. Then when a situation comes, you can to an extent, depend on your inner voice. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way. — Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Drugs allows us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental. — Satyananda Saraswati

But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme.
Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in varying degrees because tamas will be reduced only when the mind's agitations, vikshepas are quietened. As agitations quieten, sattva increases slowly. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything — Chinmayananda Saraswati

If I rest,I rust — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises. — Krishnananda Saraswati

Humility and gratitude go hand in hand ... Awareness increases so that we become grateful for everything we are given. We have to learn, literally learn, to be grateful for what we receive day by day, simply to balance the criticism that day by day we voice because of powerful emotions. — Sivananda Radha Saraswati

Love has no conditions. When we put conditions, when we put barriers and boundaries, then we lose love. Love is condition-less. Love is barrier-less. Look at the moon, sun, stars, trees ... they are just on for everyone. When our love also flows for everyone, you become very natural. — Chidanand Saraswati

The Present is the womb of the future.
A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly.
Look after the present and the future will look after itself. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air. — Sivananda Radha Saraswati

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always. — Brahmananda Saraswati

Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument. — Vishnudevananda Saraswati

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do. — Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

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

There is no point in speaking to people who have either no faith or refuse to develop it through their own experience. — Chandrasekharendra Saraswati

The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

A spiritually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it. — Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself. — Dayananda Saraswati

What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense. — Dayananda Saraswati

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self. — Krishnananda Saraswati

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself. — Dayananda Saraswati