Quotes by Swami Sivananda

• Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
• God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
• Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord .
• Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
• Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
• Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
• Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
• Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
• Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
• If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
• It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
• Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
• 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.
• Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
• Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
• Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
• The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
• The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
• Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.
• Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
• Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
• Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
• Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.