Krishnananda Saraswati Quotes

#1. Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#10. "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

#11. 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