Sivananda Saraswati Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Fewer the thoughts, greater the peace.

Sivananda Saraswati

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Sivananda Saraswati

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

Sivananda Saraswati

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

Sivananda Saraswati

#10. Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we

Sivananda Saraswati

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Sivananda Saraswati