Top 65 Satchidananda Quotes
#1. As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.
Swami Vivekananda
#2. If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.
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#4. Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something.
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#5. The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.
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#6. If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don't give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)
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#7. Losses are always great eye openers. Pleasures never open our eyes. It's only through pain that we learn our weaknesses.
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#8. In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)
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#9. If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won't find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)
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#11. When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)
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#12. Our own true nature is Infinite Joy!
Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.
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#14. God knows your breaking point. You simply don't know your own strength.
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#15. Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.
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#16. Everything begins in the mind. If you want to see clearly, you need clear vision.
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#17. You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.
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#19. Happiness is not be sought outside. It can never come from outside or from inside
because it simply is. It is always. Where? Everywhere.
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#20. [C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half the globe; one Jesus, three quarters of the world. We all have that capacity. (140)
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#21. You are not given the light by anyone - not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.
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#22. Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude.
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#23. Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the golden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, serve all.
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#24. There's no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down. If you leave that to dig another well, all the first effort is wasted and there is no proof you won't hit rock again. (52)
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#25. Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)
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#26. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.
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#27. True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.
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#28. Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.
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#29. Ust do, leave it there, if it comes let it come, but don't look for it.
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#30. Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don't give up hope.
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#32. Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves.
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#33. The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun.
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#35. Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)
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#36. [T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time to meditate. (140)
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#37. Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.
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#38. Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.
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#39. I feel we don't really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can't learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)
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#40. So build up the body, build up the nerves, and build up the mind until your faith is so strong there is no fear at all and you are the master.
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#41. These Sutras are reminiscent of the Four Noble Truths of Lord Buddha: the misery of the world, the cause of misery, the removal of that misery, and the method used to remove it. Patanjali tells us that pain can be avoided. He further tells us that its cause is ignorance. (115)
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#42. Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.
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#44. As the mind, so the person; bondage or liberation are in your own mind." If you feel bound, you are bound. If you feel liberated, you are liberated. Things outside neither bind nor liberate you; only your attitude toward them does that.
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#46. Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.
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#48. If we only look within, we will see he Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. (122)
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#49. Sometimes if you state the plain truth in plain language, you hurt the other person, and you get hurt as well. We have to learn how to communicate.
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#50. The cause of bandha and moksha (bondage and liberation) is our own minds. If we think we are bound, we are bound. If we think we are liberated, we are liberated ... It is only when we transcend the mind that we are free from all these troubles. (117)
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#51. Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.
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#52. If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.
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#53. The dedicated ever enjoy Supreme Peace. Therefore, live only to serve.
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#54. Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.
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#55. When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.
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#56. Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.
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#58. Don't depend on something that comes from outside. Outside things are never going to make you happy.
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#59. We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.
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#60. Doesn't the bible say "blessed are the pure in the heart, so they shall see God?" when?
Only when there is purity in the heart; a heart peaceful and free from egoism
the "I" and the "mine." Purity of heart and equanimity of mind are the very essence of Yoga.
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#61. Equality comes in realizing that we are all doing different jobs for a common purpose. That is the aim behind any community. The very name community means let's come together to recognize the unity. Come ... unity.
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#62. Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.
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#63. At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)
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#64. Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don't want anything. Everything will run after you.
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#65. Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115)
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