Swami Sivananda
Swami Sivananda
Sivananda Saraswatiwas a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta. Sivananda was born Kuppuswami in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism. He lived most of his life near Muni Ki Reti, Rishikesh...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 September 1887
CountryIndia
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Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
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A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate.
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Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind. Serve Bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, remove faecal matter. Do not revenge, resist not evil, return good for evil, bear insult and injury. Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
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Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
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Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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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.
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Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.
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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
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God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
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Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.