Top 20 Swami Sivananda Quotes

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

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.

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.

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.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

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

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

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.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

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.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.