Swami Shivananda Quotes

• 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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  Tags in Earth

• There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Mistake, Past

• 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. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

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  Tags in Mind, Desire

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

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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Heart

• 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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  Topics in Failure, Inspirational

• Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord .

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  Tags in Duty

• Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

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• Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.

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  Tags in Thinking, Disease

• The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

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  Tags in Spiritual

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

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  Tags in Struggle, Self

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

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

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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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  Tags in Culture

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

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  Tags in Beginning, Meditation

• 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.

  Swami Shivananda

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Rest

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

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

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  Tags in Right

• Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

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  Tags in Humility, Cowardice

• God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.

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  Tags in Self

Swami Shivananda (29)

Birth:	1854
Death:	1934
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Clergyman

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