Sivananda Saraswati (1887–1963) was 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.
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Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
—Sivananda Saraswati
Topics: One Step at a Time, Commitment, Dedication
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
—Sivananda Saraswati
A cheerful thought in you produces cheerful thoughts in others. You are filled with joy and intense delight when you see a batch of hilarious children playing mirthfully and dancing in joy.
—Sivananda Saraswati
Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony.
—Sivananda Saraswati
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
Topics: Failure
Crave for a thing, you will get it.
Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
—Sivananda Saraswati
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
—Sivananda Saraswati
Topics: Anger
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
—Sivananda Saraswati
Topics: Patience, Character
Those who identify themselves with the body and have no soul-consciousness, are utterly ignorant, though they may possess University degrees. Man speaks of his glory and achievements. It is all vanity. At the bottom of it all are sex, food, indolence and ignorance.
—Sivananda Saraswati
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
—Sivananda Saraswati
Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony.
—Sivananda Saraswati
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
—Sivananda Saraswati
Topics: Happiness
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
—Sivananda Saraswati
Topics: Failure
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