Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.


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Swami Sivananda O Man! O ignorant man! O arrogant, impertinent man! You have wasted your life-time. ...
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Strive, strive, strive. This is the sacred Mantra to success in everything.
SWAMI SIVANANDA
Nothing is lost when the candle burns. No spiritual effort goes in vain.
SWAMI SIVANANDA
Make discrimination-cum-non-attachment your sword to cut the tree of Samsara(the karmic cycle of bir...
SWAMI SIVANANDA
If you can get over the thirst for carnal pleasures in life, you have almost conquered all your enem...
SWAMI SIVANANDA
Seek the Immortal, All-blissful Soul within. You will enjoy everlasting happiness and peace.
SWAMI SIVANANDA
Life is like photography. You use the negative to develop.
SWAMI BEYONDANANDA
There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. E...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around...
ANNAMALAI SWAMI
Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losin...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
MY nature is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything....
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
For every Buddha who speaks, twenty five die unknown.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
«  Le karma est l'éternelle affirmation de la liberté humaine... Nos pensées, nos paroles & nos...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind....
SWAMI SIVANANDA
TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
GOD is the ever-active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of cha...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If the...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders and know that you ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, bu...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
When I asked god for peace, he showed me how to help others.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reac...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Anythin That Makes You Weak Physically, Intellectually And Spiritually, reject As Poison .
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Take up one idea.Make that one idea your life,think of it,dream of it,live on that idea. Let the bra...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monke...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The whole of nature is worship of God. Wherever there is life, there is the search for freedom--and ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
I leave none bound, I take no bonds.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
He who knows how to obey knows how to command.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
SWAMI NIRMALANANDA
We may live for a hundred years, but not one moment of these hundred years can be returned, not even...
SWAMI PRABHUPADA
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beaut...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares t...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are dri...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman ...
SWAMI BEYONDANANDA
The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got ...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if t...
SWAMI PRABHUPADA
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. ...
SWAMI BRAHMANADA
डेविड ने मुझे यह महसूस कराया कि कार्यस...
OM SWAMI
Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impress...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
[T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic tim...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
Religion, the great milch cow, has given many kicks, but never mind,it gives a great deal of milk.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of scienc...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The Lord has declared to the Hindu in His incarnation as Krishna. I am in every religion as the thre...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted , He Gave Me Everything I Needed.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide…
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
You are the creator of your own destiny
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA