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Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.


Swami Sivananda

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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 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 ...
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