The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle...
SWAMI SIVANANDA How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those lo...
RADHANATH SWAMI Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures,...
RADHANATH SWAMI Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only beca...
RADHANATH SWAMI In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobil...
RADHANATH SWAMI Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep ou...
RADHANATH SWAMI Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
RADHANATH SWAMI When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism sur...
RADHANATH SWAMI Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxi...
RADHANATH SWAMI When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmou...
RADHANATH SWAMI I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War w...
RADHANATH SWAMI In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that ...
RADHANATH SWAMI What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inc...
RADHANATH SWAMI I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I di...
RADHANATH SWAMI When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affect...
RADHANATH SWAMI My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of m...
RADHANATH SWAMI We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
RADHANATH SWAMI Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
RADHANATH SWAMI One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously towa...
RADHANATH SWAMI Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powe...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles ...
SWAMI SIVANANDA We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind&#...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and re...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. ...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
SWAMI SIVANANDA Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
SWAMI SIVANANDA If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
SWAMI SIVANANDA God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be ...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for actio...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
SWAMI SIVANANDA We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to al...
SWAMI RAMDAS Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the m...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thou...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power....
SWAMI RAMDAS Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.
SWAMI RAMDAS The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no retur...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles...
SWAMI RAMDAS The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains...
SWAMI BRAHMANADA Knowing that his past actions may try to overwhelm him, the devotee must be prepared to combat them....
SWAMI BRAHMANADA In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Su...
SWAMI BRAHMANADA Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, uncond...
SWAMI OMKARANANDA Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regre...
SWAMI SIVANANDA There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire...
SWAMI SIVANANDA For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle t...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of succes...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objecti...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within u...
SWAMI RAMDAS Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is univer...
SWAMI RAMDAS The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tra...
SWAMI SIVANANDA We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoug...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no o...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental stat...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illi...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of ev...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of th...
RADHANATH SWAMI The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and g...
RADHANATH SWAMI The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Budd...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA External nature is only internal nature writ large.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of every...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so...
SWAMI SIVANANDA The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a...
RADHANATH SWAMI The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no o...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If the...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We c...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it ...
RADHANATH SWAMI Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. I...
RADHANATH SWAMI Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an at...
RADHANATH SWAMI We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritu...
RADHANATH SWAMI The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reve...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separa...
SWAMI SIVANANDA As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. B...
SWAMI SIVANANDA God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch a...
RADHANATH SWAMI Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA … an Emperor says, "I will kill you if you do not come", and the man bursts into a laugh and says,...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Never say, "O Lord, I am a miserable sinner." Who will help you? You are the help of the universe. W...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be g...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
SWAMI SIVANANDA IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love’s sake; and the p...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankin...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Those whose only aim is to barter the energies of life for gold, or name, or any other enjoyment; th...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Évidemment, nous devons prendre le monde tel qu’il est, car s’il n’est pas en notre pouvoir d...
SWAMI RAMDAS When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & B...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us cele...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord .
SWAMI SIVANANDA Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Cultivate discrimination between the Real and the unreal, and you will know whte hollowness of the p...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Make a firm resolve. BE earnest. Be vigilant. Be advancing. March forward! O heroic soldier.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Little acts make great actions.
SWAMI SIVANANDA The greatest obstacles to Self-realisation are desire for property, desire for wealth and desire for...
SWAMI SIVANANDA Divine Life is a life of love, wisdom and light.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire...
SWAMI SIVANANDA You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you,
none can make you spiritual.
T...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Swami Sivananda O Man! O ignorant man! O arrogant, impertinent man! You have wasted your life-time. ...
SWAMI SIVANANDA 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 WE see that the apparent contradictions and perplexities in every RELIGION mark but different stages...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA EACH soul is potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity with in by controlling nature...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA PRAYER is divine love alone. When this highest ideal of love is reached, philosophy is thrown away. ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The earth is enjoyed by heroes"—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fea...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA To succeed,you must have tremendous perseverance,tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean" says the ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are pass...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ASANA

Now I shall instruct you regarding the nature of asana or seat. Although by 'asana...
SWAMI LAKSHMANJOO If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suff...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA They alone live, who live for others.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wro...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic sid...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These i...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA