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Sivananda Saraswati
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A renowned 20th-century Indian spiritual master who transformed from a medical doctor to a prolific yoga philosopher. He founded the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, authored over 300 spiritual books, and developed a holistic approach to yoga integrating service, devotion, knowledge, and meditation. His teachings emphasized universal spirituality, transcending religious boundaries and promoting individual and collective transformation.

Sivananda Saraswati Icon Image
Sivananda Saraswati
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A renowned 20th-century Indian spiritual master who transformed from a medical doctor to a prolific yoga philosopher. He founded the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, authored over 300 spiritual books, and developed a holistic approach to yoga integrating service, devotion, knowledge, and meditation. His teachings emphasized universal spirituality, transcending religious boundaries and promoting individual and collective transformation.

Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.

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The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

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You are not bound. You have got free will. You cannot change the experiences, the results of Prarabdha but you can change your future by right thinking and right action and thus make your will pure and irresistible. You can attain Self-realisation with the help of a dynamic will.

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Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we"

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Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women.

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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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Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

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Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.

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

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The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

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The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

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Change the mind, and you can change the body.

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Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

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A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.

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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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The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.

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Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.

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Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path

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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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You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

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The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.

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

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