Essentials Quotes for Life - Swami Shivananda

Few quotes to be read every day. It is having its own power to change our lives. Here is the few golden quotes from Swami Shivananda.

• Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord .
• Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.


• 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.


• Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.


• Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.


• 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.


• Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.


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


• There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient .


• Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.


• If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.


• Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate தேச்டினடின்.


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


• Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.


• Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle.


• The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord .Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord .


• Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.


• It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.


• A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.


• Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.