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Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati actual name is Kuppuswami.
In fact, he was a trained physician who turned spiritual guru.
This Hindu spiritual teacher, an author of more than 200 books on Yoga and Vedanta.
He is also the founder of The Divine Life Society.
After passing the Intermediate Examination, he entered the Tanjore Medical Institute.
In 1913, Dr. Kuppuswami went to Malaya (now known as Peninsula Malaysia) to serve the poor Indian migrants working on the rubber plantations.
As a doctor, Kuppuswami knew that he could only study anatomy, but not the Atman (Soul).
From there, he took interests in religion.
Dr. Kuppuswami sought the company of Sannyasins (someone who has reached the life stage of sannyasa, or “renouncement of material possession) and Sadhus and began to study religious books.
In 1923, at the age of 36, he left Malaya and returned to India to pursue a spiritual quest.
Back in India, he met his guru, Vishwananda Saraswati.
It was Vishwananda who initiated him into the Sannyasa order, and gave him his monastic name, Swami Sivananda Saraswati.
Even after Sivananda Saraswati was deep into spiritual practices, he still continued his medical nursing.
In 1936, he founded Divine Life Society in Rishikesh.
Sivananda Saraswati passed away on July 14, 1963.
Many of his disciples went on to start new organizations.
Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati did not have to deliver long sermons, yet his students, devotees and admirers flocked to listen to him from everywhere.
Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati Wise Words
Below is a selection of authentic Swami Sivananda Saraswati’s wise words that could rouse your religious consciousness, and the awareness of the essential divinity of man.
“Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even in your smallest act.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
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“If you do some good to another man, you are really helping yourself. Because there is nothing but the Self.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
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“Never hurt a man in thought, word or deed.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
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“Be slow to make a promise but be quick to carry it out.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
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“The sum total of the tendencies of a man is his character.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
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“Desire is the fuel; thought is the fire. The thought-fire is kept up by the desire-fuel. If you withdraw the supply of fuel, the fire will be withdrawn into its womb.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(This quote is also found in: Mind: Its Mysteries And Control By Sri Swami Sivananda, The Divine Life Society, 1974, Ch.21, Desires, What Is Desire, P. 191)
“Rapture is like a weary traveller who hears or sees water or a shady wood. Bliss is the enjoying of the water or entering the forest shade.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(This quote is also found in: Mind: Its Mysteries And Control By Sri Swami Sivananda, The Divine Life Society, 1974, Ch.21, Desires, Satisfaction Of Desire Yields Illusionary Happiness Only, P. 195)
“When you are in acute agony, the whole world which appeared to you to be full of bliss while in good health, appears quite dreary.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(This quote is also found in: Mind: Its Mysteries And Control By Sri Swami Sivananda, The Divine Life Society, 1974, Ch.23, Ch.23, Pleasure And Pain, Pleasure And Pain Pertain To Mind, P. 211)
“Pleasure and beauty reside in the mind and not in the objects.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(This quote is also found in: Mind: Its Mysteries And Control By Sri Swami Sivananda, The Divine Life Society, 1974, Ch.23, Ch.23, Pleasure And Pain, Sense-Pleasure Is Only A Mental Deception, P. 212)
“By your own thoughts you make or mar your world.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
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“You can determine your fate by force of thoughts.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
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“The present state of your experience is due to the thinking, feeling and acting of incalculable past lives.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(This quote is also found in: Thought Power By Sri Swami Sivananda, Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy, Divine Life Society, 1963, Ch. Ten, The Metaphysics Of Thought Power, Thought Power and Practical Idealism —II, P. 195)
“Thought is ancestor of action. If you want to improve your actions purify your thoughts.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
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“The nature of things around you is as you think it to be. Your life is what you make it by your thoughts.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(This quote is also found in: Thought Power By Sri Swami Sivananda, Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy, Divine Life Society, 1963, Ch. Ten, The Metaphysics Of Thought Power, Thought Power and Practical Idealism —II, P. 196)
“Thought determines destiny. The world around you is the reflex of your thoughts.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(This quote is also found in: Thought Power By Sri Swami Sivananda, Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy, Divine Life Society, 1963, Ch. Ten, The Metaphysics Of Thought Power, Thought Power and Practical Idealism —II, P. 196)
“The world around you is only what you believe it to be. Your perceptions are coloured by your thoughts.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
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“Mind is compared to a mirror. If the mirror is dirty, you cannot see your face clearly.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(This quote is also found in: Mind: Its Mysteries And Control Part 1 By Sri Swami Sivananda, Gita Press, 1935, P. 162)
“To tame a lion or a tiger is far more easy than taming one’s own mind.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(This quote is also found in: Mind: Its Mysteries And Control By Sri Swami Sivananda, Divine Life Society, 1974, How To Control The Mind, who Can Control The Mind?, P. 287)
“It is the mind which binds a man to this world; where there is no mind, there is no bondage.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(This quote is also found in: Mind: Its Mysteries And Control By Sri Swami Sivananda, Divine Life Society, 1974, How To Control The Mind, who Can Control The Mind?, P. 287)
“Cultivate peace in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed and selfishness.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(Thus Awakens Swami Sivananda, The Divine Life Society, 1994, Wisdom Sparks, 8, P. 6)
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“A woman without modesty is a flower without fragrance.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
“Where there are kindness, humility and purity, there spirituality springs up, saintliness shines, divinity descends and perfection manifests itself.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
“Cultivate a melting heart, the giving hand, the kindly speech, the life of service, equal vision, and impartial attitude. Your life will, indeed, be blessed.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
“Live in the present. Forget the past. Give up hopes of the future.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
“Anger is often accompanied by a desire to take vengeance, or to obtain satisfaction from the offending party. It begins in folly and ends in repentance.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(Conquest Of Anger By Sri Swami Sivananda, The Divine Life Society, 1997, Anger And Its Form, P. 3)
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“An angry man is angry with himself when he comes to his senses.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(Conquest Of Anger By Sri Swami Sivananda, The Divine Life Society, 1997, Anger And Its Form, P. 3)
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“There is a sharp sword in every tongue.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(Conquest Of Anger By Sri Swami Sivananda, The Divine Life Society, 1997, Anger And Its Form, P. 6)
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“Anger makes everybody its slave and victim.” – Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati
(Conquest Of Anger By Sri Swami Sivananda, The Divine Life Society, 1997, Cause Of Anger, P. 9)
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