Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115) Swami Satchidananda More Quotes by Swami Satchidananda More Quotes From Swami Satchidananda Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful. Swami Satchidananda peaceful acceptance expectations Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves. Swami Satchidananda karma perspective opportunity Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go. Swami Satchidananda undoing letting-go peace Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes. Swami Satchidananda positivity echoes action If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful. Swami Satchidananda faces heart beautiful We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? (136-137) Swami Satchidananda change bird laughing Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean. Swami Satchidananda ocean rivers running Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something. Swami Satchidananda yoga believe world We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody. Swami Satchidananda atman yoga self Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don’t want anything. Everything will run after you. Swami Satchidananda secret want running Who will be the happiest person? Swami Satchidananda generous-person being-generous persons You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy. Swami Satchidananda causes joy enemy The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it. Swami Satchidananda take-your-time light Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the golden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, serve all. Swami Satchidananda kicking tonight alive Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don’t give up hope. Swami Satchidananda dont-give-up giving-up done The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both. There is not good without bad. They are both sides of the same coin. Both are necessary. We have been given free will and discriminating capacity to select what is beneficial to us and to avoid what is detrimental to us. Even Cobra poison can be used as medicine. Swami Satchidananda coins medicine poison If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67) Swami Satchidananda fighting opportunity giving There is one Cosmic Essence, all-pervading, all-knowing, all-powerful. This nameless formless essence can be approached by any name, any form, any symbol that suites the taste of the individual. Follow your religion, but try to understand the real purpose behind all of the rituals and traditions, and experience that Oneness. Swami Satchidananda powerful real essence Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting. Swami Satchidananda canvas painting mindfulness Don't depend on something that comes from outside. Outside things are never going to make you happy. Swami Satchidananda depends make-you-happy
