Vishnudevananda Saraswati famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument.
-- Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within.
-- Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.
-- Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.
-- Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
-- Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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Real peace comes only to those who control the body and mind with self-discipline.
-- Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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Far beyond your intellect, far beyond your understanding, lies inexhaustible knowledge and wealth, strength and power, peace and joy. Do not use your intellect to find the answers for God and his manifestations. Everything is God.
-- Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.
-- Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.
-- Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
Whatever fells your mind is what you are. So, feel loving and peaceful for no reason at all.
Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.

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