Swami Brahmananda famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

However you try to define meditation, itâ€™s not that.
-- Swami Brahmananda

#Meditation #Trying
The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.
-- Swami Brahmananda

#Mind #Suggestions #Teach
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
-- Swami Brahmananda

#Peace #Teaching #Sage
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.
-- Swami Brahmananda

#Pain #Worry #Wish
The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.
-- Swami Brahmananda

#Men #Differences #Suffering
Meditate, meditate, meditate. Then you will find that people suffer for no reason when there is the mine of bliss in everyoneâ€™s heart. Then your heart will go out in sympathy and compassion for everybody.
-- Swami Brahmananda

#Heart #Compassion #People

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.
True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Swami Brahmananda famous quotes

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