59 Quotes by Swami Satchidananda

Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

So build up the body, build up the nerves, and build up the mind until your faith is so strong there is no fear at all and you are the master.

Losses are always great eye openers. Pleasures never open our eyes. It’s only through pain that we learn our weaknesses.

Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world.

As you are, you see everything else.

You haven’t harmonized your thought, word and deed. You are thinking one way, but speaking another and acting in still a different way.

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.

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

A spiritual seeker’s first duty is to have good control over the tongue. Without control of the tongue we can forget about spirituality. Control in both ways: eating and talking. All the senses are controlled if the tongue is controlled.