black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.

Sivananda

The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
SIVANANDA

Benefit Silence
There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
SIVANANDA

Aspect Different Opinion Truth View
Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
SIVANANDA

Death Ignorance Knowledge Pain Sorrow
There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.
SIVANANDA

Development Emotion Feeling Hands Intellectual Known Man Willing
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
SIVANANDA

Coward Humility Power Spirituality
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
SIVANANDA

Children Forget Hate Heart Injury
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
SIVANANDA

Desire Greatness Impurity Poverty Spark
Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.
SIVANANDA

God Life Purpose Realize Worth
Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
SIVANANDA

Forget Future Hope Live Past Present
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
SIVANANDA

Future Moments Present
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
SIVANANDA

Achievement Measurement Reality Spirituality Tranquility
Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
SIVANANDA

Belief Creation Faith Finding God Healing Light Mountain
Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
SIVANANDA

Calm Greatness Humanity Pave Peace World
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
SIVANANDA

Body Disease Health Intense Mindset Thinking
Man is a bridge between the two worlds – the visible and the invisible.
SIVANANDA

Bridge Invisible Man Visible World
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
SIVANANDA

History Human Intellectual Noble Teaching World

Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sivananda Quotes