Inspiration

“Let it happen, if it happens and as it happens. Never worry over anything. Events take their destined course automatically.”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“While Yoga’s central theme remains the highest goal of the spiritual path, yogic practices give direct and tangible benefits to everyone regardless of their spiritual aims.”
- Swami Satayananda Saraswati

“Yoga has succeeded as an alternative form of therapy in diseases such as asthma, diabetes, blood pressure, arthritis, digestive disorders and other ailments of a chronic and constitutional nature where modern science has not.”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“Regularity inspires confidence in oneself. Develop this virtue and attain success in all your undertakings.”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“There is no need to be at war with the mind, better to follow it for some time and get to know it well.”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“When craving ceases and the experience of dhyana dawns, life itself becomes the drug, an intense experience.”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“Tying up like a pretzel is often the image people have of the postures, but actually the ideal postures are those simple, relaxing stretches suited to the experience of the ordinary person.”
- Dr. Rishi Vivikananda

“According to the yogic tradition, evolution is a systematic process through which we learn to harmonize ourselves. It is a process through which we develop the ability to express our qualities optimally and creatively.”
- Swami Niranjanananda

“Modern civilization has placed all sorts of comforts and amusements before the individual, but unfortunately, he has lost his appetite for them. His mind is troubled, tormented and tense, and this sickness of the mind prevents him from having a positive, healthy and balanced attitude towards life.”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“There are only two conditions for enlightenment. The first condition is faith that you will be enlightened. The second: my guru is within me. Everyone has a guru but people don’t know it and therefore they start with the external guru. In course of time you will realise that I am not here; I am in you. This morning you worshiped your inner guru through the external guru. Whatever worship you did this morning you did it to yourself, but it appeared that you were worshiping someone else.”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“Can you believe your body has the capacity of enlightenment of one thousand suns at the same time? Can you believe that in your physical body there is a point which somehow, if it is triggered, can shine like a thousand suns at the same time?”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“Simple living is one of the most important ingredients in yoga.”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow.”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“Usually we do not have the dedication to stay with one practice long enough to get the results. We dig a one foot hole with one technique and then we dig another one foot hole with another practice, but we never find water. Constant practice means to keep on digging until we find the water; ever if we hit a rock, keep on digging. If we had this dedication with our spiritual life, then we would gradually be able to liberate our consciousness from the clutches of the gross body and fenced mind.”
- Swami Muktidharma

“When you try to withdraw your mind, your consciousness, from objective experience, from external experience and make it internal, then yoga begins.”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“Yoga is a practical system in disciplining and correcting the errors in the body and mind. When these errors are corrected, then yoga becomes a way to understand oneself.”
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“The people of the West are suffering from severe spiritual malnutrition.”
- Swami Satayananda Saraswati

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