„O homem semeia um pensamento e colhe uma ação. Semeia uma ação e colhe um hábito. Semeia um hábito e colhe caráter. Semeia caráter e colhe o destino.“
Thought-Power [O Poder do Pensamento pelo Yoga]; Editora Pensamento (1997);
Frases de Swami Sivananda
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Swami Sivananda
Data de nascimento: 8. Setembro 1887
Data de falecimento: 14. Julho 1963
Swami Sivananda Saraswati , também chamado de Shivananda ou Sivananda, foi um líder espiritual hindu. Seu pai, P.S. Vengu Iyer, foi um oficial do governo e um sacerdote do hinduísmo .
Citações Swami Sivananda
„O presente é o resultado dos pensamentos do passado, e o futuro será moldado pelos pensamentos no presente. Se pensarmos corretamente, falaremos e agiremos corretamente. A palavra e a ação apenas acompanham os pensamentos.“
Thought-Power [O Poder do Pensamento pelo Yoga]; Editora Pensamento (1997);
„Se enviar um pensamento de ódio este prejudicará não só a pessoa visada como também a você pois voltará para si com força redobrada.“
Thought-Power [O Poder do Pensamento pelo Yoga]; Editora Pensamento (1997);
„Caráter é o fator que determina a vitória ou a derrota: o êxito ou o fracasso em todos os empreendimentos da vida. O homem de bom caráter goza a vida agora e sempre.“
Thought-Power [O Poder do Pensamento pelo Yoga]; Editora Pensamento (1997);
„Quanto menos pensamentos tiver maior será a sua força mental e sua concentração.“
Thought-Power [O Poder do Pensamento pelo Yoga]; Editora Pensamento (1997);
„With a smile I faced all hardships.“
As quoted by Swami Sadananda Saraswati in his Introduction to Autobiography of Swami Sivananda (2000 web edition) http://www.dlshq.org/download/autobio.htm
Contexto: The life of a mendicant during pilgrimages helped me to develop in a great measure forbearance, equal vision and a balanced mind in pleasure and pain. I met many Mahatmas and learnt wonderful lessons. On some days I had to go without food and walk mile after mile. With a smile I faced all hardships.
„I consider that goodness of being and doing constitute the rock-bottom of one’s life.“
"What Life Has Taught Me"
Contexto: I consider that goodness of being and doing constitute the rock-bottom of one’s life. By goodness I mean the capacity to feel with others and to live and feel as others do, and be in a position to act so that no one is hurt by the act. Goodness is the face of Godliness. I think that to be good in reality, in the innermost recesses of one’s heart, is not easy, though it may appear to be simple as a teaching. It is one of the hardest things on earth, if only one would be honest with oneself.
There is no physical world for me. What I see I see as the glorious manifestation of the Almighty.
„The life of a mendicant during pilgrimages helped me to develop in a great measure forbearance, equal vision and a balanced mind in pleasure and pain.“
As quoted by Swami Sadananda Saraswati in his Introduction to Autobiography of Swami Sivananda (2000 web edition) http://www.dlshq.org/download/autobio.htm
Contexto: The life of a mendicant during pilgrimages helped me to develop in a great measure forbearance, equal vision and a balanced mind in pleasure and pain. I met many Mahatmas and learnt wonderful lessons. On some days I had to go without food and walk mile after mile. With a smile I faced all hardships.
„There is no physical world for me. What I see I see as the glorious manifestation of the Almighty.“
"What Life Has Taught Me"
Contexto: I consider that goodness of being and doing constitute the rock-bottom of one’s life. By goodness I mean the capacity to feel with others and to live and feel as others do, and be in a position to act so that no one is hurt by the act. Goodness is the face of Godliness. I think that to be good in reality, in the innermost recesses of one’s heart, is not easy, though it may appear to be simple as a teaching. It is one of the hardest things on earth, if only one would be honest with oneself.
There is no physical world for me. What I see I see as the glorious manifestation of the Almighty.
„A man of courage does not tremble in the hour of danger. He is not embarrassed and bewildered. He does not sink down. He is not overwhelmed by despair.. He smiles away all dangers and difficulties, blows the trumpet of triumph and attains victory in the end.“
Conquest of Fear, Divine Life Society, http://dlshq.org/download/conquest_fear.pdf (circa 1960)
„The diseases we suffer from the births we get here on earth are all products of actions done by us in previous times. Every action has its reaction and no action goes unrewarded in a suitable manner. Evil actions do not go without their bitter effects upon the doer. Here are given some of the many pitiable conditions of life which man has to live in due to his careless sinful deeds.“
Karmas and Diseases, Divine Life Society, http://dlshq.org/download/karmadisease.htm (1959)
„Until and unless Self-realisation is attained, Knowledge-Absolute is gained, there is ever the ebb and flow, the constant see-saw between the animal and the man in every human being. The beast or the brute is never completely absent or overcome except through a final Divinisation of the individual. As long as there is the human, side by side there will be the animal also, now the one having the upper hand, now the other.“
Karmas and Diseases, Divine Life Society, http://dlshq.org/download/karmadisease.htm (1959)
„Those men or women who abuse innocent poor servants, and coolies who are rather to be pitied and helped for their miserable condition, fall into a hell where they are severely thrashed and forced to embrace a burning image of iron like unto a man or woman. Those who abuse their marriage beds are given a similar punishment.“
Karmas and Diseases, Divine Life Society, http://dlshq.org/download/karmadisease.htm (1959)
„Be Good, Do Good.
Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.“
Light, Power and Wisdom (1959), p. 6; note that the short phrase "Be good, do good" had occurred in spiritual teachings of others in the 19th century, usually in conjunction with other injunctions. "Be Good, Do Good" became a prominent motto of the Divine Life Society.
Light, Power and Wisdom (1959), p. 207
Variante: Be good, do good, be kind, be compassionate.
„Beef, wine, garlic, onions, and tobacco are Tamasic food-stuffs. They exercise a very unwholesome influence on the human mind and fill it with emotions of anger, darkness, and inertia.“
Bliss Divine, Chapter 82, Vegetarianism, Divine Life Society, http://www.dlshq.org/books/es19.htm (circa 1959)
