Top 50 Swami Satchidananda Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.”

— Swami Satchidananda

2. “Every pain has a gain behind it.”

— Swami Satchidananda

3. “Everything begins in the mind. If you want to see clearly, you need clear vision.”

— Swami Satchidananda

4. “One truth, many paths.”

— Swami Satchidananda

5. “If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.”

— Swami Satchidananda

6. “Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don’t give up hope.”

— Swami Satchidananda

7. “God knows your breaking point. You simply don’t know your own strength.”

— Swami Satchidananda

8. “Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.”

— Swami Satchidananda

9. “You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.”

— Swami Satchidananda

10. “Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.”

— Swami Satchidananda

11. “Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head.”

— Swami Satchidananda

12. “Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.”

— Swami Satchidananda

13. “The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.”

— Swami Satchidananda

14. “The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.”

— Swami Satchidananda

15. “Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.”

— Swami Satchidananda

16. “Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something.”

— Swami Satchidananda

17. “Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.”

— Swami Satchidananda

18. “As the mind, so the person; bondage or liberation are in your own mind.” If you feel bound, you are bound. If you feel liberated, you are liberated. Things outside neither bind nor liberate you; only your attitude toward them does that.”

— Swami Satchidananda

19. “The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.”

— Swami Satchidananda

20. “Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.”

— Swami Satchidananda

21. “Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.”

— Swami Satchidananda

22. “Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the golden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, serve all.”

— Swami Satchidananda

23. “Don’t give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude.”

— Swami Satchidananda

24. “In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns.”

— Swami Satchidananda

25. “Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.”

— Swami Satchidananda

26. “The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun.”

— Swami Satchidananda

27. “Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don’t want anything. Everything will run after you.”

— Swami Satchidananda

28. “We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.”

— Swami Satchidananda

29. “Though we can’t always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves.”

— Swami Satchidananda

30. “Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.”

— Swami Satchidananda

31. “Don’t depend on something that comes from outside. Outside things are never going to make you happy.”

— Swami Satchidananda

32. “You are not given the light by anyone – not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.”

— Swami Satchidananda

33. “Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.”

— Swami Satchidananda

34. “True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.”

— Swami Satchidananda

35. “If you are that patient, your mind is more settled, and what you do will be more perfect. If you are unsettled and anxious to get the result, you are already disturbed; nothing done with that disturbed mind will have quality. So, it is not only how long you practice, but with what patience, what earnestness and what quality also.”

— Swami Satchidananda

36. “When your intelligence is shaken by the conflicting opinions of others don’t get upset over it, because you know the truth. Just accept their opinions as mere words. You simply feel, “Yes, that’s what they feel. Let them feel that way.” It may appear to be conflicting, but you give the freedom to others to think the way they want and say what they want. The enlightened person is not affected by that.”

— Swami Satchidananda

37. “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.”

— Swami Satchidananda

38. “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.”

— Swami Satchidananda

39. “As you are, you see everything else.”

— Swami Satchidananda

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

— Swami Satchidananda

41. “We should give more and more and more chances for people to grow.”

— Swami Satchidananda

42. “The dedicated ever enjoy Supreme Peace. Therefore, live only to serve.”

— Swami Satchidananda

43. “You can’t just go into the mind and erase the impressions. But they get themselves erased at one point. When? When you succeed in going within and realizing the peace and joy of your own Self. The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun. You lose all interest in them permanently. That is the highest non-attachment.”

— Swami Satchidananda

44. “Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world.”

— Swami Satchidananda

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

— Swami Satchidananda

46. “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.”

— Swami Satchidananda

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

— Swami Satchidananda

48. “When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.”

— Swami Satchidananda

49. “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.”

— Swami Satchidananda

50. “Food should be a love offering.”

— Swami Satchidananda