Swami Brahmananda quotes
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“However you try to define meditation, it’s not that.”
-- Swami Brahmananda -
“The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.”
-- Swami Brahmananda -
“In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.”
-- Swami Brahmananda -
“The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.”
-- Swami Brahmananda -
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“The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.”
-- Swami Brahmananda -
“Meditate, meditate, meditate. Then you will find that people suffer for no reason when there is the mine of bliss in everyone’s heart. Then your heart will go out in sympathy and compassion for everybody.”
-- Swami Brahmananda
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“True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.”
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“Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.”
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“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”
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“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”
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Source : In Observer 17 Aug. 1986
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“Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.”
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