Quotes by Swami Sai Premananda

Spiritual life is not doing the sadhana alone and coming to satsang alone. It is an everyday challenge to do the highest good in the name of God, not in the name of anybody else. This is the shift in consciousness that will take you to God. When you serve him continually in perfection, you yourself become perfect. — Swami Sai Premananda

Attachment to the fruits of love’s labour destroys it all. — Swami Sai Premananda

Let all desires, thoughts and actions die gracefully. — Swami Sai Premananda

In the one is all and in the all is one. — Swami Sai Premananda

When you’re with stillness, you merge with everything around you. You can’t pin-point where it’s coming from. From inside? From outside? Where? It just is. — Swami Sai Premananda

Don’t let the mind complicate your life; always be simple. — Swami Sai Premananda

If you spend enough time loving yourself and the Jesus within, or the Buddha within, or the Mohammed within, then that love will grow and blossom within you. Then it’s very easy to love others. So you think, so you become. — Swami Sai Premananda

Many people ask, “Should I do this or should I do that?” I say, “Why are you wasting your time? Love God and perfect yourself. That is the fastest way to God.” It is the most perfect path to God. Become a principled human being. Become an authentic human being. When you say that you are going to do something, do it. Don’t say you will do something and then not do it. That’s not what a principled human being is like. Thought, word and deed must come together. These are actually the holy trinity within the human being: thought, word and deed. When thought, word and deed are in alignment, then you are living a principled life. You are living an authentic life. This takes you to living a divine life. — Swami Sai Premananda

There are people who sit there their entire lives in the lotus position and breathe in and out. They can sit there until they die, but without practicing in the physical world what they are experiencing in meditation, they will not progress spiritually beyond that point. One must practice in the physical realm and become a walking, living, breathing meditator. Not a person just sitting with their eyes closed, but the meditator with his eyes open in the world and acting in the world from a place of peace, silence, stillness and most importantly the place of being a witness. Only then does one become a true meditator in life. Until that time they are just practicing, they are still just practicing. — Swami Sai Premananda

When you become cognisant of why you behave the way you behave, then only can you manifest lasting change. — Swami Sai Premananda