Swami Satchidananda Quotes about Yoga

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

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

Believe, Yoga, World

Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head

Swami Satchidananda

Yoga, Mind, Calming

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

Yoga, Self, Atman

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

Swami Satchidananda

Yoga, Meditation, Healthy

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

Swami Satchidananda

Yoga, Feet

Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom of the mental lake. Although they go down, they aren’t completely erased. Don’t think you ever forget anything. All experiences are stored in the chittam; and, when the proper atmosphere is created, they come to the surface again. When we do something several times it forms a habit. Continue with that habit for a long time, and it becomes your character. Continue with that character and eventually, perhaps in another life, it comes up as instinct.

Swami Satchidananda

Yoga, Character, Thinking

"Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" by Swami Satchidananda, p. 108, December 1, 1984.

Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world.

Swami Satchidananda

Believe, Yoga, World

[C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half the globe; one Jesus, three quarters of the world. We all have that capacity. (140)

Swami Satchidananda

Jesus, Strong, Yoga