Begin the New Year by lifting up your heart and mind, your entire being through inner vision, a lifting up to GOD and asking Him earnestly and sincerely that....

Right enquiry will suddenly bring you light, reveal to you many things that you did not know. It will bring you so many truths...

The sadhana to be cultivated, the sadhana to be engaged in—is to be in this world, yet at the same time to dwell in God, dwell in the great Divine Reality. That such a thing is possible is the declaration of all our scriptures and the central spiritual direction of all illumined sages and seers, and it is also the teaching of Holy Master. That such a thing is possible is our heritage from our sublime spiritual past...

Let us claim this heritage, for we are heir to it, and it is our birthright

Early Morning Meditation Talk given in the sacred Samadhi Hall of Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh.

Message from the book "Forest Academy Lectures on Yoga."

The unique bestowal of Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji to the fortunate global humanity of the twentieth century - "a priceless treasure, a priceless heritage which cannot be evaluated or estimated in terms of gold and silver and precious gems, and which is atulya (incomparable), amulya (invaluable)."

This is a world of things. You should ask for that Being who is beyond all things—the Thing-in-Itself. If you ask for lesser things, you get lesser things. He gives immediately what you aspire for. Whatever you ask, that is given. So we have to be careful about what we ask of God because He is a wish-yielding tree.