Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: The greatness of knowing one's Master...

"The greatness of knowing one’s Master and receiving the Shiksha, receiving the blessing and grace from the master is rare. And, once one has it, one carries it with him. One carries this blessing always."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: Long before you come here...

"Long before you come here, it’s already said where you have to be, who will be your guide and when it will be that God makes everything possible for you to achieve Him. Actually, you can say it is you, but it is not you at all. It is only Him, because in the core of everything your Atma is only Him."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: He gives Himself fully...

"The Guru gives Himself fully to his disciple. He gives Himself fully to the devotee. What the devotee has to do is to be like an empty receptable and receive everything."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: The Divine always hears the prayer...

"We pray, we ask, and the Divine is not deaf. The Divine always hears the prayer of everybody. If He can hear even the small anklets on the feet of an ant, of course, He can hear our prayer also. But very often we expect, if we pray, that we have to have it very quickly. We are not patient. But the Lord has created us. He knows what is best for us, no? So, why don´t we
trust Him? Why don`t we trust in His will?"

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: When one is in bliss...

"When one is in bliss, one doesn’t know happiness or sadness. It is difficult to understand it with the mind, because your brain can only understand whether you are happy or sad, or you are happy-sad, but transcending these two is Ananda. And that’s what our soul is longing for."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: Give yourself completely to God...

"When you give yourself completely to God, God will also give Himself completely to you."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: pleasing God...

"When one comes under the direction of the Teacher, a Master, one surrenders not to his own will, but to the Will of the Master. Whatever one does is to please the Master; one does whatever the Master says. But above all, know that you’re not pleasing only the Master, but you are pleasing God above all, because the Master doesn’t need your pleasing. Even God doesn’t need your pleasing. But you, out of love, out of surrender, out of joy, you’re offering everything."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: Your aim is to have God-Realisation...

"Your aim is to have God-Realisation, Self-Realisation. Until you have reached your aim, until you have come to the point of complete trust and faith in yourself and in God, keep trying! Don’t let anything come in the way! Many times the mind will come in the way and say “No, no, no, no, no, no, you should not do like that, you should do like this”, but if you listen to the mind, you will stop. You will become lazy. Only when you really, sincerely dedicate yourself and surrender to your path, surrender to what you really want, you will achieve your aim."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: Love God...

"You should never be afraid of saying that you love God, because this is the only thing; He is the only One that you can love, really"

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: longing for the Divine...

"When this longing for the Divine or for God-Realisation or whatever name you put on it, is really suffocating, so that you can't even breathe, then you can say "Yes, im on the way towards Divinity"

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: Surrender your mind...

"The word surrender means the surrendering of one´s mind to the Lotus Feet of the Lord. That is, in fact, what one has to surrender. The Lord has everything else, you know! But your mind, when it is surrendered to the Lotus Feet of the Lord, gains peace; it gains happiness, it gains joy, it gains freedom. As long as one does not surrender the mind, one is a slave of the mind."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: Even if you don't know Him with the mind...

"Even if you don't know Him with the mind, you know Him with the heart. You all know Him, because you are part of Him."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: The Masters don't come here for themselves..

"It’s not you who are serving the Master, but the Master who is serving you, all the time. Whether you know it or you don’t know it, it’s the Master that is serving you. The Masters don’t come here for themselves. They come to lift you all up. So taking the example of the life of saints, taking the example of the life of great ones, we learn a lot; we learn how to develop selfless Love, unconditional Love and humility."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: You should never be scared...

"You should never be scared of surrendering yourself to His Will. You should never be scared of opening your heart and Loving."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: He's the only one...

"You have to be happy by chanting, by doing your prayer to the Lord, because He’s always with you. Your parents, your mum and dad, will be with you for some time, but He will always be with you. He was with you from the beginning and He will always be with you until the end, until you realise your Self and until you attain Him. He’s your best friend, He’s the only one that you can really trust, and He’s the only one that gives solutions for everything."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: Surrender completely...

"The Master will remove one from all this illusion, only when one surrenders completely. Because if one doesn’t surrender completely to the Master; if one doesn´t surrender completely and become obedient to the teaching of the spiritual guide, one will always be in the ignorance."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: The meaning of the word surrender...

"We say we want God, but yet, in our minds, God has to be our way. Of course, we all have a personal relationship towards the Divine and He will always come according to how we call Him. He is not limited, He has millions of forms, but we have to let Him do His Will. That’s the meaning of the word surrender."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: He hears everything...

"He hears everything and, above all, He knows when to give you what you’re praying for and when you are ready. When you will be able to handle it, He will give it to you."

Wisdom of Swami Vishwananda: Chant the Divine Names...

"The more you chant the Divine Names, the more the Divine will start to reflect on you. Then you can call yourself spiritual, because when you become spiritual, all the negative quality is removed from you, all the negative karma that you have created through many lives before, it get removed. And what takes place is this joy – the joy of serving, the joy of really being here, the joy of trying to attain the Lord."