Analects of Swami Sivananda

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(iv) Saints and Sages

 

63. Have perfect faith in the everlasting and undying influence of

the eternal teachings of great teachers, saints, prophets and sages.

64. There is an essential unity of the truths underlying the

teachings of great sages, saints and prophets.

65. To know a saint is to be a saint.

66. A saint lives and has his being in God.

67. A sage has equal vision towards all beings. He is beyond the

pairs of opposites. He is totally egoless.

68. He who has overcome all evils, who is established in morals, who

is endowed with self-control, truthfulness and wisdom is truly a

saint.

69. A sage alone is really wealthy. Multimillionaires with cravings

and desires are beggars.

70. A saint is superior to an emperor or Indra, the Lord of Heaven.

71. Purity, simplicity, humility, harmlessness, truthfulness and

compassion are the salient characteristics of a saint.

72. There is no difference between a Christian mystic and a Hindu

saint. Their sayings never clash.

73. The messages of the saints are essentially the same. They have

always been a call to men to discover the wisdom of the Self or Atman.

74. A sage is worthy of worship. He helps the aspirant to cross this

ocean of Samsara (births and deaths) and attain knowledge of the

Atman.

75. A sage who identifies himself with the all-pervading Atman

obtains whatever he longs for, either for himself or for others,

because he is the Atman of all.

76. Let a man who is desirous of prosperity and eternal happiness

worship a sage who knows the Atman.