Este es el secreto del éxito… / This is the secret of success…

“Pon tu corazón, mente y alma, incluso en los actos más pequeños. Este es el secreto del éxito.”

“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”

Swami Sivananda

Swami Sivananda Kuppu Swami Iyer (Pattamadai, 8 de septiembre de 1887 - Rishikesh, 14 de julio de 1963), más conocido por su seudónimo Svami Shivananda, fue un maestro espiritual, yogui y gurú hinduista, fundador de la Divine Life Society (Sociedad Vida Divina). Vivió la mayor parte de su vida en Rishikesh (India).

Swami Sivananda Saraswati fue propagador del yoga y la doctrina Vedānta. Su lema era: «Sirve, ama, da, medita, purifícate y realízate».

Escribió unos 300 libros sobre yoga, religión, espiritualismo, hinduismo, moral, higiene y salud. Fue un pionero en llevar el yoga a Occidente.

Sivananda Saraswati (or Swami Sivananda) (8 September 1887 – 14 July 1963) was a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta. Sivananda was born Kuppuswami in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism. He lived most of his life near Muni Ki Reti, Rishikesh.

He was the founder of the Divine Life Society (DLS) in 1936, Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy (1948) and author of over 200 books on yoga, Vedanta, and a variety of subjects. He established Sivananda Ashram, the headquarters of the DLS, on the bank of the Ganges at Sivanandanagar, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from Rishikesh.