Stop Listening to Spiritual Lectures

There is no need to listen to more and more lectures. You have heard enough. When will you practise? Listening to lectures is a mere intellectual amusement. Practise is difficult. Start practising today; otherwise you will go on listening to lectures. Listening to lectures has become a disease nowadays. When you listen to a lecture, there is a little bit of nervous excitement and titillation. But unless you put the instructions into practice, the lessons will be lost upon you, and you will be the same person. You ask every sadhu you meet, "Please show me the path to God-realisation." He tells you something, and goes his way. You yourself have to tread the path. You have got to practise yoga yourself. Are you ready to start your practice? 

Source: pg. 53, Sivananda's Lectures (abridged version) During All India and Ceylon Tour --- 1950.