Chinmayananda Saraswati Quotes

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Success or achievement is not the final goal. It is the 'spirit' in which you act that puts the seal of beauty upon your life.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Faith is belief in what I do not know now, so I can come soon enough for what I believe in.

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Unless we have a definite faith in the goal of our existence, and unless we believe, work for, and actually come to experience the goal positively as an existent factor, there is no hope of any plan becoming successful.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Be strict and intelligently critical about yourself and your own weakness and follies. But, cushion your words and attitudes with Love. Love is the greatest persuasive power we know in life.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
To give without sympathy is to build a temple without the idol and is as futile as painting a picture with black ink on a black-board.

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Man is the roof and crown of creation. He may be tossed about by uncertain storms of life, but the solution to it lies in his own efforts in finding an ideal, and then raising his personality, from the level of petty emotions, to the loftier heights of the chosen ideal.

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Without devotion, knowledge is tasteless. Without knowledge, devotion is mere empty idol worship.

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Spiritual unfoldment cannot take place merely because of an intellectual appreciation of the theory of perfection. Evolution takes place only when a corresponding change in the subjective life is accomplished.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Everybody exists. It is only the few who live. To live, you should have an ideal.

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There is nothing, at any time, in any circumstance, to worry over why this to me?

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Efficiency is the capacity to bring proficiency into expression.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Divinity should not be given to you from somewhere else. The Upanishad thunders Thou Art That.

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Out of purity and silence come the words of power.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
The end of ego is the Mystic Death' of the mediator

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To be patient means to suffer something that hinders or hurts us, and still retain our self-composure. How many difficulties, with their consequent unpleasantness and discord, could be smoothed over and almost entirely eliminated by patience. Patience always elevates and strengthens our character. We need it not only with others but also with ourselves.

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The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything.

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Flood your mind with love. Look into the eyes of the other and embrace the person with whom you have quarreled. Words are not necessary. Both will have their eyes flooded, and the joy of tears will wash away all quarrels.

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Bhakti is the attitude of the mind, and jnana is the attitude of the intellect, both flow towards the Lord.

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The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

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Moksha' is not Freedom from Action' but, Freedom in Action'.

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Whatever the man of realization is the moral code for us to follow. The qualities of his actions are the standards by which the world determines its sense of justice, the concept of Dharma.

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More important than What is Behind you and what is Ahead of you is what is In you. Seek it. Centred in it, act and live.

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What you have is all His Gift to you. What you do with what you have is your Gift to Him...

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But the boy who left the hall was not the boy who had gone in some ten minutes before. After my college days, my political work, and after my years of stay at Uttarkashi at the feet of my master, Tapovanam I knew that what I gained on the Ganges banks was that which had been given to me years before by the saint of Tiruvannamalai on that hot summer day – by a mere look

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Everyone points to the other man, who, according to him, is happier But the only one, who has the courage to declare that he is truly happy, is he who has relinquished all his passions and hungers from within.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
In life, the glory lies not in the quarry, but in the chase.

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Hindu culture is essentially based upon the sacrifice implied in duty, and not upon acquisition, which is implied in rights.

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You are successful and creative only when you see an opportunity in every difficulty.

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Disappointment can come only to those who make appointments with the future.

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The guru is nothing but pure consciousness, Bliss and eternal wisdom.

Chinmayananda Saraswati