Chinmayananda Saraswati Quotes

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Seek the Lord In the smiles of your friends, In the glow of angry eyes, In the storms of passion. He is everywhere, in everything.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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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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Strange! Wealth estranges us all. It is all very strange, the money psychology! When you have not got any, you will pant to get some! When you get some, you grow jealous of others who have more, and feel conceited among those who have less!

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Temper takes you to Trouble, Pride keeps you there.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
We may often give without love, but we can never love without giving.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Don't expect them to fully understand you. They won't: So? Demonstrate with results what they would not understand with words!

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
To do your job even if circumstances are not conducive, is our gift to Him-who is the sole Lord of all circumstances.

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To say, LORD IS' is Gyanam. But THE LORD IS I' is Vigyanam.

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Religion must not be considered true because it is necessary, but necessary because it is true.

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A Conquest, without facing dangers is as dull as Victory without a shining glory. A game without a prize!

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There is no destiny beyond and above ourselves; we are ourselves the architects of our future.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
The secret of success behind all men of achievement, lies in the faculty of applying their intellect in all their activities, without being mislead by any surging emotions or feelings. The secret of success in life lies in keeping the head above the storms of the heart.

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We like someone because, we love someone in spite of...

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When the time of judgement comes, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
All disturbances and challenges rise not only from our relationship with others, but in our attitude to all other things and beings.

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To remember the ever present Divine at all times, even while acting in the world, is the most positive practice for a seeker who is striving to evolve. He will thereby transform his inner personality from its present condition, to a state of harmony and efficiency.

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There is no companion like solitude. One who knows how to tune himself to the inner silence, even in the midst of the din and roar of the marketplace, enjoys a most recreative solitude.

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Wisdom is the assimilated knowledge in us, gained from an intelligent estimation and close study of our own direct and indirect experience in the world.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Spirituality is neither the privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the rich. It is the choice of the wise man.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
The real men of achievement are people who have the heroism to fuel more and more enthusiasm in their work, when they face more and more difficulties.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
To listen is not merely to hear. We in life, hear but very rarely do we know how to listen. To Listen is to hear, with an intellectual alertness and attention of awareness.

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In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
When opportunity knocks, We are either out or sleeping in.

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The greatness is not what we do, but, unavoidably it is always in how we do what we do. Our present work may be great or small, Yet, the important is to do it well.

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Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

Chinmayananda Saraswati