Chinmayananda Saraswati Quotes

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Prosperity is like wine, which goes to the head, and makes man forget his Creator.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
The average man looks up at night And sees thousands and thousands, of twinkling stars, Each different from the others. But a man of wisdom and achievement, Perceives the one light, Behind the dark dome of the night-sky, Whose incandescence peeps at us, Through all the holes in the night-dome!!

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Mind at rest is the Temple of Joy. So long as it is gurgling with its desires, passions and attachments in its stormy surface, the signature of joy gets ruffled out.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Faith is, To believe what you do not see', the reward of which is, you see what you believed'.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Plan out your work Then work out your plan. The former without the latter is a sheer waste. The latter without the former is mere unproductive confusion.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Some act till they meet obstacles, others act inspite of obstacles and conquer them; but some act not fearing the possibility of some obstacles, that might arise enroute.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Mind can make a hell of heaven. Or a heaven of hell.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Work without faith and prayer is like an artificial flower without fragrance.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Character is formed from the repeated choice of thoughts and action. Make the right choice - You shall have a firm and noble character.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
The secret of action is to get established in equanimity, renouncing all egocentric attachments, and forgetting to worry over our successes and failures.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
One single ideal can transform a listless soul into a towering leader of men.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
The God-Man functions as a true 'sportsman' in his playfield, where the very enjoyment is in the sport and not in the score.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Grace is only to be found by effort, although it is here and now.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Comfort comes as a guest; lingers to become the host,- and stays to enslave us.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Adversity, on the contrary, sobers him and reminds him of God and his Glory.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Happiness depends on what you can give, Not on what you can get.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Universe is a cosmos and not a chaos. There exists a mental affinity; a scientific law; a rhythm of mental relationship in which the entire living world is held together, in one web of love.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
To see the one in the many is the casual vision of knowledge. To see the many in the one is the mission wisdom.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Alert and vigilant living itself is a Sadhana' in the true sense.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Charity is an attempt wherein I try to expand and bring into the ambit of my life, all others around me and grow to consider the other man's needs and requirements as important as my own personal needs. To live seeking an identity thus, with at least those who are immediately around me, is to live away from the suffocating selfishness and the throttling grip of my body-consciousness.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Stop all your attachments to false values. In an ever changing world, there is nothing worthwhile for us to desire or weep for. Joys and sorrows are bound come in human life; they are just like the two sides of the same coin.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Sandalwood perfumes even the axe that hurls it down! The more we rub sandalwood against a stone, the more its fragrance spreads. Burn it, and it wafts its glory through the entire neighbourhood. Such is the enchanting beauty of forgiveness in life.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
He who depends on chances and situations to be happy, is a Sansari.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Appreciating the mind as ALL SILENCE'. I AM' is meditation.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Surrender inspite of Freedom' is the way of wisemen.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
The greatness in an ideology is not, in fact, in the ideology; but it is in the subject which lives that ideology.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Introspect daily, detect diligently, negate ruthlessly.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
The success is not in the trophy won but in the race run...

Chinmayananda Saraswati