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
History is full of instances, wherein, victory would have been to the vanquished, if only they had battled a little longer! We often fail for lack of perseverance in our efforts. We leave our work half done in our impatience. Every job demands its quota of efforts. Never give up too soon.

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 give love is true freedom; To demand love is pure slavery.

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati
The cultured give happiness wherever they go. The uncultured whenever they go.

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

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
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
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.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
In all worthwhile undertakings, There will be risks of failure, of disappointments, of even disaster. To face them all with inner poise and firm faith is to discover the glory of final victory.

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Introspect daily, detect diligently, negate ruthlessly.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Out of purity and silence come the words of power.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
In life to handle yourself, use your head, but to handle others, use your heart.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

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

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

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati
A man-of-wisdom lives in the world, but he is never of the world.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
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.

Chinmayananda Saraswati
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.

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
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.

Chinmayananda Saraswati