Chinmayananda Saraswati Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati
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.

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

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
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
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

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

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

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

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati
To forget oneself totally, one's mind should keep awake at every moment. A mind that has forgotten the past and the future, that is awake to the now, to the present, expresses the highest concentration of intelligence. It is alert, it is watchful, it is inspired. The actions of a man who has such a mind are exceptionally creative and perfect. Verily to forget oneself totally, is to be in perfection.

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

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

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati
Fanatic secularism is as dangerous to the world as fanatic religion. Love is the heart of all religions; the theme of all classical works of art and literature; the song of all devotees. Scientists know only what love does, not what love is. Love is to human hearts what the sun is to flowers.

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

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

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.

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
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