Chinmayananda Saraswati Quotes

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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

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
Temper brings you to trouble. Pride keeps you there.

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

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

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
To assume differences in the world, is to belie this great Oneness in life.

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati