Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme. Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in varying degrees because tamas will be reduced only when the mind’s agitations, vikshepas are quietened.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIThe real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.
More Chinmayananda Saraswati Quotes
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The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything
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Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
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Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action.
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Taste goodness before you recommend it.
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The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
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The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.
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He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.
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Expose yourself to aloneness.
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But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.
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The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.
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Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.
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The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow’s harvest depends upon today’s ploughing and sowing.
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Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.
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Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive.
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By unswerving devotion to Me, a man crosses over three Gunas – I am the Abode of Brahman, Eternal and Immutable, of everlasting Dharma and Absolute Bliss.
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