When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality – about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIWhen a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality – about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIThe Present is the womb of the future.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIThere are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIBoth renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIThe only demand of life is the privilege to love all.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIThe tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIChildren are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIAt this moment, our instincts are very impure. When we have practiced for a long time, living the higher values of life and following the instructions of great masters or the Scriptures.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIHappiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIMan can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIWithout 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 SARASWATITaste goodness before you recommend it.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIPrayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIThe results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIThe real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIBut 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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