Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIAccept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
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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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Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
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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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The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.
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Remember, ‘Even this will pass away.’
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The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.
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A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly.
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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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Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket
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As the thoughts so the mind. If thoughts are good, mind is good. If thoughts are bad, the mind is called bad.
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As agitations quieten, sattva increases slowly.
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In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
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Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.
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Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work
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When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality – about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.
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There are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence.
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That is when you have trained your unconscious. Then when a situation comes, you can to an extent, depend on your inner voice.
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Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
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At 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.
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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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The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.
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Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job,
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He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.
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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 tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
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