Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATITo love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
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Look after the present and the future will look after itself.
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Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.
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Presently we have to train our unconscious to function better. Then we can depend upon our instincts, that will be noble instincts.
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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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As agitations quieten, sattva increases slowly.
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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.
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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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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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The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.
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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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The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.
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Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
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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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Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
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Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket
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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
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In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
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A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly.
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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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Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive.
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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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He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.
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The Present is the womb of the future.
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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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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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