Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
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.
More Chinmayananda Saraswati Quotes
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The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.
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What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him
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Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
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The Present is the womb of the future.
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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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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 only demand of life is the privilege to love all.
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Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job,
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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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Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.
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Expose yourself to aloneness.
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There are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence.
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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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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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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
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