Chinmayananda Saraswati Quotes
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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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The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything
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Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.
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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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Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket
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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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Remember, 'Even this will pass away.'
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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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What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him
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The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.
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Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.
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He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.
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The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
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Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
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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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Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work
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Expose yourself to aloneness. 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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Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.
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Taste goodness before you recommend it.
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Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine
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Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
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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. 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, 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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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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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
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If you want to prove yourself to God, improve yourself. Words of guidance are so simple, yet so deep - anybody can win, if he be the soul entry. Unfortunately, in every field, there are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence.
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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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In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
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The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.
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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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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. As agitations quieten, sattva increases slowly.
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Chinmayananda Saraswati
- Born: May 8, 1916
- Died: August 3, 1993
- Occupation: Spiritual leader
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