Chinmayananda Saraswati was an Indian spiritual leader who was a renowned Hindu spiritual teacher and a Vedanta scholar. He was the founder of the Chinmaya Mission, a worldwide non-profit organization engaged in spiritual, educational and charitable activities. He was a proponent of Vedanta, the ancient Indian philosophy of life, and his teachings and writings inspired millions of people around the world. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Chinmayananda Saraswati on love, life, marriage.
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Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket
Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
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.
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
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.
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.
Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine
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
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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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
Chinmayananda Saraswati Short Quotes
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.
In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
Remember, 'Even this will pass away.'
Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
Taste goodness before you recommend it.
He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.
The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.
The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.
What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him
Chinmayananda Saraswati Famous Quotes And Sayings
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
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. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
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. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
As the thoughts so the mind. If thoughts are good, mind is good. If thoughts are bad, the mind is called bad. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
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. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
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. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
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. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything — Chinmayananda Saraswati
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. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
Life Lessons by Chinmayananda Saraswati
Chinmayananda Saraswati taught the importance of self-inquiry and meditation in order to discover one's true nature and the divine within.
He emphasized the need to live a life of knowledge, devotion, and service in order to reach a higher level of spiritual awareness.
His teachings encourage us to seek truth and wisdom, to practice self-discipline, and to cultivate a sense of detachment and non-attachment.
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