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“The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.”
― Swami Chinmayananda, Evergreen Messages

“If I rest,I rust”
― Swami Chinmayananda

“Remember, 'Even this will pass away!”
― Swami Chinmayananda, Evergreen Messages

“Happiness, therefore, is measured by the tranquillity of one’s mind.”
― Swami Chinmayananda, Kindle Life

“Until we discover this Spiritual Centre in ourselves, the God in us, we will be confused, miserable, unsatisfied and disturbed, an enigma to ourselves and to others.”
― Swami Chinmayananda, I love You

“We can,We must”
― Swami Chinmayananda

“The more the evil in a man, the less he will respond to sincere and pure love.”
― Swami Chinmayananda, I love You

“Actions are the louder expression of thought. The quality of thought is ordered by the nature of our inner belief and faith.”
― Swami Chinmayananda

“In the human heart, there is always a great tendency to glorify one's own weaknesses with some convenient angelic name and divine pose.”
― Chinmayananda, The Holy Geeta

“There is no freedom found either in the outer space, or in the nether kingdom, or on the surface of the earth. It is found only in the mind in which all desires have dried up. When desires are conquered, the march of thoughts cease, and the mind ends. This is the state of freedom.’2”
― Chinmayananda, Ashtavakra Gita

“Some act till they meet obstacles, others act in spite of obstacles and conquer them; but some act not, fearing the possibility of some obstacles that might arise enroute.”
― Chinmayananda, Inward Journey

“only”
― Chinmayananda Saraswati, Ashtavakra Gita

“Achievements are not earned through proficiency alone. They are in fact rewards of our efficiency.

Proficiency is gathered knowledge, while efficiency is the ability to translate the knowledge into action.”
― Swami Chinmayananda

“The quality of activities cannot be raised, unless we raise the very texture of our thoughts and the depth of our understanding.”
― Chinmayananda, Inward Journey

“Indeed, certain is death for the born, and certain is birth for the dead; therefore, over the inevitable, you should not grieve.”
― Chinmayananda Saraswati, The Holy Geeta

“How can the bhakta stand apart from his sorrows?

To a devotee this is much easier than for anyone else. He is one who has already offered all of himself. He has laid at the altar of his Lord his entire being. So totally surrendered becomes his worldly and sacred personality, that not only his physical being but his ideas, his ideals, his worldly duties, even his spiritual duties come to be entirely offered at His feet. His joy is only in going on striving for Him. All worries and anxieties thereafter are His. Then on what account should he ever weep?”
― Chinmayananda Saraswati, Narada Bhakti Sutra

“Whether one’s nature is serving the Lord, either as servant or as wife, such a devotion with no sense of distinction between Lord and yourself that alone is to be achieved.

To move towards this experience of our oneness with the Lord, wherein the Lord and His devotee are not two, is to cultivate the path of a servant to the master or a wife to the husband. Such love is expressed in the glory of sages who have realised this fulfilment of devotion. This alone is to be achieved – prema eva kāryam.”
― Chinmayananda Saraswati, Narada Bhakti Sutra

“The secret of action is to get established in equanimity, renouncing all egocentric attachments, and forgetting to worry over our successes and failures”
― Chinmayananda, Inward Journey

“The Geeta is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.”
― Chinmayananda Saraswati, The Holy Geeta

“as sugar made from the sugarcane juice is entirely pervaded by that juice, so the universe, produced in me, is permeated by me, both within and”
― Chinmayananda, Ashtavakra Gita

“Perfect morality can be declared and lived up to only by him who has sought to live and discover his real identity with the Self, which is ONE-WITHOUT-A-SECOND, EVERYWHERE, IN ALL BEINGS AND FORMS.”
― Chinmayananda, The Holy Geeta

“Therefore, mind control, mental development as the modern educationists say, is most important. The student who develops a certain amount of mind control is marked as one who will have the greatest success in life.”
― Chinmayananda, Self Unfoldment

“Just as in the dream, the agitated mind creates a delusory dream world and the dreamer identifying himself with it takes it to be real and gains experience thereunder; so too in the waking state, the waker’s mind being agitated, projects itself to a world of delusory plurality and he gains therein his experience of a world, seemingly real for him for the time being.”
― Chinmayananda, Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada's Karika: 1

“YOGA becomes the destroyer of pain for”
― Chinmayananda Saraswati, The Holy Geeta

“I am the pure Self, uncontaminated by the layers of matter around me, unattached, ever stainless, I am that all-pervading Brahman.”
― Chinmayananda, Atmabodha

“Wherever there is the concept of the "other", there is fear, restlessness, agitation, worry, anxiety, each following the other.”
― Chinmayananda, Inward Journey

“न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचि-
न्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः।
अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो-
न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे॥२०॥”
― Chinmayananda, The Holy Geeta

“The Mahātman who renounces all his desires, activities, attachments, likes and dislikes and his very contact with the life in this ephemeral world of objects, who is ever at the shrine of the Ᾱtman striving with determination to experience the bliss of his own Self, becomes all knowing, all-pervasive Brahman Itself. Having experienced that which has no beginning or end, he becomes immortal. The dreamer, when he ends his dreams and wakes up, becomes the waker himself; the limited ego on transcending the mind-intellect equipment itself becomes the immortal Brahman.”
― Chinmayananda, Atmabodha

“or incompleteness, either in the physical or in the emotional personality of a man, he is not capable of invoking and directing thereafter the efficient play of his emotional and intellectual abilities.”
― Chinmayananda Saraswati, Shrimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12/13

“The path of discrimination lies in constantly distinguishing between the limited lot of the ego and the divine destinies of the Spirit.”
― Chinmayananda, Inward Journey