Chidbhavananda

“Life pertaining to this world is in no way different from the spiritual. There is continuity and homogeneity in life in all its stages. Man will be in the hereafter none other than what he is here and now. Change of body effects no more change in the personality than does change of clothings. Mode of action it is that makes a person what he is. But action by itself is neither sacred nor secular. The attitude with which it is performed brings about a magical change in it. All actions become sacred in the hands of a spiritual man. On the contrary a man with a material outlook drags down even a sacred act to the vulgar plane. Because of his earthbound outlook, the uninitiated one fouls sacred acts into secular, whereas the message of the Gita is to metamorphose all actions into liberating sacred ones. This distinctive feature makes the Gita a book of universal application. Will, emotion and cognition are the three aspects of the phenomenon of the mind.”
― Swami Chidbhavananda, The Bhagavad Gita

“ஆத்மாவில் இன்புற்று, ஆத்மாவில் திருப்தியடைந்து, ஆத்மாவில் மகிழ்ந்திருப்பவனுக்கு வினையாற்றும் கடமையில்லை.”
― Chidbhavananda, The Bhagavad Gita