Chinmayananda Saraswati Quotes

Do you know the essence of Vedanta?” he asked in a booming voice and himself gave the answer, “Undress and embrace” he thundered. People were nonplussed. He chuckled and explained, “Undress the body, mind and intellect. What remains is automatically in the embrace with OM, the pure awareness.”

Be strict and intelligently critical about yourself and your own weakness and follies. But, cushion your words and attitudes with Love. Love is the greatest persuasive power we know in life.

To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own.

Stop all your attachments to false values. In an ever changing world, there is nothing worthwhile for us to desire or weep for. Joys and sorrows are bound come in human life; they are just like the two sides of the same coin.

In all worthwhile undertakings, There will be risks of failure, of disappointments, of even disaster. To face them all with inner poise and firm faith is to discover the glory of final victory.

A man-of-wisdom lives in the world, but he is never of the world.

Temper takes you to Trouble, Pride keeps you there.

Every body dies, nobody dies.

Everybody exists. It is only the few who live. To live, you should have an ideal.

We may often give without love, but we can never love without giving.

Appreciating the mind as `ALL SILENCE'. `I AM' is meditation.

Bhakti is the attitude of the mind, and jnana is the attitude of the intellect, both flow towards the Lord.

Disappointment can come only to those who make appointments with the future.

Character is formed from the repeated choice of thoughts and action. Make the right choice - You shall have a firm and noble character.

History is full of instances, wherein, victory would have been to the vanquished, if only they had battled a little longer! We often fail for lack of perseverance in our efforts. We leave our work half done in our impatience. Every job demands its quota of efforts. Never give up too soon.