Quotes from Chinmayananda

20. He is not born, nor does He ever die; after having been, He again ceases not to be; Unborn, Eternal, Changeless and Ancient, He is not killed when the body is killed.

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.

Man awakened to the Self's Glory is God; God forgetful of His own glory is the deluded man!

The ?tman, the pure Consciousness, gets Itself deluded by Its own delusion and by Itself projects out the 'pluralistic world' which is nothing but Itself, It being the all-pervading and eternal.

M????kya? eka? kevala? mumuk?u??? vimuktaye).

No j?va is ever born; there exists no cause to produce it. That is the highest Truth, where nothing is ever born'.

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.

In the human heart, there is always a great tendency to glorify one's own weaknesses with some convenient angelic name and divine pose.