Quotes from 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.

The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.

But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

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.

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

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

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.

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

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.

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

The Geeta is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.

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.

The more we identify ourselves with the little 'I' in us,

Indeed, certain is death for the born, and certain is birth for the dead; therefore, over the inevitable, you should not grieve.

They (wise people) speak of the indestructible ASHWATTHA tree* as having its roots above and branches below, whose leaves are the

YOGA becomes the destroyer of pain for

Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.

The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.