Chinmayananda Saraswati: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Moksha' is not `Freedom from Action' but, `Freedom in Action.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Freedom

“To remember the ever present Divine at all times, even while acting in the world, is the most positive practice for a seeker who is striving to evolve. He will thereby transform his inner personality from its present condition, to a state of harmony and efficiency.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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World , Time , Personality

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati

in A Treasury Of Inspirational Thoughts http://books.google.co.in/books?id=rdHW86GkUrMC&pg=PA68, p. 58
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History , Happiness

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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“There is no companion like solitude. One who knows how to tune himself to the inner silence, even in the midst of the din and roar of the marketplace, enjoys a most recreative solitude.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Solitude , Silence

“Success or achievement is not the final goal. It is the 'spirit' in which you act that puts the seal of beauty upon your life.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Life , Beauty , Success

“Faith is belief in what I do not know now, so I can come soon enough for what I believe in.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

In The Art of Man-making: Talks on the Bhagavad Geeta http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ssyfCDBzOrYC&pg=PA187, p. 187

Faith

“Universe is a cosmos and not a chaos. There exists a mental affinity; a scientific law; a rhythm of mental relationship in which the entire living world is held together, in one web of love.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Love , World , Law , Universe

“To give love is true freedom; To demand love is pure slavery.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Love , Freedom

“Religion must not be considered true because it is necessary, but necessary because it is true.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Religion

“You are successful and creative only when you see an opportunity in every difficulty.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Success

“Unless we have a definite faith in the goal of our existence, and unless we believe, work for, and actually come to experience the goal positively as an existent factor, there is no hope of any plan becoming successful.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Faith , Hope , Success

“Prosperity is like wine, which goes to the head, and makes man forget his Creator.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Wine , Forgetting

“The secret of success behind all men of achievement, lies in the faculty of applying their intellect in all their activities, without being mislead by any surging emotions or feelings. The secret of success in life lies in keeping the head above the storms of the heart.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Life , Men , Secret , Feeling

“Mind alone is maya at play.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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“To assume differences in the world, is to belie this great Oneness in life.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Life , World

“Substitute wisely, grow steadily and be free.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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“Charity is an attempt wherein I try to expand and bring into the ambit of my life, all others around me and grow to consider the other man's needs and requirements as important as my own personal needs. To live seeking an identity thus, with at least those who are immediately around me, is to live away from the suffocating selfishness and the throttling grip of my body-consciousness.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Life , Personality , Selfishness

“The end of ego is the `Mystic Death' of the mediator”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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Death

“To say, `LORD IS' is Gyanam. But `THE LORD IS I' is Vigyanam.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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