Chinmayananda Saraswati: Man

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“Man is the roof and crown of creation. He may be tossed about by uncertain storms of life, but the solution to it lies in his own efforts in finding an ideal, and then raising his personality, from the level of petty emotions, to the loftier heights of the chosen ideal.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“At the Ashram I was told that the Maharshi was in the hall and anybody was free to walk in and see him. As I entered, I saw on the couch an elderly man, wearing but a loincloth, reclining against a round bolster. I sat down at the very foot of the couch. The Maharshi suddenly opened his eyes and looked straight into mine: I looked into his. A mere look, that was all. I felt that the Maharshi was, in that split moment, looking deep into me – and I was sure that he saw all my shallowness, confusions, faithlessness, imperfections, and fears. I cannot explain what happened in that one split moment. I felt opened, cleaned, healed, and emptied! A whirl of confusions: my atheism dropping away, but scepticism flooding in to question, wonder, and search. My reason gave me strength and I said to myself, ‘It is all mesmerism, my own foolishness.’ Thus assuring myself, I got up and walked away.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Quoted in Forever is in the Now: The Timeless Message of Sri Ramana Maharshi http://books.google.co.in/books?id=K1YqAAAAYAAJ, p. 192

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“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

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“Spirituality is neither the privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the rich. It is the choice of the wise man.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“The God-Man functions as a true 'sportsman' in his playfield, where the very enjoyment is in the sport and not in the score.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“Everyone points to the other man, who, according to him, is happier But the only one, who has the courage to declare that he is truly happy, is he who has relinquished all his passions and hungers from within.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“The average man looks up at night And sees thousands and thousands, of twinkling stars, Each different from the others. But a man of wisdom and achievement, Perceives the one light, Behind the dark dome of the night-sky, Whose incandescence peeps at us, Through all the holes in the night-dome!!”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“Whatever the man of realization is the moral code for us to follow. The qualities of his actions are the standards by which the world determines its sense of justice, the concept of Dharma.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

in The Penguin Swami Chinmyananda Reader http://books.google.co.in/books?id=iDiRLzPFOPIC&pg=PA213, p. 213

“To forget oneself totally, one's mind should keep awake at every moment. A mind that has forgotten the past and the future, that is awake to the now, to the present, expresses the highest concentration of intelligence. It is alert, it is watchful, it is inspired. The actions of a man who has such a mind are exceptionally creative and perfect. Verily to forget oneself totally, is to be in perfection.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago