“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
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

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