Chinmayananda Saraswati Quotes

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

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Commitment, Destiny, Focus

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• Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Children, Thinking, Lamps

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

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Happiness, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Life, Acceptance, Intelligent

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• 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.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Regret, Past, Focus

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• Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Keys, Pockets, Key To Happiness

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

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• To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Love, Friendship Over, Great Happiness

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Quality, Action, Devotion

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

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

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• The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Real, Mind, Guru

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• 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.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Investing, Future Happiness, Looks

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

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Heart, Men, Joy

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

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Tragedy, Comfort, Midst

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• 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.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Reality, Thinking, Soul

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• Remember, 'Even this will pass away.'

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Passing Away, Remember

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Spiritual, Adversity, Blessing

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Discipline, Submit, Disciple

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• 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

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Jobs, Numbers, Complaining

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

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Prayer, Acceptance, Curiosity

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• Taste goodness before you recommend it.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Taste, Goodness

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• 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.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Love, Religious, Passion

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Bliss, Tranquility, Truth Is

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• The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Tunes, Spirit

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• As the thoughts so the mind. If thoughts are good, mind is good. If thoughts are bad, the mind is called bad.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Mind, Good Mind, Ifs

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