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Inspirational Quotes by Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher)

Inspirational Quotations by Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher)

Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–93,) originally Balakrishna Menon, was an Indian Hindu spiritual teacher of the Neo-Vedānta tradition. He founded the Chinmaya Mission, a nonprofit organization that runs schools, hospitals, and clinics worldwide.

Born in Ernakulam, Kerala, Swami Chinmayananda studied law and English at the universities of Madras and Lucknow and started a career in journalism. He became a pupil of Swami Śivānanda Saraswati. Throughout his decades-long spiritual life, Swami Chinmayananda taught jñāna yajñá (“wisdom worship”)—his quest for spiritual liberation through the study of the sacred texts.

In 1953, Swami Chinmayananda founded the Chinmaya Mission for the teaching of the Vedānta philosophy, and for the promotion of Indian culture and social service. He was also influential in the 1964 establishment of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, now a Hindu nationalist organization.

Swami Chinmayananda wrote 35 books on the Upaniṣads and the Bhagavad Gītā, in addition to a set of interpretations of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya’s Bhaja Govindam and Vivekacūḍāmaṇi.

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Inspirational Quotes by Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher)

Remember, ‘Even this will pass away.’
—Swami Chinmayananda
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If I rest, I rust.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Without devotion, knowledge is tasteless. Without knowledge, devotion is mere empty idol worship.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Efficiency is the capacity to bring proficiency into expression.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Become quietly effective.
Don’t expect them, to fully understand you.
They won’t: So ?
Demonstrate with results
What they would not understand with words .
—Swami Chinmayananda

Don’t die while living, live after you are dead.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Do the best and leave the rest.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Our present work may be great or small.
Yet, the important thing is to do it well.
—Swami Chinmayananda

We like someone because, we love someone in spite of.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Let not your choice leave behind a sense of guilt.
—Swami Chinmayananda

The end of ego is the ‘Mystic Death’ of the mediator.
—Swami Chinmayananda

The greatness in an ideology is not, in fact, in the ideology;
it is in the subject which lives that ideology.
—Swami Chinmayananda

History is full of instances, wherein, victory would have been to the vanquished, if only they had battled a little longer! We often fail for lack of perseverance in our efforts. We leave our work half done in our impatience. Every job demands its quota of efforts. Never give up too soon.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Sandalwood perfumes even the axe that hurls it down!
The more we rub sandalwood against a stone, the more its fragrance spreads.
Burn it, and it wafts its glory through the entire neighbourhood.
Such is the enchanting beauty of forgiveness in life.
—Swami Chinmayananda

What you have is all His Gift to you.
What you do with what you have is your Gift to Him … .
—Swami Chinmayananda

Be a noble person in life. The tides of circumstances and the tussle of happenings may toss us hither and thither, may buffet us up and down, but stay noble in your thoughts and actions – you will be ever safe.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Grace is only to be found by effort, although it is here and now.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Yoga is skill in action.
—Swami Chinmayananda

All disturbances and challenges rise not only from our relationship with others,
but in our attitude to all other things and beings.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Spirituality is neither the privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the rich. It is the choice of the wise man.
—Swami Chinmayananda

It is sure to be dark if you close your eyes.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

Out of purity and silence come the words of power.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Disappointment can come only to those who make appointments with the future.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Appreciating the mind as ‘ALL SILENCE’, ‘I AM’ is meditation.
—Swami Chinmayananda

To see the one in the many
Is the casual vision of knowledge.
To see the many in the one,
Is the mission wisdom.
—Swami Chinmayananda

To give love is true freedom; to demand love is pure slavery.
—Swami Chinmayananda

In life, the glory lies not in the quarry, but in the chase.
The success is not in the trophy won,
but in the race run … .
—Swami Chinmayananda

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