Inspirational Quotes by Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher)

Inspirational Quotes by Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher)

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.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

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

Daily prayer and meditation are all wonderful therapeutic agencies in building up peace and happiness within an individual.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.
—Swami Chinmayananda
Topics: Action, Become, Destiny, Act

Introspect daily, detect diligently, negate ruthlessly.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Mind alone is maya at play.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Everybody exists. It is only the few who live.
To live, you should have an ideal.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Love is the heart of all religions; the theme of all classical works of art and literature; the song of all devotees. Scientists know only what love does, not what love is. Love is to human hearts what the sun is to flowers.
—Swami Chinmayananda

The heroism of the seeker is in rejecting the whisperings of mediate happiness and to live nobly fulfilling one’s larger duties.
—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

To listen is not merely to hear.
We in life, hear but very rarely do we know how to listen.
To Listen is to hear, with an intellectual alertness and attention of awareness.
—Swami Chinmayananda

To define God is to defile God.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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!.
—Swami Chinmayananda

The highest form of Grace is silence.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Flood your mind with love. Look into the eyes of the other and embrace the person with whom you have quarreled.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

The greatness is not what we do but, unavoidably, it is always in how we do what we do.
—Swami Chinmayananda

You are successful and creative only when you see an opportunity in every difficulty.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Spiritual unfoldment cannot take place merely because of an intellectual appreciation of the theory of perfection. Evolution takes place only when a corresponding change in the subjective life is accomplished.
—Swami Chinmayananda

In all worthwhile undertakings, There will be risks of failure, of disappointments, of even disaster. To face them all with inner poise and firm faith is to discover the glory of final victory.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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.
—Swami Chinmayananda

A successful man is one who lays a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
—Swami Chinmayananda
Topics: Self-Esteem, Confidence, Success, Entrepreneurs, Desires, Success & Failure, Men

Mind can make a hell of heaven.
Or a heaven of hell.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Not to do what you feel like doing is freedom.
—Swami Chinmayananda

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
—Swami Chinmayananda
Topics: Sin, Secret, Spirit, Spiritual

Words are not necessary. Both will have their eyes flooded, and the joy of tears will wash away all quarrels.
—Swami Chinmayananda

When opportunity knocks,
We are either out or sleeping in.
—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

If I rest, I rust.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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