Inspirational Quotes by Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher)

Inspirational Quotes by Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher)

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

There is no destiny beyond and above ourselves; we are ourselves the architects of our future.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

Mind at rest is the Temple of Joy. So long as it is gurgling with its desires, passions and attachments in its stormy surface, the signature of joy gets ruffled out.
—Swami Chinmayananda

To be patient means to suffer something that hinders or hurts us, and still retain our self-composure. How many difficulties, with their consequent unpleasantness and discord, could be smoothed over and almost entirely eliminated by patience. Patience always elevates and strengthens our character. We need it not only with others but also with ourselves.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.
—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

Work without faith and prayer is like an artificial flower without fragrance.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Yoga is skill in action.
—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

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

The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

‘Surrender inspite of Freedom’ is the way of wisemen.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Some act till they meet obstacles, others act inspite of obstacles and conquer them; but some act not fearing the possibility of some obstacles, that might arise enroute.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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.
—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

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

Every body dies, nobody dies.
—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

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

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

Strange! Wealth estranges us all. It is all very strange, the money psychology! When you have not got any, you will pant to get some! When you get some, you grow jealous of others who have more, and feel conceited among those who have less.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

Plan out your work, then work out your plan.
The former without the latter is a sheer waste.
The latter without the former is mere unproductive confusion.
—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

Work is love made visible. To bring into vivid expression your love for others
is work – to drag yourself through each day’s schedule, morose, unhappy,
miserable, is labor. Work alone brings achievement, never labor.
Grow up to be a man of sheer achievements through loving work.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Know what to Do.
Do it Yourself.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

There is no companion like solitude. One who knows how to tune himself to the inner silence, even in the midst of the din and roar of the marketplace, enjoys a most recreative solitude.
—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

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.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Religion must not be considered true because it is necessary, but necessary because it is true.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Sin is never in action, it is always in reaction.
—Swami Chinmayananda

To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own.
—Swami Chinmayananda

There is nothing, at any time, in any circumstance, to worry over ‘why this to me’?
—Swami Chinmayananda

The highest form of Grace is silence.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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