Inspirational Quotes by Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher)

Inspirational Quotes by Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher)

Seek the Lord
In the smiles of your friends,
In the glow of angry eyes,
In the storms of passion.
He is everywhere, in everything.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

Bhakti is the attitude of the mind, and jnana is the attitude of the intellect;
both flow towards the Lord.
—Swami Chinmayananda

To give without sympathy is to build a temple without the idol and
it is as futile as painting a picture with black ink on a black-board.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Prosperity is like wine, which goes to the head, and makes man forget his Creator.
Adversity, on the contrary, sobers him and reminds him of God and his Glory.
—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

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

Hindu culture is essentially based upon the sacrifice implied in duty, and not upon acquisition, which is implied in rights.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

Growing youth determined to reach their goal, sure of their dignity, consistent in their endeavors, proud of their cultural background – can alone bestow upon a growing country the status of a Nation.
—Swami Chinmayananda

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

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

A man-of-wisdom lives in the world, but he is never of the world.
—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

Temper takes you to Trouble, Pride keeps you there.
—Swami Chinmayananda

A successful man is one who lays a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
—Swami Chinmayananda
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Our present work may be great or small.
Yet, the important thing is to do it well.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

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

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

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

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

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

Success or achievement is not the final goal. It is the ‘spirit’ in which you act that puts the seal of beauty upon your life.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

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

A Conquest, without facing dangers is as dull as Victory without a shining glory. A game without a prize.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Know what to Do.
Do it Yourself.
—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

Do the best and leave the rest.
—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

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

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

Charity is an attempt wherein I try to expand and bring into the ambit of my life, all others around me and grow to consider the other man’s needs and requirements as important as my own personal needs. To live seeking an identity thus, with at least those who are immediately around me, is to live away from the suffocating selfishness and the throttling grip of my body-consciousness.
—Swami Chinmayananda

Alert and vigilant living itself is a ‘Sadhana’ in the true sense.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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

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

Happiness depends on what you can give, Not on what you can get.
—Swami Chinmayananda

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