Words of wisdom
SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA
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Love is to human hearts what sun is to flowers.
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Without devotion, knowledge is tasteless. With out knowledge, devotion is mere empty idol worship.
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Evolution is not an accident it has a logical development and has its stages.
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Work without faith and prayer without sincerity are like artificial flowers, without fragrance.
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Constant contemplation upon sense objects is the cause for bondage.
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Divinity is not to be given to you from somewhere else. The Upanishad thunders, ‘that thou art’.
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He who believes that fall is antecedent to rise will never give away to despair.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Learn to speak softly, always words of love and affection then friends multiply.
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If money does not bring happiness give it back.
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Dignity of labour consists in service.
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In the Vedas, truth is not described it is not defined, it is only indicated.
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The things to be attained are wisdom innocence and silence.
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Spiritual knowledge cannot be given take it
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Introspect daily, detect diligently, negate ruthlessly substitute wisely, grow steadily and be happy
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Dignity of labour consists in service
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The chariot of time has no reverse gear time lost can never be retrieved
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The non-mind-hood is God hood…. where the mind has ended, there super-man-hood has started
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“Renounce Ego” is the lord’s only request “And I will make you a God” is the promise
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Man of integrity is accepted, believed, trusted and befriended by all
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Sruthi is written in the language of hearty-head
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The things to be avoided are the three planes of consciousness with which we develop our sense of ego
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When opportunity knocks we are either out or sleeping in
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Veda bring the science of self perfection a mere study of it makes us only a’ wise fool’
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Fools give up the loin-cloth and other externals; but do not reject that whose rejection alone matters
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The quieter the mind the sharper the intellect
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The cultured give happiness wherever they go, the uncultured, whenever they go
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Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket
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Everybody exists; it is only the few who live. To live, you should have an ideal
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The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything
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Tolerance is only test of civilisation
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Cease to give love, we cease to have love; this is the strict law of love
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The source of real bliss is the dedicated performance of duty
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Thou shalt reach the eternal haven of peace and bliss-truth
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You are successful and creative only when you se an opportunity in every difficulties
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You can cheat others, but never your conscience your God
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There is no vessel to ferry man across the ocean of worldliness except jnana
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To weep is folly and smile is wisdom keep smiling.
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Give me strength to raise my head high above the daily trifles.
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Yoga is skill in action.
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Our present work may be great or small; yet, the important thing is to do it well.
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Comfort comes as guest; lingers to become the host; and stays to enslave us.
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The glory lies not in the quarry, but in the chase, the success is not the trophy won but in the race run…
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Man becomes high or low according to his deeds.
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It is a matter of common experience that the the knowledge of a subject by itself will not enable a person to act always according to it.