"Both renunciation of action and the performance of……" — Chinmayananda Saraswati
"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."
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Chinmayananda Saraswati
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13 Quotes by Chinmayananda Saraswati
Chinmayananda Saraswati has 13 quotes on this site.
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Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
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Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
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Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is…
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Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
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Remember, 'Even this will pass away.'
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In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
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Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.
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But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains…
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Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.
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The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.
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The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Well begun is half done.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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