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d. 1993 India
Chinmayananda Saraswati (May 8, 1916 – August 3, 1993), also known as Swami Chinmayananda and born Balakrishnan Menon, was an Indian spiritual leader and teacher who inspired the formation of Chinmaya Mission in 1953 to spread the message of Vedanta. The organization, which was founded by his disciples and led by him, has over 300 centres in India and internationally.
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He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE
In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
You are successful and creative only when you see an opportunity in every difficulty.
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.
Happiness depends on what you can give, Not on what you can get.
Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.
In life, the glory lies not in the quarry, but in the chase.
Out of purity and silence come the words of power.
Wisdom is the assimilated knowledge in us, gained from an intelligent estimation and close study of our own direct and indirect experience in the world.
Not to do what you feel like doing is Freedom.
Out of purity and silence come words of power.
The glory of life is not never falling. The true glory consists in rising each time we fall.
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.
The highest form of grace is silence.
Faith is, `To believe what you do not see', the reward of which is, `you see what you believed'.
Religion must not be considered true because it is necessary, but necessary because it is true.
The greatness in an ideology is not, in fact, in the ideology; but it is in the subject which lives that ideology.
To do your job even if circumstances are not conducive, is our gift to Him-who is the sole Lord of all circumstances.
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