"Swami Chinmayananda being the first person to have translated the Gita in English, played an important role in propagating this text across the world to all age groups."

"Spirituality is neither the privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the rich. It is the choice of the wise man."

"To give love is true freedom; To demand love is pure slavery."

"When the time of judgement comes, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done."

"To do your job even if circumstances are not conducive, is our gift to Him-who is the sole Lord of all circumstances."

"Become quietly effective."

"To see the one in the many is the casual vision of knowledge. To see the many in the one is the mission wisdom."

"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!!"

"Don't expect them to fully understand you. They won't: So ? Demonstrate with results what they would not understand with words!"

"`Surrender inspite of Freedom' is the way of wisemen."

"There is nothing, at any time, in any circumstance, to worry over why this to me ?"

"The end of ego is the `Mystic Death' of the mediator"

"To say, `LORD IS' is Gyanam. But `THE LORD IS I' is Vigyanam."

"What you have is all His Gift to you. What you do with what you have is your Gift to Him ..."

"To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own."

"Faith is, `To believe what you do not see', the reward of which is, `you see what you believed'."

"Grace is only to be found by effort, although it is here and now."

"Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket."

"Appreciating the mind as `ALL SILENCE'. `I AM' is meditation."

"Comfort comes as a guest; lingers to become the host,- and stays to enslave us."

"Happiness depends on what you can give, Not on what you can get."

"In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden."

"He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE"

"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."

"Alert and vigilant living itself is a `Sadhana' in the true sense."

"Remember, Even This Will Pass Away."

"It is sure to be dark if you close your eyes."

"Mind alone is maya at play."

"Moksha' is not `Freedom from Action' but,`Freedom in Action'."

"Not to do what you feel like doing is Freedom."

"If I rest, I rust."

"Disappointment can come only to those Who make Appointment with the future."

"Temper takes you to Trouble, Pride keeps you there."

"To forget oneself totally, one's mind should keep awake at every moment. A mind that has forgotten the past and the future, that is awake to the now, to the present, expresses the highest concentration of intelligence. It is alert, it is watchful, it is inspired. The actions of a man who has such a mind are exceptionally creative and perfect. Verily to forget oneself totally, is to be in perfection."

"Sin is never in action, it is always in reaction."

"He who depends on chances and situations to be happy, is a Sansari."

"Work without faith and prayer is like an artificial flower without fragrance."

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

"To listen is not merely to hear. We in life, hear but very rarely do we know how to listen. To Listen is to hear, with an intellectual alertness and attention of awareness."

"One single ideal can transform a listless soul into a towering leader of men."

"In life, the glory lies not in the quarry, but in the chase."

"The success is not in the trophy won but in the race run ..."

"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."

"Yoga is skill in action."

"The secret of action is to get established in equanimity, renouncing all egocentric attachments, and forgetting to worry over our successes and failures."

"When opportunity knocks, We are either out or sleeping in."

"The glory of life is not never falling. The true glory consists in rising each time we fall."

"The greatness in an ideology is not, in fact, in the ideology; but it is in the subject which lives that ideology."

"To define God is to defile God."