Chinmaya Mission

Chinmaya Mission

#Devotion is essentially of the nature of #Love. No amount of intellectual study or logical analysis can ever reveal its true nature. #SwamiTejomayananda #WordsOfWisdom #SwamiTejomayanandaji #ChinmayaMission #gyan #wisdom #knowledge
Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda: Even Veda becomes irrelevent, when TRUTH is realised. During ongoing discourses on Hamsa Gita, Pujya Guruji was asked, “If everything is Maya, everything is unreal, then this teaching also must be unreal? Is it so?” Pujya Guruji said, “Only Vedanta has the guts to explain to this extent, that no other scriptures say so.” He gave an example of how a lion in a dream can wake you up. Like the lion in dream, Vedanta, though in final analysis being Mrusha or Mithya, can certainly wake up a true sadhaka. This is why the Masters are sometimes refered as Vedanta Kesari( Lion). #SwamiTejomayanandaji #ChinmayaMission #gyan #knowledge #truth #wisdom #quote
We all respect good qualities, but do not follow them. When values are lived, then they become virtues. Virtues alone are not sufficient. A good hearted person is not necessarily an enlightened person. Also, knowledge without virtue will not bear fruit. We need to have both, purity of heart and clarity of knowledge. Our study, reflection and meditation should be accompanied with inculcation of virtues. #Guruji #Swami #Tejomayananda, #Chinmaya #Mission Bulletin, December 2014. #gyan #knowledge #truth #wisdom #quote
If our actions are not according to our values, then gradually our values fall to suit our actions. Swami Tejomayananda Chinmaya Mission

A Glass Of Water Is Enough Once, Gurudev (Swami Chinmayananda) was invited for a temple function where 56 food items had been prepared (Chhappan Bhog). When he sat down to eat, the host and the hostess started pressing him to try all the dishes. At one point he stopped eating and looking at them kindly said, “All 56 items need not be eaten. Just three or four will do.” Then he looked at all of us and said, “So too, just a few teachings of the Bhagavad Geeta are enough to change your life. You need not drink the whole river to quench your thirst – just a glass or two will do. But drink it, you must. Merely looking at it will not do either. Got it?" #gyan #knowledge #truth #wisdom #quote

Means to spiritual perfection is sadhana for purification of the inner equipment and removal of ignorance, as the basis. When impurity and ignorance are removed, the Self reveals itself in all its perfection and the seeker surrenders to the Lord in all devotion. This is the means to spiritual perfection. Swami Tejomayananda Means to Spiritual Perfection

In order to turn the #mind towards higher contemplation and #realization of the #divine #Self, a sense of #detachment from the fascination for the #world and its avenues of #enjoyment is #imperative. Such detachment has to be cultivated at the mental level. It cannot be obtained by mere physical retirement from the world but by maintaining a proper relationship with it. #SwamiChinmayanandaji #ChinmayaMission #gyan #wisdom #knowledge

There is nothing greater than #Self - #Knowledge - as also the #teacher who has #realized it. #SwamiTejomayanandaji #ChinmayaMission #gyan #knowledge #truth #wisdom

#Daan in the form of #food or #money #helps in #welfare of people. But it may not last, and as a result recipients could come back for more and eventually get used to charity. But by giving #knowledge, you can make him #independent; he gets #empowered. Besides, when you share knowledge, you expand your own knowledge base which is not always the case with material wealth, which can get depleted. #Swami #Nikhilananda #Saraswati #gyan #wisdom #knowledge

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