Friday, August 6, 2010
Daily to read once
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Thoughts by Swami Chinmayananda
No achievement is impossible for man, if he knows how to act in the discipline of co-operation
The source of all bliss is the dedicated performance of duty
Love is the heart of all religions… love is to human hearts what the sun is to the flowers
The impossible is achieved through the process of self-perfection called meditation
Grief is the state of mind created by the absence of objects of one’s liking
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts
Be openly happy in the joy of others; be sincerely sympathetic in others sorrows
We may often give without love; but we can never love without giving
Never brood over things which have happened or worry over things yet to happen. Live in the present
The world, even if you hold on to it will slip and God, even you want to leave Him, will not abandon you
Tragedies come from the world. Don’t worry about them. He gives; He takes away. Don’t lose your faith in Him
Learn to be happy alone, if we do not enjoy our own company, why inflict it on others!
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him
In life, one gets what one deserves and not what one desires and He knows what one deserves
Where ego asserts, Lord vanishes. When ego vanishes, Lord enters
Plan out your work, and work out your plans
Do not imagine your sincerity in work, but work sincerely with your imagination
Give! The greatest joy in life is in giving, in loving and in sacrificing
Living the right values of life is like building a dam across a river
You can cheat others but never your conscience, your God!
Man is essentially the thoughts that he entertains
Why go to the Temple ???
A 'devotee' wrote a letter to the editor of an Indian newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to the Temple . 'I've gone for 30 years now, he wrote, and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 mantras.
But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the Gurus are wasting theirs by giving services at all. This started a real controversy in the 'Letters to the Editor' column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher: I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work.If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to the Temple for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today! When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!
GENIUS - Albert Einstein
Having delivered a flawless lecture, the driver was asked a difficult question by a member of the audience. "Well, the answer to that question is quite simple," he casually replied. "I bet my driver, sitting up at the back there, could answer it..."
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Albert Einstein's wife often suggested that he dress more professionally when he headed off to work. "Why should I?" he would invariably argue. "Everyone knows me there." When the time came for Einstein to attend his first major conference, she begged him to dress up a bit. "Why should I?" said Einstein. "No one knows me there!"
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Albert Einstein was often asked to explain the general theory of relativity. "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour," he once declared. "Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity!"
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When Albert Einstein was working in Princeton university, one day he was going back home he forgot his home address. The driver of the cab did not recognise him. Einstein asked the driver if he knows Einstein's home. The driver said "Who does not know Einstein's address? Everyone in Princeton knows.Do you want to meet him?”. Einstein replied "I am Einstein. I forgot my home address, can you take me there? "The driver reached him to his home and did not even collect his fare from him .
Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he came to Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He couldn't find his ticket, so he reached in his trouser pockets. It wasn't there, so he looked in his briefcase but couldn't find it. Then he looked in the seat beside him. He still couldn't find it. The conductor said, 'Dr. Einstein, I know who you are. We all know who you are. I'm sure you bought a ticket. Don't worry about it.' Einstein nodded appreciatively. The conductor continued down the aisle punching tickets. As he was ready to move to the next car, he turned around and saw the great physicist down on his hands and knees looking under his seat for his ticket. The conductor rushed back and said, 'Dr. Einstein, Dr. Einstein, don't worry, I know who you are. No problem. You don't need a ticket. I'm sure you bought one.' Einstein looked at him and said, 'Young man, I too, know who I am. What I don't know is where I'm going.''