5 Quotes & Sayings By Swami Chetanananda

Swami Chetanananda was born in the small village of Mallapuram in Malnad, India. His early education was obtained in the local school and later in the Sanskrit college, Mallapuram. Later he studied Tantra at the Kanchi Mutt in Kanchipuram, where he attained the highest spiritual initiation. From 1949–1952 he served as secretary to Sri Aurobindo, who during that time had come back to India from Pondicherry Read more

Thereafter he worked at Sri Aurobindo Ashram for more than two years. He left Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1952 and continued his training under him until 1959, when he came to America. He settled down at the Virginia ashram, where he stayed until 1971.

He then went to Calcutta and worked for about two years under Paramahansa Yogananda at "Autonagar Camp" near Kolkata. He then went on to Delhi and spent seven years at Anandashram where he received the highest spiritual initiation of sannyas, or renunciation of worldly things.

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Through our heart, we gain access to a psychological and emotional experience of abundance that, at times for me, is overwhelming it is so beautiful. There is beauty in each of us that is truly astonishing, a beauty that expresses itself on one level as abundance and on another level as endless healing, and finally a perspective that is so peaceful, so restful, that we can reside in it even in the face of this lunatic world that we live in. Swami Chetanananda
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Let your heart be as big as it can possibly be. Swami Chetanananda
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Whatever you do, put your inner work first. Swami Chetanananda
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The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious. Swami Chetanananda