35 Quotes by Sw. Chidananda Tirtha

The illusion of ‘I’ is that you think you are ‘I’ while you are only ‘am’; and that ‘am’ is the first person singular of the verb ‘to be’. Since, for ‘to be’ you don’t need to say ‘I’, but for to say ‘I’ you need ‘to be’, thus you are prior to ‘I’ as ‘am’, and that ‘am’ is ‘to be’; therefore, to that note, on the ocean of ‘am’ alone, ‘I’ is only a wave.

Then as well as now, kings and priests, leaders and politicians, have used religions more to enslave people than to free them.

Live for your obsession, that you are meant to be.Die for your passion, that you are born to be.

Live for your obsession you are meant to be.Die for your passion you are born to be.

The purpose of life is to find the purpose of life, and that is to search the light first and then to spread it.

Since I forgot to beg my alms yesterday,I am hungry and weak today.And since I am hungry and weak today,I didn’t beg my alms for tomorrow.What tomorrow will bring to me,I do not know, I do not care.Yet within this uncertainty,I am contented and gratified,That You chose me to be like this.Overfilling my heart with love for You,And my soul thirsty dry for Your love,That I die everynight crying for Your love,And I born everyday for to love You again.

Loving you, I enlightened myself.

My poems are my prayers for my Love,And in this way only,I have chosen to worship Him in this life.O you, witness of my joys,And follower of my madness.Will you read them aloud every time,So may He hear my grievances,That how much I have yearned Him in this life.

Through words, no matter how much you may try, you cannot make a blind man understand light.