Talk On Vivek Chudamani

Author(s): Chinmayanand Swami
Publisher: Chinmay Publications Trust

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desires are not murmuring, thought cannot rise; and where thoughts are not, there will be a complete cessation of actions motivated by deep desires or personal motives. When an individual, through study, satsang and intelligent thinking, has come to observe life and its happenings in the right attitude of a firm intellectual poise, he automatically comes to get established in Yoga.
The word 'Yoga' has come to be associated with so much of paraphernalia that a student is apt to misunderstand rather than correctly grasp its import here. "Yoga' in its right sense is only that state of mind, in which the mind having recognised its weakness, tries to attune itself to a greater and more perfect ideal which the intellect has shown to it. Any attempt of the mind to rise from the low values of its present existence to a healthier and diviner scheme of living is 'Yoga'. To get established in 'Yoga' is to make it a habit to strive ever sincerely to rise above one's own known weaknesses in order that one may attain a recognised and understood ideal.
संन्यस्य सर्वकर्माणि भवबन्धविमुक्तये ।
यत्यतां पण्डितैीरैरात्माभ्यास उपस्थितैः ॥१०॥ samnyasya carvakarmāni bhavabandha vimuktaye yatyatām panditair diraih ātmābhyāsa upasthitaih 10.
संन्यस्य - renouncing, सर्व कर्माणि • all actions, भवबन्ध विमुक्तये - for the liberation from the bonds of life and death, Marq - may efforts be but forth, qosa: - the learned, aft: - the steadfast or wise men, 37TCHIATI - in the practice of rediscovering the Self, 39ff4a: - remaining.
May the wise and the learned man give up all works which are motivated by desires and start the practice of rediscovering the Self and thereby attain freedom from the bonds of life and death.
Here is an advice given to a man who has had all the necessary theoretical knowledge of the "Science of Self