Talk On Vivek Chudamani

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

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dition which arises as a result of the control of our mind deep within our bosom.
Compared with sama, we can consider Dama as a system of discipline in a relatively outer field since it prescribes a control for the sense organs. To withdraw our mental rays that shoot out through the sense organs for the perception of their independent sets of objects—and to absorb those rays of perception within the sense organs is Dama, self-control. That is to say, Dama is a self-control of the sense organs, while sama is a condition experienced by the mind when it does not function in other departments of its activities, but is quietly settled upon the contemplation of the Supreme Goal.
When thus one has gained a degree of proficiency in both Sama and Dama, self-withdrawal (Uparati) automatically happens wherein the seeker's mental condition is such that it does no longer get affected by any distrubances created by the external objects.
When we thinks of these, it is possible that we may understand it as a very delicate, difficult and distressing feat, but in fact, the more we try to practise it, the more easily we shall come to understand that after all what Sankara says is but a verbal explanation of the state of mind of any. one who is trying to achieve or execute a great work. Even in the material sphere, we find that these are the qualifications unavoidable in an individual if he wants to guarantee his success in his activities. In any successful businessman, we oberve a certain amount of self-control within, and a self-control without, at least while he is at his desk, and he exhibits a share of Uparati. Of course, the comparison of these qualities with the qualities exhibited by the materialist or the money-hunter, is not fair because a seeker need a subtlety in himself, a million times more than in the case of the materialist. Yet, to a large extent, we can come to appreciate and understand these "qualifications within ourselves when we watch for them and experience them as available in our work-a-day world.