Talk On Vivek Chudamani

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

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सहनं सर्वदुःखानामप्रतीकारपूर्वकम् ।
चिन्तविलापरहितं सा तितिक्षा निगद्यते ॥२४॥ sahanam sarva duhkhānāmapratīkārapūrvakam cintāvilāparahitam sā titikṣā :nigadhyate 24.
HETH - Endurance, Hagian14 - of all sorrows, haareyang. without struggling for redress or revenge, Farma zieNH - free always from anxiety and lament, al - that, fargen - as forbearance, arred - is problaimed.
Titiksha is the capacity to endure all sorows and sufferings without struggling for redress or for revenge, being free always from anxiety (or lament) over them.
Describing the fourth psychological sign in a man of true spiritual stamina, Sankara states here, in a full and scientific definition, the quality of 'silent endurance' which is glorified in all religions of the world. Meek surender and silent suffering are the watchwords in all religious discipline. This quality to endure and to suffer for a cause which has been accepted by the individual as the ideal and the perfect finds a place in every great philosophy whether it is religious or secular. In order to bring about a revolution even in the world outside, the believers of that political philosophy are called upon to make silent sacrifices in order to establish that philosophy in life. How much more is it then essential in the inner revolution of an individual who is trying to get himself freed from his own psychological and intellectual limitations? This spirit of Titiksā is to be cultivated and pursued to ensure success in all schemes of subjective rehabilitation.
In the name of this great qualification, many an absurd over-acting is now in vogue. I have met unintelligent people who in the name of spiritual seeking persecute themselves physically and mentally, and as a result of their self-persecution all that they gain at the end of years of suffering is but a crooked, ugly, deformed mind and life! They do not however reach any amount of inward beauty or proportion.