Talk On Vivek Chudamani

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

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face life and its challenges, but mentally in the secret of his bosom goes on protesting against the scheme of destiny that he has to face in life. The tossings of the mind created by one's passive revolts against the life are the only gains he comes to earn from them. And if, at the same time, physically and intellectually he accepts it all silently in consummate cowardice, it is not Samādhān -as the term is generally understood. Samādhān is that mental state of stable equilibrium which comes to one when intellectually he is of deep foundations and mentally he soars to the highest pinnacles of greater visions.
When we are on the ground, certainly our neighbours are a nuisance to us. There may be a bitter and agonizing hatred born out of jealousy between ourselves and an individual or a party far away from us, say 10 or 20 miles in another village or town. But when we have taken off in a plane and the moment we have lifted ourselves a few hundred yards from the ground, all differences between my property and the neighbour's property merge; even mine and my enemy's properties smoulder into one unbroken mist of beauty-the glorious sight of mother earth lying stretched in all her grandeur and charm deep down spread out for us. In the aerial view of the world there is no disquieting mental agitations, because, in that vision of the oneness, the little differences of opinion about a boundary line seem to lose all their meaning and contents.
Similarly, when a spiritual aspirant raises himself into the nobler realms of the spiritual visions, his mind can no longer come to entertain any agitations at the ordinary levels of likes and dislikes. This poise, that is gained by the seekers as a result of their constant contemplation on the Supreme and the Divine, is termed as Samadhan; and naturally, this must be a special qualification for every seeker on the Path of Knowledge.
These six great qualifications that have been so far described, it is evident, are the unavoidable psychological traits in a fully evolved man who alone can walk the last lap of this journey with hope of success.