Talk On Vivek Chudamani

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

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अहंकारादि देहान्तान्बन्धानशान कल्पितान् ।
स्वस्वरूपावबोधेन मोक्तुमिच्छा मुमुक्षुता ॥२७॥ ahamkārādi dehāntān bandhūn agnyāna kalpitān svasvarūpāvabodhena moktumicchā mumuksutā 27.
अहंकारादिदेहान्तान् - From egoism to the body, बन्धान् - bondages, अज्ञान कल्पितान् - created by ignorance, स्व स्वरूपावबोधेन - by the knowledge of one's own real nature, AFI- to be free, 5731 - desire, 99871 - (is) mumuksuta.
Mumukshuta is the impatient and burning desires to release oneself from all bondages created in us through our ignorance of our Real Nature. The ignorance creates delusory chains of egoism for the body and the liberation is caused at the knowledge of the Real Nature of the Self.
In our discussions on the essential qualities in a successful spiritual seeker, we have discussed (i) discriminative capacity to understand the real from the unreal; (ii) capacity to get ourselves completely detached from the false which we have rightly understood now as unreal; (iii) the calmness, self-control, inner peace, forbearance, faith, selfsettledness, which are explained as the qualities of the head and the heart to be positively developed; and as the last of the serial we have here (iv) a complete definition of the "spirit of seeking" that is unavoidable in every Sadhak called Mumuksutva.
The burning aspiration of a seeker should not be an idle enthusiasm to gain some unknown goal through some mysterious intervention of a God or a teacher. He should definitely know what are his limitations and also what are the causes that provide him with his limitations. Also, he must definitely know what is his Goal and also the various techniques and paths by which he can gain his Goal. All these points are hinted at in this pithy small stanza.
Because of our non-apprehension of our Real Nature, misapprehensions about ourselves arise in our mind, such as the ego-centric identification with the body, mind and in