Talk On Vivek Chudamani

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

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A true teacher of inward vision and perfect life cannot by any logic come to dispense a greater share of his grace to known people of his own choice, nor can he withhold his grace from another. In fact, the distribution of grace is not controlled by the Guru but it is a question of the capacity of the recipient.
The perfect-man living as his own Self equally disseminates his joyous perfections, cheer and bliss to all, at all times. It depends upon the equipments that come around him to take a greater or a lesser share.
The waters of the ocean do not put a ban upon the quantity that you can carry from it; the limitations are the limitations of your own pot. The sun' does not ration its light from house to house or from room to room but it is the walls that deny the entry of sunlight into a room. The river flows : everything depends upon the canals that you cut in taking its waters to your land.
Similarly, a Guru or the teacher, beaming in his own perfections, give out the knowledge in his own intimate language and experience, and it depends upon the individual seekers to get themselves benefited as much as they can.
The expression here only shows that when a seeker has developed in himself, viveka, vairāgya and shad sampati, his mumuksutva increases automatically, and one, who has got these four great qualifications, can come in contact with the Guru more profitably. The greater these qualifications manifest in an individual, the greater will the seeker be in tune with the master and, therefore, he will be able to understand the significances of the teacher's words more completely and exhaustively.
वैराग्यं च मुमुक्षुत्वं तीव्र यस्य तु विद्यते । तस्मिन्नेवार्थवन्तः स्युः फलवन्तः शमादयः ॥२९॥
vairāgyam ca mumuksutvam tiyram yasya tu vidyate tasminnevārthayanth syuh phalavantah samādayah 29