Talk On Vivek Chudamani

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

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It is these false attachments that make one the animal that one is and effectively cut him away from his own divine nature as the Pure, Almighty Consciousness, or Life. The surrender of the ego is the unveiling of more and more of the Divine in oneself and to the degree the Divine is manifest, to that degree the individual raises himself in his potency to face life and to remain composed in all circumstances.
Here a Vedantic student is asked to surrender himself to the Guru and to praise him in kirtan and serve him with meek surrender. This prescription is not to make the student intellectually a slave to the teacher but these are the practices that are mentioned, which, when pursued for some time, easily make the student fully tuned up to the teacher's heart. What the teacher has to convey is the experience of the Transcendental. The Infinite cannot be defined in finite words. As such, the words of the master echo their messages only in a bosom that has been stilled in complete love.
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The discordant notes echoed in the bosom of the disciple create disturbances, which molest, rape and disturb the true significance of the scriptural words, which the master uses during his discourses. In order that the instrument in us may not create of its own accord any discordant notes and break the harmony, the student is asked to serve and surrender, to pray and worship at the master's feet.
दुर्वारसंसारदवाग्नितप्तं दोधूयमानं दुरदृष्टवातैः । भीतं प्रपन्नं परिपाहि मृत्योः
शरण्यमन्यं यदहं न जाने ॥ ३६ ॥
durvārasamsaradavāgnitaptam
dodhūyamānam duradṛṣtavātaih bhitam prapannam paripāhi mṛtyoh saranyamanyam yadaham na jāne 36.