Talk On Vivek Chudamani

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

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How to cross this ocean of relative existence? What is to be my ultimate destination? Which of the many means should I adopt? I know, in fact, almost nothing. O! Lord! save me and describe in all detail how to end the misery of this life in the finite.
The stanza narrates the type of questions the student should ask when he has approached the master and has served him sufficiently long to get himself perfectly tuned up with the master. These questions, in themselves, show a volume of clear thinking and logical conclusions which the student has reached of his own accord. He has lived intelligently his life of varied experiences and has evaluated it correctly. Neither has he been afraid of the desperateness of his conclusions, nor is he ready to make any compromise with Truth. He has analysed his experiences in life, and has come to the same conclusion that the finite objects can not give him anything but finite satisfaction. He has looked within himself and has estimated correctly his own demands in life as nothing short of an Infinite perfection, which alone can yield to him the Infinite happiness. He wants to know from the master how he can come to experience the Infinite and thereby gain a complete transcendence of the finite. Hence he asks, "how to cross this ocean of relative existence"?
Unless he, somehow or other, fulfils this self-evolution and reaches the portals of the Infinite and experiences the Real, he wonders as what would be his "ultimate destination.” This question does not necessarily mean his own ignorance of what the destination would be. In fact, it is a dreadful premonition of the consequences that he understood in himself, that, unless he was able to experience the Transcendental, he would be getting himself entangled in the finite world of desires, excitements and endless responsibilities of satisfying each nerve ticklings.
Though he has thus independently come to the conclusion about the life which he is living now, and though he knows the Goal, yet, he seems to be not very sure as to what exactly is the method by which he can end his delusions and