Talk On Vivek Chudamani

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

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in their subjective experience, the strangely enchanting, voiceless cadence, rising from the Rishi's heart, is called Vicāra.
During the moments of meditation* when we strive hard to experience the meaning of the Upanishad mantrās we are in the realm of Vicāra. Through the Vicar. our misunderstandings about ourselves, which are the expressions of our ignorance of ourselves, are removed; and where ignorance has moved off, Knowledge comes to shine forth. With this right Knowledge, instantaneously, all the delusive sorrows of samsār end. After waking up from our dream, the moment we realize our waking-state-identity, all the sorrows created in us, due to our dreamer-identification and its dream-world, end instantaneously! On the re-discovery of our spiritual nature to be of pure Knowledge, uncontaminated by any trace of ignorance, we come to our own divine heritage of perfection and bliss—ever beyond even the penumbra of any possible misery or sorrow thereafter. ___श्रद्धाभक्तिध्यानयोगान्मुमुक्षो
हेतून्वक्ति साक्षाच्छ्रुतेर्गीः यो वा एतेष्वेव तिष्ठत्यमुष्य
मोक्षोऽविद्याकल्पिताद्देहबन्धात् ॥४६॥ śraddhābhaktidhyānayogānmumuksor
hetūnvakti sāksāchrutergih yo va etesveva tiştatyamusya mokso(a)vidhyākalpitādrehabandhūt 46:
High: 4792117 - the practices of faith, devotion and meditation, ywe: - of one desirous of liberation, gt: . for liberation, हेतून् - chief factors, वक्ति - are mentioned, साक्षात् - clearly, श्रुतेगीः . by the words of Sruti, यः वा - whoever he be, एतेषु एव - in these alone, तिष्ठति - remains, अमुष्य • his, मोक्षः . liberation, अविद्याकलिपतान् from the ignorance created, GETRETTI - bondage of the body.
* For practical suggestions, theoretical explanations and graded lessons in
the art of meditation, study Swamiji's MEDITATION and LIFE.