Talk On Vivek Chudamani

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

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The false identifications are created by the ignorance of our own Spiritual Glory in us. The body-mind-and-intellect are all mere super-impositions upon the glorious Self, and yet, we consider them all as real and permanent. These misunderstandings, superimposed upon the Self, are the true bondage upon us and due to them we come to feel the limitations of the mortal. He who abides in Faith, Devotion and Meditation, in his inward experience comes to re-cognize his Infinite nature of Bliss and Perfection, and thus gets 'himself released from the bondage of matter.
अज्ञानयोगात्परमात्मनस्तव
नात्मबन्धत्तत एव संसृतिः । तोविवेकोदितबोधवहि
रक्षानकार्य प्रदहेत्समूलम् ॥४७॥ agnānayogātparamātmanastava
hyanātmabandhastata eva samśrtih tayorvivekoditabodhavanhih
ragrānakāryam pradhetsamulam 47.
34791737TTE - through the contact with the ignorance, CATCHT: - . the Supreme Self, 719 - yours, le - indeed, 31ATCH Fra: - the bondage of the non-self, aa: - whence, 59 - only, iela: - the birth and death, तयोः - between these two, विवेकोदितबोधवह्निः - the blaze of knowledge rising from discrimination, 345117 4 - the effects of ignorance, ICEL - shall burn, A4 - together with the roots.
It is, indeed, through the contact with ignorance that you who are in yourself the Supreme Self, experience yourself to be under the bondage of the non-self. From this misunderstanding alone proceed the worlds of birth and death. All the effects of ignorance including their very route (ignorance) are burnt down by the blaze of Knowledge, which arises from our discrimination between these two-the Atma and Anatma, the Self and the Non-Self.
What causes the Supreme Self to come to suffer these bondages, and what exactly is that which compels us there