*VivekaChudamani *Vedantam - 5 : Swami Chinmayananda
19/11/2018 5. The *sun illumines the entire world of plurality from its place high up in the *sky. Similarly, the *Atman in the inner space of the *heart illumines all the experiences within. When our attention is on the sunlight no *objects can be perceived, and if the attention is on the objects the sunlight is not perceived. Similarly, if our attention is on the Atman, the *world of OET is not cognised but if it is on the OET, Om, the Reality, is not experienced. When the object is removed, *light is not perceived as such, it is only intuitively experienced. Running away *life in cowardice, retiring to a jungle in languor of intellect, unappreciation of things around and about us, denial of the bare necessities of the body – these are not "vairagya." To be continued ..