*VivekaChudamani *Vedantam - 5 : Swami Chinmayananda

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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 ..


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