Journey of a Master: Swami Chinmayananda

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This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jun 17, Krishna Sruthi Srivalsan marked it as skimmed-through-read-again-later. A fascinating account of Swamiji's life and lessons. Remember reading as much as I could within a span of hours at the library in my university.

Journey of a Master: Swami Chinmayananda (The Man, the Path, the Teaching)

I particularly enjoyed reading about his childhood in Kerala, and his journey from self proclaimed atheism to sanyaasa. Hope to re-read it completely soon! Jan 11, Reema rated it it was amazing. Although I never had the opportunity to meet him, he's made the most significant impact on my life! This book attempts to give you a glimpse of his teachings and his influence and succeeds quite well.

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S This IS an incorrect question, yet you are not the first to ask it Even in the Upanishads, it has been asked again and again Why is never answered in science Science inquires into the how and what of things and phenomena Why gravitation force? This very special knowledge of their true nature has to be won by a process of descent into the prison of space and time Then a gradual ascent from there, in which knowledge, and ultimately Omniscience, is won Q But how did this creation happen?

S When someone asks me how it happened, it clearly shows me that they are not yet fed up with life and are not ready to come out of it There you are helplessly flogging around in a cesspool and you are wondering, Who pushed me in? S Yes, there is the explanation that there occurred a grossification from space, to air, to fire, to water, then earth The gross only comes from the subtle as a tree comes from a seed But the question remains From what raw material did these five emerge?

The Journey of a Master: Swami Chinmayananda: The Man, the Path, the Teaching

You sit there in your cushy box seat, with popcorn, cotton candy, coca-cola, and watch the show — your creation Then get up and walk out whenever you want' But if you are the buffoon, always going around like a clown, everywhere you go will be a circus Enjoy life' But step out of it to the peaceful environment of your inner Self whenever you like' You are the master' Evil Question Where did evil come from?

If I kill a person I am branded a murderer, I am arrested and punished But if a doctor kills a person during surgery, he is not arrested Why?

S Yes, you would be correct So how can a true integration between the mind and intellect be brought about? S You take the attitude that it is just an experience to teach the mind Its lesson, you stand back observing as an uninvolved witness Afterwards, when the mind starts its whimpering over its pains and disappointments, you just tell it that you gave it what it wanted, now it can just suffer You have no sympathy for it whatsoever' You are the observer of the drama Q You say that God is within us, so every action whether it is bad or good IS done by God Why then are we punished?

S We are punished because we are not performing the action with the full realization that the Lord is acting through us God can only do divine actions Divine actions can have no bad reactions, which you call punishments Bad actions are done when the actor is motivated by likes and dislikes, selfishness, lust, and greed, which are attitudes that develop as a result of ignorance of the fact that the Lord resides within each of us When you act as a separate egoistic entity, you are punished, when you surrender to the Lord in you, and thus allow the Lord to act, there is no punishment Kill the little I and live, see, think, and act as the great I Journey of a Master All actions performed by such a perfected agent of action can be only divine actions Also, your question contains a contradiction You say that every action, good or bad, is performed by the God in you, and in the very same breath you wonder why you are punished?

If God be the doer, why not accept that God is the punished? In self-surrender, when the ego is completely eliminated, there is neither an independent actor nor sufferer in you Then only is your proposition that God is the doer true This conclusion can be verified by your experience when in self- surrender you have completely eliminated the ego S Everywhere I go I hear this question, especially from you teenagers And I myself must have asked this question of my teacher a hundred times It is a namral, logical doubt If there is a kind, all- merciful Lord and the total phenomenal world is projected from that Lord, then why are we suffering in it?

Is it not a fact that if we, in the movie theater, remember the world outside, we cannot enjoy the movie We must completely forget home, husband, wife, and children If there are lights in the theater, neither will the film have meaning Think of it it must be in ignorance, in total darkness, that we sit down and watch Now people are there in the theater on that day Do you think that all of them are seeing the same picture?

Some are there to enjoy the plot, others for the beauty of the scenery, others are interested in the gorgeous costumes the actors are wearing, still others want to observe the techniques of photography Distinctions are made, some identify with the hero, some with the-heroine, another is getting excited because the murderer is going to murder Each observer, according to his own interests, interprets and appreciates the picture Now the more I ask my friend, "What are we doing here?

Why are we here?

S When I put a pinch of salt in a teaspoon of water, it is very salty If I put that sarpe pinch of salt in a tank of water, it will have no salty taste When I am acting only for the sake of myself and my wife then the bond of karma is stronger, if I am acting for the sake of the nation then the desire gets diluted Eventually, even the desire for working in the nation will drop away Just as when I maintain a desire for sleep in my mind, I automatically drop all other desires and go to sleep That desire for sleep ends in sleep Karma yoga is a practice to exhaust the innate vasanas — there is less agitation if I am thinking of my nation instead of my family Q How do we know there are these vasanas?