Beyond the Mind – Chinmayananda By searching for happiness in the world outside and depending on the objects to provide us with that happiness, we become slaves to the world. Learn to discover happiness inside yourself, by yourself. If we analyze the psychological nature of human beings, we will see that when the mind […]
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Category: Swami Chinmayananda Teachings
Non-Attachment is Subtraction – Chinmaya
Non-Attachment is Subtraction – Chinmayananda All the great saints, sages, and masters of the world who experienced the glory of infinite peace and bliss are people who used a method of subtraction. I am not saying that we should not have any objects in the world. The objects themselves are not the problem, only our […]
Mind runs about too much – Chinmayananda
Mind runs about too much Question: My mind runs about too much. I do not seem to get it under control! Answer: You describe a situation which every sincere seeker experiences at one time or another. This is mainly because you despair unncesessarily at the direction in which your mind is running at some point […]
Living One’s Values – Chinmayananda
Living One’s Values Self-Unfoldment Swami Chinmayananda Q: I have read a good deal. I also have convictions. Yet to put these values into practice is my problem. A: This was exactly Arjuna’s problem in the Bhagavad Gita. The Lord advised him: Recognize your real enemies; they are desire and anger, born of a passionate nature. […]
The Search for Happiness – Chinmayananda
The Search for Happiness When a bow is bent and a string is tied, the tension of the string will depend upon the curvature of the bow. But the bow always tries to return to its straight shape, trying to go back to its original nature. In the same way, all living beings—plant, animal, […]
Where is your God? – Chinmayananda
Where is your God? – Chinmayananda Question: Where is your God? I do not see, hear or know Him, and in these days of misery and sorrow, if at all He exists, I find Him to be absolutely blind and deaf. I refuse to believe in God. Answer: You are perfectly right in your […]