Swami Chinmayananda: "Bondage lies in the non-apprehension of Reality

Swami Chinmayananda: "Bondage lies in the non-apprehension of Reality. When It is veiled (āvaraṇa), there is bondage. Having withdrawn from the equipments, śravana, manana, and nididhyāsana reduce the rajas and tamas guṇas in the mind. As the agitations become less, sattva guṇa becomes predominant. The mind becomes calmer. The calmer the mind, the greater the contemplativeness. With a contemplative intellect, one apprehends the Reality and says, 'Till now I did not know Brahman. Now I know what Brahman is.'

In fact, never can there be any veiling on Brahman. How can Brahman be veiled? With what will It be veiled? In Brahman there is a total absence of any otherness (anya-bhāva). In the Self there is nothing but the Self. How can there be avidyā in vidyā? Brahman is never veiled, so It can never be revealed.

If you say there is veiling, it will be the destruction of the idea that Brahman is one without a second. The Infinite can only be one. If It is conditioned even by 0.00001, It becomes finite. The Infinite has no parts. Brahman is non-dual and the scriptures will brook no idea of duality.

From the standpoint of the Self there is no anātman. Shankara talks from the highest standpoint when he is trying to talk to us of the nature of absolute Brahman." - The Talks on Vivekachudamani

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