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Swami Chinmayananda: PERFECT Solution to Boredom!

June 5, 2012

Is there anyone out there who has not been bored to death when someone went on and on about some topic? Param Pujya Swami Chinmayanandaji discovered the PERFECT antidote.

I was reminded of this when I came across the reference to it in lesson 6 of the Gita online course conducted by the Chinmaya International Foundation. I first saw this in Pujya Guruji's talks on the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha Sāra Saṅgrahaḥ.

Once our Gurudev, Swami Chinmayanandaji, was asked whether he was bored because of the presence of an extremely talkative person. He replied, "He talks, the sound reaches the tympanum and the vibrations reach the brain, the intellect understands and orders the head to nod. Why should I get bored? I stand apart from it all!"
The verse of interest here is Geeta 3-28.
तत्त्ववित्तु महाबाहो गुणकर्मविभागयोः |
गुणा गुणेषु वर्तन्त इति मत्वा न सज्जते ||३-२८||
tattvavittu mahaabaaho guNakarmavibhaagayoH .
guNaa guNeshhu vartanta iti matvaa na sajjate .. 3-28..
But He, the Knower of the Truth, O mighty-armed (mahābāho), knows about the divisions of the qualities (guṇa) and (their) functions (karma). He is not attached as he knows that guṇas, as-senses, move amidst guṇas, as-objects.

How wonderfully this could work whether someone is provoking us, boring us or stressing us out. "I stand apart from it all!"...

Hari Om and Namaskaar until the next post

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  1. Parvathy RamanJune 17, 2012 at 9:04 AM

    Reminds me of the time he was looking out of the window of his kutia in Mumbai. When a devotee asked him what he was looking at so fixedly, he said, "I am looking at existence in the form of a tree."

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