TRY - Think! Raise Yourself

Based on the quotes of Swami Chinmayananda

n  Think!

Think! Don’t brood !
To think is to use the mind.
To brood is to abuse the mind.

n  Quality of thoughts

The quality of activities cannot be raised, unless we raise the very texture of our thoughts and the depth of our understanding

n  Raise Yourself

The mind has to be raised step by step from

u the gross state to the subtle state,

u  then to the causal state, and

u  still further to the great cause

u  and thus finally to Samadhi.

n  Yoga

“Any attempt of the mind to rise from the low values of its present existence to a healthier and diviner scheme of living is Yoga.”

n  TRY –   Think!

                        Raise  
                        Yourself

From_________  To________

n  From Sense-Pleasure to Sense-Control

Life is a death-long discipline

Brahmacharya – Moderation in Enjoyment

Control, Create, Conserve & Channelize the energies

n  From Labor to Work

Work is love made visible. 
To drag oneself through each day’s schedule, morose, unhappy and miserable is labor.
Laborer, Worker & Man of Achievement

n  From Attachment to results to result of detachment

Success is not in the trophy won but in the race run

n  From Sentimentalism to Sound-judgement

Let not the storms of your heart cover the sun in your head

n  From roles to Reality

Family is the field of trial and test, wherein the individuals can grow into healthier personalities.  But it is not the final destination in itself. 
Live life with detachment at home.  It is but life’s college. 
Mistake it not as life’s main field.

alone to Alone all-alone is the way

n  From toys to Truth

Play, passion & pang seem to be the three common boundaries in every thoughtless man’s life. 
Seek Purity, Peace & Perfection

n  From Vanity to Vairagya

True vairagya is the result of thought

False vairagya has ruined more men than even atheism has ever done.

n  From Doership to Divinity

Chinmaya yagnas are all conducted by Him and we are all but workers in His army.

Let us realize our insignificance and learn to surrender unto Him and be the torch-bearers in His Mission.

n  From Dreamer to Waker

Man awakened to the Self’s glory is God. 
God, self-forgetful of  His own true nature is deluded man.

God + Ego = Man
Man – Ego = God

n  From theory to practice

If you want to prove God,  improve yourself. 
That is the only method.

n  Summary – Think! Raise Yourself from

Sense pleasure to self-control

Labor to work

Attachment to fruits to fruit of detachment

Sentimentalism to sound judgement

roles to Reality

Toys to Truth

Vanity to Vairagya

Doership to Divinity

Dreamer to waker

Theory to Practice

n  Lift

Lift yourself by yourself.  Nobody else can do it for you.

Uddharet Aatmanaa Aatmaanam
Na Aatmaanam Avasaadayet