Tuning Up - Swami Chinmayananda

If humanity is not to grow sufficiently strong to become a master of the machines that it makes, the present civilization of slavery to iron wheels pounding to the rhythm of lust shall stand, indeed, condemned. But in case we can grow into a self-mastery in ourselves, sufficient to rule over the forces of nature that we have released, certainly we shall preserve our secular endowments and come to live served by them as a Sultan of Destiny.

If the melody of joy and success does not constantly flow out of you, there must be some loosening of the minor chords of your true character. Shortsightedness in life is a tragedy; maintain a balanced vision of life and be ever happy and successful in your own divine right.

Change the unhealthy, ulcerated bleeding values of lust, greed, selfishness and "extrovert" desires, and come to live the glorious life – giving permanent value of love, charity, tolerance and "introvert" meditation – all is then done. The individual, shedding his mortal weakness, thereby rises in his essential nature to Godhood!

Control the licentious sense-organs; the cause of the disease is arrested. Watch the mind and its modifications, the thoughts. Curb their mad lusty flow. When thought disturbances cease, the mind is no more the mint of sorrow that it was. The death of the mind is the birth of the gnani – the perfect man.

© "Tapovan Prasad" (October, 2001) published by Chinmaya Mission, # 2, 13th Avenue, Harrington Road, Chetput, Chennai 600 031. Reprinted with permission.

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