The Three Principles of Hinduism - Swami Chinmayananda

To realize our all-full spiritual nature is to experience the fullness of life. As long as we have not attained this state of being, our intellect will continue to suggest methods for overcoming feelings of imperfection, which manifest as desires. Desires are nothing but an expression of the ignorance of our real Nature. This ignorance has made us identify with the body, mind, and intellect, and is the cause of our egocentric life of pains and limitations. Therefore, there is no achievement more sacred and glorious than the realization of our true identity with the unlimited, eternal Self.

©  Tapovan Prasad, November 2001.  Reprinted with permission.

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