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Mind – Enemy No. 1!

SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA

adhyäsadoñätpuruñasya saàsåtiù

adhyäsabandhastvamunaiva kalpitaù
rajastamodoñavato’vivekino
janmädiduùkhasya nidänametat. 1

Man’s transmigration is due to the evil of superimposition, and
the bondage of superimposition is created by the mind alone. It is
this that causes the misery of birth, etc., for the man of
non-discrimination who is tainted by rajas and tamas.
Everything is a trick of the mind. The manomaya koña causes
all your sufferings and misunderstandings, making your
peaceful life the most miserable. The mind not only projects
but binds you to those projections. This adhyäsadoña is what causes
you to suffer.

1 Vivekachudamani, verse 179

Edited excerpt from Pujya Gurudev’s videographed discourses on Vivekachudamani
at the Marathon Camp in Sidhbari, August to October 1992.

Be independent. All relationships
In loving memory of our parents - will be tossing up and down,
SHRI VACHASPATI AND and can never be steady. Your
relationship with Him, in your
SMT. SHARDA DIXIT heart, alone can be the same.
Swami Chinmayananda

Tapovan Prasad 10 November 2026