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Solitude

SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA

cientific education, if it has illumined our day time-world
Smore, it also has darkened our nights. Though generally
well-educated, what a small percentage of our young men today
are not afraid of lonely nights! Not only do they feel lonely, but
they are positively afraid in the night. And if we analyze this silent
dread, we can find that it is but essentially our fear of being all alone
with ourselves. Our own thoughts generally rise up to accuse us!
Solitude to the modern man is a disastrous threat. To be alone
in a quiet place and spend an evening all by himself is almost a
painful tragedy to many a young man of our times. Very rarely
does one know the art of enjoying a delicious evening, melting
and remoulding one’s entire body into a single thrilled sense
organ and imbibing delight through every core of it. Generally,
modern humans want to bring the horizon nearer their estate, little
knowing that the skies are never at their elbows.

It is not friendship that we seek in society; we merely
demand a crowd always to be around us: blabbering, howling,
shrieking – all the time weeping, sobbing, sighing.

Published in Tapovan Prasad, March 1994

A Vedantin is not a dreamer. He
In memory of my parents lives by intelligent self-application:
SMT. M. VENKATALAKSHMI dynamically living the cheerful
AND SRI M. VENKATESWARLU present.
SMT. VANI ALLADI
Swami Chinmayananda

Tapovan Prasad 14 September 2024