Chapter 6 verse 19
“’As a lamp placed in a windless place does not flicker’,
is a simile used to describe a yogi of controlled mind, practicing yoga of the
Self”
Swami Chinmayananda used to joke about how a head of the
household shuts him off in a room in the house and says he is going to meditate
and cannot be disturbed. The whole house has to be silent for his meditation
session. When I began my meditation practice over a year ago, I used to exhibit
the same behavior. Over time, I realized that what I really need to shut off is
my thought not the external environment. Is it easy? Not really but when the
external environment stops affecting oneself less and less over time, that’s progress.
The lamp can glow in a windless place without flickering for sure, could we
strengthen the lamp in such a way to not get affected even when there is
considerable wind of life situations blowing through? That’s what that the yogi
is able to achieve. Let us strive to be there!
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