Troubleshooting Contemplation Continued…

Sowmya Gopal
Chinmaya Mission Niagara
2 min readDec 29, 2020

June 22, 2020

Namah Te dear All,

i hope this message finds all my fellow seekers infinitely, incessantly and independently Joyous!

THIS MESSAGE IS NOT SPAM! This message is just very very very late…
With few responsibilities, in June of 2009 i began sharing our E-Vichara every Monday.
With many responsibilities, in January of 2013 i began sharing our E-Vichara every other Monday.
With many more responsibilities, at the beginning of 2020 i began slowing down sharing our E-Vichara.
Aspiring to be more responsible, at the ending of 2020 i begin speeding up sharing our E-Vichara.
Gratitude for your patience to understand this offering…

With everyone schooling from home, working from home, arguing from home (hahaha!), another trend has been 100s of ‘Coaches’ creating 1000s of ‘Courses’ for 1000000s of ‘Contemplators’! Coaches-Courses-Contemplators NEED to be authentic and deep to be transformed by Contemplation. Appreciating this truth, Acharya Shankara in Aparoksha Anubhuti, dissects eight troubles that WILL surface in the personalities of contemplators. Let us commence our surgery with the E-Vichara

E-Vichara (June 22, 2020) — — Troubleshooting Contemplation Continued…

  • A lifestyle focussed on purification is pivotal for a vision focussed on Liberation — the evolution from purification to Liberation flows through inspiration (shravana) / reflection (manana) / contemplation (nidhidhyasana)
  • Trouble 5 is being careless (tama) — Troubleshooting 5 is to commit to unitasking which will foster being careful with all articles-beings-circumstances
  • Trouble 6 is being distracted (vikshepa) — Troubleshooting 6 is to observe your thoughts empowering you to not possess each thought, to not be possessed by each thought
  • Trouble 7 is being complacent (svada) — Troubleshooting 7 is to intimately know your nature is Silence encouraging you to strive for more than quietude of mind
  • Trouble 8 is being lost (shunyata) — Troubleshooting 8 is to revolve around the wise for they found the way and thus can empathetically direct you
  • By understanding a disease we discover a cure — the greatest cure is to invoke the Divine in your heart and let God fight all your demons

Inspire-Love-Be,
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