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  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, January 20, 2021. 11:42.AM. Chapter-5.  Sannyasa – The Renunciation of Erroneous Notions - 11. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are crying day in and day out for something that we have lost, and what we get is a little sugar candy, a toy, etc., which distracts our attention for the time being and makes us believe that we have obtained our desire, while we have not got it. We are misdirected. So we ever remain dissatisfied with all the possessions and satisfactions of life. Now I come to the point again. The senses are to be controlled for the reason that the senses cannot come in real contact with the objects because these objects are only shadows cast by originals, and our real desire is to come in contact with originals only. We do not want the shadows, though the

  Swami Chinmayananda ----------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, January 12, 2021. 11:23.AM. Chapter-5.  Sannyasa – The Renunciation of Erroneous Notions - 10. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our minds are not philosophically trained. We are not acquainted with the art of thinking in terms of ultimate causes. We are accustomed to think only of immediate occurrences. We are empirically oriented and not metaphysically trained. --------------------------- Everything has to be understood in terms of ultimate causes. This understanding is called philosophical understanding. When something happens, we must find out why it has happened, and when we know the cause behind it, we must find the cause of that also, and go on finding the cause behind cause until we get at the final cause. This art, this technique, this method is called philosophy. But generally we are not used to this way of thinking. We do not want to go to the final ca