Buddhi
Buddhi should be the decision maker: In the factory of life, we want Buddhi to
be making the choices for the factory. Otherwise, Manas gets
its instructions from the habit patterns stored in Chitta, that are
colored by Ahamkara, the Ego. Often, Buddhi is clouded over by
all of the coloring and impressions in the Chitta. Thus, a major
task of sadhana, spiritual practices, is to un-cloud
the clouded Buddhi. Then, with clear choice one can ever
improve the choices that lead to the fruits of spiritual practices.
Depth of Buddhi:
On the more gross or surface levels of living and meditation, Buddhi is
used as a tool for discrimination, as just described. However, when we get deep
enough in meditation, we discover that it was the subtlest aspect of Buddhi that
first started to see division in ourselves and the universe. In other words,
although Buddhi is used as a tool for deepening experience in
meditation, it was Buddhi who carved up the universe in the
first place, seeing division where there is unity. To discriminate between Buddhi and
pure consciousness is one of the final stages in the meditative journey.
Let
us understand more clearly.
· Buddhi (Higher intellect/ discriminative intellect/ GM of
the factory) may listen to Chitta / Ahamkara (foreman/ helpers) but the final
decision / instruction for action should be from Buddhi (GM) to the Manas
(supervisor).
· There is often a doubt/ question put up by the so called
intellectuals who always believe in arguments and logics and less in intuitive
experience. They ask/ tell “I see even a so called realized master/ yogi /
incarnation behaving normally, acting normally, moving around normally, they
also dress, they also eat, and they also sleep. Then what is the difference between
them and me?”
· The main difference between the realized masters and a
normal human being in the context of the above diagram flow is-
1.The realized masters have zero balance of impressions in
their memory bank - Chitta.
2.The 1st MBCA post started with the
similarity between a child and a jnana explained by the supreme master Sri
Ramana when he said- both have no impressions out of their actions.
3.They have annihilated avidya and realized that they are
Divine; they have merged with the supreme God/ God Consciousness. So, with no
avidya, there can be no asmita and therefore no raga/ dvesha to glorify their
mistaken identity- asmita.
4.Thus, in the above diagram, 2 things are removed in their
case- Ahamkara and Chitta
5.Whatever actions they undertake, other than their nitya
karma of eating, sleeping etc. - those actions directly flow from Buddhi.
6.From Buddhi, actions are performed straight; they do
not even require MIND to undertake actions. The Masters have stood as
testimony/ living example to the divine call and they have DIED their MIND and exist
as Diamond.
7.So, they undertake actions and then it ends there. There is
no impressions/ impact of their actions to be carried forward to the memory
bank as they have closed the account of their memory bank forever and there are
no debit and credit entries – bad or good impressions in the memory bank which
is closed permanently.
Who
else but Swami can be taken as the best example, in his life in human
form, for understanding the above points very clearly?
Can
there be any Chitta>>> Samskara>>> Vasana>>> Vritti
or Avidya>> Asmita>> Raga Dvesha/Abhnivesha which can ever influence
Swami’s action??????
And,
when His actions are just love, with His existence as Love in Action, can there
be any impressions of his actions??
Actually,
it is wrong to bring Swami to even the level of explaining the above but author
has dared to do it because, he knows that when Swami’s example is taken, the
reader can very easily co-relate, understand and possibly take in the lesson!!
Love.
