Manas Buddhi Chitta Ahamkara - Part 19 Contd...

Unless we have some stored impressions in our mind about a person, the so called 3 ego- raga, dvesha and abhinivesha , as far as that person is concerned, can never be active at all times in the future. 

After one action is performed, the impressions due to that action is stored in chitta, retrieved as vasanas, then only, in all future time, the vasanas propel/push one of the three - raga or dvesha or abhinivesha towards that person and then action is undertaken.

Applying this principal in that student case, the impression of the first action (absuing the new student who had ranked 1st) results in impression about that person in the earlier student’s heart. 

Later on, next day or whenever he sees the other student, the stored impressions manifest as vasanas and only these vasanas ignite the ego-DVESHA or HATRED for that new student and with that dvesha, the 1st student’s all actions towards the new student, are influenced.

If there were no stored  Impressions, manifesting as vasanas about that student, then will this student ever develop the hatred feeling towards the student? Never.

So, it it Avidya -Kama-Karma for the first action (see the above flow for 1st action) and thereafter, for all future actions, it is 

Avidya-Vasana-Kama-Karma.The main aim of all spiritual sadhana is to break this knot of samsara- Avidya-Kama-Karma and to be free from this hrdaya granthi.

During our entire life, we always carry with us, our subtle impressions- vasanas in  mainly 2 ways as under:-

- Our impressions about our own selves, I am this, I am that, I am capable of this, my main plus points are this, this and this, I can do this better than others…. And such endless impressions about ourselves.

- Our impression about all others in the society after our first action with them has carried impressions to our chitta or, even if we have not acted in any way with any person, our own impressions about ourselves are always matched / compared/evaluated in a subtle manner with a person with whom we might not have acted and thus, with such a thought, we develop vasanas about that person.

For example, we develop vasanas/ impression about a politician, a leader a public figure with whom we have never come in touch. But whatever we know about that person is judged/ evaluated with our own impressions about ourselves and our heart of ego imagines what we would do in such a situation and with that comparison, we pass a judgement about that person and such judgement stores impressions about that person. 

Vasanas and avidya exist together and the last thing to leave a meditator, a sadhaka, a devotee is his vasanas / impressions about himself and the world. Once all the vasanas within one’s mind lake (chitta) are removed, then, surely, at that very instance, one gets free of his AVIDYA.

Love.