Manas Buddhi Chitta Ahamkara - Part 20

Dear All,

How actions are performed by a sadhaka  and a sincere devotee?

Let us  look at the flow given below.

Dear Ones,

We learnt sufficiently and at length about how Karma of a normal jiva fetches him bondage and Karma means Kama bandhanam, in our last 2 posts. 

Now, if we carefully see the flow given above which gives the cycle of Karma of a sadhaka in advanced stage in the path of Jnana or a Bhakta whose Bhakti is transforming to Prema, in both cases, ACTION/ KARMA undertaken by them is shown with a common block 

After the Karma block, in both cases, the subsequent flow after the Action block  explains as to how, in both cases, their karma/action do not put them into the vicious cycle of AVKK or karma bandhanam.

Their karma is totally detached  from their state of existence and they are released from the samsara and get liberated from the cycle of birth and death at the end.

Let us understand the texture of Karma / Actions undertaken by these men of wisdom/ devotion/ love, with example.

ACTIONS OF A SADHAKA/ SANYASI

For the 1st flow starting from Buddhi, let us take an example of a sanyasi / spiritual Guru who has an ashram/hermitage in Himalayas. 

He starts getting more and more of visitors and disciples in the course of time and his present ashram space is not sufficient to accommodate the over flowing number of students/ visitors.

He summons his immediate assistant sanyasi and asks him to make an announcement / publish in the ashram notice board, inviting people desirous of contributing to extension of the ashram premise, to deposit their donation in a nearby bank in the account of ashram.

Now, in the above case, it is to be noted that the yogi/ sanyasi has used his Buddhi/ wisdom and has initiated an action for collecting donation only for the sake of disciples/ visitor’s minimum comfort. 

No raga / no dvesha / no abhinivesha has prompted him to take the action to have an announcement made for extension of ashram and within heart, he exists as an Avadhuta, who has no attachment even to a single piece of cloth that he wears, that too because he is still in society and not in recluse, where, he won’t need even that single piece of  cloth or the kaupyana that he sports.

Now, tell me, how his action will fetch him impressions?

Where is ego in his action?

ACTIONS OF A BHAKTA / A DEVOTEE

A devotee, till the time he is in the world, may have to undertake his minimum duties towards his family, towards his children etc. 

But with his heart melted, his ego gone like a melted candle, his heart fully filled with love, with he the nadhi of love, merged with the ocean of Love that is God, tell me, from where he will have raga/dvesha/abhinivesha and then vasanas, which may prompt his actions ?

A realized master, a Jivanmukhta himself (One who is liberated while alive), Swami Sivananda beautifully explains the state of such a yogi who is explained in this post above and in the flow, where, the climax is clearly shown  as GOD REALIZATION.

"Not through matted locks, not through fiery lectures and erudition, not through the exhibition of miracles, does one attain perfection or knowledge of the Self. He is whom the two currents, Raga-Dvesha and egoism, lust, anger are destroyed in toto is ever happy and he is Brahman or a liberated sage or Jivanmukta. A Jivanmukta or liberated sage is absolutely free from egoism, doubt, fear and grief. These are the four important signs that indicate that one has attained perfection.”

Love.

Paramhansa Yogananda

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.