A regular reader of this column has come up with the following feedback on the piece titled ‘Know true-self to be at your best’: “The language used in your article was so difficult that I could not fully understand the inlaid message. I will appreciate if you kindly use simple language hereafter, which a common man could easily grasp.”
Well, appreciating your concern, when I revisited the said piece, it appeared that the problem is not in the language. It could be with some of the technical words and phrases forming part of the opening paragraph, if they are seen in exclusivity. Remember, my pieces often relate to serious issues having psychological and behavioural imperatives, sometimes calling for use of specially coined words and phrases.
If, however, you would have looked at the piece as one whole, and paid attention to the explanations offered in the paragraphs that followed, you would not have had any difficulty. let me now deliberate upon those words and phrases afresh to make things clear.
All actions on our part are steered through by mind. As any act is first ideated, wished, willed, and articulated how to go about in the mind before being put to motion. It is in this sense that the mind is said to define and then drive through the functional mandate of a being.
Be it known that the mind does not get going by itself. It is set into motion primarily by in-store desires that are nothing but reflection of karmic accruals carried over from the past birth, as a sequel to cause-effect chain driving our life. Evidently, this varies from person to person, according to the different sets of experiences one would have gone through in the previous life, making each being unique.
The karmic accruals, in fact, precondition the mind one way or the other in terms of desire and thought trends, habits and attitudes, prejudices and obsessions, virtues and attributes, which come into play involuntarily. It is in this sense that each mind is said to be inherently framed one way or the other.
Mind, thus, comes under limitation, allowing restricted vision within the scope of its preset terms. This is what allowing limited window-frame means. The question now is: Are we to remain slave to the preconditions laid down by the mind or could we go beyond and get better empoweredIJ
If mind be mandated to act as a sovereign, it will be really difficult to transgress its limits. On the contrary, if it be sub-ordinate to some higher power, there remains scope to align with the latter and overcome the limitations imposed by the mind.
It may not be out of place to mention here that the living order owes its dynamic existence to the all-pervading force of consciousness. So long it is available in a being, the person remains alive, and with mind and all functional organisms in operative mode. Once it becomes unavailable, the mind becomes dysfunctional, and the person becomes a dead matter.
It implies that the mind gets empowered to act by the force of consciousness. So, the mind has a dependent status. In fact, going by Indian philosophic perception, force of consciousness projects mind as its instrument, which serving as former’s carrier holds the key to all aspects of human dynamism. So, the obvious choice before us is either to play second fiddle to the mind, an instrument, or become its master by aligning with the prime-driver, the force of consciousness.
But it is easier said than done. For, though mind has a secondary status, as it works on borrowed strength, it simultaneously also enjoys certain level of operational independence. Given the power of free will, the mind offers us freedom to make choices, carrying equal probability of its use and misuse. That makes it imperative upon us to own up the consequences of the choices made, and the implications thereof.
Often our ego unmindfully identifies itself with the indwelling tendencies of mind, and then passionately pursues them. Also, our impressionable mind gets drawn towards tempting influences of the glare and glitters of the seeming. That further compounds our problem. Our mind, thus, gets so entrenched in its own wanderings that it does not leave much of scope to explore beyond.
Here again, applying our free will option, we could very well will to go beyond the limitations of mind, and align with the force of consciousness. Following which, its wholesome and omniscient power shall be at our disposal, enabling us to unfold our full mental potential when one would know no limits.
The writer is an astrologer, vastu consultant and spiritual counsellor. Write to him at G-5, Basement, Jungpura Extension, New Delhi 14
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