BEYOND THE IMPRESSIONS OF THE MIND
We find a situation painful or hurtful because we dive into the mind, go through the cubbyholes in the subconscious, and find another experience that, in turn, finds some other experience and another experience, and those all combine there. And then you compare this experience with those, and then the subconscious mind translates itself into the conscious mind and says, “This is pain,” or “This is ugly.”
Where does the ugliness come from? Not from the object. The ugliness comes from the impressions or samskaras that are already in the subconscious mind. And that is what we have to get rid of.
The only way to get rid of this is through meditation, where we burn the seeds of karma so they do not grow. We use that Universal Force that gets rid of all the karma. Then you go beyond this minimal relative law that “whatever you have sown, you shall reap.”
It is very accurate but in a minimal form. Man has the ability, and this is the message for this century and the next six centuries to come: do not feel guilty about the things you have done or the things you have caused to have been done, for you can go beyond it all. It can all be discarded like a dirty garment. It can all be washed away under the shower of the Light deep down within us. We have to interpret it in our daily actions.
We must never say, “Oh, my baby is crying, so I cannot sit down to meditate. I have to look after the baby.” True, you must look after the baby. But let the baby’s cry become a meditation to you instead of disturbing you. You comfort the child with love, and is a meditation, not something that generates that love? You have been allowed to generate love.
Vivekananda tells a nice story. He says you sit down to meditate, and the doorbell rings. You get up from your meditation, you answer the door and do whatever is required, come back and sit down again to meditate. But remember one thing: regard yourself getting up, answering the door, and coming back to be a part of your meditation.
Life can never be separated from spirituality because, to repeat, again and again, it was never separate. The separation we find between life and God is just a creation of our minds, like a projection on a cinema or movie screen, which is not real at all.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 1983 – 10
