Understanding Ssansakaras.

Understanding Ssansakaras.

Sansakaras are imprints on our minds ( Chitta ) after we are born.

Since birth, we have been collecting these “imprints” from the world we have been living in, starting from a mother, father, siblings, friends, knowledge, etc.

As we get older, these Sansakaras become our ONLY truth, never realizing what our Chitta was like,  WITHOUT these Sanskaras.

For example –

Directions are ingrained in our Chitta as an impression, just like everything else.

( Shankaracharya calls them Sanskaras ).

As soon as we decide to go in a specific direction, our consciousness springs into action, utilizes the previously memorized knowledge of directions, and gets ready to act to go in that direction.

If two people are told to travel to the East, one actually travels to the East, but the second one may not physically travel to the East, but mentally, both traveled East.

This shows, how our Chitta has been molded by the Sansar ( material world ).

Looking at matter ( physical Sansar ) makes our mind also material ( divided ) ( dual ).

But the mind is nothing but modified consciousness. ( And consciousness is non-dual ) ( undivided ).

That means these divisions are imaginary, not real.

That’s why we were “taught” directions in school, and we modified our consciousness according to that acquired information at that time.

So, we live our everyday life with and in these modifications only.

( Going East happens first, before actually going East ).

Many of these modifications are, of course, necessary to live in the Sansar.

Otherwise, we cannot function in Sansar – for example – directions.

And that is fine.

But we go over and beyond this necessary knowledge and attach our emotions to it, which is wrong.

For example, “East and West” and “Right and left” are important to know in daily life, but saying that the East is more auspicious just because “Sun arises in the East “ is wrong.

– or “ Right hand is more auspicious than left” or “ If I throw dice with my right hand, I always win” is ignorance.

That is nothing but further entanglement of the mind into these modifications.

And due to these entanglements (vrttis and vasanas ), we forget what these modifications were originally created from.

We only remember and give importance to these modifications- material, and we forget the consciousness – the spirit, the formless.

Meditation helps you walk backward, away from them, and land you in the original field of absolute formless consciousness, on which these modifications had taken place since your birth ( or even over multiple lives ).

Only when we sink into this field we realize that consciousness is beyond directions, beyond time, beyond space, and yet it exists.

East is auspicious and so is West.

The right hand is no better than the left.

White is no better than black.

“Beautiful “ and “ugly “ same thing.

That’s when dualistic Sansar becomes a temporary dream and consciousness a permanent reality filled with uniformity.

Meditate on this fact that everything that you think you KNOW is acquired information ( Sansakaras ) and consciousness is beyond all that.

Sansakaras are like messages written on a blackboard and consciousness is that formless blackboard in which they are written.

Words are dual and the blackboard non-dual.

All our thoughts, identifications, emotions, concepts, beliefs, convictions, etc are nothing but our creations staying within this illusionary Sansar.

Meditation is the only path to waking up.