Ramana was wrong.. Self Inquiry Theory

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A Ramana snip from Self Inquiry Theory..

 

" Although the concept of 'I'-ness or 'I am'-ness is by usage known

as aham-vritti it is not really a vritti [modification] like other

vrittis of the mind. Because unlike the other vrittis which have no

essential interrelation, the aham-vritti is equally and essentially

related to each and every vritti of the mind. Without the aham-vritti

there can be no other vritti, but the aham-vritti can subsist by

itself

without depending on any other vritti of the mind.

The aham-vritti is therefore fundamentally different from other

vrittis. "

 

The other vrittis may be related to each other. For example, you

were abused as a child many times with a lot of different

experiences. The repressed memories are stored in the subconscious

and bubble up into consciousness as thoughts or mental states. One

thought on that subject may therefore be connected to all other

thoughts that may arise from those earlier similar experiences. The

charge and stress that ensues when one thought bubbles into

consciousness is increased by all the other similar experiences.

Therefore those thoughts have an essential relationship.

 

Another example. Someone calls you stupid for the first time. You

react somewhat but not significantly. Then people continue to call

you stupid and each time they do there is more stress experienced.

The aggregate of those thoughts compounds the degrees of the

reactions.

Now when someone calls you stupid you may get so angry that you

become violent. You then take up meditation and those thoughts again

surface into consciousness and because there are so many similar

incidents each thought has so much debilitating interconnected

charge. Again we must conclude that those thoughts have an

essential relationship.

 

Namaste,

Alton