Fwd: Softare of our mind

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Shankaram Siva ShankaramNice article on SamskarasRegards,Srinivas.

Software of our mind

 

• PARAMAHAMSA SRI NITHYANANDA

 

NINE out of ten people, if asked where their mind is, will point to their head, where we think our brains are!

 

Brains are not where our minds are. Mind is all over our body; within

each cell, within the cell structure, embedded in the intelligence of

the DNA and other building blocks of the mind body system that we are.

There is as much mind in our little finger as there is in our head or

our heart.

 

Mind is not fixed and permanent; not our cells as well. Cells die and

are recreated every second. Our entire mind body system undergoes

renewal every so often. What we are now is not what we were a year ago,

not what we will be a year from now. Our mind body hardware is

constantly renewed.

 

Yet, we behave the same way as we did a year ago or ten years ago, by

and large. We are just as greedy, just as angry, just as depressed as

we were a year or many years ago unless we have taken dramatic measures

to change. We seem programmed in our behaviour pattern.

 

We are programmed. We are programmed in our belief systems and

attitudes based on our past experiences and memories of these

experiences.

 

It is these memories that drive us in all our actions. Unfortunately, all these memories lie in our unconscious mind.

 

We are driven by our unconscious, not by our rational mind as we wish

to imagine. We call this software of emotion filled memories that lie

buried deep in our unconscious, samskaras.

 

Samskaras are the embedded memories of our past, sometimes of previous

lives, that drive us into action in the future. Since samskaras are

from the unconscious, we are unable to do anything to stop them, to

control them or modify them. Unless, a big unless, we learn to

penetrate the unconscious.

 

We can indeed penetrate the unconscious and dissolve our samskaras, so meticulously built by our mind since childhood.

 

All we need to do is to bring ourselves into the present moment. In the

present moment, no samskaras exist, as these are products of our past.

 

In the present moment, we have neither regrets nor anticipation. We just are.

 

Meditation leads us into the present moment. Meditation leads us into

awareness of our samskaras and from there into their dissolution.

Meditation gives us control over our life, taking it away from the

embedded software of our mind.