Vasanas 3 Continued

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VASANAS from Padamalai Continued 3 P.247

 

87 Pramada[not keeping one's attention on the Self], whose association with one

is detected in the culminating phase of sadhana, is the mind's original,

deluding vasana.

 

88 Achieving Atmanishta through sadhana is to arrive at a life that is free from

misery caused by the scorching vasanas.

 

Bhagavan: " Just as water in the pot reflects the enormous Sun within the narrow

limits of the pot, even so the vasanas or latent tendencies of the mind of the

individual, acting as the reflecting medium, catch the all-pervading, infinite

light of consciousness arising from the heart and present, in the form of a

reflction, the phenomenon called the mind. Seeing only this reflection, the

ajnani is deluded into a belief that he is a finite being, the jiva.

If the mind becomes introverted through Enquiry into the source of the aham

vritti [the 'I' -thought], the vasanas become extinct, and in the absence of the

reflecting medium the phenomenon of reflection, the mind, also disappears being

absorbed into the light of the one reality, the Heart.

This is the sum and substance of all that an aspirant needs know. What is

imperatively required of him is an earnest and one pointed enquiry into the

source of aham-vritti.

 

Maharshi's Gospel P.82