Kṛṣṇa says we will be centered when we are in satva.
rajo rāgātmakaṁ viddhi tṛṣṇāsaṅgasamudbhavam tannibadhnāti kaunteya karmasaṅgena dehinam
Kaunteya, know that the mode of passion, rajas, is characterized by intense craving and is the source of desire and attachment. Rajas binds the living entity by attachment to work.
once we go in and complete with our root patterns, and associate ourselves with powerfulness, we move into bliss.
tamas tv ajñānajaṁ viddhi mohanaṁ sarvadehinām pramādālasya-nidrābhis tannibadhnāti bhārata
Know, O Arjuna, that the mode of ignorance, tamas, the deluder of the living entity is born of inertia. Tamas binds the living entity by carelessness, laziness, and excessive sleep
Be integrated to your Soul. The Soul can never have tiredness, consciousness can never have tiredness. That is the truth.
Material nature consists of three modes or attributes: goodness, passion and ignorance. These are called Guṇas in Saṃskṛit. Kṛṣṇa explains how we are operate through three different types of root thought patterns. One is satva, the other is rajas and the third is tamas. These are translated as goodness, passion and ignorance; however, these are not exact translations
Root patterns that lead to ecstasy and bliss form satva. Root patterns that lead to restlessness, anger and emotional imbalance form rajas. Root patterns that lead to depression, dullness and low moods form tamas. Those root thought patterns that automatically arise and imbalance our cognition, and lead to depression are called tamas. Sātvic patterns do not disturb us. Patterns that lead us to peace, bliss and ecstasy are sāvtic patterns.
The science of completing with these roots thought patterns is the owner's manual for life. This is the basic life science!
Kṛṣṇa calls it Guṇatraya Vibhāga Yoga. Mūla vāsanas are living bio-memories and muscle-memories, not dead memories. Another important point is that because these memories are living energies, they can be used for creating powerlessness, the space of incompletion or powerfulness, the space of completion.
Understand, how the science of completion and incompletion work, how powerfulness and powerlessness work, how the space of satsaṇga and nissaṇga work. When you associate yourself with powerfulness, you are in satsaṇga. When you associate yourself with powerlessness, the wrong association, you are in nissaṇga.
If we entertain powerfulness, if we complete, the same way completion will raise us so quickly! Once the cognitive shift takes place, we receive data, process it and go inside instead of outside.
We respond from the complete cognition we carry inside and create more and more completion outside also.
As long as we operate from incomplete cognition, we react externally and we work towards depression, powerlessness. However, once we go in and complete with our root patterns, and associate ourselves with powerfulness, we move into bliss.
Cognition is the process of receiving information through our five senses, processing that information internally, relating with it based on our root patterns, and responding to life based on our patterns. There are five jñānendriya and five karmendriya (senses of action) that are the means of communication between the external world and us.
Jñānendriya are the senses of perception, the five senses of smell, taste, sight, touch and hearing. The karmendriya are five actions of elimination, procreation, locomotion, grasping and speaking. Each sense is related to one of the energy centers (cakras) in our body-mind system.
Let us say in a scene of a discourse happening. You see Swamiji talking to you. First your eye captures this whole scene like a picture and this picture goes to the cakṣu (the energy behind the eyes).
Understand, we don't see with the eye, we see through the eye. There is an energy that is inside or behind the eye that actually sees. There is an energy inside or behind the ears that hears. The ears by themselves cannot hear. That is why when we are engrossed in a book, we may not hear the alarm or doorbell ring. So, there is an energy inside the eyes that sees. We call this energy cakṣu
The whole scene is converted into a file like in a digital signal processor in a computer so that our mind can process the data. The cakṣu is almost like the digital signal processor or DSP in electronics. In a computer, whether it is an audio or visual file, it must be converted into a digital file. In the same way in our inner space whatever we see or hear is converted into a bio-signal file like a digital file. Then the file starts moving up, step-by-step.
The file goes to citta, the place where past bio-memories are collected. Citta means mind, inner space. This area is where the work of excluding happens as — 'Na iti, Na iti' — this is not, this is not. Upon seeing this file, our citta starts eliminating whatever the object is not. Take the example of this scene: First you see me, the whole scene is photographed. It goes to cakṣu and becomes a bio-signal file. The file is then taken to citta, bio-memory. Citta says, 'This is not a tree. This is not an animal. This is not a plant. This is not this. This is not that.'
Next, the file goes to manas, another part of the mind. The manas tries to positively identify, 'This is a human being. He is wearing a saffron robe. He is standing on a stage.' The identification process, 'iti, iti' (this is it, this is it) identification process happens in manas.
Once this positive identification happens, the file goes to a third part of the mind called buddhi or intelligence. buddhi is where the trouble starts. Here the analysis starts, 'How am I related to this file? How am I connected to this scene? How is it relevant to me? How should I respond to this scene?'
If past bio-memories about me have been good or pleasant according to your intelligence, you cognize and respond in a positive way. You immediately refer to those past memories and review, 'It was so good at yesterday's discourse.' Your intelligence refers to the past bio-memory and muscle-memory and makes a decision based upon your cognition of these experiences. If your cognition about the past experiences with me has been positive, your intelligence tells you to stay and listen. If your cognition of the past experiences has been inadequate, unpleasant and you felt bored, your intelligence tells you that this is not the place for you and that you should leave.
These are logical decisions based on conscious memories retained by your mind. Up to this point, your cognition, the transmission of what is perceived by the senses and what is the response based on that pattern is relatively straightforward. It is a conscious process.
From the conscious mind, the information is passed to the unconscious space of the mind, the ego.
This unconscious space of the mind as the ego, not because it is arrogant, but because it provides you the identity of who you are. Your identity stems from your unconscious incompletions which are your root patterns. You project who you wish to be, never who you are. You do not even know who you are. Who you are is deeply buried in your unconscious. All the major decisions that shape your life are consigned to
This unconscious space. This is the repository of all those emotionally-filled memories, the root thought patterns and beliefs about yourself; which constitute what you believe as you, what you project as you, what others expect you to be, and what you expect others or life to be for you and therefore, create your identity.
Identify your root pattern! Root pattern means the first time in your life when your cognitions were imbalanced, disturbed by some external force; and your terrorized being started defining yourself with a disempowering word and started defining the world in that disempowering powerless state; and to compensate from this death, the disempowering inner identity the inner image, you create a pseudo alternative compensating cognition — the outer image.
Completion takes away the agitated confusion and the alternative compensating image we create in our life. Because we have a very disempowering cognition about ourselves, we go on creating an alternative compensating cognition to compensate with our inadequate cognition. To compensate the inadequate cognition which got created unconsciously inside you, which is your inner image, mamakāra, you create an alternative compensating cognition which is your outer image, ahaṁkāra. Till the end you never feel satisfied, because you feel the guilt you showed, which is not true, without realizing your true identity is much more than what you can imagine and show.
The conscious mind does not make important decisions. It makes a few decisions that can be reached by its limited intellect. Anything important moves to the unconscious ego or root patterns. Our unconscious handles all life-threatening situations with the disempowering cognitions, the so-called fight-or-flight decisions.
The effects of your root pattern are your conflicting patterns Conflicting patterns are the branches which sprout from the root pattern. When the file reaches the ego, the ego comes to a conclusion based on all the 'yes' responses and all the 'no' responses based out of your conflicting patterns. Yes or no is not a problem; however, we have wasted so much time and energy on this small decision. Not only that, any decision you take out of powerlessness, restlessness, will lead you to more and more powerless space. Powerless moments in life create more and more powerless moments in life. All restlessness is powerlessness.
The first truth you need to know about completion—do completion just to be in the space of completion. All other reasons lead to more and more incompletions. Completion done in the space of completion transforms your personality, transforms your being; the intense, constant agitated violence you carry towards you and others due to rajas patterns. Continuously completing for the sake of completion leads you to the experience of Enlightenment.
When you try to push your incompletions into your unconscious mind, unfortunately, it reaches deeper and goes closer to your consciousness. Anything closer to consciousness becomes powerful. That is why a small incompletion that happened in your life when you are young or a small incompletion which you are suppressing without completing it, it explodes in you as a dangerous imbalance of your rājasic guṇa patterns.
Many times, your imbalance is such that you do not care about your destruction. You go on waiting in anger and expecting the other person's destruction. Once we do completion with the rajas patterns, we can make one thousand decisions without any stress, violence or suffering.
That is why Kṛṣṇa says that when we don't expect the result, when we don't think of karma phala (result of the work done). we can do the work intensely. When we don't expect or worry about the result, we work beautifully because there are fewer patterns. We will not suffer or be tortured by root thought patterns. We will be in the space of completion, which will lead to more and more completion.
If there are more vāsanas or patterns, the file does not reach the ego easily or even fully. A powerful pattern may make the decision on the way.
This unconscious space is filled with negative bio-memories, and powerlessness, restlessness. All our past bio-memory or root thought patterns are stored in your inner space as files without any logical connection between them. When the file takes a quantum leap to this space, it does not reach the ego properly for a decision. Like that, when your unconscious is loaded with past root thought patterns and memories, it becomes inadequate, inefficient, and incomplete and makes superficial, illogical decisions..
Work does not need to make you tired. It is the wrong idea taught to you by the society. The only two enemies human beings have are boredom and tiredness. When you entertain them, you build wrong patterns.
Be integrated to your Soul. The Soul can never have tiredness, consciousness can never have tiredness. That is the truth. Whether you realize or not, you are Soul and Consciousness.
Impress upon the students that it is essential to identify our root patterns and complete with them. It is equally essential to make a conscious effort to move from tamas and rajas towards satva, by giving up powerlessness and creating a powerful inner space.