You Are Your Root Patterns
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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
śrotraṁ cakṣuḥ sparśanaṁ ca rasanaṁ ghrāṇaṁ eva ca adhiṣṭhāya manaścāyaṁ viṣayānupasevate
The living entity, the spirit, leaves one body, takes some other body and gets new eyes, ears, nose, tongue and sensing body according to the saṁskāras it had in its causal layer and enjoys the new mental setup
If we change our mental setup, within a short time, our senses are recreated and even our face changes.
utkrāmantaṁ sthitaṁ vāpi bhuñjānaṁ vā guṇānvitam vimūḍhā nānupaśyanti paśyanti jñānacakṣuṣah
Fools in ignorance do not perceive the spirit being united with the guṇās as its enters, enjoys and leaves the body. The one whose inner eye is open clearly perceives everything
Only those whose eyes are trained by knowledge can see the truth of this science of completion.
Here Kṛṣṇa reveals another secret. He says, 'You create a body according to the root thought patterns or saṁskāras in the causal layer. Kṛṣṇa says that we create our sensory organs, according to saṁskāras in our causal layer.
Kṛṣṇa says that living entities create all five senses through the mind or mental setup. This happens not only when we take another body. Every day when we wake up from deep sleep, our senses are recreated. If we change our mental setup, within a short time, our face changes.
You Create Yourself Every Moment. Our 'mind, manaś ' is the intelligence spread all over our body. It is the intelligence that resides in our cells.
Each cell carries genetic intelligence. Body and mind are not separate entities.
It is just body-mind or mind-body, one system. Within this body-mind system, scientists say that every moment of your life thousands of cells die and thousands of new cells are created.
This is a constant process that Nature, the universal intelligence, dictates. It does not happen because of us; it happens in spite of us. In a period of a little under two years, every part of our body, every cell in our body, gets renewed. Our body as it was a year ago is not the body it is today. This is not fiction; it is a proven scientific fact. Then why do we behave the same way as we have for years? Why do illnesses plague us for years, even though the cells are no longer the same? Each cell as it dies, leaves behind a memory that the newly created cell follows. That is the bio-memories, saṁskāras within us. The saṁskāras ensures the continuation of a pattern despite complete changes in the body-mind system. These saṁskāras are more powerful than the rest of the body-mind system. It decides and drives.
The deep sleep we go into everyday is a rehearsal of our death process. We die and are reborn. Our subtle body leaves the gross body and returns re-energized if we allow it to. It is in our hands to maximize this process of rejuvenation that happens automatically everyday. Through meditation we can clear our saṁskāras and be reborn. We can change our features, our character and behavior, all by reprogramming our saṁskāras. That is why people radiate grace after they start meditation. Beauty is created by make-up. Grace is radiated by meditation. Grace makes the occupant feel at home. It soothes the atmosphere. Beauty creates excitement. Beauty moves the other person into rajas (restlessness). Grace creates calmness, satva. Grace puts the other person in energy.
People reminisce about great Masters like Rāmaṇa Mahaṛṣi and say that He imparted wisdom through silence. It is the Enlightened Master's grace that penetrates the other person's energy and changes that person's saṁskāras.
All that we need to do in an Enlightened Master's presence is just be, be open and silent and allow the Master's eternal grace to penetrate us. There is nothing that we need to do. The Master's grace does whatever is needed.
The negativity, arrogance, violence, negative saṁskāras in our causal layer, makes us feel heavy on earth. If we feel heavy around our navel area, we carry negative saṁskāras. The feeling of heaviness is not connected to our weight. It is due to imprints in our inner space. A person who feels light radiates grace from his being and he never creates a path on a lawn.
He never kills a blade of grass by his walk. We are spiritually evolved souls only when our feet do not create a path, when we float while we walk, when we do not go against nature.
Here Kṛṣṇa says, we create our senses according to our root patterns, saṁskāras. This happens not only when we die and take birth; we redesign our senses to suit our root patterns everyday, when we wake up too. If we wake up with the right mental setup, we will have our senses accordingly and for the whole day we can enjoy it. If on the other hand, we get up with negativity, we suffer.
The few moments immediately after we wake up are crucial. Whatever we feel will be reflected the rest of the day. If we radiate joy, our whole day will be joyful. If we are irritable, our whole day will be irritable. Do this with the space of completion everyday at least for twenty-one days.
You will be amazed at the changes that happen within your body-mind. You will develop grace and equally important, you will learn to love yourself, which means that you can love others without difficulty.
Kṛṣṇa further says, the type of senses we create determines the type of sensory objects we enjoy. If we create positive senses, we enjoy a positive life. If we create negative senses, we suffer a negative life. The type of senses we create determines what type of objects or pleasures attract us, and we experience that. Our senses, intelligence and our body-mind system create the energy field around us. This energy field attracts similar energy fields. If we are negative, if our perceptions are negative, we attract people with negative mindsets and descend into a vicious cycle. However, if we do completion with all our negativity, sufferings of the past and do the creation of a space of positive emotions and positive perceptions, we attract like-minded, positive people and situation
One more thing, understand, if you have dreams, whatever type of dreams it may be, whether it is good or bad, or whatever; if you have dreams, then you have incompletions in you. When you start doing completions every night, your dreams will reduce. Listen. I am defining dreams. Incompletions expressing when you are unconscious is dreams.
Incompletions expressing when you are conscious is thinking. If you have a dreamless sleep, I guarantee, you will have birthless life! If you have dream-free sleep, you will have birth-free, death-free life! When you travel from the causal layer to the physical body, pick up completion, the satva (peaceful or blissful) saṁskāras. Have a spiritual thought of completion as the first thought.
Think of your Master or God or anything that gives you a spiritual memory. That is why in Bharat, ancient Mystics tell us to meditate early in the morning. At least for a few seconds be in a blissful mood. Your inner space will be fresh and new.
Kṛṣṇa says, 'Only those whose eyes are trained by knowledge can see the truth of this science. The whole science of completion is before you. He says fools cannot understand and only those with eyes of knowledge, jñāna-cakṣu is left to us. The choice is completely ours.
Helping students practice the science of completion daily to get out of all your sufferings of the past. If we do completion with all our negativity, sufferings of the past and do the creation of a space of positive emotions and positive perceptions, we attract like-minded, positive people and situations.
- 1. What are dreams?
- 2. What are thoughts?
- 3. Why are the few moments immediately after we wake up crucial?
- 4. What does the feeling of heaviness around our navel area indicate?
- 5. Do meditators radiate grace?
- What are the characteristics of a graceful person? How
can we have a fresh and new inner space?