Completion with Rajas Pattern
In the satva space, when we create self-conflicting patterns, we are automatically thrown into rajas. Let me describe what Kṛṣṇa says about rajas. The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings. Kṛṣṇa says, because of this rajas, mode of passion, born of unlimited desires and longings, the embodied living entity is bound to doing result-oriented actions.
Rāga means desire; tṛṣṇā means craving, longing. Desires, rāga are ours and longings, tṛṣṇā have been given to us by society. Desires are inborn. If we fulfill desires, we feel relaxed and complete. With longings, the moment we fulfill them, we feel empty, incomplete.
Kṛṣṇa shows us how self-conflicting desires lead us to rajas. When desires contradict each other, we get confused. We fall into rajas, dilemma. Man is a dilemma. Dilemma is what Kṛṣṇa calls rajas, restlessness. All restlessness is powerlessness. In rajas, we have tremendous anger, agitation, violence. How to complete with the rajas patterns?
See, there are only three ways to handle your incompletions.
One, by pushing them under the carpet. Second, by trying to forget them either by alcohol or by other entertainments. Third, by completing them and liberating yourself.
Listen! 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 even a small incompletion that happened when you were young, explodes as a dangerous imbalance of your rājasic guṇa patterns.
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.
Consciousness can never be tired
Kṛṣṇa talks about tamas. He addresses Arjuna, 'Know that the mode of darkness, tamas, is born out of ignorance, tamas tv ajñānajaṁ viddhi (14.8). It is the delusion of all embodied living entities. The result of this mode is madness, indolence and sleep, which bind the conditioned soul.'
Listen. The level of an animal is the level of instinct; the level of man is the level of intellect; the level of God is the level of intuition. The level of instinct is the level of tamas; the level of intellect is the level of rajas; the level of intuition is the level of satva.
In satva, we work and make decisions, yet we do not become tired. We can be active for twenty-four hours and yet remain peaceful. This is what I call action in inaction and inaction in action. Kṛṣṇa says we will be centered when we are in satva. Though lots of activities go on around us, we will remain utterly relaxed in restful awareness.
The whole thing is dependent on o*ur root thought patterns or bio-memories. The number of root thought patterns determines whether we are caught in satva, rajas* or tamas. These three are not enlightened states. Enlightenment is beyond these three.
If we are caught in tamas, we need to move towards rajas. If we are caught in rajas, make the move towards satva. If we are caught in satva, it will automatically lead us to Enlightenment.
For example, we create a self-conflicting desire at the satva level. Because of that we create restlessness, powerless space in the rajas level. When we feel too restless, we drop everything. We fall into tamas. Tamas is not only tiredness, sleep or depression, not taking responsibility is also tamas. Whenever you don't want to take responsibility, you invoke boredom, tiredness, and fear.
Be integrated to your Soul. The Soul, Consciousness can never have tiredness. That is the Truth. Whether you realize or not, you are Soul, Consciousness.