How to get rid of the past baggage of samskars
and the same time how it is possible not to form samskars?
Namaste, everyone.
How to
remove complexities and impurities from our system?
Whether you are working or not working, when you are passing through, even while walking
through a market,
versus if you are passing through a temple
or passing through some garden
or you are walking around in a mall
or you happen to visit a funeral place or a hospital...
I mean, all these places where you may have nothing to do whatsoever
yet,
whether you like or not, your mind will be affected according to
the environment you have been exposed to.
Knowingly or unknowingly we go on, like a sponge,
absorbing the impacts of the environment.
Thought pollution, feelings of others, emotions of others -
all these things unknowingly we also capture. Imagine, many things happen because
of our direct involvement also. Suppose you had an argument with someone
and because of that ,how your heart and mind get impressed
day after day when similar things happens with similar people.
Then you say, “oh no! Something is wrong and I am being burdened with so much of so called garbage.”
Samskars, just as they can be bad, there are good samskars also.
According to yoga, all kinds of samsakars - be they good or be they bad, samskars, are the seed
for our future.
When we have good samskars we enjoy a better future.
When we have bad samskars we have a bad future.
When have a mixture of good and bad, accordingly our life evolves in the future,
Yoga has a different approach, though. Yoga says, “I would like to have
zero future life.
I don't want to be born again and again.”
It is the samskars that bring us back.
So, be they good or be they bad,
they don't serve the ultimate purpose. So how to get rid of the past bagage of
samskars and at the same time how it is possible not to form samskars?
When the samskars repeated again and again because of our actions or inactions,
they form what we called vrittis. ritti is a key factor in yoga.
When we understand yoga, according to Patanjali, he says yoga means chitta vritti nirodha.
Meaning, reeing your chitt, your consciousness, from all this vrittis, from all these tendencies,
is the purpose and means called yoga.
Now in meditation, and especially through this Heartfulness way of Cleaning,
we are slowly and slowly, to the extent we are able to tolerate the absence of samskaras,
we go on undergoing this process till our heart is satisfied.
Every evening, we sit peacefully having returned back from our work, sit for 20 minutes
with an idea, with a sankalpa that “all these complexities and impurities
are going away from my system” and once we see the unloading of
these samskaras we will be feeling so pure, we will be feeling so simple inside.
You will enjoy this lightness at the end of such cleaning process.
You can also request a Preceptor, a trainer of Heartfulness way, so that they can also give you
individual attention, individual training on how to get out of these samskaras.
Tendencies, or what we call vrittis,
they are the cause of our pravrittis. All our activities are based on our tendencies.
And based on our pravrittis, a certain level of prakriti or nature is created within us. And it is
because of this continuity of who I am, with thoughts and actions and attitudes that
defines my prakritti, who I am, based on that I am able to weave my destiny, my prarabdh.
So vritti, pravritti, prakriti, and prarabdh - they are all interconnected.
So if we remove these vrittis masterfully, then what happens? Then your prakriti will change.
And based on the change of your prakriti you will also further weave a proper prarabdh in life.
Another way of understanding the samskara business is
conditioning. How we condition ourselves right from our conception, then growing up as a toddler,
teenager, and then an adult, we are influenced by grandparents’ conditioning, parents’ conditioning,
teachers’ conditioning, societal conditioning - everything affects us.
Then one wonders, “who I really am - if my belief system, my dogmas,
my faith is conditioned then who really I am in this whole process?”
I have to get rid of this conditioning and come to my true self and this can happen through daily
cleaning. And one day, we realise that, “yes, this is making sense.” Day by day, I got to uncondition
myself and remain absolutely neutral. It is in this neutrality, it is in the state of moderation, that
we attain peace and peace has its own consequences which I would like you all to experience.