The moment you become aware, darkness, samskaras (impressions) disappears.
With the right understanding, the burden of guilt also dissolves.
Either you develop so much of sensitivity, and that is possible through right understanding
Classic example is, you know, I often quote Ram and Sita, Mother Sita.
Their astrological predictions were so good … when Vishwamitra and Sage Vashishta …
when they were consulted by Raja Dasharath, the future of Lord Rama and Mother Sita,
they said, “They are the best couple. Nothing can go wrong in their life.”
Moreover, they being Avataras, they did not have any previous impressions, or previous samskaras, or baggage
Yet anything or everything that can go wrong in their life went wrong, right? They had to go to the forest.
Rama had to abandon his wife, make her go through various tests
That was quite frustrating actually. And all these, because of whom?
Their destiny was influenced not by anybody else, but by their mother Kaikeyi, step-mother.
She decided that her own son should become the king and for fourteen years Ram should go to the forest.
It is all right that your son Bharat should become the king,
but why send that poor fellow to the forest?
That is not understandable
But she took advantage of the promise that was given by King Dasharath and their tradition was,
“Prana jaye par vachan na jaye (Even if I lose my live a promise must be kept)” – all nonsense.
Ramayana suffered because of this “Prana jaye par vachan na jaye.” Similar thing with Mahabharat.
Bheeshma, so proud of keeping up his promise of protecting Hastinapur …
He could have protected it with the Pandavas, associating with Pandavas. He could have better protected it
But no. He was loyal to a throne, not to an individual. So when you do realise that,
”The promise that I made is not in the right interest of everyone”, then it is okay to break the promise.
I have to make my heart so generous, I have to make my mind so full of understanding that I do not form the impressions.
Most of the time I form the impression because of misunderstanding.
Someone says, someone jokes, I have to understand that it is just a joke. Do not take it to your heart.
But some people say, “Oh no, tum mazaak hi karthe rahthe hai, mere maskari karthe hai – making fun of me.”
So this creates impressions about persons. We misjudge a person afterward
And if you have this forgiving attitude, you will not accumulate anything at all.
Bad things may form impressions, but even good things form impressions.
It is easy to break away from the bad things.
How are you going to break away from the good things because it is so enchanting? Again,
one by one, if you try to remove samskaras, it is going to be very difficult
But as Babuji says, ‘You turn your head from here to here, or just with a snap of your fingers,
or as Lalaji says, ‘With a blink of an eye you can move from here to there.‘
During that moment, that very special moment, when you are making a quantum leap in your consciousness,
what becomes of those samskaras, whether you have earned it or somebody else forced it on to you?
It is like this
The only example that comes to my mind is, how do you remove darkness from your room?
Do you remove little by little, one litre of darkness now, two litres later, ten litres? No.
You turn the switch on, or take a mombatti or a candle and that is it.
All our practices are meant to bring about such ‘light’ in our life.
And this equivalent of light comparable in our life is awareness
The moment you become aware, darkness, samskaras (impressions) disappears.
With the right understanding, the burden of guilt also dissolves.
That is why we often make this sankalpa,“May all sisters and brothers throughout the world develop three things
correct thinking, right understanding and honest approach to life.”
If I have correct thinking and right understanding, most of my problems will go away, existing problems
And having an honest approach to life, it is like vaccination
You will not form any bad tendencies because you are so honest in your approach to life
So these three sankalpas take care of past and present and future.
So answering it briefly, increase the awareness through meditation, through cleaning,
surrendering yourself, little by little, or in one quantum jump.