I was writing for my book ' The Learning Minds - know the self within' . At the same time I was reading a book 'History of Knowledge’. This book deals with development of human civilization and thoughts - including contributions by various known and unknown people. By that time I had covered this particular topic emphasizing the need for adopting subtle approach in knowing the totality and letting go the irrelevant and superfluous subjects wandering and confusing the mind for thoughts and action. The ideas of French thinker Rene Descartes felt very much relevant to the topic I had in mind. This added emphasis to my thoughts in mentally splitting and dealing with each moment for the treatment as discussed by me in this section. I think eventually all will agree that the subjects in the mind, treatment by the human mind is somewhat similar to that of neutrons of an atom - totally unpredictable and properly narrated by the laws of uncertaintity - a quatum theory.
This is the portion of the book – yet it has to undergo through editing, but all the same this is meaningful for those who saw the show, downloaded it, commented on it and voted for it. I owe it to you. You are always welcome to express your views on the same.
Create moments to live a dream
Moments - neither hours,days nor years make the life.
Moments, like drops of water, come together to form one's life stream. Moments can not be selected or rejected by one's likes or dislikes. They can not be filtered for Satva, Raja and Tama. ( These three are the Universal attributes, qualities and ways of thought and life. ) They are given to us by the life force and circumstances, that is why such moments are called a 'Present'. Like a raindrop up from the sky the moments are generated by a complex natural phenomenon.Let us think in terms of matrix. The past moments ( say M0) contain seeds and direction of the future in which the life force was applied while living that moment. Unless the substance and the direction the present moment ( say M1 ) carries, is in agreement with moment of its past, we end up with cross currents – created by admixture of the past and the present. The confusion, if it is not neutralized through proper interaction while living (M1) , gets transferred to the following moment (M2 ) having its own circumstantial constitution and demands.
The only difference is the rain outside and the drops we get is that the moments we receive is that the moments are seamlessly connected to our life and meant alone for us.
Part of preceding moment (M0) carries forward to M1 the obligations (sanchit karma – accumulated obligation for actions), our unfulfilled wishes, desires and dreams – both short and long term. M1 will have its own agenda of performance obligation and preparatory obligation for M2.
Balance oh M1 will be occupied by consequences, both desired or undesired, of the karma performed in M0 and M1 – this is how life substance is impregnated into moments we live and consume.
The moments thus contain nano particles of numerous different substances, different directions, force and a lengthy agenda representing many unfilled or half filled desires and needs. Like a water stream is made up of numerous drops of water coming from various directions, with different purity, impurity, colors and shades, minerals, sediments, taste, smells and temperature – then what will the life stream be with each joining moment has dissimilar, useful, useless, harmful, harmless, forces moving in from different direction, plus some crystal clear and beautiful substance from destiny? Such stream needs purification if one wants life to be better composed. How this life stream can be purified?
A constant function in this purification process is that we must know thoroughly well our substances, their probable impact and agendas – both short term and long term. Ignorance, even a slightest one, about the substances that get into our life, is a reflection about our indifferent approach towards the life.
Then , first thing one has to do is to apply the mental filters to isolate what is superfluous and irrelevant, marginalize them with more of purity and more of senseful substance out of the original substance for the meaningful interaction in M1. It is important here to understand that, by isolation it is not meant that we just destroy those elements, but we are simply trying to marginalize them, we just borrow the time to deal with all those substances in better fashion. Life never gives us liberty to wish something away from our life.
Next thing is, we must be able to organize the life flow through an appropriate functionality of mind whereby the constitution of the moment in the pipeline is also known and marginalized to the extent possible applying a relevance to our life parameter. If we do not like to get shocks and surprises from the past which get transformed in to the present and also in to the, we have to take initiatives about knowing the self. Knowing the subtle self and will to do it together can help practice of discrimination, selection and exclusion like this.We cannot change our past, we cannot change the way people live and interact, we cannot change the circumstances which emerge around us,the only thing we can do is to change our ways. Like the old wisdom says, 'we cannot change the direction of the wind, we cannot change its force, only thing we can do is to adjust our Sails focused on direction and destination'.Instead of remaining a passive onlookers we need to learn art of selecting moments to give them the quality, contents and force that our life desires, much ahead of time before we get the 'Present'. The present is a consequence of past thoughts, acts and deeds. We know well what we intensely desire in life in the long run, so we are close to know what connected present is desirable. The only way we can do it is by choosing direction of our thought process (who else knows it better than our higher self?), diluting our past negativities ( who knows more about them?), and to the extent possible pursuing a choice of desirable circumstances ( who else can do it).
Swami Vivekananda said it long ago – 'We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act…' Now we know little of what Swamiji said.
How it can happen?
Seventeenth century French thinker Rene Descartes gave the world something very simple, which Issac Newton also used with some modification, which is a good indicator how one can simplify this process. The substance of what he said ..
First get rid your mind of all preconceptions – whatever you have been holding in mind for long.
Then, translate the problem ( situation) to a mathematical form and use minimum number of self evident propositions to shape the equation.
If you are averse to mathematics do as best as you can, but some how split and rearrange it all.
Then, reduce descriptions to a set of numbers.
Solve the equation that will give certain knowledge which is sought.
Forget the mathematics and remember the steps, what you will do will not be something objective like mathematical problem solving, ( life is never so objective ) but at least it will highlight the sense of proportion and the ways and forces one needs while looking at the life's problems. Such exercise will take one nearer to the situation in fastest fashion which is otherwise not so easy.While it all looks very simple, how, then, one can open, take out something, isolate some thing, put in something, marginalize the negatives and create a desired moment?
Just draw a circle and put contents with your own labels as you see them all, do not forget anything. Then draw another circle and put whatever you like to have from the first drawing and think only about them. Whatever can not be left back, take it up for correction in the new circle and think best what you can do about it. It can be done by being selective about past substances and then performing present obligations wholesomely. At the same time shape the future moments again wholesomely in un compromised manner. Remember you cannot wish away anything – just rearrange, borrow time, give more of your mind to best out of seemingly worst substances. This is not a golden rule but it can help you finding ways to think and deal with the realities and future.
When you split the subjects, actions, intensity like this, one thing is certain that you will never rush the things, You will slow down your mindful process, which has a connectivity potential of millions of connections per second, and dwell comfortably on each part of the process, you get into meaningful doubts and you will ask right questions and surprisingly you will find that your memory bank has right answers for many of them.
With all that we know, we do not have independent time slots for such action diversity. Still you can do it. No, this is not ridiculous – in fact, we have never realized fully the way our mind works. Remember sometimes when you are driving a car – you are driving it effortlessly and also arguing with your wife or boss or a friend on the mobile phone. You are exploiting best out of our biological assets - and their vast and different capabilities skillfully. What is happening is that your conscious mind is doing one thing and subconscious mind is another thing. In case of driving and talking over phone mostly subconscious gets in to be an autopilot and driving a car and the conscious mind is talking over the mobile. You are using your conscious and subconscious parts of mind in tandem. Let us see what the science says about it.
"Our memory of millions of experiences is a well organized database that enables brain to create complex behavioral ways to respond any given situation. Subconscious mind enables the individual to comprehend the consequences of their actions in regard to not only how they impact the present moment but also as to how they will influence the individual’s future. This quality of subconscious mind enables it to be an observer rather than the player. This role provides the individual with the option for self-reflection, reviewing and editing their performance, for this it can draw from vast knowledge resources any time processing with a speed of 40 million nerve impulses per second. "
"Conscious mind enables a person to assess and respond to the immediate conditions within the circumstances that are relevant at that moment. By freewill the conscious mind expresses prerecorded stimulus-response –habits at about 40 nerve impulses per second.
When the conscious mind is directed to some other urgencies, it is not so surprising to note that the responses are automatically controlled by subconscious mind’s auto run programs. In such cases individual’s response time gets faster and cause effect relationship is invisible. If, in such conditions, things go as desired or they go haywire, we feel the luck is in operation. "
(the paragraphs in italics draw inspiration from Dr. Lipton's studies )
If we can acquire a discipline of involving our subconscious and higher self to work in tandem with our conscious mind, we can live our present wholesomely and truly think of future and create a scenario, simulate it within the subconscious, modify scenario and do all that is necessary to have a desired consistency to shape the future moments to be what we desire. It is being clever than the dreams, to bring dreams come true; which are composed by the subconscious itself.
Thinking in tandem is a most subtle and delicate ability which calls for use of finer mental and spiritual abilities in best possible manner. The is our own Universe, that conspires to see our dreams materialized.
Timeless values named this way as 'mindfulness', to be in the present skillfully and adequately relating the self to past and future. Mindfulness ropes in our intelligence centers and emotions to make the exercise wholesome.
Ripples are a momentary phenomenon on stagnated water, good to look at and philosophize and take small time pleasure, but they never create a lasting imprint anywhere. It requires a strong flow, made up of host of small streams coming together and which dances down from the hills pushing boulders, carrying stones and sand to scratch the depth and carve the width.
The strong flow spreads across the river banks cakes of rich soil to rejuvenate the life, quenches the thirst of millions, and cleanses their souls and minds. Such flow is always full of life – in fact the life, beautiful, deemed sacred, – it helps in making others' lives beautiful. This flow eventually merges with a ocean – with the good that is in it and unwanted that's in it, to come back again from the sky with the purest of spirit.
So, keep on looking, keep on understanding, keep on dealing with each moment to shape and deliver your desires and realize your dreams and destiny.
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