Inner Tendencies

Inner Tendencies

What are inner tendencies?

The inner tendencies are Mind (मनस्), Intellect (बुद्धि), Ahaṅkāra (अहङ्कार) and Chitta (चित्त).

What is Mind (मनस्)?

Mind (मनस्)  is a part of consciousness that is used to process the information gathered, acquired and archived by the senses and each cell of the body with the help of the intellect. 

What is Intellect (बुद्धि)?

Intellect (बुद्धि) is a tool which is also a part of the consciousness and is used to arrive at a decision based upon the processed information of the mind. 

Intellect can work at different levels of consciousness. In the conscious realm it works based upon the sensory perceptions and helps in cognizance of the those sensory perceptions.

In the subconscious realm it works based upon the strong impressions that are created by the sensory perceptions and the impact that they have created.

In the unconscious realm it lets the individual to know that there was a period of time or space where no sensory perception could be processed.

In the superconscious realm it makes the mind to recollect its Divine memory that it is a soul and the soul exists as a part of the consciousness, and there is an awareness which is aware of everything and the eternal Nothingness; and that awareness and the consciousness are all a part of the eternal Nothingness. 

What is Ahaṅkāra (अहङ्कार)?

Ahaṅkāra (अहङ्कार) is that portion of the consciousness which self identifies with the various processes of mind and creates an affiliation towards the phenomena of processing and the intellect.

What is Chitta (चित्त)?

Chitta (चित्त) is a part of the consciousness that is conscious of the impressions, that the mind creates and has created over a period of time, based upon the affiliation that the individual has created or developed, through that portion of the consciousness called as Ahaṅkāra (अहङ्कार). 

Why to understand the inner tendencies?

The "tendencies - karaṇa करण" lead to "cause - kāraṇa कारण", which in turn lead to consequences in the form of "actions - karma कर्म" and the "fruits of actions - karma phala कर्म फल" or the effect, which further leads to the "karmic cycle - karma chakra कर्म चक्र" as the affiliation towards "fruits of actions - karma phala कर्म फल" increases. And, as more and more we get entangled with the affiliation of our "fruits of actions", more and more we get entangled into the karmic cycle. Hence, the best thing to do is, to let go all the affiliations/attachments and go beyond the 4 inner tendencies to enter into the starting point of the realm of Trigunas and travel beyond them and step into the unmanifest or the avyakta by surrendering to the Maha Prakruti or Mahat Tattwa.

Spiritual Questions - Part 11 (What is Love?)

Q. What is Love?
A. The free tendency to expand and become One with everything.

Q. This definition is strange! Why do you say "free tendency to expand"?
A. When you have a tendency to expand with your will, there is ego in it; then it does not expand freely to everything around the whole cosmos. May be it expands to your nearest family members, may be pets, may be to some extent to friends - but not beyond that. Where as when it happens freely without any will, then it expands to the whole cosmos. Then, that is called as Love.

Q. When you mean to the whole cosmos, what do your really mean in that?
A. It means everything. It includes trees, shrubs, all types of animals, flowers, mountains, rocks, planets, galaxies, everything animate and inanimate; seen and unseen; perceived and unperceived, felt and unfelt.

Q. How to sense and experience such kind of love?
A. It is very simple. Just let go everything, even the I also. Just go beyond the mind also. Then it just flows. Flows like a perennial river, expands and engulfs like an ocean.

Q. What happens when such a thing happens, I mean when that Love is experienced?
A. May be in slang, I would call it as you are on the 9th Cloud always (not the general excited state) where others does not even know and they sense only a smile on your face or may be not that also. It is soft like a cotton cushion and as hard as a coir mattress. It is very peaceful, calm, serene, still and silent.

Q. I heard that sometimes it is very difficult to stay with an awakened person. Why is it so?
A. Actually it is not difficult. If there is no ego, then it is the most easiest way to stay with such a person. If ego enters, then there will not be any recognition or entertainment for that ego, that is when it becomes difficult to stay. It is as simple as that. With an awakened person you will be able to see your true nature very clearly. And, there will be no ego boosters from that person. So, either you (actually your ego) are crushed literally (because it is completely ignored without the knowledge of that awakened person) or you are loved (your True nature as Spirit) infinitely. For any normal person these ups and downs are too traumatic, that is when it becomes difficult to stay with an awakened person.

Spiritual Questions - Part 9 (What is devotion?)

Q. What is devotion?

A. The non-emotional form of Emotion of True Love is Devotion.

Q. Can you cultivate devotion?

A. No

Q. Why?

A. Because, anything that you try to create or cultivate will be with the I and that will be ego driven. So, in reality it cannot happen. Because, anything that is created based on ego will be emotional in nature and it will bind you to that concept. Devotion is not like that. Devotion has to happen all by itself. Then, how can anything happens all by itself? It is not possible. That means it has to be present already. So, Devotion is the same-thing as Silence which is ever present. Only thing is we should make ourselves aware of that. That is why it is called as non-emotional Emotion of True Love. Because, in Devotion you will love everything unconditionally. Actually you will love your True Self in it. Since your True Self is the One which is present everywhere, you will love everything. Because everything is a projection of that True Self. Anything that is projected is projected as a thought only. That means in reality it does not exist. It is a dream only. When any-thing does not exist, what will exist? Only Nothing-ness exists. So Devotion is that kind of non-emotional Emotion of True Love that reveals that Nothingness. All this happens only in surrender. In fact, in   Devotion lies surrender. In Devotion there is a complete surrender in it. Surrender means nothing. There is no I in it. When there is no I, is there a You? No. Surrender is a state where there is neither I nor You. Just it is. Surrender is the state where everything is happening all by itself. There is not even a process of thinking that whatever is happening is done by Him. It is a state where you may want to say to explain someone "it is happening all by itself", but underneath at the substratum you know that even that is not happening; it is only a projection of mind and it is an illusion. In fact nothing is ever happening. You are in that Nothing-ness state.

So Devotion or surrender is a state of neither I nor You. It is a state of Emptiness. Just it is!

Spiritual Questions - Part 8 (What is ego, etc?)

Q) What is ego?
A) It is the identification with a self created identity.

Q) How is identity created?
A) Identity is created because of attachment towards a thought process.

Q) How to forego the identity?
A) By foregoing the attachment to thought process.

Q) How to forego the attachment to thought process.
A) By entering into Silence.

Q) How to enter into Silence?
A) By letting go the attachment towards all thoughts.

Q) How to let go the attachment towards all thoughts?
A) By becoming effortless and choiceless.

Q) How to become effortless and choiceless.
A) By surrendering.

Q) To whom we have to surrender?
A) We have to surrender to our own Self.

Q) What happens when we surrender to our Self?
A) We become choiceless and effortless.

Q) What happens when we become choiceless and effortless?
A) We will be always peaceful and be in the awareness of Self.

Actually the Awareness Itself will be aware of Awareness.