Stormy effect of lightning at Lofoten, Norway 🇳🇴.
Life is a great collective force, very divine by itself, who's Sum-total-action also referred as Samskaras are guiding principles of overall resultant of virtues and skills, and also resultant of sins if performed. Even this is an automatic sstem where the totality of the committed actions are, as if, recorded and observed for the fullest reactive resultant to be delivered. As if God is watching, for the deliverance as per our commitment, thus is the nature of self- Samskaras.
I will describe an incident of learning to drive a car and the subsequent outcome of one's skill and perfection and the resultant gain in the character. Now, efficiently driving a car is a very complex and difficult task. Say one once starts learning the skill. He develops the function of gears ⚙️ and clutches and brakes, with certain amount of time and learns the basics of driving. He can well keep the car 🚖 on road, but while paying attention to the rear sight mirror 🪞 and the overtaking traffic, he puts his car right at the extreme end where he can dash the footpath or any pedestrian. This is a lack of coordination, where he learnt some skills but fails in other functions. But then again with time and patience he adopts all dexterity and acquires most skills keeping vision, attention, and hand and feet movement of synchronization within to gear, clutch, and brake functions and masters driving. When days passed, now we see that he hardly pays attention to where the steering is, how to change the gears, synchronizing with acceleration, and clutch, how to get the rear sight view, or pay attention to overtaking, he is absolutely superb and effortless. The skill he mastered has gone to his subconscious mind and gave a miraculous automatic dexterity with which he drives, now-a-days. Today he is an affluent driver. The pattern of skill I show today is the reap of the sow of my learning methods I established yesterday. When I was lacking the skill I did not leave the practice being impatiently disturbed, instead kept on the same track of learning. Today I benefit the procedure for driving and am an affluent driver. Had I left driving when disturbed by the points of failures, I could not have learned such affluent skills, and never enjoyed it so much as today. So Samskaras or sum-total-actions are responsible for the navigation of our future lives and depend on what we sow, so we reap.
Countryside view of Tuscany, Italy.
When past internal conditioning unconsciously keep us moving in a deep karmic groove which restrict us from moving forward, loosening from the path engraved, to a free flexible plane for all directional movement. For this loosening effort, we need to reprogram ourselves through meditation. Where we, again and again, go to the blank page, the transcendental part, like our Lord Shiva bhole Nath, everything is equal in his eyes, He gives boons to all beings, whoever came to his feet and asked for the same staying his subdued. Men are also required to go to the same innocent state by meditation to overcome the past improper conditioning and loosen to an innocent state, where they can move on forward again.
Imagine I failed an examination once, and fear that I will never crack such tests. But meditation, say simple sleep, allows us to break the memory, there are some helpful tips, and made easy answers, which can again help me attack the test allover in a new way and come in flying colours. Here transcendental meditation acts as a reprogramming catalyst to energize our brains 🧠 to obtain the best possible answer.
Please pay heed to what I discussed, Subir Kumar Ghosh.
