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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 3
We can reduce our Ahankar, we can change our Buddhi we can also transform our feelings but we can not change the consciousness which is behind. Consciousness per se doesn’t undergo any modulation, because we are confusing the issues we are granting permanency to everything that is attached to the consciousness including the body.
The first understanding is that we painfully understand that this body is not permanent. Regarding the other three factors we do not even at the time of death understand their temporary nature and that is the reason why we are reborn. It is the ‘Antahkarana’ that moves, it is the mind that moves, it is the Ahankar that moves, it is the feelings that moves from one life to another. If we cannot develop this particular detachment towards those three aspects of ours we really do not develop real Vairagya. This awareness of the transiency of these factors is the toughest lesson that we need to learn in developing Vairagya.
When we have a feeling of attachment to ‘so and so’ thing or person and when certain
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