Page 262 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
There is a boundary or limitation to an extent which mind has made by choice, as a result it has become incapable of perceiving anything subtle and natural. An activity may cease but its traces of memory remains which is painful most of the time and imbalance is experienced resulting in loosing our Viveka. Mind has its own limitations but once it becomes aware that it is capable and has unlimited capacities, it ends up in stagnation and ceases to loose the capacity to learn. When the mother is intellectually aware of its feeding the child, the purity in love which is a natural aspect is lost when she associates the act of feeding with certain amount of expectancy. To restore back to the state of purity or to strike a balance in our existence, we need to get back the naturalness and this is possible when the Divinity which is deep rooted in the core of our hearts gets awakened. This is the need of the hour. In this process knowledge imparted by our scriptures, good words of many great saints can only be a matter of intellectual input but cannot grant us the imperience within oneself as Divinity is something internal and beyond rationality.
Mind is not all that which leads us to unhappiness. It is like a knife which a surgeon uses to operate on the sick and gives them back the health while the same can be used by the imbalanced to wound others. Rationality is a very important developmental stage of mental evolution from where one becomes eligible to aspire for Reality which is beyond rational or supra rational. It is for sure impossible for the common man in the present circumstances to even think in terms of Divinity, leave alone Reality or liberation etc due to the enormous pollution both internal and external. Therefore there is a dire need for purification, regulation and moulding of the mind where thoughts are stored or originate from. For this the coordination or harmony of manas and buddhi is essential. It is during such situation of impossibility that
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