Page 293 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
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Demolition of the past is a chapter in the Natural Path
alludes to the way in which man has himself created the present environment enslaving him totally.
‘We find that we have set up in us a community of thoughts feeding it with impulses nurtured in the nursery of the brain views from all corners resound the same note in their ears giving additional strength and intensifying the effect of the environment further’.(SDG-160)
The ‘past’ being referred to and which is to be demolished is this network, of impressions, complexities and biases, which have rendered the inner being wholly opaque and its reality totally obscured so that we feel totally foreign to our own ‘Selves’.
Now let us come to the anchor, the key pin to which the network is firmly attached and when that key pin is pulled out and thrown by the side, the whole network falls off along with it. We can think of as a near analogy, a framed picture hanging from the nail fixed to the wall. When the nail is pulled out, the picture frame comes loose in the hand along with the nail. That nail, key pin, according to my thinking, is the ‘I’ consciousness and the ‘wall’ being the Ultimate Ground and the ‘picture with all its complex and colourful sceneries with persons thereon considered variously related to the subject’ is the individual network interwoven through the feeling of ‘I’ and the attachments with things and persons constituting the different links and inter connections of varying strengths, ‘the juice or cementing factor of ‘mine’’ constituting the strength.
Hence, if one wants to peep into the ‘Reality’ hidden in his own bosom and which has been obscured by the aforesaid network created by the mechanisms already described in some detail, one has to deal with the ‘I’ in a very realistic, cool and clinical manner as if we are doing
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