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Our Inner Conflict
What we are going to "achieve"
through Sakthi Gita is inner peace. This inner peace is not some thing
which we have to gain. Inner peace is already there in us but
because of our inner conflicts we are not aware of it. Only in brief
moments of happiness we get a glimpse of the inner peace. We then
crave to maintain that blissful state and we think that "doing" something we
can maintain that peaceful state. It is due to ignorance we are not
aware of the fact that Peace is our real "Nature".
We are not
aware that our real nature is peace or silence because of the constant
rambling noises in our mind. The inner conflicts of our mind prevent
us from being peaceful. Gita helps us to over come
inner conflicts by reveling the agents in our mind that cause
the conflicts. Like a story it portrays who or what is involved
in this conflict.
We will understand that the
conflict is between the "Ego" which is an attitude that denies the reality.
The Ego wants every thing inside and outside of the way it want to be. It
dictates its own rules and wants everything to happens according to
its likes and dislikes. It webs its own "Matrix" world and want to
rule that fictional world. Any thing that threatens its powers , it
ruthlessly destroys.
The "I" World
Our predominant thought
is the "I" thought. "I" want this, "I" do not want this. "I" want this
way and not that way. "I" like and do not like that. "I" want her or
him to behave and talk in a manner that is pleasing to me. "I"
want things to unfold in the way "I" feel good about it. We will stop here
because we are experiencing this "I" thought every moment of life.
This "I thought is referred to the Ego in Gita and all Vedic texts.
Having known about the "I" and the problems it creates we will see its
connection to the mind and its affairs.
|The Mind and the Ego
As we understand
the Ego is an attitude born in the mind. To symbolically represent we can
say that the Ego is the son of the blind mind. If the blind mind can be
taken as a Blind king ruling over a kingdom called the body, then the Ego is
the Prince. What is mind?. Mind is just flow of thoughts. Why is the mind
blind? Like a blind man who has no eyes of his own but depends on
other's eyes, the Mind depends on senses to know what is happening
inside and outside of the body. Mind is just flow of thoughts and
knows no direction.
This Mind has hundreds of thoughts, but the predominant or the eldest
thought is the "I" thought , the Ego thought. The Mind cannot think without
the feeling of "I" thought. So the Mind has a blind attachment or
affection to its son Ego. Knowing this weakness of the father, the son
Mr. Ego, grabs POWER and makes the mind its own puppet. Look at
the irony, instead of the prince (Ego) obeying the King (mind) , the
mind dance to the tune of the Ego. You can imagine though history,
the condition of a kingdom, which has a blind king serving his Ego prince.
This is exactly
the condition of our own mind and body. How can the body (kingdom) be
free of diseases and sufferings when our Ego is concerned only in executing
its own likes and dislikes and not bothered about the welfare of its
citizens. We eat unhealthy foods or use alcohol and drugs just for the Ego
ignoring the damages it cause to the body. Isn't this hypocritical?
The Ego decides to
experience a feeling which it considers great. The mind caters to its need.
When the Ego demands this more often then it is called addiction. We have
different types of addiction some in the form of habits like coffee, tea,
alcohol, smoking, munching potato chips, eating highly spicy foods, eating
too much sweets, craving for sex and the list continues. Have you ever
analyzed about your addiction or habits and who demands this addiction?
The body does not crave for any of these "things". Then
where is the craving or addiction coming from?
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