Sanskaras (einnig nefnt samskaras)

 

No one can escape karma. Even unconscious activities like breathing involve karma. After karma gives its results, it leaves a residual effect called Sanskaras. Sanskaras are the deep-rooted impressions in the subconscious mind which regulate our drives and activities. Sanskaras survive after death and determind our next incarnation, our inner aptitudes and tendencies.

Spiritual evolution means to eradicate old sanskaras and to stop producing new sanskaras. Sanskaras are produced by ego and attachment. One an reduce sanskaras by acting as an instrument, without likes and dislikes. One can produce sanskaras by mental attachments, without doing any physical activities.

 

Deep sanskaras are like carvings in a stone. They are hard to remove. Sanskaras are deepened by repetition. If one smokes, in the beginning he does not like it. As one repeats it, he begins to like it. Then he craves it. One is addicted. Addiction is nothing but accumulated sanskaras. Some sanskaras are negligible, like drawing a line on water. They do not register in the mind. Other sanskaras are shallow, like drawing  a line in the sand. They can be removed easily. Sanskaras build our character. Sanskaras survive death and are continued in the next life.

 The best method of avoiding sanskaras is to keep away from associations which produce desires. Enjoy being in the present, be an instrument, renounce the desires and mental attachments. Give up strong likes and dislikes. If one remains a passive witness or works with awareness as being an instrument, one will escape sanskaras. Sanskaras are responsible foe bondage and transmigration (rebirth).      

 

Yogi Shanti Desai – I, Me, Mine, Ours, Illusions

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