VASANA, SAMSKARAS AND KARMA🔗

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Vasana is the hangover of desires; desires not fully lived. Samskaras are desires that are lived, but those which leave a thread for continued enjoyment of those desires. Karma is fulfillment. Vasana is the seed, samskara is the nourishment and karma is the tree. Nirvana also means moksha, liberation. When all vasanas, samskaras and karmas are finished, you reach liberation through their extinction. You see a new kind of space in you, a new kind of understanding in you, a new kind of living in you.

Let us say, you are in a mall and you see a shoe. The thought, the vasana, takes hold of you to acquire it. You move on. After a week or so later, you see the shoe again. This time the feeling is stronger. Samskara has logic. It tells you that if you get the shoe you can jog, you will be healthy and so on. Vasana is any seed that falls on the ground. Samskara connects the vasana to you with logic. If you are spiritually inclined, the samskara will tell you that with healthy jogging you can meditate better. Vasana is blown through samskara into an imprint, deep desire. Then you buy the shoe. This is karma.

For a week you will wear the shoe all the time, perhaps even to bed! After a week, perhaps once in a while, you will wear it; after a month, rarely. After a few months, it will be relegated to your unused cupboard.

Someone asked me: you are so young and you do not read. How do you get all this information and how do you remember? If you have the capacity to withdraw from your memory and mind, your memory works a thousand times more. Unconsciously you know that one day, you will disconnect from your mind. Yet you have the urge to connect with your mind all the time. As long as you play a middle game, half and half, you can never enjoy life. Once you realize you can withdraw and relax from you mind, it will become active.

Now your mind is locked into one space: as an engineer, as a doctor, whatever; you cannot touch any other part. All of you are endowed with memory from past life, yet you do not recollect, w h y ? B e c a u s e, you are so caught up in this life's memories. If you can come out and relax from your mind, you can enter all sections of your mind. You can log in and log out. As of now you can only log in partly, because you are afraid to log out.

To log out is Nirvana - to log out of vasanas, samskaras and karmas. When you can create them, is it not possible to log out, walk out?