by Sri Bmal Mohanty
VOL No.9
 March 2001

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The roles of ego-self and the superior self are explained further in a subsequent chapter.) Once the mistakes have been committed by our ego-self, the Paramatma ‘s job is then to work upon the beings to help rectify and atone for such mistakes. That is how it works.

So what deductions we draw from here? We must let the supreme Self dictate our actions and not the ego-self. The Supreme self is constantly giving us good advice. But the ego-self is not listening. We have to give the charge of our actions to the Supreme –self and not to the ego-self.

Is this possible? The Shastras say yes it is.

We have to –in the first place - let the Supreme –Self, The Bramhan, the Lord to preside over our actions.

Our scriptures , as well as countless of our votaries of Sanatana Dharma, have referred to a certain poetic description, in their writings, bhajans, poems and what not. They talk of inviting the Supreme Self to come and sit on the throne of their inner consciousness, their chitta. Even Sri Aurobindo as we know has written about this in one of his famous sonnets. And who has not written about the same thing? Whether Mirabai, or Tyagaraj or even the modern poet Rabindranath Tagore.- all have felt the need to cry out – come and sit on the throne of my inner consciousness and rule me as your subject.

Do not rule this out as mere poetry. The psychological impact of this on the mind is tremendous.

How does it work?

As we have understood by now, if we could receive right instructions all the time, we shall avoid making mistakes. Who could be in a better position to give always right instructions than The Supreme Soul, –who by virtue is omniscient i.e. sarvajnata,? Therefore if we could establish a constant communication with the supreme self, installing Him in the throne of our chiita , our walking on the path of Dharma shall be that much easier.

This perhaps sounds like a nice bit of imagination. -making The Paramatma sit on your heart’s throne and receiving instructions from him. There is some thing more to it than imagination. If acceptance of this position is done with sincerity – shraddha- then the psychological change of our thought process undergoes a metamorphosis.. It does not happen instantly. Nothing in Yoga sadhana happens instantly. But slowly and steadily the mind starts accepting that someone – you call him The Lord, The Bramhan , The Paramatma or whatever – who is omnipotent, omniscient and totally benevolent towards you is watching all our actions as a parent would watch a child. The positive impact of this is development of a voluntary resistance towards evil doing.

            


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