VASANAS - UNRESOLVED ISSUES

Vasanas are the impressions of the unfulfilled desires of the past.

You may call it unresolved issues of the past.

Each one of us takes the body to resolve these issues or clear the Vasanas.

Vasanas produce thoughts. Thoughts crate the desire in us to act.

Thus when we act, we clear out the old Vasanas. As soon as we clear one vasana, another thought comes and we act again.

Thus we keep getting the thoughts, and keep doing the things and thus we clear out the Vasanas.

When all our Vasanas are cleared there would be no need to take another body.

To clear all the Vasanas , which are accumulated over the many births, which we have taken we will have to come into many more bodies depending upon the number of Vasanas we have in us.

All above is true only if we do not add more Vasanas.

Hence the need to live in such a way that 1. We clear old Vasanas and 2. We do not add more Vasanas.

Vasanas are created when we have desires which are not fulfilled.

Vasanas are also created when we live in a dualistic world. When the factor I and you come into picture.

When we live and work with the notion I,me and myself ,we have to take the fruits of actions done by us.

The fruit may be good because of a good deed or bad one because of a bad deed.

Since we work with the notion I, me and myself ,the fruit of action will also be mine.

So when we live in the world and act in the world, with adwaita ( not two ) state of mind, the fruit of actions will not be ours. There will be no Vasanas created, at the same time old Vasanas will be exhausted.

Vasanas can also be cleared by looking at the thoughts.

Vasanas are stored in seven chakras in the body.

Kundalini energy ( Maa Shakti) which is stored at the base of spinal cord gives energy to these Vasanas and they rise as thoughts.

When we look at the thoughts, they get exhausted there and then. We need not get them converted into desires and actions and subsequently fruits of action.

Mere looking at the thoughts is enough to get them exhausted.

Due to the Vasanas we have taken a body. These Vasanas and thoughts give us an identity.

Throughout our life we live with this identity. And consider our body as myself.

Body is because of Vasanas to be cleared in this birth. Vasanas are impressions of the previous births.

Both the Vasanas and body are additions to me. They keep on accumulating and adding.

Therefore I am and I was much before these Vasanas were added and this body got form due these Vasanas.

I was there when Vasanas were added am here now when Vasanas are being exhausted and new ones are being added. Will be there when either there will be no more Vasanas to cleared or some are left to be cleared.

We suffer pain because some fruits are not in good taste, or we are happy because the fruits are tasty.

But basically these fruits are due to actions-desires-thoughts-Vasanas.

Hence the whole game is to have no Vasanas.

Vasanas act like a wall between us and permanent happiness.

We have to remove this wall brick by brick, so that we attain the state of permanent happiness.

Vasanas are within our bodies in the chakras. We have taken this body depending upon these Vasanas. Our thoughts and desires are due to these Vasanas. The fruits which we get are due to our actions. Hence our happiness and unhappiness ultimately depends on our own Vasanas.

There is no external factor which is responsible for our state of affairs.

We get external environment which is suitable to clear our Vasanas.

So if we are caught up in traffic jam, understand that it is our own Vasanas which has created it. Accept it to exhaust it.

Looking at the thoughts gives us the ability to create a distance between me and the thoughts.

This distance breaks the identity which till now we have with our thoughts.

Upon breaking of this identity with the body the I vanishes. And as soon as I vanish, you automatically vanishes.

Because the basis of you is me.

Thus duality ends.

What remains is I I I everywhere.