00:00The moment you become aware, darkness, sanskar, disappears.
00:14With right understanding, the burden of guilt also dissolves.
00:20Either you develop so much of sensitivity, and that is possible through right understanding.
00:39A classical example is, I often quote Rama and Sita, Mother Sita.
00:52Their astrological predictions were so good when Vishwamitra and sage Vasistha,
01:00when they were consulted by Raja Dasarat, the future of Lord Rama and Mother Sita.
01:13They said they are the best couple. Nothing can go wrong in their life.
01:20Moreover, they being avataras, they didn't have any previous impressions or previous sanskaras or baggage.
01:27Yet anything or everything that can go wrong in their life went wrong.
01:34Right?
01:35They had to go to forest.
01:38Rama had to abandon his wife, make her go through various tests.
01:45That was quite frustrating actually.
01:47And all this because of whom?
01:49Their destiny was influenced, but not by anybody else, but by their mother, Kai Kai, stepmother.
02:01She decided that her own son should become the king and for 14 years, Ram should go to forest.
02:10It's alright that your son Bharat can become the king, but why send that poor fellow to forest?
02:18That is not understandable.
02:21But Sita took the advantage of the promise that was given by the king Dasarat.
02:25And their tradition was prana jaya par vachanna jaya, all nonsense.
02:32Ramayana suffered because of this prana jaya par vachanna jaya, see.
02:38Similar thing, Mahabharata, Bhishma, so proud of keeping up his promise of protecting Hastinapur.
02:45He could have protected with Pandavas, associating with Pandavas, he could have better protected it.
02:58But no, he was loyal to a throne, not to an individual.
03:06So when you do realize that the promise that I made is not in the right interest of everyone, then it is okay to break the promise.
03:21I have to make my heart so generous.
03:26I have to make my mind so full of understanding that I don't form the impressions.
03:34Most of the time I form the impression because of misunderstanding.
03:43Someone says, someone jokes.
03:46I have to understand that it's just a joke.
03:49Don't take it to your heart.
03:50But some people say, oh no, oh toh maja ki karta rata hai, meri maskeri karta hai, making fun of me.
04:02So this creates impressions about person.
04:06We misjudge a person afterward.
04:08And if you have this forgiving attitude, you will not accumulate anything at all.
04:20Bad things may form impression, but even good things form the impressions.
04:25It is easy to break away from the bad things.
04:30How are you going to break away from the good things? Because it is so enchanting.
04:37Again, one by one if you try to remove sanskars, it's going to be very difficult.
04:46But as Babuji says, you turn your head from here to here, or just with a snap of your finger.
04:55Or as Lala Ji says, with a blink of an eye, you can move from here to there.
04:59During that moment, that very special moment when you are making a quantum leap in your consciousness,
05:13what becomes of those sanskars, whether you have earned it or somebody else forced onto you?
05:18It is like this, whether, the only example that comes to my mind, how do you remove the darkness from your room?
05:37Do you remove little by little one litre of darkness now, two litres later, ten litres?
05:44No.
05:47You turn the switch on, or take a Mombati or a candle.
05:53And that's it.
05:58All our practices are meant to bring about such light in our life.
06:05And this equivalent of light comparable in our life is awareness.
06:10The moment you become aware, darkness, sanskars, disappears.
06:27With right understanding, the burden of guilt also dissolves.
06:33That's why we often make this sankalpa, that may all sisters and brothers throughout the world develop three things.
06:46Correct thinking, right understanding, and honest approach to life.
06:52If I have correct thinking and right understanding, most of my problems will go away.
07:03Existing problem.
07:05And having honest approach to life, it is like vaccination.
07:09You will not form any bad tendencies because you are so honest in your approach to life.
07:20So these three sankalpas take care of past, then present, then future.
07:26So answering it briefly, increase the awareness through meditation, through cleaning, surrendering yourself, little by little, or in one quantum jump.
07:56Or at least one century mode.
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