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Life = a series of experiences. These
experiences determine the nature and quality of our lives.
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Instruments of experience: body (deha), mind
(manas), intellect (buddhi); impressions from past actions, innate tendencies
(vasanas) => these belong to the realm of matter (prakriti)
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Mind = thoughts in a state of flux; intellect =
thoughts in a state of decision; vasanas are also known as avidya or ignorance,
because they veil the divinity in us
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The self conditioned by BMI = jiva or the
individual ego
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The Divine Principle or Spirit (purusha) is beyond
these matter envelopments; it enlivens matter, which is inert and insentient; in
turn, the spirit expresses itself through matter; therefore all life is a marriage
of purusha and prakriti
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The individual ego has to go beyond the
conditioning of the BMI and destroy the veil of vasanas, in order to realize
the Truth or Supreme Reality, also known as Pure Existence-Consciousness-Bliss
(sat-chit-ananda)
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Vasanas are like tinted goggles through which
our view of the world is filtered. They are an unconscious mass of tendencies,
inclinations and urges gained from past thoughts and actions
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3 types of vasanas: social urges to keep up with
the times in which we live (loka vasanas); physical urges (deha vasanans); urge
to acquire knowledge and gather information (shastra vasanas)
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Sequence of vasana manifestation: desiring
thought in the intellect to gain more happiness => restlessness/ agitation
of the mind to fulfill the desire => manifesting at the body level as an
action
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Vasanas create thought channels through which
our mind flows, impelling us to act repeatedly, thereby forming habits, which become part of our character. We create our own destiny through our vasana-conditioned
thoughts and actions
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