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What binds you to situations?

Know what binds you to a situation!

By Vivek Sharma
 
What binds you to situations? It is your own nature, says Krishna. What is nature? It is the basic format built up by your memory and ego. 
We all know what memory, ego and karma are. But, it is time to know how they bind us to pre-formed situations and make us experience like slaves, fighters or wisecracks! Mind you, our body is nothing but a situation. We are just projecting our situations through the neuronic sequencing jutting out from our ego and memory in the brainstem. Snap out of them! Ramkrishna Paramhamsa would say, “a thorn stuck in the flesh is picked out by another thorn and then both the thorns are thrown away.” Here He is suggesting that one state can be resolved with the help of another state and then both can be got rid of in order to realise the Unconditional Reality, Intelligent Energy, which we have come to manifest and not the states!
 
Bound To Situations
 
Krishna says first know what binds you to your body. The same threads will bind your intellect, mind and the  sensory system too.  He says,
सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसम्भवाः।
निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम्।।५/१४
It means— Uplifting energy, centric energy (passion)  and down-pulling energy bind us to the body. These binding forces spring from prakriti—-ego and memory complex (सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसम्भवाःनिबध्नन्ति). But, we spring from the undecaying source of energy even in the body (महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम्). That is Intelligent Energy. 
In fact, uplifting and down-pulling energies are anti-forces, wherever they are balanced out, that force is called the force of passion or centric force, which keeps rotating. It is repetitive in nature. This force always seeks to maintain things as they are. These three forces tie us in the body, the first situation. Therefore, all the experiences can be resolved into the consequences of three interactive forces. I can write a whole book defining how these forces are operating everywhere. But, it is suffice to know that you can counter down-pull by the upward pull and the result shall be the passion pull. But, when you counter balance the downward pull with the passion pull, the resultant pull is upward pull. When you counter the uplifting pull with passion pull, the resultant pulls shall be down-pull. This is how we experience three states of wisdom, passion and inertia in changing situations as slaves to these three forces intellectually, mentally, physically and situationally. If you can master the pulls, you can get rid of a particular state of mind. But, later you shall have to leave it too in order to remain in the natural state—where there is no pull but all-round manifestation of Intelligent Energy. 

 

How It Applies
 
Your state of mind reflects which force is dominant in you. It is not the situation that is affecting you, but the force tying you to it. Use your wisdom to get out of it and you shall find the situational pressure receding and your mental state changing accordingly. A changed mental state will project another situation, which may be different from the original one you faced. So know your binders and learn the ways to handle them. Krishna says
सत्त्वं सुखसंगेन ज्ञानसंगेन  बध्नाति।
रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि कर्मसंगेन बध्नाति।
तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि प्रमादालस्यनिद्रास्निबध्नाति।
It means—the uplifting force binds you with knowledge and satisfaction. The centric force generates from passion (राग, emotional bond and it binds you with neuronic cause-and-effect. The downward force binds you with lethargy and sleep born of anti-knowledge. )
Know which force is active in your body and mind, find a way to deal with it.

 

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