All empowerment tools are double-edged weapons. They could be employed for creative initiatives worth adding quality and value to human life. But, they could also be put to destructive application in equal measure. Nuclear energy was first used for making Hydrogen bombs that devastated a sizeable population during World War II. Today, it is used for generating clean electrical energy. Technologies, developed to empower human beings, are being used by radicals and miscreants, few in number, to force their whims and fancies on the majority at the cost of innumerable innocent lives.
These man-made presentations don’t have their own drive. They are to offer results the way they are employed by the same human empowerment tool — the mind — that developed these technologies. To sum up, the spirit of both the genius and the killer are there in the mind. Now, what out of the two rules supreme in each mind is subject to how it is shaped, which varies from person-to-person, and that is what makes each being unique. The question now is: What makes each mind different from the otherIJ
As far as the hardware part of mind is concerned, it remains all the same in every being – each armed with chitta, buddhi, ahamkara, andmanasa as its constituents. Chitta grants us with the ‘power of knowing’. Buddhi empowers us to ‘dispassionately discriminate and arrive at the right judgment’. Ahamkara brings the sense of ‘I’, which makes one commit to the task as one would wish. Manasa, with the sensory organs as its operative tools, acts from the front. In this scheme, manasa is supposed to make available the outer field data collected to buddhi for due diligence so as to act upon as directed. left to itself, if ahamkara wishes, manasa can also act upon animal-like on instinctive judgment. When all four constituents of mind work in perfect coordination, mind comes out with its optimum best, knowing no limits.
What, however, brings mind under limitation, is its software side – the operative par – the terms of which are set by memory imprints carried over from the past. For, these imprints account for individual-specific beliefs, desire-trends, habit-tendencies, and even one’s level of intelligence. All these put together make out the ‘performing-self’ of a being, and which, with all its positives and negatives, drives a being one’s exclusive way. Interestingly, the individual-specific beliefs limit the expanse of our ‘power of knowing’. Evidently, if you prefer to have a prismatic of the issue in hand, you may not be able to get things in the right perspective, and with obvious consequences. What further limits the performing-self is the ahamkara, which in the spirit of passionately pursuing the inlaid beliefs, often ignores invoking buddhi for due diligence before deciding one’s course of action.
We have seen in the previous issue how even the dramatic talents of a being could get derailed by inlaid negatives. So, it is important to understand that one’s talent by itself has its own vulnerabilities too, unless properly harnessed and modulated in contemporary terms. The other day a worried mother sought guidance on how to help her son deal with his peer groups who had made him an outcast.
A look into the child’s chart revealed that the child had dramatic talents. The Sun is conjunct exalted Mercury, which by itself is enough to mean a very intelligent guy with excellent memory, quick analytical and absorption abilities. The two, well aligned to intellectually ordained Uranus, speak of someone having an innovative mind, duly aided by well-developed intuitive sense worth having valuable insights. They are also independent minded. They can see things ahead of others, which evidently would be beyond the comprehension of his peer group. A clear divide becomes a natural corollary. Even the elders fail to figure out a children’s true-worth and often fail to treat them the way they deserve. And deprived of a congenial atmosphere for long, the child may end up as a loner, vulnerable to fall into a delusory trap to his detriment. I wish the parents understand and appreciate his predicament and give him his due.
The writer is an astrologer, vastu consultant and spiritual counsellor. Write to him at G-5, Basement, Jungpura Extension, New Delhi 14 Tel: 9818037273/ 24310031 Email: pioneerqueries@bharatastro.com Website: www.bharatastro.com
