As already noticed, the mind-intellect equipment of an individual functions through his body in the world outside as per the traits chalked out upon it by the actions performed in its earlier lives. These channels of thinking cut across the fields of the mind determine the direction of its thoughts and the texture of its actions in the present. These lacerations on the subtle body are called in Vedanta as ‘SINS,’ or as the ‘DIRT OF THE WITHIN.’ These impurities are removed and the existing ulcers healed through selfless action.
But even while rejecting the wrong negative tendencies of the mind, the individual will have to plough the fields of his mind with new patterns representing the constructive divine tendencies. These meritorious vasanas (punya) can also provide a severe obstruction for a man of meditation. After having purified his mind of its unethical and sensuous tendencies, the aspirant should practise meditation. During the still moments of peace in the depth of his depths, when he exposes his mind to the thrilled atmosphere of its vibrant silence, the noble traits also get completely wiped off. A state of mind which is thus rendered completely impressionless (vasana-less) is the end of the mind, since mind is nothing but a bundle of vasanas. Where the mind has ended, there the ego has also ended having “THEN REACHED THE HIGHEST GOAL, or gained Self-rediscovery.
The explanation of this theory would not perhaps occupy more than half a page, but in actually carving it our into our individual life, it may be a programme for very many lives’ consistent practice. “Through many births” is a phrase used in the Upanishads by the honest “Scientists of Life,” the Rishis, and they are perfectly right; for evolution, as we all know, is not a drama played out during an afternoon, but it is the slow revelation of the history of progress through endless aeons.
To one who has the proper temperament to seek Life, the anxiety to realise the Perfection, the capacity to understand the hollowness of sense-life, the daring to follow the narrow foot-prints of the Seers of the world, the appetite for Infinite peace and tranquillity, the courage to live the moral and the ethical values, the heroism to barter one’s all to achieve the highest… such a one is not a “mineral-man,” nor a “vegetable-specimen,” nor an “animal-man,” but he is the noblest creation under the Sun, a perfect “man-man,” standing right in front of the Doors of Truth, demanding as a “God-man” his admission into the SANCTUM SANCTORUM! Right now, this very life IS OUR LAST BIRTH, if we have a taste to meditate, an urge to seek, a daring to live the Life Divine!
There is nothing which may sound original in this interpretation to all diligent students of the Geeta. A sacred text-book that has been roaring, time and again, in an irrepressible spirit of optimism, the message of hope and cheer, with no threats of hell and brimstone anywhere in it, cannot be considered to have changed its music all of a sudden, to declare that man has hopes of salvation only after “many births” and not “here and now.” Even though this misinterpretation may perhaps be helpful to the saboteurs of our religion, no intelligent student of the Geeta can, even for a moment, be hoodwinked by such false notes.
THEREFORE:
