little-self

ls workshop) Quest In Reality………104
Shantnu If, by willful attempt, knowledge of Reality is withdrawn from society and in its place; a cult of superstition is superimposed, what would be the result?
Student A catastrophe would ensue in the moral character of the society. But how can it be brought about Dada?
Shantnu Reality is rational, personality cult is irrational. Is that clear?
Student How personality cult is irrational, Dada?
Shantnu Because no person is larger that his ’size’.
Student But it is said, a person can become the master of cosmos if he is able to master his mind.
Shantnu But who can master his mind? A war-monger, a ruler, or a religious zealot! No, only a wise is able to control the mind. A person, who wants to control and subjugate his people by the might of his mundane powers, is himself, ruled by his inflated ego and thus his mind is prey to all kinds of desires, temptations and passions! Thus instead of mastering his mind, his mind is controlled by all kinds of negative tendencies. His mind emits powerful radiations of negative forces, whose flames consume all that is good in society. Moral values crumble before their onslaught and a new cult is born, whose pass word is fear, hatred, annihilation, submission and destruction of self.
Student Dada, is self destructible?
Shantnu What do you understand about self?
Student It is the over-self of an individual self, Dada.
Shantnu It is the truth of existence of an individual entity.
Student Is it the gist of mind-intellect-wisdom or the inherent legacy of Existence, Dada?
Shantnu We are not apart from Existence. Whatever we inherit and grow from, are the same substance, out of which existence came into being. So self is the purest state of conscious which is the microcosm of the macrocosm.
Student Then how does it lose its purity of consciousness and come to believe itself as an ordinary self, the projected identity of the mind?
Shantnu Man may be an evolved animal of Nature, but at the same time he is also its replica. He is the repository of Reality-conscious (ness) in the exact form the way it layered down (evolved/duplicated step by step) to shape Nature and its "creations.
Reality, Consciousness, Self are not subject to destruction and do not lose their Being. On the contrary they exist and express their consciousness in each and every entity; they are evolved in, though their expressions vary according to the state of consciousness of the individual entity.
Student Dada, if an individual is controlled by negative forces, obviously his mind-intellect wisdom, would produce a self that is its satanic version. This way there would be two opposite self’s. Please explain.
Shantnu Wisdom does not produce evil or perverted-self, neither evil produces wisdom.
Student But, Dada, there are evil geniuses in the world who produce tools of destruction and cause unimaginable havoc to society.
Shantnu The influence of negative tendencies is limited only to the level of mind and intellect. Their misdirection is possible only to this extent but as soon as the sense of discrimination is applied, their misdirection is checked and therefore conscience induces the remaining correctional measures and transform the evil genius into wisdom.
Student In case their conscience remains dormant, what will happen Dada?
Shantnu Evil consumes and fuels itself. But in the process its conflagration are subsumed by the dawn of wisdom. Had it not been so, would humanity have survived the onslaughts of evil mongers, dictators, conquerors, invaders, crusaders or psychopaths? Nay, my dears, evil never triumphs though sometimes it gives such impressions. Its fuel of negative tendencies consumes and exhausts itself. Unlike wisdom, which nourishes and flourishes it consumes and extinguishes itself.
Student Dada, why evil has produced a galaxy of super-stars?
Shantnu In fact, they were not the links of fine arts, via which each subsequent civilization passes on its legacy, but the diehards who obstruct the progressive evolvement of finer things of life. But their end is always abrupt and total. Their end is as sudden as their meteoritic rise, while the words of wise last forever, whereas their empires vanish instantly after their fall.
Student Why Dada?
Shantnu Because the nursery of evil is in mind, whose own foundation is laid on the five pillars of sand (senses)!
Student Dada, the positive and negative fruits of actions that we evaluate at physical, mental, intellectual and religious level; are these actually levels or their qualitative distinction?
Shantnu You have already answered your question. There are evolving factors of an individual self to Self, that is, from imperfection to perfection. But unlike others, a religion like conscience is not a level or a factor that indicates an individual evolvement level of consciousness, but is an ingredient that produces consciousness in him, and it has its descent direct from Religion.
Student Then how does it dilute itself from religion to religions?
Shantnu It is already explained, a religion caters to the moral-values of a sect, whereas Religion belongs to Jagat (universe).
Tbc……