#sanskaras

[peacockstalemusicalstorytelling]

Made of dead reactions, buried stresses

[jrich103]

A good sanskar is a valuable gift from Sanskara Lakshmi. With her blessings, a person can make a very elevated value system for himself or herself, even if the childhood and upbringing were not grounded in such values.

I am a value-able soul. Through elevated actions based on my eternal qualities of purity, peace, joy, love, and truth, I inspire others to emerge the best in themselves.

[santmat]

Thoughts of spirituality are sprouting in you. They are the indication of good sanskaras*. For the upliftment and enrichment of your life there is no other way except the path of spirituality. The Supreme Power is certain to help the seeker. There is no doubt about this.

Huzur Dayal Sahab, Showers of Wisdom *NOTE: Sanskaras mean the 'impressions' left behind when doing any good or bad action. Even a thought creates a sanskara.

[theseventhavatar]

With me, no one can live what the world considers a moral life. Here, we are concerned with spirituality, not morals. A spiritual life is not ruled nor bound by any principles. The sanskaras of each one are different, and so the behavior and temperament of everyone are different. In a virtuous life, evil is suppressed and good surfaces; but the evil is still there. The bad sanskaras remain and have to be worked out, if not in this life then in the next or the one after. In the spiritual life, both good and bad sanskaras express themselves, and both get nullified. A spiritual life leads one toward naturalness, whereas a virtuous life, in the guise of humility, inflates the ego and perpetuates it! A spiritual life, though, is only led under the guidance and orders of the Avatar or Perfect Master, who knows the pulse of everyone and treats everyone according to his particular malady. You do not like Aloba's behavior, but his behavior was quite natural and necessary for him. How can you understand that? People of the world act according to moral standards and socially acceptable behavior, but the Avatar or Perfect Master deals with everyone according to his or her sanskaras. Thus spiritual life is totally different and cannot be judged on the basis of morality, ethics or any principle.

Excerpt from Lord Meher 13: 4591

[godssepoy]

Closed-Mindedness

We are all victims of it. We are all victims of it not just because we are committing it but because we are being ignored because of it. I conform to both cases. Its a terrible thing: to think you know everything. Its a one way ticket to stagnation. How can you learn anything unless you bend your will. If it is un-bendable, a phenomena I'd like to think is simply impossible, how can you open yourself to new ideas, how can you grow.

See, an un-bendable will is simply impossible because a will, a device of consciousness, is the result of many many many sanskaras. These sanskaras - or impressions - are cast on us by many influences. But the way they are jolted into our consciousness is through a catalyst which, by accelerating these impressions through our unconsciousness, brings impressions into the consciousness. These impressions are based on our influences and these catalysts our agents of cosmopolitanism. With close-mindedness we enact an unnatural obstacle to this process that limits the growth of mankind. But, then, we must ask: why does that closed-mindedness exist in the first place?

It is there to protect us: to filter out the bad from the good. But, at its current stage, it has overdone its job and has started to filter everything that does not conform to our norm. So we must use our discretion and use this "closed-mindedness" to fulfill its initial purpose, as a safety net. Capture the good. Avoid the bad.