BY K.B.GOPALAKRISHNAN

HOW TO OVER COME NEGATIVE VASANA AND SAMASKARA

by Chennai based K.B.Gopalakrishnan

20th, January,2007 12:00PM

I bow to the great rishis.

I bow to my teacher kirties

I bow all the great gurus

This is one of the most difficult issues of the spirituality. Many people go to temples, seek gurus and chant prayers but unable to over come their negative vasanas and samaskara. There is certain knack for over coming quickly.

Understand that every one will have one pet emotion like anger, addictions which will be difficult to overcome.
Understand the more you discuss other people’s faults your own negative samskara and vasana will be more difficult to over come. Learn to bless people and feel positive for people who are struggling to overcome the negative vasana and samsakara. For example one might not drink but then one need not put down people who drink . Feel compassion for there weakness.
Remember the negative days like amavasaya purnima, astami ,navami,
shasthi Tuesday Saturday malefic nakashtra like rahu and mars nakshatra will trigger these tendencies easily.
Understand that when you are upset these tendencies become stronger.
Going out to mass places like airport railway stations, strong smells will trigger these tendencies.
Understand it takes time and repeated effort to over come in all levels.
Ask for divine help.
Take continuous vow every day that one will not be angry or one will speak gently or one will not be addicted to coffee etc.

Every samskara flows in 5 levels. Intention and thoughts which is the imaginations, visualization, feelings, words and actions. That is why the ancient Indian calls it as the seeds. Seed is intention, the root is the mind, feeling is sapling, words are flowers and actions produces further seeds.

Make effort to cut in the action level

Then make effort in the words level

Once these levels are crossed then the

Bigger level of thoughts, feelings levels is more difficult to deal with.

SOME OF THE BEST WAY TO OVER COME IS AS FOLLOWS

Try to practice mantra or spiritual practice for that samaskara. Choose a mantra which will overcome the samaskara. Do it every day. For example anger is ohm shanthi, for celibacy hanuman mantra and for jealousy lakshmi mantra.
Write it down. This one of the fastest way to over come. Results will be seen. I write in the excel sheet.
Take a coach who has mastered that particular samakara. Some people are good in controlling anger then take them as your coach.
Take vow three times a day. Like I will not be greedy or angry or over excited or sexual etc.
Learn to deal at the earliest.
When some one point out your weakness it can be your wife or children or husband learn to thank them instead of criticizing them. Ask them to pray for your help.
If you see some one who has mastered that samskara talk to them on their techniques and what they use to recover. For example I learnt on how to lose weight from lot of people who gave wonderful tips. One guy told me do not eat full, one lady told me eat salad which I was not even aware.
Learn to appreciate some one good quality like humility, kindness which will help you to recognize your negative quality easily. Many people due to thick karma are not aware of their negative tendencies itself. This is due to their actions which minimizes other people’s good quality and exaggerate other people’s negative quality. Reverse it and it will easier to over come.
When you got to temple ask the god or goddess to help u with this quality.
Keep small vows like for next one hour I will not be upset. Then appreciate yourself. Then keep it for one day. Keep it small and one day at a time. Then keep longer goals like 20 days to thirty days.
Do not become arrogant and complacent with success. Keep extending it for longer times.
Recovery must be quick. For example if you get angry and take one hour to recover, then make it within ten minutes. For example if you have eaten one mouthful of sweet then stop there and get out of the place.
Challenge yourself to do it better.

Accept the weakness and do not blame on others. For example if is addicted to coffee the hotels are not be blamed but one’s own self. For example some one is hyper sexual then the movies or actress are not be blamed but one’s own self.
Avoid people and situations initially.
Once you have mastered one level and then go towards people and places which triggers that samskara in you. For example some one mastered eating one level then walk in to sarvana bhavan and come out. For example drinking means move with friends who are drink but do not drink. Appreciate yourself.
Do not do it too often one or two times then completely cut off people and places. Then repeat the procedure.
Write down time, people and places that trigger the samaskara and try to do affirmations and visualization. For example some one smokes in crisis then need to take affirmation that- I will not smoke in crisis.
When mind wants to blame- Always make the other person action as positive. Some one has crooked you or uses abusive language or tempts in to addictions then thinks they have such ignorance. For example swami Vivekananda went to Chicago. Suddenly his people lost the way and entered in to Brothel Street. Releasing this every one was sorry and wanted to return. Swamiji saw some women calling him for sex with out realizing. He went up to them sat in posture and started crying. He told them in chaste English “ I am sorry that you identify yourself as the body your are divine itself. May the divine master take u away from this ignorance” some of them started crying on hearing the words.
If you have doubts on following noble quality. Remember initially there will be losses because your old karma is getting cleaned. For example one person was stingy when he become generous he lost money. the reason is he has to compensate for the bad karma of the past.
Read the life of great beings like tukuram who over come his lust because of his love for rama, then the great milarepa who was black magician, killed people but he went on to become the greatest saint of Tibet, the great purandara dasa who was known was holding money back, the great nityananda who went police station to make them leave the murderer, the life of chirst who forgave his enemies in the cross. These saints life is example of sinner becoming saints.
When you go to jivan Samadhi of great saints ask for there help and pray sincerely.
Remember when one knows what is good and bad that itself is god’s blessing. When you make sincere attempts, then that itself is greater blessing. Millions of people who justify their evil action how ever powerful and rich will be like the ravana and duroyanda. Ravana got killed by lust , duroyanda by his anger and hatred.

As I was writing this article my friend yoga who was sitting next to me told sweetly the following words” an untrained mind will be easily tricked. One feels very confident and then arrogance sets in. this is the beginning of defeat” . I think his words hold true even for trained mind.

May all people who read this article benefit from this fully and totally

May all people be free of negative samasakra and vasana.

May all of us follow dharma effortlessly.

May we feel compassionate for all beings at any levels.

May we get inspired by people who follow dharma and mastered it.

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