Inner Voice

Inner Voice

The visible world, the existence, is the Mother Nature, manifestation as Shakti of the power of the Almighty whom different religions have given different name.

Nature is basically three qualities: सत्व-रजस-तमस of which the whole creation is made of. Humans being part of nature carry these three qualities. However, all are not equal in nature as one of the qualities dominate in the mind of each individual. Some are dominated by सत्व, some by रजस and some by तमस.

सत्व dominated people are good by heart, carry fear or live for God and his creation; their thrust is more for knowledge and therefore they gain peace and happiness. रजस dominated people are vibrant, active, try to dominate the surroundings with their ego, use force and receive unhappiness and sorrow as end results. तमस dominated people are depressed,  curse others for their depression and live in darkness. There is fourth class which is mixture of रजस and तमस carry both the qualified of रजस dominated lot and तमस dominated lot. The Indian classification of Varna by inner quality and action (गुण कर्म विभाग) is a replica of this theory in practice; divided the humans in four categories (ब्राह्मण, क्षत्रिय, शुद्र, वैश्य respectively) and assign them work suitable to their nature. Unfortunately, it was converted into a rigid system of inequality by birth and became a stigma on Hinduism. In reality, each individual carries three qualities mentioned above and is dominated by one of them and accordingly he/she likes/chooses his/her profession.

To make the play further complex, the nature injected six impurities/enemies (षडरिपु); lust, anger, greed, affection, pride, envy (काम, क्रोध, लोभ, मोह, मद, मत्सर) in our mind; added two puppies called attachment and hatred (राग-द्वैष) and therefore we are witnessing the whole drama of selfish actions in the name of creed, race, caste, etc. Multiplicity is another quality of Mother Nature and therefore each individual tries to multiply his/her existence, tries to encroach upon the territories of others. Somehow some equilibrium is maintained for our survival otherwise we would have been destroyed.

Each individual carries three bodies: the physical, the subtle and the causal. Subtle means mainly the mind, intellect, memory and ego. Our present life is governed by the subtle in which the mind is the major. Interestingly, the mind is made of सत्व, therefore, large majority of humans are good irrespective of their faith. But as the mind carries impurities mentioned above, each individual is running after the worldly matters to fulfill his/her desires.

But the whole play is performed on the screen of Atma/Soul/Prana/life energy; therefore, the inner voice is always present. Mind is made of सत्व, therefore, it listens the inner mind voice and acts. But while chasing the desires, the impurities multiply and make hard covering over the mind and therefore, the mind loses its hearing capacity. The inner voice always sounds but either the mind covered with the impurities can’t hear or avoid to hear.

The chakra of triangle to walk righteous path is fixed in each heart for movement/action. It carries edges, therefore, when it moves wrong, there is hurt inside. But as the individual multiplies his/her wrongs, the chakra triangle loses its edges and the shape becomes a circle. An individual can listen the inner voice more when he/she chakra triangle is intact, but as soon as it loses the edges and becomes a circle, he/she loses hearing capacity and make him/her a liability over the mankind.

Punamchand 

1 December 2024