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once you decide to do so. When the hand is doing its work, the
mind and the ego are working in the antahkaran, at the same
time. The chit is not present. It is wandering outside. And yet
people claim that they are the ones performing the ritual, thus
sowing seeds of karma for their next life. In fact the rituals they
perform is a discharge of their karma from past life but while the
discharge is taking place, they express an opinion (deep inner
intent, bhaav). As is the opinion, so is the fruit. If one builds an
opinion that he wished his chit would remain focused in the
counting of the beads and not wander around, then that is the
fruit he will reap in his next life. And if a person has an inner
intent that the rituals of turning the rosary would come to an end
and builds that opinion (intent), then in his next life, that is what
he will acquire.
The seeds for one’s next life are being sown according to
whatever deep inner intent (opinion here) one has. This is where
new karma is being charged.
Children will remember what they read if while reading
there is a presence of all four of the components - mind, intellect,
chit and ego, of their antahskaran. But the child’s chit is at a
cricket match and so all his reading goes to waste. What happens
if one of the legs on a bed breaks? What would be the result?
Such is the state of this antahkaran. Kavi has sung :
“Solitary in a crowd engulfed in a dream world …
Listener ‘I’ am and the singer ‘I’ am too”
When you travel in an overcrowded local train in Bombay
during the evening rush hour you get pushed and shoved from
all directions. At that time the mind, the intellect, the chit and the
ego are all overwhelmed and engaged in their own functions.
That is when ‘You’ (Shuddhatma) can really enjoy seeing and
knowing in an independent state. At such times ‘You’ become
alone and that is when it is fun to Know and See. The greater