the speaking tree - The Way We Are

SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV





Whichever way you have `become', you have only created and cultivated a small part of it consciously . A large part of you is unconscious because most of what you perceive is not in your awareness. Sense perception is like that -everything that goes in through your sense organs gets established in your system to be remembered forever. This is karma.Every impression that the five sense organs take in is stored. This is not against you; this information is useful. If you clean up all this information, you will not know how to handle even the simplest aspects of life. It is only because the information is coming in such torrents, it is so complex, and most of it goes into you without your consciousness, so it has become a problem.
How you became the way you are is just a tendency that you are is just a tendency that you developed because of the information you gathered. This tendency is traditionally called vasana. It is like a smell.Whatever is there in maximum quantity is the kind of smell you experience. Because you produce this kind of smell, a certain type of life moves towards you, and you also tend to move in that direction.
Now, you use perfume to cover the smell. In the first meeting, people may get deceived.The moment they notice the stink, they are going to run away . So, it doesn't matter what impressions you have gathered, what you make of it is in your hands. If unpleasant things have happened to you, it is all the more important that you turn wiser and more beautiful as quickly as possible.