Mind Conditioning

FREUD says: all your thinking is association. If you see a dog in the
street, you start thinking about all the dogs you have seen from
childhood. Then you remember your childhood, you remember a teacher when
you were a child. There is no logical connection. When you start
verbalizing you miss reality. Every day the sun rises; every day the sun
sets; every day something new happens. To you it's one more Friday, one
more Saturday, another Sunday. The moment you label it as Friday, you
think you know everything about that day. You just take it for granted.
Because you take people for granted you don't enjoy your relationships.
You judge people first and collect arguments to support your judgment.

You can never step into the same river twice, because by that time it
has moved. People also move, they change, they are not the same as who
you met before. By the time you meet them again your husband/wife has
changed; something is added to them; either intelligence or foolishness.
But you don't agree. You hold on to the same mental setup.

Sushruta wrote 5,000 years ago. He talks about open heart surgeries and
transplants. He was a great enlightened Master. He said: every six
months your liver replaces itself completely. Not even one part is same.
Once in 21 days your intestine replaces itself. Modern day physiologists
agree. Every cell is replaced continuously.

Sushruta says: your mental structure plays a major role when these
changes take place. A disciple asks him: why do we carry diseases over a
number of years? Why does the new liver carry the same disease? Sushruta
replies: you don't believe you have changed, that's why. You carry the
same mental frame despite body change. That mental frame retains the
disease. You don't let go of that frame, you don't let go of that
disease. You don't let go of your samskara. Samskara is the powerful
mental root that drags you to travel the same. path.

Like Pavlov's dogs which came running and salivated even when no food
was served but the bell was rung, whenever you remember that past
situation or person you react the same way, you move in the same rut. In
the morning you worry about office, by evening you worry about your wife
and children, unconsciously, without reason. The mood remains low even
if you do not realize why. You do not live based on intelligence, you
live based on information.

- By Nithyananda Sri Paramahansa