Swamiji, can bringing in awareness about an engram dissolve the engram? Most of the time, having awareness is good enough to handle these things. For example, you are guilty about something you did in the past. Normally, we do not know that there is a guilt bothering us. Now, if you don’t know that this guilt is bothering you, how do you tackle the problem? The minute you look inside and understand all that is happening, once you get to know the engrams inside, you can watch the effect that all the desires, fears, guilt, pain, etc., have on you. Whenever you witness, there is a sudden separation between you and the engram. If you are able to look fear in the eye, that fear drops. For any fear, this holds true. Witness it with full awareness. Then the fear stroke will not even happen. The minute fear starts to rise within you, if you analyze what is happening, it drops. It loses its power on you. It is the same with any other engram. A small story: This happened when I was small boy. I was about ten years old. In Tiruvannamalai, my hometown, there is a beautiful hill called Arunchala. That hill is like an energy hub, a spiritual incubator that has produced many enlightened Masters. One day I took my customary walk around the hill. It was pitch dark, as it was late in the night. There is a burial ground that I had to cross. Normally, a boy of that age would have been scared to venture out at night in that area! As I was approaching the burial ground, from a distance a dog started to bark at me. I did not bother. I continued to walk. Then, when I came close to it, the dog ran away. As I came to the spot where the dog had been, I found that the dog had been chewing on a dead body. It had not been buried properly. At this point, I clearly saw fear rising inside me. I simply witnessed the fear rising with full awareness. Even as it rose, the fear subsided! The awareness was so high that it didn’t become a fear stroke. I clearly saw it lose power over me. It no longer bothered me. I looked at the dead body, smiled peacefully and continued to walk. The mere awareness of the fear engram and the conscious decision to face it dissolve the engram. -Excerpt from the book Bhagavad Gita’ demystified by Mahavatar Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda Swami.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:15:59 +0000
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