Evolution of love

Samsara

The going from birth to death, this traveling, is what is called Samsara in Sanskrit,

the round of birth and death literally. All creation, passing through this round,

will sooner or later become free. The question may be raised that if we all shall come to

freedom, why should we struggle to attain it? If everyone is going to be free, we will sit down

and wait. It is true that every being will become free, sooner or later; no one can be lost.

Nothing can come to destruction; everything must come up. If that is so, what is the use of our

struggling?

In the first place, the struggle is the only means that will bring us to the center, and in the

second place, we do not know why we struggle. We have to. "Of thousands of men some are

awakened to the idea that they will become free". The vast masses of mankind are content

with material things, but there are some, who awake, and want to get back, who have had

enough of this playing, down here. These struggle consciously, while the rest do it

unconsciously.

The bottom of a lake we cannot see, because its surface is covered with ripples. It is only possible for us to catch a glimpse of the bottom, when the ripples have subsided, and the water is calm. If the water is muddy or is agitated all the time, the bottom will not be seen. If it is clear, and there are no waves, we shall see the bottom. The bottom of the lake is our own true Self; the lake is the Chitta and the waves the Vrittis.

Again, the mind is in three states, one of which is darkness, called Tamas, found in brutes and idiots; it only acts to injure. No other idea comes into that state of mind. Then there is the active state of mind, Rajas, whose chief motives are power and enjoyment: "I will be powerful and rule others". Then there is the state called Sattva - serenity, calmness, in which the waves cease, and the water of the mind-lake becomes clear.