Wednesday, November 25, 2009

We see the world as we are.. II

As mentioned in my previous post, our limited sense perception and our mind limit the ways we look at the world around us. They are a sort of coloured spectacles through which we see the world and therefore the world looks coloured to us. The mind can be finely divided in to three - manas, buddhi and ahamkara. Manas is the part that interacts with the senses. This we discussed in the previous post. Buddhi is the intellect, the logical reasoner of our mind. Whatever facts we perceive will be used for further inference. This will be done against the rules that we have learnt already. And when the inference says its not possible, we reject the world we see and look at it again for favourable facts. Similarly, ahamkara or the ego, limits our understanding of the world. It is some kind of a resume which holds in it all things that we claim that we are or that we have, etc. When I say, "I am a Hindu", this fact comes from ahamkara part of our mind and it leads me to see everything in a Hindu perspective. Whats right and whats wrong is decided from that perspective. In short, all these components of our body-mind complex, leads us to see the world as we are, from our perspective, as against as it is, from an absolute perspective.

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