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The enlightened one acts on the basis of the Self or pure consciousness and not on the basis of desires in the form of cravings and aversions which brings about the ego or false self, personalised thoughts and emotions blindly identified with, and consequent suffering.

Egocentric actions taken on the basis of raag-dvesh ( cravings-aversions) create vasanas or unconscious impressions in the mind which perpetuate compulsively such thoughts, emotions and actions again and again habitually like the grooves in a record. Addictions are similarly very strong vasanas or impressions in the unconscious. One may resolve to break these addictions but the sheer pressure of the unconscious impressions will force him or her to continue with the addictive activities compulsively.

Vasanas in Hinduism are called sankaras in Buddhism. Awareness, total love and spiritual exercises eliminate thse vasanas which create habitual thinking and actions, and the total elimination of them results in enlightenment.


For the samsari or unenlightened person, thought associated with the past psychological memories of pleasure and pain create desires in the form of cravings and aversions , which in turn stimulates personalised thoughts and emotions one identifies with blindly, leading to psychological drama which may have nothing to do with existential reality. All conflicts arise from the personal psychological self which is false in nature and characterised by conditioned likes and dislikes.


Awareness or total love depersonalises these thoughts and emotions and renders them harmless, stripping them of their emotivity and reactivity.

The enlightened one or Stithaprajna is thus in a state of awareness or pure consciousness, content with the moment, deconditioned and not living in the past or future through emotionally charged thoughts.