When man develops the force of his mind and self-awareness, thereby achieving success over this stagnation, he reaches the ultimate goal of the Infinite - the state of perfection of the mind. He leads his life in this light of perfection of realization. This state is called in Sanskrit Jnana or wisdom.

A man can enjoy material pleasure in the self-forgetful state of Maya as well as in the state of awareness or Jnana. When a person enjoys any commodity or facility with soul-consciousness, he gets both satisfaction and psychic detachment from it. On the other hand, when he enjoys the same commodity or facility in the state of illusion, he gets attached to that object.

Whatever the activity of man, that activity gets registered as an imprint in four ways:

• in the limbs and senses
• in the braincells
• as hereditary quality in seed cells and
• in each and every ethereal particle of life-energy

In the forgetful state, the soul succumbs frequently to emotions and errs repeatedly. By the force of needs, habits and environmental conditions, the activities of the soul continue on the same wrong path because of old imprints. So the attachment with worldly imprints becomes deeper and deeper, day by day.

These imprints of the activities of man which lead to pain and misery are not conductive to the free journey of his soul, since they obstruct or delay its spiritual advancement. All such imprints are called sins.

The Origin, Function And The Greatness Of Mind

Here, it is most appropriate to give a beautiful poem written by Revered Father Thathuvagnani Vethathiri Maharishi which describes the various aspects of the functioning of mind:

"Thought is the only source of both word and deed; so you should learn to evaluate every thought of yours and implement only those thoughts that would be to the good." "Thought, word and deed are linked and interlinked and when we observe the pattern of their emergence and manifestation, it would be clear to all that thought only is the source and original of the rest. Pleasure, Pain, Likes, dislikes greatness and lowliness are but the drama staged by Thought and Thought alone; And Thought is the casket that holds the secrets of the universe. If thought were to be absent there would be nothingness here and again there is nothing beyond the compass of thought supreme."

For survival, enjoyment of pleasure, peace and ecstasy and to develop consciousness to its perfection, the genetic centre must be maintained with health and morality by positive and virtuous deeds. The waves of thought and action that most disturb the genetic centre are produced from the following:

• Mental accumulation of unfulfilled desires and expectations based on imagination.
• Causing pain or misery for others so that the suffer's mental wave becomes a curse and
• as hereditary quality in seed cells and
• Transgressing the natural and moral limits and methods regarding food consumption, work, rest, sex and use of thought force; as by such transgressions the cells, limbs, senses and parts of the body are deteriorated.

Any obstruction in the normal activity is considered as conflict. Mental conflict is caused by the disturbance in the function of bio-magnetism, due to physical illness or a reaction to events that are contrary to expectation. Consider the problem from every angle and do introspection on it.

Find the natural justice of cause and effect (Brahma Gnanam). Consider the social environment involved (economic equality or reformation of society) and your exceptions and your own actions so far. Take a decision to avoid any wrong actions in future, and expand your mind to accept the results that have come into being due to reasons beyond your control.

The mind understands and feels the functions of the universe as pain, pleasure, peace and ecstasy. As long as the mind remains in peaceful state (equilibrium), there is no problem. When the mind is disturbed from the balancing state, it is divided into two parts

• Aggression and
• Possessiveness

As Brahma Gnanam is the total perspective knowledge of truly seeing the divinity in everything and everywhere, by lake of understanding of this divinity - god or in forgetting the truth, one's mind is diverted with illusive thoughts, thereby the ego develops possessiveness and aggression.

These two produce six bad temperaments; greed, anger, miserliness, immoral sexual passion, vanity and vengeance. Under the emotional moods of these temperaments, man is subject to commit five of the worst kinds of sins i.e., murder, theft, lying, gambling and sex crimes.

To streamline the mind, meditation has to be practised. To regulate the emotional moods and deeds and to sublimate the personality, introspection techniques have to be practised. By practising meditation and introspection, one can get awareness and mental peace. We have already seen that the thoughts arise because of the impressions kept in the genetic centre and which are executed through the mind. Thus, a man is a product or effect of his own past actions or karma.

Some people conclude from this, that man is a mere victim of his past actions over which he has no control. This is the law of destiny. But, at the same time, he is gifted with the capacity to choose his present action which is called self-effort. His self-effort today may be exercised in choosing 'the Path of Good' which combines with the past and makes his future better than his present. This self-effort is the Law of Karma. What one meets in life is destiny and how one meets it is self-effort, i.e., Law of Karma. The law of destiny is habit. The law of karma is self-effort or wisdom. The position of man is peculiar.

He cannot easily change his habits, neither could he forget his wisdom. Wisdom should become habit. For this, he was to practise meditation and introspection. Thus wisdom can take over fate or destiny and can get victory over destiny. From the above discussion, we understand that the realisation of mind is the holistic knowledge covering the entire universe, its formation, existence, functions and results. This divine knowledge is imperative for all scientists, all religious heads who are leading the people in understanding the philosophy of nature and for all administrators and legislators, regardless of the form of government.