Whenever we feel incomplete, desires arise, based on our vasanas or Tendencies. These desires create thought agitations which propel us to action and when the result comes, it further adds to the tendencies. At any given moment your agitation is only expression of the most powerful desire that you are entertaining. This desire is because of our tendencies or Vasanas.

 

If your desire is for coffee… coffee coffee coffee coffee! Coffee agitation. Your mind is not available for anything else. you may try to read something you cant read. coffee coffee coffee coffee. You start hearing the smell of coffee. hear the sound of cup and saucer. see it in the book that you are reading - the coffee with fumes going up. the fragrance in the nose. Until atlast You have to get up from there, get the coffee from wherever it is, by fair means or foul means. and when the coffee has come the mind is available for any work.

 

When you get the coffee and you drink it, it creates a pleasurable experience at the body level, great joy at the mental level if you are having it with someone you love, satisfaction at the intellectual level because the desire is fulfilled. This is the visible result. An invisible tendency or vasana is also created, which makes a person desire coffee again when one feels incomplete.

 

Thus every action of ours is a manifestation of our tendencies and adds further tendencies This cycle of tendencies ->Desire -> Thoughts - >Actions-> Results ->Tendencies is what majority is caught up in. We are not even aware of the root cause of this cycle.

When we feel incomplete, each of us seek different ways to feel complete, depending upon our tendencies and the cycle starts. But let us question - Why do we feel incomplete? Do we feel incomplete all the time? No. We find that whenever we identify falsely with the Body Mind & Intellect, which are incomplete, then we feel incomplete. When we are in deep sleep, absorbed in meditation etc. we are not identified with BMI and so we don’t feel incomplete.

 

Why do we identify with the BMI? Ignorance of the Self i.e My True Nature as Infinite Happiness leads to false identification with the BMI, sense of incompleteness, tendencies, desires…and the entire bondage. Hence Ignorance of the Self is the root cause of Sorrow and Knowledge of the Self is its ultimate cure.

 

Liberation is not possible without the Knowledge of the Self. Hence the Geeta says in Chapter 4 verse 37 - As the blazing fire reduces fuel to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the Fire of Knowledge reduce all actions(bondage) to ashes. Jnana Yagnas impart Self-Knowledge which destroys the root cause of sorrow.

 

Design Notes

 

Jnana Yagnas

 

The exhibit is a graphic panel explaining the Ignorance Cycle, how Jnana Yagna destroys Ignorance and the features of Jnana Yagna, forming a curve along the curving ramp from the top, at the BMI installation to its interior below.

 

Starting at the top, the Ignorance Cycle is represented through a graphic of concentric circles. The importance of Self-Knowledge destroying Ignorance and the concept of Jnana Yagna is explained through text. Following this, image-graphic compositions show the features of Jnana Yagna and how one breaks out of the Ignorance Cycle. The visitor walks down the ramp, viewing the graphic to reach the entrance of the interior of the BMI installation below.

This panel can be viewed by visitors standing/sitting on top of the BMI installation as well.