Just as our strengths are manifestations for a higher being, are our weaknesses manifestations of some being?

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So just as strengths are manifested through us our weaknesses also manifested through us that means is it somebody is it like some malevolent being who is acting through us and making us do wrong things well yes and no I would say at one level we could say that wherever we are weak what is happening is if you consider electricity there are three broad kinds of material broadly speaking. There are conductors, there are semiconductors and there are insulators. So now the electricity might be arriving at a particular point but if what is there afterwards is an insulator then the electricity will not flow through.
So for all of us we are all connected with the divine but with respect to various abilities with respect to some abilities we are conductors. So somebody can sing brilliantly it’s as if they start singing and they get transported to a different world they transport everyone else to a different world. So with respect to singing ability they are conductors but sometimes even those who are very good singers they might have a very poor memory.
Some people you ask them their name and then you tell your name. You talk with them 15 minutes and by the end what was your name? They just forget. It’s not that they don’t care but just they forget.
So with respect to that memory somebody might be a insulator. So it just doesn’t work for them. So all of us have some or the other painful inadequacy.
That’s just the way we are. We are finite beings and everyone has some painful inadequacy. We can work to improve that that’s where RV quiz has come into the picture but the point is with respect to that we may be insulators.
There are some people who are who are tone deaf. It’s like I happen to be one of them so I just don’t get see the worst part of music is somebody is doing some very nice somebody is singing and playing some instrument nicely and somebody else comes up and starts picking a kartal and playing. And it’s one thing to know that I am not playing right.
And then they try to consciously play right. But some people they play wrong and they don’t even know they are playing wrong. So with their closed eyes they are meeting the kartal and they are in ecstasy and everyone around them is in agony.
What are you doing? So what happens is that sometimes with respect to some things we might just be insulators. So it’s not necessary that something higher is manifesting that weakness through them. It’s just that we have a particular body mind.
It has certain abilities certain inabilities. So that is one category of weakness we could talk about. Where we just are insulators for something.
So that particular thing doesn’t manifest through us. The other could also be that we when we talk about weaknesses we can have many different things within it. One is inabilities.
Say like I can’t sing properly or can’t write properly or can’t remember certain things. But apart from that weaknesses could also be something like moral shortcomings. Some people might be given to lot of anger.
Some people might be given to lot of greed or envy. Or something like that. Now these are not something which are going to be forever.
Some people are tone deaf and that’s how they will be. It’s very difficult for them to change that. But even if somebody is very angry now that doesn’t mean that they have to be angry lifelong.
They may not be able to become very even tempered but we all can decrease the anger. So if we are referring to weaknesses in that sense say somebody is very temperamental they just get excited very quickly. Now they might not become completely stoic.
But they can decrease that. So with respect to weaknesses of this kind it’s not exactly something different from us. Something higher manifesting to us.
Rather it is that the way we have acted repeatedly that action becomes stored within us like a program. Say if somebody has, so our mind you could say like a computer program and so the three level reality. There is the body, the physical reality.
Then there is the mind which is inside us and beyond that there is the soul. So if you compare to computer system, there is the hardware, the software and the user. So the body is like the hardware, the mind is like the software and the soul or the consciousness is like the user.
So now suppose somebody has visited a particular site repeatedly. Say they have visited Bollywood.com and they visited many times and now they come for a spiritual program and they hear about the Bhagavad Gita. Sounds interesting.
Let me read more about it. And after the program they go home and they type in their browser Bhagavad Gita. So they start typing B. And what happens? Bollywood comes up.
Now they may not want to go to Bollywood but what has happened? What they had chosen previously that comes up as an auto complete. Now somebody else who has not chosen Bollywood, they type B, nothing might come or various options might come. So basically now this something coming as an auto complete.
We could say that it is something different from us. At that point I don’t want that Bollywood to come there. But it is just coming.
So when we talk about weaknesses like say greed or anger or even depression or whatever, some people, some small things go wrong and they just get so depressed. I was at a conference on spirituality and mental health. So one girl was telling about how her spirituality helped her.
She said how she sank into depression. She was saying that once she was studying in a good university but along with that to earn some money she was waiting she was American, this was in America. So she was waiting tables.
So once she was carrying some water in a plate for water in her hand only to give to a client, customer and somehow that water slipped from her hand and it just fell with a big crash. She started thinking I can’t even carry a glass of water. What will I ever be able to do in my life? And just that one glass of water falling from her hands triggered an incident of depression.
Now how many of us have had water slipping from our hands? So many times it happens. But what happened over there is she had a difficult childhood and she had low self esteem, she had insecurity and that one small incident triggered that big catastrophic reaction within her. So now this might not happen to most people.
So is it something else manifesting through us? Well you could say that it is the programming of our mind which brings certain thoughts as default. And with respect to this, going back to the earlier example for the higher energy to manifest we should be conductors. But for the negative programming, when it starts manifesting, we need to become insulators.
Is this thought is coming within me? But I don’t have to give in to it. I don’t have to give in to it. So if we give in to it, sometimes we may do something and then we ourselves wonder why did I do that? Why did I speak like that? I didn’t want to.
But it just happens. So it’s not that there is no malevolent being who manifests as our weaknesses. But rather the accumulated choices they create impressions within us.
So every action that we do becomes stored within us as an impression in our mind. And every impression comes out as a proposition. So action leads to impression.
Impression comes as a proposition. Proposition means do it again. So once something goes wrong and we react in a particular way to it, say we get disheartened, we get depressed, the next time we do something wrong, again that response will come stronger.
But we can change that. Did I answer your question?