In the early stages of practicing virtues a person is sometimes confused because the person is coming from a background of analyzing through senses. Therefore, sometimes a person looks at another person and says the person doesn’t look good (visual sense); or a person listening to someone asks the other to stop because they are not oxford graduated and speak in broken English (sense of hearing); or smells garbage and doesn’t like it (sense of smell); or someone who wears only silk finds khadi too coarse (sense of touch); or eats something and finds it distasteful (sense of taste). All these responses are because the person is governed by the senses turned outward (karam indriyan).
Later, this person begins to turn the senses inwards and says the other person may look good if he wore his hair differently; or the oxford graduate thinks the other person would be worth listening to if the person’s accent was more refined….. So from a strong feeling of pushing away the person has moved to partial acceptance.
Then comes the next stage where the person sees something and looks inwards and doesn’t like it because the person has seen better for e.g. the oxford graduate doesn’t like the streets and traffic in Delhi because it was better in London; or a vegetarian doesn’t like the smell of meat because such a person’s body is too refined for the course smell.
This category of people see something ugly and look inside themselves and see different things at that moment – in some people it generates a feeling of sorrow and hopelessness; in others excitement bordering on joy; in yet others it arouses a deep concern to be an instrument of change…
The people who feel sorrow and hopelessness are those who for many many incarnations have not practiced the third principle of the Supreme Being (creative destruction). They have exhausted the transactions of the two other principles of the Supreme Being (creation and sustenance). Those who feel excitement bordering on joy are those who conform to the second principle of the Supreme Being (sustenance) and have exhausted the first principle of the Supreme Being but are yet to understand the third principle (creative detachment). Those in whom it arouses a deep concern to be an instrument of change so that such moments can be altered for better are souls who are practicing all the three principles of the Supreme Being the first being (creation) second (sustenance) and third (creative destruction).
If we classify the above, the first category of people would be possessive, the second destructive and the third liberating. In the third category the person has turned the senses inwards (gyan indriyan).