Answer :-
The mind
is a unit of energy consisting of 52 different forces. Amongst these forces is
a force known as the evolution current (jivitindriya). It is with the force in
this current that our actions get recorded.
All
thoughts that appear on our mind are reflected to the evolution current and on
the evolution current occurs an impression of the reflection. All such
impressions remain accumulated in the mind and some of these impressions, if
sufficiently well formed, can be read back by those beings who have developed
minds. Our ability to remember past events of our life means that we are
bringing to the surface of our mind the accumulated past impressions and
reading them over.
If we are
weak in mind we would not be able to remember much of our past, but that does
not mean that we have destroyed those impressions or that they have disappeared
from our mind. All impressions that occur on our mind remain unharmed with the
evolution current and the fact that we cannot remember certain events merely
means either that other subsequent impressions are covering them, or our mind
is too feeble to bring them over to the surface to read them. Very often, both
these causes contribute to our lack of memory.
Merely
because we cannot remember the various events of our past life, we must not
think that there is nothing existing with the evolution current. Every
reflection that we form on our mind penetrates into the evolution current and
forms in it a subtle impression which remains in permanent deposit.
When we
do a good action, we form in our mind. a number of thoughts of good action, and
each such thought is a reflection on our mind. And every such reflection
carries into the mind an impression; these impressions accumulate with the
evolution current. Similarly, when we do an evil action, we form in our mind a
large number of evil thoughts in order to gain the necessary strength to do
that action. These thoughts are also reflections which carry into the mind
impressions and the evolution current gathers them, too, and preserves them as
securely as the impressions of good action. we must remember that every
impression we absorb into the evolution current of our mind is either an
impression of good action (kusala kamma) or an impression of evil action
(akusala kamma).
We must
also remember that thoughts of action are only those which move, or tend to
move, our body to action. The sensations of pleasure or pain we experience on
our mind are not thoughts of action, nor does the mind develop thoughts of
action during periods when we are in a state of sub consciousness. During
periods when we are living in pleasure or pain, or sub consciousness, we are
passing through times of reactions.
Moments
of thoughts of action, therefore, are comparatively few in number, and even
amongst them, only a very small proportion come within the degree of intensity
to warrant our classifying them as good or evil. We need not bother about the
large number of feeble thoughts occurring in our mind, because, although they
too could be classed under the two categories, good and evil, the impressions
they carry into the mind are very weak, and, therefore, they do not affect the
evolution current very much.
The
stronger thoughts of good actions and evil actions, however carry into the
evolution current very deep impressions, and they remain in strength in the
mind for very long periods. These impressions of good and evil actions enter the
evolution current in the manner of seeds, and the evolution current receives
them in the manner of a fertile seed bed. Seeds of a species produce fruits of
the same species; similarly, good actions grow and bear fruit in the form of
pleasure; and evil impressions grow and bear fruit in the form of pain.
Source : by Madduma Bandara (Spirit of Buddhism.com)
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