126. The impressions on a human entity and the mode of their preservation

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

PART IV

KARMAS, i.e. THE ACTIONS PERFORMED BY HUMAN ENTITIES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THEM

126. THE IMPRESSIONS ON A HUMAN ENTITY AND THE MODE OF THEIR PRESERVATION

            193. Before describing the various classes of acts or karmas and the laws which regulate their influence in the future, we would ascertain how the surroundings act upon a human entity, how they are recorded as impressions and preserved within him, and how his desires and volition are generated by them and also otherwise. The surroundings act upon the senses and the impressions produced in the latter are perceived at the time, but the matter does not terminate at that stage. All these impressions are preserved somewhere within us, even the most insignificant and the feeblest of them finding a place in the internal record. That such is the fact is demonstrated beyond question by the several cases mentioned by Abercrombie in this treatise on "Intellectual Powers". They refer to the recollection and repetition, by several ladies and gentlemen, of some foreign verses, which had at some time come within the range of their hearing. As the verses in question were unintelligible to them and as such, attention of the feeblest character must have been drawn to the recitation of the verses, the impressions produced by them must also have been of the feeblest nature. Yet, when their attention, in the extraordinary condition of excitement caused by delirium, was confronted by the impressions within, a distinct recollection of the verses cropped up, and the impressions acted as centres for the recital of the verses. The medium on which all such impressions, viz, those produced through the senses and also those which are due to subjective actions, are recorded and preserved, is the ether.