Awareness is the key to evolution

During consultations or teaching sessions, a question generally comes up as to if a person is born with a chart which has many planets in weak dignity then how that person can lead a good life as it looks like the basic foundation itself is not there? Or one can also say that basic potential to grow and evolve is missing with this person as he is born with difficult chart. Then how he can hope to lead a better life?

It looks like a valid question.

Let’s understand this.

As I stated many a times in last few years that whole life is nothing but the interplay of Gunas. For Human Life too, you need all 3 Gunas to come together then only a Human Body can take form.

Tamas Guna will be represented by Physical Body.

Rajas Guna will be represented by Mental Body or as we understand Mind.

Satva Guna will be represented by Consciousness/Awareness/Soul or Spirit Body.

So, there is no one in this world who is functioning in physical form and doesn’t have these 3 Gunas within himself. Their percentages or prominence can be different for different individual but it cannot happen that someone is functioning based only on 2 or 1 Guna.

One of the main quality or trait of Satva Guna is Awareness. Awareness or Attention helps us in diverting the energy from one place to another or one thing to another. Even if you look in a very generic way in your life then you will realize that wherever you turn your awareness or attention in life, those things will start growing in life.

If you focus on loving memories of your life then you automatically start smiling. Likewise, if you focus on difficult experiences of life then your face automatically gets stern and serious.

So, awareness is key by which we can increase or decrease our focus or attention on any Guna and resultantly, it will increase or decrease that particular Guna respectively.

Now, the most important thing is that there is no person in world who is born without awareness. Again, level or percentage of awareness can be different in different people but there is no one who can say that I have 0% awareness because even to realize this, you need some awareness.

As Rumi says, “This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.” So, even if it is unexpected/unconscious momentary awareness but it is there.

So, even a person, who is born with almost all planets debilitated, cannot say that he cannot be aware. Even he has certain level of awareness.

Now, all he needs to do is to give more and more energy/attention/focus to this awareness. Awareness grows with more attention and then it helps you also grow.

So, in order to evolve through Gunas (Tamas, Rajas and Satva) too, we only need to become aware. We need to first become aware of our current situation and accept it as it is honestly and then automatically the improvement will begin. It is in nature of everyone or everything to evolve in this existence as this existence itself is evolve. Although we think that we have reached till far away planets but we are still coming to know about new planets, asteroids etc. This existence is still expanding.

So, if a person becomes 100% aware of his current situations and accepts it wholeheartedly and honestly then this acceptance itself will divert his energy to move towards improvement in life. It is something which I discussed recently - https://www.astrosaxena.com/articles/ContentmentVsDiscontentment . Even if a Criminal accepts himself as a Criminal then he cannot stay as a Criminal for long as it is in nature of everyone to improve. A Criminal can stay as Criminal only because he doesn’t accept himself as Criminal. When he is in denial mode and already thinking himself as Holier Than Thou because then where is the need for evolution.

Hence, acceptance is necessary for any sort of evolution. Once we focus our energy and awareness at where we are and accept our situation in life then it works exactly how Fire works towards Ice.

If I try to explain what I am trying to convey through this example –

Understand Ice as like Tamas Guna (static)

Understand Water as Rajas (moving)

Understand Steam as Satva (evaporating)

And understand Fire as Awareness.

Now, suppose someone is at prominently Tamasic Level (Ice) then all he need is little bit of Awareness and the increase the level of awareness gradually. It would be like you have Ice and there is a bit of fire and now you are increasing the intensity of fire gradually. There will come a moment when Ice will melt as Water.

Then if we continue to increase the intensity of Fire then there will come a moment when Water will turn into steam.

Likewise, Awareness is that fire which, if intensified, can turn Tamas into Rajas and then Rajas into Satva.

This is why; we can say that Awareness is key to evolution.

As I said, if we clearly become aware of where we stand in life then we cannot stay there for long time if it is not right place for us.

The main issue is that we remain in denial mode about our situation in life because even the worst situation in life can at least create a comfort zone for mind and becoming truly and honestly aware of that worst situation means that now we have to come out of comfort zone.

Understand the evolution also means transformation/change. So, if I want to evolve but I don’t want to change myself and my life then I am asking for something which is impossible. There is no evolution without changing current situation.

Hence, Awareness is the key for any evolution and everyone is blessed with it, even person with all debilitated planets in chart. All we need to do is to grow and intensify this awareness on our current situation in life and be ready to change.

Gratitude!!!!