When you are born, the mind is not a mere tabula rasa or blank tablet.
It is a storehouse of samskaras, predispositions, predilections, etc.
A child is born with his individual samskaras, with his past experiences
transmuted into mental and moral tendencies and powers. The mind evolves
through the impressions received from the universe through the senses.
It will take many lifetimes till it gathers the complete experience of
the world. Every person is born with his inherent samskaras which are
embedded, lodged or imprinted in the chitta, which is the seat for prarabdha
or past karma. In earthly life, one gains many more samskaras or experiences
through actions, and these are added to the original store and become
the future sanchita karmas (accumulated actions).
All samskaras lie dormant in the chitta as latent activities, not only of this life but of all previous lives. The samskaras of one’s animal lives, a kingly life, a peasant’s life, are all hidden in the chitta. In each life, only those samskaras which are appropriate to that particular type of birth will operate and come to play. The other samskaras will remain concealed and dormant. As a merchant closing the year’s ledger and opening a new one does not enter in the new book all the items of the old, but only its balances, so does the spirit hand over to the new brain its judgement on the experiences of a life that is closed, the conclusions to which it has come, the decisions at which it has arrived. This is the stock handed over to the new life, the mental furniture for the new dwelling, a real memory.
From yogamag.com
All samskaras lie dormant in the chitta as latent activities, not only of this life but of all previous lives. The samskaras of one’s animal lives, a kingly life, a peasant’s life, are all hidden in the chitta. In each life, only those samskaras which are appropriate to that particular type of birth will operate and come to play. The other samskaras will remain concealed and dormant. As a merchant closing the year’s ledger and opening a new one does not enter in the new book all the items of the old, but only its balances, so does the spirit hand over to the new brain its judgement on the experiences of a life that is closed, the conclusions to which it has come, the decisions at which it has arrived. This is the stock handed over to the new life, the mental furniture for the new dwelling, a real memory.
From yogamag.com
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