Its well-known that a lamp's wick burns faster & brighter just before dying out! That is the lamp's way of saying "I'm dying, please help me out here!" Anyone willing to oil it up again can do so then. Similarly, the mind tries to yell out that its dying, if you try to ignore its cravings. Paying heed to such a cry is resurrecting the vaasanaa-s!
One should know that the mind tries to play all sorts of tricks to get back its food. It survives on vaasanaa-s. Not feeding the mind so, its bound to die. No matter what. It may still sip on and live weakly, one's not knowing. This is what is called as manolaya, meaning hardly any activity as if the mind's asleep. manolaya is also one of mind's trickery at work trying to voice it as if its dead. Someday later, it might just start off living on old memories or mostly in dreams. This is where Ramana Maharshi points out the seeming end, thats not to be. One needs to go beyond this stage and see to it that the mind goes over from manolaya to manonaasha, the latter being the death of the mind in the heart.
Till then, its just ghaTIyantraM punah punah: the neverending fight of the mind... for survival!
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Manolaya is the stage at which most aspirants for moksha get caught. That stage is also difficult, as the mind keeps coming up now & then. But when the mind is dormant, then it is known all this is a dream!
About vasanas - it is amazing how people always talk about 'freedom' & 'independence' without knowing they're a constant slave to their own vasanas!
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