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instead of applying to the particular consciousness of quiet sensory inputs. Occasional disturbances of a noise outside will not form an impression. Only when there is an intention for you to own that particular experience or a feeling you form a samskara. This is what is known as intentional consciousness. So the internal consciousness is enormously influenced by the content of the intentional consciousness. These intentions are our own. We have willed it, if we have not willed for such an attachment or an intention to hold it as our own, which is not our own, which is in nature of things, we started owning up and once we own it, it becomes a part of our samskara. The intentional consciousness gets itself into a state of samskara. These samskaras are what we are trying to get rid off during the cleaning process so that the mind comes to a state of calmness or steadiness which is its true nature. Its true nature is to be oriented to the Divine, which is already in us. The cleaning process helps us to get rid off these samskaras so that the mind becomes more and more clean and if we are going to accept only the samskara which we have during your meditation namely the relative
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