Page 15 - ARUBA TODAY

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LOCAL Tuesday 13 February 2018

Screen of Thought

ORANJESTAD - What is a screen of thought? It is simply the stream of
thoughts or mental noise that we experience at almost every holy
instant. Through this screen we meet the world. Through this screen
of thought we meet and interact with people, we face challenges
and situations through this screen. By doing so we tend to view the
world through this veil thus not perceiving clearly but perceiving
though this lens of thought stream. Why is it called a veil?

Due to our mind conditioning, our beliefs, culture and tradition,
race, gender, life experience, etc., we have a certain conditioning
that our thoughts express and through this conditioning we tend to
label and judge every person or situation that we face. Hence the
veil is all the conditioning in which we picked up as we go through
life. In short, this veil or screen of thought is the Ego.q

Suresh Mirchumal is a spiritual writer. “Well, you can categorize it
like that, although I don’t call myself one. These thoughts come
in effortlessly.” His aim is in a way to reach out to whoever gets
inspired or has an eye opening event within them that may tran-
scend their current state of consciousness. “Or let’s say current
emotional state too. If one in a thousand benefits, that is already
great.” Due to the current world state, lots of struggles and stress-
es, we seem to lose touch with that inner peace that we long for,
Suresh explains. “I wish to ease that through these small articles or
tidbits.” You will find his tidbits in Aruba Today from now on, mostly
on Tuesdays and Thursdays.