Dark Lotus
The Water
[Spoken: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami]
Life follows life as we live and learn. Finally we get some control over our instincts and move up into the water, which is the intellectual mind. We become a thinking person, someone who is able to make decisions logically, someone who has basic control over the instinctive emotions so that when threatened he or she doesn't automatically become angry and fight