Pure consciousness is life's greatest blessing. There is no greater achievement in life than this. Any impurity in consciousness renders all achievements meaningless. The basic source of life's purity is the purity of intellectual awareness.

There are various levels of our consciousness, the most common being that of sensory consciousness or awareness through the senses. There is a special layer which helps develop the power of intuition, making prescience possible. A more developed layer relates to the state of trans-sensory or supersensory consciousness. It needs no external props or stimuli. The soul unfolds itself as pure consciousness. Given a favourable environment, consciousness remains guilt-free, but in an adverse or unwholesome environment impurity infests consciousness.

If we analyse human behaviour on the twin axes of fickleness and steadfastness, we find that in the latter state not only guilt but all other abnormal mental states come to an end. Fickleness is a fertile ground for abnormal states in consciousness, including guilt consciousness; and it can lead a man astray. Thus the biggest cause of crimes is unsteadiness or fickleness of the mind. Unsteadiness admits of different degrees. It can be light, medium and intense. The first does not result in much harm, the second opens up increasing possibilities of harm and the third results in total harm.

Use of intoxicants and depression, etc are instrumental in accentuating crimes. Being better acquainted with intoxicants, we tend to pay all our attention to the instrumental factors and neglect the basic cause. By concentrating on the latter, we shall discover the ineffectiveness of the instrumental factors and will get greater success in transforming ourselves. The basic cause is unsteadiness of mind, which has to be overcome.

The present-day society abounds in fickleness. The reason is that, the conscious mind is positioned not in the upper region of the body but near the navel. It is the basic cause of criminality. One's consciousness can be positioned: upwards, in the middle, or downwards. At present, it is active in the lower region, which is not characteristics of a good society. The basic cause of criminality lies in the downward movement of consciousness, which precludes mental peace and the purity of consciousness.

The question why people resort to intoxicants has only one answer: quest of peace. Everyone wants to live in a world where all worries and difficulties can be forgotten. Drugs like LSD produce an illusion of heavenly joy. It is this illusion of bliss which draws people to drugs. What can be better recourse for a man suffering from acute stress and tension than such an illusion?

All drugs known to produce intoxication have proved harmful. In practical life, however, use of intoxicants appears quite attractive. No intelligent citizen ordinarily likes to violate law and social order, but man breaks laws and transgresses social order when his consciousness gets contaminated. And crimes like theft, dacoity, murder, rape, etc are the results of contaminated consciousness. Uncontaminated and healthy consciousness can never resort to them. It is impossible to draw people away from addiction so long as their consciousness is held downwards through recourse to intoxicants.

One of our important physical organs is the ear. In Prekshadhyan, it is called the centre of vigilance. It is the biggest centre of alertness. In good old days, teachers invariable pulled the ears of erring pupils, but it too is now no longer in vogue. The ear being an important psychic centre, concentration on this centre is a sure way of ridding oneself of addiction to intoxicants. We will not have to be told to give up liquor, cigarettes or other intoxicants. A chemical process will set in motion by concentration on the psyche centre located in the ear, whereby addiction to intoxicants will automatically vanish.

Crime and drug addiction have their best antidote in an alert consciousness or spiritual vigilance. In this case it means being oblivious to everything and everyone except the ear. When consciousness is directly and exclusively concentrated on the ear, it will be thoroughly purged, leading to spiritual awakening, which is the best way of being de-addicted.

There is only one way to freedom from crime and drug addiction spiritual vigilance. Indian method of spiritual accomplishment introduced a practice called Ajapajap, ie silent nonverbalised repetition of a mantra. While undertaking a repetition of mantra, a stage may come when the practice becomes a part of breathing itself.

Another important exercise for transforming consciousness is focussing total attention on the psychic centres. We should dislodge consciousness from near the navel and let it move upwards respectively to the Centre of Bliss (thymus), Centre of Purity (the pharyngeal plexus), Centre of Vigilance (the sense-organ of hearing), Centre of intuition (the pituitary), and Centre of Wisdom (the cerebral cortex). As consciousness moves higher and higher, the propensity for crime and drug-taking shall come to an end.