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Why we are on this planet?

I think even the planet is wondering why the hell these

human beings came here.

The solar system, the way it is, and so as the other universal systems, the

galaxies, they're all happening because they arrive at

a certain perfection of geometry.

Geometry in the sense, right now this planet is going around the sun. It's

its perfect orbit. So it's going and going and going.

Not powered by engine or something. See, the airplane is going.

powered by engines, it's being pushed.

This is not being pushed.

This has just found a certain perfection of geometry and it's going on.

The day it loses its perfection of geometry, if it loses the line of orbit,

gone.

So in this process, life happens on this planet, also involving this geometry

on various levels.

We say in the yogic culture, we say, A human being is physiologically and

in terms of brain has reached its peak physiologically.

That is, after a million years you will not have a horn coming out of your head

or something else, like the tail disappeared, something else will

This cannot happen.

We are saying this from a certain context.

Today the modern neuroscientists are saying similar things.

They are saying the size of the neuron in the human brain can neither increase,

nor can the wiring inside can increase because the physical laws don't permit

it. The laws of physics do not permit it. I will not go into the detail of

To put it very simply, how we see it is, your birth here, right now all life on

this planet is solar powered, isn't it?

Yes? It is the sun's energy which is doing all this.

Human… and also the revolutions, And the rotations of the moon also has

influence upon us. The very ocean is rising and falling with the movement of

moon.

Only because our mother's bodies were in tune with the cycle of the moon, we are

born and we are here.

Yes? If this twenty -eight day cycle of the moon does not repeat itself in a

woman's body, you and me wouldn't be born.

So because it has reached that, we say,

Physically, the physical laws have come to a certain place where life upon this

planet cannot evolve further.

You can make use of what you have in a much better way.

Using the same technology, we had a dumb phone, then we had a smart phone, now

we have an iPhone.

Like this we can go on improving it, how we use it. But the fundamental physical

laws will not permit any further evolution of this creature.

So did it happen by accident?

No.

The theory of evolution, you know Charles Darwin, who made a monkey out of

Not me, him.

If you look at the theory of evolution, which was propounded just 150 years ago,

we have said this thousands of years ago, in a sense.

You know the ten avatars?

At least the nine you know, those who have come. What is the first one?

Yes, Matsya Avatara.

Matsya Avatara means fish or water life.

All life on this planet started under water.

What is the next Avatara?

Kurma Avatara.

Amphibious, like a turtle.

Half in the water, half on the land.

The next one is Varaha Avatara, a pig or a wild boar.

Among the mammals,

One animal which is strongly, strongly rooted in its body is a wild boar.

See, we live next to the forest, we see this.

The tribal boys can kill a deer with a stick.

If you hit it with a stick, it'll fall dead. The local dogs will hunt the deer.

But a wild boar, you try to kill him and see, it's not easy to kill him.

You go smash him with a car, his spine is broken, still he will go, he will not

stop. because he is so physically rooted, his life is so physical.

So the next form of life was Varahavatara. This simply means the

finding expression in first as fish, then as a turtle, then as a wild boar,

one is Narasimha, half man, half animal, next one is Vamana, a dwarfed man, next

one is a full -grown man but emotionally volatile man who is Parishurama.

next one is a peaceful man, which is Rama, next is a loving man, which is a

Krishna, next is a meditative man, which is a Buddha, the next is supposed to be

a mystical being yet to come.

Okay?

This is running very much in parallel lines with the Darwin's theory of

evolution. Yes or no?

It's in the same sequence, exactly in the same sequence.

Darwin propounded his theory only 150 years ago. This was said 12 to 15 ,000

years ago.

Adiyogi himself spoke about it.

So, if you observe life, you can clearly see from what is inanimate,

basic life formed. From that, life evolved.

We've always seen it that way.

Always we saw life evolved.

Constantly... We are… in every temple you go, there is a snake.

There are various symbolisms all around the place because even today in your

brain, one part of your brain is a reptilian brain.

You know, the core part of your brain is still a reptilian brain and it still

functions and we have different practices in yoga as to how to transcend

reptilian brain and allow the cerebral cortex to function.

And today we have scientific evidence to show you.

The University of California has done scientific studies on Shambhavi

the basic practice we teach usually.

And they say if you practice Shambhavi Mahamudra for three months, the neuronal

regeneration increases by two hundred and forty -one percent, a kind of

percentage that's never been recorded in the history of any kind of research,

okay? Just a simple practice for twenty -one minutes.

Two hundred and forty -one percentage increase in your brain function and

neuronal regeneration. This means as you grow old, you will become more

intelligent. Usually young people think you're getting stupid.

Yes, your brain is actually growing.

You understand? It's getting better by the day.

Now there is scientific evidence. We always knew this.

But today a meter has to say it. If a man says it, it's not true.

If a man says it, it's doubtful. But a meter has to say it, now the meters are

saying it.

The meters are saying your brain is actually growing by doing a simple

-one minute practice.

And you don't believe the meter. You just do the practice for three months

see, you will see how clear and how smart your mind is suddenly.

The essence of all this is, first thing is to understand the

nature of how existence is happening.

Either you can look at this or you can look at the atom or you can look at the

universe. If you want to look at the universe, it is complex, it is difficult

because you don't have a gallery seat, you know.

There is no… it is not like a stadium, you can sit somewhere and watch the

universe.

Very difficult. You can only see it in pieces.

If you want to watch an atom, nobody has seen an atom. Do you know this?

Do you know this?

Even in a super electron microscope, you can't see an atom.

We have observed its activity, but we have never seen an atom as such.

But we have broken it.

We are capable of breaking things that even we cannot see.

That's our… we are very proud of this.

We can break anything.

We can make it or not is a questionable thing, but we can break anything we

want. Even if we cannot see it, we can break it.

Now, what you see and what you do not see itself is a very dicey thing in the

sense, what is it that you can see?

Right now, can you see my hand?

Yes. You can see my hand only because my hand stops light.

If my hand did not stop this light, if it allowed light to pass through, you

wouldn't see this hand.

Yes?

Or in other words, right now your visual apparatus can see only those things

which stop light.

Anything that allows light through, you cannot see it.

You cannot see light itself, first of all.

Can you see the light that is here?

No. Only whatever stops light, you can see.

What does not stop light, you cannot see.

Very bad, isn't it? You must be able to see all those things which allow light

to pass through because they are important things.

But right now your visual apparatus are trained to see or capable of seeing only

that which stops light.

So the whole process of seeing life the way it is means, first of all, evolving

an eye, a thoughtless eye, an eye which is free of

thought. When I say free of thought, it is free from the taint of memory.

Right now, these two eyes are heavily loaded with memory.

So you can see this.

If you see a group of people like this, If you just casually look like this, if

the… among these hundreds of people, if there is one face that you are familiar

with, you will see suddenly that face sticks out.

Have you noticed this?

Have you noticed this?

You are going in a street, there are hundred people standing there, your

is among that. If you look here, just this friend's face is more clear

than the rest of the faces because

This eye works with memory. The more memory you have, the better it sees. No

memory, it cannot see.

Memory means an accumulated past.

Memory means information.

Memory means that which does not exist but acts out

as if it does.

Memories are more real.

than reality, isn't it so?

Yes or no?

See, I want you to understand, everything in your life is run by

Not just your computer stick, everything in your life.

When I say memory, not just what you carry here, your very body is a body of

memory.

Why if you eat a banana, it becomes… a masculine body, and if she

eats a banana, it becomes a feminine body.

It's simply because of the memory that it contains, isn't it? The information

that is stored in this body and that body is different.

Same banana, it becomes a man. Same banana, it becomes a woman.

Yes or no?

Huh?

Are you eating different types of bananas?

Same thing, same food if you eat.

it is becoming one way.

In one person it is becoming dark skin, in another person it's becoming fair

skin. How?

The memory that you carry.

Do you remember your great -great -great -great -great -grandfather?

You don't.

But his nose is sitting on your face.

Your body remembers, isn't it?

You may not have no idea who it was, but your body remembers even today.

A million years ago, how your forefathers were, still it remembers,

So what you call as my body is just a body of memory and eyes are loaded with

memory.

An eye which is loaded with memory, an eye which is corrupted with memory

see anything the way it is.

It will only see things as it is convenient because the software is

inside.

It will not allow you to see anything the way it is.

This is what traditionally we are referring to as karma.

It is there in your body, it is there in your energies, it is there in the way

your chemical reactions happen, it is there in your brain, it is there in your

mind, it is there in everything. In the very physical energy that you carry,

there is memory because you will see each person's energies behave

from the other.

simply because of the type of memory it carries.

If you want to get rid of this, it's a long process.

And if you get rid of this, dismantling of the personality and body will happen.

So another way is to create a distance from it.

Just hold it little away.

When you want to play with it, you play with it. When you want to switch it off,

you must be able to switch it off.

So for this, an external view is needed.

Right now, your ears are loaded with memory, your eyes are loaded with

your tongue is loaded with memory.

Why if you are born in Karnataka, if you go to

North India, food doesn't taste good is because the tongue is loaded with

memory.

Yes or no? Have you suffered this or no?

You went north,

And they said, aloo bhaji, aloo...

aloo matar, aloo palak, aloo parota, aloo, aloo,

aloo, aloo, they said.

You couldn't stay there.

Because your tongue is loaded with memory.

It wants the same things back, otherwise it will suffer.

So what...

being loaded with memory means is a cocoon of the past is holding you. It

not allow you to even move into the present.

A cocoon of the past holds you and you allow it to do this because it feels

safe. It creates a cocoon.

There is safety but in safety there is also imprisonment.

You are really safe if we lock you up in a safe, isn't it?

But the problem is you can't get out.

That's the whole problem.

Walls that you build as self protection, they also become the walls of self

imprisonment. That is the nature of life.

If you lock yourself from inside or outside, it's the same thing.

As long as you do not open the door, Whether somebody locked you from outside

you locked yourself from inside, there is no difference. Anyway you are

imprisoned, isn't it?

At least somebody locked you from outside, you can at least complain and

You locked yourself from inside, you can only be depressed.

You cannot even scream.

Who… at whom will you scream?

So this process of what we are looking at is, The memory imprints itself on all

levels, right up to the elemental level.

From the five elements which function here, from just after

that, memory's work starts.

So when we utter the word karma, it is not one simple formula

or it's not, you know, people are saying theory of karma. We are not talking

about any theory.

we are referring to a certain reality.

Karma means memory.

Action and memory.

Past action exists only in the form of memory, isn't it so?

Yes?

Memory not just what you carry here.

Every cell in the body carries its own memory.

Why one atom behaves differently from another atom, though the same

is, it has a memory.

A hydrogen atom has one kind of memory, Oxygen atom has another kind of memory.

Unless you mix them up, they will continue to behave like that.

It is in a small circle.

You are in a little larger circle.

The universe is in a much larger circle but the same memory rules all of it.

So when we said karma, we are not talking about some concept or

We are referring to a certain reality which is finding manifestation as who

are. The very shape of your body is because of memory.

If a bird eats a mango, it becomes a bird. If a worm eats a mango, it becomes

worm. If you eat a mango, you become a human being.

Same mango, how many things it's doing, depending upon what kind of memory it

carries.

Isn't it?

What you call as a seed, if you plant the same seed, if you plant a seed in

same soil, Here you plant a mango tree, here you plant an apple tree in the same

soil. This will only produce apples, this will only produce mangoes. I know

there is a newspaper picture where, you know, a jackfruit has become banana.

That's different.

Yes? You saw this?

Are you all from Bangalore or Devanahalli?

No? You didn't see this?

A bunch of bananas are coming out of a jackfruit for some reason.

And that's a freak.

And that's happened because of some mix -up.

We don't know who did the mix -up.

But essentially, if you… in the same soil, if you plant an apple seed and a

mango seed, this will only produce apples, this will only produce mangoes

because seed is a certain amount of memory, isn't it?

Whether it is a seed of a plant, or your father's seed which enter your mother's

womb, it is just memory and memory and memory, isn't it so?

This is karma.

And this goes right back, right up to the elemental level. Everything is

Only the pure element is free from memory.

So the idea, when we start, we're starting on bhutecha because that's the

important thing, that he mastered the elements, that's why we bow down to him

because

Because he mastered the elements, he has an eye which has no memory, a tantalus

eye which sees everything just the way it is. So yoga essentially means

developing an eye which is not contaminated by memory, which simply

It does not see things the way your memory perverts it. It simply

sees everything the way it is. This eye, will see those things which do not stop

light. Right now, these two eyes can only see what stops light.

If you start seeing something that does not stop light, that means another

dimension of the eye is beginning to function.

The question is, is there rebirth?

If it's there, what is the basis for one being to go from one birth to another?

What is it that carries a person from one to another?

Now if you need to understand this, you must have some understanding

of the mechanics of who you are. I'm talking about the mechanics of how a

being is built.

See, when you say I'm a human being, the outermost periphery is the physical

body.

In yoga, we look at everything as body because it is easier for you to

understand that way.

So we see the body as five dimensions or five sheets.

Physical body is known as anamaya kosha.

Anamaya kosha means, anna means the food.

This is food body.

Next one is called manomaya kosha.

That means it's the mental body.

The third one is called pranamaya kosha, which means the energy body.

Physical body, mental body, energy body. All these three dimensions are

physical.

They are physical existence.

Physical body is very gross.

Mental body is subtler. Energy body is even subtler. But all these three are

physical.

Just like the light bulb is physical, you can see that.

The electricity behind also is physical, isn't it?

The wire that connects is also physical, the electrons that flow through the

wire also are physical existence.

So similarly, physical body, mental body, pranic body, all are physical

dimensions of life.

This physical dimension of life, both in all these three dimensions,

carries the imprints of karma. On the body it is imprinted, on the mind it's

imprinted and on the energy it's imprinted.

This karmic imprints or the karmic structure is what holds it together.

Karma is the cement which holds you to the physical body.

Karma is the bondage. At the same time, it's only because of karmic stuff you

can hold on to the body and be here.

This is where

spirituality seems to be difficult because if you try to take it away, it

doesn't work. If you try to add, it doesn't work.

You need to be just there.

If you're just there, it's a moment.

Now, the next two dimensions are called Vijnanamaya Kosha and Anandamaya Kosha.

Vijnanamaya Kosha is non -physical,

related to the physical. It is like a transient state.

Anandamaya Kosha is completely non -physical.

So, Vigyanamaya Kosha and Anandamaya Kosha means it's the bliss body.

There is a bliss body inside which is hundred percent non -physical.

It has no form of its own.

Only if the energy body, the mental body and the physical body are in shape,

it can hold the bliss body in shape.

If these things are taken away, the bliss body will just become a part of

cosmos.

So whatever you are referring to as atman or the soul is a fiction

actually.

In the sense, people are describing a certain limitation of the non -physical

as a soul.

But the body for the soul is still your karma.

If the karmic structure is completely dismantled, there is no soul. Everything

merges into everything else.

What is referred to as Mahasamadhi or Mahaparinirvana is just this, that you

slowly understand where the keys are and dismantle the karmic structure so that

you become truly no more.

When somebody dies, we say this person is no more. That's not true.

That person is no more the way you know them, but they still very much exist.

Now if you dismantle the karmic structure hundred percent, now you merge

the existence.

This is what is referred to as mukti, mahasamadhi. In Hindu tradition it is

referred to as mukti.

In yogic tradition it is referred to as mahasamadhi.

In the Buddhist way, it is called as Mahaparinirvana.

Generally in English, we are saying liberation.

Liberation means becoming free from the very process of life and birth and

death.

Liberation means becoming free from the basic structures of body and mind.

And for all this, the karmic structure is the strings which hold these things

together. So when a person dies, obviously,

the physical body is something that you borrowed from the earth.

This body is just earth, isn't it?

You understand?

This physical body is just a piece of earth which is right now prancing around

like this.

But you have to pay it back atom to atom. No interest though.

But you have to pay back every atom. You won't be allowed to carry a single atom

from this planet.

Nobody has managed it.

Physical body will fall apart.

The mental body and the pranic body, depending upon the strength of your

goes on.

If the karmic structure is very intense, unfinished, then

it has to finish it.

If the karma has become weak because it has run its course, then it very easily

finds another body.

If it has to find another body, the intensity of the structure should come

it should become passive.

If it is very intense, it cannot find, it has to hang.

So this is what you are referring to as ghosts.

Somebody is dead, his karmic structure is still intense because it's not over.

Now he needs much more time to find another body, he is still like this.

And the more intense his karmic structure is, the more visible he

more experientially available to people.

There are innumerable such beings all around you, whether you know it or you

don't know it.

But most of them you won't feel because their karma is dissipated. They're just

waiting for more dissipation before they find another body.

But if their karma is very intense, this is why they told you in the tradition

if somebody dies unnaturally, either by accident or suicide or some other way,

they will become ghosts. It is not so. Everybody becomes.

It is just that they are more experienceable.

They are more available to your experience because they have more

structures. So you people may experience them little more than other beings who

die of old age.

If one completely completes his allotted karma for that life,

he will die just like that, without disease, without accident, without any

injury. When one dies simply like that, that person may find another body within

hours.

This is why in this tradition always they said, if one completes his life and

dies peacefully, it's the best way to die because he need not hang around.

Immediately it goes on.

Now when you walk the spiritual path, the ultimate goal for every spiritual

seeker is, he wants to break this whole process.

Or otherwise, to use an analogy, we can say, what you call as

my soul right now is like a bubble.

The outer periphery of the bubble is your karmic structure.

Inside, there is air.

Suppose you blow the bubble, you burst the bubble, where is the air?

Where is your air?

There is no such thing as your air. It's become part of everything.

So what you call as soul is fictitious because there is no such thing as your

soul and my soul and somebody else's soul.

Right now, this unboundedness is contained in the limited karmic

So it makes you believe as if this is a separate entity.

If you take away the keys which hold the karmic structure, then it just

collapses.

So this afterlife, next birth,

don't believe all these nonsense.

But right now if you sit here and just close your eyes, you can clearly

see,

More than this body you are, isn't it?