“At the end of the academic year in a school, .the teacher was being…”

A small Story:

At the end of the academic year in a school, .the teacher was being given different gifts from her students. First, a student came up, her father owned a retail outlet which sold sweets, she presented a nicely packed gift. The teacher took the gift, shook it and asked the student, “is this a box of sweets?” The child said “yes”,. Next, a student, who’s father was in the garment business, presented another nicely packed gift, again the teacher shook it close to her ears, and said, “I think this contains some clothing” The Child said “yes”. Then, a student who’s father owned an alcohol retail business, presented her gift. The teacher took the gift, shook it, when suddenly she saw that there was a leak from the pack, she took a sip from where it was leaking , and asked the child, “is this beer?” The child said “no”, the teacher was curious, so she sipped some more, and asked, “is it wine?” The child said “no”. Then the teacher said, “alright, I give up, please tell me, what is it?” The child said “it is a puppy”

Moral of the story, please don’t put anything in your mouth, unless you know for sure, what it is, or at least, do not take major decisions through your engrams or engraved memories.

When you take major decisions through engraved memories, you will always end up making these kind of decisions.

Since the gift was from a student who’s father was in the business of selling alcohol, the teacher thought it was a bottle of beer or wine In the same way, in your life, time and again, you take decisions based on your engraved memories. The first two decisions taken by the teacher, were correct, because the first girl’s father was in the business of selling sweets, the teacher guessed that the gift was a box of sweets, then the second child’s father owned a garment business, so the teacher guessed that the gift was a dress, and the third child, because her father owned an alcohol business , the teacher thought the gift from her was a bottle of alcohol!!

Before you put anything into your mouth, please be very clear, as to what it is.

This whole chapter is about engraved memories in our mind.

Unatraye Vibhaga Yoga.

Krishna explains the 3 different Gunas (modes) to Arjuna. How we act, actually I can’t even say that we act, how we react to every situation is more apt, based on these three Gunas (modes), and how we create more & more KarmaBandha (bondages arising from our actions), which results in more & more trouble for ourselves.

Let me start with the first shloka (sacred verse) Sri Bhagvan, Upaacha Parambhuya Pradakshyaami Nyana Nam Namuktamam Gyaanagnyata Mura yatsarve Param siddhi midogathaha

Bhagwan (God) says, “I will declare to you again the supreme wisdom, through the knowledge of which all sages have attained supreme perfection”

Whether you believe it or not, Man by his very nature, is a machine. He is just a mechanism. Not only at the body level, but even at the level of the mind, he is just a mechanism. At most, you can call it a BioMechanism, but he is still, just a Mechanism.

He works, based on engraved memories. He is caught in the web of engraved memories, continuosly, his mind and his being works, based on engraved memories.

Here, by trying to repeat the truth, again and again, Krishna is trying to create an engraved memory of truth in Arjuna’s mind.

Please understand, why Krishna repeats himself, why he literally uses the same words, again, and again. Why? Why should Krishna speak of the same thing again & again?

The other day, I said that Krishna is a master who is result oriented. He wants what he wants. He is not willing to compromise, he is not one who is easily satisfied, and has the attitude that, “I said whatever I had to say , if he wants to listen or not, that’s upto him” No. Again and again, he repeats himself, and this is because he wants to create a memory of all his teachings in Arjuna’s mind.

Such that, if Arjuna misses once, perhaps he may get it the next time.

By creating an engraved memory in Arjuna’s mind, he wanted Arjuna to follow it. That’s the reason, why he repeats the truth once again.

He says “Again, I shall declare, once more I speak about the truth to you, through the knowledge of which all the sages have attained.supreme perfection- Paraamsitividogata (supreme Perfection)

Itam Gyana Upaastritya

# Mama Saadamyar Magyaata

# Sadye Vinobhajaayante

Pralayena Vyadanticha

By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain the transcendental nature, like my own, and thus establish in his eternal consciousness, that one is not born at the time of creation, or disturbed at the time of dissolution.

For the first time, he says, you will reach the state in which I am. So far he said , “worship me , worship me, surrender into me”, now he says, You will achieve the same state in which I am . One can attain the transcendental nature, like my own

# Itam Gyana Upaastritya

Mama Sadarmya mayat Sadarmya Maagata

The state in which I am , you can achieve too.

I believe that Krishna was the first master who was courageous and bold enough to declare that enlightenment is available to everybody. Anybody can achieve it. Enlightenment is not just an accident, it is an incident which you can create.. It is not just an accident.

Till Sri Krishna, all the Upanishads, all the Brahmasutras (earlier scriptures), spoke as if enlightenment was an accident and some people got it, but nobody knew why they got it, and why others could not get it or how to get it? No.Nobody knew.

All they knew , was that some people were blessed, almost as if God was sitting up there & reviewing all the applications, and to some applications, he said, “alright, yes”, and immediately that person got enlightened!!

Krishna, however, was the first master, who clearly showed how to write the application or how to present your resume. How to achieve Enlightenment, which is not just an accident, but is an incident.

You can experience it through your conscious decision. It is not just an accident.

He says, by being fixed in this knowledge, “one can attain”, he doesn’t even say you can attain, he says one can attain, that means anybody can attain.

After the Vishwarupa Darshana (XXX), whatever is shared between Arjuna & Krishna, whatever goes on between Arjuna & Krishna is meant for the whole world, because what Arjuna had to achieve, he had already achieved, and after that there was nothing to say.

In the 11th chapter, he experienced Vishwarupa Darshana, from chapter 12, all the teachings are meant for the whole world, they have been recorded for the benefit of the whole world.

A Scientist is a person who creates a formula to reproduce things in the outer world, a Spiritual Master is a person who creates a formula to reproduce the experience of the inner world.

Here, Krishna says, by establishing yourself in this knowledge, you can achieve the experience, or you can establish yourself in the same state in which I am, like my own-“mama”- which means my own. Krishna declares, that “this truth will directly lead you to the state in which I am established”

SarvayoNishi Kaunteya Muktaysambhavantiya Dasa Brahmam Mahattyonir Aham Bhija Pradappitaar

Understand, that all species of life O kaunteya(son of Kaunti), are made possible by birth, in this material nature, and that I am the seed giving father

Here, Krishna is trying to answer a philosophical question, which honestly I think, can never be answered, and whosoever tried to answer this question, created a philosophy.

Here, Krishna is trying to answer this question.

The question is , how is the whole Universe created? If everything is God, then how is the whole universe created. How are we all born?

Someone asked me the other day, I think the question was out of frustration, “why are we given birth? Why should we take birth at all? Why is this whole drama of taking birth, then meditating, then achieving enlightenment? Why? For who’s sake is this drama? If we have to end up working out all our Karmas, then why do we create Karma in the first place? What is the reason for this? Why does this cycle go on and on?”

Here Krishna is trying to answer this question, but please understand, that this answer is not the ultimate truth. Here, he is just saying, please wait till the teachings are over. Normally, when you don’t receive an answer for your philosophical question, you will not enter into meditation. You will be stuck with that question. Again, and again you will be thinking of the same question.. Again & again, you will come back to that question. Here, Arjuna also comes back, again & again to the same question and gets stuck.

Krishna, for the sake of meditation, or just for the sake of giving him an understanding, gives an answer. The other day, I was sharing the same example, that there is a formula- X \+ 2 \= 4. In the beginning, the teacher will make an assumption by saying “let us assume that X \= 2”, then she will replace X with 2, and go on to show that 2+ 2= 4. The formula is solved and you have a solution. The problem is solved. Then the teacher will say, “because the problem is solved, now let us understand, that X= 2”, but till he comes to that conclusion, he has to assume that X \= 2. If you start arguing, at the point when he makes the assumption that X= 2, saying “why, why should X be equal to 2, why not 3, why don’t you assume X \= 4?”, then you will not be able to solve the problem. Once, you solve the problem, then you know that X is 2, you understand it logically, but before solving, when you start, you need to assume that X \=2. Some assumption has to be made, so that you can proceed to solve the problem.

Here, Krishna also makes a small assumption, and proceeds to solve the problem, and once he solves the problem, then, naturally we will understand that what was assumed is the truth.

What the teacher assumed, was not a wrong assumption, but it was still an assumption Similarly, Krishna gives an idea, which is not the ultimate truth, it is a comparative reality. It is a comparative truth.

He says, I am the father, “I am the father- pita, I am the root cause for everything”. However, these words of Krishna can be understood only when you experience the consciousness of Krishna, but till you experience the Consciousness of Krishna, it is only an assumption.

Even if it is an assumption, it is ok, proceed with this assumption into the next chapters, into the next shlokas (sacred verses)

Suddenly, when you see the result, you will understand that whatever you have assumed is the truth. Once, the problem is solved, all the assumptions that you have made, will be understood as the truth.

Here, Krishna makes this assumption, so that you understand the truth.

Satvam Rajas tamayiti Guna prakriti sangbhava Niviat nandi maha bhavo Dehe devi namavyayam

Material nature consists of 3 modes, goodness, passion and ignorance. Once again, I want to say that this translation is not complete, because we do not have the relevant English words for Sattva, Rajas & Tamas. You cannot aptly translate these three words into English.

When the eternal living entity comes into contact with nature, O Mighty armed Arjuna, he becomes conditioned by these modes. Krishna clearly explains, it is here he starts the teaching. He explains how we are caught in 3 different mental set ups, how we operate through three different types of engraved memories. One is Sattva, the other is Rajas and the third is Tamas These are translated as goodness, passion & ignorance., but these are not the exact translations.

Let me explain these concepts:

Understand, that there are no exact words for these.

Sattva means the engrams or engraved memories which lead you to Bliss. The engraved memories which lead you to joy, to ecstasy.

Rajas means the engraved memories which lead you to restlessness, memories which lead you to excitement, which lead you to work intensely and which make you active.

The third one, Tamas, are the engraved memories which lead you to depression, which lead you to laziness and to dullness.

Engraved memories which lead to ecstasy and bliss is Sattva, engraved memories which lead you to restlessness, anger, emotional imbalance is Rajas, and engraved memories which lead you to depression, dullness, low moods is Tamas

A small example

You are sitting in a car and somebody else is driving. Slowly, you get lost in thoughts. After a while, when you are lost in thoughts, suddenly you recall a person or some place, the thought of which you feel disturbed. The moment the mind feels disturbed, you come back to awareness. Sometimes, you will say “I should not think about it, let me think of something else”, sometimes, you may even speak these words out aloud. You may even make some small gestures. The person who is driving, may look back and say “what happened, what are you doing”? When you are lost in thoughts, and a memory arises which makes you feel depressed or dull or disturbed, when suddenly you come back to awareness, you will say to yourself, “what am I thinking?” Sometimes, you may even say it aloud “:I should not think about this, Oh God what am I thinking about, I should think of something else” In Sanskrit there is beautiful word for engraved memories, they are called “Samskara”. Those engraved memories which automatically arise and lead you to depression are called Tamas.

Sometimes, a thought may come up suddenly “ I will not leave him, I will see that he learns a lesson, I will not leave him” and suddenly engrossed with this thought, you may make a gesture with your hands. These kind of engrams, which make you active, cause anger, violence, are called Rajas.

Very rarely, you get Satvic engrams, thus I cannot give any examples. Sattvic Engrams are those engrams that you normally don’t get

We are normally caught between Rajas & Tamas. Sattvic engrams are those engrams which give u a memory of deep bliss or joy that you have experienced. For example, if you come here everyday, the moment it is 4.30pm, an engram like this may come up “ oh yesterday, the discourse was wonderful, the meditation was beautiful, I think I should go today as well”

If you are pulled, if you are made to do something good which leads to bliss, which leads to ecstasy, which leads to peace of mind, then it is called engraved memories of Sattva or Sattvic memories or Sattvic engrams

An example, if you go to the Himalayas, for a few days, you may experience joy and peace. Then, later, when you see pictures of a hill or mountain, or when you watch a movie which has a clip of a mountain, the memory of the Himalayas will suddenly come up, and you may start thinking “oh I should spend a couple of months in the Himalayas”

The engrams which lead you to peace, to bliss, to ecstasy are called Sattvic engrams.

These are the three different types of engraved memories or samskaras which rule your entire life. Please understand, the knowledge of these engraved memories, is the basic knowledge that must be possessed by anyone who wants to live. It is like an owner’s manual for the person who has a mind.

Without an owner’s manual, when you use a product, either you miss the whole thing, or you miss the knowledge of a lot of the applications and features that the product may have. There are so many uses and features of a computer, the calculator has hundreds of applications which you are not aware of. You may use the calculator only for its basic features like addition and subtraction, you may not use it for other applications, for which it could be used.

In the same way, when you don’t know the owner’s manual of the mind. Gunatrayevibhaga yoga- that is what Krishna calls it, the understanding of the three different types of engraved memories or Samskaras. When you don’t understand these three, you miss the whole thing, or you miss many different things which can be done. You can do so much with your mind, which you don’t do. You may miss it when you don’t have the owner’s manual.

Here, this is the owner’s manual for the mind.

You may ask, why should we know about these samskaras, really what is the use? How is it going to help us?

At the outset, samskaras are not dead memories, here, once again we don’t have the correct translation of samskara in English. You can never really understand Shakespeare in another language, If you read the translation of Shakespeare, at most you will understand what Shakespeare was trying to express, but you will never understand how he expressed it, the depth of it. If you have to enjoy Shakespeare, you have to read it in the original language, his language, not even today’s spoken English. In the same way, if you have to understand the great truths, you must know at least a little bit of Sanskrit. When, I ask people to learn a bit of Sanskrit, they think I’m trying to spread the language. I say No. For spirituality, a little knowledge of Sanskrit will really help, because it will help you directly understand many technical terms.

Let me give you the exact meaning or the idea expressed by the word samskara, Samskara is not just an engraved memory, it is an engraved memory which is alive and active, which has got the power to pull you down and make you travel down the same path again and again, this is called samskara. Usually, the word memory is understood as a dead record, but samskara is not just a dead record. Please be very clear, it is not just a dead memory, it is not like the memory of a computer, where all the pictures and word documents are stored. No. Samskaras have the power to pull you down again, and to make you walk down the same path. A samskara automatically attracts you, calls you and makes you travel down the same path, and when you walk on the same path, the engraving gets deeper, the memory gets deeper. It is a living memory, it is not a dead memory. The more you travel with that memory, the more you live with that memory, the more it becomes a part of your being. It goes to your deeper level Consciousness.

Here, Krishna tries to explain, step by step, how you get caught in these 3 levels of memories and how, again and again, you are pulled and pushed by these 3 types of memories. Its almost like having 3 wives Really, if you have one woman in your life, enlightenment is a luxury, if you have 2 women, enlightenment is an option, if you have 3 women in your life, enlightenment is compulsory. You cannot live without enlightenment.

The other day, someone asked me, “how come Krishna had so many girlfriends?” I said that this itself is solid proof that he is enlightened. Despite having so many girlfriends, he still survived , that itself is solid proof that he is enlightened. No doubt, that is also solid proof that he is God. Only God can manage so many women!

Here, he gives you a clear understanding of how to live with these 3 engraved memories. Another important point that you should understand , that these memories are living energies, they are not dead, and because these are living energies, they can be used for bad deeds, as well as, these can also be put to good use as well, towards good deeds.

When, a person has energies to do bad deeds, you can always tap into those energies and make him do good deeds. From my experience I share with you, that no oneelse else puts in as much effort, and goes into as much depth of meditation, like a prisoner. We conduct meditation programs in prisons, I have seen that they are so involved and go into much more depth, compared to people outside . When prisoners take it up, they really take it up, and they are very intense. They don’t do anything half heartedly, so when they are transformed, their whole life is transformed!!

If you look deeper, there are so many saints whose lives I can quote from- Valmiki, in south Bharat, then there was a great saint- Arunagirinadhar, there are so many such saints who were sinners, but the moment they turned, the change happened, a cognitive shift took place in their being. Usually, the cognition happens in your mind in the way that you receive data, process it and deliver the result, but once the cognitive shift takes place, you receive data, process it and go inside. As long as you are reacting, you are naturally working towards depression, one you start going in, you are moving towards bliss.

For example, death of someone who’s close to you, your near & dear, this type of incident can lead you to the spiritual path or can lead you to frustration, you can think “I am also going to die, so l should do what I want to”

A small story, a person was about to be executed, to be hanged. The officer on duty asked him if he had any last wish. The prisoner said “No”. The officer said “if you want, you can pray to God, and ask for forgiveness, and ask for his blessing”. The prisoner said “ I want to remember god but not in the manner you suggest, I feel, that had I known earlier, that I was going to be hanged, I would have committed a few more sins” The prisoner continued “If this result had been known to me, the result that I was going to be hanged, I would have committed some more sins, so if at all I pray , I will ask God, as to why he didn’t let me know earlier, that I was going to be hanged”

Some people, when they see and understand that death is ultimate, they think “death is ultimate, let me work towards the divine, achieve God, realize Atman” Others may react differently to the same incident “ anyways we are going to die, let us live the way we want to” One group of people take the path of meditation, the other group take the path of the outer world.

Its upto you, as to which path you choose.

Engrams are also living energies, and through engrams, you can choose to again and again , suffer and torture yourselves, or, you can make your whole life a blissful experience”

If you know the science of how these engraved memories happen in your being, how they can transform your being, then you can take help of these engraved memories to achieve eternal consciousness, eternal bliss in your being.

How these engraved memories disturb your mind, and how you can transform your very being, is what Krishna starts explaining.

(Shloka)- TatvaSatvam Nirmalaatva

# Prakash Sakanaamayam

Suk sange na Padmathi Gyan sange na chanaka

Before explaining this shloka, I will present a small diagram through which you can understand how engrams can affect your decision and how to come out of it.

I have already given a basic understanding of this diagram, but let me repeat it so that you can connect with this Samskara.

Please understand, how we receive information or data from the outer world, and how we process it and how we take decisions.

First , we see something through the eyes, I have taken the example of eyes, you can replace with any other senses- ears, nose, taste, touch. Among these 5 gyanendriyas (XXX), any one sense can be used here. There are 5 gyanendriyas and 5 kanendriyas (XXX). You can take any of the 5 gyanendriyas to replace the eyes in this example.

(Need to show the diagram here)

Through the eyes, you see a scene, lets take the example of this very situation or scene. Here, you see me , first this whole scene is captured by your eye like a picture, and this goes to Chakshu (energy behind the eyes) Understand, that you don’t see with the eye, you see through the eye, there is an energy which is inside or behind the eye, which sees. There is an energy which is inside or behind the ears which hears. Ears on their own cannot hear. That is why, when you are reading a book, you may not be able to hear the alarm ringing or the doorbell ringing. If a husband or wife walks in, you may not know if you are reading. Ofcourse, if its late night, all wives will know when their husbands sneak into the house

A small story

A man goes to the police station to meet a thief who had burgled his house the previous night and taken all the cash. The Officer on duty refuses saying “ you cannot talk to him, you can meet him only in court tomorrow” The man pleads and says “ All I t want to know from him is how did he enter my home, without waking up my wife? I have been trying to do this for many years, and have not been able to do it, how did he do it?”

So, there is an energy inside the eyes that see, it is what we call Chakshu. The whole scene is converted into a file, with which you can process , like the digital signal processor in a computer. The chakshu is almost like the digital signal processor or the DSP in software language. If you are to work on sound or light or photograph, it has to be first converted into a digital file. In a computer, whether it’s an audio or visual file, it has to be converted to a digital file, in the same way, in your system , whatever you see or hear, will be converted to a bio-signal file like a digital file. This conversion happens in this chakshu area.

Then, the file starts moving, step by step. The file goes to chitta (memory) Please understand this. If you understand this one thing, your whole life can be transformed. You will know where and how you areact, and how you take big decisions, based on your assumptions, and then suffer.

Just like in the first story, without thinking , just by imagining that it must be alcohol, the teacher took sips of the leaking liquid. How we make these mistakes, you will understand, if you can understand this one diagram

The file goes to chitta. Chitta is memory, the place where all the past memories are collected. Of course all these places are connected to memories only, but this is one part, where the work of excluding happens. When the file reaches this place, the excluding process starts here- Na yiti, Na Yiti- this is not, this is not. Neti Neti (this is not, this is not) takes place in this area. Your chitta, on seeing this file, starts eliminating. Lets take the example of this scene, first you see me, the whole scene is photographed, it goes here (He points towards chakshu) it becomes a bio signal file, the file is then taken to chitta, chitta says “this is not a tree, this is not an animal, this is not a plant, this is not this, this is not that”,.the excluding process happens here, in this area.(He points towards chitta) Then, the file goes to the mind. The mind tries to identify, “this is a human being, he is wearing a saffron robe, he is standing on a stage”. The identification process, iti, iti- this is it, this is it- process happens in the mind. Here neti- neti (pointing towards chitta in the diagram) and here iti iti (pointing to the mind) . This is not, this is not happens in chitta, this is it, this is it or identification happens in manas or mind. Then the whole file goes to buddhi (intelligence) Buddhi is the place, where trouble starts. Here the analysis starts. “how am I related to this file, to this scene? how should I respond to this scene?”

If according to your buddhi, your past memories about me, with me have been good, pleasant then, you will immediately start referring to those, like “what happened at yesterday’s discourse, what happened earlier when I was in a similar situation?”

Your buddhi refers to the past memory, it will decide based on your past experiences with me, if your past experiences have been good, then your buddhi will say “let me stay & listen” If your past experiences were not pleasant, if you were bored, then your Buddhi will say “this is not a place for me, I should go” If you take a direct decision, that is okay, but the problem arises if the past experience was with some other person wearing a saffron robe, that engram will be there. You will not even bother to see who this person is, you will just decide based on that memory “no, with that swami, I suffered like this, with some other swami, I suffered like that” It will be a generalized memory, and you will take a decision based on your past collected samskaras. That is where, you start creating trouble. When decisions are taken, with a straight understanding, there is no problem.. However, most of the time, you collect and enact based on your engrams which are not directly related to each other.

For example, if you see someone wearing a white dress, and if you have been hurt in the past by a person wearing a white dress, the moment you see a white dress, even if you don’t want it to, the memory will come back. If you are abused or disrespected in a house or at some place, the next time when you visit that house or cross that place, even if the person who did it, is not there, the memory will still come up automatically, and you will experience the same feeling, the same depressed and low mood. The reason for this is that you connect, you associate things with places, with triggers, with memories and put it into files. Man as such, cannot work spontaneously. Thus, he has to rely on some process, some method to reduce his processing work. Naturally, he opts for some kind of arrangement in his memory. When you opt for some arrangement of memory, you miss out on real life. Within the first few months of living with your spouse itself, you form a clear idea about him or her, after that, please be very clear , you don’t live with your spouse, you only live with your imagination, with your understanding of him or her. After that, whatever your spouse does is wrong You come to a conclusion, and if at all your spouse does something right, then you say that it happened by mistake. After a few months, you come to a conclusion about the other person, you create an engram, and after that, whatever he or she does, you look at, through the engram, or the engraved memory. Only in the first few days, you are ready to respond spontaneously. Even in the first few months, you already have collected memories of friends’ experiences, such as “my friend was tortured by the spouse” You have collected memories of your friends’ wives, and the moment, your wife starts doing something, which is not related to that memory, you will still project the memory. Especially in movies, you would have seen some mother in law/daughter in law situation, some mother in law who was rude, was cruel, then, even before your mother in law utters a single word, just from her body language, you will come to a conclusion “I think she is going to torture me, and before she starts, let me start” and you go all out. Now, even your mother in law may have seen many movies, she also has lots of samskaras, she also has some points of reference of, where the daughter in law tortured the mother in law, so immediately she will start her drama.

Especially an Bharatn mother in law & daughter in law- both are like the mind & meditation- cannot stay together. Mind and meditation cannot stay together. Both try to possess the same person. The mother wants her son, the wife wants her husband, both want the same person.

A small story A funeral procession of an old lady was slowly making its way down the road. In the front, the body of the dead woman was being carried, followed by a man holding onto 2 bull dogs, and behind him there was a long queue of people following, all walking very slowly. An onlooker looks at the number of people in this procession, and thinks, “she must have been a famous lady”. So, he approached the man who’s walking with the bull dogs, and inquires “who is the dead lady?” The man says, “she was my mother in law” Then the onlooker asked, if the two dogs were the dead woman’s pets, and the man replied “no. they both bit her and killed her “Killed her?” The onlooker asked “Yes” said the man. The onlooker asked “ can I borrow the dogs only for two days?” The man turned around and said, “join the queue”.

When you have collected memories, you never act spontaneously. You never act.

All your decisions are pre-destined.

Please understand, again and again, people ask me “Master, is our life pre- destined or free willed?” Please understand that the more engrams you have, the more your life is pre-destined. This is because you will go along the same route. The less engrams you have, the more freedom you will enjoy.

The number of samskaras will determine whether you will have free will or if your life will be pre-destined.

For example, the file travels to ego, and the ego gives the decision, and you execute it. If there are more engrams, then the file travels to every table, imagine each engram to be a table. Each engram will stamp, put its signature and write its opinion. Lets take the same example of you being here and seeing me. One engram will say “I had a master in my life, he was a blessing, he helped me a lot, I think I should sit here”, so this engram will sign, yes I will sit here”. The next engram may say “ I have read in newspapers, these Masters do this, do that”

There is enough that gets written in press, especially in Bharat, where abusing Masters is considered fashionable, especially among South Bharatns. So, the second engram will sign off saying “doubt” Then the file goes to the next table, and the third engram says “I attended his discourse yesterday. What he says, makes sense, I think I should sit” This engram signs “yes” By the time, the file reaches here (points to ego), ego takes a decision based on all the yeses and all the No’s, and it comes to a conclusion or decision. Yes or No is not a problem, but you have already wasted so much of time and energy in this small decision.

For example, when you are just sitting in your office, not doing anything, just sitting and worrying, getting stressed , after 15 minutes itself, you will see that you have pain in your shoulders.. How many of you have experienced this? Just simple worrying, simple decision making, will lead to shoulder pain.

The more the engrams, the more you will be restless. People with lots of engrams can never be relaxed. Have you seen people shaking their legs? Initally they have to shake with their own effort , later in life, they will have parkinsons, and automatically they will shake- that’s all

People with stress cannot sit quietly. So much of physical movement, physical restlessness is because, many decisions are taking place inside their unconscious.

This space between the buddhi and ego is called Unconscious, and because you do not know what happens here, you don’t know how many tables are here. It is like the Bharatn Government office, there could be 300 tables, and the file has to move through all 300 tables. When it will move , who will sign what, and what will the final result be, neither you know nor God knows

This is the Conscious zone, it is like an honest office. I don’t know what example to give I don’t think there are any relevant examples to share. This is a straight forward process, here politics is not involved (pointing to the Conscious area) Here, all the politics starts (pointing towards the Unconscious area)

For example, according the data collected at this level (Conscious area), you know that smoking is injurious to health. According to simple, straightforward data that you have assimilated, you know that smoking is injurious to health, but when the time comes, suddenly you decide to smoke How does the file take such a quantum leap, how is the decision totally changed? When the file travels here (Unconscious area), here there are engrams here, which say “no, no, the last time when I smoked, I felt really good, I felt relieved from all the stress” Actually, if you want to get rid of any stress, instead of smoking, wear a tight shoe, because when you wear a tight shoe, you will forget all other worries. Smoking & wearing a tight shoe is one and the same, by smoking you’re trying to forget, by creating bigger problems you try to forget the smaller problems, the same applies to wearing tight shoes as well. So, wear tight shoes, and automatically you will forget the smaller worries or the smaller problems. Here, all the past memories, “I smoked, I felt good, I felt relieved, all the stress disappeared”, all these things happen in this area, and because of that, you suddenly take a decision which you did not want to take. Suddenly you shout, and after 10 minutes, you repent, “why did I shout? I always wanted to keep a smiling face.,at least I wanted people to acknowledge that I have a smiling face. Why did I shout?” You repent. You take a sudden decision, you react suddenly, because of these engrams. There are so many decisions that you take out of these engraved memories, and repent and suffer later on. How do these engraved memories disturb , torture and twist your decisions, we will see in the next shlokas (Sacred verses) Krishna says straight away, ask your being, how did you miss the reality ? What is happening because of these engraved memories? TatvaSatvam Nirmalaatva

# Prakash Sakanaamayam

Suk sange na Padmathi Gyan sange na chanaka

In these three 3 shlokas, he gives a clear explanation of the gunas, TrajoRaga XXXX XXX XXXX

In these three shlokas, bhagwan (God) speaks of the Sattva samskaras which lead you to bliss and peace and Prajoguna samskaras which lead you to restlessness and violence and Tamo samskaras which leads you to depression. He speaks clearly of these three in these shlokas, and then goes on to further explain, how each samskara attacks , how each engram attacks the other engram and twists your whole decision.

For example, if you have a radio which is not working properly, and suddenly you catch frequencies of 3 channels simultaneously, on one channel, there is a advertisement for a cosmetic product being played , on the other, there are instructions being given on farming, and on the third channel, there is a comedy drama being played. It will sound like this to you, “please spray a little bit of pesticide, then wipe your face clearly, then brush your teeth properly, and then put on,a little more pesticide and then with your mouth wide open allow it to happen

Similarly, if you try and execute in your life, based on all the mixed, cross wired instructions, you will end up in difficulty. In the same way, there are different types of engrams, sattva, rajas & tamas, and when you try to work with all the three, and all three cross with each other, they create hell in our lives. Please understand, that intelligent people collect arguments to pass a judgement, most of us collect arguments to support a judgement.

Look into your life, how many time you have done this? Of course, to even look into our lives and see how many times we have done this, we need intelligence. You either have power out of arrogance , and you say, so what if I’ve made a mistake, you will just brush it aside. This is one kind of attitude, the attitude of might is right. The other, is that you will suffer from guilt. Please understand, an unintelligent man will never feel guilty, ofcourse I ask you to you to drop the guilt as well, that is a different point, but guilt is always felt by an intelligent man., one who really thinks of Dharma (XXX), only he will feel the guilt, a person who feels only at the instinct level, will never feel guilty A person, who is at the intellect level, will feel guilt. A person who is at the level of intuition, will go beyond guilt. He will understand the truth as it is.

Here, Krishna speaks of how to handle all these 3 properly, and how to use these three to the maximum, how to get the maximum out of all these 3. Getting maximum out of all these three is an intelligent process.

A small story A small child swallowed a coin, and was taken to the doctor. The doctor tried to take it out through different methods, but it didn’t come out, the nurse also tried, but it didn’t come out, a friend who was standing nearby, also tried, but to no avail. A passerby saw this and offered to help, the doctor said to him “what can you do?” Passerby said, just give me a moment, saying this he did something, and the coin was out. The doctor was surprised, how did you do it? I am a doctor, I could not take the coin out, how did you do it?” The passerby said I am XXXXX I can extract money out of anybody

Krishna gives tips, techniques to get the maximum out of the three gunas.

Now, let us enter into the 3 layers of engrams, samskaras related to Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. Before entering into these three layers, I will share a small presentation to illustrate how we are caught and how these engrams work. Then, we will enter into each technique.

(picture of 7 layers of the body)

These are our 7 layers of our body, I can say 7 parts of our being. The first is the physical body, which is flesh and bones. The next, is the pranic layer, the prana or prana,Vyaana, Udhana, Apaana, Samaana (XXX) the 5 air movements, air circulation which takes place in your system. The third is the mental body, this is where the inner chattering continuously takes place within you, whether you are standing or sitting or doing anything, there is a continuous recorder going on inside, inner chattering, sometimes you open your mouth and talk, in other times, you close your mouth and continue to talk.

Whether you open your mouth or not, the talking is going on, this is called the inner chattering.or The mental body or chanchala, which means inner movement. The fourth is the etheric body. This is the space where emotions are stored. Where, intense emotions, or pain is stored.. Usually all our intense emotions are those of pain, you do not know any other intense emotion. If you know any other intense emotion other than pain, you are a spiritual person. Look into your life, pain gives you such an intense feeling. When you are depressed or in pain, you can see that you become very intense and your whole mind is centred . Your mind does not move towards anything else. However, when you are in a blissful mood, have you experienced any bliss to that extent to that depth to which you have experienced pain? No, that is why I say, all we know is only pain.

After these three bodies, rest, we cannot understand intellectually, they are supposed to be experienced spiritually, through meditation.

The pranic layer is the body filled with all the desires. Mental body is the body filled with all “ I should have” or guilt and etheric body is pain. Understand these three. Desire, guilt and pain. When these three are pure, they are called Sattva, Rajas & Tamas Usually, they are not pure, they are mixed with each other. So, first you should know how to purify them? If you can purify your desires, you will be liberated. Please understand that you cannot live without desires, you have to clear or purify the desires, direct them towards the right path, that’s all. Please understand that without desires, you can’t even breathe, even inhaling and exhaling cannot take place without desires. You cannot live without desires, desires have to be handled properly, desires have to be straightened. That’s what you need to work towards when it comes to Sattva.

Next, when it comes to guilt or Rajas, please understand that all your restlessness is created by that one thought “ I should have done that” “I should have lived like that, because I did not, now let me do it” “I should have reacted in a certain manner, but at that time, I did not have the intelligence, now I will teach him a lesson, now I know what to do”- the restlessness or Rajas. The third, pain. Whether it is right or wrong, you know how to make it painful. Whatever it is, you know how to make it painful, that is Tamas. These are the main 3 layers. Actually the physical body is handled by these 3 gunas, and beyond the fourth level, the other 3 layers cannot be experienced by the mind, they can be experienced only through meditation. Actually this is the layer, the causal body, when you sleep deeply without any dreams, at that time you experience the causal body. It is called Karan Sharira (XXXX), the shrarira (body) that you experience at the time of deep sleep, and these two (pointing towards the next two layers)) are filled with blissful memories, in Vedanta(XXXX) we call it anandamaya kosha(XXX) . Anandamaya Kosha is the cosmic body, and the nirvanic (XXX) body is called Atman (XXX), or what we call AnandaGandha (XXXa, where the atman and your body meet, where energy and matter meet. Visualise, a frozen lake, below the lake, there is water. The layer at which water and ice meet, is this layer (Nirvanic body). Water is energy and ice is matter, at one point both meet, and this is the layer at which they meet. Anyways, now you forget about these, just remember these three (pointing towards Pranic,mental and etheric layers) ) that’s enough, because we are going to work only on these three. In the next session, Krishna explains about the other layers, then we will understand those, Krishna has already spoken about the physical layer, now he is going to work on these three- Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. Sattva is the 2nd body, Rajas is the 3rd layer, and the 4th layer is Tamas. As I was saying, Sattva is directly related to desires, and the prana sharira. Please understand, when your desires change, your prana flow or your air flow will change. For eg if you are caught by lust, or any intense desire, your inhaling & exhaling will become intense. The Prana going in & coming out will increase. With any desire, the prana flow will totally change. If you are in a silent, peaceful mood, the prana flow will be different, it will be so mild, that you will not even know that the prana flow is taking place. Understand, that this pranic sharira is filled with desires. What is that we should we learn about Sattva, about this pranic layer? First, is that we create self contradictory desires. Whether you believe it or not, you are God, you are pure consciousness. Whatever thoughts you create in your pure consciousness, those will gain power. Please understand this is the space which is called God or Atman, which is there in all of us. Whatever thoughts you create in this space, the deeper they are, the more power they will get from this consciousness. It is like light being placed in front of a slide projector. That slide will become reality on the screen. In the same way, this is light, any slide you create in this area, in the outer world, it will become reality. Here, again and again, you create self contradicting thoughts, because of this, you suffer with your desires. Whether they are fulfilled or not, suffering is inevitable. If they are fulfilled, there will be emptiness, and if they are not fulfilled, there will be restlessness, in both these cases, you will move towards Tamas. Why? Why should we suffer because of desires? First understand what are self contradicting desires, e.g. if you want to get rid of a headache, and if you create an engram a samskara that “ I should get rid of this headache, I should get rid of this headache” continuously, you will then be thinking of the same word continuously in your unconscious, and by thinking that you want to get rid of the headache, you will never be able to get rid of it, because when you repeat a word, in this case “headache”, you are giving power to it. It is a very subtle subject, whichever words you repeat unconsciously within you, those will become reality in your body, in your mind and in your world, because you have the power to give life to any word. E,g if the words “let me get up and go”, come to your mind, with those words, immediately your body will move, you will stand up and go. One word can make you do whatever you want. Words that appear in your mind are very important. You need to understand this basic fact, words that appear in your mind are mantras (sacred words), these show you the way to your life. All words that appear in your mind, when put together is your life. Especially, the words that you repeat unconsciously, eg. In the morning, when you start brushing your teeth, if you observe, your mind will be elsewhere. Especially in the bathroom, when you are in a shower, the mind will be elsewhere, sometimes you will even start singing, especially when you take a cold water shower, you will automatically start singing. Cold water shower and singing are very closely connected In the bathroom, nobody’s watching, so you can talk freely, sometimes, people even argue in the bathroom One person was standing outside the bathroom, when the wife came out of the bathroom, he asked her, who she was arguing with. She said “ I was talking to myself” He asked, “ then why were you arguing” She said “ I know what I was doing, so stay out of it” He continued, “ I can understand that you were talking to yourself, but why were you arguing with yourself?” She said “ you know me, I don’t accept stupid logic, that is why I was arguing with myself”

You play all these games. You are continuously talking without even knowing, what’s going on. If you observe you will see that you will be uttering the same words when brushing your teeth, everyday of the week, the moment you start brushing, you will have the same trend of thoughts, when you start taking a shower, you will have the same type of thoughts. If you observe closely, you will understand this. The thoughts which you repeat unconsciously are more powerful than any other words which you use consciously. You create so many thoughts, so many samskaras, which are self contradictory E.g of Self contradictory is when you say “ I should get rid of this headache”, when you repeat or say those words or when you create that samskara, you remember the headache as well. By remembering the word headache again and again, you bring back that memory, you bring back that headache into your mind, then how do you think you will be able to get rid of that headache? If you constantly repeat “ I should get rid of this headache “, every time you remember the word headache, you bring that memory, that suffering that whole file back to your mind, then how can you get rid of that headache.? Instead of that, if you create a word, if you create a samskara like “ I should become healthy”, then, again and again, you will be remembering the idea of health in your mind. Understand, that whatever mantra(XX) you use, automatically that dhyana(meditation) will happen in your unconsciousness. If you use the word headache again and again, you will be meditating on headache again and again. If you use the word health, again and again, then you will be meditating on health again and again. That is why in all meditation, in the dhyana of gods, you will have something called dhyana shlokas. Before meditating, you will have dhyana shlokas(XX) e.g XXXXX This mantra means, let me meditate, let me remember my master who is sitting on a thousand petalled lotus, XXX with one hand as wara, and the other one as abhaya, who is PrsanaXXX, who has a shining presence. Here you are just verbalizing, what you visualize. Verbalisation of Visualisation is called Dhyana Shloka. Now, if again and again, you verbalise the word headache, headache, headache, then what do you think you will visualize? You will visualize your spouse!! You will visualize your spouse who gives you a headache, I call it intimate enemy. You will visualize the person who gives you a headache, or what you feel like when you get a headache. You will continuously visualize the headache scene, that mood. Please understand, whatever you visualize again and again, it will be inscribed , it will be engraved in your memory, in your inner space, in your inner being.

Now, if you again and again repeat, especially if you have a disease, please never, never create a word, eg “let me get rid of this heart problem, let me get rid of this diabetes ,let me get rid of this blood pressure, let me get rid of this headache”, never use these words, instead use straight words, not self contradictory words. If you have pain use the words “ let me become healthy”,always use these words “let me become healthy” Never use words like “let me get rid of this back pain ” Never use self contradicting engrams. Please understand, the more you use self contradicting engrams, the more you will be engraving that disease into your inner space. The more you engrave, the more they get the power. Please do not abuse your inner space, your iccha shakit (power to make things happen). The pranic layer is your iccha shakti. Do not waste the icchashakti by creating self contradicting thoughts or self contradicting engrams. You will be polluting the Sattva layer Your whole Sattva space gets corrupted by self contradicting thoughts. Your whole inner space is disturbed by self contradicting thoughts.

When you go back today, take 15 minutes, do this exercise, sit for 10 minutes with yourself and write down all your thoughts that come to your mind regularly and see where you are creating self contradicting engrams and edit them, clear them. Don’t bring self contradicting thoughts into your mind. The latest research findings show that any psychiatric disease, when analysed and clearly termed, immediately after, you find that, millions of people across the world start suffering from that disease. As long as you don’t name the disease, even if people have it, they don’t suffer from that disease. The moment, you inform them that these are the symptoms of the disease, this is what the disease is called, then everybody starts thinking “ I think, I am suffering from this disease”

Please understand, this is a dangerous game Pharmaceutical companies are making millions, just by creating this doubt in you , this idea of “I think I also have this problem” Immediately you start creating an engram “ I have this problem, I should get rid of it” by the time you repeat these words ten times, you will have the problem. Please understand, that you are all continuously being exploited, or I can say that you are being swallowed by people who don’t know the truth of the mind and consciousness.

Please understand, all these problems arise, because they do not know that pure joy of inner space is possible, and let me be very clear and make a bold statement that no medicine or chemical can help your mind. All anti anxiety medicines, all anti depression medicines are all consolations, that’s all. First, you visualized that you suffered from depression, now you visualize that you taken some medicine, that’s all.

Let me share with you another important secret, it is a business secret , many people come to me and say , “swamiji some person has done some black magic on me, some people have done soonya (XXX) someone has put an evil spirit behind me, some black magic has been done” There are so many people there, who exploit this fear of people, they encash this fear. Please understand that all negativity has only one power, your faith in it, that’s all.

All negativity- black magic or evil or satan or devil, whatever you call it, all these have only one power, your faith in it, that’s all. Just your faith in it gives it power, because you believe in it, you connect all the incidents and start the trouble for yourself, you start the struggle.

When people come to me with these fears, I say to them there is nothing, don’t worry, there is no problem, Then they think, “this swami is very young, he doesn’t know much,let us go to some other old person, who will give me some mantra (XX), some yantra (XX) , who will do some big puja (ritual) and remove this negativity, remove these blockages”

They think I don’t know anything, so what can I do.? So,when they come to me, I also give them some yantra, and say to them, you don’t have to pay, just go and put this under your pillow, you will be healed, you will be cured”

I tell you honestly, that yantra has nothing in it I am very clear, that the yantra has nothing in it

The person has created an idea within him, that he has this negativity, by giving him the yantra, I am creating an idea in him that he doesn’t have any negativity, that’s all.

It is like using one thorn to remove another thorn, that’s all. There is nothing else.

I always say to people, don’t think that by having these yantras, something will shower from your house, nothing can shower from your house except rats.

These are just antidotes for your negative faith

You have already created this faith that you have these problems, now I am consoling you.

I say to you honestly, it is you who has created this trouble, and now I’m just your help to undo it.

All negativity has just one power, your faith in it.

Now, you should understand, that the person who exploits these fears, if he takes just money for it, that’s fine, you can always earn back that money, but he creates an engram in you, He creates a samskara in you, which will kill you continuously. For anything and everything, you will run to him, its almost like slavery. Its better to be caught in the hands of the ghost than in the hands of the mantravadi (XXX) At least, the ghost will trouble you once in a while, this person will eat you completely. Please. be very clear, with the ghost, you will have only mental suffering, with this person you will have mental and economic suffering.

The big problem is that not only he takes your money, he also creates an engraved memory in you, the fear memory. With every small sound you hear at night, you will start thinking “ I think that the effects of that yantra is over, now I have to get a new yantra” I’ve also heard, that these people who are in this business, they give out these yantras which need to be recharged! After a couple of months, you have to take it back to be recharged. I was surprised- a rechargeable yantra!!

In this country, anything sells, all you need is an advertisement. I saw this advertisement in a newspaper, this person is standing in a pose as if blessing, and he is says that he is Adarvanameda pandit or something. He is continuously releasing big advertisements. I was surprised, since Adarvanameda (XXX) never talks about these things, Adarvanameda is a pure science to improve your life, it is a pure science to handle your mind blissfully. No Adarvanameda teaches you exploitation of others. I was surprised. Infact, let me tell you, in the 1st sutra of ParaXXXX, in the jyoti sutra it says, only a person who’s inner space is pure, who does not expect any benefit or return in the form of money, or goodname or goodwill, only in him intuition will happen. So never go to these people who engage in these mantras, maya (XX) , yantras, never go to them.

Also understand that all evil, has only got one power, your faith in it, that’s all.

Now, when you create these self contradicting thoughts, you start believing in them. Especially in the field of phsychoanalysis, when they launch a disease, its like the fashion business. In the Fashion business, every week, they launch a new dress, similarly here, every month, they invent a new disease. Please understand that by repeating that idea, by meditating on the symptom, you start creating that symptom in you. It’s a dangerous game, don’t be caught in that game.

First, you disturb the Sattva, the pure space of your being, by creating self contradicting thoughts. So sit at home, and write down all you major thoughts and desires, and analyse them, as to how these thoughts are self contradicting. This is the first step. Next, how two different desires are contradicting, you want to lead a peaceful life and you want wealth as well. With wealth , you will always get responsibility as well. Either decide to take that responsibility and be happy with that responsibility or decide to relax and accept whatever happens. One thought should be strengthened, however when you have both, you will have a self-contradicting mental set up. In the Sattva space,in the Sattva energy, when you create self contradicting engraved memories, automatically you are thrown towards Rajas.

Now , let me describe about what Krishna has to say about Rajas. RajoRagaXXXX

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# Karmasangeya Dehinam

The mode of passion, is born of unlimited desires and longings. This is a beautiful shloka Oh Kaunteya, which means son of Kaunti, because of this the embodied living entity is bound to material fruitive actions. Here, he talks about desires and longings. What is the difference between the two? Desires and longings, RajoRaga XXXX Trishna XXXX Raga means desire, trishna means hankering, longing. What is the difference between the two? There are some memories which have your emotional support, and there are some memories which have been inserted into your being by advertisements. Please understand that advertisements are not only those on TV or in a movie, if your father repeats something again and again, that is also an advertisement. If your mother says, again and again this is right, this right this if for you, this is for you, that also becomes an advertisement. There are some desires which have your mental support, you feel this will give me fulfillment, you feel this is my desire, and there are some desires that have been sold to you by someone else. That is the difference between desires and longings. Desires are yours and longings have been given to you, given to you by society, it’s a social conditioning. Desires are inborn, they are your very nature. If you fulfill desires, you will feel fulfilled and relaxed. With longings, the moment you fulfill them, you will feel empty This is the difference between desire and longing. Desire will always give you fulfillment, it is your desire. Longing will always give you emptiness.

The other day, a person came to me and said “ swamiji I want to get married, I have my own choice, but my parents are choosing a different girl, what should I do?” I said to him, at the end of it, all marriages are failures. At least if you marry on your own, then for a few years, you will have the satisfaction that you lived your life. If you marry according to your father’s decision, at the end , you will blame your father, and if you marry according to your decision, you will blame your wife saying, “before marriage, you were different, before marriage you showed me a different picture, now you are showing me your original form”. If you marry according to your father’s advice, you will blame him, if you marry according to your decision, you will blame her. At least, if you marry on your own, then for a few years you will think that you are living your life, the desire will give you at least a little bit of relaxation, fulfillment , but longings will give you only emptiness. Here Krishna speaks of how self contradicting things lead you to Rajas.

When desires contradict each other, naturally you get confused and you fall into Rajas, you fall into restlessness.. Let me explain with this diagram, when you have more engrams here, ten engrams will write”I want to sit and listen” and ten engrams will write “ no, let us go watch a movie, today’s a weekend” 10 engrams will write one decision on the file, and the other ten engrams will write another decision, by the time, the file reaches the ego, you will be confused. You will have inner restlessness.

The more number. of engrams, the more time it will take to make a decision. You will suffer, you will be in a dilemma. Man as such is a dilemma. Continuously, you think “I I should have done this, if you do that, you will think “ I should have done this” Dilemma is due to too many engrams. Dilemma is what Krishna calls Rajas and restlessness. In Rajas, you will have tremendous anger, violence and inner restlessness. A person caught in Rajas will always be shouting at others, will always be in an irritable mood, will always have poisonous tongue. He will be continuously waiting to just vomit. A seahorse can never rest, the because it carries so much of Rajas. I tell you, once you remove the Rajas engrams, you will be able to take 1000 decisions without getting stressed, because straight away the file will go to ego, without any interruption. You don’t have to cross 300 tables like in an Bharatn Government office, to take a decision. There will just be 2-3 tables, one will say yes, the other will say ok, and by the time the file reaches the ego, there will not be too many differing opinions, straight away it can decide and send the file back. The process will be easy, decision making will be easy, and your time and energy will not be wasted. That is why,Krishna says, when you don’t expect the result, when you don’t think of Karmaphala (fruit of the action taken), you will be able to do the karma intensely. When you don’t expect or worry about the result, you will be able to work beautifully, because there are less engrams, you will not suffer, you will not be tortured by these engraved memories.

Next Shloka, Krishna says about Tamas, TamasP Mohanam Sarvadehinam XXXX StanniXXX Bharata

He is addressing Arjuna, “Oh son of Bharata,, know that the mode of darkness, Tamas, is born out of ignorance, it is the delusion of all emobodied, living entities. The results of this mode are madness, indolence and sleep, which bind the conditioned soul” Beautiful explanation of Tamas

Let me show you the diagram of Tamas.

(show diagram)

Just understand this , you will be able to understand Sattva, Rajas and Tamas.

Let us assume, the time taken for this process is TC, which is time taken for conscious process, and time taken for this process is TUC, or time for Unconscious process, now if this time is less and this time is more, means there are more engrams. The more the engrams, this process will take more time, the more the samskaras, the more time this will take. If this is more, meaning if TUC is more than TC, means you are at the instinct or animal level, because you will not be able to control the decisions, with more the engrams, what decision will come out, you don’t know. Its like a pandora’s box, with all these engrams and samskaras, when you open, you don’t know what will come out. You are at the level of an animal or instinct.

If the TC is equal to TUC, I’m trying to bring the whole Geeta into an equation. If the TC is equal to TUC, means the same time will be taken for the file to move from here to here, and from here to here. This means there are only a few engrams. There will not be 300 tables, like the Bharatn government office, there are only a few tables like in a Private Corporation. This is the man level or the level of intellect.

Third, here there are no engrams, and decisions are taken straight away. When there are no engrams, we don’t need this line, we can just erase this line, when there are no engrams, here itself we can put Buddhi, and here itself we can put ego (explain this with reference to the diagram) This is because, the file does not take a quantum leap, as there are no engrams, straight away, the information comes, process happens and results are given. Here, TUC will be less than TC. Time taken for the unconscious process will be less than the conscious process. At this level, you will be intuitive, or at the level of God.

Level of animal or the level of instinct, Level of man or intellect and level of God or intuition (show diagrammatically) Now, This is the level of Sattva, this is the level of Rajas, and this the level of Tamas. In Sattva, your mind works at this level, continuously you will be making decisions, but you will not tire. You will be active for 24 hours, and you will be peaceful. Action in inaction, inaction in action.. Krishna says, you will centred, there will be lots of activity going on around you, but you will be utterly relaxed. This is the level of Sattva

This is the level of Rajas, and this is the level of Tamas.

The whole thing is dependent only on one thing, your engrams or your engraved memories. The number of engraved memories determines whether you are caught in Sattva, or you are caught in Rajas or you’re caught in Tamas.

All these 3 are not enlightenment.

Enlightenment is beyond these three.

Now, If you are caught in Tamas, try and move towards Rajas. If you are caught in Rajas, try and move towards Sattva If you are caught in Sattva, it will automatically lead you to Enlightenment.

How to do this? Krishna starts with the next shloka, Tamas Mohanam

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He speaks of Tamas ‘Know that the mode of darkness, born of ignorance, is the delusion of all embodied, living entities, the results of this mode are madness, indolence and sleep which bind the conditioned soul” Eg. In the Sattva level, you create a self contradicting desire, because of that you create restlessness in Rajas level, when you feel too restless, you decide to drop everything, decide not to take any responsibility and sleep instead. This is when you fall into Tamas.

Understand, that Tamas is not only sleep or depression, not taking enough responsibility is also Tamas. E.g.- If you have studied to become a doctor, and you are not practicing, you don’t want to practice out of laziness, means you are in Tamas. For someother reason, if you don’t practice, that is fine, but if you are avoiding out of laziness, you are in Tamas. Don’t drop out from anything out of Tamas. If you have a spiritual reason, and you drop out, that is different, there are some people who want to drop to meditate or to go on Teerthyatra (pilgrimage), or to do some spiritual work, that is fine, but to drop out of laziness, or for no reason, then you are caught in Tamas. It means that you don’t have enough energy, you cannot take a responsible decision, why? because there are too many engrams. A single decision will take your entire energy and time, you will be in trouble. By the time you take one decision, you feel tired, you will want to sleep. That is the reason, you will try to escape from Life. Escapists are called Tamasic people Here, Krishna explains about all three

Rajas, Tamas XXX Satvam Bharati Bharata XXX

# Tamas Sattvam

Oh Bharata,, Sometimes, the mode of goodness becomes prominent, defeating the modes of passion and ignorance, and in other times, ignorance defeats goodness and passion, in this way, there is always competition for supremacy.

Please understand, all of you are not completely caught in Sattva or Rajas or Tamas. You swing between Sattva, Rajas and Tamas, you go from this end to that end, and from that end to this end. Sometimes, when you get up in the morning, you feel very fresh, you feel as if all your questions are answered, you are fresh and alive, and you think you have become enlightened, almost enlightened, everything goes on beautifully, till the evening. Suddenly, in the evening, you become restless. Next day, again you are in tamas, you don’t want to do anything. These mood swings take place continuously. Understand, that obesity and mood swings are closely related. When you allow these mood swings to happen,, you torture yourself. Sometimes, you are restless, sometimes you are peaceful, sometimes you are in Tamas, when you don’t want to do anything, you want to escape from everything, you just want to dump everything and runaway. You are caught between these 3 modes of nature, sometimes, in instinct, sometimes in intellect and sometimes in intelligence.

Why? Why do we have mood swings?

If you have collected too many samskaras about something in particular, e.g if from a young age, you have been repeatedly taught not to drink, taught that drinking is a sin, then you would have collected many engrams about drinking and automatically you will be tempted to taste alcohol at least once. Never give a law, give understanding. Give the understanding and spirit behind the law. Please understand that if you want to bring up your kids blissfully , then give them the understanding. Ofcourse, to give understanding, you need two things, first you need to be intelligent, next you need patience to explain. Even though it takes little more time and energy, always go for understanding. Never give law. If you just give a law, be very clear they will do the exact opposite, further, you cannot even predict that they will do the exact opposite. Even though it takes time and energy, take that time and bring them up with understanding. People complain to me, “swamiji, in these modern times. where is the time, my daughter also has a job, I also have a job, how do we spend time on this”, then I say “why did you give birth?” You should have become a Swami like me, you should have decided earlier itself. This really happened, a kid was brought to me by his mother, the mother said to me “Swamiji, please advise him, pl. ask him to obey me” I was a little disturbed, and was not keen on giving that advice, because I myself, didn’t listen to my mother, and didn’t obey my mother, how could I give that advice? But you know how women are, when they decide, they decide. She continued, “Swamiji you have to advise him”. I tried to escape, twice or thrice, but to no avail. Finally, I called the kid, and softly said to him” why don’t you obey your mother? I’m also obeying her right now, then why don’t you also listen to what she says?” You will be surprised to hear what the boy said,, he said “Swamiji, she herself is not happy, if I listen to her advise, I too will become like her, then why are you asking me to listen to her”. I was taken back. He was speaking the truth. I somehow convinced him and sent him away, but I myself was not convinced. What he said was the truth, if the mother herself was not happy, how could the son follow her advise? Be very clear, in the near future, kids will sue you, if you don’t bring them up properly. They have already started, some kids who are depressed or in prison, they say they have become like this, because their parents didn’t bring them up well, that their parents didn’t bring them up, they brought them down.

Be very clear, before you decide to have kids, become enlightened. That is the only qualification, unless you are very clear as to how to guide them, don’t plan to have kids. We have enough people, we have brought so many billion people on planet earth, we can’t provide food, medicine , shelter to them, then why are you bringing more people? where is the place? If at all you decide to have kids, then have the intelligence to give the understanding. Whatever you give in the form of understanding, will get recorded in the Sattva layer, it will become intelligence. Whatever you give as a law, will sit in the Rajas and Tamas layer. Please be very clear, even if its good advise, don’t’ give it as a law. Even, if it’s good advise and if given as law, then you will naturally create an aversion in them.

When these parents bring their kids to me, they will force them to touch my feet. I always say, never do it, this is your greed, because these people think that by touching my feet, they will get some punya (XX), and they try and give the same idea to their kids, an idea based on their own greed. Also, by forcing the kids, the kids will start hating me. I have seem some parents, they will literally push their kids’ heads down to my feet, as they if are going to get some current from there, and I say to the parents “why are you forcing them?” Namaskar (joining your hands in respect) is more than enough. That too, with kids, what is there, they do not know anything else. By forcing them, the kids will start hating me, and the next time they see the orange robe itself, the kids will start weeping “oh now we have to do this exercise” Never give to kids the law. Please be clear, that you are suffering by the laws given to you by your parents. All the laws given to you by your parents are in your Rajas and Tamas, and again and again they are leading you to restlessness and deep depression. They are creating more and more trouble for you.

The 2nd layer of Rajas is filled with guilt. This layer is “I should live like this, its about future and desire, and this layer is I should have lived like this, its about guilt. Both are two different forms of the same energy. This is related to the future, this is related to the past. Desire is related to future. Guilt is related to the past. “I should have done that” plays a major role in your “I should do this” . “I should do this is” is determined by “I should have done that”. The guilt that is created by the laws handed over to you by your elders, creating hell in your life. Naturally, it will lead you to Tamas, Krishna says Antaha, which means the end. You simply fall into ignorance or into the end. Krishna says Sarva XXXX XXXX XXX XXX Satvam Mrityutaha

The manifestations of the modes of goodness can be experienced when all the gates of the body are illuminated by knowledge. This is the technique. All the gates of the body, means, all the gates through which you receive knowledge or through which you receive information- eyes, ears, nose, tongue and touch, the sense of touch or physical pleasure. These are the files through which you receive information from outside. He says, if you can keep all these five carefully, guarded by knowledge, by Prakasha (illuminated knowledge), if you can ensure security at all these gates, and knowledge is security. Knowledge means, what should be taken and what should not be taken, then you will reside in Sattva forever, you will reside in Bliss forever.

He says, appoint a guard for all the gates of your body. Now, there is no security system for your body. You have so much security for your house, if someone comes through, automatically the call will go to 911. In every neighborhood , they have notices “this neighborhood is being watched by this detective or security system” In this country, you have so many security systems for your house, in which you stay for hardly 10-12 hours in a day., especially, in this country, you spend a maximum of 12 hrs per day at home, the other 12 hours, you spend, outside the house. In this house, your body, you reside for 24 hours, but you don’t have any security system.

Ramana Maharishi (XX) sings beautifully, “AimBulakal XXXXX Arunachala He sings towards Arunanchala (XX), that when the thieves, the five senses have entered into the house, Oh Arunachala, were you not at home, how did they enter? He asks Shiva, when these five senses entered the house, were you not there, why did you let them enter? Here Krishna says, let u have the security, the protection of knowledge in the five gates, and you will reside in continuous bliss This means, that don’t allow the thought which creates suffering in your mind, through the eyes,, it means avoid TV, at least don’t watch programs that create depression, watch those that give you joy, that make you blissful, but never watch anything which makes you cunning, which gives you suffering, which makes you feel violent. When you protect your senses with Sattva,, naturally you will not allow negative engrams to come in. People immediately ask me “if we don’t know what is happening in society, what will happen?” Please be very clear, any important or urgent news will reach you through somebody, you are not living on an island, also, by having knowledge of all the criminal activities through media, what are you going to do? If you read the papers everyday, it has the same news, muder, rape, theft, accident. The only difference is the city or country where it takes place , will differ Instead of reading the same news everyday, you yourself can say where its going to happen, why do you want to read and verify? Only the place and numbers will vary. What difference will it make to your life. The people who have to handle the situation, if they know that is enough.. When you imbibe continuous knowledge of this kind of information or news, you create engrams. It will create fear strokes and suffering. If you continuously read about kidnapping, if once your husband or your kid is late by a few minutes, what will happen to your being? You will keep on pacing. You will become restless. Be clear, if something wrong happens, you will suffer only on the day when it actually happens, but when you have engrams which create anxiety, you will suffer everyday, and through anxiety, can you stop it from happening? If you can stop it, then no problem , then it is intelligence. Whatever can stop the happening, then it is intelligence, no problem., but most of the time, you collect engrams for which neither you can stop nor you can do anything, you just suffer, suffer, suffer. You put yourself again and again and again in Rajas and Tamas. That is why Krishna says SarvaXXXXXX XXXXX

Sattva MritXXX

Please do not infuse your Consciousness with thoughts which give you suffering . Continuously, try to add thoughts which give you bliss, which give peace. You may think, it is not practical, how can we live in society, without knowing what’s going on in the world? Be very clear, knowing what’s going on in the world is a disease. Collecting information is a disease. The other day, someone at the ashram was saying to me “Swamiji, you should watch television to get an idea of the culture, these Tv shows are all trash,, nonsensical.” The more you watch these, the more you will start doing it. Inside your mind, you will start creating an engram that this is the standard of life.

I could not watch for more than 5 minutes, I said “enough else I will lose my enlightenment” Traditionally, it is believed that enlightenment cannot be taken away, but now I think, TV can take it away. Enough.

If you continuously you listen to these things, you see what you eat, you belch, you set standards, based on what goes inside. Life is much more valuable.

Life is too short to be spent in worrying, so do not allow thoughts that create depression, low mood, especially in Sandhya time. In the earlier days, our masters knew that Sandhya,, which is when day & night meet, and there are 2 sandhyas, one in the morning and one in the evening. Our masters knew that whatever thoughts put inside the being at the time of Sandhya would come out as a tree.. these thoughts were like seeds. That’s why, in earlier days the masters insisted, that at the time of sandhya, one should spend time in a temple, or doing puja(ritual) or reading some stotra (XX) or meditating, so that these ideas will go inside, and become a tree in your life.

These days, at the time of sandhya, we watch TV. We put all the trash inside, almost like a dustbin, and the next day, you will have the smell.

Never put any negative samskaras inside you.

Try to protect all your senses for 24 hours a day, and if you can’t then at least at time of sandhya. Sandhya is the 1.5 hours, when the day and night meet. In Bharat it is 6.00- 7.30. I don’t know what it is here, it changes in every country. At the time of sandhya, don’t allow negative engrams to enter into your being. Whatever enters at the time of sandhya into your being, will continue to exist or radiate throughout your life.

At the end of it, Krishna gives only this one advise, one technique, because this is the only way you can turn, you can start transforming, the cognitive shift can happen.

As of now, the cognition is happening in your mind based on your negative engrams. If you change the input, if you move your mental set up into a different energy, the cognitive shift will happen. You will start processing the data with positive engrams with a positive base. Krishna gives only one technique, one suggestion Sarva XXXXX

Viruttam Satvva Mrityutaha

Try to protect all your five senses from negative ideas and always infuse positive ideas through all the five senses. Whatever you feed, will become your being and you will radiate that energy.

Always try to spend sandhya in a good way. Try & meditate at home, if you don’t feel like meditating, go to a temple, do something, recite some stotras, do some good work, but don’t waste your time, by putting in negative engrams into you.

The more the negative engrams you put inside, the more you work towards your future depression.

Understand, that the more money you deposit into the bank, the higher your bank balance The more negative engrams you have, more of depression you will have. Our masters knew where man would collect positive engrams and where man would collect negative engrams, that’s why they tried their best to create so many spaces where man could collect positive engrams, where man could protect himself.

Please understand this one suggestion from Krishna, and let you save your Deha (body) in which you reside in, for 24 hours, with pure Satvic security, by saving that, let you experience bliss.

Let us pray to ParamBrahma Krishna, Universal Consciousness, Ultimate Energy to give us all this understanding in our Life, to make us all experience the truth which he teaches and to let him establish us in and make us radiate Eternal Bliss

NithyaAnanda Thank you

Vasudev vasudev XXXXX