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Life in the astral world

Spirituality depends on the clarity of consciousness. Consciousness is meant to be transparent but becomes polluted by negative thoughts, ego, jealousy, greed, hate, and the consumption of meat, alcohol, and drugs, which act like a virus. This pollution obscures the inner mirror and prevents the divine vision seen by great seers. Such clarity requires removing impurities through dedicated practice and understanding. The consequences of one's actions are witnessed by the soul alone in the astral state, where one reviews life and chooses a future birth based on unresolved attachments and habits. Human weakness lies in the inability to relinquish these habits, despite theoretical knowledge. True progress comes only from consistent practice.

"If you have negative thoughts, your inner mirror is unclear, not transparent."

"Tons of theory are zero compared to a gram of practice."

DVD 209a

Conscious, unconscious, subconscious, super-conscious, and cosmic-conscious. Consciousness is transparent. Cosmic consciousness. As long as you have a clear consciousness, your spirituality will improve. As long as your consciousness is clear, your spirituality will improve. Spirituality means purity: pure body, pure thoughts, pure mind, pure intellect, pure consciousness, and pure Ātmā. Spiritual means pure body, pure feelings, pure thoughts, pure intellect, and also means pure Ātmā. Puṇya Ātmā means the purest Ātmā, who has much Puṇya, many good things in life. Our consciousness is polluted by many things. If you have negative thoughts, your inner mirror is unclear, not transparent. If our thoughts are negative, then our inner mirror is blind; it is not visible. If your ego, jealousy, greediness, and hate are present, your inner mirror is totally blinded. And if you take any drugs or alcohol and consume meat, then your consciousness has a virus. Nowadays, you all know even the computer has a virus. If we eat meat and drink alcohol, then our consciousness is infected with a virus. And everyone knows what it is like when the computer gets a virus. And people, those who are depending professionally on the computer, they know what a computer virus means. So also, people who are engaged with spirituality and in developing a spiritual consciousness, they know what is the virus in the consciousness. That virus appears through the alcohol, through the drugs, and through the meats. Therefore, it is said, everything is a play of the consciousness. Or everything is played in the consciousness. It’s a lot of work which you do, and which takes a long time for spiritual development. Within a few minutes, you can spoil everything. Our consciousness is our own phenomenon. Like a balloon. Everything in this balloon is your life. Everything is played in this balloon. So, Great Saint Tulsīdās said—which I gave you yesterday evening, also an example of him—Tulsīdāsjī was that holy person who wrote the holy Rāmāyaṇa, the life of God Viṣṇu, Rāma. There are two Rāmāyaṇa epics. One Rāmāyaṇa was written by the very great Saint Vālmīki. That is entirely in the Sanskrit language. And that was written before Rāma’s incarnation. This was written before the incarnation of Rāma. Was it written before Rāma incarnated? Who will be Rāma? What is Rāma? Where will he incarnate? Who will be his father, mother, brothers? And his complete life story was written by that great saint, day to day. That’s called the divine vision. This is the divine vision that is given to anyone who writes down the whole history of Rāma, from day to day, who he was, what kind of family he was born into, who his father and mother were, how his life goes on, from day to day. Yathā Rāmāyaṇī, in detail, from day to day, he describes the life of Rāma, where he will incarnate, who his parents will be, and what will happen. This is what we call the vision of God. And it was exactly like that. And that’s called Trikāla Darśī, the seer of all three times: past, present, and future. How does one become Trikāla Darśī? Transparent. Completely clear. Not polluted. Not contaminated. We are all polluted. Even if we put a magnifying glass in front of our eyes, we can’t see the future, and the back also. That’s called Mala, Vikṣepa and Āvaraṇa. A to su Mala, Vikṣepa and Āvaraṇa. Our antaḥkaraṇa is polluted by different things. This all we have to remove, and the best perfect technique is your clear understanding. And we have to get rid of all this; we have to fight for it, and the best tool for this is the Kṛiyānāṣṭāna. And we have to get rid of all this, and the best technique is your Kṛiyānāṣṭāna. After the life of God Rāma, again, the great Tulsīdāsjī wrote a beautiful life story, an epic of the God Rāma. The Tulsīdās Tulsīkṛt Rāmāyaṇa, Mānasa Rāmāyaṇa it’s called, became more famous than the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa. And Tulsīdās’s Rāmāyaṇa became more famous than Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa. Because the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa is entirely written in Sanskrit. And Tulsīdās’s Rāmāyaṇa is written in the local dialect so that everyone could understand; there is not much difference. In Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa there is more Jñāna Yoga filled in, and in Tulsīdās Rāmāyaṇa there is more Bhakti. What a beautiful poem is written, beautiful. So that great Tulsīdāsjī said, Tulsīdāsjī regal. The great seer, he was also a great seer. He was a great seer. And he lived in Banaras at the beach of the holy river Gaṅgā. He lived in Benares on the banks of the Ganges. Pārthainal and his house and temple are still there on the beach, and his house is still there on the banks of St. Pārthainal and his house are still there on the beach, and his house is still there on the banks of St. Pārthainal and his house are still there on the banks of St. Pārthainal and his house are still there on the banks of St.... Pralabdha means your past deeds. Pralabdha is the fruits, or better said, the embryo of your excess, your karmas. Prabhu Dīp Karatā Mahāprabhujī Dīp Karatā He Kevalam... And this embryo is constantly growing in the astral space. Does this embryo exist in the astral space? That means, in your own phenomenon. And after this life, that destiny will become active. How will your life be in the astral world? How long will you be in the astral world? In which situation will you be in the astral world? What you will face, everything. What will you experience there? Everything? Pain or pleasure? Pain, pleasure. Happiness or unhappiness? There is no one to see you and help you, cry for you, or send you away. Üresség. Magány. And now you know, you see the film of your whole life. What you did, what you lived, how you lived, what you were thinking, what you were eating, drinking, how you abused your body. How did you treat your body? Your body, God gave to you to use, not to abuse. God gave you the body to use, not to abuse. There is no one to hear the judgment. But Ātmā is the Sākṣī. Your Jīvātmā is the Sākṣī. Means the witness, the witness. Ātmānkā, Jīvātmānkā, Sākṣī. Between the destiny and the act of the destiny, the act of the physical world in the physical body is this: we want to show other people how good this person is or how bad this person is. But God doesn’t need to show this. How good is the person and how bad is the person, God wants to show the person him or herself. This is your picture, please. We as people have a need to tell others what kind of person they are, whether they are good or bad, but God doesn’t need that. God wants to show you, alone, that these are your deeds, and you have to deal with them. We as people have a need to tell others and show them what kind of person they are, whether they are good or bad, but God doesn’t need that. He shows us our own picture and says, "This is your picture, this is your picture." There were two good friends. One was a perfect businessman, and one was a perfect farmer. They both died at the same time, and they were very good friends, so they both came to the astral world. And both of them reached the astral world and, coincidentally, met again there. In this case, they met again. The judge who was giving the judgment asked the businessman, "Look, this is your bad karma and this is your good karma." And the judge then said to the businessman, "Here, this is your bad karma. Look at this, this is your good karma." You have very little good karma. And very much bad karma, but there are some satsaṅgas in your karma. But you have several satsaṅgas in your karma. So, first you have the right to come to heaven. So decide where you want to go first, heaven or hell. So he says, ask them, "Please give us a little definition or picture of hell and heaven." So he gave the picture of the hill and showed him a picture of hell: suffering, torturing, unhappiness, loneliness, disappointment, and everything. And heaven, beautiful, happiness, joy, perfect peace, harmony, ānanda. The businessman said, "It doesn’t matter where you send me." The businessman said, "Send me there where I can earn more money." Send me there where I can earn more money, so they, because of the money, he came back to the hill. They asked the farmer, "Your friend has gone to the hill." You have more rights to the heaven and little to the hill. Where do you want to go? He said, "Tell me about heaven. What is there?" Peace, harmony, Lugalom, vékesség, Love, Ljubav, contentment, Eligadecim, Zadovoljstvo, Bliss, Ádás, Boženstvo, Divine, Üdv, Boženstvo, Boženstvo. That sounds good. I would like to go to heaven. But one thing, will I get my smoking pipe? In heaven, there is no smoking pipe. So in heaven, there is no smoking pipe. In heaven, there is no smoking pipe. There is only holy smoke. There is only holy smoke. He said, "If I can’t get my pipe, your heaven, put it down. I go to hell." So this means our human weaknesses. It doesn’t let us improve or develop. Maybe anger, jealousy, hate, complexes, greediness, drugs, alcohol, and so on. We are not able to quit those things. Holi Gurujī used to say often in his satsaṅg, "It is easy to become free from the enemy, but not from the bad habits." And habit is the second nature of a person. That habit becomes the nature of that person. And that habit is a bad habit. It means a bad nature. So, develop your consciousness. Well, after all this, when you witness everything in the astral world, now, how far is the astral world? Your astral world, what you are searching for, looking for, is my astral world, which is far from me, 1.75 centimeters. The astral world you are searching for, my astral world, is 1.75 centimeters away from me. The astral world you are searching for, my astral world is 1.75 centimeters away from me. It means my sky for me begins from here, Hari Om. Here you can move the knife, nothing will happen to me. One meter, 75 centimeters. Don’t do anything. But 76 centimeters, we can do everything; nothing will happen to me. And why didn’t I measure it still? Maybe two meters. Morning is little, evening is... Every evening when I lie down, I’m disappointed. But thanks to the morning, again, it’s a bit better. Evening, before going to sleep, oh God, I will not eat tomorrow anymore. And in the morning, it doesn’t matter, it’s a little better, you can eat. So, in this endless universe, Znači, beszkej, you occupied how many square meter space? Maybe one and a half square meters. Talam mash fel metera. Everybody is different. Everyone has a different nature. Now, this one and a half or two square meter area is the measurement. Taj prostor. This space which you occupy in the universe is given to you to inhabit it. This space is a place of knowledge, and for that you have to pay the rent. And that rent is good things? Do good things in God’s name. God gave us oxygen without paying taxes. God gave us the earth element without paying taxes. All these five elements God gave free. And He gave us the universal right to be happy, content, to feel love and spirituality, which are the universal principles. No one has copyright for it. These are universal principles; no one has copyright to them. But if you don’t take this, and you become unhappy, and you take the unhappiness and jealousy and hate and guiltiness and this, it is your own mistake. But if you don’t live with this, if you don’t replace the unhappiness, the jealousy, the anger, and the others, it’s your own fault. But if instead of that you take anger, envy, or love, that is your fault. You can be angry as much as you like. You can be angry as much as you like. Nobody will calm you down. You can be jealous as much as you like. Nobody can take away your jealousy. You can be as greedy as you like, but no one can satisfy you. Because greed has no end. Pohlepa nema kraja. That’s why Mahātmā Gandhījī said, "Mother Earth has enough for everyone’s needs, but not everyone’s greed." Jīvan, jīvan, jīvan means life, and life means we’ll never die. The body dies. The elements unite with the elements. We have been singing this bhajan, "Śivo’haṁ Śivo’haṁ." I’m not this body, I’m not this body, but it’s my body, but it’s my body. I’m not this body, I’m not this body, but anything you do to my body, I will be very angry. When somebody puts a knife in your body, you say, "You want to kill me?" We don’t say, "You want to kill my body." So we have mixer jñāna, mixer knowledge... Therefore, tons of theory are zero compared to a gram of practice. Now, our theory, our knowledge is very much. We are all very wise experts. We are good advisers. When an unhappy boy or a man comes to you while crying, saying, "My wife left me," or, "My girlfriend left me, and I’m very unhappy." Now you are so wise, one, you are so expert, you will tell so many good things. Don’t worry, you will find some new one, or it will come, and don’t depend. We are so wise to advise. But when that happens to us, then we are helpless. Why? Zašto? Why? Because we do not apply our knowledge for ourselves. And our knowledge we cannot apply to ourselves because we do not have practice and experience. So it means we have only the theory. That is because we have not practiced enough and we do not have enough experience, which means that our knowledge is mostly theoretical. And that theory is zero. So practice, practice, practice. So in the astral world, in the astral journey, you see everything, you see everyone, you hear everything, you smell everything. You see your good and bad parts; you can see your good and your bad sides. You can see your good and your bad sides. You can see your good and your bad sides.... Good and your bad sides, you can see your good and your bad sides. We don’t have this Annamaya Kośa; this physical body is missing. Then the choice comes. Now you have to go to Chorasi, 8.4 million creatures. Which do you choose? Do you want to become an elephant? Or a giraffe? Or a buffalo? Or a donkey? Or a cow? Or a monkey? Mayom, or a horse, or a pig, or a rabbit, or a mouse, or a cat, or a cat, many, many, 8.4 million choices. We promise God. We have promised God. Lord, I promise you a million times. Give me again a human body. Please. I will do my bhakti devotion, my jñāna, and I will, through your name, or the name of God, liberate. Please give me a human body. God was merciful, and he granted us this body again. And now, all of our past karma is applied to this body. Nine months we were hanging upside down. Going through the rivers of the blood, rivers. It depends on Mother’s destiny, God, Mother Nature. So we can knock on our head that we are healthy. Thanks to God, everything is compact. Minden működik. So, to be born healthy. To be able to bake healthily. And mother remains healthy. That is the first mercy of God. But as soon as we were born and came out, we say, "Now I am free, I am human, I am my own decision, I am human rights." I have human rights. I do what I want. It’s my life. I don’t believe in karma. I don’t believe in rebirth. And to believe in God? What are these schizophrenic ideas? This must be all ill people, to believe in God. We must live in normal society, high society. And God said, "Why did you promise me? You forgot this." And God says, "What did He promise you? Did you forget that? You forgot it." Again you fell into darkness. You fell into darkness again. And you’re back in the dark. No more choice. No more chance. You played with the possibility. There is no more chance. We will have you back very soon. You will come back very soon. You will come back very soon. Wake up! Wake up and realize what you are missing.

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