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The Mirror of Consciousness and the Journey of the Ātmā

Consciousness is the transparent mirror of the self, which becomes polluted by negativity, ego, and intoxication. Spirituality is the purification of body, mind, and consciousness to reveal the pure ātmā. Impurities like māla, vikṣepa, and āvaraṇa cloud our inner vision, preventing the clarity of a seer who perceives past, present, and future. All experience unfolds within this personal consciousness, which can be spoiled quickly by bad habits. After death, the jīvātmā witnesses the film of its own life and karma in the astral realm, facing the consequences alone. One then takes a new birth based on that destiny, receiving a human body as a precious chance for liberation. Theoretical knowledge is useless without consistent practice to purify consciousness and break habitual weaknesses.

"Everything is a play of the consciousness. For everything is played in the consciousness."

"Ātmā is the Sākṣī, means the witness."

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

Conscious, unconscious, subconscious, super-conscious, and cosmic-conscious. Consciousness is transparent. As long as you have clear consciousness, your spirituality will improve. Spirituality means purity. Pure body, pure thoughts, pure mind, pure intellect, pure consciousness, and pure ātmā, the pure ātmā. Tisztā test, tisztā elme, tisztā gondolatok, tisztā értelem, és tisztā ātmā. Puṇya ātmā means the purest ātmā, where there is 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 you are egoistic, jealous, greedy, and hateful, your inner mirror is totally blinded. If you have ego, jealousy, anger, and ignorance, then your inner mirror is completely 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. And people, those who are depending professionally on the computer, they know what a computer virus means. So also, people who are anguished with spirituality and who seek to develop a spiritual consciousness, they know what is the virus in the consciousness. And that virus appears through the alcohol, through the drugs, and through the meats. And therefore, it is said, everything is a play of the consciousness. For everything is played in the consciousness. That is why it is said that everything is a game of consciousness, and that everything is a game of inner consciousness. So, 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. Within this balloon is your life. Everything is played in this balloon. So, the great saint Tulsīdās said, which I gave you yesterday evening, also an example of him. Tulsīdās was that holy person who wrote the holy Rāmāyaṇa, the life of God, Viṣṇu, Rāma. There are two authentic Rāmāyaṇas. One Rāmāyaṇa was written by the very great Saint Vālmīki. That is entirely in Sanskrit language, and that was written before Rāma’s incarnation: who will be Rāma, what is Rāma, where he will incarnate, who will be his father, mother, brothers. And his complete life story was written by that great saint day to day, and that’s called the divine vision. 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? So, getting pure consciousness, transparent, not polluted—we are all polluted. Even if we put magnifying glasses in front of our eyes, we can’t see the future and back also. Even if we would put our eyes on the glass, we would not see the past or the future. That’s called māla, vikṣepa, and āvaraṇa. Our antaḥkaraṇa is polluted by different things. Māla means impurity. Vikṣepa is disturbances. Āvaraṇa is a curtain of ignorance. This all we have to remove, and the best perfect technique is your clear understanding. After the life of God Rāma, again the great Tulsīdāsjī wrote a beautiful life story, an epic of God Rāma. The Tulsīdās Tulsikṛt Rāmāyaṇa, Mānasa-carita Rāmāyaṇa it’s called, became more famous than the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa. Because the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa is entirely written in Sanskrit. And Tulsīdās’s Rāmāyaṇa is written in a local dialect. Tulsīdās is written in the local dialect, the national language, so that everyone can understand it. There is not much difference. In the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, it’s more Jñāna Yoga filled in, and in Tulsīdās Rāmāyaṇa, it’s more Bhakti. What a beautiful poem is written. Beautiful. So that great Tulsīdās, he said—the great seer, he was also a great seer—and he lived in Benares at the beach of the holy River Gaṅgā. His house and temple are still there on the beach. And there is still his temple, his house on the banks of the river. And Tulsīdās says that first the prārabdhas are formed. Prārabdha means your past deeds. The prārabdha is the fruits, or better to say, the embryo of your actions, your karmas. And that embryo is lying, constantly growing in the environment, in the space, in the astral level. 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 you will experience there, everything, pain or pleasure, happiness or unhappiness, there is no one to see you and help you, cry for you, or celebrate for you. Emptiness, loneliness. And now you know, you see the film of your whole life. And now you know, you are watching a movie of your life. What you did, what you lived, how you lived, what you were thinking. What you were eating, drinking, how you abused your body. Your body, for you, God gave 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. But this is your Ātmā as a witness. Between the destiny, the act of the destiny, and the act of the physical world in the physical body is this: that we want to show the 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 himself or herself. This is your picture, please. To be revealed before others, or to be revealed to others, or for them to understand that this person is such and such, good or bad. But God does not need this. God wants to show you, alone, that these are your deeds; you have to account for them. We, as people, have the need to tell others and show them what a person is like, whether they were two good friends. One was a perfect businessman. And one was a perfect farmer. And they both died at the same time, and they were very good friends. So they both came to the astral world. And coincidentally, they met again there. The judge who was giving judgment asked the businessman, "Look, this is your bad karma and this is your good karma." You have very little good karma, and very much bad karma, but there are some satsaṅgs 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 said, "Ask them, please give us a little definition or picture of the hell in heaven." So he gave the picture of hell. Suffering, torturing, unhappiness, loneliness, disappointment, and everything. And heaven, beautiful, happiness, joy, prosperity, peace, harmony, ānanda. And we showed pictures of heaven, beauty, peace, happiness, bliss. The businessman said, "It doesn’t matter where you send me." Send me there where I can earn more money. So, because of the money, he came back to the hill. They asked the farmer, "Your friend is gone to the hill." You have more rights to the heaven and less to the hill. Where do you want to go? He said, "Tell me about heaven. What’s there?" Peace, harmony, love, contentment, bliss, divine. That sounds good. I would like to go to heaven, but one thing. Will I get my smoking pipe? Say, in heaven there is no smoking pipe. 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 do not let us improve or develop. Maybe anger, jealousy, hate, complexes, greediness, drugs, alcohol, and so on. We are not able to create those things. Holi Gurujī used to say often in his satsaṅg, "He used 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 bad nature. Then this person becomes a bad-natured person. 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, looking, is my astral world, is far from me, 1.75 centimeters. It means my sky for me begins from here, Hariom. 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. It starts here. If you move your brain above my head here, then nothing happens above my head. If you go down by 1 mm, then something happens there already. That means, for me, the sky starts from there, from that distance. In that space, and from that space, you can still beat me with a knife, but you can’t do anything to me. And why didn’t I measure the steel? I haven’t measured the width yet. Maybe two meters. Morning is less, evening is... Every evening when I lie down, I’m disappointed. But thanks to the morning, again, a little bit better. Evening, before going to sleep, "Oh God, I will not eat tomorrow anymore." And morning, it doesn’t matter, it’s a little better, you can eat. But in the morning, I decide that it’s okay, we can eat a little. In the morning, I looked, there was still room, we could eat. So, in this endless universe, Ananta, endless, you occupy how many square meters of space? How many square meters of space do you occupy? Maybe one and a half square meters. Everybody is different. Now, this one and a half or two square meters of space, which you occupy in the universe, is given to you to inhabit. To hire, and for that you have to pay the rent. And that rent is good things. Do good things. God’s name. God gave us oxygen without paying taxes. God gave us earth element without paying taxes. All these five elements God gave free. And he gave us the universal right to be happy, content, feel love, and spirituality, which are the universal principles. No one has copyright for it. But if you don’t take this, and you become unhappy, and you take the unhappiness and jealousy and hate and guiltiness, this is your own mistake. But if instead of that you take anger, jealousy, love, that is your mistake. You can be jealous as much as you like, nobody will calm down. You can be jealous as much as you like, nobody can take away your jealousy. You can be greedy as much as you like, no one can satisfy you. Because greed doesn’t have an end. That’s why Mahatma Gandhi said, "Mother Earth has enough for everyone’s needs, but not for everyone’s greed." May the Mother Earth have enough for all her needs, but not for all her whims. Jīvana means life, and life means it will never die. The body dies. Elements unite with elements. The elements meet, they come back to their own elements. We sing this bhajan many times: śivo’ham, śivo’ham. I am not this body. I am not this body. But it’s my 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 mixed jñāna, mixed knowledge. Therefore, tons of theory is zero compared with a gram of practice. Now our theory, our knowledge, is very much. We are all very wise experts. We are good advisors. We are unhappy. A boy or a man comes to you while crying. Then 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, but when this happens to us, we become helpless. 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. And that theory is zero, and this theory is then zero. So practice, practice, practice. So in the astral world, in astral journey, you see everything. You see everyone. You hear everything. You smell everything. You see your good and bad parts. Your sunny side and shadow side. But you can’t do anything. Why? Because you do not have the tools of the indriyas, the tool of the body, we don’t have this annamaya kośa, this physical body is missing, then the choice comes. Now you have to go to charāsī, 8.4 million creatures, which do you? Do you want to become an elephant? Or a giraffe? Or a buffalo? Or a donkey? Or a cow? Or a monkey, or a horse, or a pig, or a rabbit, or a mouse, or a cat—many, many 8.4 million choices. But according to your destiny, only this life is meant for you. We promise God, "Lord, I promise you a million times." Give me again the 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 our past karma is applied to this body. And now, all previous karma is connected to this body. Nine months we were hanging upside down. Going through the rivers of the blood, rivers. And we were moving through that river of blood. Garbhavāsa. Garbhavāsa means life in the mother’s womb. Also, not easy. It’s a big challenge. To be born very perfect and healthy depends on the mother’s destiny, God, and Mother Nature. So we can knock on our head that we are healthy. Thanks to God, everything is compact. And thank God that everything is compact. Everything works. So, to be born healthy. To be born healthy. And the mother remains healthy. That is the first mercy of God. 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 humanize. 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 a schizophrenic idea. This must be all ill people. Do you believe in God? We must live in normal society, high society. But we have to live in normal society, high society. And God says, "Why did you promise me? You forgot this?" Again, you fell in darkness. No more choice, no more chance. We will have you back very soon. Wake up and realize what you are missing. Bhai tum jāgo re, terā avasar bītā, yeh bhai tum jāgo re, terā avasar bītā, tere omar bītī jā, yeh bhai tere omar bītī jā.

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