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In our body, there are ten senses: the five senses of knowledge (jñānendriyas), through which we receive knowledge, and the five senses of action (karmendriyas), through which we perform karma. The five senses of knowledge are mostly located in this part of the body, and that is why I call jñāna the Brahman. Through sound, we receive knowledge and information. Through the eyes, we see. Through the nose, we smell. Through the mouth, we taste. And through the skin, which is all over the body—called tvacā—we experience touch. The skin informs us through touch: pleasant touch, unpleasant touch, cold, hot, and so on. These are the only five keys to record anything in your computer, and that computer is located here. That is why information goes quickly there and then spreads everywhere. Consider this water which I taste. My eyes cannot inform me that it is salty. My ear cannot inform me what salt is, and my nose cannot because I do not smell the salt. I touch it with my skin, but it does not tell me it is salty. Only my mouth, the tasting indriyas, says yes, inside is salt. What I want to illustrate with this example is that the solid form of the salt changed into a liquid form in the water but did not unite with the water. I drank water and I said, inside is salt. It means the salt changes its form but not its quality. Understand? So, salt changes the form but not the quality. Similarly, we will change our form of life. This body will die, and we will be in an astral form, in an astral body, but our quality will remain. That quality is the soul. Now, there is a quality of God. So, let us say, for example, water is the cosmic Self and the salt is thy Self. You may go into the astral world, but still you are not one with God because we do not have the God quality. Those who were self-realized souls, liberated souls—what we call the holy ones—through their hard training, hard practicing and praying, and positive thinking, repeating their mantras (it does not matter from which religion or culture they are), purify their consciousness to develop the cosmic qualities, and they merge into the oneness. Others have to travel around the entire universe, coming and going. So, on the waves of time, throughout the entire universe, this individual is fluttering like a boat in the water near the beach or near a rock, with every wave hitting the rock. And so, with every emotion, waves are the emotion. Emotion means motion. So, we are in motion. Sometimes we can control the motion, and sometimes we cannot control the motion. This emotion is the cause of many, many sufferings in this world and in the astral world. Finally, God will be gracious enough to us and will direct, probably or perhaps, us back to our beautiful planet, and we come to the body, and we will do something better. Believe or not believe, it will not change the reality. It is like that. Humans are getting day by day distant from God because they have used too much intellect. Theory, intellectual theory, will not help for that reality. What God has done and is doing, we should accept, is perfect.