IIT Delhi Online Course 1 | Inner Journey to Self Discovery | Part 3/6 | Sri M | November 2020

So today, until the last session, we were discussing the Upanishadic approach to understanding the truth or exploring dimensions that are beyond the reach of our five senses. We were looking at that in the philosophical aspects and so on, maybe also in the metaphysical aspects. So today I want to get into the psychological aspect of the same study. We don't have to

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icularly cite any scripture on this, but let's start wisely, let me start by saying that the essence of seeking is this and what is fundamental that. The question, of

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, about our true identity, on the one hand, on the other, the fundamental quest that we all have as human beings, which is also discussed in the Gita Upanishads in other texts, etc., is the quest for happiness.

I don't think there is anyone who isn't. seeking happiness reads a Jain or a Buddhist, you know, in some approaches you think that when the body is completely tortured maybe you will find the truth. I don't fall into that category, but yes, sometimes to find the truth. uh, to find happiness one has to go through difficulties and some pains and sorrows, even if you want to get high ranks you need to work very hard, sometimes you can't sleep, you need to prove that all these difficulties are there, but what is it? one thing that every intelligent human being is looking for, what are we looking for if I go for that or if I go to Indian institute of management or if I go nowhere but a vedic university and study or I am single I feel I'm not happy.

So what is that question? What are we looking for? So I see that I'm single today and I think I'm single. Everything is fine, but I am not satisfied. I'm not that happy, so what do I do? I look for a girlfriend or try to get married or whatever and then I think that now my happiness will be complete. Now you can ask all married people if their happiness is complete. I am a married man or if you have a girlfriend, don't stop. I mean, there's nothing wrong with this. Please, I'm not criticizing anything. I'm just saying that when you have a girlfriend at the beginning, it's nice and happy. so on and you end up with another set of problems oh why don't you want your neighbor to look at your girlfriend?

Then everything starts again. Well, then there are two factors here. One is that every human being seeks happiness in one way or another. and whatever we do is to make ourselves happy no one wants to find sadness and sadness everyone seeks happiness uh so not only happiness but also every human being feels that yes I am if I expand my horizons if I expand my mind yes I am if I go beyond of my little

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maybe I can embrace wholeness and then be happy again it's a pursuit of happiness um so this is common to all human beings now this is where now this is something interesting the ultimate truth if there is a the ultimate truth right now we are only discussing according to brahma-sutras or vedaata or upanishads a very beautiful name has been given to a term and it is called saccidananda now saccidananda is a word but it is made up of three syllables the first syllable is sat sat it means that what is always is not something that is here today and gone tomorrow, the reality or you can say the essence of all the variety that you see, the essence of the unity between all of these is also sitting in opposition to what we think is reality .

If we think something is real, then the question arises: is it really real or is it the impression we get through our senses? If you look closely, we know nothing about the world except the impressions given to us by the sense organs. I don't really have contact except through the sense organs, so when I see something here, when I am in contact with something, I am dealing with the image constructed by my mind based on the inputs or the data collected by my five indirect meanings. Now this can be right, it can be wrong, it can be exact, it can be inexact, therefore the image I have of the world generally tends to be inexact and relative.

What I think about a

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icular thing, someone else may be thinking about it in a different way. On the whole, the thing exists, but the way it exists is given to us in different ways based on the data we can obtain and we have no other instruments of perception apart from the five senses, these are the only things that can collect data and then, Of

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, the mind can work with the data and produce an image that we call the model of a rational existence or behavior or whatever. When you say sat, it means that there is an essence in all these images that we come into contact with in this world and that we call. reality or behind appearances there is a single reality that is always there and that does not cease to exist even when that of the objects is destroyed or even when I am dead it is there now is related in the upanishads with the idea that the true identity in me, which is consciousness, exists even after death and does not end with the death of the physical body now, if there is something like that in me, I would call it a reality and if in the essence of all this motley universe there is something common reality I I would call that sat and sat also means the essence now the upanishads say that sat is also sit when you say chit it means it is not an inanimate material object but it is conscious consciousness is an important element of sat of reality then it is called sit also chit It means that which has the ability to be conscious, so in my true essence, if I look at your true essence, there is one point that is clear that you are, we are all conscious and consciousness is the link that connects what you are conscious. of or in what way you are conscious this may be different but consciousness is there I am conscious I am conscious uh in a slightly different way René Descartes expressed it as I can doubt many things but the existence of my doubting brain can never be in doubt now he said brain I am saying that I can doubt many things but the existence of my conscious being can never be in doubt because I am doubting so I must be somewhere doubting so this essence in me that is conscious so the punishers The great sages , the rishis, said that this sat or reality that is the essence of my being is conscious, not unconscious, it is conscious, not like a padhartha, which means an object that is not conscious, like this book that I have in front of me.

Well, this book has a lot of ideas. but not visibly conscious, let's put it that way, so it is sit and chit now the third word that combines to form saccidananda which says vedanta is the essence of all reality reality it

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is ananda now everyone knows that we live in a world where ananda is or the desire for happiness is being exploited every day internet everywhere you see how you are attracted because someone tempts us with something to enjoy new designs for boys new things new food when we were in school we didn't know anything about a pizza per For example, a pizza today, if you have to attract young people, you can start eating pizza and everyone will gather there. jalebi that one has breakfast in banaras with hot milk and the enjoyment that one has in sex when you want to enjoy your senses there is a basic element that is common happiness some people are happy in the city some people find happiness in tranquility and peace loneliness what is The common point of happiness and what is the word used for happiness now, if that is our goal in life, whatever we do, we are trying to find some kind of happiness that cannot be destroyed, that it remains forever and that we can always keep, unfortunately, we can.

That is a different story, you may be happy for some time and then it slowly changes, like for example, I have a motorcycle, then the desire is to have a car, that is all the happiness I wish to have. I feel like it's nice to drive to be. very happy uh then after a while I decide that my neighbor has a better car so this is not so good so my unhappiness has started so I look for a better car well, it also happens when you choose partners sometimes let's not go into that oh and after the car then one day I want to buy a mercedes and finally ok I think now my happiness will be measured by the mercedes that is in my garage continue or I get a PhD and then I try to get another PhD and another period of happiness .

The common factor if you look closely is happiness, but the happiness that you know we know in this world is something that comes and moves and goes constantly and then our levels are different, we don't want more happiness at a different level at a different degree. . This is our life this is what keeps life going believe me otherwise I would stay. I am an employee in an office. I am very happy with it. I want more, but the mind says no, no, man, you have to become a superintendent. I move, why do I move? more salary I have more position I also have this ego of being in a position also plays a big role in happiness it is not just a physical concept it is a mental concept I am the boss of my office so I am happy so this desire for happiness is also It is the desire for expansion from the small single-celled organism that for some time remains single-celled and then in an expansive mood splits into two binary fissions and becomes two entities.

A human being I think I am happy but my happiness needs to go even. beyond my debt so what do I do? I make children children so that when I die those genes continue to experience the happiness of world expansion today I have a little knowledge that I need I am not saying that any of these things are wrong, I am saying that these are facts so there is nothing wrong or right here it is reality and then I expand I want to know more unfortunately this desire to expand and become happier and happier never ends, it goes on and on until one day we are late to rest ananda that we see continues until we are late to rest and then of course, you write if it is a christian cemetery, james knows they will write rip, rest in peace, peace has come only then or okay, rest in peace, but there is another definition for that increase if possible tear I don't think anyone can accept the challenge, It is over but we continue to think that this happiness is also the quest that the Vedanta student is involved in as one begins to see the limitations and conditionings of the happiness we seek and keep asking yourself if there is something beyond that cannot be cut, which is not temporary, which is extensive and which has no end, that's why there is a word in Vedanta for that happiness anantam anandam which has no end, but please don't think because it doesn't end it becomes boring no, that's a different story no.

It's boring every day it's new it's not like it's old you can't understand that sachida and put it in your brain like a memory and say oh it's over it's not something that if you understand it's there every minute before us it doesn't end and the rashes say that even when the physical body ends it doesn't end we don't know at this point we can only speculate okay because I'm still alive I'm dead I'll tell you if I can if it continues well, so there was a famous weaver saint in Banaras. You must have heard that everyone knows the great spectator saint in Banaras called Kabir das, who has sung beautiful dohas and bhajans and one of them of course. it is panchi akela the wonderful bird will fly alone finally you can understand you can understand the idea of ​​this uru jayagara panchi aquila because when we come we come alone when we go we go alone no one goes with us and if you realize that deep inside me is a caged bird that had death breaks free from his cage and then flies alone into eternity this is the song anyway so kabhir das also has a famous doha about which he is very popular and I don't exactly remember knowing it but no it doesn't matter I'll tell you the meaning, if anyone knows, you can tell me.

You know, in the Himalayas, in the High Himalayas, there is a particular type of deer that lives in the Himalayas. It is very short in stature and is called kasturi murga meaning it is the deer that produces musk musk musk you will see musk in many perfumes it actually comes from the musk deer now this musk tear has a small pouch under its abdomen somewhere and in a particular season is basically meant to breed the particular season, this kasturi or musk is created there, it exudes like some of the saps in certain tree barks that it exudes and then there is this beautiful fragrance in the air, beautiful fragrance, the portia here could be d e r or d the podia wondering where the source is. of this fragrance is and without knowing that it comes from under his belly he goes to look for it everywhere in the forest looking for the source of this beautiful fragrance that comes out of his boxes and comes out among the thorny bushes he bleeds but he cannot understand that it comes from his Kabirda's own belly said that this is the state of the human being the essence of the kasturi that one seeks is within oneself and one seeks it everywhere of course sometimes you become temporary you want to eat ice cream well so you have an ice. cream temporarily you are happy, but for some people it can be unhappiness the next morning you have throat problems, others not, I am not talking about that kind of thing that happens if there is a permanent happiness that does not disappear and is always there. and therefore the great masters of kabir before kabir there are other orders of masters thisnakshaven the order of the sufis also talks about this they say that this essence is in the heart not in the physical heart not in the organ that pumps blood when I say heart you can say it is an expression like the heart of the matter we have an expression like this this is the heart of the matter so this essence this kasturi this fragrance is in the essence of one's being and without knowing that it is here we are searching for it everywhere in the outside world, so the teaching is expressed in words and look and you will find the jewel that you search within yourself when you have found it then like the great mantra of the Mahayana Buddhist some people think that it is the Buddha the jewel that is in the resources of your consciousness in the lotus of your heart what I am looking for oh money, money is Jewel Padme We will do it when we get to practice after the next sessions.

I also want to discuss sounds like who and things like that, so this is what we're looking for now, the yogi, the rishi, he says. I'll give an example of how to roughly rotate. inward now inward as a beautiful term in Vedanta is called university marga and seeking happiness outside is the priority marker now to have happiness in this life even ordinary happiness one has to balance this property and freedom in someone with who cannot live completely in the truth. this world, but if you want to find true peace and happiness, you also need to not only live privately but also enter into no one, both are fine.

I see this world. I feel this world. I experience this world. Sometimes I should also stop and say look. Where does this happiness come from when I eat an apple and enjoy it? Is it happiness in the apple or is it that the apple activates my taste buds and is it the enjoyment in the taste buds or in me who enjoys it in the same way, everything else, when I enjoy something, happiness springs from me internal, not from an external object, although it springs up when in contact with that object. Okay, yogis say that there is some way to touch the source of this happiness that springs up in small ways when you enjoy this world, can you go to the whole, so this is the other way to investigate this and it is very simple because everyone seeks happiness, there is no one, except that sometimes the serious search for happiness begins only when we are. hit a little bit by pain that's why the first chapter of bhagavad-gita is called arjuna vishada yoga arjuna's yoga of pain or arjuna's yoga of insecurity or arjuna's well of unhappiness yoga and then from there move on to the 18 chapters one by one, the first tour is the first chapter, then there are the 18 holes, so I'm talking about golf, so when we look at this you realize that there must be some way to go inside and find out , OK?

What did the Buddha do? i said when buddha's first speech the first talk buddha's first teaching was sarnath but there were only five or six people around i don't know how many buddha said that desire is the root of all pain and then he said what is nirvana freedom some sadness For all humanity now the desire for happiness that comes is because there is a source of happiness in us, it is built in our mind to seek this happiness the mistake is that you look for it outside and not inside that is the mistake if one who realizes this, then find the source, you can also enjoy the outside world, but knowing well that the real comes from within, so this is the search and how it translates, you know, there is something beautiful, this search for happiness is also the search .

For the fullness in us, the fullness somewhere deep down we know that there is some fullness in us that we don't get anywhere, everything seems incomplete, that's why in the ancient Vedas there is a beautiful statement, it's a mantra, she says, Which means let me explain. complete complete the fullness that we all seek that is complete purnamara purnamidam this too is complete this is complete of that fullness this fullness has come that we see purnasya purnam even if this has been removed from that purname it always remains complete it is physical in the terms of physics that this energy cannot be created or destroyed it always remains the same this is not physics what I am just saying is similar to that so what does the rishi mean by poor namada what is the mantis, the source and origin of all this universe?

For me, everyone, even the source of desire for happiness is always complete, out there, the source is complete, where we come from, where our minds have emerged from, the ultimate source is purna, now you can play with the word purna, too It can be called shunya, but I like purna because it means complete. Shunya is also complete because it permeates everything. These are two terms, so it is complete and this world that we live in with our different personalities has arisen from that fullness, therefore, in true essence, this is also complete, but that is not a daily experience we are incomplete because much that we have we still think that we are incomplete ask the millionaires and billionaires if they are happy with money they don't have to want more they want more happiness they want more fulfillment they want to feel they are more expanded even when you form an organization, it is the essence that we want to expand and become many and not be left alone when you have a family we feel that the family is my unit, that is why it has expanded from my small unit to the whole. family, then this innate desire to find that plenitude that Vedanta says is built in each of us.

Kabhie said it is true, but that wholeness you seek is within you, no, you cannot find it anywhere outside, if you touch it, then you will also see. First you have to touch it from the outside, now you have to touch it from the inside. Now I give you a couple of examples, like the example of owning a car that we talked about. The desire for our expansion to achieve total happiness continues and continues even if you find the best position for us. search is still there the desire to expand is the whole evolution that we see from a single cellular organism to all this complex humanity that we have all this is part of the expansion why because externally we are trying to reach that which is not limited by our only the small personality is beyond and the rishi says that when you touch that you have touched a feeling of happiness now is to look inward.

Can I use the bible? The new testament says what one of the great yogis that you know, who wandered in front of the earth maybe in Jerusalem a thousand years ago, but I don't know two thousand, I'm not very good with figures, if you look at it from the perspective of the Indians, it could be called the ultimate parivrajaka, a person who keeps moving in gita, there is an expression ani keta someone who has no home why because the whole world is his home aniketa then and today it is not a good word in the West if you say homeless over, you know, but at one time in India at least people deliberately took over the world. of homeless people when the Buddhist monk exposes the calling of him establishes means, which means leaving the comfort of home and walking forward delimiting himself in some way.

So what did this great parivrajak say? It is on record whether Jason James' version of the Bible is correct. that foxes have dents and snakes have holes but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head perfect example of a parivrajak who does not stay more than three days in one place keeps moving and what did he say about this interior? What we are looking for, what we are discussing today, he said, place treasures in your heart, where thieves do not break in and steal, so that we all have that treasure, we all have that money in the padma, all of us, how to get there, the path is to turn. within which is numerti numeration marker now psychologically the science of psychology which is essential to explore one's consciousness is there in the science called yoga don't just look at yoga as abhyasa that is just the sadhana read the other chapter samadhi pada which ones They are the layers of consciousness, why do we think this way?

It's all discussed by Patanjali and several other yogic textbooks, and yoga is very important just thinking about these matters, only half a percent of humanity can probably touch that because our thought process is not as refined for the others one has. to have some practice by which the mind can be expanded so that it begins to touch and understand these matters and that process is the practice of yoga the bhagavad-gita at the end of each chapter says this bhagavad-gita this is the bhagavad-gita upanishad also it is the upanishad we were discussing what the upanishad teaches the knowledge of the supreme reality brahman then what is the next word yoga sastry so what you theoretically understand about the upanishad must be understood and experienced through practice and that practice is yoga, It is the connecting link between your understanding and your experience, so when the yogi talks about this, we want to examine something carefully, let's go back to the car example, nowadays we all like to have a car and drive etc.

So I try, my car gets bigger and bigger, and bigger and bigger, or one day it was a suzuki 800 maharati and tomorrow, like the maruti, the god of wind, has vomited and today it has become a rolls- royce, let's say, parked. in my garage how long will I be happy with this until I see something better? I guess I wish I had a Mercedes. I worked really hard, got loans, did everything and finally got a Mercedes. What I'm saying is that I also love driving, so I'm giving you an example. I have a master disassembly in my I don't have it parked in my garage.

Okay, I'm happy. I feel complete now. Everything is over. Oh. I am complete. I'm happy. I'm full. What I normally think is because I have acquired a Mercedes I have finally fulfilled my wish and that is why I am happy now the yogi looks at it in another way carefully we can also look at it we are all yogis in some way is that happiness? has happened: is it because I have a Mercedes parked in my garage or that for a small period of time at least my mind has stopped desiring it? Look at it another way.

The desire for the Mercedes has disappeared for a while until I start to Crave a Rolls Royce later but it is gone for the moment because there is no desire for the moment. I am happy that this constant craving to grab has temporarily ceased to exist because I think I have found something I wanted and it may not be lasting but at least now so I am very happy so what is causing my happiness ? It is the absence of longing, when I suddenly find a void in my longing, then I feel satisfied, completely happy, so I surpassed that happiness, I feel like I am getting closer. to my fullness and that fullness according to the upanishads is my true essence, but then it does not remain why because another longing intervenes, so the yogis say, if you look at the gap when the longing ceases for a little, my time for a little time in At least for a small period, then you will see that that happiness is the result of your state of mind and not of what you have acquired or have not acquired correctly.

This is niverti loam, so turn inward, look and discover that deep within you is a beautiful flowing river. calmly what is the river of happiness and that is your true essence you don't have to get it from anywhere no one has to give it to you you just need to turn around and look and say this fragrance comes from this little bag under my belly not in the outside world and When the outside world is happy it actually shares that fragrance in some way. Now this is the other approach to understanding reality which is called saccidananda.

Now we have 15 more minutes or 10 more minutes, so I want to address it. in a little different way now in most vedantic texts the word used is saccidananda however there is a small not so easy to understand text on vedanta which is part of the vedantic study curriculum and it is the brahma-sutras which also called the vedanta-sutras of vyasa uh, it is difficult start immediately getting to the topic here begins the understanding of the brahman text difficult to read, however, I say this because in the brahma sutras vyasa has used a substitute term for saccidananda and that term is asti bharibriya means what is always is opposite to things that are now but are not tomorrow or in the east when nothing else happens consciousness pure consciousness I exist finished nothing more what other things exist nothing and that this is behind all the states of consciousness because without consciousness you cannot have any other state of karma you have to be conscious asti bhati is a self-enlightened unconscious body means that it is conscious it is not an unconscious matter it is conscious and it is self-conscious and what is the third quality that distinguishes the essence of our being priya what is this priya?

I think for us it is modern, most of us asti and bhadi are difficult to understand but priya is very easy to understand. I love my daughter Priya. I love something you say. Oh me. I like priya a lot, so priya is love, affection, priya is that feeling in us that loves someone else or I think he is dear to me d e d e a r dear this we can understand better than asti and bhati, so when vyasa said rasti bhari Praya , I think we should start with priya bhadi and then go to asti probably in this way because priya is something easy to understand because we understand some kind of priya if not thepriya maximum, is common to all of us and this cannot be defined or explained.

It just feels like we'll all agree. How do you explain it? There are two young people standing at the bus stop. Okay, the boy and the girl could also be another way, but let's say the boy and the girl standing at the bus stop look at each other without speaking. what happens between them, of course, is also a chemical hormonal thing, but forget that no one knows the reason why it is happening to them, you ask them what is happening, they don't know what is happening, but they look at each other for an hour and they don't even say a word. maybe still on cell phone but watching a movie called no one knows now this is ordinary priya let's say biological love even that we can't understand we can only say something is happening so that the limited mind in its stage current can understand the definitive priya.

It's difficult, so what happens when the mind stops clinging and calms down? So maybe there is an understanding of what that priya really is and it is not different from saccidananda, which is why in some schools of thought they said that the path of devotion is better than the path of inquiry. I don't totally subscribe to this, I am saying that there are some schools of thought that say the way of the divine because human beings like us can easily understand it because we know what love is, we know what it is at least the effect. to a certain point it can be limited so from there you extend that affection to what is beyond and maybe one day the mind will come out of its limitations, why do I say maybe? because if I make a definitive statement my ego has become so big that one of The way is to cut that for singles.

I have some advice if you need to cut your ego. Get married. One of the best things you can have. It's good. You are no longer sure of yourself. So I think we'll end this session now. and we are open to answers to questions for half an hour, so questions, please tell me, ah, I know what you are trying to say that now you will read or that if you go and search for the

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self and try to be free, you may not they achieve it. being able to live in this world and have a little bit of attachments is that, what I think is a similar question, yes, yes, so let me tell you that this

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is not an elimination of everything external because you will be in this world You can't get out of this world we have to live in this world I'm not saying you should isolate yourself, for example if you enjoy jay levy, if you search for the inner, it doesn't mean you should cut your jalebi, you know what I'm trying to say, but keep in mind that's not the ultimate happiness that's all I'm trying to say but also keep your limit your childbirth other chances of diabetes are high so all I'm trying to say is as long as you enjoy this world you understand and you observe that this is not the last thing, one has to transcend it at some point if one feels like transcending it if one feels like staying, that's fine, but the thought that there is something beyond this should not be allowed to go away. . so you are still exploring you know what I mean and you can decide if it is right only when you reach when you reach the goal before that we can only say I am speculating suspend my judgment let me take a good look yes thank you ankit thank you .

Thank you, next we will have gifts with a question sir, you just explained how when we get something that we are dividing and then for that small period of time the absence of craving is happiness, so if happiness is equal to a prayer very close to satisfaction. which is so difficult, this santosha satisfaction is so difficult because we think that our happiness depends on acquiring more and more, but the fact is that true happiness is when you are not acquiring, when you acquire something, the happiness that happens is that you temporarily do it. you feel. you have acquired, then there is happiness, but it does not end there, you will acquire more, so satisfaction is a very good start, yes, but then satisfaction should not become an excuse for laziness, sometimes you are so lazy to do anything thing in the content of the ham, no.

It is not like that and it is not that laziness is bad. I think laziness is also a good thing. There is nothing wrong with laziness. In fact, I am a very lazy man. I hardly work much now. I'm sitting here an hour and a half after sitting. in the garden and you do nothing, but then you enjoy nothing, you don't get bored, right, yeah, okay, you're thinking. My question is: how can we be sure that we are in the right place to find true happiness? It's hard to say, but you know you stumped me. How do I know I'm on the right path?

That means at least you're somewhere. If there is no way, then you will not ask this question. Am I on the right side? Well, yes, so this is a very relative question. What is right for a person? The path may not be the right one for someone else. For example, if you are a heart person, meaning you are a devotional person, you may be seeking truth through practice. of what is traditionally known as bhakti yoga, if now that part may be okay for you, the right path for you, but it may not be the right path for someone else, there are people who are very intellectual who like to understand everything with speculations through the discussion, but if you tell them that this is all buncombe emotion, so that is not the right path for them, so I would say that the right way to think is not that, since the truth we are exploring is infinite, there can be infinite ways forward to explore and Also, usually the question is the right part because it is causing me inconvenience, it is causing me pain, it is causing me problems, so it is the right path, that is also another reason why that people have this question, so if you are seriously searching for the truth. then you should also be prepared to endure the difficulties that arise and speak out.

If you are a serious spiritual seeker, there are only a couple of things that will distinguish you from not being on the right path, which is seeking the path you are causing. harm others by seeking the way. Do you become more selfish and self-centered? Do you know what I mean by following the part? Are you creating problems and problems for others? If these three things are not there, then you are on the right track. No matter which part you go to, you understand, yes, thank you, thank you very much, sir, next time with the questions, yes, so you mentioned that the absence of any desire is basically constant happiness, but we normally think if we think of happiness as dopamine . free ourselves physically then we need to realize that some goal has been fulfilled or some desire is not what is equivalent to happiness but now we are saying that the absence of any goal in the absence of no no no no no no no no you misunderstood me no absence of no goal there is a goal and the goal is to find supreme happiness, which is more than normal happiness, so the goal is actually much more defined.

There are now ways and means in the practices of meditation and spiritual discipline where you can release this document without longing. For anything external, there are ways to do it, the entire practice of pranayama and chakra dharna is meant to increase or release these feel-good factor hormones in the human system, so that when this happens, you are happy even without the help of things external. I am not saying that you should always be free from it, but even without the help of external satisfaction, you learn to be satisfied with it, you don't need to have it, it is about certain practices, but what I am asking is if you don't .

You have any type of goal and any type of desire, but that would be equivalent to happiness. No, I don't think you're not happy. Try it. You can't stay in that for even a minute. You will be forced to get out of it. at least you will have the goal of spiritual realization at the end in the last class you mentioned about this mental blow from within, so basically she had her left hand cut off and that's why she said absolutely that she was absolutely in the present moment, so in that case she He really experienced happiness and a little more tension, not maximum happiness, but at least his consciousness expanded a little more than before and he could see himself, feel himself outside of his body, yes, not outside of the body, but also outside of her.

In the body, the limitations of space and time have been removed for some time, so now in yoga there are mechanisms by which this can be achieved without a hemorrhage, without a brain hemorrhage in nature, that is, if it is in a particular state, let's say of samadhi, if someone is experiencing that cost then it means that there is a constant release of dopamine because if you are constantly happy about this, there probably is, I have no idea there is, but too much dopamine is not good either, you can create other problems, sometimes too much. A dose of dopamine can cause hallucinations.

Nor am I saying that the cause of happiness is due to the publication of a document. I am saying that when one is happy, certain doses of government are also released into the bloodstream and there are ways and means to carry it. It's a decision, that secondary factor when a little bit of dopamine is released, then the brain, the mind, calms down. The brain, let's say goodbye, for the moment, calms down. In that calm, you begin to discover deeper and deeper levels, layers of calm from there to when you arrive. The latter has nothing to do with chemicals so it has gone beyond any chemical reaction.

It can begin with a chemical reaction but in the ultimate essence it is not a chemical reaction. Consciousness is not a chemical factor although it has certain coordinates by which the chemicals are released into the system, so are we saying that this consciousness or the way we are talking about it is possible to have a state where there are absolutely no extraneous physical neural correlates because when you say neural coordinates it immediately says existence of the brain? when we say ultimate consciousness in these matters, we are transcending the consciousness of the brain, we understand what the brain can detect, but we are transcending the limitations of the neurological process, okay, think about it, just one thing, huh, you were saying that he only takes one sensory input from the five senses if we are able to transcend our brain and that means we could also transcend the reception of information.

Yes exactly, that is why we have subtle centers in the human system that are beyond the capacity of the five senses. senses when people say they are, the eye of wisdom opens or something ah so it's not just the five senses something else is at work there when we get to the practical discussion then I'll get to this point about how it's also linked to some of the glans, ductless glands in your system, although it is not physical, it is linked to the physical, okay, thank you sir, thank you sir, the next question is from I never said that the world is illusory, did I say the word in some talk?

I've never heard that from you, does that make sense? Tell me how to use the different techniques like virtual reality and all these things, of course, I'm also trying to figure out some of those things so you can see what virtu is. If you see virtual reality, then you will know that what you think is real can also be virtual in some way. You understand what I'm trying to say and I'm not saying that the world is an illusion as long as it lasts. It is not an illusion when you transcend it. You see it is not permanent.

When you say that the world is an illusion, it is a wrong understanding of Vedanta. What Vedanta says is that the world is temporary and being temporary, when something is not permanent, then it cannot be real. That's the argument. As long as it lasts, I continue with madhwa, the world is real. As you go, you start to see the uncertainty of the real world and then you start to go beyond that and say, is this possible? Is there any other reality that is better and more than? what we think is reality here I hope you think about it well, if the world is totally unreal like you said, then there is no television screen in front, it doesn't mean anything, no, that is not true, we are saying that the consciousness of the individual who is sitting here, you and me is more important, that concept is more important than the process that is happening, that is the idea, okay, yes, thank you sir, now we have a question of something that says: I want gelatin, I have than to eat the lady. and after a while, it starts, you know, a thought to start generating bodily reactions, like the mouth will fill with water and it will force me to do that, you know, do that action before that happiness that I will eat and then.

My mind will be happy and I will be happy before this longing arises, the bodily reaction is correct. Any thought is related to a bodily reaction that will create a mood or, you know, make me sad like that, so how to get rid of that first? Can there be a situation where any thought comes to me and it doesn't affect me and my body doesn't react to it and there is a state like that where none of the cravings that happened to you don't go away, but you? I am not seriously affected by those cravings the state is possible now this state is possible only through the practice of certain exercises in sadhana this is possible so in that space there can be astate in which I am not affected by that reaction or the reactions will not stop The reactions will not stop.

The reaction does not affect you as long as you have a healthy body. The reactions will be there, but it won't affect you. You can look at it in a very unbiased way and say: no, no, no. I don't want it right now, that's the state, not that the reactions will stop a healthy mind and a healthy body will have all the reactions, but the reactions will not be serious enough for you to worry about them, look, leave it to me, to me I also like to be like that. The delivery is fine, but I don't long for you.

Also when I go to Banaras there is no better breakfast than peda and jalebi and hot milk. I get it, but sitting in madnapali I don't crave that jalebi, so what's going on in the mind? The calm and tranquility found in the state called sarvatra samabuddha is that when something is available, yes, you can enjoy it, but you don't constantly crave it until it becomes an obsession. Obsession is more dangerous than a longing, when a longing comes constantly, then that. it becomes an obsession, that is what we have to protect ourselves against, it can be done consciously, so we can do it by saying enough, I am sitting in Delhi today and I am not getting a good delivery, so let me think about something else. a practical step, you see, sadhana is not something magical, in the situation you live in, you should be able to adapt and get rid of your cravings, it takes practice, thank you sir, teachers you should have a question, yes, I will come in , but the way it is expressed seems like a rock-solid understanding where the self is not changeable, right?

I mean, I got it. The words tita prajna in the gita are explained by krishna in other words as sarvatra sama buddha, which means Is it possible for us, through training and understanding, to keep our mind calm in all circumstances because in this life there will be some time sadness will be happiness sometimes we will get what we want sometimes we want so there are disappointments everything is there in this we cannot turn off that it is there the stita prajna is a person who in the midst of everything these circumstances remain stable, which means that only because he could not acquire something he does not fall into depression nowadays depression is so common that he does not go into depression and just when he achieves or acquires something he decides not to go into it The bp remains high, so it is similar to training in the person, it is another way to do it, so my question is that by this I mean, if one were to obtain this mastery, could one reach a point where all knowledge is direct? without having to depend on scriptures or absolutely yes, if you reach that point, when you reach that point, until then, we need to depend on something or the other, yes, then the possibility of course exists because you are freeing yourself From the limitations of ordinary thought that comes only from the brain, you are transcending ordinary thought, so you go to that part of consciousness that can function even when the brain is absolutely silent, so the possibility exists, in fact. , sometimes you look at some of the achievements and discoveries of the wise men and you wonder how they found this when they did not even have the necessary instruments to find this where they went how do you know because their consciousness has expanded sometimes it also happens in the case of Great scientists like Einstein, for example, sometimes I doubt whether Einstein really developed his theory with his normal thought process.

Sometimes I wonder, I'm not sure, but I wonder because he was also a person who also said that imagination is more important than knowledge, so maybe imagination. and sankalpa the ability to visualize maybe sometimes is more important than just ordinary rational 1 plus 1 equals 2. in this world we are talking about 2 plus 2 it can become 5 it is not possible in arithmetic maybe in higher mathematics but not in arithmetic in arithmetic two plus two has to be four, but in this field, although sometimes you can pierce ordo, which means that you are transcending the ordinary mode of investigation and have a direct reach, yes, sometimes, when you want to continue a problem, you just want to be away from it.

To be silent when something arises and that is something, possibly it is a glimpse of what we are talking about, a small glimpse that in the gap between too much of trying to understand in that calm comes the answer, sometimes there have been known people who have been thinking. even in the science of problems constantly constantly so I know a person then he had a tequila and went to sleep and the next day in the morning he had to say no I'm saying that the tequila gave him the solution what I'm trying to say yes yes Sir, you have more questions.

My question is that there are as many schools as there are yoga things. We should first have learned the art of deciding. Then we have to figure it out because not everything fits everyone. There was a question that was asked earlier. What is right for me? This young lady asked me which part is correct, so I can't tell you which one to choose. You have to think about what is best for you if for example you are a total ascetic who does it well it is a simple life or does it for them there is a different path if you want to enjoy the world and get on with life there is a different path so when you talk about the art of living we should also learn the art of dying because that comes to everyone and we should know how to get out when the right time comes, it's not just that so we should think carefully about what I can't really tell you which It's your path, it's up to you to choose, but whatever the path.

If you choose, you have to understand that the search is the ultimate reality and not compromise on it, so if I am taking the path, I can't really answer this question for you because you have to decide, look, how did you choose this Delhi? It must be something. which is why it can't just be an accident, so in the same way, in a very sensible way, in a practical way, look at all these teachings that are there, read them, understand them, don't be fooled by anything right now, look for them. and then decide what might be good for you.

I would advise anyone not to take a path that is overly emotional or overly historical. You know what I mean. A clear and sober path of thought with the practical methods of meditation is better than falling into something that will be difficult for you to get out of. catch up later keep this in mind before you choose so we have three more minutes and if you have a question but professor garg wanted to say something so when we talk about, you know, our contributions coming from cancer, we also talk about dreams where the inputs come from somewhere else from within and even in the waking stage you know that there are educated people, there the knowledge is ramanujan is a mathematician you know many things without any proof, he will just come to him now the question is one of the terms that came to me was not and most of them are correct, but even one of them was not correct and the same project also happened, you know, again for a person, how is that?

You know, the fundamental knowledge we are talking about has nothing to do with mathematical theories or equations or anything like that, that Ramanuja example you gave where a theory went wrong, now look, even if it had touched a source from which there is direct access, it still has to be interpreted by the brain as long as you have a brain, it still comes through the brain and is interpreted by the brain, so the problem could have occurred where the interpretation connections were not right because if some Some of the theories have turned out well and others have not, some equations have not.

There is a possibility that it could happen, but sometimes it may not happen because you are trying to translate that transcendental experience through an ordinary brain, so sometimes it may be right, sometimes it may be wrong, so the yogi It is in this corrective attitude that it will do. not accepting any effect of what is happening, just accepting the awareness of it in consciousness there can be an error conscious of something there can be an error I don't know if I am understanding this true the yogi is not looking for experiences or visions that can happen because The brain is going through a completely different structure right now, but what it is looking for is the supreme consciousness where none of these things exist, there is no equation, there is nothing, there is only pure consciousness where there can be no error because it is consciousness. pure, it's not something like the last time you said someone had temporal lobe epilepsy and said I'm god, but the yogi is not trying to become god or imagine that he is god, he is trying to touch the essence. from your consciousness that is all and when that happens one begins to understand that this consciousness also permeates everywhere it is not a uh uh what you call in inductive logic it is more of a real understanding I don't know how to say this so that's what it is Ramanujam might have been wrong in some theories, there is no doubt about it, thank you sir, I think we should now finish for today, thank you, thank you sir, thank you very much.