Intro Lesson :Q&A P2

0:19 We have learned four part of the mind in the intro. How do we go from knowing to understanding or differentiating or recognizing? How do you know about How do we know about differentiating, recognizing and >> understanding? >> Understanding. >> Mhm. >> By learning about it, inquiring about it. Inquire about the questions that's coming in your mind. When a question pops in your mind, for example, I want to

1:05 watch a movie. So, who's who's thinking about this? Is it the intellect? Is it the memory? Is it the hankara? Or is it the consciousness? Clearly, the consciousness is not interested in watching a movie because it's already watching a movie. The the memory is also not interested in watching a movie because this movie does not exist in your memory unless it's a movie from your memory that's come from 30 years ago, 20 years ago or from something that your parents watched that you watched when you were a kid and you're wanting to rewatch that many decades after. The intellect is the intellect watching movie. If the intellect's watching movie, maybe there's a recommendation

1:50 from someone, a friend or a colleague maybe saying that, hey, watch this movie and it's got some great tips. It's a true story and that's um it's got some deep insights about rocket science. Recently, I was recommending the movie Rocketry to a couple of our tribe mates who are science, one of them is a scientist, and it's a it's a great way to associate with what a scientist's life is. And then the fourth one is aankara. If the aankara wants to watch a movie, it's bored. It doesn't have anything else better to do. And it is thinking that oh, wouldn't it be great if I can watch a movie then I have something to do? And now I'm going to go to the uh best

2:38 theater in town, a 5D, fivedimensional theater uh whatever they call it here at the PVR or SV something. Yeah, the theater. And then you buy a Goldf ticket and you take selfies of yourself and post it on Instagram. Hey, check me out with a pack of popcorn. You're not too interested in the movie, but you're interested in the whole journey of going to the theater and showing off and it's like this whole thing is an event. The movie is 3 hours, but the event is the whole thing that's running in your mind is goes on for days before and after. So this is a good way to learn to understand who is in operation here

3:23 and you can apply replace the movie to an exam to a girlfriend to a parent to a child to uh whatever um and you start seeing this pattern. Is it the buddhi, the intellect? Is it the what is in operation is the way we understand and identify who's the one who's taking the call and decision. Inquiry inquiring the decision and every every thought that you taking helps you to understand who's taking that decision. That's a very interesting way of looking at it. But if we don't

4:09 have all this excitement, we really want to just go and watch the movie that is also still doing. So the second question is consciousness speak when we are in thoughtless state. Does it feel like hearing rather than heart? Can we say if we have thought or idea that we are not associated with any survival emotion but still have auction like plan A, plan B? Is that from intellect? And if we are and if we are sure like knowing that this is the thing do that come from consciousness.

4:56 >> H interesting question. Um you need to learn about this. This is not something that I can answer in one word. So lesson one covers a little bit about how uh the intellect, memory and ego is in operation. And then lesson three, sorry, lesson four is talking about thoughts, how thoughts are in operation. Um yeah, and to really understand consciousness, it needs a lot more lessons than just one word, one line answer here. So be patient and follow the lessons if you want to learn truly learn about consciousness. >> I was trying to relate to this example like they gave a bunch of example to

5:42 understand if the memory of mind intellect or consciousness is at work like fire burns everything down. Is it from ego? Fire is the first discovery. If you w rub two stones and you create a control fire the source is it from consciousness fire application of control fire like cooking to keep yourself warm is is it from intellect so I think they are trying to understand how how to use the four part of mind how to sense where is it coming from Um yeah same wait for your lessons watch lesson one and you'll get some insights

6:29 about that uh here we're trying to understand how the mind operates we not really trying to use different parts of the mind we are in observation of different parts of the mind slight change in the way you see this perspective is to be an observation not to use to understand it to use it >> every memory of past life. How do we recognize it? How do we know if it's our it's our imagination or our memory? >> It's an imagination for sure. The question on what was asked in the introduction um what did you have for breakfast last week? Ask yourself this question right now.

7:14 What did you have for breakfast last week? And I'll tell you your answer right now. There are some people who say I had oats or cornflakes or banana and milk shake for breakfast. But then comes the question, what did you have for lunch on the 26th of December 2019? It will be a freeze moment in your mind and your body will also freeze. If you can't remember what you had in 2019 for lunch or if you can't remember what you had for breakfast a week ago, do you think you'll be able to remember your past lives? Think about it. Does it even make sense?

8:00 So whatever is running in that chitta mind of yours that's projecting and imagining based on the stories and content it's gathered along the way in this life and some of them can be created and pictured in your own dreams. Um it's like creating a movie. It's an imagination. It's a vision that you can put together. Right? Mind is a very beautiful creative instrument. So then when you tend to do that we can completely draw and fool ourselves with a picture that is purely based on an imagination. Okay. So then then comes the question

8:46 then what about all these past life regressions? What about them? What about people who do this professionally? That is karmakanda. It's all magic. It's all magic. The magic is here only for here. If you want to follow your past life, why are you learning maini? You don't need to be inaccurac. There's no moa for karmakanda. It's the end of the path is continues to just be magic and rebirth again and again and again and again over and over and over. The truth is you already know this. You

9:33 might not remember it but you already truly know this in your heart. I'm not talking about this physical heart because this physical heart will die and decay. But you know this in your heart and in that eternal heart the truth is you are exhausted of this gibberish. You're exhausted of this illusion. What? Delusion. Come to learn the truth. And hence you are reciting in a foreign language without understanding much of a meaning. Contemplating and showing up every day without fail. That takes some sort of a courage. That takes some sort of a dedication, devotion, discipline and deep respect for the truth itself. For your truth

10:19 that you seek. Okay, in that space focus on Yanakanda. Don't worry too much about past lives because they are not here to help you. Past lives is a story that will keep you entangled in this Maya world. Our aim is to slowly navigate out of illusion and devi. If monkhood is also a title that stems from ego, how do we think about it? Is it to say if it's form from ego, you go around bragging, I am a monk, I am a monk. But if you are okay, the parts you

11:04 are just quietly pract practicing monkhood and that's the difference. True. That's the difference. A sadhu is a careful person. A sadhu or sadu is a monk. A monk is a alert person. What is he alert of? He's alert of the mind. His mind or her mind. It's the alert and careful of their minds. It knows the nature of the mind. It knows how the nature of the mind is to drag and bo have all these different identities.

11:51 All belongs to the divine race that a true sad does not hold anything that's not all together. It's not attached to any titles. be tightened. >> The next question is I wish I knew I knew the different between memory, intelligent, consciousness and ego with example so that I can contemplate it in daily life. Kindly give example of each. >> I think I've already answered this question using that movie. Now I have a question back for the person who's asked this question and whoever has asked this question about memory four parts of the

12:39 mind. Who's asking the question about the four parts of the mind? There's four parts of the mind. Which part is asking the question about the four parts of the mind? Think about it. Which part of the mind are emotion emerging from? I can think of some emotion like depress depression, hatred from ego. But what about love for a person, a place or a thing? >> If you are not your body, the introduction lesson, expand that to the people around you. No

13:25 one is themselves. The only love here is the compassionate love towards God, towards Isara. And when you truly in love with that creator, with the one true parabrahman, the divine grace, the almighty, the Allah is Then you are naturally in love with everything and everyone. Don't limit yourself to another person or another thing because that is in actuation

14:12 is an illusion of delusion. They will break your heart. They will break your trust because the setup of everything here is based purely on that. It's a matrix. It's not real. Start observing. Nothing here is permanent. Your body is not permanent. We train our body so that we can learn the lessons, the truth. For that we need this body. So we try to keep it in some order of health as best as we can. Try to keep that mind in some form of clear mind in some form of health. so that it is able to grasp the lessons and not doubt the

14:57 truth when it comes to the seeker. So likewise when you are able to do all of this and able to absorb it, don't put all of this outside of you because you're losing all of that that you just gained. It's a distraction. As the lessons progress, especially in lesson three, you will learn about marriage and relationships, what you are and how we are showing up etc. And so far the way we have seen the world and understand the world is not what it is. Wait and learn. Be patient.

15:47 As a Vati, should I force myself to practice patient in all situation? How do I handle toxic situation? >> Okay. To start with, if you are forcing yourself on anything or anyone, you are not a vanti. So don't that is becoming an identity already. So that is not a sadu. That's not a monkhood. And if you are observing toxicity around you again it is based on the absolution of judgment mother matzaria comparison judgment and all those type of things the enemies of the I do understand your question I did have

16:34 this dilemma in the beginning as well when I was learning I' have this much since when I was a child when I observe toxic places and people and people make the place toxic and it's it's a it's a cumulative energy of thoughts just merely purely observe. The true observer is a patient one. True observer is an alert one. The true observer is a careful one. The true observer is that monk that monk is the compassionate one passionate one is experience and when you're experiencing this having toxicity there is no toxicity

17:20 because it is not your toxicity. So you're watching a movie. What's that new movie that came during movie during I call it dur during and you're watching this movie and there's so much fighting going on and you're like oh so much toxicity then there's so many songs in this movie the songs are so lives. The girls are so pretty. The men are so handsome, long hair, big muscle,

18:07 throwing things around like they're spinning a cuddle at them. And then you think that you're right with the observer on this watchman. Same way you are working with toxicity with the observer. What's happening here is not real. It's a movie. So don't get affected by it. That practice will give you patience in return naturally. >> Next question is what are doubts? I believe that doubts arise when the ego has set expectations and the same are not met yet. When I choose to let go of expectation, I believe I cast aside my

18:54 doubts. Doubts are inquiry of the of and the rest of the answer you've already answered yourself. So as long as the doubt is not coming from a place of ego and expectation this expectation is ego then it is just inquiry this hunger to want to know more. Not out of curiosity because of necessity. Curiosity again is ego. Curiosity. >> How do you differentiate? >> How do you differentiate between

19:40 curiosity and necessity? >> A curious person each for this knowing will be very limited. It'll last a day or two. But the one who's inquiring about the truth will last the whole lifetime. Does not stop. They will keep going whether to cross the seven mountains, seven valleys, the seven seas, seven skies, the seven rivers. I'm just giving a number of sevens to make it poetic. But um it does not stop. It's a lifelong search. All of you here are searching.

20:29 Come to the banks of the truth because you've been searching for so long. You have crossed the seven seas and seven mountains and the seven hills in the valleys. So the inquiry is pure. The inquiry is true. However, there is this sickness and disease of the anara which will throw in that curiosity expectation wanting to hear something really cool. It's already got a idea of what it wants to hear and that does not sit with the truth and then it's like contemplating like oh hang on it cannot be this cannot just be it has to be something else and then starts creating and manipulating the information to suit its own imagination to get a high dopamine.

21:16 So true inquiry is a necessity. True inquiry of the truth is a necessity of a dharmic person. The one who's searching for true dharma. The one true dharma here is veum. So inquiry is a necessity not should not be out of curiosity should not be out of expectation because after some time I will not be answering your questions you'll be answering your own questions through the grace of God through the grace of the divine guru until that point comes to answer just to give you that support sort of

22:04 you come around like a child when it's learning to crawl the mother always tries to you know help it fall a little bit further when it learns to stand up she'll give her pinky or hold its hand to help it walk after a while she will let go even though she knows that he or she might the baby might trip and fall the toddler might trip and fall but they are very close to hold it in case that happens they grow and walk same Okay, I'll be there until you start walking. After that, we'll be walking together. [clears throat] >> That's a beautiful answer. I've always believed that pleasure.

22:52 >> So, the next question is I have always believed that pleasure is felt through the body. But after digesting lesson one, now I believe that that my ego or mind is the one that creating all feeling, pleasure, anger, joy or sadness. It's it's the meaning that the mind attributes to the thought, belief, memory that generates the feeling. If I am not my body and the mind creates the feeling, then the body feels nothing. Oh, it does not feel anything. It's a Jeda. It's a It's a

23:39 How do you explain Jeda? It's a It's a It's a thing. The body is a thing. It's an object. It's an instrument like your car, you know. Does it feel anything? Does not. But it operates. Just because it operates does not mean that it feels it. Mind feels everything. Mind body. Right. That's good realization. Welcome to the trick. >> Yeah. There was an exercise that you have said. Go lie down on the bed. No matter what time you wake up, say lift your right leg or right hand. The body will follow the instruction. No matter

24:26 it's the mind trickster. So the next question it's the mind that can control how much to eat when to eat or when what I have eaten is enough and call it sweet. How does one differentiate between what they know it's right intellect know you are full and eating you feel a void memory does the body don't provide feedback to the mind >> it clearly does the body does give feedback straight up because the stomach is only this big size of your fist and how much do we eat this

25:18 Learn about your body. Know how much is enough. Most often we are stress eating. We are thinking about something else. Watching television, scrolling on our phone, thinking about some project, thinking about a relationship, thinking about how bad she said that call me, you know, and donkey. And then you're eating. Are you even focusing or paying attention to what you're doing? You're not present. Thoughts are somewhere else. Thoughts are not in the food that you're eating. You're busy talking, busy thinking, busy externally being engaged with so many things while you're eating. When you stop all of that noise, it's just noise. It's just noise. Stop all of that

26:04 noise and focus on your food. See it as a sadena. It is a sadena. You're nourishing this body is a sadena. You need this body across the river. When you eat, you will start understanding after very quickly you start knowing I am full here. I'm half here. And don't eat out of greed because you've been conditioned to eat out of greed when you were in young. >> Eat your breakfast quickly. You have to run. Are you running late for school? Are you still chewing your breakfast as you're jumping in the school bus? Then as an adult, we're still continuing to do that.

26:50 So this unconscious way of eating has created a pattern that we don't know what is being full. We have never understood it, never learned about it. So learn about what is full for you. The way simple science to know what is full is this is the size of your stomach. Which means the size of the food that the quantity of food that you're eating is approximately this. So then if you want to eat more then you eat one more that that's double the quantity. So if you're adding more food then which means you need to reduce the amount of meals that you're having intermittent

27:36 fasting eat one meal a day or two meals a day. If you're a woman you're going through a periods be aware that you need energy. So during the time of your periods you have to consume because you're also losing energy. See it as fuel. If you're driving a car going from A to B, you fill up the fuel until you can reach back and forth. If you're not driving the car, don't keep filling that tank because that fuel is going to become toxic sitting there for ages. Same way if this body is not operating too much, it's just lying around sitting and couching around and watching TV and not really having much of a operation, but you are operating in your mind thinking and worrying so much about

28:21 certain things that you don't have control over. then you're losing energy, but you're also sitting with a lot of food that's not really used correctly. It's not burning energy. You're just using energy to think negative thoughts. So, you're adding more cortisol to your system, which is producing more sugar, which is creating more fat cells in the body, which is creating more fluid accumulation, food accumulation, toxic accumulation in the body. then starts becoming a balloon because it's trying to protect you in it's all gas, hence all gas. Learn about food. We used to do a nutrition program years

29:07 ago and I stopped because people are doing it for the wrong reasons. They just want to look good for their boyfriend so that they can get back their old ex-boyfriend from the broken relationship or they want to look good for their girlfriend's sister so they can switch girlfriend. Is this too twisted? And I said, "Oh my god, please leave me out of this wrong part." You interested? Let me find that document and see if I have any resources on that was interesting the food podcast that you that we published spoke about

29:55 is really that um actually I've realized it for a long time but I never articulated like how you did it in a way that food is energy. If you require energy and you don't get it from any other source like the sun or from the nature, then you go for food. And um I completely relate to how we grew up saying eat your food faster and that that harshness that need to shove the food continues forever and and the mind always checked off and it's just I I grew up in Malaysia and it was really fun. Food is food is actually plant

30:42 and it has zero correlation to say food is actually energy completely lost sight of it. So thank you for that. So the next question is what exactly are we supposed to be listening for when we are reciting the vom? What are we supposed to be listening for like the tone of the person's voice or will things come just to you also if Krishna is everything then why even we have the words about Sarasi is on the tongue when it's technically him still >> thank you for asking this question assures that you've done some contemplation sasi is Krishna and

31:28 Krishna is sitt So it's not separate. What are you listening for? What are you watching out for? You are watching out for the words. The sound of the words that's been recited. That's what you're listening carefully to. The tone is is the tone of the person that your tone will be similar or close to or different, but the words has to be the same as close as possible. So that's what you're listening to. You're listening to the words of the veum and the contemplation is on the meaning of the words which is written there in English and it'll be explained a little bit more deeper in the lesson.

32:18 >> All right. The next uh tab has a YouTube link that speak I'm just going to summarize it from my memory. I watched it and it was about a sad more a person talking about how his guru are the punchi buddhas and his life is all about the elements of this world. So I presume this person is actually there was no question just a link I'm just mentioning this as a summary if you would like to answer that would be great. Uh the guru is Maya illusion and the sadhu is also an illusion thinking that

33:05 they are a sadhu. Um and this they are in karmakanda and they're trying but they have not found the guru yet. There is a verse about this. The first duty as a human birth is to find your guru. And for all of us here, we have managed to come close to finding the rule guru. A lot of us find mortal gurus who are not real, who are part of the illusion maya. There's so many obstacles to get to the guru. So you have crossed a lot of us have crossed those obstacles to find the true guru

33:55 in your worshipping that's five elements the punch there is no moa you metaphor I'll give you the example analogy to think about this if you are a person who's woriing your boss of the company that you work you're keeping the boss happy. You're never going to lose that job, which means you're never going to progress out of that job or out of that organization or out of that company. You'll never know anything beyond that. Work all your lives in that company because of all the gifts that the boss gives you, the promotions and the the the good pats on the back. But you'll never learn beyond that framework of

34:42 that company. Same way you're praying through the punch gutas you will be stuck in the framework of the five elements you will not understand anything beyond that or even come remotely close to knowing that there is a beyond that. So for a person like that liberation is not a possibility. Re will rethinking is not a possibility because they're in the framework of that organization's policy and procedures. rules and regulations. Same way we are all inside and within the policy and rules and regulations of birth.

35:28 It does not she does not make it easy to break free from that. The one who recognizes this and realizes this and starts to inquire the truth of the existence starts to know that this is all a delusional illusion. they start figuring out how to quit the company without creating too much of chaos and hence it is important to be alert careful not talk about what you're learning and banter around saying that I'm a vanti I'm a vanti you know quietly you are practicing to be a su don't run after the identity don't blow your trumpet around cuz when

36:15 she gets to know when your boss gets to know the one you're reporting to, the one who's giving you gifts around here of wealth and health and relationships and up family and children and all those things. She will tie you up and make it even harder for you to pursue the lessons of the truth. So to keep your boss happy, you need to act. Study your PhD in the background about the truth about yourself. That's it. This is the way. At some point, you can let go of the boss in the company and doesn't matter what the boss of the company does, it will not affect you because you have understood you fully. You're not limited to the five elements

37:01 anymore. You're not limited to the framework of that organization. I pray that you all pass that lesson sooner than later. That's a tough one actually when everyday life we're still living within this puncher Buddha and every single time you inquire you have to reflect that it's like there's a tough time because I that's why the word have to came along because the ego is still manipulating and and being in this both world So thank you for that video and the summary.

37:48 It uh it's always good to learn where we are. So in the lessons of on banti Anna mentioned even when someone is throwing a peanut butter at us we should speak to them lovingly. We we can defend ourself and ask them to leave. Right. I have a dad with serious anger management issue and when he is in the zone no amount of sweet talking is going to work on him. Even recently he went after my mother with my ka cutter. I had the grace to intervene and take the cutter out of his hand and I asked him to leave. There was definitely no

38:35 love or probably just a trace of it because I did not have any thought of giving him a solid back then and I had my gut there in my hand. >> Thank you for sharing this um vulnerable story of yours to seek the seek the truth of what's actually happening. This person is sick in his mind. There is love unfortunately but they don't know how to show it. They just don't know. They don't know how to show it to themselves. Circumstances, situations and uh even the trauma from birth itself that has not been attended caused them to cultivate more fear which has caused a

39:20 big thick blanket of anger. That's the first thing that comes to them naturally. Everything upsets them. Everything fix them. What do we do as a person who's learning this knowledge? Again, you are the observer. You're just watching. If you know this person when you're watching and observing, you start realizing that they are actually sick in the mind. They don't have control over themselves. By reacting, you become the B by not reacting, you become the wiser person. Be aware when you're watching the movie, there's a fight scene going on in Durian Dan

40:05 and you start reacting to the fights, the love scenes there, then you become the victim of that movie. But if you are the observer, movie does not affect you in any ways because you see the wise one sees that it is not real. The wise one also knows to not put themselves in that situation. So that leave that situation safely kept with caution without creating ruckus without creating arguments quietly leave the situation and eventually permanently go away so that that person does not have that avenue to take their toxicity towards

40:51 person who's following and at some point you'll realize that vanta will do that for you to take you way to places. It'll also be the one that will test you. The moment you think that you know it all, it'll test you with situations like this. Asan is uh quite an interesting character when you experience singular. >> Oh yes, he is truly interesting of all. So the next question there are a few verses that talk about not doubting the Veda or guru. This is often misconstruct as demanding blind faith. Anna is

41:38 encouraging us to ask all our doubt and clear them. This is not a question really just an observation. I'm glad that he's encouraging us to ask and clarify our doubts. Thank you for asserting that truth. Enquire, it's already been answered. Inquire with necessity, not curiosity. And clear your doubt. Your doubt and replace the doubt with truth. Have faith. Don't keep inquiring the same question from 65,000 different avenues just because you want to hear the wrong thing once. We tend to do that because that is

42:24 doubting. Your soul knows the truth already. This is not new knowledge or information. But we have lost access to understand the soul, the spirit. Hence the inquiry is important. person also. They went on to explain how the family members always asked them to chant the mantra blindly without understanding the meaning and they have always refused because they want to know the meaning of what they're doing. And they also shared that in guru's guru there's always demand for a student not

43:11 to ask any kind of question for the first 12 years. and they're just sharing it as a reference because they are allowed to ask doubt here. Would you like to say >> who's asking this question sharing this? Uh >> so all this is true. All this is true and thanks for bringing this up because this shows this is bringing up the truths to the community to understand this is true. It happened. It happened to me. Wherever I've been, wherever I've gone searching for the truth, it happened. They would did not give me the meaning. Uh it also happened for them when they were learning in gurulum

43:58 system for 12 18 years and not me no meaning was shared and they had to recite all the verses uh by heart every day all day long without knowing what they reciting. However, the truth is written in the vehicle this will come they will and if they don't understand any of the meanings of any of these verses if they've learned 17,000 17,000 million verses 1700 7,000 million verses. Yeah. They've learned and studied the 7,000 million verses and do not know the meaning of the verses. They

44:44 do not understand anything about grace, God or themselves. They're not going to get mi or moka because they're doing it as a ritual just like a karmakanda practice expecting something to happen and nothing's happening because they have not understood themselves. The verses talk about you my dear ones. The verses talk about you. You're referring to your truth. You're deeper than you think. You're deeper than that you can understand. You're much deeper than you know. Be patient. Be persistent. Be devoted. Be respectful to what you recite them. And they will reveal themselves to you.

45:32 You will understand your deepest self. And through that deeper self, you will realize who you are, where you are, and what you are. When that happens, you understand that all of the systems that people chase is all part of become part of illusion. she progressed further. I've covered some of these things in the lessons like how temples came about, how astrology and numerology them like instrumentation not instrumentation like music and dance and arts came about and you start understanding. So same way

46:17 was there but people took way as just another art got diluted. Well the truth always exists just have to dig deeper to find it. Here we are. Next one. >> Thank you for asking that question because it happens to me too. So that's a great example. So the next question is when we get different thoughts, how do we ensure we don't get attached to them but remain as the observer? This is especially for the thoughts coming from ego of either the victim mindset or wanted patterns of an

47:03 older version of yourself. >> When you when a thought arises, don't respond to the thought. Just be you. Just observe the thought. Just observe as long as it takes. Funny enough, it will not take very long before the next thought comes. I promise you the next thought will come very soon. I challenge you. In fact, think about your exartner, your ex-girlfriend or boyfriend, and think think harder, but don't respond. You're not going to pick up the phone and just message them or call them or you're not going to write letters or you're not going to respond to that thought with another thought. You just observe that thought. Not long after you'll have a thought of I feel

47:50 like something sweet. It'd be nice if I had a cup of tea. Is it nearly lunchtime here? Oh, I wonder what they're cooking today. H I heard there is a new restaurant that opened on down the road. Oh, hang on. I forgot to put the washing up. Damn, the dog's done another week on the corridor. Oh god, I forgot to put the bins out another day. That sweet thing that I was thinking about. That exgirlfriend. How dare she did that to me back then? Damn, that boyfriend, he cheated on me. I would never forgive him. Oh, let's have some chopped sweet for lunch today.

48:36 This is the patterning. This is like a nicer pattern, sugarcoated one. But this can be much more toxic if it continued on. See the number of thoughts that's over overlapped in less than a minute. This happens at a very fast rate in the mind. Takes longer to speak the thoughts out. When it's happening, it's happening much faster. So, be the observer of the thought. Don't respond to the thought. Have Have a good laugh. Enjoy it. Watch this movie. [snorts] It's quite fun. Watch this movie that's projecting in your mind. It's quite fun. >> The word flickering thought, it comes to

49:23 mind which is absolutely true when you're observing and not doing or taking action. So how do we rely on these thoughts that is always flickering? Don't rely on them is what led saying them is saying don't rely on the thoughts that's flickering in quiet be alert be careful and don't be hard on the thoughts either just relax the obviously at some point the thought to eat and hunger kicks in because it's a biological body it needs to be fed attend to that it's a necessity it's made for this It's not a need for the mind. It's a need for the body. So attend to the

50:09 body. Don't attend to the need of the mind. The thought of the mind wanting to eat sugar and tea and biscuit and chopsy and Italian restaurant down the road and all that is just maya. But the thought the thought will not come from there. Thought will come from here. It will make a noise. grumble say good to that biological body you give anything that is nutritious it's happy to eat it at that time it's not choosy about the mind choose the mind is the one that's picky and choosy about what it wants to eat and not eat >> this question is about vea 1.7

50:56 how do we see the guru's form What is the holy name of the guru and how do we meditate upon the guru? Who is the guru? >> Lesson one. Wait for it. >> Next question. What does it really mean to stretch and purify the tongue? Do we need to physically do this? If so, how? Or is it a quote or something else like purifying the mind? How do we even um then purify the mind? >> So when you are chanting and reciting the veum it's getting stretched and expanded naturally. So the language that we are chanting the veum in it has the tendency to expand and use like your

51:44 tongue is the most used in this language. These words of the this divine words it uses your pallet to move around and touch different parts of your pallet. The tongue moves and it's exercised. The more you chant, the more you recite it, the recite the verses the tongue is exercised. It's lengthened. It's stretched. See, it's stretching, lengthening, and widening the tongue, touching all different parts of the mouth. And then

52:29 you try to sing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, how I wonder what you are. Your tongue is only going up and down. It's not moving. Inky, pinky, pony. Daddy had a donkey. Your tongue only moves up and down. So, daddy do. So, you use a lot of your cheeks rather than your tongue. This in chanting the verses, your tongue moves in different spots. Observe this. It's fun. Thanks for asking the question. I thought it's a fun question. You know when I read it it was really funny in my in my vision. This question has been answered before so I'm going to

53:15 just read it out. Why is Krishna associated with the heart? Why does he sit there where Krishna says that I'm residing in everyone's hearts. I have a question for you. I'll ask that question in the next lesson after you watch lesson one. >> And then the other one is why does he sit there whereas daily sits on his arm? >> Same thing. I'll wait for lesson one to

54:01 finish and then I'll answer this question. In fact, I would like you to answer this question. Put a bit of thought in it. It's very It's right there. The answer is right. >> The next question different between consciousness and atma sitted between eyebrow on the forehead. >> Neither if it's sitting in eyebrow. >> When we get old eyebrow falls, does that mean the consciousness falls? Well, if we are not our body and our mind, how does it sit? >> I'm actually kind of >> That's a contemplation, right? So, next one.

54:50 >> What are doubts? I believe doubts arise when the ego has set expectation and the same are not met when I choose to let go of expectation. I believe I cast aside my doubt. >> Yep. They've already spoken about this screen. >> Next question. And the doubt I have related to living the illusionary life, working, paying bills, activity for the kids, school etc. while practicing to become free of this suffering. How can I balance the harmony or harmonize my daily activity like stra

55:37 straddling life in this world? >> Very good question. Very wise question. Who's asking this question? >> Christian. >> Fantastic. Thanks Christian for asking this question. And it's um this is a good question. This is real in the illusionary world. This is the only reason why we are stuck in illusionary right because of all these bondages and attachments to this illusion that we call life. Okay.

56:24 If all yours is an illusion and you're operating merely to support this illusion, that itself is the answer to your question. Become aware. Don't be afraid. Don't get attached to it. Simplify your life. Live a simple, live a humble life. Live a modest life. Teach your children modesty humility simplicity. Teach them what's real and what's not. Become less dependent on the consumerism and the commodities of this world.

57:10 Navigate with wisdom. Navigate wisely through this time. You need to earn. You need to make a living. You need to feed yourself. You need to feed your family. That's your duty. It's responsibility. However, don't become a slave to the system. Do it carefully and give them the true food. Give them the truth about what this life is about. Once you have understood and completed learning, then you can show them the pathway to learn. When will I do? Until then, walk, navigate this path carefully and wisely. Simplify things. Reduce your

57:55 transactions with the word. Thank you for asking this question. A lot of us have this question, but we don't know how to frame it. It's a real problem for a for a one who's walking above. >> This is a wonderful question, Christian. it it is life here in this world. So thank you for asking. Next question is can a person live an enlightened an enlightened life while still having desire and worldly duties? Our scriptures tell us yes but the social law is causing confusion stating one should renounce it all desire.

58:44 Can we get some clarity on this? Not sure if this would be a NC1 question or NC2 question. >> Desire creates more kmas. Every thought, every desire, every want creates more kmas. the more the karmas the harder it becomes to navigate through um the path of the truth. So find a balance. If you really want to walk the path of desire then you will be in karma para but if you want to quickly complete your desire list knock it off as quick as you can and set yourself free so that you can travel in the path of truth if it's that important for you. The truth is as soon as you start knocking off one, two,

59:29 three with the severity of truth, you'll realize that they are all the same because it does not stop. Person who buys a Ferrari does not stop with a Ferrari. He wants a Rolls-Royce. Person who buys a Rolls-Royce does not stop at Rolls-Royce. He owns a helix. Does not stop at a helicopter. He wants his private jet. just to see them. So with that awareness, if you really have some desires to watch your family or yourself, travel the world, you spend all your money, get it done, knock it off and you're free of that. That's called be aware that you're not creating and compounding new desires of the same

1:00:14 kind. The only pure true desire that one has the true true desires is moka the desire of liberation. Everything else is false. Yeah. The next question is exactly that what moka is actually means the desire of liberation from this endless cycles of end. >> That's that's the end of all the question thus far. Thank you for everyone who asked brilliant questions

1:01:00 and hope you got some clarity and keep throwing us all your questions. Thank you Rajes.