1 00:01:13,672 --> 00:01:13,765 2 00:01:13,765 --> 00:01:18,161 How often have we wondered where we come from 3 00:01:18,161 --> 00:01:20,624 and where we are going? 4 00:01:20,624 --> 00:01:23,734 What is the destiny of our lives? 5 00:01:23,796 --> 00:01:26,680 Our purpose in this world? 6 00:01:29,172 --> 00:01:33,362 There are as many questions as there are stars in the sky, 7 00:01:33,362 --> 00:01:35,363 but the main question is: 8 00:01:35,363 --> 00:01:41,062 who am I and how can my thirst for happiness be satisfied? 9 00:01:42,862 --> 00:01:44,931 Life is wonderful and it manifests itself 10 00:01:44,931 --> 00:01:49,819 at the dawn of every new day in innumerable forms. 11 00:01:55,328 --> 00:02:00,764 As the clouds that cover the moon are visible by the light of the moon itself, 12 00:02:00,764 --> 00:02:06,832 so everything in this world is illuminated by the presence of the soul. 13 00:02:08,324 --> 00:02:11,558 The universe that surrounds us and appears infinite, 14 00:02:11,558 --> 00:02:14,891 with its millions of stars and variegated galaxies 15 00:02:14,891 --> 00:02:21,032 is but the point of an iceberg floating in the ocean of consciousness. 16 00:02:47,391 --> 00:02:50,495 The Vedic scriptures say that the universe 17 00:02:50,495 --> 00:02:54,763 is cyclically manifested and reabsorbed; 18 00:02:54,763 --> 00:02:59,347 it expands and contracts like a pulsing heart. 19 00:03:01,224 --> 00:03:03,828 Before the universe was manifested 20 00:03:03,828 --> 00:03:07,711 everything was in a state of deep sleep. 21 00:03:08,311 --> 00:03:15,058 Then, movement came from within the spiritual world and light came. 22 00:03:15,058 --> 00:03:18,429 Light means consciousness. 23 00:03:18,429 --> 00:03:21,808 That light revealed a substance similar to water, 24 00:03:21,808 --> 00:03:27,667 known as causal substance, the ocean of all causes. 25 00:04:04,656 --> 00:04:10,262 Then, innumerable seeds of conciousness were sowed in that causal water. 26 00:04:10,262 --> 00:04:16,224 Each of these divine sparks impregnated matter and caused it to move, 27 00:04:16,224 --> 00:04:20,085 and so the infinite cycle of life began. 28 00:04:21,224 --> 00:04:23,196 In this material universe 29 00:04:23,196 --> 00:04:25,891 everything that takes birth has to die, 30 00:04:25,891 --> 00:04:32,406 and everything that dies has to undergo rebirth. 31 00:06:07,141 --> 00:06:11,196 As the nebulose are the womb in which a new star is born, 32 00:06:11,196 --> 00:06:14,641 so the material elements of nature are the womb 33 00:06:14,641 --> 00:06:18,024 where the divine seed is placed. 34 00:07:12,275 --> 00:07:15,095 Everything that exists goes through this cycle 35 00:07:15,095 --> 00:07:17,463 of birth and death, 36 00:07:17,463 --> 00:07:21,496 even the stars and the planets. 37 00:07:21,496 --> 00:07:27,929 But the persons of true wisdom are not disturbed by this transformation, 38 00:07:27,929 --> 00:07:33,241 because they are aware that the soul is eternal. 39 00:07:37,595 --> 00:07:39,891 The radiance of thousands of rising suns 40 00:07:39,891 --> 00:07:46,958 can only partially evoke the effulgence of the universal form of the divine. 41 00:07:48,328 --> 00:07:50,309 When the soul leaves the body 42 00:07:50,309 --> 00:07:52,695 it returns to that light, 43 00:07:52,695 --> 00:07:54,641 while the body turns into dust, 44 00:07:54,641 --> 00:07:56,433 like star’s dust. 45 00:07:57,557 --> 00:08:00,862 In this universe different planetary systems exist 46 00:08:00,862 --> 00:08:03,162 and the soul goes through them 47 00:08:03,162 --> 00:08:08,095 in the course of the evolution of his counciousness. 48 00:08:21,528 --> 00:08:25,891 When matter is infused with the energy of that conscious light, 49 00:08:25,891 --> 00:08:27,996 movement begins. 50 00:08:27,996 --> 00:08:29,664 When matter starts to evolve 51 00:08:29,664 --> 00:08:33,695 by the influence of conciousness on it, 52 00:08:33,695 --> 00:08:37,430 initially it expresses itself in the primary ingredients: 53 00:08:37,430 --> 00:08:39,474 ether, 54 00:08:39,474 --> 00:08:40,826 air, 55 00:08:40,826 --> 00:08:42,142 fire, 56 00:08:42,142 --> 00:08:43,474 water, 57 00:08:43,474 --> 00:08:44,726 earth. 58 00:09:00,082 --> 00:09:03,367 The soul, like a seed of divine light, 59 00:09:03,367 --> 00:09:05,570 is present everywhere. 60 00:09:05,570 --> 00:09:10,249 Movement is the symptom of the presence of the soul. 61 00:09:10,249 --> 00:09:14,422 Matter deprived of consciousness doesn’t move; 62 00:09:14,452 --> 00:09:15,606 it is inert 63 00:09:58,195 --> 00:10:01,642 The soul is present even in stone, in plants, 64 00:10:01,642 --> 00:10:05,458 and in every atom of existence. 65 00:10:07,474 --> 00:10:10,863 In this way the living being goes through various births, 66 00:10:10,863 --> 00:10:13,308 assuming different forms 67 00:10:13,308 --> 00:10:18,618 according to the level of evolution of his consciousness. 68 00:10:36,391 --> 00:10:37,995 The living being expresses himself 69 00:10:37,995 --> 00:10:39,558 in innumerable forms 70 00:10:39,558 --> 00:10:43,096 that are expressions of a particular desire. 71 00:10:43,096 --> 00:10:46,295 The soul becomes covered by different bodies and mentalities, 72 00:10:46,295 --> 00:10:48,724 and journeys through more inferior species of life 73 00:10:48,724 --> 00:10:50,695 to more evolved species of life 74 00:10:50,695 --> 00:10:57,482 in the attempt to satisfy the material desires which originate in the mind. 75 00:11:27,010 --> 00:11:30,327 Actually we all come from the same source of light 76 00:11:30,327 --> 00:11:34,676 and therefore we are all spiritual relatives. 77 00:13:51,460 --> 00:13:54,379 The primordial elements of material nature 78 00:13:54,379 --> 00:13:57,430 are activated by the divine energy, 79 00:13:57,430 --> 00:13:59,663 and they mix in different ways 80 00:13:59,663 --> 00:14:04,295 to manifest the incredible variety of the creation, 81 00:14:04,295 --> 00:14:09,005 from the aquatic forms of life to the terrestrial ones... 82 00:15:35,445 --> 00:15:38,942 Every beautiful thing that we can see in this world 83 00:15:38,942 --> 00:15:44,152 is but a spark of the personal splendour of the Supreme. 84 00:17:50,996 --> 00:17:55,329 Finally, after having gone through innumerable births, 85 00:17:55,329 --> 00:17:59,562 the living being obtains a human form. 86 00:17:59,562 --> 00:18:05,060 Here, in the evolution of this species, we also find gradation. 87 00:18:07,645 --> 00:18:12,834 From time immemorial, those souls who have reached the human form 88 00:18:12,834 --> 00:18:14,469 have enquired into the mystery of the universe, 89 00:18:14,485 --> 00:18:21,519 and wondered: what could be the source of such great and variegated beauty! 90 00:18:53,262 --> 00:18:56,862 With all our efforts and all our technology 91 00:18:56,862 --> 00:19:00,594 we can but extend the limit of our defective senses; 92 00:19:00,594 --> 00:19:04,860 we can search after that source up to the ends of the universe, 93 00:19:04,860 --> 00:19:07,693 but only if that infinite source Himself chooses 94 00:19:07,693 --> 00:19:11,137 will it be revealed in our hearts. 95 00:20:06,527 --> 00:20:12,777 The Upanishads say: lead me from illusion to reality, 96 00:20:12,777 --> 00:20:15,641 from darkness to light, 97 00:20:15,995 --> 00:20:19,008 from death to immortality. 98 00:20:20,100 --> 00:20:22,276 Consciousness in the human form 99 00:20:22,276 --> 00:20:25,276 possesses the capacity to make choices. 100 00:20:25,276 --> 00:20:30,409 Exercising our free will we can shape our destiny. 101 00:20:41,467 --> 00:20:46,962 om 102 00:20:47,224 --> 00:20:51,012 asato ma sad-gamaya 103 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:55,848 tamaso ma jyotir-gamaya 104 00:20:55,971 --> 00:20:59,230 mrityor-ma amritam gamaya 105 00:21:06,582 --> 00:21:09,289 We have to turn towards that light. 106 00:21:09,351 --> 00:21:12,448 Because the soul and the supreme soul are present 107 00:21:12,448 --> 00:21:15,776 everything is visible in this world. 108 00:21:15,776 --> 00:21:20,610 It is only because we have lost the consciousness of our real spiritual nature 109 00:21:20,610 --> 00:21:25,445 and forgotten our relationship with the original source of the universe, 110 00:21:25,445 --> 00:21:30,563 that we are now wandering through innumerable forms of material existence, 111 00:21:30,563 --> 00:21:34,944 in an endless cycle of birth and death, 112 00:21:34,944 --> 00:21:39,546 searching after fleeting moments of happiness. 113 00:21:42,054 --> 00:21:49,629 Now it is time to open your inner eye!