WEBVTT 00:01:13.672 --> 00:01:13.765 00:01:13.765 --> 00:01:18.161 How often have we wondered where we come from 00:01:18.161 --> 00:01:20.624 and where we are going? 00:01:20.624 --> 00:01:23.734 What is the destiny of our lives? 00:01:23.796 --> 00:01:26.680 Our purpose in this world? 00:01:29.172 --> 00:01:33.362 There are as many questions as there are stars in the sky, 00:01:33.362 --> 00:01:35.363 but the main question is: 00:01:35.363 --> 00:01:41.062 who am I and how can my thirst for happiness be satisfied? 00:01:42.862 --> 00:01:44.931 Life is wonderful and it manifests itself 00:01:44.931 --> 00:01:49.819 at the dawn of every new day in innumerable forms. 00:01:55.328 --> 00:02:00.764 As the clouds that cover the moon are visible by the light of the moon itself, 00:02:00.764 --> 00:02:06.832 so everything in this world is illuminated by the presence of the soul. 00:02:08.324 --> 00:02:11.558 The universe that surrounds us and appears infinite, 00:02:11.558 --> 00:02:14.891 with its millions of stars and variegated galaxies 00:02:14.891 --> 00:02:21.032 is but the point of an iceberg floating in the ocean of consciousness. 00:02:47.391 --> 00:02:50.495 The Vedic scriptures say that the universe 00:02:50.495 --> 00:02:54.763 is cyclically manifested and reabsorbed; 00:02:54.763 --> 00:02:59.347 it expands and contracts like a pulsing heart. 00:03:01.224 --> 00:03:03.828 Before the universe was manifested 00:03:03.828 --> 00:03:07.711 everything was in a state of deep sleep. 00:03:08.311 --> 00:03:15.058 Then, movement came from within the spiritual world and light came. 00:03:15.058 --> 00:03:18.429 Light means consciousness. 00:03:18.429 --> 00:03:21.808 That light revealed a substance similar to water, 00:03:21.808 --> 00:03:27.667 known as causal substance, the ocean of all causes. 00:04:04.656 --> 00:04:10.262 Then, innumerable seeds of conciousness were sowed in that causal water. 00:04:10.262 --> 00:04:16.224 Each of these divine sparks impregnated matter and caused it to move, 00:04:16.224 --> 00:04:20.085 and so the infinite cycle of life began. 00:04:21.224 --> 00:04:23.196 In this material universe 00:04:23.196 --> 00:04:25.891 everything that takes birth has to die, 00:04:25.891 --> 00:04:32.406 and everything that dies has to undergo rebirth. 00:06:07.141 --> 00:06:11.196 As the nebulose are the womb in which a new star is born, 00:06:11.196 --> 00:06:14.641 so the material elements of nature are the womb 00:06:14.641 --> 00:06:18.024 where the divine seed is placed. 00:07:12.275 --> 00:07:15.095 Everything that exists goes through this cycle 00:07:15.095 --> 00:07:17.463 of birth and death, 00:07:17.463 --> 00:07:21.496 even the stars and the planets. 00:07:21.496 --> 00:07:27.929 But the persons of true wisdom are not disturbed by this transformation, 00:07:27.929 --> 00:07:33.241 because they are aware that the soul is eternal. 00:07:37.595 --> 00:07:39.891 The radiance of thousands of rising suns 00:07:39.891 --> 00:07:46.958 can only partially evoke the effulgence of the universal form of the divine. 00:07:48.328 --> 00:07:50.309 When the soul leaves the body 00:07:50.309 --> 00:07:52.695 it returns to that light, 00:07:52.695 --> 00:07:54.641 while the body turns into dust, 00:07:54.641 --> 00:07:56.433 like star’s dust. 00:07:57.557 --> 00:08:00.862 In this universe different planetary systems exist 00:08:00.862 --> 00:08:03.162 and the soul goes through them 00:08:03.162 --> 00:08:08.095 in the course of the evolution of his counciousness. 00:08:21.528 --> 00:08:25.891 When matter is infused with the energy of that conscious light, 00:08:25.891 --> 00:08:27.996 movement begins. 00:08:27.996 --> 00:08:29.664 When matter starts to evolve 00:08:29.664 --> 00:08:33.695 by the influence of conciousness on it, 00:08:33.695 --> 00:08:37.430 initially it expresses itself in the primary ingredients: 00:08:37.430 --> 00:08:39.474 ether, 00:08:39.474 --> 00:08:40.826 air, 00:08:40.826 --> 00:08:42.142 fire, 00:08:42.142 --> 00:08:43.474 water, 00:08:43.474 --> 00:08:44.726 earth. 00:09:00.082 --> 00:09:03.367 The soul, like a seed of divine light, 00:09:03.367 --> 00:09:05.570 is present everywhere. 00:09:05.570 --> 00:09:10.249 Movement is the symptom of the presence of the soul. 00:09:10.249 --> 00:09:14.422 Matter deprived of consciousness doesn’t move; 00:09:14.452 --> 00:09:15.606 it is inert 00:09:58.195 --> 00:10:01.642 The soul is present even in stone, in plants, 00:10:01.642 --> 00:10:05.458 and in every atom of existence. 00:10:07.474 --> 00:10:10.863 In this way the living being goes through various births, 00:10:10.863 --> 00:10:13.308 assuming different forms 00:10:13.308 --> 00:10:18.618 according to the level of evolution of his consciousness. 00:10:36.391 --> 00:10:37.995 The living being expresses himself 00:10:37.995 --> 00:10:39.558 in innumerable forms 00:10:39.558 --> 00:10:43.096 that are expressions of a particular desire. 00:10:43.096 --> 00:10:46.295 The soul becomes covered by different bodies and mentalities, 00:10:46.295 --> 00:10:48.724 and journeys through more inferior species of life 00:10:48.724 --> 00:10:50.695 to more evolved species of life 00:10:50.695 --> 00:10:57.482 in the attempt to satisfy the material desires which originate in the mind. 00:11:27.010 --> 00:11:30.327 Actually we all come from the same source of light 00:11:30.327 --> 00:11:34.676 and therefore we are all spiritual relatives. 00:13:51.460 --> 00:13:54.379 The primordial elements of material nature 00:13:54.379 --> 00:13:57.430 are activated by the divine energy, 00:13:57.430 --> 00:13:59.663 and they mix in different ways 00:13:59.663 --> 00:14:04.295 to manifest the incredible variety of the creation, 00:14:04.295 --> 00:14:09.005 from the aquatic forms of life to the terrestrial ones... 00:15:35.445 --> 00:15:38.942 Every beautiful thing that we can see in this world 00:15:38.942 --> 00:15:44.152 is but a spark of the personal splendour of the Supreme. 00:17:50.996 --> 00:17:55.329 Finally, after having gone through innumerable births, 00:17:55.329 --> 00:17:59.562 the living being obtains a human form. 00:17:59.562 --> 00:18:05.060 Here, in the evolution of this species, we also find gradation. 00:18:07.645 --> 00:18:12.834 From time immemorial, those souls who have reached the human form 00:18:12.834 --> 00:18:14.469 have enquired into the mystery of the universe, 00:18:14.485 --> 00:18:21.519 and wondered: what could be the source of such great and variegated beauty! 00:18:53.262 --> 00:18:56.862 With all our efforts and all our technology 00:18:56.862 --> 00:19:00.594 we can but extend the limit of our defective senses; 00:19:00.594 --> 00:19:04.860 we can search after that source up to the ends of the universe, 00:19:04.860 --> 00:19:07.693 but only if that infinite source Himself chooses 00:19:07.693 --> 00:19:11.137 will it be revealed in our hearts. 00:20:06.527 --> 00:20:12.777 The Upanishads say: lead me from illusion to reality, 00:20:12.777 --> 00:20:15.641 from darkness to light, 00:20:15.995 --> 00:20:19.008 from death to immortality. 00:20:20.100 --> 00:20:22.276 Consciousness in the human form 00:20:22.276 --> 00:20:25.276 possesses the capacity to make choices. 00:20:25.276 --> 00:20:30.409 Exercising our free will we can shape our destiny. 00:20:41.467 --> 00:20:46.962 om 00:20:47.224 --> 00:20:51.012 asato ma sad-gamaya 00:20:51.120 --> 00:20:55.848 tamaso ma jyotir-gamaya 00:20:55.971 --> 00:20:59.230 mrityor-ma amritam gamaya 00:21:06.582 --> 00:21:09.289 We have to turn towards that light. 00:21:09.351 --> 00:21:12.448 Because the soul and the supreme soul are present 00:21:12.448 --> 00:21:15.776 everything is visible in this world. 00:21:15.776 --> 00:21:20.610 It is only because we have lost the consciousness of our real spiritual nature 00:21:20.610 --> 00:21:25.445 and forgotten our relationship with the original source of the universe, 00:21:25.445 --> 00:21:30.563 that we are now wandering through innumerable forms of material existence, 00:21:30.563 --> 00:21:34.944 in an endless cycle of birth and death, 00:21:34.944 --> 00:21:39.546 searching after fleeting moments of happiness. 00:21:42.054 --> 00:21:49.629 Now it is time to open your inner eye!