Laws Of Memory : The Book

Tarun Pradhaan

# Laws of Memory

### By Tarun Pradhaan

First Edition 
September 2026 
CC-BY-NC

*This book is a formatted and slightly edited transcript of videos* 
*of the Laws of Memory Video Series of authors* 
*YouTube channel - Pure Experiences* 
*https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWKBCXU2oaNU*

A presentation of Pure Experiences 
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In association with the Path of Knowledge Portal 
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# Preface

I am delighted to present the Laws of Memory video series in a book format. It is a verbatim transcript of the videos mostly with some corrections, sub-headings and formatting. Each part of the series is presented as a separate chapter. The style is informal but some attempt was made to include formal definitions and details wherever it was needed. I assume that the reader is familiar with the Vibronic series of videos on my YouTube channel (Linked above), where most of the framework was published.

Similar content appeared previously as a podcast series named Laws of Mind, which was lost, and something similar is included in Tantra Bodhi Program in brief, which is still available for participants of that program (On the web portal linked above).

It was mostly a spontaneous talk, loosely planned and structured. I allowed the content to flow directly from the Gurufield as much as was possible and avoided adding my own views or thoughts. I also tried to include information from ancient texts of Tantra and Hermetics, as well as oral teachings of my Guru, whatever I could recall. With this style of presentation, it is difficult to capture the topics completely, still I made every attempt to include important information, and even then I feel more could have been added.

I am thankful to Gemini for helping in transcription and formatting.

Those who are interested can listen to the video series (Linked above) optionally. I hope this humble effort will be useful for many seekers.

Tarun Pradhaan 
Tamhini, India 
September 2026

# Chapter 01

Welcome to Pure Experiences.

"Laws of Memory" is a new series on this channel where we are going to explore the workings of memory: what memory is, how it operates, how to study it, and how to use this knowledge for our spiritual progress.

We are going to cover this topic in many parts. It is not planned. It is all spontaneous, but I have main points written, and it is good to start with basics, because many of you are very new in the field of spirituality, philosophy, and occult, and also science, the broader science.

## Theory, Hypothesis and Imagination

So, we'll start with very basic definitions. These definitions are working definitions. They are not the absolute truth. So, obviously, you'll find a lot of variety in all these definitions. We are going to construct our own system. This must be kept in mind. Do not let the old mix with what is presented here. This is done deliberately to pull your attention out of the old and to give you fresh eyes to see. Ultimately, the words are not so useful. They are simply pointers. You need to see beyond the words, experience it.

So, everything that I'll say is nothing but theory, hypothesis, and imagination. It should not be considered true. Theories and hypotheses are simply human imaginations, concepts, ideas. That's all it is.

When we construct a system of knowledge out of our imagination, it is called philosophy, which literally means "love of knowledge." So, we do this not because we are going to know something, but because we love knowledge. Not because it is useful or practical, but because it is entertaining. Sometimes it is useful, not always.

So, philosophy is the study of what is. "What is" can also be called "being", that which is, whatever exists. We study it, we imagine it.

## Ontology and Epistemology

There are two major fields of philosophy. First is ontology, and second is epistemology. So, these are standard definitions now. Ontology means the structure of what is. What can we find in this whole existence, in this being? What does it look like? What does it do? How does it work? What are the categories? What are the laws?

So, on the topic of "Laws of Memory," we are going to find out how this existence operates.

And epistemology is a method to find out about what is, a method to know all these things. How can we know anything? That is studied under epistemology, or you can say "knowledge of knowledge." So, we are going to do that.

## The Method of Epistemology: Starting with Assumption

How are we going to study what is? We'll assume something. That can sound silly. "Why don't you simply tell me the truth?" anybody can ask. "Why do we need to assume something?" So, that is a big question in epistemology. Can we find the truth? And if yes, how can we find the truth? And the problem is we don't know initially. That is the beginning of epistemology: "I don't know, and I need to find out." So, we start by assuming what is true, then we go ahead and find the evidence of our assumptions. That will be your standard theory and hypothesis.

So, remember it starts with assumptions, which is nothing but imagination. There is no other way to know.

Many people will be surprised by this. Some people who claim to know a lot will be shocked by this: completely random talk. But yes, I'm not claiming to know anything in advance, so we'll start with imagination only, and we'll check what happens. Do we find any evidence? Can we find any truth? So, it's kind of a play, a play of imagination. That's all philosophy is.

## The Path of Knowledge: Direct Experience and Logic

So, it is a very broad field, but for the purpose of this topic, "Laws of Memory," we are going to stick to a branch of philosophy which is called science, or the old names are tantra or occult. Roughly, you can say it is the greater science of what is.

I'm not going to go too much into ontology and basis of that, and epistemology and basis of that. They are bigger topics.

So, this kind of study comes under the path of knowledge, and we are going to take up a branch of this path of knowledge which goes straight into what we are interested in, that is the laws of memory. We are going to bypass most of the philosophy, go directly into application.

So, the path of knowledge gives us some ready-made ways to know, and there are many, but the generally accepted and agreed means of knowledge are direct experience and logic. Direct experience means our own observation. Whatever I can observe is my direct experience. Whatever I can perceive, whatever I can get from all these senses, whatever I'm experiencing right now, that is the direct experience, direct observation. And logic is an ability of the mind, ability of human beings, you can say, which is based on direct experience to infer what is. You can call it inference also.

So, there are many kinds of logic, but we are going to use very simple logic which is based on direct experience, which is based on rules derived out of consistency of experience. This is important. We are going to apply the logic of our imagination, but we are going to verify it using direct experience.

So, it sounds very difficult right now, but it is very easy. And in my opinion, there is no other way to know. At least, I don't know any other way to know anything about what is.

## The Three Levels of Truth

And the path of knowledge also gives us a definition of truth: what will be called true, what will be called false. So, we have a working definition of truth: that whatever does not change too much will be called truth. And there will be categories of truth, from totally false to totally unchanging, immutable truth, absolute truth, and everything in between. You can have as many as you want, the categories of truth.

So, we generally have three kinds of truths. The first is not true, obviously. It changes right in front of our eyes. You cannot believe it. It's not reliable. It does not give us any knowledge. The second is relative truth, or practical truth, where things change: sometimes something is this way, sometimes the same thing is that way. But sometimes it is useful, and we call it true. And the third is absolute truth, which will never change.

## The Unknowable Absolute and the Semistable Middle

The problem is, we'll not know any of these truths. We'll not know anything about our direct experience, and our logic will fail to find any truth. And this is a problem. There is absolute truth, but it cannot be known. So, what is that? Why can't we actually know anything? Why is everything unknowable? Everything means that which is, the being or the existence. Whatever is present is ultimately unknowable. It is not because of our method of theory, hypothesis, and imagination, and it is not because we have chosen the wrong kind of means of knowledge, or our logic or our intelligence is faulty. No, these are not the reasons. It is because there is nothing to know.

This can be the fine print in any book of epistemology. Sometimes it is the final conclusion: that we play the game of knowing without actually knowing anything, just like I said. It is imagination. We are trying to study what is, but we end up trying to study our own imagination. That's why we don't know anything.

So, should we give up? This is the whole journey of philosophy? It ends as soon as it starts without giving you anything? No, because it is imagination, we can imagine a narrow area of what is, and try to apply our method of knowing - scientific method - of theory, hypothesis, imagination, logical inference, observation, direct experience, etc. That can be applied in a narrow area, a very thin slice of what is.

Ultimately, it's all unknowable. Ultimately, we find that nothing was known. So, we stick to the middle truth, which is not absolute, because it will not be known, and which is not absolutely false, which we definitely know is not true. So, there is a middle ground where things are not so dicey, where whatever we observe stays like that for a while. We call it semistable. It changes. It becomes something else ultimately, but not before we get to study it. That's what we want. We study it before it dissolves into nothingness of what is and becomes unknowable. While we are looking at it, while we are studying it, it is still unknowable. So, our truth is always relative truth. You cannot have the absolute truth.

## Approaching the Laws of Memory

So, why did I start like this? A very, very depressing view of the topic. Why don't I simply tell you the laws of memory? Because that is not the intention to tell you the laws of memory. Probably everybody knows them already. The intention is to play and to teach that you can find your own laws of memory. You can find your own ontology. You can study what is, yourself. That is the main point. And we are taking laws of memory as an example demonstration of how to do that.

So, those who want to know, "What is this? Here is a list of laws of memory," and I want to tell you that this is completely arbitrary. You can have as many laws as you want. Depends on your direct experience. So, I am taking 20 of these. Now, that number 20 is very suspicious. How can there be only 20 laws of what is? So yes, it is suspicious because I made it up. There are some very good books which provide different kinds of laws. Some systems will tell you there are six laws. Some will tell you seven. Some are going to tell you 50, 60. Here, we are going to focus on 20 which, according to me, are most important. So probably you can reduce them further. So, 20 is a good number, but yes, there can be more, there can be less. Or you can sometimes join the two laws into one; they are two aspects of one law. Sometimes you can separate it to understand it better.

1. Law of emptiness 
2. Law of necessity 
3. Law of unknowability 
4. Law of deniability 
5. Law of perception-creation 
6. Law of probability 
7. Law of codependence 
8. Law of relativity 
9. Law of interconnectedness 
10. Law of resonance 
11. Law of impermanence 
12. Law of cycles 
13. Law of balance 
14. Law of polarity 
15. Law of action 
16. Law of repetition 
17. Law of self-similarity 
18. Law of 99% 
19. Law of evolution 
20. Law of assembly

So, this is the executive summary of laws of memory. Those who already know these laws need not waste their time. And I gave you the names so that you don't have to wait till the end to find out what this is all about.

## Foundational Concepts: Existence, Experience, and the Experiencer

We'll proceed to more definitions. Before you can study the laws of memory, you need to know some basics, basic words.

Existence: we already defined it - that which is. We are going to study it. It is the whole thing. We are very ambitious. We don't want to study just one or two things. We are greedy. We want knowledge of everything. So, we are going to call this everything as existence.

And just like I told you, there is nothing here. It is all imagination. So, the truth is, which nobody accepts, that it is empty. It is zero. Empty does not mean that there is nothing. Empty means that there is nothing which any human being can understand. No amount of knowledge is possible. So that word, "empty" or "zero," is pointing to this.

And just like I told you, it is not an inability. It is not that our intellects are faulty or our methods are faulty. It is not like this. That which is, is fundamentally like this. It is fundamentally empty. So, these words are pointing to that.

Existence is zero-dimensional. It has no height, width, or length. It is spaceless. It has no beginning. It has no end. It is timeless. It has no cause, and it produces no effects. It is causeless, acausal. It is just presence. That which is, is present right now. That's all. That's why we need imagination to say anything at all about the existence, and it is all imaginary.

So, immediately, our imagination divides that which is into two. You can do it right now. There is something which is appearing, and there is something which is witnessing this appearance. So, that which is appearing will be called experience, and that which is witnessing this it, is appearing in front of it or on it, that will be called the experiencer.

So, apparently, the existence has an ability to witness itself, and when it witnesses itself, the existence appears to itself as an experience, as an appearance. That's all there is. There is nothing else.

This can be known with absolute certainty. It does not even look like imagination, but it is imagination. You can check it with direct experience, and the logic comes out to be perfect. Yes, there is something. It is known, it is seen, it is observed. That is also true. However, it is not like this. Still, since we are avoiding that kind of area where nothing is said, nothing is known, and we are avoiding the other extreme where anything goes - no, we don't want that, we are in the middle. So, we call it, "Yes, it is certain." This is our definition of absolute certainty: you can be certain there is existence. It can be imagined to be having two aspects: the experience and the experiencer. Otherwise, there is nothing to know there, no laws, etc., etc.

## The "Essence of Knowledge" Program

So, these words must be familiar to those who have finished the "Essence of Knowledge" program, which is an introduction to the path of knowledge. You probably already know what I'm saying. Those who don't know and they want to know more about this thing - existence, experiencer, and experience, and how to know anything, what is true, what is not, they can avail this program, Essence of Knowledge. It is completely free, and it is completely online. It is available on my website, gyanmarg.guru. You will find the links everywhere in every video and every description of all the videos on this channel. So, that is a major project.

Once you finish this program, Essence of Knowledge, then everything becomes crystal clear, and this will become your second nature to talk like this, or you will be able to understand what I'm saying without any struggle. There won't be any confusion about the meanings of the words or why I say something. It won't be like a riddle. It won't be like encrypted mumbo jumbo. So, that program is very helpful.

So, we are going to bypass the whole thing, the path of knowledge, here. This much introduction is okay, and we'll jump to the science part, which is pure theory, imagination, hypothesis. Of course, it is supported by evidence. How will you get the evidence? Look, simply look, and use your intelligence, logical ability. It is very simple.

So, these were the very basics, basic of the basics. And I'm going to introduce more words, more concepts in the next part of this series.

Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 02

## Potential, Vibration and Memory

Welcome to Pure Experiences.

This is a series on Laws of the Memory. In the last part, we heard about imagination, philosophy, ontology, epistemology, evidence, and existence. So, hopefully there are no doubts about these things. Today, we are going to jump into the foundational concepts in order to study the laws of memory, or the laws on which the whole existence operates.

### Existence as Infinite Potential

As I said, the whole existence is empty; it is zero. It does not mean nothing. The zero actually means there is nothing real, nothing true, still there is. And a good word to point to that is potential. It is potent. Instead of actuality, there is only potential. That is how existence is.

So, what kind of potential is there? The potential to appear as an experience. And there is no limit to this potential. It is infinite potential. The existence is infinitely potent. There is no limit on what can appear. Where is the evidence for that? We are going to find out.

We will use our imagination to form a concept of potential. Remember, nothing is true here. No absolute truth. Since the existence is zero, completely zero, empty, in order to appear as something, it must change from this zero to something else, but still remain zero, because nothing actually changes. So, the only way to do that logically is to have two states which are completely opposite of each other. For example, -1 and +1, the total is always zero, but still we have something. Or you can have any number there: -20 and +20. Or you can imagine it as directions, arrows pointing in exactly opposite directions. So, we have something, but the net or the total comes out to be zero, or empty.

Are there any numbers in the existence? Are there any arrows? Is there anything at all? And the answer is no. Only one thing can be said about the existence: that it is. That is the simplest concept you can have: it is. So, if it says, "I am not," it creates a state. And if it says, "I am," that creates another state. And the result is complete emptiness because there is nothing.

### The Superposition of Binary States

A superposition of two states gives you potential. These two states are: there is something, and there is nothing. Existence says, "I am," and then it says, "I am not." It hides for a while. There is no other possibility. Nothing else is possible in the existence because nothing else is there. You cannot bring numbers, or time, or weights, or arrows, or directions; there is nothing. So, there is superposition of two states. Remember, this is all imagination, theory, although you will find evidence. It is very logical.

The superposition of two states is apparent. The states are not real. You can say the existence says, "I know I am," and in the next moment it ignores what I am. That's another way to show the superposition: knowledge of what I am, ignorance of what I am, hiding from what I am. These are two states. In short: knowledge and ignorance. Why do we call it knowledge and ignorance? Why do we use these words: "I am," "I am not," or hiding from what I am? Because, remember, the existence has an ability to witness, to know, to experience. That is the experiencer aspect. So, it can do that. This is not completely false. When it chooses to know, this is one state. When it chooses to not know, it's another state.

Remember, nothing is actually happening here. It cannot do anything else. It cannot bring any other state. And this never happens in time because right now there is no time. There is a complete superposition of these two states, binary states. So, it knows that I am, but it still does not know because there is nothing to know. You can say light and dark.

So, the only potential there is, is to change the state this binary state from one state to another. Still, it is infinite. This is the simplest kind of change, but still it can produce infinite variety of experience. That's why we say that this potential is infinite. This is called the manifestation of experience.

The experience is experience of irreducibles. Irreducibles are imaginary modes of existence, nothing real. Remember, everything is imagination. Nothing real is experienced because nothing real is there. There is no truth in these kinds of experiences. This can be defined as manifestation. When the existence chooses one or the other states, changes happen. Changes appear as irreducibles, which are imaginary modes of itself, of existence. That will be called an experience, and that will be called manifestation of the potential.

Hopefully it is not too airy-fairy. "How is that possible?" Now, these will be the questions. This sounds very far-fetched. This is how it is. It is completely logical. You can check it, and you can check your own experience. You are not experiencing anything real. You are experiencing irreducibles, which are imaginary. Another name for these imaginary irreducibles experiences is qualia.

So, now many people are going to object, "No, there is something, it is produced by the brain." And that's why I never use these words, because it ruins the fun. It is not so fun. Throw the old! This is something very fresh. I am giving you fresh eyes to look. Don't use all those words which take you nowhere, it is a dead end. That's why you need to look.

There is something like irreducibles. This is your direct experience. It is not true; the logic says that. Since it is not true, there is no actual manifestation. Nothing is actually witnessed, nothing is actually changing, as there is no time and all space, time, because nothing is there. So, it can only be potential; there is no other possibility. You can check all that.

Those who have done the Path of Knowledge program, or the Essence of Knowledge program, they have already established all these things, all the basics. So, they will have no problems in understanding what I say, no confusion. So, as I said, we are traveling on a branch of Path of Knowledge. So here we actually take the turn on this branch. Because potential, experience, etc., are discussed in Path of Knowledge, but now we diverge.

### Vibration, Sequence, and Time

This apparent state change, the binary state change, is called a vibration. The vibration manifests for a human being as something changing in time. An irreducible or a group of irreducibles, they appear as changing, and it appears that this is happening in time. Time means sequentially. The meaning of time is the sequence of events. In our philosophy, imaginary definition of something which is completely imaginary. Time is an imaginary concept. There is no real time. There is no real change, also.

Why does it appear like this? It is because of the memory. Now we are coming to the point. We are coming on the topic of discussion, which is memory. So, memory is another imaginary thing, and we are going to discuss it more. Right now you can understand only this much: that in the existence, there is a possibility, potential of binary state change. Only this much is there. It is apparent, and the evidence for it is the appearance of change as a sequence of events, apparent events, illusory events. It's not true.

So, if there is no time, how can anything change? That is the problem. So, assume! In philosophy, we assume. We imagine. We cannot know or we cannot say anything real. So, we imagine that there is a potential to form a sequence, sequence of changes. Since you can change from one state to another, you can change back. And then you can change again. So, it forms a very simple sequence, and that sequence, you can identify it now. It is a vibration. You can use any examples or concrete pictures to imagine, remember, to imagine the vibration: up and down, up and down, up and down. This is a sequence.

And just like I said: -1, +1; -1, +1; then +1 for a time, then -1 for a time, then again. Any combination of these states is possible. So, this is not happening in time, but it appears as a sequence in time: events. So, we have already taken two steps: from the potential to binary state change, and from binary state change to sequence, which is called vibration. So, when this sequence is formed, it is witnessed. That is how we know that there is a potential for it.

There are many names of this event that happens or appears to happen. You can call it oscillation. You can call it periodic change. You can call it a primordial sound. In Sanskrit, you can call it *nada* or *spandana*. And I'm sure there must be many names for it in many languages, hundreds of names. But it is nothing. It is just a state change. The minimum possible is two states: binary.

Why not one state? Because one state cannot change into itself. That will not be called a change, or there won't be any possibility to change anything, to manifest anything. So, minimum two are needed. These two must be opposite and equal so that the sum comes out to be zero, empty. This is a necessary condition. It cannot be -3 and +2, and -40 and +20. No. The sum will not be zero. That will mean there is something actually, which is not possible. So, the whole, or the existence, is nothing but simple oscillations, primordial vibration.

### Characteristics of Vibrations

So, now we come to this interesting conclusion: that the manifestation can happen as complex patterns of vibrations, complex oscillations, which are simply combinations of binary oscillation. You can combine all these various infinite varieties of oscillations into complex waves or vibrations. That possibility is also there. Infinite potential means there will be different kinds of vibrations.

What can be changed in this state change? How can we introduce the variety into the state change? Again, we use our imagination, very easy. A vibration can change in amplitude, frequency, and phase. Those who have studied science and sound and light and waves, they know all these things very well. It is very interesting that science finds that there is nothing but vibrations everywhere. You take any field of science, it is a study of vibrations. So, we are going to go there slightly later, but right now imagine that the state change can happen in magnitude or amplitude. You can have the simple state change of -1, +1. You can have -2, +2; -20, +20. So, like this, the amplitude can change. So, already we have an infinite variety of vibrations because infinite amplitudes are possible.

But the speed of the sequence can also change. It can change fast or it can change slowly. How do we know it is fast and slow? We compare it with other vibrations. Vibration number one changed twice. By that time, vibration number two changed four times. It did that state change four times. So, comparatively, you can say that vibration number two is twice as fast as vibration number one.

Remember, it is very difficult to talk about this without using the word time. I'm trying. It's very difficult. So, we use numbers. Hopefully that is okay. It is all superimposition, or you can say superposition. It is not happening in time, and nothing is really changing. So, numbers are the most pure way to talk about this. The same thing about the amplitude: when a vibration number one changes more than vibration number two, that's all can be said.

So, amplitude and frequency already produce infinite variety, but there is a third way: it is called phase, which means vibration number one starts, after completing a few rounds, vibration number two starts, which is exactly same as vibration number one in amplitude and frequency, but there is a gap when it starts. So, remember, these are concepts. So, if you overlay these two, you will produce a new pattern of vibration.

So, we have three ways to produce infinite variation. And when you combine all these vibrations, infinite types are present already. Let's be clear about this: these all amplitudes, infinite amplitudes, infinite frequencies, and infinite phases, delays, are already present as infinite potential, not actuality. So, infinite forms are possible. Infinite patterns of vibrations are possible.

This is how we prove something. It is interesting because we started with imagination, pure imagination, nothing else. Still, we found something. Now we can justify the name infinite potential. It is really infinite now; it is undeniable. There is no law or there is no way for the existence to limit the amplitude, frequency, and phase. Why is there no limit? Because they are not real. They are not true. They are not actual. They appear like this. They are imaginary. This word is very important. This word is very beautiful: it is imaginary. All these infinite forms that are possible, they are potential, and they are imaginary.

If you understand this word imagination, you will face no problems in Tantra or occult. If your mind struggles to find the truth, the situation is hopeless. Remember, there is no truth. I am creating the knowledge as we are speaking. It is imaginary; there is no knowledge. That was the whole point of creating this series of Laws of Memory, because I want to tell you something shocking which no intelligent person will accept. It takes a crazy person to say something like this or even imagine something like this. These crazy people are called philosophers, scientists, or Tantrics, occultists. Their image is very good sometimes in society. People think they are wise people; they are crazy people.

Okay, so since there is no time, no space, no limit, the infinite variety is of infinite magnitude, and it is of infinite length. Length here means there is no end of it. It can go on and on and on in whatever dimension you can imagine for example, time and space. They manifest like this sometimes. So, this much is enough about the vibration. Probably those who wish, they can add dimensionality into the vibration. So far we talked about two-dimensional vibration, but since it is a potential, you can imagine the vibration happening in a multidimensional way. You can assign a direction or a dimension to the vibration. Anyway, that arises as a form of the simplest vibration, which is two-dimensional or binary. So, that's why I did not include it, but we'll talk about it when we talk about the memory patterns. Such a structure is possible now.

### Latent Memory and the Illusion of Stability

So, there is a name for this infinite field of vibrations, which are potential only, and that is called the potential mind, latent mind, or latent memory. We already have memory. So, the old name for it is mind. But I said that we'll not use all these words. As you know, this word has many meanings. Immediately people will say, "No, my mind is not vibrating! It is working fine." So, we don't use these words. But when these words were invented, they had the right meaning. In Sanskrit, this will be called the *chitta*, which is not an actual mind; it is a latent mind, a potential mind. So, we are not going to use the word mind. Sometimes I use it, an old habit, but the new word is memory. Mind is nothing but memory.

So, those who have seen my series on Vibronics on this channel, Pure Experiences, will immediately recognize these words. They will immediately understand what I'm saying. So, if anybody is interested in knowing more about these vibrations and memory, and so on, mind and layers, they should watch the series of videos on my channel. The series is called Vibronics. Because we already have the details there, I'm not going to go into too much detail. But already there is too much detail, so let's go to memory.

Memory is defined now as semi-stable vibration. This vibration, when it repeats in the same pattern, gives an appearance of stability. For example, a sound, a pure tone: it is vibration, but you hear only one tone, and it is monotonous, and you stop hearing it because it's not changing. And that is an example of semi-stable vibration. It is vibrating, but still you can say that it is stable; it is in equilibrium. For example, a rotating top: if it is rotating very fast, you cannot see it; it looks stationary. So, memory derives its stability from this apparent repetition of the vibrating patterns.

We call it persistence. Anything, any pattern persists, or any irreducible imaginary experience persists because it is repeating in the same way. It is not persisting because it is the same, unchanging. No. It is always changing; it keeps changing in the same way. That gives us an illusion of persistence, also called an illusion of something being there. It's very interesting. "Why is anything there?" The answer is no, there is nothing. There is an illusion of something being there, and that is due to the apparent persistence of vibrations.

Because they can repeat in the same way, there is also a possibility of repeating the same pattern again and again. That gives us an illusion of stability, and that is called memory. It looks like it is impressed on the existence somewhere, words are meaningless here, so it is impressed, it stays there: semi-stable. So, the correct word for it, that is memory.

Actually, there is a history of this word, why we chose the word memory, not anything else, not other ancient words like spell or script or symbol. Why memory? And the history goes back to Sanskrit, and the word for memory in Sanskrit is *smriti*, which comes from *mrittika*, which means sand, or clay, dirt. When you walk on sand, wet sand or clay, your footprints are imprinted on it: imprints, patterns. So, that is called *smriti*, which probably means just like this imprint on the sand: *smriti*. And that *smriti* got translated as memory. But it is justifiable. It is a very good translation, very good interpretation. The English word memory also has the same kind of meaning; it points to the same kind of event. When things are impressed, they form a pattern which persists; that is memory. So, hopefully it is clear.

### The Illusion of Knowledge and the Path Forward

So, all these vibrations, potential, they form patterns of various kinds/infinite kinds, actually. They appear as memory. It is amazing, isn't it? Many people in computer science and information technology will immediately recognize what I'm talking about. These can be called information patterns. "Everything is information," somebody will say, somebody who knows all these things: information theory.

So, let's go forward. Memory is impermanent. It does not really persist. Only thing is, it changes very slowly. That's why we call it semi-stable pattern, or semi-stable vibration. It is defined like this: semi-stable, because ultimately it will change. And it does some tricks to keep it going we are going to talk about it later to keep the permanence going. But in the foundation of that is change, changes, because it is made up of vibrations. Vibrations are not stationary.

You cannot actually see the vibration. It is, like I said, it is completely imaginary. It is a concept, theory, hypothesis, assumption. You won't be able to see it, but you can see the patterns in the memory. That is the good news. That can be called a primordial experience: irreducibles.

So, what are the examples of these irreducible experiences or primordial experiences, which are nothing but patterns of vibration and memory? Colors, sounds, taste, smell, touch, emotions, something which is seen in a dream, visualization, and thoughts, and so on, desires. This is our human experience; we experience all these things.

Remember, we don't experience objects. You are not happy, you are not sad; these are superimposed later on. You see, the imagination continues; it never ends. Illusion is also infinite. We go on adding layers on top of it, what is appearing. You are not looking at red or blue or yellow; these are primordial experiences. You will never see objects. You will never see good emotions or bad emotions; you will never feel them. You feel something which is very primordial; it is called irreducible. Beyond that, you cannot reduce it to simple vibrations. That is why the name: irreducible. The experience which cannot be reduced further is an irreducible experience. That is, you're witnessing the memory. Whose memory? My memory? No, no, no. There is no you. Right now we are at the level of the potential existence. All these things, they are completely imaginary. They are imagined later. We'll imagine them; don't worry.

Or poetically you can say that it is the memory of the existence. More poetry, because why not? Imagination goes nicely with poetry. So, existence remembers. Existence is everything. It remembers itself as everything. Nothing appears, so nothing goes away. So, everything stays as a memory. It is amazing.

So, fortunately the existence is not a boring thingzero, empty, whatever I said before. It is infinitely potent. Infinite creation, thanks to vibrations of infinite varieties, and thanks to memory which stabilizes the experience.

Now, this is complicated enough that it will give you an illusion of knowledge. Your intellect will say, "I know something now! Finally, I know something." No, don't worry. It is all imaginary knowledge. Nothing is known. Yes, you are experiencing that. Whatever was constructed below that experience is all imagination. The direct experience, you can call it as true; however, it is not true.

So, we have memory, and still we don't have any objects. We have primordial experience or the essence of experience, which is impermanent, semi-stable, vibrating patterns which look like a memory.

So, in the next part, we are going to arrange these patterns into layers, and so on. That will come closer to the normal experience that human beings have so that you can relate more to this idea, concept. So, more on memory in the next part. We'll continue the series on Laws of Memory. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 03

## Introduction to Memory: Pure Potential

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of the Memory. We will continue our discussion on memory.

What are the characteristics of memory? What does it do? What does it look like?

In very short, we can describe memory as pure potential. It is not a physical thing, and it is not a mental event either. Physical things means rocks, bricks, water, houses, tables, chairs, even bodies. Mental events or mental phenomena: feelings, emotions, thoughts, desires, imagination. Memory is not any of these things. It does not belong to our everyday categories.

So what is it? It is the substance of these categories. Memory is the basic element out of which all the physical, mental, and anything else, any experience is formed. So we call it non-physical and non-mental, so that you remember that memory is not something physical or mental.

Your everyday recall of memory is something different. It is a mental event. The experience of you recalling and memorizing and remembering is an experience that is being produced by our non-physical, non-mental memory. So it is the substance of all experience. Or you can say it is the essence.

## The Dynamic Nature of Memory

So what does it do? Memory itself is not a thing, or itself is not a process, but all the things appear in memory, and all the processes happen in memory. So it is simply semi-stable vibrations, and these vibrations and their patterns, series, or sequences, they emerge as memory. They form the memory.

So you can immediately see that memory is not static. It is dynamic. It is always in motion. It is always changing. Do not confuse it with any kind of physical memory, like a book, or a CD, or memory in the computer where once something is impressed, the impression remains static. That is a memory, it's a different kind of memory. That is a physical memory.

The NPNM memory is vibrations. That means it is a process plus an impression. There is no separation between processing and contents of the memory. This is a very important thing to know.

## Processes of Memory: Copying and Resonance

So memory is seen as any experience that is emerging out of patterns of vibrations. It is dynamic, not static. And the memory itself is not physical and not mental.

So what does it do? What are these processes? So we are going to study them in detail. Right now, I'm giving you a few examples of processes, and the memory does some activities. You can roughly say that it is doing that, but they are happening.

The first is copying of vibrations through resonance. If there is a regular vibration which is of high magnitude, and there is also somewhat irregular, broken vibration, which is weak, low magnitude, then through resonance of vibrations, that stronger pattern gets impressed on the weaker pattern, or the weaker pattern assumes the shape of the stronger pattern. This is, you can say, copy or reproduction. It copies itself. There is no limit to how many copies it can make, because it's all virtual. There are no physical, mental, or any other kinds of limits. So infinite copies appear in split seconds. It can happen like this.

The memory is responsible for persistence of vibration patterns. You can suspect that this is happening by copying the patterns. The patterns persist because they copy onto themselves. They keep copying themselves, that's why they repeat. The pattern has appeared, but because it is impermanent, changing, it disappears. But before that, it copies itself. And that gives rise to an illusion that it is the same pattern. If it happens very quickly, nobody can suspect that something was destroyed there. This is very amazing. You can say it is the power in the memory.

## Evolution and the Cycle of Creation and Destruction

So persistence or repetition of patterns causes the illusion of stability. The basic mechanism is, again, copying, or you can theorize like this: guess, imagine. What happens if it cannot copy, or something else gets copied there? That will be called destruction.

So you can see the basic survival mechanisms are already emerging. Very basic. This is not even physical or mental right now. Copy, reproduction, persistence, growth, maintenance, destruction, death. You see, our imagination is not totally useless. It has the power to explain everything. We just explained the complete life of a creature. Because what are these creatures and complex forms? They are patterns of vibrations in memory.

Many people must have guessed by now, we are constructing the theory by looking at our direct experience, our daily experience. It is not magic, although it has magical powers, you can see. We started so simply that it looked like a totally useless activity of the existence, but it is the foundation.

So through repeated copying, persistence, destruction, different patterns emerge. Some get destroyed, some get enforced, some copy a lot, some change and then copy. So this is our familiar process of evolution. It is the exploration of the space of patterns. How big is the space of patterns? Infinite. So the evolution is infinite.

You can say that there is a tendency in memory to give rise to complex patterns out of simple patterns. And there is an opposite tendency also. The complex patterns do not stay, that is the property of the memory, nothing stays. So however persistent that is, it is dissolved. They become simpler and simpler and then disappear.

So now we can directly see construction and destruction, creation, dissolution. This is a big power of memory. So it is not simply construction and devolution, it is construction, evolution, and devolution and destruction. And then again the cycle starts, because it is a repeating pattern. So we'll talk more about that, but right now I'm giving you an idea what this memory is. It is the biggest thing in the universe.

## Knowledge and Ignorance

So memory stores patterns. Some patterns are helpful for evolution, survival, copy, persistence, and so on. They help in carrying out these activities, so they are favored. These patterns decide what will happen. They decide the actions. And that is called knowledge. They are processes or stored patterns in memory that help in activities of the memory, specially in the construction, creation. That will be called knowledge.

So knowledge is nothing, it is the collection of patterns in memory. If they are helpful, these patterns will be called knowledge. They are carried through the process of copying, persistence, and all, because they are helpful, sometimes they are necessary. You can see the DNA is a kind of pattern that copies, and there is knowledge in DNA how to construct the creature. It's a simple example.

But there are some patterns that are destructive. They help to destroy the complex patterns, convert them into simple ones. Because destruction looks like a negative word, it is not negative, it is just a function of the memory. The negative-positive is superimposed by human beings due to their biases.

So ignorance, this word is chosen because it is opposite of knowledge, so ignorance is a pattern that destroys a complex pattern, it causes death. So it is not a helpful pattern according to humans. It is contributing to the eternal dance of the memory.

So now it must be crystal clear what is happening in the existence. Memory makes us understand. This concept of memory is imaginary. It gives us a very solid foundation, structure to understand what is going on in this existence.

## Emergence of Laws and Freedom

So once a structure is formed through knowledge or whatever, patterns, and evolves, it restricts the vibration patterns. The vibration patterns are restricted because they cannot do anything else. If they do something else, they are destroyed. So they're bound.

This dependence, or the repetition of the same processes and the same events, gives an illusion of a law. So we are back to the topic: Laws of the Memory. Those who are wondering why we are talking about all these imaginary things like memory, vibration, the law cannot be understood if you don't understand memory.

So when the memory evolves enough, forms a meaningful structure full of knowledge, it appears to humans as a law, because nothing else will be seen as happening. It won't diverge from its specific set of behavior. That set of behaviors emerges out of the structure of the memory. That will be called a law. Not only one law, there will be many.

So you can already see that there can be infinite laws. So the universe is not bound by laws, it produces its laws. The existence is free. The structures in the existence, they give us an illusion of being bound by the laws, rules defined by these structures. But the good news is there are infinite kinds of structures, so it is not really bound. Nothing is bound. Everything is free already.

You also see the significance of knowledge: it is directly related to memory. And you can see the significance of ignorance also: it is useful in destruction. The same knowledge and ignorance can take higher forms and they appear in humans also. Knowledge causes growth, evolution, progress, development; ignorance causes destruction, devolution, regress, and suffering.

All these patterns of memory and the processes of the memory, they are manifested at higher orders. We are going to talk more about that, because we are going to check each and every law that we can check, that human beings can have access to, although there are infinite.

This is the logical conclusion of our discussion. I am not making this up now. Now our discussion is more and more bound by logic of what we already imagined. So the structure of knowledge is forming now.

## Hierarchical Layers in Memory

So what does it do, memory? You got a very broad idea, a rough idea.

Memory does one more thing: through evolution, it forms bigger and bigger structures, but there is a limit to how much the vibrations and the knowledge stored there and the processes can handle the big structures. There are some limits. The limit is obviously impermanence, because if you want to maintain a big structure, you start maintaining from this point, but by the time you reach the distant processes and structures, they have already disappeared. So there is a speed limit about which we'll talk later. How the resonance can maintain a large structure, the process of maintaining is limited by some kind of limit on how much they can maintain, how fast they can restore everything. The knowledge processes, self-maintaining processes, or the processes that help in persistence of the patterns.

So the memory has a very intelligent way to overcome this limit. The memory organizes in layers, a hierarchy. So if there is a limit to something, some structure, the structure simply takes one step above itself and forms another layer, or you can say management. So management and a factory, or a government, are very good examples of layers, or you can say they are metaphors to understand how memory decides or it happens, actually, nobody's there to decide, why it happens that memory organizes in layers.

So let us take an example of a factory. You have 10 workers, you are the owner of a factory. Probably you can manage 10 workers very easily. But the factory grows, and you hire 100 workers. Now you don't even remember their names, don't recognize them by faces, you don't know who is doing what. So the first thing you do is you hire five people who can manage these 100 workers. Now you need to manage only five people. And if your company grows and there are 1,000 workers, then you construct one more layer of management, and you organize them according to different functions. One will do production, the second will marketing, the third will be human resources, and payments, retirements. So the company grows, the business grows, the factory grows. The whole structure is growing, still manageable.

But yes, one person or the same group of people, without any owner, without any manager, they can manage themselves, three or four people, they can team up. But when it is thousands of people, only a hierarchy can sustain that kind of structure.

The same thing happens in memory. If the structures become too complicated, bigger or higher structures appear, which manage, they evolve. The things which cannot be managed, obviously, they get destroyed: impermanence.

Various kinds of vibrating patterns arrange in layers of memory. You can call them the strata of memory: dense, then less dense, then even less dense, and so on. And you can see that the power of these is different. The highest will have the highest power, the lowest will be workers, slaves.

## The Universal Mind and Cycles of Activity

So this structure has an old name, it is called mind, or chitta, just like I told you in the last episode. It is mind. There can be only one mind. Do not confuse it with a human mind, that is an outdated definition, it is meaningless. There is only one mind. It is the universal mind, which is simply the universal memory.

Because there is only one existence, you cannot have many, because existence is defined as everything. So logically it is not possible to have many everythings. It's a meaningless word. So there is only one, and there is only one potential. You cannot even count it, it is zero. And so it gives rise to only one instance of memory. It's all one.

So not only is the existence one, it is one at the level of memory also. There is one mind, that is the whole existence. Manifested existence is one mind. How big is that? It is infinite. How small is that? It is zero, it is nothing, according to humans. We don't understand what it is, so we can only imagine and try to find evidence of our imagination. So far, it is working, isn't it? Our imagination was not totally useless.

So just like the factory owner divides the hierarchy into functional groups, the memory automatically arranges itself in functional layers. Different functions separate out, like different organs in a body. The body is also a layered structure, and it is a very good, excellent metaphor of layers of memory.

So whatever these layers do, that is called an activity. You can say action. And these activities are circular. They repeat. They go in cycles, because that is the function, that is the basic nature of vibration. They keep repeating. They go in circles, up, down, up, down. So whatever is formed out of these vibrations will naturally repeat.

Just like a watch, which is the traditional, old, ancient kind of watch, where there are gears inside it, they keep spinning. And so the final outcome, the time that the watch is telling you, is circular. It repeats, same way. So that is called an activity. It repeats, and it is doing some kind of function in some kind of layer. So there can be infinite layers, theoretically, and there can be infinite activities.

## States of Mind and Essential Unity

So once a structure is formed, it wants to maintain itself, because if it cannot, then impermanence destroys it. It is all fleeting. So to maintain itself, some of the activities are necessary. And these groups of activities, they are called states.

So we have very clear definitions now. State of the mind, what do you mean by that? You know now, what do you mean by that? They are simply a group of activities that is maintaining the structure. That is called a state. A well-known state is a human state of waking, your waking life. There are more, like dreaming, sleeping, and so on, but right now you can only understand waking.

What is active here? The whole layers of the body, activity of the body: digestion, breathing, and so on, you see. Mental layers, they are active. So all these activities going on, a tremendous amount of activity, that is just one state: waking state.

So the body and this whole structure, it cycles through states. Another cycle, it is cyclic. So the whole thing, the whole phenomena of states, it keeps changing. It is not stable, it is not stationary, although it is called a state, but it's not stationary. States come and go, and they repeat. They repeat till the structure is there.

So how many states can be there? Again, as many as is needed for that function of the structure: infinite. So infinite vibrations, infinite layers, infinite functions, infinite activity, and infinite states.

So how do we know all these things? Well, we have direct experience of that, fortunately, finally. You can call it the human being, one kind of structure, human structure. Although, just like I said, there is only one mind, there is only one memory, and these structures which appear as human, body-mind machines, they are part of this whole. They appear separate, but they are not separate.

For example, the thoughts in your mind appear to be separate. One thought goes, the other comes, and this thought is different from that thought. But what is that? That is the activity of your memory. It's very simple. It is not different. They appear different. So you can see that human beings are simply activities of memory. They appear different, they are all one, essentially.

So without going into the path of knowledge and all that philosophy, non-dual philosophy, and so on, simply by studying the layers of memory or memory itself, we see the Unity.

## The Field, the Akashic Library, and the Guru Field

Actually, it is impossible to have parts, divisions in memory, because it's not physical. Only physical things have boundaries, divisions which are apparent. There are no actual boundaries to anything. We'll see why that is. We'll talk about it more. It's very interesting.

So if you think I am a human being, you are a very good example, an excellent example of memory and its layers, and so on, activities, states, functions, and so on. But always remember, it is an illusory part of the whole. There is an illusion that this is a separate thing, as it is useful to assume that it is separate, but it is part of the, or you can say it is a function of the universal memory. It is called the universal mind.

And the universal memory is known by many names. So memory of existence is one name which we already used, sea of vibrations. It is also called akashic memory, which means the memory of the sky, or memory of the space. Everything is space, like empty, there is a memory there. Or it is called the Akashic Library. This term is used for a specific area of the universal memory where a specific kind of knowledge is stored. Remember the definition of knowledge, just now I told you? Helpful patterns in the memory. Ignorance: unhelpful patterns in the memory. So Akashic Library will be some part of the memory, or a function of the memory, where a specific kind of knowledge is stored.

You can also call them fields. Many people call them fields. Field is something in which something grows, grows and harvested and destroyed, dries out. The memory can be called a field. So there are many fields classified according to their functions, and these fields store specific kinds of knowledge, specific kinds of patterns. Corresponding to those patterns and knowledge, there are specific kinds of rules. Rules come out of structure itself. Mind is the law. Law is the mind. Many people must have heard this thing. In a field you will find specific kinds of laws.

Right now we are in a specific kind of field of memory. It is called the physical world, although it is not physical, it is memory. So that is another Pandora's box: what is this physical world? We are going to talk about it a little bit. Once you know one world, you will know all the worlds. That's mostly the same laws, universal laws.

So another good example of the field is the guru field, where all the spiritual knowledge is stored. We use this word a lot in our program, in our meetings, discussions, and videos. So probably for the first time you got this insight, or detailed knowledge of what this thing is: guru field.

## Senses as Transducers and Measurement

This is my intention behind creating this series, because I know everybody knows laws by heart. They have even memorized the names of those laws, but nobody knows what it is.

So there can be infinite kinds of structures, substructures, and functions, subfunctions inside the memory, but we are interested in some of them, and we can only know some of them. We are very limited, human beings. We can even imagine a little bit, not too much. Our imagination is governed by our memory. Think about it. We cannot imagine too much. Whatever we see outside, whatever we perceive, our imagination becomes limited by that. And we can go one or two steps, yes, that's okay. We can relax that law. We can say, 'Yes, I can imagine a few more things, extrapolate.' That's all we can do.

With this limited kind of imagination, we'll get limited knowledge, and we'll be able to witness some limited structures. So we pick something which is important for us, especially for a spiritual person.

So a very important structure in the memory is called a sense. The definition of sense is: it converts one kind of vibration into another kind. One kind can be anything, any pattern, and the other kind can be anything, mostly it is knowledge. Mostly, the senses convert a sea of patterns into a small, compressed, distilled pattern of knowledge. So many people must be hearing this definition for the first time in their life.

Yes, senses, in electronics, you can call them transducers. They convert one kind of vibration into another kind, like a microphone is converting sound into electricity. But the microphone does not end there. There are more structures in the electronics that filter it out, limit that electrical signals, and then convert it into digital format. It is all one sense, you can say, it is one sense, although it has many functions in one.

So what happens is that sound which was vibrating in the air and was momentary, totally impermanent, was converted into some information. It took a form. Remember the meaning of the word 'information'? To give it a form. So it took a form, that form can be imprinted in the memory. Right now it is imprinted in the memory of the PC, or phone, or YouTube server. And my voice cannot be stored directly. It will disappear in the air, movement of the air.

## Measurement, Tanmatra, and Maya

These senses, they are structures, they are itself in the memory, and they are very important. They create knowledge. Without senses, there is no knowledge. You won't know anything. Even if there is an infinite amount of vibrations there, without senses no knowledge is possible, nothing will be known.

So the senses limit the vibrations. These limited forms are meaningful, they are information, and they are stable. They are not momentary, or you can say semi-stable.

So senses measure what is there. The senses perform a measurement of what is out there, but in doing that, they limit what is out there. So they are like windows. You can take the metaphor of the body, our senses are like windows which open to the external environment, and they limit whatever is coming in inside the body or mind. But that makes the organism survive, otherwise there is no chance of survival.

So the organism or the system where the senses are functioning becomes enclosed in a bubble of its own knowledge. You can say that knowledge now looks like ignorance, because it is not knowledge of everything. It's not possible. So the whole knowledge is nothing but a limited or useful ignorance.

So senses are actually performing measurement. This is a very big word. The measurement brings the experience into existence. The measurement creates the experience. This is actually a law of the memory. Without measurement, there is just an infinite potential, which is equal to emptiness. See how important this thing is.

A measurement is called matra in Sanskrit, from which English words like 'meter', etc., are derived. And whatever the senses are providing, the raw experience, the basic experience, is called the tanmatra, which means exactly that: basic experience, or the tiniest, irreducible experience.

So what we are doing as human beings, that we are measuring the field of memory using the senses, instruments of senses. In doing so, we form a model of the world in our own mind, in our own memory. This is simply constructed out of measurement by the senses. It's not real. It is an illusory world. But it is helpful, it keeps that structure alive, the human structure persists.

## The World Model as Illusion

Another name for measurement, because it gives rise to illusion, is maya. Maya is simply memory measuring itself and giving rise to an illusory experience. How beautiful that is! So many secrets are out now. The dance of the maya is nothing but measurement.

Why are our experiences limited? Because of senses, because of this measurement. And we cannot measure everything, that is illogical. It's not needed. And that is why our experience is limited, we are limited as structures.

Moreover, that experience is completely fabricated. We are not measuring something which is exactly out there. No. It is totally filtered, changed, transformed, transduced. Then what is out there? There's nothing. I told you, there's nothing, it's just a sea of potential. So measurement collapses the potential into actuality, which is simply another illusion.

That knowledge and whatever is produced by senses, not only illusory, it is impermanent, it does not last. But because of some tricks of the memory, wherever there is memory, there is intelligence. Intelligence arises. Intelligence is universal intelligence, not human intelligence. It arises in any complex system.

So due to this intelligence, all the knowledge and memories and all whatever, they get copied again and again. It keeps copying it. So, bad news, but there is good news, yes. There is always a duality of good news and bad news in our studies. So whatever causes survival, these three processes function: copying, persistence, and destruction, that is favored by the structure, and that is responsible for what kind of experience there will be. Remember, it is all an illusion.

So what is being experienced? Now you know the answer. It is something which is already an infinite field of potential, they're getting limited. So whatever that is, you see, the model that we formed out of measurements is called a world.

Remember, it is not something which exists somewhere out there and you are in it, no! The definition of the world here, in our philosophy, is an illusion created by senses. It is not useless, it is a very good model that helps in these basic survival activities. Very useful. Without this world, there is no organism, there is no pattern of vibrations to exist.

So what is being measured is a layer, or many layers sometimes, a group of layers that are beneficial for survival. Senses evolve to measure it, to sense it, and the world can be assumed to be whatever exists in that layer. And obviously random things are not sensed, they are filtered out, they are not useful. So the structures in the layer are sensed.

I know this is very difficult to understand right now, but you can take the metaphor of our physical world where human beings are right now, you and me. That is a layer, or that is a combination of many many layers, and the senses are sampling it, senses are sensing or measuring it. These are layers, we call it a world: physical world.

## Infinite Worlds and Changing Senses

So worlds are a specific part of the layered structure of memory, which needs to be sensed. It does not actually exist. It is like a virtual reality. The data comes in and whatever senses are telling is experienced. They are experienced in the form of irreducibles. This sensory data is arranged by the intelligence and knowledge in the structure, in the memory, and that will be called a world model, that is helpful in survival.

All these objects, bodies, people, food, trees, mountains, whatever shapes and forms that you see, they are arrangements of sensory data. They are not real, but they are helpful. It appears like this, it is an illusion.

So whatever is surrounding that structure right now, senses, is an environment of the senses, and probably there is a need to act on the environment, like feed, or protect, sense something. So that becomes the world. And just like everything else, the world is a pattern in memory, and it is also semi-stable. You can see it: the physical world is not stable, it changes every second. So the speed of change is variable. Some patterns will change quickly, some will not, but it gives an illusion of permanence because it is a memory.

So how many worlds can be there? Obviously, because everything is infinite, the structure can be infinite, there can be an infinite number of worlds. 'No, no, I see only one.' No, you can see any number you want, provided there is a you. That is the puzzle: there is no you. So it makes no sense that I see something. I don't see anything, because there is no I. There is only the structure, and it will see whatever it requires to see. The senses are formed depending on the requirement. The requirement is survival.

So infinite can be seen? Yes, it is not a totally hopeless case for humans. If you change your senses, you will see different worlds. That can happen in, let us say, dreams. A different world appears out of a limited memory, limited knowledge, that can be called local memory. Sometimes I call it local memory. Out of the world model, something is produced, that is a different world, small world.

The same way, if you restrict the senses which you are used to, and activate some other senses, you can produce it on command, actually, that way you can witness other worlds, other places in the field. That is what a tantrik is doing, an occultist is doing: trying to know or sense something else, something more than our usual, plain, boring world. They are not happy with this world.

So the secret that is given away is senses. Study the senses, and you will control everything. You will control who you are, you will control worlds. It is just an illusion in the mind. It is possible to change it. Control means you can change it.

So I'm not going to give you more secrets, because we are running out of time. The illusion of time is running out.

## Bodies, Energy, and Power

So there are some structures which are necessary for survival and action, there are some states and activities that are very necessary. Those structures will be called bodies. These are the structures which are responsible for survival. So they are also part of the layer, although I always say that there are no parts, but we assume that it is a part of the layer. It's separate, somehow, it's not separate, which is instrumental in maintenance or persistence of the structure, that is called a body.

Usually senses are hosted in the body. Usually senses are part of the body. It's not necessary, they're part of the whole layer, or many layers. So the body is a structure which acts in the world. Very easy definition now. A body is any structure which performs actions or activities in the surrounding environment, which is perceived as a world. And this body is completely determined by what is in the memory. It cannot do anything else. There is a hierarchy of memories which govern bodies.

So bodies themselves are layered structures. Just now I gave you an example, the body is a very good example of layered structure. So it is made up of cells and organs and so on, which everybody knows. In the case of human beings, although there can be an infinite number of bodies, infinite variety is possible. And usually a body is less stable than the environment around it. It is the same layer, same layers.

For example, our physical body is part of the physical world, a physical layer, not different. They are made up of the same structures, same basic patterns. You can call it matter, or elements, physical. But they are less stable. That can be because they are more complicated, and it takes more effort to keep them going, to make them persistent.

This effort is called energy. If the structure needs to work hard to keep another structure inside it, substructure, for example, senses or bodies, it needs to work hard to keep it as it is, maintain it, we say that it takes more energy. So more energy means a more stable body, more stable senses, and that helps in better survival. And this ability to put more effort into these activities is called power.

These words: power, energy, and so on, are occult words. They simply come out of our philosophy, but they have the same meanings in the human world, ordinary language. Power and energy is needed, and the whole struggle of survival is to get more power, more energy.

Everybody must have understood what is going on here. This simply falls out of our model, model of the illusion, or model of the vibrations. Now we don't need to assume too much. Now the basic hypothesis is giving us clarity. We are building on it, and we are verifying using direct experience. You can check, it is logical. It is not a daydream.

Imagination is not a small thing. Imagination is very powerful. Anything which can be created is called power. You have this power to create. Are you using it? Power is called imagination.

## Ego, Will, and the Concept of the Individual

Body, senses, complex body-mind structure creates knowledge, creates more layers inside its local memory, which are necessary for survival. And one of the activities, or one of the patterns that appears in this body-mind is called ego.

The job of the ego is to separate what is necessary for survival from what is unnecessary. Very easy, that is the activity of the ego. So it draws a boundary: 'This is me,' and it creates a box, puts everything that is needed for survival into that box, and it says, 'This is me.' Whatever it needs for survival, it says, 'This is mine.' And if it's not needed, it says, 'Not mine.' Very easy. The logic of the ego is very easy. It is almost mechanical, just like a machine.

So whatever it gathers as me will be called an individual. The word is very good. The word says that it cannot be divided into parts now. The ego will say, 'This is one whole,' although it is just aggregate: cells, bodies, organs, senses, memories, knowledge. It is made up of many things which we can, our intellect can dissect, but the ego says, 'It is one, it is me.'

So individuality is born here. In the case of very complex structures with knowledge and memory and intelligence, a structure called individual is seen, it appears. Whatever actions are happening, the individual says, 'I am doing it, I'll do it, I'll do that,' although it's all coming from the storage of memory.

Remember, the actor is deterministic, we saw in the section on the bodies. But the ego calls it my will. People call it free will, it is not free, it is my will. So it wills, which is simply movement of the vibrations, energy of the vibrations. Remember the word 'energy'? And it uses the power of the body-mind to act.

Remember the use of all these words now? They are occult words, tantrik words: ego, actor, energy, power, memory. Remember all these words, they are not words, they are key to progress. They are keywords that will unlock your spiritual progress.

This discussion is very entertaining, as you can see, but the intention is not simply to entertain, not to build castles in the air of imagination and theory, there is some use of it. So many people must have guessed by now, many of the wise listeners, they know where this is going. What if you know all these things, plus the laws on which this whole structure operates, how much power that is? Knowledge is power.

So an individual is a very powerful thing, don't think that it is an illusion. But it is an illusion, there should not be any doubt about it. Its powers are illusory, but that's what we want. We don't care whether it is an illusion or not, because now it has solidified so much, you can call it a crystalline structure. A structure which is so regular, so complicated, and intentional. It says, 'I can do something.' It has free will, it can act, it has ego. It is a powerful structure, but it is an illusion.

The ego is not really present, it is an activity of the memory. The individual is a concept in the memory, there is no individual.

## The Person as a Mask and Societal Structures

So you can see that this individual is more impermanent than the body, because a body can survive for many years, or there can be bodies made up of metal, silicon, and whatever, they can survive for 1,000 years. But the individual is somewhat unstable, it's highly variable. You can check, the individual that is present from the age of 0 to 5 is not the same as the individual which is there from the age of 5 to 10 to 15, dramatic changes. And as this structure grows, the individual changes. And it changes every day, sometimes. One new experience is completely destroyed, and a new individual is created, because what is it? It is simply knowledge, or a pattern in the memory. Changes very fast. The actor, the ego keeps changing.

This is also called the person. The meaning of the word 'person' is mask. It is a mask that this structure is wearing, which keeps changing. It is shown to the outside world, to other people, other person.

So why do all this kind of dance? You know, why take all this kind of trouble? Well, this ego, person, individual is necessary for survival, just like I said. If the structure becomes too complicated, you need to appoint another layer, or another function which can hold everything together. The individual is such an arrangement.

But everything changes, that which it is trying to hold is continuously flowing, it's changing, and the individual itself is changing. So how do we say that you are the same individual, or this body-mind, or creature, or machine, or whatever is the same thing? Does it have the same personality? Because there is an illusion of stability. We remember that this change thing, slightly changed, is the same as the last one. This illusion is created. An individual creates its own illusion of itself, calls it me, in short: I.

There is no I, it is an illusion. It is not even permanent, it's totally changing, like a rotating fan, it repeats some things, so it is seen as the same. The activities and states repeat, so gives an illusion of stability.

So the organization will not stop at individual. Individuals form groups, societies, cultures, civilizations, so on. Everybody knows all these things. But once you know the basics, you will be able to know everything that is formed by these basic elements.

If you can control the individual, you can control all these things which are formed out of it: society, culture, group, countries, whatever you want. And this is an immense amount of power. And that's why it is not told to ordinary individuals. That is why it is hidden knowledge. So you should not tell this to everybody.

One can become more powerful if you concentrate the power at one place. If you spread the power, it becomes diluted. It's not any more powerful. So understand, do not spread it.

But I'm doing it. How's that possible? There is a contradiction here. Don't worry, nobody will understand what I'm saying, except those who have that kind of intelligence. Otherwise, these are just words. The words of knowledge are made for ears of wisdom. Nobody else will know these.

So this concludes the basics. If you want to know more, more details of all these structures, memories, activities, you should watch the video series of Vibronics, more details are there. In the next part, we'll start explaining the laws of memory. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 04

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory. As we discussed in the last part, laws are a necessary outcome of a structure. Structure is the law; law is the structure.

## Law of Laws

Laws are also known by various names, like rules, order, or regularity. The rules, the order, the regularity is a natural outcome of structure in the memory.

Since there are all possibilities, there is a possibility of infinite kinds of structures, and therefore there can be infinite sets of laws. One structure can have one or more than one law. So, usually, a structure has a set of laws instead of only one law.

## Example: The Circle

So, just to illustrate with an example why the structures give rise to laws, we take a simple circle. A circle is a structure. It is a pattern. It is a geometry. You will discover that if you travel on the circle, you will always be the same distance from the center. How is that possible?

It looks like a law. It looks like this is the rule, and you cannot break the rule. Who made this law? How did it appear there from thin air? The answer is simple, and everybody can understand that it is a natural consequence of the shape of the circle. The structure itself gives rise to the law; it implies the law in it. Nobody forced you to travel at a fixed distance from the center. Nobody made this law: "Here is the circle, and from today it will follow this rule." Never happened. The circle is the law, and law is the circle.

## Example: The Triangle

Another example: take a triangle, and you will find many laws about the triangle, trigonometry. You'll find three sides, three angles, three points. You will never find four sides, 50 sides, or half number of points, 0.5 points. These laws cannot be broken because once a structure is defined, it will give rise to all these laws, and these laws must be obeyed.

So, simple examples, but we can find more structures, and we can do this exercise of deriving the laws of those structures. This can look like mathematics, geometryyes, it is. That can remind you of Platonism, or Pythagoras, who thought that the whole universe is nothing but geometry. There are some interesting truths in those beliefs, those philosophies. That is not completely meaningless. And many of the modern theories of physics, assume some kind of structure which is hidden, just like we are assuming.

## Apparent Structures

The structures in the memory, they are apparent. You cannot directly see them, but you can infer them mathematically, in your imagination, in some other abstract way, because these structures are not experienced. Something which is limited, and modeled, imagined, is experienced.

But fortunately, we can experiment and find the structure behind the illusion that this structure is producing, and the key to that is finding the laws in it. Get any experience, try to find the laws behind it, you will get some intuition about the structure.

So, that sounds a lot like a scientific method. It is the scientific method. Now that solves the question: why mathematics is effective in science. It is not a miracle; it is not a paradox. Mathematics is a description of the structure. Physics, or experimental physics, is an experience of the structure. Not so amusing, finally.

## Multi-Dimensional Structures

So, we took an example of the circle, but the structures can be multidimensional, and they can have very complex kinds of relations. You can discover them, and they cause a complex set of laws, these multidimensional structures. By multidimensional, I mean there is a hierarchy of laws, because there is probably a hierarchy of structures within structures, and then more structures within it. So, you will see that the laws that define the lower structures, they are not applicable to the higher structures. We say that they break down at the higher levels, higher dimensions.

That solves another mystery, that: why do laws break sometimes? For example, any person in the occult field will say, "I can see across the wall," or "I can see across many miles of distance. I can see in the past, and I can see in the future." That seems to break all the laws of the physical world. So, that suggests that the physical world is simply a lower dimensional structure within a higher dimensional structure, and the occult master somehow accesses the higher structures.

That does not break the law, actually. That uses a higher law to bypass the lower law. You can see that by doing that future prediction or whatever, the physical world is not affected. It functions nicely; laws are not broken. This is very important to note: that you can bypass the laws if you get hold of something higher, some higher dimensional structure. This revelation is very important for any tantric who is trying to master these laws, trying to manipulate the illusion.

## Example: The Sphere Triangle

So, an example of breaking the laws, again, we take it from geometry or mathematics. Here is a triangle again. On a paper, two-dimensional surface, the sum of the angles of the triangle is 180 degrees. But we want to know what happens if the triangle is shifted to higher dimensional structure. So, you draw the triangle on a sphere instead of paper, like they draw it on a globe. From the North Pole to the equator, one line, then you go along the equator some distance, and then draw back one line to the North Pole. So, you get a triangle that is curved, and you will see that the angles at the equator are 90 degrees each. It is already 180 degrees there, and there is another angle at the North Pole, and that is also a positive angle. So, the sum comes out to be more than 180 degrees.

How did that law break? The law that said the sum of the angles of a triangle is always 180 degrees, suddenly it broke. Actually, it did not break. If you draw the triangle on a paper, the law holds; cannot break it. But you overpowered it; you transcended that law by rising to a higher dimension, the third dimension.

Now, the triangles can have many kinds of sums of angles; you can discover it. What if you draw the triangle on an even higher dimensional surface? Now, that goes firmly in the domain of mathematics. My mathematics is very weak. I'm not going to tell you, and I'm not going to bore you with that. But many people like all these kinds of mental gymnastics, mathematics. The point is, laws can be transcended. It seems that they are broken, but they're not broken. We simply overcome one law using the other law.

They will hold in their own dimension or their own domain. As soon as you cross the domain, something else will hold. But there is never a state of lawlessness, which means there is no state of disorder, irregularity. This is very much debatable, so I'll leave it for you as homework. Let me know your conclusions, comments.

## Ascension

So, as new structures form, and they do form all the time, new laws appear. As the structure changes, new laws appear. Since everything is changing, yes, laws are changing. This is amazing. The laws themselves are not permanent. Yes, they produce an illusion of permanence. They produce an illusion that somebody is doing this, somebody is making these laws and making me obey these laws. Not only me, everything from a rock to a president of a country, everybody's forced to obey some laws, natural laws. And yes, there are man-made laws, there are social laws and so on, which is currently beyond our scope. We're talking about something which appears naturally as a result of a structure in the memory.

Since you cannot see the structure, you assume that the law is the truth. As we discussed in the first part of the series, that is not true. Whatever you think is true, ultimately is not true. So, I don't want to discourage you from finding the truth, but this is, this seems to be a law.

So, how can you master the illusion? How can you overpower all these laws? Because it looks like they are coming on my way to become Superman or a powerful person, or whatever is called a siddha person. Yes, but you cannot break them. You need to rise above them, as we saw right now. That rising above, or ascending, ascension, is known as evolution, or in the spiritual world, it is called spiritual evolution, or ascension; Sanskrit, *Aarohan*.

Why do you need to do that? Probably you came down somehow, a lower structure, lower dimensional. Now you need to go back. You will never be able to break the laws because wherever you are right now, you are part of that structure. If you think I'm physical, yes, you cannot break the physical laws now, because the physical body is a part of the physical structure. But as soon as you rise above the physical, you will see that you can overcome the physical laws.

We do not become powerful by breaking the laws; we become powerful by rising above, ascension. If you think that I'm down somewhere, I have descended, *Avtaran*, you need to find a way to go up. Do not chase after the laws; that is stupidity. Do not try to bend them or break them; again, stupidity. Know them - this is intelligence. Knowledge is the key, and rise above them. This is the real power.

## Further Study/Practices

So, hopefully this much pointing is enough. You can master the laws. You can become a master of the illusion. Those who want to know more, they should do the Tantra Bodhi Program, which is available on my website, gyanmarg.guru. You can't imagine how many kinds of treasures are available on that website, and they are all free. Tantra Bodhi Program is also free, and it is completely online. The only thing is that only selected people are admitted to that program; it is not for everyone. So, if you go to that website, check out the program, you will know what needs to be done. And that will provide you so much detailed knowledge of the illusion that the only thing that remains to do is practice. Knowledge is not the sufficient condition; you need practice. So, many practices are also suggested in that program.

So, now you know laws regarding the law, and you are ready to master these laws, bend these laws. You can directly jump into the illusion, or you can study the laws that everybody or the masters have already studied, and everybody in the field knows about them.

## 1 - Law of Emptiness

So, we'll start with the Law of Emptiness. This is a law of the memory which says the memory is empty.

What is it empty of? It is obviously not empty of content. It is not empty of impressions. What is it empty of? It is empty of any substance. Anything that you can imagine, is the substance of the memory? It is not. It is not made up of anything. It is not made up of atoms, metals, plastic, or organic matter, neurons, nothing. These things are made up of memory.

That's why, in one of the previous parts, I said memory is the substance. Memory is the essence, but it itself is not made up of anything. It is empty. In other words, you can say that it has no qualities which any human mind can grasp.

"When I can see the qualities, just now you told me that there are colors, shapes, sounds, and so on, structures in the memory, it is quality, isn't it?"

Yes, that is not true. Those are apparent qualities. The memory does not have any true qualities. You cannot call the laws of the memory a quality of the memory also. Somebody can say, "Look, these are the laws of the memory, that is a quality. It is not empty." But as we saw that infinite laws are possible, so as soon as you say that, "Okay, this law defines the memory, the memory is made up of this law," the next second another law appears. The first law is replaced by the next law, and 20 laws appear, then million laws appear. So, that shows the full freedom there; there is no law. What does it show? Absolute freedom. It is not randomness, obviously. There is a difference between randomness and freedom.

So, all that appears in the memory is an illusion, and anything can appear, so it is like a blank canvas. Any picture can be drawn there. It is an empty canvas; the canvas itself is zero.

Is it like space? There is no space. The space is a fabricated, irreducible that comes out of sensory measurements. Now, it can be debated whether space is irreducible or not. It does seem like that sometimes. Objects appear in a visual space, yes. Sounds appear in an audio space, and the movements of our body happen in a tactile space. If you close your eyes and close your ears, and move your hands and feet, your arms, or the whole body, you will sense a space. Where is it? It is all in the mind. It is all illusion, constructed out of sensory data. So, memory is not space. Space is an outcome of memory. Memory is spaceless, timeless, so nothing. There is nothing.

But still, it has the potential to give rise to everything. So, "nothing" is not a good word; "emptiness" is a good word.

Why does it look like it is something? Why can't I see the emptiness? Because the senses, they do not show us the memory; they show something limited and constructed, transformed versions of the patterns in the memory. You cannot see the emptiness; you cannot see the memory; you cannot see the existence as it is. Why? There's nothing to be seen; it is empty. So, the limitedness of our experience gives us this illusion that there is something, and it is only this much. That gives us some kind of ignorance, wrong beliefs, blind beliefs. You can make wrong assumptions. So, sensory limits, limitedness provide an illusion of fullness, or there being something.

How to know that it is empty, memory is empty? How to establish this? How to prove this? Where is the evidence? You can see that the experiences are changing. There are no objects, there is no world, as we saw in the last part. No bodies, no individual. What are they? They are changing experiences.

So, what happens when one experience changes into another, or disappears completely, does not look like an experience now? What happens? You will see that the previous one is completely gone. It's nowhere. Yes, there is a memory of it, that's why you know that there was something. So, before going into your memory, it was already a memory. It simply changed, but nothing was left behind. The only thing that can be said, previous experience, which is no more, gone, was empty. What about this one? Is it made of something? You will see that, no, this also goes away; nothing is left behind.

To contrast it with something which is made up of substance, you can take the example of a house. A house is made up of bricks, sometimes. And if you break the house you want to renovate it, you want to modernize it, break down your old house, what is left behind? Bricks, parts of bricks, a lot of dirt. That shows that it was made up of bricks. A very simple example. So, the house was not empty; it was full of bricks. Bricks are left; the structure is gone, yes. Substance is still there. So, that is an example of something which is made up of substance, which is not empty.

Now take a thought, and you will see some words and some feelings, emotions, some concepts, some imaginary ideas, some pictures, sounds. These are thoughts. Thoughts are simply echoes of memory. So, the memory is manifesting like this in the form of a thought. The thought is gone now. What is left? Hopefully, whatever it was made up of is still left. But if you search, you will find nothing. Now there is a new thought, and there also nothing is left when it is gone. So, thoughts are an example of emptiness. Your thoughts are empty. You have no substance in your thought, and that can sound insulting, but that is the truth. You can clearly see that the thoughts were coming out of memory, and memories are not made up of anything.

So, this is the Law of Emptiness. Can you break this law? It is impossible. Everything that appears anywhere in this existence, the whole of your life is going to be empty. You cannot break this law.

Can you rise above this Law of Emptiness? Yes. Not by making the memory out of something, not possible by realizing that everything is impermanent and changing. Everything is fleeting, goes away, and you yourself are one of those fleeting structures, impermanent, momentary.

So, you can rise above it by knowing that which remains when everything that is changing changes, when this river of change flows, what remains? It is very easy, actually: the witnessing aspect of the existence remains, is unchanging. We discussed it briefly in part number one of the series. This illusion is so attractive that it is hypnotizing, and we forget that there is another aspect of the existence, which is the witnessing aspect, also called the experiencer, and that never changes.

You can rise above the Law of Emptiness by seeing the impermanence of the experience, by not getting confused by the reality of the experience. They are not real, and by searching for the substance within you. That witnessing aspect is nothing but you.

When the changing experiences come and go, what is left behind is not a substance; it is you, the witness, the experiencer. So, although it is called a Law of Emptiness, it is not applicable to you. You are the substance. This witness is the substance, or the essence. What is the definition of essence? That which never changes, that without which no form can appear. Forms do not exist without the essence, without the substance. There is only one like this in the entire existence. There is not any experience, there is not any memory, there is not any structure that is the witness, the experiencer. Where is it? It is you.

All the experiences are appearing in you, all these memories, all these vibrational patterns. They are appearing on your screen. The screen itself never changes. The screen is the substance. Substance means that which stands below - the foundation.

So, this is called self-realization. It is necessary if you want to transcend the emptiness of impermanent experiences. What will this do? This will cause detachment with that which comes and goes. That will free you from the bondage of what was wrongly assumed to be true and with substance.

For example, if somebody gives you a million in the form of banknotes, it is very natural to have some kind of attachment to that money. Next day, they tell you that these notes are fake, they are counterfeit notes, there is no substance there. The money is of no value, empty. Your hands are now empty. Although something is appearing there, the appearance of money, there is no attachment there. You don't have to do anything with it now; it's gone. So, you let go. This frees you from the suffering that emptiness of the experience causes.

Grasping after empty experiences is like holding on to fake money. It will buy nothing; it gives no happiness. The real happiness is in letting go and being what you are. That which you are is not an experience, not memory.

So, this is how you transcend the immaterial memory. The interesting thing is, when you ask this question: "What is the essence of the experiencer?" you probably get no answer, because we already said that the experiencer is the essence. But some people will say that since there are no qualities in the experiencer, the experiencer is also empty. So, it seems like we reached a new level of emptiness, but the law is not broken, ultimately.

It was like this before also. Somehow, some other forms appeared, and there was an identification with these changing, illusory forms because of limitedness and sensory limits, limits of knowledge and intelligence. We say there was an ignorance that I am this changing form, whatever form it is: human form, animal form, vegetables, plants, rocks, whatever. So, that ignorance happened somehow. Instead of being infinite emptiness, I became a limited, non-emptiness, solidity of some kind, which was impermanent, illusory. That was the fall. Now you need to rise above. Know yourself, know who you are, and you can transcend this somewhat disturbing condition.

Although nothing was lost in this play of illusion, the whole memory remained empty, nothing actually happened there, and you also remained empty, nothing actually happened there, no fall. So, now you can laugh, smile.

So, we just finished the whole spiritual journey of any great seeker in five minutes. It is so easy.

So, we'll stop here today, and we'll continue with other laws in the next part. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 05

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory. The second law that we are going to discuss is the Law of Necessity.

## 2 - Law of Necessity

Necessity in philosophy is defined as that except which nothing else can happen, nothing else can be, nothing else can appear. What is that? It can be events, it can be things, it can be any experience, it can be any law. If nothing else is possible, we are left with only one choice, one option, we say that that is necessary.

This meaning is slightly different from our everyday meaning, so you should pay attention. If something happened by necessity, in philosophy, it is because nothing else was possible.

So, this is also called the law of efficiency or law of perfection. We say that universal memory is efficient. It is not doing anything which is not necessary. That is the meaning of efficiency. The universal memory, there is only one, never does anything which is not needed, which is not necessary, which is optional. Only one thing happens if it must happen; nothing else happens.

This is also called perfection, because now there is no scope of removing something, altering something, or adding something. That is the definition of perfection. That event which happened, the phenomena which happened, is perfect because you cannot make it better, or you cannot have anything else except that.

How is that possible? Because just now we said there are infinite options, infinite freedom, anything can happen. Now how can we say that only the necessary things happen?

So, it is tricky, but anything can happen and then that anything, when it happens, is always necessary. It's Perfection by default. You cannot have imperfection in the memory.

## Example - Circle

So, probably some examples will help here. Let us say a structure appeared, again we take a circle. Any point on the circle must be at the same distance from the center, otherwise there is no circle. So if there is a circle, it is necessary that the points cannot be at any other distance. No other option is there. Although any shape can appear in this existence, infinite memory, they will be bound by their own necessities. But here in the case of a circle, it is necessary for the points to be the same distance.

Is the circle perfect? Yes, because you cannot make it perfect by adding or removing anything in the circle. You cannot say, "Let me add this line here, and it will become a perfect circle." No, it won't remain a circle. It is perfect. You cannot say, "Let me remove something, some part of the circle. It will become a beautiful circle, a perfect circle." No, you cannot. It is already perfect. The law is perfect. Cannot change it now. There is no error there. There is no scope of improvement there.

Is it efficient? Yes. To form that circle, whatever minimal was needed was already done. You draw the circle, it is done. You don't need to work on the circle for one more year to make it perfect. Efficiency: do it once, done.

So, any structure that appears in the memory is because of necessity, nothing else can happen regarding that structure, and it is done efficiently, it is always perfect.

Now that contradicts our observation, direct experience, that everything is changing. If it was necessary, if it was perfect, why is it changing? Very serious objection.

So, the answer is very simple: that change is necessary, that change is happening perfectly, that change is happening efficiently. Do not restrict yourself with a static memory, static structure. Do not think in a limited way. Yes, these examples and metaphors, they can limit your intelligence a little bit, limit your thinking, but you can again take example of something which is in motion, which is changing. And you will again find the laws of necessity and efficiency and perfection.

## Example - River

So, we'll take an example of something which is changing and moving, flowing. A very beautiful example is a river. The law of the river says water goes in a downward direction. No other law there. Water, if it is left somewhere, it will flow in a downward direction. It will minimize the potential energy, in terms of science. That's all. Science will say it is necessary because gravity is pulling. Actually, nothing is pulling it. These are all imaginary concepts. This is the law.

But it changes, it flows, but whenever it flows, it flows only downwards. It will never flow upwards. Sometimes it stops somewhere, but that means that depression is filling up. It looks like the water is rising up. It is not an exception to the rule. It is still flowing down. When it overflows, again flow starts.

The direction the river takes towards the sea is not arbitrary. The river does not have options, and it is flowing in the most efficient way. The river will never say, "I'll go uphill for one kilometer just for a change, and then I'll go down." The river never says like this. It is so efficient that even one drop of the river will not flow against the law. Always finds the shortest route to the lower point, and again and again and again. This is what makes it flow.

Is the river perfect? Now, perfection is defined by the landscape. You can always see that the river is like a snake. It is snaking through the valleys and it's never straight. You can say, "Look at this map. I can draw a point from here to the sea, shortest distance, done, perfect. That is more efficient. That was necessary. The river could have done that." But when you're looking at the map, which is flat, you are ignoring the landscape. The landscape is not flat. So, given that landscape, it was only necessary to follow all those points, or the path of the river was already fixed. It follows the landscape with perfection. You cannot do any changes, given the landscape. Yes, if you change the landscape, yes, new order arises, new perfection is seen. If you change the landscape, the river will not say, "Oh, the first path was perfect. I should not change." But no, now it adapts to the new landscape perfectly.

So, hopefully that gives you some idea of the law of necessity, efficiency, and perfection. Some people break it down into three laws, it's perfectly okay. If you can understand it by breaking it down in three ways, it's okay. In my view, this is only one law. Necessity is perfection. Efficiency is also perfection. Perfection is necessary. Perfection is efficient. Think about it.

## Example - Human Being

So, now we move to the very important point: Is my life perfect? Nobody wants to know about the circles and rivers. Okay, they are perfect. Look at me, it's not perfect. Well, we have a good and bad news, as usual, paradoxical.

Your life is perfect. It is the same life which was most necessary. It is a highly efficient life. Whatever you are, whatever you do as a human being, forget the experiencer, it does nothing. Experiencer is useless here. You are a human right now, so let's assume that.

Why is my life imperfect? I can see all the imperfections. How can you say it is perfect? I can see inefficiency, waste of all kinds in all the lives of everybody. I can see people doing unnecessary things: crimes, and violence, bad habits, and so on. How is that perfect? Even though I'm not perfect. This is the objection.

Now, I don't know what kind of fantasy you have about perfection, but this life cannot be anything else given the memory. Which memory? Not the memory where you store phone numbers and names and the garbage of your school. No. The memory which is behind this human form. Some people call it the causal memory, higher memory, higher self, there are many names. Probably we can discuss it somewhere else.

So, given the impressions that were in the memory, and the outcome of it is happening due to necessity, nothing else can happen.

Now you need very deep contemplation. What is in my memory? What is happening? But that still does not answer the question of imperfection. The imperfection that you perceive in your life or other lives is also perfect. It is imperfection from your imaginary idea of perfection. It is imperfection when compared to your own imaginary idea of perfection.

It is not wrong to have an imaginary idea of perfection. It is not wrong. That is also perfect. But the imperfection is simply a comparison between your thought and what is happening. Comparison of thought and perception.

The intellect says, "No, it is not matching my ideal thought, so it is labeled as imperfection." This whole event of comparison, not matching, and saying this intellectual conclusion is perfect. Nothing else could have happened.

So, there are layers of imperfection on the perfection, and there is the final layer of perfection again. Finally, it sorts out.

## Example - Habits

So, let us take an example of overeating. Most people will understand this example. Usually people understand the examples related to eating, money, partners, and so on. They do not like other examples.

So, overeating is seen in a person and everybody, including that person, concludes it is not perfect, it is not efficient, it is not necessary also. The body survives in half the food that you are eating. Now the body is sick, ugly, slow, and has low intelligence. So, how can you say that this structure in the memory is perfect? How can you say that?

Well, nobody should say that, it's not practical. But if you take a look at the memory deeply, there are impressions in the memory that say, "Eat more to get more happiness." Remember the impressions? There are two kinds: knowledge and ignorance. So, there is this knowledge somehow in the memory that appeared: eating more equals more happiness. And you can see that it's not knowledge, it is ignorance. It is causing destruction. It has triggered a destructive process there. That person will not remain with all that happiness. Soon it will be gone because of all that destruction, diseases, and imperfection.

But given this impression there, which must have formed due to some experiences, like the person ate sweet food and instantly the biology said, "Yes, this is the food that you need every day, every hour, every minute." That's the activity of survival. Remember the three activities? Copying, preservation, and destruction. So, preservation activity says, "Look, you need to do this. Eat. Eat the sweet food because sweetness has more nutrition." So, that activity evolved like this, and it is perfect. It is necessary. However, for a time being, the imbalance has happened and now whatever is going on perfectly from the human point of view looks imperfect.

Given this situation, given this impression, the current activity of overeating must happen. It is necessary. It is perfect. But you cannot tell this to that person. That will not be good for that person. So, you change the impression, or the natural consequence because there is imbalance and the impression changes automatically. Why? There is another law which says that there is always balance in the memory. We'll talk about that law later, the Law of Balance.

So, that happens ultimately: overeating causes pain instead of pleasure. It happens, yes, perfectly. This is a law. And all the disadvantages become painful over time. A new impression is formed in the memory that overeating is not good now. Balanced eating, not even not eating less, you need to eat a balanced diet. This is knowledge. No more ignorance. It's not that the preservation activity has stopped. No, it has not stopped. It is not overdoing it. So, a new impression governs the behavior of the organism, body-mind machine. It eats less or eats the optimum amount of food. The body is restored, the body is beautiful, healthy, everybody's happy, perfection. So, this recovery is also perfect. It is also necessary.

And this is the happy ending. But there can be more outcomes there, that the impressions to correct fail to form. Still the Law of Balance will apply. Still the perfection or efficiency will be seen. What will happen? This body-mind, which is somehow acting perfectly, will be perfectly decimated, which means it will be destroyed. Now, nobody will agree that this is perfection. They will say this is death. But it is efficient, you see.

The memory had nothing else to do, no other option. It was necessary to destroy this thing, or you can say it got autodestructed. The destruction was automatic. So, that person, if the second route is taken, will become a dead body. The dead body will be perfectly distributed in the environment as food for other creatures. This is efficiency. That is not kept alive for more waste to happen. This is perfection.

## Example - Machines

Let us take another example of a mechanical watch. The watch is running according to the physical laws. It cannot break any of the physical laws, so it is running perfectly.

Let us say there is a loose spring somewhere, or rusted gears somewhere, and now the watch starts showing the wrong time. It makes a mistake. But has it broken any laws? It is running exactly according to the laws. If the spring is loose, if the tension is not there, yes, it is going to slow down. This is perfect behavior. It is not doing anything more or less than is necessary.

But from a human perspective, the owner of the watch will not like it. The owner will blame the watch company or water that went into the watch, and will say it is a waste of money. The owner will say, "This is an imperfect watch, not perfect." That is simply because the watch is not doing what the human being desires. The imperfection is nothing but undesired outcome. That's all it is.

The watch is not imperfect in any way. Yes, the expectations are not matching the reality, but the law is unbroken.

Another example, a modern example. A programmer makes a mistake in the computer code and leaves a minus sign somewhere. Instead of adding something, he subtracts something. So, the program runs, and let us say it is running for a bank, and the outcome is somebody's account is deducted. Now there is no money in their account. So, everybody is worried. What happened? Many such cases probably. So, everybody blames it on the computer. The computer made a mistake, the computer is the culprit, it is not perfect, not working perfectly. But the situation is that the computer did exactly that which was stored in the memory. It ran the program exactly, perfectly, with full efficiency. The only thing is it was not desired, actually. From the human perspective, that was not expected. So, the blame goes to the computer or sometimes to the programmer.

So, the plus is turned to minus. It is another perfect happening, because probably that time the programmer was totally tired, could not think. Perfect outcome.

Now the mistake is corrected, minus becomes plus, and the same computer does the same calculation perfectly. Everybody's happy. This time also everything happened perfectly, and the happiness because of the desired outcome is also perfect.

So, in the whole event, nothing imperfect happened. Nothing unnecessary actually happened. It was the ignorance of the people that gave that illusion of unwanted things that happened.

So, the example of a computer is actually perfect, because this is how the memory works. Whatever is stored in the memory, exactly that happens, in that exact way, in complete efficiency. So, we say memory is algorithmic or it is computational.

To describe some events in our world, we can actually write a program which will mimic the events. It is so perfect. The memory is so precisely algorithmic, mathematical, and computational that you can use mathematics and a program, algorithm, to describe our experience. That is almost magical. This kind of program will be called a simulation.

And it is used in science, entertainment, and many places. You can simulate the working of a memory. It will help you to understand what can happen. It will help you to predict the outcomes.

The human mind or human intellect can also do some simulations. It creates a model of what is out there, what can happen, then runs it in his or her own memory, and checks what happens. We have this power of predicting, even without knowing exactly what is happening.

Since the memory is timeless, everything that can happen has already happened, and it is already stored there, perfectly. You can call this the higher beauty. The existence is beautiful, perfect, *pūrṇam* or *sundaram*, in Sanskrit.

## Imperfection

There is always perfection in the memory. I know it, these kinds of examples, negative examples, are like a shock to an ordinary person, even to an ordinary seeker. But it is perfection in the eyes of a master, those who have seen in the depths of the memory. It operates like this.

The seemingly imperfect - is human point of view. It's a bias in humans. And the seeming correction is simply another perfect event, another action of efficiency or necessity that is happening.

So, there is a saying, "Everything that happens, happens for the good." Yes, it's all good. If something bad is happening, also good, because nothing else was possible given the circumstances.

Your idea of perfection is also perfect, nothing wrong. Don't think that because everything is perfect, I should not do anything to make it more perfect. No, you can do it. Make it more efficient. That process is also perfect. That idea coming in your mind, thought in your mind, your desire to improve is perfect. Any event that will happen after this is perfect, good or bad. Any outcome that comes out of your action of improvements is perfect.

So, take a whole view, aerial view, instead of a narrow, limited view, then you will see the law of necessity is manifested.

## Rising Above Necessity

Now, final analysis: How to overpower the law of necessity? No, you cannot.

Law of the laws says you cannot destroy the laws, you cannot break the laws. So, it will always be necessary, whatever you do. So, how to rise above the law? Yes, that is possible. How to make yourself so perfect that you are not bothered by the imperfections? That is possible. And the trick to do that is to give up the unnecessary.

Very easy, you see? When somebody's there to tell you the answer, the answer seems very easy. Otherwise, you'll keep searching for the answer your whole life. So, masters have done that. They are teaching it. Without masters, we are nobody.

So, what are they doing? Minimizing. If they see that something is happening more than necessary, they reduce it. If they see that something is happening inefficiently, they make it efficient. That is the quality of a master. You can become a master of this law.

You cannot overcome the law of necessity by breaking it, by doing something which is unnecessary, by doing something which is inefficient and imperfect and not beautiful. No, that is not called overpowering. You can overpower this law by aligning with the necessity.

Go ahead and do something which is really necessary, so that you can bypass this seemingly unnecessary event, sometimes that happens in our lives.

A good example is you got into a fight with somebody. It is perfect, given the anger in people and so on, you see. It's all natural. Only that must happen. But a master can see that there is a shorter way, there is an efficient way. That way is called not bothering, careless way, more efficient. Although that fight and whatever events will happen, killing and so on, is completely efficient and perfect from the perspective of the memory, at lower level, lower dimension. But there is a way to rise above it and use the non-caring action.

By the way, it is called forgiving. Nobody likes it. Nobody likes it, so we change the words and we call it worthlessness. Don't do it, it is worthless. Don't call it forgiving. Somebody will brand you a religious person, that's not good in this world. So, we say it is not worth fighting. More efficient is to mind my own business. That is perfect. That is necessary. The fight is unnecessary. So, in this way, you avoided that event by rising above, rising above the ordinary person who will, no matter what, will fight. He will say, "It is necessary to kill this person."

And not only ordinary people, many of those who are ruling you, are also like this. Most of what they do is totally unnecessary, although it is perfect from the point of view of the whole existence. Given the intelligence of these people, they won't be able to do anything more. See, it is perfect.

So, you can improve your actions by avoiding the unnecessary. That is possible simply by rising above the ordinary. Why am I calling it ordinary? Because we cannot call them lowly, nobody's lowly. Everybody is a perfect expression of nature, Mother Nature. So, like a tiger is not a lowly creature because the tiger killed some other animal which was weaker than the tiger. A tiger will never kill somebody who is stronger than a tiger. So, but that is perfect, because nothing else can happen. Tiger needs to eat. Tigers can kill only weaker, slower animals. What is wrong? So, we cannot call that tiger a lowly tiger. We call that tiger a perfect tiger, but an ordinary tiger.

So, what is a more efficient tiger? Vegetarian tiger? No, I'm just joking. Sometimes these creatures, ordinary people, ordinary creatures, have no other option. Why? They're not so evolved. But a master has an option. Why? Only a master can overcome the laws or can rise above the laws. Master is more evolved.

So, I'm giving you a shortcut now to rise above the law of necessity: evolve yourself. Rise above, ascend.

The seeming imperfection will vanish from your life. Will it be all a happy life? Will it be all dance all the way to glory? No. Even the suffering and the pain and whatever will be seen as necessary, as perfect, beautiful, efficient expression of the memory.

They say that pain is necessary, but suffering is optional. Isn't it? So, you will encounter all that up and down in life, but you will not suffer because you have risen above the suffering.

That is possible only by dropping the unnecessary and letting go of the fruits of the action. We'll discuss that more in when we discuss the law of action, karmic law. But for now, by dropping the unnecessary, which you perceive as unnecessary, you have the intelligence now, you know how to rise above, you will do that action. Or that event will happen, because there is nobody to do anything, obviously. That event will happen according to the new situation of minimalism, efficiency.

And whatever is the outcome, you will not suffer it because you will say, "I did my best. I did that which was necessary. Now this is the result, good or bad, we don't mind." There is no burden of the action, or you can say there is no burden of the fruits of the action. "I did whatever was necessary." You will just wave your hands and go away. It's not worth worrying about the result. If it is good, yes, enjoy it. Don't think that I did it. "This is how it happened," you say. You smile again and go away.

And the good also does not stick to you. Good is also a burden. Attachment is always a problem. It is not necessary. So, this is the key. All the events will happen as usual, but the suffering will never touch you.

Breaking of this rule or overpowering the law of necessity does not mean that you do anything unnecessary. No. You do exactly that which is necessary. Sometimes nothing needs to be done: non-doing. Don't assume yourself as the doer, and everything that happens is already perfect.

This is another level of rising up where you stop doing anything at all, or stop taking credit. The doer in you is silenced. The ego never says, "I did it." You say, "It happened, and it's all perfect now." You stop worrying about the law of necessity. When you rise above, you will find a more efficient landscape. You will find a map where you can directly connect the two points in a straight line. It is possible, because you are in a higher dimensional memory now. And if you act like that, it will look like magic to ordinary people. They won't be able to understand. They will think you are a tantrik. But you are actually tantrik, yes. But you know the magic, you know the laws.

When will that happen? When will I become like that? Yes, it takes practice. Practice does not mean repetition. Practice means improvement, perfection, and knowledge. As you practice, you know more. As you know more, you practice better. Practice changes. Practice is not repetition, mindless repetition. It is not. And you rise so high that all that you do is nothing but necessity.

So, we'll stop here today and we'll continue with other laws in the next part. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 06

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of the Memory. We'll continue our discussion on the third law: the Law of Unknowability.

## The Law of Unknowability

As the name shows, the law says that everything is fundamentally unknowable. And everything comes, everything: the existence, the memory, the structures in the memory, the patterns, all of our experience, and also the experiencer. We'll never know what these things are.

We discussed this thing previously, in brief. There is a reason we started with imagination, theory, and hypothesis. We can only imagine what is; knowledge of what is, is impossible.

So, we'll try to find evidence, check if this law is really true or not. Before that, we need to know: what is the meaning of knowing? What is knowledge? How to know something? So, we have already defined knowledge as impressions in the memory, some information that is stored in the memory.

## Knowledge and Experience

But this information, the impressions which we gather from our experiences coming from the limited senses, is not random. It has a structure. So, a logical structure in memory is called knowledge.

Knowledge is different from experience because experience is fundamental. It simply is; it happens. Unless and until whatever is, is limited and perceived through the senses and is impressed on the memory, nothing is known.

What we actually perceive is actually something which is already stored in the memory. Right now, we are not looking at a world out there. We are looking at the contents of our memory.

The experiences are neatly stored. Neatly means logically, rationally, meaningfully. It is information; it is not random impressions. This is all done by processes in the memory, the mind. It continuously finds meaningful patterns, especially those that are needed for survival, and meaningfully arranges these patterns as information in the memory. This is called knowledge activity.

Knowledge can be updated, removed, deleted, forgotten. The experience continues to happen. So, you can see the difference between experience and knowledge here.

A dog or a cat is also having an experience of your house, probably somewhat different, but still. But their knowledge is completely different from your knowledge. When you look at a book, you immediately recall what it is, what is its use, what is its function. But for a dog, it is just something which can be chewed and torn. For a cat, it is simply a seat to sit on. The knowledge depends on what impressions these experiences leave on the memory.

If they are logical, meaningful, helpful in survival, we call it knowledge. If they are illogical, wrong, and result in some kind of harm, destruction, we call the same impressions ignorance.

The key is logical arrangement, relations between different experiences, or connections between different patterns in the memory. These connections hold the meaning. So, for example, they connect the objects with the qualities, or objects with the use, people with the relations, and so on.

So, now you know what knowledge is, where it is. But anybody will say, that means we can know many things. There is memory, there is experience, there is knowledge activity which is arranging the knowledge with connections among experiences. It is exactly opposite of the law. So, let us examine.

## The Illusion of Knowledge

Recall the definition of truth. That which is changing is not true. So, the experiences keep changing, knowledge keeps changing, it can be logical, illogical, anything, and therefore, the whole knowledge is false.

Secondly, that which is impressed on the memory is a filtered and transformed version of the actual vibration patterns in the universal memory. So, the knowledge is that which was already transformed and processed by sensesreduced, limited, filtered, formatted. We know that. And obviously, nobody will say that is the final truth. No, that is far from the truth. It is all generated on the spot. The knowledge is a fabrication.

There is no doubt that it is useful, otherwise there won't be any activity which generates knowledge. It is useful for survival, but it does not give us the truth. Why is that? There is no hope of knowing anything because of all these issues that I mentioned.

Somebody will say, "But there is something on the other side of the windows of the senses. Outside the window, there is a real world. What are these senses sensing otherwise?"

So, I have bad news there also. Outside is pure potential. It is a sea of potential non-physical, non-mental vibrations, no world. Nothing to see, no knowledge.

"So, do you mean all of my life is totally a lie?" Yes, that's what everybody means by this.

"No, I want to know the truth."

No, you cannot. There is no truth.

Recall the first episode when I said all these things. Many people must have laughed very loudly: "Look, he is telling - there is no truth. Look, he's telling it is all empty. The whole existence is empty, there is nothing. And now he's telling - nothing to know, plus you cannot know anything."

This is the trick of the illusion. The illusion is keeping you in a fabricated world, false world, Maya. And you believe it so much that the truth looks like a lie. Isn't that amazing? Magic!

Find out for yourself. What can you know? What are you knowing? Are you aware of my words? Are you listening to my words? They are also false. You are not knowing anything new through these words. You are clearing whatever was already deposited, the dirt of knowledge in your memory. That's all that is happening. Nothing new is going in there. So, the knowledge is a clean up.

The real knowledge is actually negative. It cleans up. Those who are on the path of knowledge, they know everything. They know all these things very clearly. It is unbelievable, but yes, reality is stranger than fiction.

First, whatever we want to know is already changing, so their names and forms are not true. Second, it is coming through the senses. The senses lie all the time. They never tell the truth. Third, that of which the knowledge is, is empty. So, let's invoke the Law of Emptiness, by the way.

## Emptiness and Unknowability

Cannot know the empty. Why? Simply because there is nothing to know in emptiness. You open an empty box and ask a question: "What is in there?"

And the answer is: "It is empty."

"No, no, I want to know what is in there."

"No, there is nothing to know because there is nothing."

"I want to know what is this empty."

"No, you cannot know."

If there were something, I could have told you something, I could have shown you. It's nothing. Pure potential and all that is just our imagination, daydream. What are you trying to know?

"So, I am there?"

Yes, you are there. That also cannot be known because that which you are, really, known as the experiencer, is not even an experience. It is the screen. The screen will not become a picture on itself. Impossible. If the senses cannot detect it, there is no chance of printing any impression, imprint. So, that will never be known - the experiencer. That is what you are.

So, in the existence, there are only two categories: experience and the experiencer. Both are unknowable because both are empty. So, the whole of the existence is unknowable. Here is the proof.

So, it is not that there is no knowledge. It is there. All of it is false, and all of it is imaginary. The whole of your knowledge is only imagination. That's how we started, actually. So, it is not useless. The only mistake you can make is think of knowledge as something true, absolutely present, absolutely there, unchanging. No. It is pure imagination.

So, in the end, knowledge is ignorance. No amount of knowledge can be called knowledge, it is all ignorance: small knowledge, half knowledge, 1% knowledge, bookish knowledge, intellectual knowledge, direct knowledgeall of that is simply ignorance. Some of that ignorance is useful, and we assume that it is knowledge. We assume that it is true, and we keep going, we keep living this false life. No issues at all. I don't have any issues.

Just know what it is, which you will never be able to know. So, know only this much that, "I don't know." I know only this much that, "I don't know." This is called agnosticism.

## Contradictions and Infinite Knowledge

Still we have knowledge, so let us ignore that for a while, the absolute things. How much knowledge is possible? Now, the answer should be very simple, very easy. There is infinite potential. There can be an infinite amount of patterns. There can be infinite memory because it's all virtual, no limit. Infinite senses, infinite time, and so on. So, infinite knowledge is possible. Why? Because it is made up on the spot. You can make up anything. You can create any amount of knowledge. Or, in other words, accurately, infinite knowledge is possible. It can happen.

What is the implication of that? The knowledge that tomato is red is possible, and equal chances are the knowledge that the tomato is black, that knowledge is also possible, because an infinite amount is possible. So, about the same subject, same topic, same object, you can know an infinite amount. So, obviously there will be contradictions. Even one sentence will not agree with the other sentence.

One moment you are saying, "Tomatoes are red, this is my knowledge." The next moment you will say, "The tomato is black. This is my knowledge." All you need to do is turn off the light and turn on a blue light. Instead of white light, look at the tomato in blue light. The whole of the blue light is absorbed, and the tomato looks black.

Which of this knowledge is correct? What is the truth? And infinite knowledge means you will never find the truth. There will always be something opposite or contradictory or meaningless statements can be made. So, there goes our science out of the window. [laughter]

So, that is why masters don't give so much importance to knowledge or truth. They find that purity is more important to be pure, to be clear of knowledge, ignorance, and any other concept. At least a master knows that there is nothing to know, holds a little bit of knowledge that is useful, and says that any knowledge is possible, anything can appear. Instead of becoming hard-headed about, "What do I know? I know everything. You don't know anything. These people are stupid."

So, to run our lives and to have good things in our lives, a comfortable life, we drop down in ignorance. No problem at all, because anyway you are going to get ignorance. So, we ignore this level where nothing is known. We go down somewhere where something is known. For example, the laws, the memory, the patterns, the layers. This is knowledge. So, we know that this is all imaginary, it is made up, anything can appear, but we assume that this is true. You can call it a lower level of knowledge.

And sometimes we even drop down that we declare all the tomatoes as red. We ignore that they can appear as any color. The color itself is an illusion, imagination. So is a tomato. But still the tomato is somewhat useful, we can eat it. So, we assume it as true. Ignore the ignorance. So, this is multi-level knowledge. That which is practical is known, is stamped as knowledge, it is taken as truth, and we use it.

## Levels of Knowledge

There are many levels of knowledge. For example, you are watching a movie and one actor kills another actor in the movie. What is the truth of the movie at the level of the movie? Yes, this person number one kills person number two. However, outside the movie, in your room, nobody killed anybody. It never happened. So, that lower level truth is now false here.

Suddenly you wake up in your bed. "Oh, that was a dream! I was watching a movie." You are now at a higher level. Now, the dream itself is false where you were sitting in the room watching that movie. That reminds everybody of Inception, the movie. Anyway, so on. Once you reach the highest, there is no knowledge, there's nothing to know. But all these levels are of some importance, some or the other.

And you must have guessed the sub-law, sub-rule: that something which is true at the lower level of knowledge is false at the higher level. Something which is true at the higher level remains true at the lower level.

So, you were sleeping in the bed and that was true in the context of the dream also. And you were watching the movie in a room, that was true in the context of the movie also, where the pictures were appearing on the screen. But as soon as you go to the higher level, everything probably in the lower level becomes false. Except you can say that there was a dream, and in the dream you can say, "I was watching a movie." That kind of relative truth can be there.

So, how do we decide what is knowledge, what is ignorance, what is true, what is false? We look at the usefulness of it. We look at the usefulness of our imagination. That's all we have. You don't have anything else except imagination. So, if it is useful, we say it is true.

## Power of Knowledge

This much knowledge is a lot of power, because now you can make use of any imagination. Many people are surprised by this, many people are alerted, because this same thing is told in Tantra Bodhi, our Tantra Bodhi program: how to utilize your imagination to use it, because it is all false and the whole life is false. You can create any kind of falseness.

The truth cannot be created, the truth will never change, that is the definition. So, the good news is, even though everything is false, the whole life and whole of the experience it does not matter life or death or whatever is false, but the good part is, you can change it to make it anything, because it is false. If you are dreaming, if you have the ability, you can change the dream to see anything you want, do anything you want. This is the power.

And if you are shooting a movie, you are creating a movie, you can imagine any story, any any characters, any action there. So, we are creators. It does not matter if we know anything or not. What can we do with this power of creation? That is probably more important for any seeker, for human beings.

So, the bottom line is there is nothing to know here. Still, we are happy with that situation because that opens up the possibility to know anything. Knowing is being, for a human being. What are we? That which we know. If you don't know anything, you are nobody. There is nothing, just vegetables. So, the whole personality, the person, individual, is created as a structure of knowledge. Ultimately it is false, ultimately an illusion. But we don't care, because you will never find anything which is true. There is no truth.

## Rising Above Unknowability

So, how to overpower the Law of Unknowability? How to destroy it and know something? It is impossible! So, we rise above the Law of Unknowability by defining what is useful for us. That is the first thing. And know that, know that certainly, thoroughly. Don't worry about agnosticism and so on, philosophies. They are also imagination. Utilize that knowledge. Utilize that knowledge to get your goals, to reach your goals.

So, a master, fully knowing that anything can appear anytime, anything can disappear also, fully knowing that nothing can be known, utilizes the ability to know and reaches his or her goals, achieves something worthwhile. Still not clinging to the goals, not becoming proud of their knowledge, because they know there's nothing to know, I don't know anything. So, that arrogance never comes in a master, that, "I am a wise man." No wise man will say, "I am wise." Only a stupid says that, "I am wise." Only a very stupid person says, "I know everything. Don't tell me, don't teach me." These are symptoms of less intelligent people.

So, a master is untouched by knowledge, ignorance, and self-praise, megalomania, narcissism, whatever you want to call it. And so, the master attains a level of purity which is not seen in ordinary people.

So, that is a practical suggestion. There is a tantric suggestion now, occult: that if nobody knows about what you're doing, you can create anything you want, provided nobody should know about it. Secrecy! If you maintain secrecy, you can create a world of your own that will be as real, as true as this world, or any world that you can imagine.

Because knowledge creates these illusions, knowledge is simply impressions on the memory. What is stopping you from creating any kind of impression on the memory? Nothing! Nothing except your own ignorance: your ignorance that the world is true; "I am this human being; nothing can be changed; I know everything." This ignorance is stopping you. Otherwise, a master is a master creator, an artist who can create anything.

This existence is our playground. The play is happening automatically, nobody is doing it. So, you can jump into the play. See that you are not only the actor, you are also the director. You are the producer-director of this movie of magical experiences, imaginary experiences.

So, you can rise above unknowability by taking advantage of unknowability. Your intention is the key. You can use unknowability as a platform to jump above it. If there are waves in the sea, you don't say that these waves are going to drown me. You say that, "I'll utilize this wave and I'll ride this wave." That's all a master does. The master is not trying to break the laws, it is impossible. The master is riding the waves.

In the unknowability, we add more unknowability. We add a lot of spice in that. You can do anything you want with it now. You are the master of your own universe.

So, contemplate more on unknowability, and we'll continue the series next time with the next law. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 07

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of the Memory.

The fourth law is: Law of Deniability. Which means each and every event that happens in the memory is completely deniable. Which means we cannot confirm whether it really happened. Anybody can deny that this happened. We cannot confirm that something is present or absent, whether it is an object, person, speech, thought, anything non-physical, metaphysical, paranormal, normal. Any event, any phenomena can be completely denied. Anybody can say that this is not present, this never happened.

This is also called the Law of Repudiation or the Law of Uncertainty, which means nothing can be certainly said about the contents of the memory, activities of the memory, anything that appears in the memory. And that also means it is completely falsifiable. You can falsify anything you want, including your own existence.

## Exceptions to the Law

There are a few things that are exceptions, but they are exceptions simply because they are not the memory. The first is the whole existence itself, which is pure potential. So that cannot be denied, that there is existence. You cannot deny it. And second is the experiencer, which is the witnessing ability, seer. It is certain that it is there. Otherwise, where will this law of deniability operate if there is no existence? And who will witness it to show that there is such a law? So the law of deniability applies to that which is manifested. This is important to note: memory that is manifested.

## The Psi Uncertainty Principle

This is also called the Psi Uncertainty Principle. This is a word coined by the famous scientist, mystic and occultist, my guru, Tom Campbell, which is a specific case of the law of deniability. This principle says that the psi phenomena or the paranormal cannot be confirmed. You will never obtain evidence of something which is completely subjective and paranormal. There can be agreement about such events, but there won't be any proof of it. Only the objective things can be proven to each other. And anything which is subjective, whether it is normal, paranormal, abnormal, does not matter, only you are the witness of it. Witness here means like a witness in the court of law. Only you can confirm or deny, nobody else.

Sometimes, these events can leave some traces. They can leave some evidence behind. But somebody can always come up with some alternative explanation. This happens probably every day in the lives of even ordinary people. But this is almost like a law for any seeker. This must be your own story sometimes. Some seeker says, "I saw some non-physical being." Somebody says, "I saw a dead person." And obviously, it can be denied. It is not certain. It can be falsified. First, nobody believes that person because it is a purely subjective matter. Because it does not repeat continuously most of the time, it is erased from the memory. The memory becomes faint, then gets distorted. Then the person convinces themselves that "I'm going crazy. I'm hallucinating. I'm daydreaming. This is my fear," and so on. It is rationalized out of existence. After a few days, a few months, it is as if nothing had happened. It's gone. Nobody saw it.

Like a dream. You are the only witness of your dreams. Once you wake up, you can deny them: "It was just a dream, nothing happened." And in 10 minutes, all traces of it are gone, wiped out, most of the time. These are examples. This is our local memory, and so it is very easy to see that, yes, you can deny it, nothing is certain, falsifiable. It is probably very clear to you that, yes, the dream never happened, as the dead person probably was a hallucination, creation of my mind. That much any intelligent person accepts. What is difficult to accept is that the so-called physical world is also deniable. You can never be certain of what happens here.

## Stability versus Deniability in the Physical World

And many people will not agree. And that is because the physical world is manifested out of a memory which is more stable than a human memory, a local memory. It is so stable that the events leave a mark, an impression that lasts for a long time, much longer. Sometimes hours, minutes, sometimes days, months, years, sometimes million years. Some of the events are very stable here. So, for example, geologists, paleontologists, they will say, "This and this event happened. Some volcano erupted, some meteor fell here," because, yes, the traces are still there, "and this creature lived here 100 million years ago, because the bones are still there as rocks." And what about other events that happened? No trace. Nobody can say what happened.

The more complicated that event is, the less certain it becomes. For example, volcanoes and bones, they are not that complicated. Stone pillars and ancient buildings are somewhat complicated, but not much. They stay. You cannot deny it. But human activities, activities of other creatures, villages, towns, they disappear quickly. Probably nobody remains there to say what happened. Same for the whole countries, civilizations. They all disappear. Nothing can be said.

Some people will say, "Look, this is written in the history book, government-approved history book." [laughs] "And that happened. This country attacked me 3,000 years ago, or my country, and now I need to hate these people and kill them. The government told me through the history book." That's all that can be known. You can point to some book or somebody else to find out what happened, but you don't really know what happened. And the books change when the government or the ruling people change, and it is denied, something else happened now, which is more aligned with the agenda of the ruling party.

Everything can be denied that happened in the distant past. Those things which look solid and cannot be denied, they will become deniable later on after some time passes, a lot of time. The illusion of certainty is produced by apparent stability of the memory. Otherwise, nothing is there. Even the present happenings, near future, near past can be denied. This happens every day, probably. A person does something, some mistakes, and once found out, he says, "No, I never did this." "No, look, this is the evidence." Somebody will come and say, "No, this happened because of that other person," and so on. This is our everyday event.

Why? Because that activity of the person is so unstable and short-lived, and so complex, probably, that the evidence that is left, they also evaporate. Any story can be cooked up. And even more transient events are speech. Somebody says something, and next day they say, "No, I never said this." Or the- they spin it up into something else: "What I meant was not that, but this." This is called repudiation. It is a big problem in the court of law. So that's why people make each other sign on papers, take thumb impressions and all, so that they cannot deny what they said. Somebody promises something: "I'll do this, I'll do that. Marry me." After some days, some months, some years, gone. "Oh, but you said that! You promised." "No, I never said that. I don't remember."

And thoughts and emotions and feelings, and our imaginations, desires, they are even more fleeting. You, yourself won't be able to talk about them certainly. You don't know what you were thinking about just a few minutes ago. Nobody will be able to tell what the thought was. They are so unstable.

So the logic says only the speed of change causes certainty. If it is changing slowly, for some time, you can be certain about it. If it is changing quickly, nobody can know what is happening. Nobody knows. Sometimes some phenomena are so fast that they are not detectable by the senses, and so they don't exist. They are so fast. Some phenomena can be detected by instruments, and they leave a trace in the instrument. But some are beyond the capability of the instrument. The instruments have a range.

So infinite things are happening. Some are caught for a while. Some are known for some time, and they disappear. Their knowledge also disappears. This is amazing. Everything can be denied given sufficient time, speed of the change. Logic says that since everything is changing and there is no time, nothing actually happened. So, obviously, [laughs] nothing can be certain. Everything can be falsified because it never happens, actually, in reality. The memory gives us an illusion that something is happening. Speed it up, nothing. If it is not impressed on anything, gone. It's completely deniable. If it is witnessed by many, there is some certainty that it happens, but it's gone as soon as those people are gone, because these people are also temporary.

## Consequence of Unknowability

Why is this law seen? Because it is a consequence of unknowability. The law of unknowability says nothing can be known. So the consequence is even if something is known, it is erased. The knowledge also is impermanent. Unknowability itself is a consequence of the law of emptiness, as we saw. You cannot know anything, why? Because it's all empty. The memory is empty. So, like this, the laws do not contradict each other. Actually, one supports the other, and they follow from each other.

The problem with deniability is that it makes our life somewhat complicated. Anybody can do anything. Anybody can put up any kind of fake story, any kind of mask, fake personality, and that can be denied. You cannot be certain of anything in this world. Either this can happen, that can happen, so on. That makes survival difficult, and that needs to be overcome by a lot of intelligence. Because if there is more certainty, less intelligent creatures can survive. But if there is uncertainty, anything can happen, it takes a lot more intelligence to deal with such situations.

That puts a big question mark on the matter of evidence. What is undeniable evidence? There are certain things that were considered undeniable. For example, mathematics. But then it was shown that you can deny the laws of mathematics also. I think it is by Gödel or other very talented mathematicians. Some theorems and conclusions of mathematics are valid in a narrow area only. It's all relative truth, as we said before. So the greatest mathematical law comes up, everybody's happy. After 50 or 100 years, somebody proves it wrong, or finds an exception to the law. But everybody is happy again because that means progress happened. Same with physical sciences and the other sciences, for example, mental sciences, psychology, or social sciences. They are in a bad condition because of the immense amount of uncertainty. You write a book on something, social sciences, behavior, and so on, it becomes outdated in 10 to 20 years.

So, anyway, we are not concerned with what happens out there. We are concerned with what happens to me. Am I really present? And the answer is no. It is totally possible to deny that I am here. We saw this many times now in our previous episodes. The individual is falsifiable. There is no individual. "No, but there is something: body, mind, and all." They are all illusions. "No, but there is an illusion." It is unknowable. You cannot say anything about it certainly.

So a seeker is left with nothing in the end, empty-handed. There is no place to stand because of the law of deniability. "What is certain?" anybody will ask. So my own essence is certain, which is existence itself. However, this kind of certainty is completely useless in everyday life. Only the illusion is useful in the illusion. But what to do when everything can be denied? Yes, this is a practical question.

## Rising Above Deniability: The First Way

Don't try to find something which is certain in the illusion. You will never be able to find it. You will never be able to prove it. And not to others, obviously, but you won't be able to prove it to yourself. "This thing certainly exists." It is not possible to say like this because of this law. So again, we take that which is useful.

This is the way to rise above the law of deniability. You cannot break it. You can only rise above it. There are two ways to rise above the law of deniability.

The first way is to accept that nothing is certain. That will increase your intelligence a hundred times. Be ready for any kind of event. Don't get convinced that, "Look, this world is going to stay forever. I'm going to live forever. I'm here now, it is perfectly certain." No. Mentally prepare yourself for any kind of change. Everything disappears. Know this.

Instead of fighting this law and trying to find certainty, try to live with uncertainty. Anything can happen. And most of the time, seemingly random things happen which are not in our control. We cannot control them, and they leave no trace after some time. So fortunately, it is not completely unpredictable. You can work with uncertainty. Be ready that something can happen which can be denied, which can be repudiated, and you won't be able to do anything. Most of the events do not happen according to our wishes, and they do not last. This brings a lot of peace of mind, acceptance. Plus, it makes you calm and quiet, and wise. Intelligence increases. You do only that which is completely necessary, totally necessary, as we saw before, Law of Necessity. And let the law of deniability do whatever it wants to do. That brings peace of mind. Uncertainty is the law. Accept this. Somebody said, "Relax, nobody is in control. Nothing is in our control." Yes, the one who thinks "I'm controlling" itself is uncontrollable. There is nobody like this. That is a phantom image of somebody trying to control, to find certainty.

This becomes a big problem when you venture into the area of spirituality. Now, everything is deniable here. Are you enlightened? Nobody can prove it. Do you have powers? Nobody can prove it. Why do these scientists struggle with experiments of the spiritual kind, paranormal kind? Nobody accepts their findings. Everybody laughs at them. Why? It's called pseudo-science. It is completely deniable. The more complicated and less physical things become, the more difficult it becomes to prove anything. It's very easy to falsify all these things.

So if you are in spirituality, make it your habit that nobody will believe you, and that is not also necessary. It's not necessary that everybody should believe you, everybody should say yes to whatever you say, even though you think it is the highest possible knowledge in the universe. The path of knowledge is telling you the truth. Ah, nobody will believe it. And they will find out arguments, evidences against whatever you say, because they live in their own deniable worlds. They are living in their own false construct. So not only is it impossible to prove your point in spirituality, it is actually stupidity. Don't try. Don't even try. It's not possible.

Even if you find one or two people who are just as crazy as you, they will agree for a few minutes, sometimes few days or few years, and they diverge into their own la-la land of spirituality: "No, I have evolved from that thing that you told me. I'm doing this meditation by this famous guru of the Himalayas." And after a few months, you will see them doing something else and saying something else entirely. And if you ask them, "What happened to your previous truth?" and they will deny it: "No, I never said that was true." So spirituality is an even more unstable field.

Don't waste your time. That will bring you peace, plus you can progress faster, because you are not wasting time running after something which is certain, not falsifiable, 100% evident. No, it is from your own limited perspective. Nobody else even knows about all these things. They never heard about it, they will never hear about it. The deniability is so strong. And this life is fleeting, momentary. All that you collected as knowledge and abilities, and whatever, goes down the drain of death. It's all lost. So that will bring some peace and equanimity, and you will rise above the deniability in a sense that it will not trouble you too much.

## Rising Above Deniability: The Second Way

The second way to rise above deniability is to join forces with it. If you cannot beat it, join it. Become friends. What else can you do?

So a master, a tantric, uses deniability in his or her favor. You can take advantage of deniability. If you do your practice in complete secrecy, the practices will bring fruits, because the illusion likes to be denied. So if you're doing it in public, everybody is seeing it, you're trying to produce evidence to please each and everybody and their dogs, the illusion or Maya does not like it. She will do everything possible to cause failure in this project. First of all, it is not necessary. You want your desires fulfilled, you don't want to prove anything to anybody. Secondly, this law is getting broken, the Law of Deniability, so the law will do everything to enforce itself. Very strange events can happen. I've seen this myself. If you try to break the laws, they restore themselves sometimes very violently, urgently, and strange events happen. So you don't want that kind of trouble.

Do your practices in complete secrecy. And whatever you do, deny it. Flow with the law. Go with the law. Do not oppose it. That is the same as rising above the law. Like a sailor is not fighting with the wind. The sailor simply orients the sail in the proper direction, and the wind carries the boat. He does nothing. He relaxes on the boat. The same way, a master uses the Law of Deniability to become even more powerful.

If it can be denied, everything can happen. This is the law. Or this is the secret, you can say. If you can deny it, you can do anything. If it is so personal and so private that only you know what is happening, only you see it, then there is infinite possibility that opens up. There you almost bypass this law. Sometimes some very stable creations can be made if you can leave a route of escape for the Law of Deniability. When a back door is left open, so that you can collapse everything into nothingness anytime, then the illusion will allow you to do anything. If you publicize it, if you announce it to everybody, if you make very bold claims, the Law of Deniability will destroy it completely.

So the first rule of tantra is that everything should be secret. It is called occult for this deeper reason. Occult means occluded, hidden. If it is not hidden properly, the magic never works. So you will find practitioners doing their practices in complete darkness, nothing but a candle, far away from villages and towns, deep caves where nobody can reach, or they completely withdraw from the physical world. Once they get the power to go out of the physical world, they do not do anything here. No intelligent practitioner will do any kind of practices in the physical world. They respect the laws here. They know even if I produce any evidence, the evidence will work against me. That's what will happen.

You can check the history, if you believe it, that people who did magical work were burned alive. You can blame the Law of Deniability for this, not the people. Anybody who did witchcraft and all, they were either feared, their image was negative, or they were killed. So everything went underground, or you can say, above, not under, above the physical, beyond the physical.

So in your own world, in your own universe, you are free to do anything you want. However, there also nothing will remain certain for long, but all your desires will be fulfilled. If you flow with the flow of laws, this cosmic flow of illusion, if you don't oppose it, will give you everything. All desires are fulfilled.

That does not mean you own everything or everything will remain with you forever. No. Ownership is something different from desire fulfillment. So a very intelligent tantric does not want to own anything, simply wants to get whatever they want, and then leave it. Because once the desire is fulfilled, there is no use of what you own. It eventually becomes a burden. After the fulfillment of desire, that object of desire becomes a burden. You cannot live with it. So the tantric knows this and moves on, flows, progresses, never stands still, never gets attached to the accumulations or you can say the gifts of the Maya, Devi, illusion. You do not possess anything.

And when somebody says, "You did this, you know this, you have the power," absolutely deny it. Do not let your secrets go out. Absolutely lie about it. Falsify, make it false immediately: "I never did this, I don't know anything, I have no knowledge, I have no powers." Otherwise, the Law of Deniability will come back and attack you. Your life will become very difficult. Lying is permitted. Masking, hiding, permitted. Even you can assume a terrifying appearance so that nobody tries to spy on you, and there are many more ways about which I'm not allowed to talk here in public. How to use the Law of Deniability for your own advantage, a whole book can be written about it. But know only this much that this is the key. Repudiation is the key. Use this key and you will progress. This is the second way to rise above the Law of Deniability.

## Summary

So in short, in summary: don't worry if nothing gets proven, if everything comes out to be true or false and a mixture of true and false. Truth becomes false, false becomes truth in this world, in your life, in this dream that you are living. If everything is uncertain, anything happens, nothing happens according to your wish, relax. Nobody is in control.

Secondly, rise above the Law of Deniability: use it, relax, peace of mind, accept. And if you set your sail correctly, this law will take you to the higher orders of the illusion. You will rise in the hierarchy because you know how to work. You know how to walk on the water without producing any ripples. You know how to work in a mysterious way. That is the correct way.

We'll continue with the Laws of Memory in the next episode. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 08

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory. Today, we are going to discuss the fifth law: the Law of Perception-Creation.

## 5 Law of Perception-Creation

You can also call it the Law of Manifestation. In Sanskrit, you can call it *Drishti-Srishti*.

The meaning of the name is obvious. It means whatever we perceive is our own creation, and whatever we create, we perceive. The meaning is clear, but probably it will look like a riddle: How is that even possible?

This is somewhat similar to mentalism mentioned in old books, which says, "Everything is mind." That's what we have been saying since the beginning of this series. And if everything is mind, in rough language, you can say everything is a thought-like structure.

Just like we create a thought in our minds, and then we perceive that thought, same way, the universal mind creates a thought structure, also called thought-form in occult, and that is perceived.

So, everything is mind. This principle implies that everything that appears in the mind is a thought. But instead of "thought", if you substitute the word "imagination", now it becomes crystal clear. Thought is nothing but the imagination of words. Some people think in words; it is the imagination of you saying something, that's all it is. So, the thought can be in the form of sounds or images. And now the word "imagination" seems more meaningful.

So, you can now roughly say that whatever is perceived is the imagination of the universal mind. Creation is equal to imagination.

Suddenly, that opens up so many possibilities. It reveals so many secrets that only an occult master knows if you contemplate on this one idea. The process of imagining can be called creation poetically, or it is another beautiful word for imagination. In this context, imagination and creation are synonyms.

So, when you imagine something in your mind, if you consider the human experience of imagination, you can easily perceive it. Are you creating it, or are you perceiving it?

This is a million-dollar question. Many people will say, "It is both. I imagine the same thing which I perceive. It is not that in the background I'm doing the work of imagination, and then after some time I get to look at it, or there is a separate process of creation and separate process of perception." Anybody will say, through their direct experience, it is not like that. The event of perception and imagination are one in your mind.

We are now trying to study something which we know directly, which is our own mind, human mind, because probably we won't be able to know the universal mind. So that your direct experience itself is enough to establish this law: Perception equals creation. All you needed was simple substitution of words. Instead of calling it creation, call it imagination, and they are the same.

So, that solves everything now. This was easy. The same way, just as you are doing that perception-creation activity, the universal mind is also doing it. It is created by imagining. And nothing actually gets created if it is not perceived. Or if it gets created, it is perceived automatically. So perception is creation.

Now, you need to take one more step and remove the universal mind and call it universal memory. Mind is simply an outdated word for memory and its processes. Memory means the non-physical, non-mental sea of potential, semi-stable vibration. This is the new way. It makes life very easy. We are not burdened by these encrypted words.

What is mentalism? You mean somebody's thinking me into existence? Somebody's thinking the whole world? Is it possible? No, impossible, actually. So that's why we need to clarify the old language, the encrypted language, demystify. Then you will understand very clearly: The structures in the memory are created only when they are perceived. Otherwise, there is pure potential about which nothing can be said, nothing can be known. We can only deny that there is anything - negative knowledge.

So yes, the whole experience, whether it is the world, body, or mind, is an imagination which is being perceived simultaneously. Without perception, there is actually no knowledge of it, and there is actually no creation.

We cannot think of imagining something without perceiving it, experiencing it, or knowing it. You will say, "What kind of imagination is it if I cannot see it, if I cannot perceive it? If there is no experience of it, was there an imagination at all? Was there any creation in my mind?" And the answer is no.

So, our direct experience establishes the Law of Perception-Creation. We simply need to extrapolate it to universal memory. This is what is happening.

As I said many times now, everything is imagination. That does not mean that everything is fake. It means it has qualities of imagination, which means just like the imagination seems to be coming out of nothing actually, it is coming out of our memory, we never see the web memory, we never experience it. We experience only the irreducibles which float in the mental space, ghostly forms, but it is there. Its nature is empty; they are not made up of anything. The same way, the universal memory is imagining, and these forms appear on a screen which is empty. This is direct experience.

And the law of emptiness and so on, they provide support for this law. If there is no substance of all the experience, if it is not made up of anything which can be known, then it must be imaginary. Now, everybody should understand why we call all the experience illusion, mayathat which is not, that which appears, appearance. It is very simple: It is imagination, and the imagination is being perceived. That's all. That's all there is in the whole existence.

At the level of human beings, we are imagination of the universal memory. We are a layered structure which is being perceived. That's all it is.

Now, that's slightly demotivating because it gives us no reality. Yes, that is obvious; it's not real. But the good news is it opens up the possibility of creating anything. Why can't the universal memory imagine anything else? And the answer is, yes, it can. It can imagine infinite things, and that is already happening.

### Why Can't the Human Machine Create?

"But why can't I do that?"

If by "I"the word "I", capital Iif you mean the human being, the body-mind machine, then you can't do that, because one imagination cannot imagine another imagination. One picture cannot create another picture on the screen. The screen can create pictures. You can say roughly, poetically, pictures are appearing on the screen, we can say the screen is imagining it, creating it, but it will be impossible for the picture to create another picture. So unfortunately, this body-mind machine cannot create, cannot imagine.

Who imagines? Obviously, the universal memory.

"No, I am imagining in my mind."

No, there is no you. The whole imagination and you saying that "I'm imagining it" is imagination of the memory. Roughly, we can say that the memory is doing it. Universal memory is doing it. But that is not accurate. It is happening like this: spontaneously. Spontaneous creation. It is spontaneous imagination.

How much creation there is? The answer is infinite. We already saw that. The memory can produce infinite structures because it is not real, virtual, dimensionless, emptiness. So it can imagine anything, and it can imagine infinite variety.

Now, the question is: Why is this current experience limited? The limitation is due to senses. The senses, you can say, specially imagined structure, specially created structure, which limits the incoming vibrations, which limits what can be experienced. So, the memory can create anything, but since the senses apply a filter on it, they are like a window - the end product is somewhat limited. But only somewhat, not much.

Even with the same senses, you can perceive or you can experience infinite things. If you ask somebody, "How many pictures can you see?" and they will say, "As many as you present to me." Yes, the pictures will be mostly a mixture of the same colors, similar shapes, people, animals, and trees, and so on, buildings, or extraordinary things like modern art or something which people never see and don't even want to see again. So even with this limited sense of vision, the perceptions that it can take in are unlimited. They are limited by our lifetimes only, you can say.

Same way, if you ask somebody, "How many songs can you hear? How many songs can you listen to?" They can say, "As many as they are produced. If you create infinite songs, I'll listen to infinite." The variety is infinite, even though the space of that perception will be defined or limited by the sense. And the good news is we can have infinite senses, even human beings, but they won't remain human. Ultimately, that happens through evolution.

So, our direct experience and a little bit of logic proves that perception is infinite, creation is infinite, because memory is infinite. That which is getting created is being perceived. It is very simple.

Unfortunately, human beings don't create, because they are themselves creations, but memory creates, you can say, poetically, roughly. And when the memory evolves through human form, beyond human, and so on, more things come into perception, more things get created. The range is infinite.

Nothing exists if it is not appearing already, or we simply imagine or assume that if it was not being perceived, it existed as a pure potential, which is unknowable. No amount of description will shed any light on what is pure potential. It is our theory, another imagination, concept. So, this rule is never broken. You will never see something created which is not already perceived, and you won't be able to create anything if nothing is there to perceive it. It remains pure potential.

And again, to answer this very important question: Who is creating? The short answer is: nobody. It happens like this. It happens according to this law.

### Manifestation and the Physical System

There is a desire to create; that is not human desire. It is another creation of the memory. The memory works through this human instrument, uses its energy and the power of the human instrument - body-mind instrument - to manifest something. That's all is happening.

"No, no, I want to create, I want to manifest. Everything is mind, I'll imagine and it will happen."

This is half-truth. Just don't assume that I am imagining. Let the imagination happen, and through the power of this body-mind instrument, something will get manifested, we don't know what, something or the other.

Right now, it looks like that in this current system of memory, the physical world, you need to desire something, the desire is not yours, obviously then the imagination happens, where a little play happens of "What do I want?", little act happens in our imagination, and that sends all kinds of signals and emotions and drives into the body, and the body starts working, and something is manifested.

"I want to manifest tomato soup." Immediately, you will start seeing things in your mind. Even as I'm speaking, your mind has already processed the desire, which was implanted by me. It took it as its own desire and already planned everything. Yes, it is not manifested yet in the physical world. So, what is imagined was a tomato, then cutting, cooking, mixing, and so on, adding the salts and spices, whatever you want, butter, and in our imagination, the tomato soup is ready, hot tomato soup, mouthwatering already.

So, if the desire is very strong, it will do its work. It will run through the nervous system, and it will reach the muscles. The body will get up, go and buy tomatoes, cook it; a physical tomato soup comes into being.

Right now, it looks like the process is like this. There is no instant manifestation. It is instant in the mind, but this current system does not allow this. It needs to go through the process. We say in occult that the manifestation is slowed down by the gross body. It is not like this in your dreams or, let us say, other states of the mind, like astral projection, or even higher states. Many people will now agree here that in those states, whatever I imagine is already in that world, present in the world. In the dream, I imagine a flying carpet; it is already there, I'm already flying. The perception-creation is instantaneous, just like it should be ideally.

So why is it delayed? Why does it take time, effort, energy, power, and so on, this instrument to cause any kind of materialization, manifestation here?

This is a special kind of world. Remember the definition of the word "world": It is the environment surrounding the senses and the body. It is a layer of the memory which is acted upon. So in this arrangement, the current arrangement of a human experience, the world is slightly separated from the memory which imagines. But there is an interface between the two. That interface can be called the body.

So the body has a nervous system and muscles and bones. It is adapted to the world on one side, and it is equipped to take the imagination of the memory, and now the magic happens. In other states, dreams and so on, this separation is not there.

Why is the system like this? And the answer is very easy: because there are all kinds of possibilities. This system, the physical world, is also present as one of the possibilities, infinite possibilities. So that is not a big question.

The real question is: What is the advantage of this, or why should I even stay here? Why don't I simply go into the dream world or some other non-physical world, where everything is manifested?

And the problem is control. This is the issue. If there is no control, the memory will keep manifesting, the memory will keep creating. Whatever is perceived will simply loop back, because, you know, what is perceived gets impressed on the memory, and whatever is in the memory gets created, imagined. So, mostly it will not produce anything.

Ideally, what must happen is new experiences should come in, they should get impressed on the memory, not any experience, not the random experience, something useful. So they need to be limited. Senses do that. And this impression in the memory must be mixed with intelligence, knowledge, to imagine something which is new, or which is unique, which is probably a combination of various experiences, and must be useful.

The usefulness in this system is always defined by survival. If it is useful for survival, like tomato soup is useful for survival, there is a potential to produce that imagination, and it will take some effort and energy and power, and so on, to actually create it. That is the cost of isolation. The isolation costs energy. So energy must be expended to create anything.

But the advantage is you get new things, you get useful things, and you get limited things. Remember, the limited means are useful in terms of survival. If it is unlimited, random, everything goes, there is no life as we know it. This life is not possible. This human experience is not possible.

So, in short, you can say the system, the physical world, is like the way it is to enable a human experience. Otherwise, everything goes. It is meaningless most of the time. That is why in this physical world, the physical universe and human life is considered so valuable. You cannot imagine the value of it. It is very rare, and it is beautiful. The system is so perfect.

### The Human Condition

The problem is the creation itself does not know what is going on. Creation means human beings. They don't know why they are here, what they are doing. They see this beautiful creation as a struggle, as a hellish fantasy of some cruel person who is punishing me for not eating, for not reproducing, for not working as a slave of a corporation, not paying taxes to the government. And there are diseases, and there are this and that, hate, violence.

"If I created this, why did I create this?" Any intelligent person will ask. But obviously, that is ignorance. You don't know what is happening, that is why you have turned it into a nightmare. It was a dream, beautiful dream. Everything that is needed for a very beautiful and useful human experience was already provided. It already evolved, it already got created through perception-creation law.

Ignorance has caused problems. Ignorance ruined it allhuman ignorance. The Law of Perfection says the memory never does anything which is imperfect, which is unnecessary. So the cause must be something else.

The cause is forgetting our true nature, what we are. We are creators, and just assume that "I am this body-mind instrument", which is simply an interface between the slow-changing physical environment and the fast-changing memory. I'm not that. That is an instrument. There are sensors, transducers, that sense, and there are actuators or hands and feet and so on that do the work, act on the world. It is a robot. Why do you call it - *myself*?

All the trouble started when humans assumed that they are this body-mind machine. This was the fall of the man.

This was somewhat recent, because if you pay attention to the old books, they all knew everything about everything else. They all knew about this memory and laws and all. This is not a new discovery of science from the big labs. No, it is ancient knowledge, so ancient that we don't even know how old it is. My true nature and the laws of the memory, and this whole model of the illusion, is very ancient. They knew all these things. Somehow something happened, and everything fell down. We know how that happened. We know why it happened.

How can we claim that we know what happened? We don't know what happened exactly, but we can guess thanks to the laws of memory. There are laws that give us an indication of what happens. These are called the laws of balance and laws of cycles. And we are going to study them, so there we'll discuss this issue somewhat more.

Right now, you need to keep this in mind: that the perception-creation, this law, is applicable to the universal memory, the non-physical, non-mental memory, not to this human being, not to this body-mind machine.

### Rising Above the Law of Perception-Creation

Stop complaining that "I cannot create anything." Obviously, you cannot. This law is not for, not made for, human beings. They themselves are imagination in the memory.

Let us drop this ignorance and try to understand how to use this law. Yes, we cannot do the job which the memory is doing. We can become a medium for manifestation of this law of perception-creation. That will be called rising above the Law of Perception-Creation or rising above the Law of Manifestation.

That will still not give you any superpowers to manifest anything, to create anything by simply imagining it. That will make you a very capable instrument which becomes a pure channel of universal desires to create.

If no desire is mine, it is okay to say that it is a universal desire. It appears in the existence, as usual. So, all that needs to be done is perfection of this instrument through which it will be manifested. Purification is the key here.

All you need to do is get out of the way of this already perfect mechanism of perception-creation. And whatever you call my desires, they will start appearing here, fully knowing they are not my desires. The ego processes in memory take credit for it, fully knowing that this can happen, and it is okay to happen, this is natural. You allow the perception-creation through this instrument.

It is very simple. The difficulty arises because the ego gets in the way. Ego says, "This desire is mine. Now let me create something using this Law of Perception-Creation," and start imagining something from its very tiny, limited memory. It knows a few things, that's all. And nothing happens. Everything fails, because there is a lot of ignorance here. Ignorance is the worst kind of impurity. Just throw it away.

"I am the channel. I am the medium. I'm not the doer. I'm not the source of creation." This is knowledge - the correct connections in the memory. Now it is going to work nicely, this instrument. You don't need to destroy yourself or destroy the ego or destroy this beautiful machine, the human machine. You need to purify it, make it efficient, perfect, and whatever the existence is creating will be created.

Do not take the credit for it: "I did this." No, it is not even good to say that "I am the medium. I allowed it." That is also not so correct. We can only say that this is how it happens through this instrument.

So you rise above the Law of Manifestation or Perception-Creation by surrendering to the law. Now, the most magnificent creations can happen without much effort.

You can ask any artist, good artist, "How are they creating? How much training did they have? What techniques are they using?" and they will say, "It comes to me. Yes, I use these instruments, brush or musical instruments, paint, or even a PC, software to give it a material form. I use the power of the body to materialize it, but the creation itself has already happened in the mind. You need to simply download it."

Download literally means converting the higher to lower. Lower is material. Body-mind of the artist is simply acting as an interface. If the interface is very pure, perfect, the creation is magnificent. It attracts art lovers, those who understand what art is. So, the artist will not take credit for it if you ask them in private. But they will write their name and sell it, which is simply a survival activity.

So you need to let it happen and stop imposing or controlling too much. The control can happen at the level of execution. Too much control means the original can get corrupted. So as little as possible, and it is done.

Then the existence or the memory will choose this instrument again and again to get the job done, because an efficient and perfect worker is given the responsibility of jobs again and again. If you perform well, well, the boss will give you more work, not more salary, more work.

So anyway, the memory has the capacity to recognize where purity is, what is impure. That which is impure will get destroyed eventually; that which is pure, seeing the performance of it, will be perpetuated. It will persist for a longer duration. Do not start imagining random things in your mind. Nothing will appear, nothing will happen. Let the creation happen naturally.

### Spiritual Evolution

Now, the real stuff which everybody wants to do: How to get rid of this interface, these slower moving parts, and just instantaneously realize everything, just make everything real, whatever I imagine or whatever is imagined through me?

That is also possible. That is the good news. And that is called evolution, specifically spiritual evolution.

Why do I have this limitation of body-mind? Because I'm learning. I've reached this grade of learning in the school of learning, school of evolution. And I started with even more primitive instruments, body-mind machines of insects, plants, animals, and so on. Now evolution has reached to this level where the memory is appearing as a human being. I cannot say that I evolved. I can only say that it happened.

So, it will happen again, just like I said, if you let it happen. If you don't become a hurdle yourself on your path, you are the biggest hurdle. Specifically, your ignorance is the biggest hurdle.

So, everything starts with knowledge, and knowledge will make this instrument better and better. It will evolve faster and faster, and this body-mind machine will not disappear completely; it will change forms. We call it the light body. Some people will call it the divine body, angelic form, in Sanskrit *devayoni*, and so on, many names, which is simply an upgraded version of body-mind instrument.

Now it is not an interface between very high, high-vibrating, high-speed memory and a slow hardware, slow world. No, it is acting on equally fast worlds. So if the instrument changes, the interface changes, obviously the world that it will act in, the environment, also changes. And there, the speed mismatch is not there so much, and perception-creation happens instantly, without any delay or very small delay.

Isn't that what every tantric wants? You want it so badly, I know.

The key is evolution. Evolution is a never-ending process. So hopefully, you already started. Hopefully, you know what it is, how to do it. You have a path, you have a guide, whatever you call as guru, master, because without them, nothing is possible, really. No evolution will happen. It is just a random, hit-and-trial, survival-of-the-fittest kind of evolution which naturally happens in the memory.

That is another law, by the way: Law of Evolution, about which we'll talk more. There, probably we'll discuss faster ways to evolve instead of random selection, which is the natural way to evolve.

So, if you want to really create, just like they show in movies - abracadabra - you will need to evolve to that level. Then this physical world will be left as it is, and you will get access to something higher, faster, where there is no delay, which is what we want.

And actually, we don't want that. We want evolution, because nobody wants to get stuck in a world where you think and things appear. It was fun for some time. After a while, it becomes boring. You set your goalpost higher, somewhere else, and move on.

Now more things can happen, more perception-creation. There is nothing else. There is infinite play of perception-creation.

So, we'll end today's discussion here, and we'll continue with the next law in the next part. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 09

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory. Today we are going to discuss the sixth law, and it is named the Law of Probability.

## Introduction to the Law of Probability

As you know, the meaning of the word probability is simply the chances of some event happening, the odds. And it can be mathematically measured, and we have a full branch of mathematics devoted to probability.

And many people will think, besides gambling, sports, and weather forecasts, what is the use of this probability in my life, and why is this being called a law? Many people will say, "I rarely see it. I don't use it." But if you look closely, you will see that every event that happens in this whole existence has a probability associated with it.

The opposite of the word probability is certainty. Now it becomes bright as a day if you recall the Law of Uncertainty, which was called the Law of Deniability. If uncertainty is the law, how can there be any certain events? There can only be probable events.

## Probability as a Consequence of Uncertainty and Potential

So this law is a direct consequence of uncertainty, which we explained in previous parts of this series. When we describe the existence, we describe it as infinite potential. Of course, the essence is empty, but that which is manifested is also empty. And the explanation for why it is manifested is infinite potential.

We never call it infinite certainty. It is potential. So potentially, something gets manifested. So in mathematical language, you can say that in this existence there is a probability of some event happening. Any specific event has a probability associated with it because the underlying substrate is lacking a certainty, lacking a solidity. It is empty, it is potential.

So logically it is very easy to see why, why this must be a law. There cannot be anything else. Any event cannot be 100% certain, and it cannot be 0% also. This is very strange.

Probability is sometimes measured as percentage. What are the chances of something happening out of 100 trials, that is measurable.

What happens in the memory? This contemplation can bring out a lot of secrets and can show you directly why only probable events happen in the memory. Memory means semi-stable vibrations. The patterns in the memory are not solid. They are not etched on a rock. They are vibrating, oscillating, non-physical, non-mental, immaterial, not in time, not in place. What can you expect will happen in this kind of memory? Can something certain take place here? Think about it. What does your intuition say?

## The Complex and Fleet-Footed Nature of Memory

Moreover, everything is fleeting and impermanent. Moreover, there are many laws. It sometimes becomes very difficult to find out which law got applied here. Mostly it is a combination of many laws. But actually all the laws get applied, or all the laws are followed, nothing is broken. Still, sometimes it becomes beyond human intellect.

When things cannot be measured certainly, we use probability. This is general knowledge. When systems become so complicated in memory that measurement of the memory, or sensing, becomes difficult, too complex, then we measure the event as a probability.

So some events in the memory are so complicated, they are a result of so many causes and effects, laws, permutations, combinations, that the only measurement that is possible sometimes is probability of it happening.

So the vibrations being non-physical, non-mental, they are all intertwined, interconnected, they influence each other infinitely over infinite distances and infinite times. And here we must surrender our limited idea of certainty and accept probability.

A simple person will think in terms of certainty: if A then B, if B then C, linear. This is called linear thinking. But the memory, or the manifested existence, does not work like this. When an event happens, there are almost infinite causes behind it. What can you say about it? You can only predict. You can only try to guess the chances or probability.

We are going to study the laws of cause and effect, which is called the Karmic Law, and also the Law of Interconnectedness, or the Law of Oneness, which will show the Law of Probability more clearly: why this needs to be probable, why all the events that happen in memory are not 100% certain, there is always a probability of happening something in the memory. If you contemplate it, you will know. See what memory is, why our linear thinking and limited intellect fails. We need to adopt uncertainty or probability eventually, as soon as we cross some events that are really simple, really trivial, we need to take shelter under mathematics of probability.

## From Predetermination to Randomness

Many people will say here that, "No, I know many events that are 100% certain. For example, if I throw a rock in the air, I'm 100% certain it will come down. If I throw a ball at a wall, I'm 100% certain it bounces back. And many such examples: it is 100% certain that the water will flow down, not up. It is 100% certain that a mango tree will produce only mango, not a banana."

So now we have a contradiction. Without contradictions, there is no fun in any philosophy. So we need to add a dimension to the probability. The probability is not a simple probability. It ranges from predetermination to randomness, and everything in between.

Predetermination will mean a probability of 100% or 1, and randomness will mean a probability of 50%, 0.5. A probability of 0, 0%, also means predetermination, but in the opposite sense. So you must keep this in mind that 100% and 0%, they will fall in the category of certain. Certainly something is known. And randomness will be around 50%. It's called 50/50 chance.

Any event in the memory does not have a fixed probability. It ranges from 0 to 100, as the probability cannot be more than 100%, more than 1, cannot be less than 0.

So in short, you can say that our experience ranges from complete predetermination to complete randomness. And there is a huge spectrum of probabilities that we find if we study various kinds of events that happen, phenomena that take place in memory, and that includes everything here: physical, non-physical, mental, non-mental, everything.

The Law of Probability says that in the memory all kinds of probabilities will be found. So now you can guess why that is the case: because it is infinite. The manifestation is infinite; there are no limits. So obviously, the chances of something happening is not bound in a range of probabilities.

Now there is a very funny thing: the predetermination never reaches 0% or 100%, and the randomness never reaches exactly 50%. The event that we think is 100% predetermined is never 100%, although we'll never come to know, we'll never experience the other probabilities. And the event that you think is completely random is never completely random.

In mathematics we call it asymptotic, or the probability approaches 0 or 100, and it approaches 50, but never becomes an exact number. I need not go into too much detail because our talk will become somewhat boring, and unnecessary detail will be there. The main point I'm going to tell you: those who are interested, they can dig more. And a lot of philosophers and scientists have found out, it is a proven thing. And the reason is again the infinity and multidimensional nature of memory. If something is fixed, it must happen, probability of 100%, and that tells you something about the memory, that that gives you a certain knowledge. And according to our laws of deniability and uncertainty and so on, that is not allowed.

It is very frustrating. So we'll find something, some events which are approaching 100%, 99.999%, it then never becomes 100. We find something which is almost random, equal chance of happening, but it is always 49.998 or 50.0001. We cannot even find a certain probability of it. Even the probability is not certainly calculated. You can see now how complicated things are becoming. Whatever we dismiss as a dream or illusion is something very complex, difficult to understand.

And now we can add one more dimension into the probability: that probability is impermanent. It keeps changing. Today, an event was let us say 10% probable; tomorrow, it will be 20%; day after tomorrow, 1%; after one year, 90%. Same event.

So now it looks like we need to give up. Nothing can be measured, nothing can be known, and it's all probable. Even the strict probability is not found. And if we try to measure it at different times, we get different answers. What is going on? Can we know anything? Can you measure anything? That is mind-boggling. If you start thinking like this, you won't be able to sleep. What do I really know? What am I seeing here? What is happening in my life? These questions don't have answers. Or you can say jokingly, probably you'll find the answer. There's a probability of finding an answer.

## The Dreamlike Experience of Everyday Probabilities

Now everybody will relate to this. Why does nothing work in our society, in our families, in our countries? That's your everyday experience. All you need to do is get up in the morning and go to work. So many improbable events happen, including power cuts, internet dropping, unexpected rain, unexpected guests, your servant not showing up or showing up exactly when you want to go out, your dog breaking something. Then when you go out in traffic, almost supernatural kind of events will be seen because now the other complexities of other lives add into the flow of traffic.

And the whole day then is like a slot machine game, gambling. In the end, there is probably little bit of achievement. You probably wanted to do 10 things, you managed to do one or two, and you go to sleep. That sounds like a dream.

Sometimes I remember my dreams, and they are exactly like this in nature. Nobody knows what is happening in the dream, although it is made by me. You can roughly say that it is made by nobody, but the ego takes the responsibility: "I dreamed this." But it is just a hairball of meaningless events, meaningless pictures. Our daily life is mostly like that. Take a look.

But since we are so used to this hairball of events, which is called our lives, we don't mind. We think everything is normal. It is not normal. It is anything but normal.

## The Normal Distribution (The Bell Curve)

So that brings us to the normal distribution. I don't know why it is called normal, it is found everywhere. This distribution of probabilities looks like a bell. It is also called the bell curve or Gaussian curve. You must have seen it many places. Those who study science and mathematics, and also economics, social science, even medicine, they all know this curve. It is famous, and it is infamous.

It shows the distribution of probabilities from 0 to 1. This curve is usually plotted for distribution of data, distribution of measurements. Let us say heights of people in this world. So if you measure a lot of people, their heights, most of them come out to be between 5 to 6 feet. That becomes the peak of the curve. And there will be really short people at one end, they will be less. And there will be really tall people on the other end, they will also be less. So the probability of finding a person of a given height is measured here. That means the event of finding a certain height of a person.

We can generalize this thing, and we can say that this curve is applicable to all the events that happen in memory. If you start measuring any given event, it will show up as a bell curve, normal distribution. This is very strange. This will show up many times in events that are seemingly random. There are many videos and demonstrations of this bell curve. It is not intuitive. You cannot guess that the Gaussian will be the result for some events.

For example, if you take dry sand and start pouring it on the floor, we humans expect that it will fall down and it will become simply a mess, some random shape will be there on the floor. And you will be surprised to see that if it is not, this pouring process is not disturbed by something external, like people running around or wind, then a pile of sand on the floor will take the exact shape of a bell curve. Most of the sand will fall under your hands, and a little bit will be scattered in the corners of the room somewhere. And if you take a photo of it, it will be like a bell. It is very interesting that this happens.

So it is a law. We don't need more evidence that there is such a law. We are going to discuss this law more when we discuss the laws of repetition and 99%. These two laws are very much related to the Law of Probability.

## Compound Events vs. Individual Probabilistic Events

So what happened to deterministic events? Will the water not flow downwards all the time? If you measure the flow of water, direction of water, will it always be 50/50? Most of the time the water will flow in one or the other direction. Sometimes it will flow downwards? The bell curve does not fit here.

Okay, so I was avoiding this kind of discussion, but this sounds like a valid objection. So I'm going to introduce a new word here. It is called a compound event, a statistical event. There are many names in science. Those who are interested should dig it out.

The flow of water is not a one event. The particles of water, you can say drops of water or atoms, molecules of water, they are all adding up to form the flow of water. It is a compound event, not a single event. Now it will be very difficult to find something which is a single event, which is not compound. It is also very strange.

But these kinds of events which are statistical, happen due to activity of many entities, and their combined effect produces something which looks predetermined. So if you take just one molecule of water, they all follow the Law of Probability, but their combined motion is downwards, seen downwards. Although if you check each and every particle of water, if you can, it will follow the bell curve.

The bell curve will be seen when measuring the direction of movement of these particles. Most of them will go down. A few of them are slightly left, right, up. Very few of them will go backwards, and so on. So the whole thing seems to be going down because most of them go down, but not all of them. All the molecules of the water do not move in a straight line downwards. It will never happen.

So there is a predetermination in the whole, the stream of water, but there is randomness in the part, that is the molecule. Same about air, flow of air; same about crowds when they move; same about any phenomena. Totally depends on what you are trying to measure. If that event is a combined event, then it will seem to be deterministic sometimes. And if you measure the individual components, they will be probabilistic.

## Quantum Mechanical Scale and the Measurement Problem

Now the interesting part is, if you go on dividing the event into its individual component, and more and more it becomes probabilistic. What happens when we go below the atoms and subatomic events? Something strange happens, and it becomes impossible to measure what will happen. This is the physical uncertainty principle. It is not even probable, it becomes impossible. It is not random. Nothing can be said about what can happen there.

So seemingly deterministic events are made up of minute events which cannot even be measured precisely. How amazing is that?

It is completely beyond our intelligence now. Our linear thinking says that if there is complete randomness, you cannot even measure individual particles, then the final outcome of that thing, which is made up of those particles, will be complete randomness. But no, thanks to the Law of Probability, there is something, something meaningful.

So for example, if you take a flower pot, clay pot, each atom of that clay pot is a vibrational pattern in the memory because it is undeterministic, uncertain, deniable, probable. These clay atoms cannot be measured. They are changing, they are vibrating, they are everywhere in the existence at the same time. They are present throughout history and the future at the same time. What is there? Almost nothing which we can grasp.

But the Law of Probability says that this particular particle has a probability to be present here and now in this space, this time. That's all that can be measured. This particle will be seen in this particular place in this particular time, that much can be said. And if you add up trillions and trillions of particles, you get a clay pot because there is some probability of them being in that shape. So the problem is we don't even understand what is a clay pot. It happens to be there by chance.

So many people must have already guessed, this is quantum theory. If you take an example of our physical world, which is not physical, it is memory, because this is our direct experience, we see that every event here is a compound event, probabilistic. And if you break it down, you get smaller events. We call them particles, atoms, subatomic particles, and so on. They are not particles. You're simply measuring smaller and smaller quantities, parts of the memory. You are approaching the primordial vibration by focusing your instrument.

There is no atom, there is no molecule. Give up this outdated view of the illusion. Some people call it reality. There is no reality here. So if you try to measure this thing, you get this random noise. But because the combined effects come out to be something proper, which is meaningful, sometimes even deterministic, we don't call it random. What do we call it then? We call it quantum mechanical events.

All such events at this scale are quantum mechanical. They are all probabilistic. They are all non-physical. There is nothing physical to measure there, only effects that influence each other. That's all there is. Nothing much is measured there except probability. And if there is nobody to observe, if there are no senses, nothing is created. This is the law of perception-creation. There is only probability. Nothing is manifested. This is the famous measurement problem of physics.

If you probe deeply, you will find that there is nothing, and there is nothing to measure. But somehow the combined effect produces a phenomenon, thanks to the Law of Probability. Everything that exists in the existence probably exists, which means that it is there, but it is not there. This is the exact meaning of the word illusion, Maya.

However, this physical world is not physical as we use this word. It is non-physical. Every other world is like this. There are many worlds. So the worlds are seen when a specific set of senses is present. So if you change the senses, you start measuring something else, and a different world appears.

So whatever we are imagining and whatever we are theorizing and discussing is not totally airy-fairy. It is not some magical tantric, occult gossip. We arrived at something really useful. The conclusions now match that of many centuries of scientific discoveries, with no contradictions or apparent contradictions.

So when you switch to another world, you will see the same Law of Probability. There is a probability of something appearing depending on what is there in the memory. It is a flowing structure, memory. Something appears depending on probabilities, what happened before it, and so on, chain of cause and effect. Still nothing is certain, and nothing is random.

## Senses as Filters of Randomness

We'll check this randomness part a little bit, and then we'll stop talking about it because it is hurting my head.

So why can nothing be absolutely random? This is debatable. We throw our weapons and give up, accept defeat when the causes that influence an event become too many to understand, to calculate. Even the probability cannot be determined properly, and we call it random.

And as we go deeper into the vibration, the basic vibration, this randomness increases, because nothing can be certainly said what is there. But the overall effect of a combined event sometimes produces randomness, but that is simply because our senses, our instruments, our intellect, big machines, computers, cannot find all the causes that determined that event. So we say a random occurrence, chance happening. This has no scientific value except in encryption and computer security.

So our senses actually filter out the randomness. Anything which they cannot measure is thrown out. Something is changing too quickly to produce any kind of meaningful model of it is thrown out, filtered out.

So for example, the ears stop hearing above 20 kilohertz because then the sound changes too quickly. It is all random noise after that for the ears, or this system of senses, body-mind. The ear can sense a difference between 100 Hertz and 200 Hertz. Remember, the ear is simply a differential detector. It does not detect anything absolute because the difference is twice now, 100 to 200. But it won't be able to sense the difference between 10,100 and 10,200 Hertz. Not much, there is not much qualitative difference. And if you multiply that 10 times, there is absolutely no difference for the ears.

So if it cannot differentiate one signal from another, it filters it out. It is non-existing. How many sounds can be there? Infinite. But the ear stops at 20 kilohertz. The same way, eyes cannot detect beyond a certain color: violet, ultraviolet, whatever. And there is a lower limit also.

So everything above and below the ranges of senses is random for us. Is it really random? And how much is there? Infinite. So if you simply change the sense, you can get an infinite kind of signal. Infinite worlds are possible. But for a human being, it is a sea of randomness. Why? Because we do not detect it. We do not differentiate. And we are not capable of sensing it. So it looks like randomness. It is not randomness. Isn't it?

For another creature, another instrument, another sense, there is a corresponding world, probable world. So deterministic is not deterministic, random is not random. It's a very beautiful poetry. It's all probability.

Then there are many funny examples that come out of science. Science says that if you throw a ball at the wall, there is a 99% chance that it will hit the wall, come back to you. But there is a very small chance that it will pass through the wall. Now, nobody believes this, but this is a scientific conclusion. But it is a metaphor. If you make the ball very small, like an electron, it will mostly pass through the wall. If you apply a strong potential or electric field on the other side of the wall, most of the time it will pass through the wall. It is like a gravity where the water most of the time flows to the center of the earth. Something is pulling it.

The laws of the physical world, they totally depend on at what level we are talking. Hardly there is any law now. Anything can happen. But the Law of Probability will hold.

So whatever we think is the law, physical law, and even psychological laws are there and they are not real laws. The real laws are this: laws of the memory. And they are also not fixed because there is an infinite set of these laws. So ultimately, it's all mysterious.

## Rising Above Probability: Shifting the Bell Curve

What we can do is, instead of fighting the probability, we can rise above it. In simple words, rising above the Law of Probability means shifting the bell curve to wherever we desire. It is very simple.

It will be a bell curve always, you cannot fight it, but you can shift it. You can shift it in the desired direction. You can shift the peak of the curve towards whatever outcome you want. That is possible, and that is also a very big achievement if you can do that.

Or you can increase or decrease the tightness of the curve, the width of the curve. If the curve is spread out, you won't be able to say anything most of the time about what will happen. But if the curve is narrow, then the peak is higher, and something can be told what can happen.

So the things that you don't want, you want that bell curve to spread out. They will never go away, but you can make it less probable. And things you want, you can narrow down, concentrate the bell curve, and most of the time they will happen, but never always. This much is possible.

How to do that? This is called proper action. This will be more clear when we discuss the law of action, Karmic Law. You can call it the right action. If you continuously do the right action, the bell curve will shift, the probability can be changed.

It is possible to change the probability in both negative and positive directions. You can avoid some things, and you can tend towards something, you can favor something, some event.

So for example, there is a very unusual event that happens here, it's called a disease. So I'm giving a practical example: there is always a chance of getting a disease. If you think, "I don't want this kind of disease," let us say an infection, viral infection. If you go out, live your ordinary life, it's always 50/50 that you will get one or other kind of infection from other people, etc., etc.

So we start enforcing our intention: "I don't want this," you say. You start shifting the bell curve towards 0% by doing the right action. And what is the right action? I need not tell you: stay away from people, meet as few people as possible, and personal hygiene, medicines, a little bit of knowledge of how viruses work, and a little bit of knowledge of the symptoms, because if you see the symptom, you treat it quickly, so on. And for most of your life you'll avoid it. Why? Because you're shifting the probability of it happening.

Same way, you are a pilot, you want to fly a plane, commercial plane, successfully. There are 100 people in the plane, you don't want to kill all of them. So if you want to increase the probability of the successful flight to 100%, you do the right action. It requires a lot of intelligence to find the right action, and do it consistently without missing it, without making a mistake. So it is like training. It is as good as training to become a pilot. You cannot afford a mistake.

Same way, if you want to be successful in the business, start doing the right action. Every day you go to your office or factory or whatever, and keep doing the right action. Keep shifting the probability of success towards your goal. And the combined event will give you the desired results. Not every day. It's not possible. It's not possible that everything you do will be a complete success. Never happens. It's seemingly random, like a dream.

You can already see that the force that is needed here is that of intention. Intention is simply your will, willpower, or power of your desire. How much you desire that. The more you desire that, the more intention you put, the more probable it becomes. It is the central component of magic, or tantra.

But when I say it like this, it sounds plain and simple. There is no real magic, actually. This is how we manipulate the laws. Magic is nothing but manipulation of laws of memory.

So these are simple examples that you can immediately put into practice. Have a very strong intention. The intention produces a lot of power and energy. It forces the probability in the direction of your intention. This is our everyday life.

The more complex the event is, the less control there is. It will go random, or anything can happen if it is too complex. For example, marriages, relationships, and so on. For something which is simple, like selling fruits or your work, you can bias that probability more effectively. There is more control. As soon as more people are involved, more variables are there, it is all hit and trial. The bell curve will not budge. It will not shift too much.

So right intention, at the right time, right place: this is the key. This is the secret formula. Never waste your power or energy on something which you cannot control, where you cannot shift the probability. It will be a waste of time.

So these things are well known. Every intelligent person knows how to conduct their lives: let go of that where the probability game is totally beyond human beings, and focus on that which is within your range.

## Micro-Manifestation

Okay, so a more esoteric and more tantric, magical way to rise above the Law of Probability is called micro-manifestation. As we saw in our previous discussion on manifestation, creation, and the probability will not allow you to manifest exactly, even magically, even if you have magical powers, superpowers, the probability law is applicable.

So we take advantage of probability again, statistics, and we apply our abilities to manifest at a micro level, because there is more permission at the micro level, like I said. At the atomic level, sub-particle, subatomic particle level, and the ball can go through the wall. It is magic. The "ball and wall ritual", scientists will call it.

So you can do your own micro-ritual. Wherever microscopic manifestation is possible, you do it, and you keep doing it for a long time, and the overall effect, the combined event manifests according to your will, according to your intention. This is also called biasing the probability. Keep doing small things because you know that, "I won't be able to directly change everything in the world to produce the outcome that I desire." So you start doing something small. You want to build a house? You put one brick per day. That's all. One day the house will be finished, assuming that you don't have the power to build the whole house in one day.

What are the use cases for this micro-manifestation where things are beyond our control, beyond human? For example, you want to achieve liberation from the human lineage. Now no amount of knowledge, personal hygiene, avoiding people - no, these worldly matters will not help here. Your day-to-day intelligence is of no use. Your abilities, no use. Your strength, your knowledge, useless. How is it even possible that I transcend the human form? I only heard about it.

So micro-manifestation. You will need proper practice. For that you will need a proper guide, called a guru, probably who has already done this thing, a great tantric master. Start doing the practice. Micro-manifestation: change yourself microscopically, small changes per day, per week, per month. And then you will reach a point where you will finally be able to drop the human form.

Now, I gave this example, but I have not done this myself. I'm in a human form, so I don't guarantee anything. But micro-manifestation is a matter of experimentation. Nothing is certain. You can do micro-manifestation whole of your life, but it can happen that it fails.

So do many micro-manifestations, you see. Use the Law of Probability. Once you know the law, you can use it. If you don't know it, you will become a slave of it. The probability will make you dance according to the Gaussian curve, the normal dance. If you know this law, you know how to utilize it.

One micro-manifestation in one direction, well, it sounds like I'm putting all my eggs in one basket. So we do many things in parallel, many micro-manifestations in parallel.

Now, the examples of this and how to do this is beyond the scope of this public discussion. All of this advanced practice is given to only the advanced practitioner of Tantra, not to everybody. Because firstly, it is not allowed. Secondly, this is a powerful technique, it can be misused. Thirdly, the seeker or the practitioner must be of a certain kind, must reach a certain level of evolution to use it. Otherwise, they end up harming themselves. You don't know what you're doing, obviously. Somebody who is not evolved enough has no knowledge of these super-physical events. And if you manipulate something there using micro-manifestation or whatever you do, shifting of probabilities, something harmful can happen. Some damage can happen.

So I don't recommend it too much. Use this law in your everyday life. Use the power of the human body-mind machine. First, start learning at that level.

So you can create simple events using this technique, but you can create the whole world using micro-manifestation. And as an example, you can check our own world, whatever we call the physical world. It is not put into place, everything at once. It is micro-manifestation. Everything is drifting away a bit, it is biased so precisely that it stays as it is for a long time. Obviously, that which is manifested disappears. So your micro-manifestation can disappear anytime.

We continue doing it. Manifestation is not a one-time process. Creation is not a one-time process. You need to keep creating it, which is called maintenance, persistence, and you need to keep copying it, which is the use of another law of copy, repetition.

## Conclusion

So hopefully the laws and their discussion is not getting too complicated, it is not causing too much confusion. Yes, I know for a newcomer it will be too much to grasp. So take the help of your own direct experience. Use your own intelligence to verify these laws. Then you will be able to rise above them. You must understand the working of these laws through direct experience.

So we'll continue our discussion on other laws of memory in the next part. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 10

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory.

## 7 - Law of Codependence

Today we are going to discuss the seventh law. It is the law of codependence. As the name says, in this existence, nothing exists independently. We never find an isolated event, an isolated object, isolated thought, or anything which can arise and stay on its own.

There is always some kind of relation, some kind of connection, an infinite chain of cause and effects that defines any event, any experience.

### Categories of Experience

Note that all these experiences can be divided into three broad categories: experience of the world, experience of the body, and experience of the mind. According to our model of illusion, all these are experiences of the mind only, but the division is for convenience, ease of understanding.

So, the experience of the world is nothing but the experience of objects and other people, animals, plants, physical phenomena. Experience of the body is partly physical something which can be seen and partly mental, something which can be felt. This is the body, as we know from the previous episodes. The body is like this because it is an interface. And whatever people call mindthoughts, emotions, imagination, memories, and desires which is not really mental separately, it is simply subjective experience. Although all of the experience is subjective only.

So, the division gives an illusion of separation. The world is something which is separate, it is obviously not me; the body is something separate, it exists on its own; and the mind is totally disconnected from the body, it is some cloud over my head, as they show in cartoons, which exists on its own. This is a very bad case of ignorance.

We will never find a body which can exist without the world, and we will never find a mind which exists without the body. Why is that? Because they are not three things which exist independently. It is one thing. It is just memory and its manifestations, structures in the memory, patterns of vibrations that have arranged in layers.

So, you cannot isolate anything at all. And ultimately, you cannot isolate the seen from the seer, the experience and the experiencer, the event and the observer. They are also one. It won't be accurate to call them codependent, but you can say that they never exist separately.

Because one object needs the other object to exist, one event needs the other event to happen, there is no beginning of these events. There is no beginning of what appears in the memory. It is timeless.

It is not that this has been happening since infinite time. No. It simply means there is no time. Time is a result of our ignorance. And probably it won't be easy to think about the events, objects, people, myself, without invoking time. So, we can only refute. We can only have negative knowledge, simply realize that there is no time, and our human intellect will struggle to imagine something which is not happening in time. You won't be able to imagine a cause and effect, or chain of cause and effect, which is not in time. Although this limitation is bypassed via mathematics. So, mathematics seems to be the language of memory, and its very crude translation is human language.

You will need to see beyond the words. Check your direct experience. You will always find the cause of something if you look closely. And that cause will also have a cause. And this is because the vibration is not something static and isolated. It is the whole: no time, no space, no cause, no effect. It is pure potential. So, it gives rise to these illusory kinds of relationships, and the more you look, the more is created for you. It is simply perception creation.

But it will be wrong to assume that this is really happening, and it will be wrong to assume that there is a beginning, or there is something which is the first event, and there will be something which will be the last. These kinds of ideas are wrong. So, when we say an infinite chain of cause and effects, when we say everything depends on other things, it is not really happening. These apparent, paradoxical, and strange causations, dependencies, they appear because we are trying to find something. They are not really there.

So, if you try to find how this one event happened, why it happened, you will need to wait for a very long time - infinite time - because there is no end to it. All you find is a very complex web of interconnections. This web goes in all directions, all dimensions, and all these events are simply patterns that exist as points of joint in this web.

### Meaning and Balance

So, if you try to isolate something, it quickly loses its meaning. Nothing is meaningful in isolation. Every event, every happening, every structure in the memory derives its meaning through some kind of mutual relation with something else, some other event, some other structure.

As we briefly stated the example of a person: the person as a body is completely meaningless without the personal thoughts, likes, dislikes, memories, whatever happened in their life, their names, their professions, and their personal relations. The body itself has no meaning. It will be just like a dead body. Or if it starts walking and talking, it will be like a robot. And similarly, if you remove the world, the body loses meaning, and probably it won't remain alive for long because the body derives its matterair, water, food, from the world, and it finds all other bodies in the world to which it tries to relate. Simply having a body and mind is also not enough.

The body can survive on food, water, and air, but the food, water, and air is not found without the earth. The earth will not exist without the sun and solar system, and so on. Nothing will exist here if you take away even something basic like space or time, gravity, or electromagnetism. You can go on searching, and you will keep finding something on which that which you thought is fundamental depends.

So, meaning is derived out of mutual relations. There is no actual meaning of anything. If an event happened, it was experienced, it will be completely meaningless if you cannot relate it to any other event.

Because each thing is affecting the other thing, very soon we reach a balance, or a state of equilibrium in existence. This gives rise to the law of balance, about which we will discuss later. But since everything is in motion, everything is impermanent, nothing is static, nothing is stationary, the equilibrium does not last, and everything moves, but then again it comes back in equilibrium. So, the equilibrium is dynamic, just like a wheel that is rolling down. If the wheel stops, it will fall. So, the wheel stays up simply because it is rotating and running, like a top, spinning top, or like a whirlpool in the water.

This balance is dynamic. This balance is among the interrelations and interconnections and interdependence. And this balance is very delicate. Even something small can disturb the whole balance. Usually it is restored, and everything comes back in some kind of harmony and order.

The whole existence is not some randomly scattered structures somewhere in some ghostly memory. It is a very beautiful harmony. There is a hierarchy of order. The order is not rigid, it is dynamic. Nobody ordered it. It is self-organizing. It is self-correcting.

All this is because of codependence, and because of codependence, you will see harmony and order. Usually they remain invisible until and unless somebody goes and disturbs it, and then the whole memory, or the whole layer sometimes, restructures, and a new harmony and new order appears.

Because of codependence, if one thing changes, you will find that the events, or things, or objects, or people, or whatever structures in the memory that depend on this thing which changed, also change. In a poetic language, you can say they mirror each other: one thing goes south, the other thing goes north, they're trying to set up a balance; one thing goes up, the other thing goes down; one thing is destroyed, the other thing is created. You can find many such examples in your direct experience. This is the job of a seeker. They should find all this evidence of whatever is being said here. Too many examples simply make it very lengthy.

So, this mirroring gives rise to some kind of symmetry. Symmetry already implies balance, and it already implies codependence and relationships, interconnections.

So, all these names and all these observations, direct experiences, whatever you want to name them, we are trying to find something in there to understand they are mostly a result of one or the other law, or the dance of these laws. The laws themselves do not exist independently of each other. That only one law will apply here, everybody else you keep out it never happens. It will be very difficult to isolate a law out of some event. The codependency is seen in application of the laws also, because laws imply order and harmony, structure, relations.

So, the law of codependence gives rise to structure, harmony, mirroring, symmetry, whatever you want to call it balance. And all these things imply the law of codependence. There is no relation of cause and effect here. It is one thing seen from many angles.

Is the structure created because of mirroring, symmetry, harmony, order, and codependence? Or is the law of codependence creating the structure? This question now should not arise, because they're one. They are simply ways of talking about the same thing. Like we said before in previous parts, the structure is the law, and the law is the structure. Without codependency, there cannot be any structure. Without codependency, there cannot be any talk of any law.

When we talk about all these laws, mostly you will find me talking about other laws and repeating something similar. Like the talk about complex web and interconnections, it will come up again in the discussion of the law of interconnectedness. All the talk of harmony and order will come up again in the law of polarity and balance, and so on. So, it is very difficult to isolate anything at all.

And you can now sense that since there is no fundamental substance, there is no prime mover, or there is no first cause, or there is nothing out of which everything is coming out, the codependency is by necessity. Nothing else is possible now. Remember the definition of the word necessity? Law of necessity. Nothing else is possible.

If we fix something which is completely isolated and independent, and then events happen as effects of it, then obviously we can say that there is no law of codependency. It is a linear chain of cause and effect which starts here, probably it ends somewhere. But nothing like this is seen in the existence. So, it has to be codependence. Given what is there in the existence, the answer is there is nothing. So, it's only apparent things interacting with each other. They are found to be codependent.

There is correspondence between the higher layers and the lower layers of the memory. Poetically, it says that whatever is outside you mirrors whatever is inside you. Your body is a mirror of your mind, and your environment is a mirror of your body-mind. This is very true. And the reverse is also there: the environment shapes the body, and also the mind. Kind of bodies, they shape the mind. Senses and all, they create the creature.

So, whatever is in your mind affects the body, and whatever is in the body-mind affects the environment. This is common knowledge. They are not isolated, they are not separate. Human beings are not separate from the environment, and their minds are not separate from anything else that happens in the world which you know firsthand, direct experience. You meet somebody who is negative, you are filled with that kind of effect. You meet somebody who is a positive, happy, honest person, loving person, you're filled with that kind of vibration. Why? Because there is no disconnection anywhere. If you disconnect all these things, they lose their meaning and probably they won't exist. Because one thing keeps the other thing. One thing is responsible for the existence of the other thing. Nothing exists in isolation, cannot be maintained in isolation.

You cannot maintain a flower in isolation from the plant. There is no meaning of this flower, because it is produced for reproduction of the plant. Otherwise, there was no need for it. And the plant will not exist without the ground, soil. It is made up of matter that arranges itself from the environment. The environment has taken the form of a plant, a flower, and so on. So, a very simple example. Probably it's not enough to illustrate this very powerful law, but it is always something else which gives meaning to something specific.

So, you can apply this law to your own life. Do you exist completely independently? Is there any meaning of your life if everybody leaves you, if you don't do anything for the society, if you don't contribute, if your life is not useful? You can contemplate like this. And how do you mirror everything around you? How is the body and the mind shaped as a fractal copy of what enters it?

### Dependent Origination

So, there is another idea which is very close to the law of codependence. It is called the dependent origination from Buddhism, some branch of Buddhism. So, it is very similar. It says everything arises dependently. All phenomena, they are seen dependently. One event depends on the other, the other event will be seen as related to something else, and so on. And there is a web of cause and effect, a net which binds everything together. Same thing, mostly.

So, butter needs curd, curd needs milk to exist, and milk needs cows to exist, cows need grass and many things to exist. And the web of cause and effects and dependencies, they go beyond our sensory capabilities. We cannot see all of them. Sometimes we cannot see all of the causes and effects, and so we assume that there is nothing beyond this. "Okay, the cow needs grass. Okay, done. Grass is the final cause of butter." But you'll always find out what the grass depends on, and many more things will come in view. But yes, this is true: there is a limit to our senses and our intelligence where the complexity and interconnections are so many now that we give up, and we assume something reasonable, and we stop. "Okay, this is the final thing," we say, "and this will be the final effect." But they do not stop, because they never started. The dependencies and everything that is originating, depending on something else that play never stops, because it never started. It is an illusion, timeless.

And all these things are probably beyond the capability of human intellect, and so they give rise to very strange statements which seem to not explain anything. They complicate everything even more.

### Assuming Isolation

So, once you find dependency among events and so on, which is because of the structure, you will ask, "Where does it end then?" It will never end. So, obviously, the mistake lies in assuming that these all things are somehow isolated, still one thing is affecting the other. There is a magical action at a distance. One thing magically affects the other. "Now, where does it start? Where does it end?" This is a big mistake.

If you don't assume anything like this, if you see the whole as whole, there won't be any need to find the cause and effects. You will see the harmony, which is timeless.

But because of this tendency of human intellect to divide and understanddivide and rulethe division gives rise to isolation, tries to study everything in isolation, which works in a limited way. But since it is not in isolation, it cannot exist. Whatever phenomena, event, or thing you are studying will never exist in isolation. That divide and understand strategy causes confusion.

So, you will need to analyze, yes, sometimes, but you must synthesize, otherwise there is no meaning of analysis. This will produce more understanding, or it will produce a complete understanding. I am not claiming that we'll understand each and every thing, but at least we can get rid of the ignorance. At least we won't understand it incorrectly, or misunderstand it. That is important.

Because ultimately we are not going to understand the infinite nature of dependent origination, correspondence, or codependence. We see a few examples through direct experience, and we infer the rest of it, and we continue with our lives.

### Rise Above Codependency

So, when we say dependency, codependent, it sounds very bad. It sounds negative. Immediately there can be questions: "How can I become independent? How can I get rid of this dependency? Everything is affecting me. How can I isolate myself?"

So, we have good news and bad news, as usual. You cannot isolate yourself. That means death or destruction, nonexistence. Everything exists in relation to something else. There is no separation. So, that's the bad news: you won't be able to isolate anything at all. It is all one vibration of infinite kinds of patterns. What can be isolated there? Can you isolate one wave from the ocean? "I like this one, let me take it home." And you fill, try to fill the wave in your bucket, you will get nothing. You will create more waves in that pond, or water, or ocean. What has happened? There is no wave that is isolated from the ocean. It does not really exist. It is an illusion.

So, illusion means dependency. That is the another criterion of calling something an illusion: that it does not stand on its own. There is no substance. Substance means that on which everything stands, it stands on its own. So, if everything seems to be dependent on each other, this is how it looks like, and that makes it really clear. It justifies calling it an illusion. You cannot call it truth. If something depends on the other, you cannot call it truth.

So, when you see pictures appearing on the screen that are being projected from a film projector, like in the ancient times, if you ignore the projector, source of light and film, it looks like these pictures are existing independently. And you will see, yes, there is something here, it is true. But when you see, when it is revealed by turning off the light, or stopping the movie, the moving reel, you will realize, "Oh, it was dependent on that source of light and pictures imprinted on plastic." You will stop calling the pictures on the screen real or true. You saw what it depended on.

So, whenever you see that one thing is depending on the other, logically you can conclude that, "No, no, this is not the real thing." So, another criterion is changing. If it changes, appears and disappears, it's false. So, everything is like this in the memory. So, everything is false. Everything is an illusion. The truth will never appear like this. The truth will never be seen as dependent or changing. And the truth is you, the experiencer. Not the body-mind thing; it is memory.

If you think that "I am this body-mind," you will need to accept the dependency. Accept it gracefully, without resistance. There is no point in fighting this law, just like there's no point in fighting the other laws. This body-mind will never become independent. So, you must realize who you are. Self-realization is needed, and you will see that that which I am truly is already independent. It is not participating in the play of pictures. It is the screen. It is the substance. It is the substrate. The essence of the existence is the experiencer. Where is it? It is me. Know yourself.

And that will enable you to not resist the interdependency, codependency of the body-mind. This acceptance will happen naturally. It's also called the surrender. You must surrender. Without knowing yourself, you cannot surrender. Impossible.

Those who don't have self-realization will ask, "Are you saying that I should be dependent on everything else, others, other events, other objects forever?" And the answer is yes, this is how it is since forever and it will remain like this forever.

So, you can rise above the dependency if you want by realizing that I am independent, and that which is dependent is not me. The body-mind is not me. It is a part of the memory. It is another origination which originated out of the memory, layers of the memory. It's very easy.

Still, we can drop down to the illusion, level of illusion. After accepting that this illusory body-mind will remain dependent, you will see that there are some ill effects, undesired effects, that are arising in this body-mind because it is dependent on something unnaturally.

It's okay to be dependent. It's okay to be dependent on food, but it is not okay to be dependent on junk food or unhealthy food. And there needs to be some balance, some limit. Otherwise, it will try to rebalance, and that can be destructive, violent. Know what causes ill effects, what kind of dependency is causing ill effects, and is it too much dependency, is it too little? Try to balance it.

So, once you are in balance, the balance will be so delicate and so smooth, so subtle, that the dependency will be invisible. This is the beauty of the existence or memory: that it is so skillfully balanced that unless this balance is disturbed, we don't even come to know.

So, once you are skillfully balanced, the dependencies are exactly balancing each other. Once you are in this condition, you won't even notice any kind of dependency. Just like you don't notice that you are breathing until somebody comes and stops your breathing, or you hold your breath. It is invisible. You are dependent on the air, but you don't feel it, and you don't complain about it. The dependency becomes a problem when it causes suffering. Otherwise, it is very positive.

A child will never complain that "I am dependent on my mother." That is a beautiful dependency. It is a beautiful relationship. But an employee always complains that "I am dependent for my survival on this company, on my master who pays me a little bit." It is somewhat unnatural. Human beings don't like to be dependent. They want to be independent. Same with all the creatures, all the animals, even societies and countries. So, that dislike is because any kind of unnatural dependency which should not be there, which is not harmonious, causes suffering.

So, you can rise above the law of codependency by knowing what is causing the ill effects or suffering. You can get rid of those dependencies, then you will arrive at the true dependency, true balance, true harmony. If you fight, if there is conflict, the law will try to re-establish itself. Either you will form new dependencies or worse kinds of situations.

So, harmony, not conflict; nonviolence, not violence; construction, not destruction.

So, establish harmony with the environment, with body, with mind, with other people, and you won't even notice the dependency because it is very delicate, it is natural. That will sound like a static situation, but no, it is a dynamic equilibrium. You can improve it even more if you want.

So, how to change everything? By changing everything else. No, I'm just joking. It is impossible. There is an infinite amount to change, so impossible for a human being. But you can use a simple trick. You can use the law of codependency or correspondence and change yourself.

Become the first change. Become the first thing to change in this web of interconnections. You need to change from within. The real change comes from within yourself. And then, because as within, so without, its effects are seen outside. If you change from inside, you will see changes outside.

If you try to change each and everything, micromanage, usually it causes chaos. That must be the experience of everybody. The only thing that you can change reliably according to your wish is yourself, nothing else. Everybody is doing their own dance. Every creature, starting from an ant to an elephant, nobody has the power to change anything. That simply means that we are not meant to change all these things. It is most natural to change what I am, whatever you think you are. Start the change from there.

The real transformation starts from self-transformation. Then since many things are dependent on it, they will also transform. This you can see directly from the properties of the vibration: that they enforce each other, they reinforce each other, and they affect each other. So, if a vibration is of one kind at a specific place and it is strong, it will affect everything around it because there is no separation. And mostly it will change many things, but eventually it will establish a balance, dynamic equilibrium, or harmony.

So, that's what we want. We don't want to paint everything in this existence in our favorite color. We want that I will color myself in whatever color I like, and establish a colorful harmony of colors with everything around me. Then the picture becomes beautiful, otherwise it is monochrome, monotonous. Harmony does not mean that only one note is played, there is only one tone. No. It means there are many notes and they're changing. Still it is beautiful. It is a perfect creation only when there is harmonic codependency.

So, you can rise above this law without trying to break it, without doing any kind of madness, simply by self-transformation. It is also called spiritual evolution, or sometimes we simply call it progress. Because we assume that everybody understands what progress is. Unfortunately, not. People destroy, cause conflict, cause disharmony, try to change everything else ignoring themselves, and that disturbs the whole balance. Then the law of codependence hits back. The results are even worse.

So, a master can see all this very clearly. It is almost magical how a master operates in this illusion. That is the real power of a tantric. The real Tantra practice is simply changing myself and then observing everything else change around me. My progress is the progress of the whole.

So, probably nobody is bothered about the whole, but they really want everything around them to change. So, that is the key: change yourself, progress.

So, we'll continue with other laws of memory in the coming episodes of this series. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 11

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory. Today we are going to discuss a very simple, but very important law, which is applicable to memory. It is called the Law of Relativity, and not to be confused with the theory of relativity.

## 8 - Law of Relativity

This law says that in this existence, nothing is absolute. You can call it the law of non-absoluteness, which means whenever you experience something and experience any attributes you detect, perceive any attributes in it that are never absolute; they are always relative. These attributes are defined relative to something, something else.

So what is the meaning of absolute? That it is fixed, it cannot be anything else, it cannot be compared with anything else. And the meaning of the word attribute is any quality, any quantity, any adjectives that can be added to your experience.

So whatever is perceived is perceived comparatively. The differences provide the knowledge. If there are no differences, either nothing is perceived or no change is detected.

So this all can sound really abstract, so we must go and check some examples using our direct experience. And then, after looking at some examples, there is no need to search the whole world; you can use logical inference to prove the law.

When you perceive any object, you see the size, the weight, the heat, temperature, so on. These are the attributes of that object. Even brightness, color, and so on. And you will quickly find that the sizes are not absolute. If you compare two objects, you can call one big and the other small. But when you are looking at just one object, you cannot say whether it is big or small.

This example is so simple that many people will not appreciate it. It is almost too obvious that size comparison can happen only if there are two objects. But somebody can say, "No, if you give me one object, I can measure its height, width, and so on. I can tell you the absolute size of it." And that is why I said this simple example will not be appreciated by many.

When you are measuring the size of something using a scale or a ruler, tape, you are comparing it with the scale or the measuring rod, whatever. Otherwise, it's impossible to know the size. The measurement simply puts a number on it, so that when you measure something else using the same measuring rod, you can compare the two numbers and tell which one is bigger. If you don't compare those two numbers, two measurements, nothing can be said.

And the same goes for volume, weight, even the direction: up and down, left, right. You need to compare it with something to know anything about the attributes of an object.

We never paid attention to this in our, in our whole lives. If you declare one object as bigger than the other object, and if somebody brings something else which is bigger than the big object, now you must call that object a small object, because something bigger is there in the room. So something which was big became small because now it is compared to a bigger one.

The attribute of size is relative. We say it like this, and when we say it like this, now it does not appear so childish. If somebody can say that, "What is your point? Yes, obviously this happens." But you need to contemplate on this sentence: the attribute or the quality of the size is always relative. And that means there is no absolute size of anything.

Now it is more shocking. That also means that size is an illusion. You will never find a real size of anything.

So you need to think deeply about why this is called law. And if it is called law, there must be some big reason.

Somebody can say, "No, I know the size. The size is 1 meter by 1 meter by 1 meter, 1 meter cube." And that is because you never paid attention to the meter. It is an arbitrary unit. If you bring a foot rule, now the size will change to probably 3 by 3 by 3, roughly. How big is that cube or box? Nobody knows. If you change the unit, nobody will understand how big things are.

A very good foot rule or measuring rod is the human body itself. The word "foot" or "feet" probably comes from there, but it's not equal to the size of the foot, human foot. So the units and the measuring rods are defined by international unit society or some standard, and they are all arbitrary.

So if you stand close to something, you get a very good idea of how big that thing is. If you hold it in your hands, yes. If you cannot see it with your eyes, you declare it as small, tiny, microscopic. And sometimes it is so big that we don't know what size it is; it looks almost endless, infinite, like a mountain or Earth itself. You need to go very far away to see how big it is.

So the big and small is a concept created by human beings that is useful to know whether I can hold it, or whether I'll be crushed by it. Should I fight with this man who looks bigger than me, or should I run away? This is how the mind creates size. It is a mental construct. There is no size in the existence. Without any comparison, this quality will not exist.

Same for everything else. Now the logic comes in here: weight, volume, duration, time, mass, energy, force, velocity, and many more things. You can take any attribute and experiment. Do you find anything absolute?

If you want to measure the direction, it must be relative to something. If you want to measure the angle, it must be relative to something. If you want to measure the position, you must find an origin, a standard place. So there are no positions, no angles, no directions.

How much is mind created? How much is our imagination only? The answer is easy: everything, all of it, all the qualities.

So these were some physical examples. We are going to take some non-physical examples or conceptual examples before we go to the mental, because for human beings, those mental things are more important. This law will produce a mental shock if you think about it when applied to mental attributes.

So before that, let us take a look at something very fundamental, which is change.

## Change & Memory

How do we perceive the change? Change is fundamental because we have defined the vibration as a change, but the law of relativity breaks this concept also, it is so strong.

Change is simply a comparison between two memory states. The comparison is not happening in time, you must assume like this, although we won't be able to imagine it clearly. So there are two objects in the memory. They are compared instantly, timelessly, and some attribute is produced, big or small, and something like this.

But if it is the same object, and if the comparison produces a difference, the intellect or the memory will not call it an attribute; it will call it a change. See how mysterious this thing is.

And this change gives rise to a sense of time passing. Something has changed, that gives rise to the concept of time. The concept of time comes out of perception of change, and the perception of change is simply comparison of two memory states. You can define time as the measurement of change, how much change has happened, just like a meter is a measurement of distance, how much distance is there. Time measures how much change is there.

So it is very amazing that if you present two objects, two different objects, to the memory, and these memory locations are compared, it will give rise to the attribute of size and so on: volume, bigness, smallness. But if the memory says it is the same thing, it is the same object, then it will give rise to the attribute of change.

For example, you take two balloons. One is bigger than the other. If they are seen simultaneously, then the memory will produce the attribute of size: one balloon is bigger than the size of the other balloon. But if you remove one balloon, and simply pump more air in the remaining balloon, the memory will not say that there are two objects of different sizes; the memory will say the same object is now bigger, size has changed.

In the first case also the size was changing, but since it was simultaneous, there was no dimension of time there. But here, the same object is presented. The memory recognizes it as the same object, and therefore it says it is changing. So the change is relative to the first state. There is no absolute change also.

It is very difficult to talk about change without using the language of time, so we'll use the language of numbers and probability.

If the balloon has two probabilities of appearing differently, which is possible because there is a potential for the balloon to change, then if these two probabilities are presented in the memory, and if the memory says it is mostly the same object, then it will be called a change. The difference of two probabilities will be called a change.

The memory will not say that the object one was smaller than the object two; it will say the object one changed into object one which is now bigger. The comparison is between the memories, not between the two perceptions.

So before we understand change, we must introduce another concept, which I already introduced. It is that of a memory location.

You know that the memory is infinite, there is no limit. It is non-physical, non-mental. We can assume that the memory is divided into sections. It is an assumption, there is no real section. There is no real division in the memory.

You can compare it with a movie, a film, which has many frames. Each frame can be called a memory location because something is impressed on that frame. Memory is simply an impression of a vibrating pattern. That vibrating pattern is experienced.

So for simplicity, let us assume that there are only 1,000 memory locations in the existence. And in our example, that means the movie has only 1,000 frames. And a pattern of balloon is impressed on that memory location. In all those 1,000 frames, because of the copying mechanism of the patterns, the patterns are not stationary, they copy themselves everywhere, since we have only 1,000 locations, we assume that only 1,000 copies will be made.

Then we assume that the balloon is leaking a little bit of air. So that means the pattern, when it copies, must copy it with less air. There is a probability that this will happen: air will leak out of the balloon. So every time the copy is made, the memory pattern must copy the pattern of the balloon with a little bit of less air in it. So after 1,000 frames, you will get the same pattern, but without much air.

These 1,000 possibilities exist at the same time. There is no time in the existence. It is all infinite memory. So these copies are made instantly, without time, just like all the pictures on the movie strip, the film strip, they are present at once. This balloon will appear in 1,000 frames of the movie, with the difference of size.

So if the attention shifts from the first frame to the last frame, the memory will say a change has happened, because a difference in size will be detected. The conclusion will be: size has changed.

And the memory will also say, by shifting the attention through 1,000 frames, it will say it took 1,000 frames. It will create a sense of time: one unit of time corresponding to one frame. So the memory will say: change in size happened in 1,000 units of time. So if the unit is second, it will say it took 1,000 seconds.

All of these 1,000 frames will be perceived, but the attention will shift from this frame to that frame. It's all in memory, and wherever the attention is, that is the present moment. Let us say the attention is on frame number 500, and the balloon will be shown half the size there. And if the attention is on 1,000 frame, the balloon will be shown almost with no air, a small balloon.

And if all these frames are recalled, the intellect, whatever is doing the comparison, will say: this balloon was big; after 1,000 seconds, it became a small balloon. Change has happened.

But actually, all these memory locations are present timelessly, only the attention is moving. In rough words you can say the mind is moving, not the object.

This is a very familiar sentence for many people who must have studied some philosophies, ancient philosophies: "The mind is moving, there is actually no change, nothing changes, objects do not change."

There are almost infinite possibilities and configurations in which a memory pattern will exist. If you scan through those memory locations, one or other kind of difference will be detected, and it will be called a change.

I know it is very difficult to understand. It took me half an hour to record this much.

So the track the attention or mind takes to scan through the memory locations will be called a timeline.

You can imagine there can be different tracks where the same memory pattern can take different shapes. It evolves in a different timeline. But since a local copy has already been made in a human memory, it becomes the history or the past. And now that cannot be changed. The human or this organism says, "This event happened."

This mechanism or the process sounds very complex. I probably don't have the skill to explain it nicely, but it's very simple. There are infinite timelines, and whatever path is taken, for some or the other reason, becomes history. And we know only the history; we cannot know the present, or other timelines, or futures.

So you can say that the change is a movement of attention through the memory location. Attention is simply selective perception.

We can go on explaining like this, but it will take a full book to explain every word.

So in our film metaphor, if the film is moved in front of a light source, the pictures will be projected on the screen, and the pictures will appear as changing. One object will appear on the screen, and it will produce the illusion of change. What is actually there? A thousand varieties of the same pattern. They are actually 1,000 patterns.

But you must remember that there are no actual memory locations that are separated from each other, and there are no actual 1,000 patterns. It is all one. It is present there as a superposition of 1,000 patterns.

Because we will never understand what is happening, how the mind is moving through a superposition of 1,000 states of memory, we need to spread it out in distance, in space, and try to understand it with the metaphor of film strip, frames of images.

So if a larger or greater difference is detected, the conclusion is that bigger change has happened, there is a lot of change. But if there is not much difference between all these patterns in different memory locations, we perceive it as stable. It is the same object. That is the conclusion.

If there are two objects in the same frame, in the same memory location, still the memory can detect a difference, if there is any, and it will say: this object is bigger than that object. Object number one is bigger than object number two. Now this is an intra-frame comparison instead of inter-frame.

If there are two objects in all the 1,000 frames, the memory can still detect any differences, and it will say that these two objects, one is always bigger than the other. Or, in case of leakage of air from the balloon, if there are two balloons and they are present in those 1,000 frames, in each frame you will see two balloons, but one will become smaller and smaller. So that can also be detected. Memory can say that there were two objects; after 1,000 seconds, one is very small, the other is big. Still the same.

And there can be infinite kinds of combinations, permutations, events, and displays of vibrating patterns. And the attention or the mind takes a route through this, producing a history of events.

The only difference between the film strip and memory locations is that the film strip is already made, it cannot change, you cannot have a different timeline of a movie unless you create another movie, another film strip. But in the case of memory locations, there are almost infinite possibilities. The attention can take any route.

But usually that does not happen because the attention or the mind is bound by knowledge, which means it is bound by whatever exists already in history. So it is biased to follow that timeline. So the balloons will not suddenly become footballs or rocks. It's not possible, because of the previous knowledge that is stored in the memory.

Now this is becoming a really complicated matter, and also boring, because our point is to study the law of relativity. Just remember that the change is also relative.

Change can be perceived as quick, or fast, or slow. But if the same change happens at a different speed, comparison will be made, and now the conclusion will be: this is changing really slowly today.

So nothing changes fast, nothing changes slowly. It is all relative, because change itself is false, an illusion.

This is something very basic, but the law of relativity applies here also. A vibrating pattern consists of vibration, two-state change, but they are different. One can be of smaller amplitude, the other can be of bigger amplitude, but still the changes in amplitude are relative. There is no standard amplitude of it, and that is because the range of these amplitudes is infinite. So whatever can be detected can only be relative. In the infinite range, you cannot detect anything absolute. You will always find something which is bigger than your existing amplitude, and if you go and search again, you will always find something which is much bigger, let us say, because there is no end.

So that applies to the size of physical objects. You will always find a bigger thing than the one you have, and there is always a chance that something even bigger will show up.

## Irreducibles

So all perception is comparison. There is no absolute perception. This we checked for vision: sizes and objects, changes in objects. But you can use logic and see that it is applicable to all the senses, which means it is applicable to all the irreducibles, because all these irreducibles are nothing but memory patterns. They are different formats of vibrations produced by different kinds of senses.

So a voice is louder only when compared to a soft voice. You can recognize a tone, whether it is higher or lower, only when you compare it with another tone, another note, let's say in music. Without comparison, there is no music. So the comparison here is happening in time.

Same about other irreducibles like smell and so on, taste. If you taste something sweet, it is sweet only in comparison to something which is not sweet. There is no absolute sweetness.

So all the sensations are relative.

It is well-known that heat and cold are relative. Something is hot only in comparison with something which is not so hot. A very good experiment is to take three bowls of water: one with ice-cold water, one with room temperature water, and one with warm water. If you dip your hand in ice-cold water, and after a minute you dip the same hand in room temperature water, the sensation will be of warmth. It will feel warmer. But if you dip your hand in hot water, and after a minute you dip it in the room temperature water, the sensation will be of coolness. It will feel cold.

So all these senses, they are simply lying. The room temperature water was warm when compared to ice-cold, but it was cold when compared to hot water. Is it really warm, or is it really cold? Whatever the sense of touch is telling you is simply comparative information. It is not telling you anything absolute. So the room temperature water is not absolutely cold or absolutely warm. There is no temperature. That is an illusion produced by the sense of touch. The sense of touch also senses temperature or heat, same skin.

Same about pain, pleasure, things that are important for you. They are all comparative, relative, and they are not real. It is all a lie. It's all false.

Same about brightness, darkness, colors. One color can appear anything if surrounded by a different colorwell-known optical illusion. And the same is true for motion and many, many physical quantities. You can do the homework. So probably you got the idea and I need not go on explaining it.

## Human Centric Illusions

So we'll go to the important part: what about the mental experiences, such as happiness? And yes, the law of relativity applies there also.

You are very hungry, so there is no happiness, it is suffering that is sensed. You get an ice cream. Now desires are fulfilled, happiness is produced, some reward is produced in the mind. Remember, there is nothing in the ice cream. It is a pile of organic matter; there is no happiness there. So the mind produces a reward because you fulfilled the desire, you obeyed the command, so reward is given. That is felt as happiness: different kinds of sensations.

But then you are given chocolate ice cream, a big cone, more happiness! Now the first happiness: gone. But if somebody owns a factory of ice cream, they keep giving you the same ice cream every day, every hour, every minute. Now a comparison is made in the memory: what happened to this happiness? Is it better than yesterday's, or is it better than last minute's happiness? And no difference is seen. So the sensation that is produced, or the perception now is: "I'm not happy. Please give me something else. Give me something spicy, something bitter, like coffee. I don't want your ice cream now."

What happened to the happiness which you felt when you ate that ice cream after many hours of hunger? Why can't you get the same happiness now with the same ice cream, even with two or three or 40 ice creams? Why? The comparison comes out to be zero, that's why. Happiness is relative.

If you get something after suffering for it, there is more happiness. The mind is simply fooling you. Actually the mind is fooling everybody. That is why it is called an illusion. There is no real happiness. You can say in short, there is no happiness.

Same about suffering or sadness. One day it happens that you fail in the exam. You're very sad, you're depressed. But somebody calls you and says, "One of your relatives, mother, father, brother, sister - died, unfortunately." Now you forget the exam. Now this suffering is too much compared to that. Now you start crying, you're not merely depressed.

So what happened to the suffering of failing in an exam? It's meaningless. There was no suffering, something bigger came up. And that suffering is also relative. No happiness, no suffering, no sadness, no joy, no pleasure, no pain.

Same for satisfaction. What satisfies you is comparative.

A good example is: you pay 100 rupees to a beggar. He will be very satisfied, very happy. Even if you keep paying him 100 rupees per day, he will be satisfied. Not very happy, but "Yes, I'm getting it."

What happens if you pay 100 rupees to a millionaire? Probably on the first day he will take it: "Oh, somebody's gifting me something, seems to be a good fellow." The next day he will laugh, but probably will still take it. But if you keep doing it, he will get irritated: "I'm a millionaire! There's no value of your 100 rupees for me." He will be insulted.

You say, "I'm paying you 100 rupees, do this thing for me. Do this job for me." The millionaire will beat you up! He will call security. And the beggar will be so happy that he will come to your house every day to do that job, whatever hard work that you are giving him.

Satisfaction is relative to whatever has already satisfied you. You will not get more satisfaction by repeating the same thing. So now you understand why nobody's satisfied in their life. They want change.

So if you have an ordinary-looking girlfriend, you are very happy, you are satisfied. But if by chance you meet a very beautiful girlfriend, you get her, now the first girlfriend is not satisfactory. You will not perceive so much jump in happiness, because you are getting the same love, but you will perceive a big difference in satisfaction. Probably your ordinary girlfriend loved you more than this one, because she's beautiful, she has more options. So you got 50% love, but you got 100% satisfaction. So life is complicated, you can see. That is because of the law of relativity.

Now something which is very useful for spiritual people or intellectual people: our knowledge is also relative. The amount you know is relative.

If you consider yourself very knowledgeable, you will find somebody who will prove to you that you know absolutely nothing, or whatever you know was ignorance. It happens many times. You cannot estimate or measure your knowledge. There is always something more to know.

How much you know depends on your previous knowledge or previous ignorance. If there was too much ignorance, if you know a little bit, it gives an impression that "I came to know a lot." If you have too much knowledge, and if you know one book worth of knowledge, probably you will forget that in one day, or you'll keep only the summary of it, the essence of it.

So, since we are coming from the path of knowledge, it is directly applicable: your knowledge is relative. There is no absolute knowledge.

Now that explains why less-educated people and less-intelligent people with less knowledge think that they know everything. If they know a few facts, or one or two wisdom quotes from here and there, they listen to one or two sentences, declare themselves the wisest men in history. Why? Because their perceived knowledge is now too much, relatively. They were at zero, ignorance. Now it is 100, let us say, the amount of knowledge. It's a big jump.

But somebody who is very intelligent, very wise, has a lot of knowledge, let us say he has 10,000 units of knowledge. Somebody tells him one or two sentences, he gets 10,100 units of knowledge. But comparatively, if you take a ratio, it is 0.0001% jump, roughly. So he will say, "I came to know nothing." So all your knowledge is illusion, there is nothing to know. So only illusion can be produced.

Now these things don't matter that much. Let us take something serious which any serious person will say matters. "That is absolute," they will say. For example, the good and bad. And I have good and bad news for you, that they are also relative.

It is called ethics, and there are standards of ethics. What is good, what is bad, is never absolute; it is always relative.

So it is very bad to kill an animal. But a family of humans is dying, there is nothing to eat, it is a desert, or a snow-covered area, or a mountain. The death of a whole family, a human family, is worse than killing one animal. There are thousands of animals, they keep reproducing, so, "Okay, let's kill it." Now the same action is a good action. Why? Because there is no absolute good and there is no absolute bad; it is all relative.

This is a very simple example, but the situation is more complicated because of the law of relativity. One person's good is another person's bad. One person's bad is another person's good. You will find many examples.

For example, two countries are fighting, war. One soldier is killed. It is good for the other country, people of the other country. It is very bad for this country to which that soldier belongs. So it keeps changing. It is relative - who is talking about good and bad.

The ethics are cooked up on the spot. There is no ethics in the existence. It is not also unethical. These divisions are products of human imagination, false illusions.

The corresponding side of ethics is aesthetics or beauty. There is no beauty in existence, and there is no ugliness. It is all relative. One thing is beautiful compared to only something else. Otherwise you won't be able to tell what is beautiful, what is ugly.

Same for values, principles, ideals, and thousand other purely imaginary, illusory things which humans think are important. There the law of relativity destroys everything, actually.

In the beginning I said it is a very simple law. It will be over in 10 minutes, but I can go on explaining like this. But we covered many important domains, starting from the irreducible, the basic change, and the attributes of the objects, and the quantities or qualities that are mental, and something which is considered spiritual, divine, what not. Everything is relative.

## Rising Above Relativity

Now the question is: how to rise above the law of relativity? How to reach absoluteness?

And as usual, you cannot break this law. Everything that is perceived, everything that exists, or seems to exist, will be relative. But we can rise above the law of relativity by knowing that nothing is absolute. And that produces something which is not so relative. It is called equanimity. In Sanskrit you can call *sambhava* or *samadhi*, some kind. Which means you do not deviate too much because of relativity. Your mind is mostly stable. Although everything around it is changing, and there is an almost insane amount of relativity out there, you will remain steady, because you know this law.

Whenever you see too much, you know that it is not too much, even more can happen, so you become a little bit quiet, calm, equanimous. You see a very bad situation, but you know that something worse can happen, so you come back in the middle.

You will find this quality in a master. They are not moved too much by happiness, suffering. Too much happiness, too much suffering does not matter to them. They almost look like a stone sitting there in meditation. Does not matter what is happening around them.

You pay them 1 million, they smile. You pay them 1,000, they laugh. There is no difference. You call them heartless, and they smile. You call them evil, they laugh. No difference. Fame and humiliation, they are all equal. They are not swayed by greed, beauty, values, ethics, nothing. Why? Because they know it's all relative, all illusion. "This much beauty, very good, I'll enjoy it, but I cannot get attached to it because there is more beauty, or it turns into ugliness. It's all relative. It's all perception, illusion, experience, changing superpositions in the memory locations."

What are you going to do with it? Do you want happiness? It's all relative. It will not last. So all this mad rush stops for the master, for the one who has risen above the law of relativity. Equanimity, peace, bliss remains.

And I can guarantee you that once you reach this condition, *sambhava*, *samadhi*, you will never let it go. Even if somebody pays you in gold, you will reject that offer. You will say, "No, I want this equanimity. Enjoy your gold. Enjoy your kingdom. The gold and dirt, same thing." Just like hot and cold were the same thing.

So a real wise person says, "I don't know anything," because obviously, all knowledge is ignorance, all knowledge is illusory knowledge. So the wisest person will say, "I'm agnostic." And they are easily satisfied with even small things, because they know that the small is better than nothing. It's too much, actually.

So all these qualities of humbleness, equanimity, satisfaction, contentness, stability, they will start manifesting in you, in this body-mind instrument. For that, you need to start studying what is appearing around you and your states of your mind. Use your direct experience. Look closely. Use your intelligence, the superior, the higher intelligence, spiritual intelligence, not your street smartness. And you will start seeing these things clearly.

It is a law, because it is never broken, but still, you can utilize this law to rise above it. Mostly this will be called progress, although the progress is also relative.

So we'll continue our discussion on laws of memory. There are many more laws. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 12

Welcome to Pure Experiences. You are listening to the series on Laws of Memory. Today, we are going to discuss the Law of Interconnectedness.

## 9 - Law of Interconnectedness

It is clear from the name. It means everything in existence is interconnected. It does not mean that there are things and then there are some kind of connections between them. You should not picture it as many objects and being connected by ropes, cables, wires, or invisible energy of some kind. It does not mean like that. It simply means do not think about objects, things, events, yourself as separate from each other.

Do not imagine that these things are there, there is some kind of distance between them - conceptual, spatial, temporal and then something comes and connects them. No, that is the wrong imagination.

So, how to picture this? And the problem is we cannot. That kind of imagination will be almost impossible. Can I picture everything as happening at once, on top of each other? No, do not do that. That is impossible.

We can get negative evidence. Whenever we try to find some kind of separation, isolation, any kind of wall or break in our experience of anything will fail. That cannot be proven. And so, only negative evidence is possible.

But the name is very beautiful: Interconnectedness. It actually means everything is one. So, you can call it the Law of Oneness. But oneness is not a law which is governing something else. The existence itself is oneness. You are that.

This law says that there is non-isolation. You cannot isolate one thing from another, one event from another, one phenomenon from another, one person from another, one thought or emotion from another. And secondly, you cannot find a boundary between anything you can encounter. The experiences do not occur separately with definite boundaries between them. You will never find this kind of evidence of a boundary. But there can be an illusion of boundaries; there can be an illusion of separatedness. And that's what we are going to talk about in this part.

And it also means that there are no breaks. The experience is not broken into parts. Universal memory does not have separate parts with breaks or boundaries between them. That's not possible. But yes, whenever it is needed, some kind of separation appears. That separation is not real. It can be overpowered, or you can rise above that separation very easily, because it is an illusion. Since everything can appear, separation can also appear. But there is no true separation. A little bit of investigation shows that.

So, we'll try to find some examples. That is necessary because when you take a look at your experience, all you find is only separation. You will struggle to find the interconnectedness, and you will probably try to imagine some kind of connecting medium, and that is a problem, because there is nothing like that.

So, many listeners must have already recalled the Law of Codependency, which also says that nothing exists separately. One thing is dependent on other for its existence: codependency. That already implies some kind of connection, some kind of non-isolation. So, interconnectedness is similar to codependency. There can be some minor differences in explanation and interpretation, that's all. And the interconnectedness also explains many more laws, like the Law of Action and Consequence.

## Separation

You will need to go deeper to see why there is interconnectedness. First thing, you need to define the separation, this word "separation." How do you define it? So, let us try.

You can take one experience to define separation among two experiences. That already sounds very absurd. How can you separate experiences using another experience? It is like separating two parts of the water using more water. It is like that, yes. That's why there is no separation, but we try.

So, let us take the experience of distance or space. One experience or object can be separated from another using the experience of distance. You can already see that that separation is mental, mind-created, because the distance between two objects actually connects them. If they are completely separate, you won't be able to measure the distance.

Anyway, you can take another experience of time and try to separate one event from another. This event happened yesterday; that event happened today. These are separate events now. But you will see that one event is changing and another event is appearing. It is all one continuous experience.

So, what else can cause separation? Ignorance. Something happened, some event happened, then there was a period of ignorance, another event happened. I did not come to know what was in between, and that produces a separation. A very good example of separation by ignorance is sleep, the state of sleep, deep sleep. We separate the last day from today using ignorance of sleep, because we don't know what happened in between. That causes a separation between the two experiences of waking.

Another example of ignorance and its separation is forgetting, which itself is an experience - experience of forgetting. That's what happened in between.

So, you can see that it does not matter what kind of parameter we use for separation. The parameter is arbitrary and actually contributes to the continuation of experience instead of separating it.

So, what can be the cause of separation? It is your homework. Can we find something which is not in our experience, which is beyond experience, to separate two experiences? The answer is mostly no. Okay, that should give you a lot of evidence if you think about it. I tried to find separation, I failed; this is negative evidence. So, we'll try to get more evidence.

## Oneness of Existence

Let us go into existence itself. There is only one existence. Existence means everything. How many everythings can there be? Wrong question. There is only one everything. It is one.

However, it is never found as one thing. Existence is not an experience that happens only one or it is present here. Look at the existence; there is only one of it, a rare species. No, it is not like that. So, it always appears many. So, we don't call it oneness; we call it nonduality. So, non-multiplicity if you want to generalize.

There cannot be many essences of the existence. Essence means the foundation, that of which the existence is made up of. There can be only one essence that should be unchanging, and that is only one. So, everything that appears in it, does not matter how many things appear here, essentially it is one, non-separated.

Still, we can create two basic, fundamental divisions in the existence. The one is the experiencer, which is the essence, which is the witness of all experience, witnessing ability of existence. And the other division is the experience, which is whatever is appearing in it: objects, events, bodies, people, minds, mental events, non-physical, metaphysical, whatever you want to call it. Everything comes under experience.

These are the fundamental divisions: experience and the experiencer. The experience cannot become the experiencer; the picture cannot become the screen. And the experiencer never becomes the experience; the screen remains the screen, it does not turn into a picture. Still, you cannot separate the screen from the picture. In the same way, you cannot separate the experiencer from the experience. You will never find a separation.

That is the trick we use to prove nonduality or oneness. We go and try to find a separation of any kind, and we cannot. But we cannot say "one", because we do not find "one" either. So, we end up saying "not two", no division, not dual, nondual.

So, those who want to do this exercise, they want to find the unity of experience and experiencer, they should watch the Drig-Drishya series on my channel. See, only the first video is important in that series, which gives you the basic knowledge, essential knowledge. There it is shown very clearly that there is no division between the experience and experiencer, although one cannot be converted into other, one cannot become the other. Just like two sides of a coin: one side cannot become the other side because it is one. One side cannot disappear and get converted into other side. Still, they are one. It is one coin with two faces.

Similarly, it is one existence with two aspects. Aspects - the word simply means viewpoint. Aspect, how you view it, causes separation.

"Me" and "not-me"remember this thing. When I am me, it is a state of the existence. When I'm not-me, it is another state. That gives rise to this binary state, a virtual superimposed binary state with which we started. But they are one. So, this division is imaginary.

So, how many experiences are there? And there is only one experience. It is a continuous, changing stream, dynamic presence. That's all there is. So, even though it is an illusion, it is one illusion. There are not many illusions: illusion number one here, illusion number two here. No, you will never find any evidence of that. Even inside the illusion, it is all one.

For example, pictures appearing on a screen. You can find one picture on the left side and another picture on the right side. That is apparent division. These all pictures are on one screen. If you try to take them apart, no, not possible.

So, it is like an apparent division, like your glove, woolen glove. You can put your hand in it, and suddenly there are five different fingers. If you ignore your hand, if you paint faces on all those fingers, it will look like five people. One is very tall; one is very short. You can give them personalities, make them puppets, do the dance of life of these puppets. But it is one glove. One is appearing many. One is appearing as five fingers, one hand. It's all connected.

That is the meaning of interconnection. That apparent division has a hidden, common substance, level, foundation. What is that? That is existence itself. Or you can say that is the experiencer itself, because existence is essentially the experiencer.

So, if you ignore the hand, yes, the five fingers will appear different. If the illusion is made sufficiently complicated by painting the fingers with faces and smiles on their faces, making it sophisticated, any person of immature intellect will be fooled into thinking that there are five living entities here with their own lives. They're talking, walking, and like children, very little babies, they are amused by this. They think these puppets have lives.

So, human beings are just like babies. They don't know anything, very innocent. And whatever appears here in this one existence, in this one illusion, human beings think it is all separate, isolated, simply because they don't know. There is no knowledge of oneness; there is no knowledge of interconnectedness in an average person.

## Formation of Virtual Boundaries

Interconnectedness can be explained through our model of the illusion, model of the vibrating patterns in a non-physical, non-mental memory. Because it is non-physical, non-mental, you cannot even imagine anything that can divide it, because the divisions will always be physical, mental, whatever. I gave you the examples. You cannot paint a boundary there, because there's nothing to bound, nothing to divide.

So, infinite patterns of vibrations superimposed on each other, nothing separates them. However, virtual boundaries appear, and mostly the nature of these boundaries or breaks is of the kind of a separation which we already defined: it is of ignorance. We don't know what is there beyond this experience. That causes a kind of boundary, a kind of wall, infinite wall. We cannot see beyond that wall, a curtain.

So, let us take very simple examples of one wall dividing a room into two. Immediately, we'll say that there is a division between one part of the room and the other part. If you look closely, trace one room to the other room, you will go through the wall. You will find that the wall is a continuation of the room. Air changes into cement, bricks, then bricks change into air again, if by room we mean air only. So, there is no separation, only change of experience. The experience of the room changes into the experience of the wall, and the experience of the wall then again becomes the experience of the room. There is no separation.

Why does it look like we have two rooms? Because of ignorance. We cannot see beyond the wall. So, our intellect forms a knowledge, knowledge structure in the mind: here is this room, then there is ignorance, we don't know, then we go to another room, here is another room. For the time being, we forget about the first room, and when we remember both rooms, we remember them with this wall between them.

You can translate it into vibrating patterns. The vibrating pattern of the room or air changes into the vibrating pattern of the wall, then changes into the vibrating pattern of air in the second room. So, throughout, there are just vibrating patterns which are virtual, not real. There's nothing actual that is present there. It is an illusion: the wall, the room, everything is an illusion. And so, whatever the boundaries that appeared there is an illusion. And the knowledge in the mind provides an illusion of separation. And it is practical; sometimes it is useful to have different rooms and doors between them.

So, let us take two objects in one room, and what separates them is a boundary. This object starts here, ends there, and there is a gap, air between them. And there is another object which starts somewhere and then it ends. It is very convincing. Anybody will say there are two objects, they are separate objects. Look, I'm shaking and moving one object, but nothing happens to the other object. It is not connected. Your Law of Interconnectedness is wrong here; it is broken.

So, how to see that all objects are interconnected? You must examine the illusion of space or distance before you can say anything. The kind of separation that is defined here is of distance or space. You can imagine these two objects in space beyond Earth where there is not even air that can connect them.

So, what do we see? The direct experience shows that there are two objects, there is a wall behind the object or there is floor below the objects, that's all. Let us say one object is red, the other object is blue, and the floor is white. So, when you look at one object, the red color then changes into white, and then white changes into blue, that's all. That's all we see. We do not see objects, we do not see space or distance, nothing.

This is the direct experience which is devoid of superimposition of knowledge or ignorance. Then a model is formed in the mind that this thing, the red thing, is different; the blue thing is different; and whatever is between them is a third thing which is different.

Our sense of vision trisects one experience into three. Remember, it is just one experience. The experience itself has no boundaries, no breaks. Here there is no ignorance either. We know exactly what is happening, but we do not see anything called space or distance. Somebody will say, "No, I see the distance. Look, from here to here," they will point the fingers. That is another experience, that's all.

You can put those objects in air or space and the same thing happens. If there is nothing behind them, there will be blackness, completely black. So, the red will change into black and the black will change into blue. Does not matter. It is an experience of irreducibles.

It is never that the red starts here and stops there and there is nothing at all, and then the blue starts. No, it will never happen. There is always something to look at between the two. That is what we call space or distance.

Space is a negative concept which says that there is nothing here which is worth talking about, which is important, that's all. This concept is the same. It is negating. Space is a negation: there is no object here. That's what the mind is saying. And so, these two objects are separate. But there is always an experience there. Even though there is no object as usual, there is no connecting rod between the two, but there is always an experience between them. They are conceptually separated, not actually.

So, what happens at the level of vibrating patterns? These patterns are two objects, non-physical, non-mental, emitted by senses. One pattern changes into another and then the other pattern changes into the third. So, if you take the example of the white floor, the pattern changes from one object, let us say a ball, to floor, and then to another ball. So, can we say that these balls are connected by the floor? What if they are in the air? Are they connected by air? What if they are in empty space? How are they connected?

So, that is why it is necessary to see that space itself is a concept. There is no empty space. So, using our concept, imagination of memory locations, you can say that the red ball is in one memory location, blue ball is in another memory location, and in between there are patterns that are irregular, or they change so fast, they're not stable, that they are not registered by the senses. Eyes will say there is nothing here. But it is one memory. The memory locations are not rooms, they're not boxes, they are conceptual.

So, that which the sense of vision is not able to grasp is called a space. But we do not see that. We see that which is behind the space. The senses provide something which they can grasp, and whatever they cannot appears as blank space.

At the level of memory, there are no patterns corresponding to the space. There's nothing like that. We cannot say that, "Look, this pattern in the memory represents space." No, it's not. There are always some or the other kinds of patterns, that which are stable, they stay for a while, they are grasped, detected by the senses; the rest is ignored.

For sound, it will appear as a silence. For vision, it will appear as blackness, space. "I don't see anything," anybody will say. Therefore, it is separated.

So, are these balls connected by something? And that is also wrong. There is nothing there that connects them, only that they are not separated. They do not exist in space. There are no balls.

Or there is another explanation of distance: it is simply the arrangement of sensory data in memory that gives rise to an illusion of position, distance, and space. The data that is collected itself has no boundaries, no discontinuity, nothing. The stream of data or vibrations that is coming in through the senses, they are always continuous. Then the mind creates all these representations of what is happening. And one of the representations is distance or space. For sound, it is silence.

Space does not mean that there is nothing; it simply means it is another experience, that's all. Silence does not mean that there is nothing; it is another experience. It is not that which was present before, that's what the mind is saying, intellect is saying. Let us say we hear two sounds: one sound and then a silence, then another sound. So, the mind says in between there was a silence, a separation, a gap. But that was an experience where the first sound or the second sound was not there, that's all.

So, that's why I said it is not possible to understand interconnectedness by imagining some kind of connecting rod, connecting links between the events or experiences. No, you can understand interconnectedness only by discarding the notion of separation.

So, why is there nothing between two objects? There is an experience which says it is not the first object and it is not the second object, that's all it is saying. Then it is interpreted as disconnection or the one object stops, other starts.

Interconnectedness also does not mean that if you move one object, the other will move, and other will be affected in some way. No, that is not necessary. There is no causal connection. It is not necessary. While the first object is moving, shaking, or getting destroyed, you will not find the other object disconnected from it. It will all appear as one experience.

So, mostly the objects are impermanent, like we saw in the example of sound. The first sound is already gone, then there is silence, then there is the second sound. They're gone, but there was never a separation between the two events. They were connected by silence. Poetically, you can say that silence is simply another event, another experience. It is negative in the sense that it is not the first event, it is not the second event.

So, even if they are impermanent, they are still connected. They are still not separate. So, the vibrating patterns do not have a boundary, because there is no space or time or anything in the memory. Still, these boundaries can appear. We saw some examples, and they're very convincing. It is very difficult to show that there is no separation. Once you know that all these experiences, all these illusions are mind-created, the separation is only in your mind as a concept, as a knowledge, or you can call it ignorance if you want, as a data structure, name and form, only then you will understand that everything is one, everything is interconnected.

## Fields

Everything is one, everything is interconnected. Still, boundaries can appear. Distances, times, ignorance, and states of the mind, they all provide virtual boundaries. These boundaries get created so that we can make sense of something. If we do not divide the experience into many, it will not be possible to understand what is there. That is why memory, in the form of knowledge, separates out patterns. That is necessary for survival. If you don't know that this one object is my food and I am the food of that other object, survival will become difficult. So, these boundaries are drawn in the mind as illusions.

Again, those who study physics and electricity, magnetism, and so on, they will see that all objects, physical objects, we're talking about physical objects, now, they are patterns of fields. You can call them energy fields or force fields, charge fields, does not matter. They are fields. There is nothing separate, a particle there; they are waves.

And the interesting thing about the waves is that they do not stop distinctly, suddenly. They continue, and they fade into nothingness. So, you can draw a boundary somewhere where the field of one object fades into a tiny amount, but it will never become zero. It goes beyond the detection mechanism which is called sense. You cannot see it now. If you use an instrument, there is a limit of the instrument. It stops detecting it after some time, but it never goes down to zero.

So, two objects, they are connected actually, physically by these fields. The electrons in one object are still sensing the electrons in the other object. They're sensing each other. The gravity of one is still pulling the other. If you take the example of empty space where there is nothing for the eyes to see, it is full of fields of all kinds, scientists will tell you. So, you cannot isolate any particle, which is not a particle, any wave, any portion of matter from its environment in any way. You can attenuate it, you can make the influence of one field on the other smaller, that's all we can do; cannot make it zero.

So, another very good definition of a separation or space is: it is the boundary where the instruments or senses, sensors stop detecting the first object, that's all. So, the red ball and the blue ball are connected by fields because they are fields, they are waves, and there is no specific point between them where they are separated. But wherever the instrument says, "I cannot find the field of the red one," we assume that it has ended, now there is nothing, cannot detect anything. Now we start detecting the field of the blue object, blue ball. So, it is a class of separation by ignorance, because the senses or the instruments cannot detect what is between. There is always something; they're not separated.

So, you can see Earth and Moon are separated. There's nothing between them. Still, one is pulling the other. Still, one cannot escape the field of the other. The Earth and Sun are separated. There's nothing between them. Still, the light of the Sun comes here. It is connected by the light, which is nothing but a fieldfield of the Sun extending to Earth. Which field? You can name it anything you want; it is just vibrations. So, scientists will call it the electromagnetic field. It looks like light to our eyes, seven colors. It is a field; it never ends. It reaches Earth. So, are they separated? In some sense, the matter of the Earth is not connected to the matter of the Sun, but we don't have any objection to that. Our definition of separation is totally different. Nothing should connect.

## Unknowability of Separation

And the problem is if we find something which is separated, its knowledge is not possible, because nothing will come from there to here, to detect it. No sound, obviously, because there is no air between you and that object. No light, because the light is simply field. No gravity, because gravity is field; for now you can assume. Not even space; you cannot travel to that, because space is another medium of travel. So, space connects objects.

But ideally separated objects, experience, will be undetectable. You can't see it, you can't hear it, you cannot measure it by any instrument. It will not produce any gravitational effect, nothing at all. And so, that object will be completely imaginary. You will never find it. You will never be able to prove it, which means it does not actually exist. It is cooked up in our mind. The ideal separation is not possible, impossible. It requires some kind of non-existence between the two separated objects, separated experiences. Non-existence is impossible; only existence is possible.

So, yes, formation of virtual boundaries is seen. They are not real. They are useful for survival, useful for keeping the structures for a longer time. Because if there is no virtual separation, these structures will collide, one will influence the other so much that it will become one structure. So, that is a loss of information, some loss of structure. It is not so useful now. Everything is a blob of cloud of something, and we don't want that. It's a very boring universe.

So, virtual boundaries are formed in memory. Only those boundaries provide any meaningful experience. If it is one continuous thing, it is actually not knowable, unknowable. We must have some kind of change which appears as a boundary, and then the mind says, "Okay, one thing stopped here, the other thing starts here." Something is detected, and now the play of life can start. Now something meaningful can happen.

So, the non-physical, non-virtual memory does some kind of division. Some divisions appear there and they are virtual, but they are useful. For example, the division between different layers of the memory. If it is all non-physical, non-mental superimposition of almost non-existing vibrating patterns, what is there? Where is the layer? And yes, there is no layer. There are no layers. It is a concept. We imagine it like that. The separation between layers is imaginary. Still, you will find some kind of conceptual separation.

## Layers of Separation

For example, we have three layers roughly, very roughly in our experience. One is the layer of the mind; second is the layer of the body; third is the layer of the world, objects. You will see that there is no real separation between these three, but still it is useful to separate these three to make our life easy and not so confusing.

Similarly, one person is separate from the other. The actions of one person do affect the actions of others, but not directly. And that causes survival, evolution, and so on, something useful. So, layers are separated functionally, not really. There is no wall between the layers, and they all are like fingers in a glove thing.

So, all people are actually fingers, puppets that are getting operated from the universal memory. They're projecting out of the universal memory. They look separate; they are not, they're connected. Do not imagine some thread connecting one person to another, some energy going from the brain of one person to other person. No, that is childish.

Interconnectedness means they come from the same substance. They project out of the same substrate, which is memory. So, you can picture it in any way you want, but remember, everything is connected. Actions of one person cannot directly affect the actions of another, but still there is a connection. These two people are actually one, one structure, parts of one structure. So, whatever they do, they affect the structure and the structure affects them. Now it is so easy to understand everything. You don't need telepathy or some magic to understand interconnectedness. You just need common sense.

## Consequences of Interconnectedness

What happens when everything is connected, everything is one? What is the consequence of this law? We can only discuss it from a human perspective. So, the Law of Duality or Polarity says that there will be positive, negative, and all kinds of consequences.

The positive side of interconnectedness is that nothing stops us from knowing the contents of any memory location, any memory area or the field. Since it is the whole manifested existence all in one, one in all, it becomes available to knowledge. Since there is no boundary, no separation, no wall, it implies that anything can be experienced. There is no space, no time, that implies you can be anywhere, anytime.

The vibration pattern in one part of the memory cannot be separated from patterns in other parts of the memory, which means one pattern can influence the other with no limitation of space or distance or time. It is simply a matter of power or energy in that pattern. Still, it does not matter. Interconnectedness means even the weaker pattern can influence the stronger pattern. The creator becomes the creation. It is through this process of resonance.

If you are separated from everything, there is no hope of creating anything or manifesting anything, as we saw in the Law of Perception-Creation. Creation and perception are one, and perception is possible only when there is a connection.

So, interconnectedness, if you study deeply, will reveal that there are enormous powers available to everyone with a desire to cultivate these powers. If you let go of the illusion of separatedness, many powers will start manifesting. This is interesting for somebody in occult or tantra. If you assume that everything is separate, I am separate, distances are real, time is the truth, then probably there is no hope of obtaining any powers.

In occult, belief or assurance is an important factor. Disbelief is like a virtual wall, a virtual boundary that will cut you off. If you're very sure that there are no boundaries, it will increase your powers. And the belief here does not mean blind belief, blind faith. No, blind belief, blind faith is just like the name says: it will make you blind. You won't be able to see. You won't see the walls, but you won't see the interconnectedness. So, it must be validated through your direct experience. It must be your knowledge. Then there is no struggle in believing.

So, the Law of Interconnectedness gives us many gifts, but there is a negative side of it. If anything can influence anything, it is not only possible to create, it becomes possible to destroy. Remember, destruction is simply a change of vibrating patterns. They change into something else. It is simply now a matter of strength: what is more powerful? Interconnectedness leaves everything open for any kind of manipulation.

Yes, everything is connected. You can visit any memory location, know anything, see anything you want, but it also means there is no privacy. Whatever you do, whatever you think, whatever you feel is being broadcasted into the memory universally, openly for everybody. There's nothing wrong here, but from a human perspective, this is somewhat shocking. So, you are always being live telecasted over the universal memory network, UMN. Everybody knows about everything. Only something which is very ignorant about the workings of the memory and interconnectedness will not be able to know.

Humans are a very good example of this, unfortunately. We think that whatever we do or whatever I think or feel, it is private, nobody will know it. But the situation is exactly opposite: nothing is private here, and everything is affecting everything else.

So, you don't like somebody, but you never say it because of politeness. You think it will have no effect, but in reality, everything has a consequence: karmic consequence. Your hate, your dislike, and whatever negative thoughts that are going on, feelings, emotions that are happening, they are very strongly broadcasted to everything around you, everything to which you are connected, which is the whole of the universe, the whole of existence. And obviously, it will affect the person or something about which you are thinking. And since it is all interconnected, it rebounds. Just like if you throw a ball and hit a wall, the ball rebounds. The energy of the ball reflects back. The wall simply does not take it; it gives it back. Same way, whatever you send comes back.

So, now you can see that interconnectedness and the Law of Action, karmic law, is very much related. The Law of Action, things return to you with an interest, is because of interconnectedness. You cannot do anything in isolation here. I don't know whether that is positive, negative, but this is how it is.

The positive side is if you send something good, uplifting, happy, it will be broadcasted everywhere and it will be returned to you. So, you get that which you are. And the reverse is also true. Because of interconnectedness and continuous influence of other patterns on this pattern, which is human being obviously, we are interested in this only, more interested in humans because of this continuous give and take of energy, if you are in a wrong kind of field, wrong kind of memory area, you will become like that. If you're surrounded by ugliness, dirt, bad people, you cannot remain something else; you will become like that. This is general knowledge, I need not provide any kind of evidence here. Everybody knows.

Depends on who is more powerful. If you are more powerful, you will affect your surroundings and other people. If you are less, they will affect you, drown you completely in their own vibration or their own energy. The patterns like to dominate each other through resonance.

So, the micro is seen in macro: as below, so above. The positive has a hidden negative many times. It is a very positive thing that you can know anything in the universal memory, akashic memory, but as soon as you come in contact with it, that memory gets connected. It was already connected, there were virtual boundaries, boundaries of ignorance, but now that is gone. Now that whatever you are connected to gets some power over you. This power is a power to influence. And whatever you witness, you'll carry it with you.

So, anyway, all of the experience that we know of is made possible by interconnectedness. But the Law of Balance says too much interconnectedness is not good for survival. Fortunately, we already have a mechanism to form virtual boundaries in the memory, and we use it to create boundaries whenever needed, whenever we don't want something to influence us. Remember, there is no perfect boundary. Its power can be reduced, that's all, it's possible. And that is called protection or shielding.

Many people are familiar with these things who are in occult. Each and every practice starts with a protection ritual, shielding. Without it, you should not do anything. Whenever you open something, open the doors of a new world, new dimension, always remember to close it back. Whenever you take something, always remember to give it back. It will not make it disconnected from you, but this simple gesture will reduce its power over you.

Some people will say, "What if it is a positive influence, like from the gurufield or any good field?" There is a problem there. It is a good field from your perspective, but you are a bad field for them. I'm not saying you are, but probably they will think before connecting. Probably they will connect and then they will shield it, and they will return it back to you. Here comes the concept of worthiness: am I worthy of that kind of contact? Have you raised your own vibration to that positivity that these positive fields of energy will accept you?

## Rising Above Interconnectedness

So, yes, why not? You're most welcome to connect to anything positive. Purify yourself before you do that. Purification has another advantage: that it will shield you from the negative, although it is never guaranteed.

So, you got an idea, I cannot tell you more than this. There are consequences of interconnectedness, there are consequences of knowing the interconnectedness, this law. Remember, this information is now impressed in your memory. Whatever I said is going to create an influence on you. If you're not well protected, well shielded, you have already accepted my words.

But nothing to worry about. That which is positive does not want to be affected by everything, but they don't want to affect anything without permission. Here comes the concept of permission. You can still say no and stop listening. The curtains will be drawn, everything will be erased. It is as good as nothing has happened.

If you remember, in the episode on Law of Deniability, I said that if you can erase all these things, whatever you do, there are less consequences. It is not so bad. You can do anything provided you erase all the traces of it. If you do not permit, nothing can affect you, or the effect will be very less.

So, you cannot stop the influencesnegative, positive, whatever. No amount of shielding stops it. It is a law, it is interconnectedness, it is one. There is no point in doing that. There are natural boundaries, virtual boundaries which ensure survival, but the law still operates, does not matter. Still, it is possible to rise above interconnectedness: create boundaries where you need it, and break them when you want it.

How to do that? It's a big topic, but you know that the law is - stronger wins. If you have a very strong influence, other things will affect you, but that effect will be very less. So, that is one way to rise above the interconnectedness: become strong, become powerful.

How do we create boundaries? Just like you create anything else, it's very easy. Always remember that you can protect yourself from something which is less powerful than you, but you cannot protect yourself from something which is more powerful. So, here comes the concept of surrender, worship, pleasing something which is higher and more powerful than you.

It is all self-transformation. You cannot transform anything around you, it does not matter whether it is positive, negative, whatever. If you want to become like something else, more powerful, the only way is resonance. The resonance ensures that you are more influenced by something which is just like you. It is true that the effect is transmitted everywhere in the universe, universal memory, but it is received more in a place which is similar. This is also called resonance. The energy gets transferred to a place most mostly which is resonating with the source.

So, let us take a positive example. You want to be more loving, more caring, more happy. So, you decide to connect to something which is powerful, strong, and very loving, very happy, blissful. That connection will not happen unless you embody those qualities in you, even though they are not very strong, assuming, still it should have that kind of quality. You cannot wish for it, simply. You start working towards it, and the resonance takes care of energy transfer. You cannot break the connection once it happens, but it is okay if you are getting influenced by something you want.

This is how we rise above interconnectedness: by choice, not by building a big wall around you. It has to be dynamic. Resonate with that which you want, it will happen automatically thanks to the Law of Interconnectedness. So, a master learns to resonate correctly.

I think that much pointing is enough for any intelligent person. What if you don't want to connect to something? You build a boundary of permission: do not permit. And again, because nobody is going to permit you also, you need to ask for permission. Do not encroach into the boundaries and personal space of anybody without permission. That will have consequences. Do not do it simply because it is possible. "I can go there, I can see this, I can know that." But it is a good idea to ask for permission even if nobody owns it. And yes, shield yourself so that without your permission, nothing unusual enters your space, your sacred space.

"How do I do that? How is it impossible?" Everything is possible in the illusion. You need knowledge, and you need to practice. This whatever I'm telling is simply word knowledge. You are listening to the words, there is no experience behind it, and many people will not understand. Probably many will laugh at these things because it is unusual. You cannot connect to it directly; it needs direct experience. So, a guide, connect to a guide, connect to a master who is compassionate, ask for permission, learn, start learning.

Learning is by doing. Rising above will not happen simply by listening to something. You get only information, nothing else.

If you are afraid that, "I'm unprotected, my vibration is very low, things are influencing me, please somebody protect me from interconnectedness," then there is bad news here that there is no hope. Nothing can be done. Nobody will do anything to protect you. Nobody wants to mess with these matters. Breaking the law is not allowed.

So, the only protection you have is rising up. That is the only real protection. Rise up so high that you become invisible to that which you don't want. By this, you won't break the Law of Interconnectedness, you will remain connected to everything. The ones who don't know the law and are incapable of rising up will not reach you. That's all can be done, but that is enough, sufficient. Why do we want to do anything else?

You will be helped in rising above interconnectedness by nothing but interconnectedness. Connect to something which you want. I'm knowingly not using the words positive, negative, because who knows what you want. Resonate like that, you will be lifted up, because there is mutual benefit in that. Two of the same kind produce twice as much power, probably more, because it is resonance. So, we cannot break it, but we can resonate correctly and rise above the bad effects of interconnectedness, so-called bad effects.

You cannot isolate yourself, or you cannot isolate anything at all. By yourself, I mean this pile of memory, that's all. Everybody will have their own definition of myself, so I'm not going to discuss that too much. What is it? What are you protecting? Where are you resonating? What influence? Well, you already know. Know yourself, you will know everything.

So, you cannot isolate yourself, that is impossible. But you can vibrate correctly so that you don't need isolation. That is intelligence. Evolution cannot happen in isolation, so interconnectedness ensures that everything evolves correctly.

We will discuss other laws of memory in coming episodes. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 13

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory. Today, we are going to discuss the 10th law, which is the Law of Resonance.

## 10 - Law of Resonance

It is also called the Law of Attraction. This law means that similar patterns in the memory connect easily and naturally. It also means that a strong pattern in the memory will induce a similar pattern around it.

Vibrating patterns in the memory, they have a tendency to induce the same kind of vibration in other memory locations. It is similar to pull and push. Since the memory is one whole, interconnected, the pulling and pushing, or this disturbance of the emptiness, causes a similar pulling and pushing at some other potential site. This is called induction.

One pattern, one vibration induces another vibration that depends on how strong is the first vibration, the amplitude, and it causes a similar vibration of the same frequency. There can be a gap between the two; it's called phase difference.

The stronger the vibration, the larger is the pull and push, and so it causes bigger induction. If there are two competing vibrations, the one with bigger amplitude wins, because it pushes and pulls strongly.

Induction also means that if there is already a pattern in the memory with the correct frequency, these two patterns reinforce each other by pulling and pushing in a synchronous way, so they both grow. And that is what is called resonance.

There can be a partial resonance, and there can be a full resonance. So, if these patterns keep pulling and pushing with no limit, what can happen? It sounds like a very explosive situation, and that can happen sometimes. But fortunately, there are other laws that come into picture and balance out the resonance.

So the Law of Balance is one law; the Law of Polarity is another law which keeps the resonance in limits. It induces something negative. And the Law of Interconnectedness ensures that the excess energy is transferred out, and does not concentrate in one place.

So, all this sounds really abstract right now, but we'll try to illustrate it with some examples, and we'll discuss some tips which are practical.

So, in everyday words, you can say that the Law of Resonance causes similar events because the underlying vibrating patterns tend to reinforce each other, or tend to attract each other. When we say it causes similar events, it actually means that it produces similar experiences.

The Law of Resonance is nothing but an explanation for similar kinds of experiences that are mostly seen. So, it's called attraction, but it also includes repulsion. Repulsion is a resonance of a negative kind, or an opposite kind. It happens when a vibrating pattern diminishes something which is already vibrating, which is another vibrating pattern. It pushes it away. That can happen when there is enough resistance in the other pattern. So the first pattern is actually attracted to something else. It appears as if the first pattern is being pushed away by the second. So ultimately, it is resonance, but sometimes it looks like that instead of attracting, they are repelling, but it is getting attracted in an opposite direction, that's all.

So, what happens if there is resonance? In terms of energy, we say that if there is similarity among memory patterns, maximum energy is transferred. People who study physics know this. The antenna on the radio, if it is of correct length, resonates with the transmitter. And when we say it is catching the signal, it is actually vibrating at the same frequency as the transmitter. And now, a lot of energy from the transmitter is accumulated there. It conducts it to the receiver, radio receiver. This is the practical example. If they are not similar, there is still energy transfer, something is conducted, something is received, but not so much.

Resonance is the condition when the reinforcement is optimal. This is dictated by the similarity, similarity of vibrating patterns, similarity of frequency and phase.

## Resonance in Manifested Existence

So, how is this seen in manifested existence? How is it manifested in our daily lives?

Since events in the world, our bodies, and our thoughts, other objects, are nothing but vibrating patterns, it is often seen that because of some similarity, resonance happens.

So, we can have a direct experience of this in the case of sounds. If there are two string instruments in a room, and you pluck one of the strings of one instrument, you will find that the second instrument is producing the same note because the sound travels from one instrument to another through air. This sound is picked up by the second instrument, and exactly that string starts vibrating which is tuned to the same note because a lot of energy gets transferred there, because they are tuned similarly.

So, this is a well-known phenomenon in physics: resonance. It happens wherever vibrations are present. If it goes beyond a certain limit, it causes complete destruction. So, that's why there are some built-in limits into stable vibrating patterns, so they do not go beyond the limit. Something or the other mechanism restricts the vibrations.

So, a good example of resonance in the body is suitable food. If you eat something which is good for the body, the body produces a very good feeling. It is the healthy food for the body, and it responds by absorbing that food, and growing, becomes healthy and beautiful. And if there is something which is unhealthy, which the body does not like, it produces a bad feeling, and does not resonate with that food. And if you keep eating, that will produce some kind of illness. So, good feelings are associated with resonance or attraction.

So at the level of the mind also, resonance produces good feelings. If you want something and you see that object or the person, immediately it produces happiness, because that thought pattern or that emotional pattern somehow matches with your perception. The resonance is in the form: "Yes, I want this." And just like in the case of food, the body moves towards it, tries to grasp it, tries to ingest it. The mind wants to make it its own part, and that is mostly not possible with people and objects, but the physical distance will decrease, and probably that is why it is called attraction.

But if the object or the event is something which the mind can consume, the mind consumes it through senses. It can be beautiful music, a beautiful voice or any voice, or a picture, or a sculpture, movie, or natural beauty of surroundings. It is seen that that person is mesmerized, cannot let go of it, keeps looking at it, keeps listening to that. The mind is consuming it because it wants it. Wanting means there is a resonance now. The pattern outside is similar to the desire inside. And yes, it produces good feelings, which is called happiness. It produces a specific kind of behavior which everybody will recognize: the person clings to it.

There is another example of resonance in the case of human beings. We are mostly interested in humans, not in physical objects or musical instruments. Probably some people are interested in those things, but how the laws apply to ourselves, humans, is usually more important.

So the resonance is seen in the case of actions. Which actions do I want to do? Remember the word "want." It is related to resonance, attraction. And the answer is very clear: I want to do that to which I resonate more. And that is seen as likeness for doing that. The person says, "I like doing this." And when that action is done, which is aligned with the desire inside the mind, and which is suitable for the body, for that body, we see that that action happens almost spontaneously. There is a maximum energy transfer. The person will do it tirelessly. That person will not get tired doing it, will not resist, will want more of it. The action simply flows, and that action is repeated more and more.

So you can discover some kind of concrete example in your daily life, in your own experience. This is resonance in action, literally. The word "alignment" is very important here. Alignment simply means that the patterns match, they align. Whatever action is happening is completely aligned with the desire of the person, the goal of the person, and the ability of the person, body of the person, and it is producing fruits, it is giving results that are beneficial for the person. This is a very ideal case, and it is aligned throughout. The path of vibrations is unhindered, no obstacles. The energy is flowing effortlessly. It is a very good case of resonance. It is almost an ideal case.

In practice, there can be some limits, because resonances have built-in limits, otherwise it causes complete destruction. So it is obvious: if you are attracted to a food, but you keep consuming it, that is not good for the body. So there is some limit somewhere where you stop it. Same with the action: there is some limit where the action becomes boring, repetition becomes boring, does not feel good, so you stop it. But it can repeat.

The same thing applies to mental actions, like reading. If you are aligned to a book, if you resonate with the author, or if you like that kind of story or subject, you keep reading it, you keep consuming it mentally, you keep doing it, and you don't get tired doing it. You feel good. That is another kind of resonance. The patterns of information in the book, they produce the kind of thoughts and feelings that you want. You are aligned, so that keeps happening. Sometimes people say, "I resonate with this book." That's what they are talking about. It is effortless; it is very natural.

What is the effect of resonance here, in action? Mostly, the action will be successful. If you do that to which you are already aligned to, if you do something that resonates with you, the result is mostly success. And you can verify this using your own experience. It looks right, and it produces results. It produces beauty, completion, and perfection.

So it does not mean that you will never read anything else, or you will never do anything else. A little bit of resonance will be seen there, but it won't transfer the maximum amount of energy. It won't produce that kind of power.

## Dissonance

So, let us take a look at the opposite side of resonance, and it is called dissonance. And you must have guessed: whenever the patterns are not aligned, they do not match, there is no similarity, or sometimes they are exactly opposite of each other, they oppose, you get a bad feeling.

You can take the example of foods and all. Even before eating that food, you already get a bad feeling from that, simply looking at that. And you get a bad feeling when you see that kind of person, or that kind of object.

What is the symptom of dissonance? The body withdraws. The body avoids it. Either the person runs away, walks away, or turns their face. Dissonance.

Now, many students of psychology and all will resonate with this topic here, because you can check from the behavior of the person what is happening. The person hesitates, saying, "I don't like it." It produces suffering of some or the other kind.

Same with the mental perceptions: if the mind does not like anything, if there is dissonance, the mind shuts down. The person closes their eyes, looks somewhere else, stops listening. The mind goes in daydreaming mode because it is trying to escape, and so on.

So, simply by looking at somebody, you can tell whether it is a case of resonance or dissonance, and then you can predict what will happen. Yes, if you're facing somebody and that person faces away, or assumes a gesture which is protective, defensive, you will come to know that probably nothing is going to happen here.

And the sentences that people say about the situation: "I did not resonate with that person." Or in common language, they will say, "I don't like him. I don't like her. She did not like me." The nonverbal behavior is enough to know what is happening in the mind and the body. Sometimes the mind won't say much, but the body cannot usually pretend. So, what the person is saying is less important than what the body is saying. The body usually does not hide whether it is resonance or dissonance. And many who are experts, behavioral psychology know all these secrets: nonverbal communication.

So, what happens if there is dissonance? Obviously, failure happens. The person does not want to do that job, they don't like that action, and a lot of resistance comes up in the person. The resistance, because it is all patterns, patterns of energy, patterns of vibration, the resistance can show up in very strange ways sometimes.

For example, if you don't like a subject, you don't like a movie, or if you don't like a person, the resistance shows up as a headache. Your head will start aching. Sometimes the resistance shows up as some problem in digestion. If somebody has bad feelings for you, it shows up somewhere in the body or mind. That is because of interconnection and as a resonance or dissonance.

So, instead of tirelessness and smoothness, there is resistance. If somebody does not like some kind of job, even if you beat that person, punish that person, they won't do it. If they do it, they do it very poorly, because there is a lot of resistance.

Sometimes the resistance shows up as negative language. You talk to somebody, there is dissonance, probably there is no way to guess, because people are experts in hiding things. But you can count the negative words the person says, and you can judge easily. There will be higher than normal number of negative words in their talk. And you can guess now, you can predict the future: nothing much is going to happen there.

We can identify these people who don't resonate with anything. We call them negative people. Wherever they go, they spread negativity, causing dissonance. That is possible. Sometimes their presence itself is sufficient to cause a disaster. They are called unlucky people.

So, that is because the dissonance finds a way. Same for resonance: the resonance, the attraction finds a way. You cannot cage it; you cannot contain it. If somebody is attracted to something, some way or other they try to get it, they go there, they won't do anything else except that.

The same way, dissonance finds a way. It causes some kind of damage somewhere. If there is dissonance within you, it will cause some kind of sickness, mental issues, suffering of some kind.

So, resonance is important for people, and obviously, it causes a lack of energy. It does not matter how healthy you are; it does not matter how positive your attitude is. If you are not resonating with the situation, or action, person, or object, you will immediately feel low energy. You will feel tired. You will feel demotivated, although all the physical and mental, bodily parameters are fine.

What happens in case of resonance? Even if you are not well, suddenly you get the energy, you feel healthy. Even if you're suffering, you're sad, if there is resonance, immediately you start feeling happy. The sadness goes away.

So, these people are called sensitive. There is a lot of sensitivity. The energy is always on a triggertrigger-happy. Only a tiny thing needs to go wrong or right, the energy starts dancing. It is a problem sometimes, but it's okay if you can control it.

Similarly, sympathy, empathy is a result of the Law of Resonance. If you see somebody suffering, you actually feel that suffering. These people are called empathetic, sympathetic, sympathetic resonance. And if somebody is happy, simply by looking at that person, you become happy. So, highly sensitive people.

There is a different kind of person also. We should not talk about these things too much: that if somebody else is happy, this person becomes unhappy, feels jealous, or angry, and hates. And you can guess it: yes, this is the case of dissonance, and they will repel. There will be repulsion. So, probably there is a word for that: opposite of empathy, opposite of sympathy.

Ordinary people call it love: the Law of Resonance, attraction, and maximum energy transfer. Broadly, very roughly, you can call it love. And yes, its opposite is possible: hate.

## Spiritual Resonance

So, in the context of spirituality, I'll say a few words. Resonance is very important to understand, "What is my path?" If you do not resonate with a specific path, there are chances of failure. There are chances that you won't be successful there, no matter how nicely you do the practice, no matter how much knowledge you get, no matter how many books you read.

There has to be a spiritual resonance that is connected to the life goal of that seeker. Now, we are not talking about ordinary people here. Probably they don't have any life goal; surely no spiritual goal. So, if you have a spiritual goal, you must find a path that resonates with that goal, else it will be a waste of time.

And yes, feeling is a very good indicator, although we should use our intelligence, check whether there is resonance or not, but feeling gives you the first indication: low energy, resistance, tiredness. If you face these things while walking on your spiritual path, probably that path is not good for you, and you are not good for that path, because there is no problem in the path itself. It is a mismatch, that's all there is.

So, if you are on the correct path, it will give you a good feeling, obviously. You will be successful. Whatever you do, you will be successful, naturally. You won't feel tired. You won't feel disgusted. You will want to do it again and again. You will leave everything for that path. You walk on that, or you run on that path, tirelessly. That is the indication that you have found your path, spiritual path. And the opposite indicates you must find something else.

And the same applies to the guru, the teacher, or the master. So good feeling, yes, again: how much good feeling do you want in the case of your guru? It must be just like love. You must fall in love with your guru. Otherwise, he or she is not the optimal guru, not the ideal guru. You must feel an attraction, resonance, that is manifested as likeness or love. Then the surrender happens effortlessly.

But if you're getting bad feeling, you don't like even one word of that guru, there is a lot of resistance in you, you don't want to say namaste, or you don't want to bow down - whatever is the tradition in that country - you don't want to pray to that guru, "Please teach me," you don't want to say that, that means that person is not your guru. He's not your master. And no matter what you do, how much you pay, no matter how much you pay or how much fake respect you show using some kind of flowery language, that master will not accept you, because they know more than students.

Probably it will take two minutes for that master to find the dissonance or resonance - two minutes, because they are the masters. Sometimes they will look at your face and they will decide whether I want to teach this fellow or not. Sensitivity is necessary in spiritual matters.

So, usually, when choosing the spiritual path, practices, or gurus, the emotions, feelings, resonance, dissonance, these matter most compared to the looks, and the logic, and the intelligence, and the knowledge of the guru, or what happens on that path, whether it is logical or not, whether it is scientific or not. These things come later. The initial success depends on resonance.

Once you know that this path is for me, you can do the surgery on it: take whatever you like, leave whatever you don't like. Same for the teachers.

There is one more angle to resonance here: if there is resonance with the practices and you are achieving success on your path, you're progressing, that means a clean system. That means the channels from the mind through the body, through the world, and through the higher layers of the mind, they're clean. The pipelines are open. Kundalini people will understand this kind of terminology.

But if there is dissonance, you will find a lot of resistances. In terms of the path of knowledge, we say there are impurities now. Impurities, obstacles, and they will manifest in even stranger ways compared to the normal person, very strange. It is almost supernatural sometimes. The resistances find a way, even they bypass the laws of the physical world sometimes, because it is all nonphysical, ultimately.

Sometimes the resistance will manifest in dreams. And similarly, attraction or assistance or resonance can also manifest in dreams. If it is very, very strong, you will get positive indications in the dreams if there is resonance. And the most positive indication that many people report, many seekers, is the presence of their master or their guru in the dreams, a presence of some higher beings, spiritual beings, gods and goddesses in their dreams.

If they are very able, if they are very talented, the resonance reaches the highest, higher dimensions of existence, higher layers, and they get these kinds of experiences which is called spiritual experience in ordinary language.

Now you can see the importance of resonance, how important this is, and how to identify: is there any resonance or not? And yes, obviously, the dissonance will produce hellish experiences sometimes, not for everybody. And then you must use logic and rationality, your intelligence, to connect the dots. It can be a chance event. It can be a coincidence of some kind, but if it is happening every day, every time, majority of the time, then yes, the logic says it is dissonance or resonance, whatever, and you get a green signal. You get a go-ahead: spiritual path. Probably these people will be successful without much effort. Yes, dissonance means there will be too much effort, low energy, and complete failure.

So, hopefully, this information about resonance will be useful for some listeners.

## Rising Above Resonance

So now, how to rise above resonance? That does not mean that we stop the resonance, we kill it, or we stop the dissonance. No. Rising above means we use the power of resonance to get what we want, to fulfill our desires.

So, we discussed resonance briefly in the last part on Law of Interconnectedness, and we saw that the connections happen naturally wherever there is resonance. They reinforce each other. The energy transfer happens. So, if you want to connect to something, some higher power, let us say, or your master, or your lover, or you want money or something, you see, you need to vibrate correctly. You can take advantage of this.

And as we discussed in the last part, how to vibrate correctly: since resonance happens between similar entities, similar memory structures, similar vibrations, you need to induce those vibrations knowingly within you, within your mind, within your body, or around you, in your environment, and the magic of resonance then happens.

So the good news here is we, as a human, have this ability to change our vibrating patterns. This is a big power already, supernatural power. You want to connect to somebody who is healthy, wealthy, and happy: you have the potential in you to attract that by working towards health, wealth, and happiness. A little bit is okay, because once the resonance strikes, it will grow automatically. But if you're completely opposite of that thing, whatever you want, there will be dissonance. Yes, natural, and you'll never get it.

So learn to vibrate correctly. Learn to transform yourself so that you get what you want. It is not magic, but it is like magic, seems like magic. So the key is self-transformation: you make yourself worthy of resonance, you make yourself capable of resonance. Tune your instrument so that you vibrate at the correct note. Instead of discord, you produce a concord, then resonance happens.

So magic, or occult, or tantra is not about changing something outside. You can try, but it's almost impossible. Self-transformation is easy, and is always possible. Then the Law of Resonance comes in and gives you whatever you want. It is so easy, you see. You always wanted that spiritual path, you always wanted that guru, now work on yourself, make yourself worthy. Transform, tune your instrument, induce the same kind of vibration that you want.

If you are lacking, if it is not naturally present, or if it is weak, the pattern is weak in you, the energy is weak in you, there is less power in you, you can use your intention, you can use the power of your will ("intention" means will) to bring about self-transformation, and then the rest of the matter is handled by resonance.

If you're already resonating, you got the lottery, don't need to do much. Everything happens smoothly, naturally, magically. It just happens. You just do it, it flows, effortlessly. But still there is some scope of transformation if you want to increase it, if you want more of it. Yes, you can. There is no limit to self-transformation, but obviously there is some limit to resonance.

So, how to resonate? You must have a desire first of all, for that kind of event, that kind of object, that kind of person, that kind of action, job, that kind of path, that kind of people, ascended masters, gods and goddesses. Whatever you want, you see, everything can be achieved. Human beings are very powerful if they recognize their power. They don't remember it now.

So, you need to open up. Open the channel, unclog the pipeline, clear it, clean it. Purification is the key here. And then the energy transfer happens smoothly if you are pure. Those who don't understand what I'm saying, they probably need to start from the beginning: what is impurity, what is purification, how to do it, and so on. It is a complete subject in itself. So, on the path of knowledge, the biggest impurity that is seen is ignorance, and we start there. Once that big pipe is clean, everything else gets automatically cleaned. The current of energy is so strong.

You need to simply say yes. Open up. Get rid of your mental blockages, resistances, by your own power. Be open for change. If there is no change, if you don't want to change, still want a connection, or resonance, or want your desires to be fulfilled, it is impossible. You must be ready to change.

The fulfillment of desire, or getting what you want, is not an isolated event. Probably you must have guessed by now, after knowing all these laws that we discussed, it won't happen in isolation. Every event that happens in your life changes you. It is interconnection. So yes, if you change something, that will be reflected outside: as within, so without. And if outside changes, it will influence you; the opposite is also true.

So there will be change. If your desire is fulfilled, yes, it will produce some kind of change in you. There will be karmic consequences of that. If the desire is not fulfilled, it will change you in some way. There is always a consequence, according to the Law of Action. So, if you don't want to change, there is no possibility of resonance, no possibility of dissonance also, or no possibility of the dissonance going away. It will trouble you a lot. So, be ready to change. Open up. Open the doors, accept, surrender.

And yes, praying etc. will help, because praying is what? It is an expression of your openness. This is helpful when you want to connect. You go and pray, stand there with folded hands: "Please accept me. Please teach me. Please help me." This simple prayer is very powerful, more powerful than saying something in Sanskrit, singing songs of prayer. If you open your heart and say two words of prayer, they have a lot of power and energy. They carry a lot of vibration, energy, and that connects you to whatever you are trying to connect to.

Yes, it should not be taken only in a positive way. You can obviously connect to something positive like this through resonance, but it is possible that you can connect to something negative. If there is too much negativity in you, you will connect to something negative without much effort. So people who are always unhappy, always angry, always violent, without doing anything, are connected to those fields of mind which are negative. We call it evil. They have a natural ability to be evil.

So negativity is not always dissonance or negative resonance; it is positive resonance, but with something which is negative. Probably for that person, it is the desired action, but hopefully for many, it will be not desired, undesired.

Identify the negativity in you. The negativity is causing dissonance, and so the other party refuses to connect. They hang up whenever you call. They are sensing your negativity, whether it is a person, your partner, or whether it is the guru or the guru field. Something went wrong. It is mostly the negativity, something which is not matching, something which is not similar. They are not birds of the same feather. So just like the sayingthere are many sayingslike attracts like.

Sometimes the resonance happens between complementary vibrating patterns. One will complement the other, one will complete the other. Initially, it can be dissimilar, but if the push and pull is in the right direction, it causes resonance. So, you should understand the difference between negativity and complementary patterns. Anyway, that is too advanced.

Be the change that you want to see outside. Become like that which you want to get.

So, we have completed half of the laws of memory out of 20, and we'll continue the discussion on the other 10 laws in the coming parts of this series. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 14

Welcome to Pure Experiences. You are listening to a series on Laws of Memory. Today we are going to discuss the Law of Polarity.

## 11 - Law of Polarity

It means some kind of pair of opposites are manifested in this illusion, and it is always like that.

This is also called the Law of Duality, which means the experiences are inherently dual; they have two aspects. These two aspects are simply points of views to see only one event or phenomenon. That's why we call it aspect, a way of looking. So, the duality is apparent. The poles or the opposites are actually one, and they differ only in degree, quantity.

This is also called the Law of Gender. Gender is simply a special case of polarity, in my opinion. So, we are combining it here in the Law of Polarity, but many of the experts and wise people may want to study it separately because it is important. But for our purpose, gender is simply some kind of duality that is seen.

### Examples of Polarity

So, let us take some examples before we explain the secrets of polarity, why it manifests. A very good example is the sensation of hot and cold. If something is hot, something is cold. Something is cold, something is hot. That will remind you of the Law of Relativity. Hot and cold are not absolutes. That which is less hot is called cold; that which is less cold becomes hot. However, they are opposites. The cold will never be seen as hot, and the hot will never be seen as cold. But actually, they are simply degrees of temperature, degrees of heat, quantity of heat. The heat is manifested as two, apparently. There are no real two. So, the difference is due to differences in perception, sense. And therefore, the polarity is mind-created; it is not real.

Similarly, bright and dark, heavy and light, positive and negative, and also purely mental events like happiness-suffering, love-hate, beautiful and ugly. One is never seen without the other. This is the key sentence here.

The examples should give you an idea, and they point to your direct experience. It is impossible to find something bright if there is no darkness to compare to, but they are simply intensity of the light, two values of light. The difference is of degree.

It is easy to understand, but it's not easy to understand when we take something like happiness and suffering. People will say, "No, they are totally opposite. They're two things, not one thing appearing as two." But if you take a look closely, use your direct experience, observe: happiness is simply lack of suffering; suffering is simply lack of happiness. Happiness is not an absolute state of mind. It is very easy to see now. And moreover, you can study the cases of happiness and suffering, case study. We'll go to our favorite example. Sometimes logic is enough to understand these things.

So, we have a billionaire. You give him 100 rupees. How happy will he feel? It's nothing. Probably it's suffering that you wasted his time. But you go to a beggar, give that beggar 100 rupees. It is happiness; he will be very happy. What happened? The value of money is the same. For one, it is not happiness; for the other, it is happiness. Same way, for a hungry person, stale bread is delicious food; for a well-fed person, even five-star food is boring. What happened to the pleasure and pain? They are the same thing, actually. There is a difference of degree. Signals in the brain, many people will say; a spiritual person will say states of the mind. One is not better than the other. They are one thing, one quality with different quantities, and the difference is very subjective, relative, and arbitrary.

You need to study this more. Whatever I said in one long sentence, you will need to find some evidence for that.

Similarly, love and hate: it sounds totally opposite, but one is the absence of the other. One can turn into the other. It's very interesting, surprising. Just like the hot can turn cold, cold can turn hot, love can turn into hate. Sometimes it happens in one minute. It's all mind-created.

Same about beauty, ugliness. And you can extend this to other concepts, especially to the spiritual concepts, because we want to emphasize the spirituality in our series. So, somebody is spiritual, religious; somebody is sinner. They are all one; there is a difference of degree. Same way, ethical-unethical, violent-non-violent, simply difference of degree. Many people will be surprised by this. It totally depends on how you define all these things. But it looks like that the mind cannot define anything without first dissecting it into pairs of opposites, because that is what is our experience. Experience is dual in nature, polar in nature.

So, you can include male and female in this list. And we are not talking about the bodies here of creatures. There are some qualities that are male and female in nature, masculine and feminine. They are simply degrees of one thing, manifesting as polar opposites.

### Vibration: Polar Nature

So, a bionic point of view, how can we explain? Since everything is vibration, vibrating patterns in non-physical, non-mental memory, there can be nothing else except vibration. And vibration has a fundamental quality, characteristic. It is defined as binary change: one goes in one direction, the other goes in the other direction. We gave some examples: plus one, minus one, up and down, and so on. The vibration cannot be up and up. That will not be called vibration, because it does not come back; it does not complete a circle. And something which completes a circle must go in one direction, then it must come back following an opposite direction.

Those who are in mathematics, they can easily prove it, probably, some kind of theorem. If it is a closed loop, it must follow two directions to return. So, you can see a sine wave. Sine waves are a very good representation of vibrations. So, the wave goes up, then falls down to zero, then goes down negative, reaches the negative point, then again goes up. Because the sine wave is simply the traversal of a circle.

So, you immediately find polarity at the heart of vibration. And now it is easy to understand why everything has polarity in it. So, it is fundamental, and it is necessary. You cannot have unipolar experience. And probably that is why everything changes, because it cannot remain at one pole; it oscillates, because it is actually oscillating. Now it should be crystal clear: why?

So yes, hot will not remain hot; it becomes cold. The cold will not remain cold; it becomes hot. Everything changes. Nothing will remain positive, positive, positive; it's impossible. It must return to zero and then to negative. Happiness will not remain happiness forever. It will come down to some boringness, ordinariness, and then it will turn to suffering. It is guaranteed because of this law.

And that is like throwing cold water on somebody's hope of finding happiness. My suggestion is: still there is time, wake up now. Stop being so foolish. Stop chasing happiness, running away from suffering. They are illusions. Yes, but some people will not understand. They will keep chasing happiness by fulfillment of desires or whatever they think is happiness. It is an illusion. It is like chasing a rainbow, chasing a shadow.

So, no problem, you will get happiness, but it will not remain happiness, happiness, happiness. It turns to zero if you are very lucky. If you're lucky, it will turn to zero happiness, some kind of boring, gray state of matter. But most of the time, 99%, it turns into suffering. It becomes dark, black. If you take the metaphor of happiness as brightness, white; suffering as darkness. If there is too much happiness, this law ensures that there will be too much suffering.

This goes hand-in-hand with the Law of Balance, and also with the Law of Cycles. These two laws will be discussed in detail in coming parts of this series.

So, same about love and hate, prosperity and poverty, civilization and barbaric cultures. Everything has a rhythm. The polarity is exactly balanced. This is very precise. The universe or the existence is perfect. The Law of Perfection says that you won't get even 0.1% of difference between the poles. And that is why you get as much of one thing as you get the other.

So, somebody gave you a lot of love, probably that same fellow will hate you exactly that much, not more, not less. It can trip any day. It can flip any day. So, there is only one good thing here that the duration is not fixed. If you are happy for one year, it is not that you will be unhappy for one year, you will suffer for one year. It is not like that. If you suffer for one day, it will be enough. The polarity is manifested. Similarly, if you are happy for one day, it is possible that you will suffer for one year.

Secondly, if you are looking for love, let us say, beauty, it is possible that for 50 years of your life you will spend in love and beauty. It's possible. There is no limit of time there. The polarity can last for a long time in one at one pole. It is possible. But then it is necessary that it will shift. Does not matter whether it shifts quickly or slowly. The law says it will shift.

So, you can enjoy the sunshine because clouds are coming. Don't worry, it will shift. So, that is also a consequence of impermanence, but impermanence seems to be a very innocent law in front of this law, which seems to be really cruel. The good part is, if there is darkness, brightness will happen ultimately. If there is suffering, yes, we don't know when, but there will be happiness. The Law of Balance says that they will be balanced. The polarity says that their degree will match. There is only a tiny difference. So, all these laws are very much related. Even the karmic law comes into picture here. So, in short, nothing remains the same; moreover, it changes the polarity. This is due to the nature of vibration.

So, no matter how complicated the vibrational structure is, the inherent polar nature of vibration is manifested in the higher aspects of the vibrational pattern.

Sometimes the polarity is so large scale that it is impossible to see it. So, we see the existence, the manifestation, the universe, but the Law of Polarity says that it will all go away. We see creation, construction; the Law of Polarity says it will be all destroyed. So, it is a major law. It is not something small. But as human beings, we don't worry about large-scale phenomena. We logically know that that will happen, but it will take so much time that we don't need to worry about it.

So, from the spiritual angle, we have a very big polarity. It is called life and death. If something is born, it is guaranteed that it will die. If there is death, it is guaranteed that something new will be born. Probably this thing is important for a few people, seekers, spiritual seekers. And immediately, we don't like this. Immediately, a question comes in the mind of an interested seeker: how to rise above this death and birth, beauty-ugliness, love-hate, happiness-suffering, and the useless pursuit of all these things? How to get rid of this?

### Rising Above Polarity

So, we can rise above polarity, in a limited way. Although we cannot break the law, it will always be there, but we can diminish its effect. That is possible.

I don't guarantee about life and death and so on. It is beyond my knowledge currently, but you can avoid some extreme manifestations of polarity by being careful, by living an aware life, by checking how you operate in this illusion, and maintaining a control over your actions. That is possible through awareness. Awareness is only possible through self-realization; there is no other way. So, if you're not aware, the polarity will make you dance. Highs and lows will be encountered. If you are very aware, you will still encounter it, but you won't need to dance. You can stay peaceful.

So, the key is balance, avoiding the extreme. Don't do a lot of anything. That is what is called extreme. It's going to happen, polarity. So, we do shift from pole to pole, but we keep it small, within control. Instead of everything going out of control, you set up a limit that, "I won't go beyond this limit, because I know that when the poles shift, they will be unbearable. Right now, I'm enjoying this thing which is positive, but if I do it in an unlimited way, yes, probably I'll need to experience it in a negative form, and that will be also unlimited." Because, you see, the law says that the degrees will be equal and opposite. It does not say anything about time, or probably I don't know about it so much. There has to be some aspect of time somewhere, so that is covered in the Law of Balance, so nothing to worry about. It is not wrong to say that.

If you want to enjoy something, do it in a limited way and do it for a long time. It's not a big problem. Yes, it will flip; then you suffer the consequences for a short time. That can sound really funny. "How can I do that? How can I be sure that this will happen? How can I calculate so precisely something which is so unpredictable?" And you're right. You cannot.

You can only throw the dice and expect that nothing goes wrong totally, completely. You can expect that it won't be a total destruction. So, avoiding extremes is anyway a good strategy everywhere. It is extreme eating, let us say. Everybody knows that. Extreme sleeping, extreme amount of poverty and extreme amount of wealth. Everything is somewhat poisonous. You see, a little bit of milk or cold drink is okay, but a bucket of milk and a bucket of cold drink can kill you. It is common sense.

So, if you avoid extreme polarity, you will get only nominal polarity, just for formality. It will be there. But obviously, you cannot be so precise. You cannot calculate the illusion so precisely. So, you make it your nature, that's all: "I won't do anything extreme, and if something happens in extreme, don't worry. It's all good." That kind of steadiness comes that everything is good, happens for the good, by acceptance. Accept the duality. It is inherent in the illusion; cannot get rid of it. This acceptance is a sign of maturity, mature intellect. That yes, the spring never remains spring, winter comes. The dry season never remains dry, rains come. It is all okay. This is the acceptance. It's an emotion; it is a feeling. It may not look logical, but it is logical.

It is not a gesture of defeat; it is a gesture of embracing. This is very important to note. Whenever I say accept in this whole series, accept the laws, accept the laws, don't resist, it simply means this. Does not mean defeat.

So, a master rises above polarity by accepting the polarity, not by trying to bypass it by hook or crook, and then respecting the limits, not by making his life boring, grayscale, but by choosing the colors carefully. The master will not become an indifferent rock. There will be love. He will knowingly balance it with hate. He knows where to express the hate. There is a good saying that, "If you are angry, express your anger towards injustice, towards evil. If you want to beat somebody up, beat up somebody who is bad, who is worthy of being beaten up. Don't do it for somebody who is innocent. Don't show your anger on somebody who loves you, who cares for you."

So, it is not wrong to show anger. It is not wrong to beat somebody up. Where do you direct that energy? That is important. It is necessary to know that.

So, the Law of Polarity is not saying that don't suffer, don't be negative, the darkness is a problem. No, it is not saying anything. It is actually a blessing in disguise.

Without these polar opposites, you will never know the value of positivity. Without suffering, there is no way to know what happiness is. Without hate, you will never realize the value of love. Ask about the value of love to somebody who got only hate since childhood, who was left alone to suffer. Even a drop of love is like a sea for that person.

So, you'll never realize the beauty without the ugliness. You'll never realize the value of good things. It is a blessing. So, the master will never become a neutral rock of some kind, where no up-down happens at all. No, avoiding extremes is one strategy, and limiting it is another. But a skillful master, advanced master knows where to direct the polarity.

So, a master loves, obviously. But the master loves knowledge. And a master hates, why not? But a master hates ignorance. A master is happy, yes, when their students are successful. A master suffers very badly when his student fails. So, the master will never avoid polarity, but will simply direct the energy in a proper direction. You probably got the idea. It is an advanced practice, so everybody fails when they are new. So, we start by simple balance, we start by avoiding extremes, and so on. But then we rise above the polarity even more by learning to direct the polarity in a proper direction.

Mother Nature or this existence is already doing it. You can see it around you. There is a lot of ugliness, but Mother Nature covers it up with beauty. A very striking example is the human body. What if you remove the skin from somebody? It is disgusting, ugly, scary, nightmarish, like they show it in horror movies. Even a small cut and wound is very ugly for human beings, but that is by design, you can say. It is really necessary to have this kind of polarity in the body, and that helps in survival. If you don't find something without skin ugly, then it is a problem. If you don't find the cuts and wounds and diseases ugly, then it is a big problem; survival will be compromised. Because humans and other creatures are attracted towards beauty. So, if you want them to get repelled, you must make it ugly. It is all mind-created. Mind-created. So, it has happened due to the need for survival.

So, Mother Nature has covered up all the ugliness, which is not really ugliness, it is perceived ugliness, of the internals of the human body under a very beautiful skin, beautiful hair, beautiful eyes. So, Mother Nature is a perfect artist. She covers up a very angry and violent volcano under beautiful snow caps, forest, and pretty birds. It looks very pretty; suddenly one day, the volcano erupts. So, you will find you will find all these extremes nicely covered up, nicely balanced.

A tiger is a beautiful creature, mesmerizing, only until the tiger opens his mouth, then you run away screaming. The same way, your wife is so beautiful and loving only until she gets angry with you, then your happy marriage is a hellish marriage, suddenly. So, everything is nicely covered up. The master also does this. A master knows the art of covering up the negative under the positive.

Many masters teach, but many don't. Most of them don't teach. So, they cover up their strictness under sweet words, compassionate talk. They know how to handle polarity. If you are strict and you talk in a bitter way, arrogant way, poisonous way, negative, insulting way, no student is going to stay with you. Students, they know it is my mistake, but nobody likes this kind of talk. So, how to handle that situation? By talking very sweetly, but strictly, or by not talking at all. That is probably sometimes more effective than anger, while not crossing the limits of polarity.

So, you cannot escape the polarity, but you can rise above polarity by using the polarity in a wise way, in an intelligent way.

We'll continue discussions on Laws of Memory in coming parts. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 15

Welcome to Pure Experiences, and this is a series on Laws of Memory.

## 12 - Law of Impermanence

Today we are going to discuss a well-known law. It is the Law of Impermanence. It simply means everything changes, nothing is permanent.

So we don't need any evidence for this. This law is self-evident, and nobody has found any exception.

You can observe some things about impermanence. The first thing is that - that which appears is empty. It appears that something is changing, but actually there is nothing. We discussed the meaning of this in our episode on Law of Emptiness. So not only everything changes, goes away, it was already not there in reality. It is like a flowing dream.

There is a very good formula to confirm that there is nothing right now. It says, if it was not before and it won't be in the future, that confirms that it is not now. That sounds tricky, but very straightforward, almost self-evident, logical. If something is not present in the past, and nothing can be said about the future of it, then it is not right now also.

So you can observe the events that happen. They always happen in the present. It looks like something happened yesterday because there is a memory of it, but the memory happens in the present also. And obviously nothing happens in the future. The future is an imagination, extrapolation of the memory, or a prediction from the events in the memory. So the past is actually not there. The future is not there. So there cannot be anything in the present.

Still we see something. Something appears. It is conclusively proven that it is not there, still it appears, and that's why it is called an illusion. It is false. It is Maya.

Some people can say, but present is there. There is present. And now there is some debate among philosophers: what is present? Is it a tiny duration of time? But then again, time means past and future, so you cannot call it time. And some will say it is eternity. That means that's all there is, no time, timeless. The present is timeless. It is more acceptable. It is more logical to say that the present moment is eternity. Eternity does not mean a long duration of time. Nobody has seen anything like that. Eternity means no time, timeless. This is our direct experience. There is only eternal presence, no time.

That which is present is empty. It is as good as not present. Still there is presence. So it is somewhat beyond knowledge, beyond intellect. What is happening right now?

Moreover, it is changing. That which was yesterday is not today. It will not be there tomorrow. So if you remove time, everything is already gone. Still more is coming, but whatever we thought is present, exists, is gone. Nothing actually happens.

This is a deeper meaning of impermanence, that the existence is unknowable, because whatever we want to know, it is gone. Whatever we think is happening, it's actually not happening. So there is nothing to know here.

Knowledge itself is an illusion produced by the mind, the memory. Knowledge itself is an event that is fleeting, appearing.

So it is very obvious that everything is impermanent. But these deeper implications of impermanence are not so obvious and not so well-known. Even spiritual seekers, they don't know this. They do not contemplate impermanence. It will reveal many secrets. I'm not saying it will give you some knowledge, it will take away your ignorance, destroy your ignorance. Contemplate on impermanence.

### Change

So we said a lot about change, how it is produced by comparison of memory locations and all, so I'm not going to repeat that again. In summary, the vibrational model explains impermanence as changing vibrational patterns in memory. They are non-physical, non-mental, which implies there is actually nothing there, it is empty. There is no substance. Can we call it energy and all? These are useful metaphors, there is no real energy.

So why does it change? There is no why, as change itself is some kind of illusion. You remove the memory, there is no change. Only the unknowable, eternal present remains. So memory gives some kind of illusion of change, and if the events impress on the memory, we get an illusion of the past. Then we can predict something from this memory using intelligence or computation, and that gives us an illusion of the future, something happening, time flowing. It is all a play. There is nothing, non-happening. So no answer to why, because this is demanding a reason. So that reason, if it is provided, will be something which is appearance, illusion, impermanent, false. So you will not get anything concrete, no reasons, no purpose, no meaning, because impermanence wipes out everything: purpose, meaning, telos, direction, goal, nothing. It's all impermanent, an illusion.

Anyway, since it is our imagination, we have imagined the memory patterns, vibrational patterns, so you can imagine the mechanism of how everything is impermanent, and how it can be derived out of the model of memory and vibrations.

So as we know, vibration is a two-state change. The change here has never happened. It is two states that are overlapping, superimposed. Very difficult to understand, but this is our hypothesis. It's not really true.

So when one state appears in the emptiness, it is for a moment not empty, because it is not zero. There is something. So to restore the emptiness, the state flips back. And so any attempt to create a vibration leaves zero behind. The net result is empty, zero.

And if it did not change, that would violate the Law of Emptiness. There will be something which stays. So even though the vibration is virtual and superimposed states, then also it does not allow it to stay in one state. The emptiness forces it to reverse and cancel. And this virtual event is an event of change.

We know that this has happened only when some comparison is done. Comparison is possible only when only when this oscillation is registered in the memory, otherwise knowledge is not possible. Without it registering in the memory, will not even know that state changed.

So impermanence or change is a natural quality of the vibration. It is the nature of vibration to change. And if everything is made up of vibrating patterns, obviously, everything will change.

### Semi Stability

Now, something interesting happens which makes this play, illusion, much more interesting rather than a fleeting dream which dissolves in split seconds, and that is called semi-stability.

Since there are infinite possibilities, there is a possibility that the vibrating pattern will change and then will change back to its original. It is possible. And if it repeats the same thing, that can give us an illusion of stability. It is vibrating the same thing. It will look like that. A good example is a pendulum. It repeats the states, so it looks like that nothing is changing there. Or a rotating fan, a rotating top, it looks like that it is the same object, or a whirlpool.

The second way to get semi-stability is to repeat in a cycle. It goes and comes back into its first pattern. So it looks like the same thing is there, although it is always changing. A very good example is a tree that becomes dry in summer, then new leaves emerge from the tree in the rainy season, then it becomes green in other seasons, and continues. So although the tree is changing, the leaves are not the same, they are not even in the same position, even the branches have changed, still we call it the same tree. It is the same tree.

So what is happening is there are things that change very slowly because there are some stabilizing processes there, and they appear permanent. And there are events that are totally impermanent, they disappear even before the senses can detect what happened. They are as good as not present, non-existent. And there is everything in between, the full spectrum of events with different degrees of impermanence that provide more or less stable illusion.

And there are events that are very fast, they change, but they are normalized by the mind. We say, yes, this happens. It's not a big problem. We have become habitual of thinking that it is true, this happens. Like a broken egg never changes back into a solid egg, but we accept that it is real.

So something which changes slowly, something which changes in cycles, circular, and something which is useful for us, even if it changes quickly, is branded truth. And this is called relative truth or transactional truth, not the absolute truth. The absolute truth will never change.

So examples of very permanent, semi-permanent objects are minerals, rocks. They are crystals, essentially. Planets, stars. So crystals are fascinating because they are ordered patterns of vibration. They are also changing. The atoms and the particles in the crystals are changing very rapidly, but they change in an ordered way, they change very regularly, so that remains stable for a long time. But yes, they are also impermanent.

And there are giant objects that are changing quickly, but they are so big that whatever changes happen, they appear negligible compared to the size of it. For example, the Sun or ocean. They will disappear someday, but because of their size, it will take a very long time. So for us they are permanent, for human beings.

So fortunately we are living in a memory area, a field, a layer of memory which is semi-stable. There are unstable events, but like I said, we became habitual of it, or they keep repeating in the same way sometimes, mostly in the same way, not exactly, essentially. So we have extracted some permanence out of it. Like I gave you the example of breaking an egg, there is another example of lightning strike. Although the lightning strike will not last more than one second, and every time it strikes it is something different, the shape is different, it is never the same lightning, still there are some qualities in lightning that can be abstracted into permanence. For example, there is this loud noise, thunder, there is this white spark, and there is damage, and so on, you see. It occurs when there are clouds and all. So this event is recognizable, although it is never the same. Still, some kind of qualities can be extracted and we make it as relative truth.

Some events, they do not even happen in a repeated way, we still normalize them. We say it is true. Like the birth of a baby, that will never happen again. The same baby will not be born again, but many more babies, they're born, so yes, it's normal, we say. Humans have this amazing quality to treat something which is totally illusory, an appearance, an unusual, once-in-a-lifetime happening as truth. We call it true, because somehow it is useful for us. Somehow it ensures survival, or whatever is semi-stable we call it survival: bodies, and so on, minds.

So a person is totally impermanent. We studied the person in an earlier episode. It is very unstable. Today something, tomorrow something else, after one year unrecognizable. However, we say that this is the same person. He changed, but the same person. The person is abstracted out of a cloud of changing things. There is no real person there, and it is associated with this body-mind which changes relatively slowly. So we find something which connects the past to the present, and we call it stable even if it is not stable.

The funny thing is some events, they take a specific amount of time to change. This is also a kind of semi-stability that it changes into something, but it takes a finite time, specific duration. For example, a tomato rots in ten days, or if it's too warm and humid, it will rot in five or six days. So even if it is completely gone, it has become dirt, and a part of air and water and soil, still we call it a true object. "It exists," we say, because it happens in a specific duration. We don't mind. We say, "Yes, the tomatoes disappear all the time. It's normal." But somehow if that specific duration changes, then the illusion that is hidden there becomes very obvious. If the same tomato now rots in one minute or one second and disappears in thin air, now it will be called magic. Although the same process has happened, no physical laws were broken, only the time duration changed. So now this will appear as a complete illusion. Nobody will believe it.

You must have seen those movies where they fast forward to something, some event, time-lapse, like the blooming of a flower. So the flower takes two or three days probably, one night sometimes. But if you capture the process, let's say every five minutes, and make it into a movie, it will look like that the flower is changing into a fully bloomed flower in one minute. Now it appears magical, and it appears really beautiful, and the plant becomes a living, breathing organism. When we look at a plant, normally the plants look almost dead. They do not move, nothing much changes, but we know that they are not dead because they change after some time, some days, some months. But here it becomes apparent that a plant is a living thing because it changes so quickly, plus we cannot believe that this happened simply because the time duration changed. And the reverse is also true. If you see a tomato which is not rotting for one month or one year, you will suspect that this is a fake tomato, this is some wax sculpture or something. If a person stops moving for even five minutes, you will suspect that this is a mannequin, statue, or something because you've never seen a person completely stationary even when they are sleeping. They're breathing, they are twitching, they're moving all the time, especially animals.

So a specific time duration of change provides the illusion of stability or normality, ordinariness, although it is just like magic. Sometimes events happen that break this illusion. And we can use our direct experience and a little bit of logic, like changing the time and so on, to confirm that impermanence is a law, and whatever is changing is an illusion.

The knowledge stored in the mind gives it an appearance of truth or gives it an appearance of something happening, some it says something exists. It does all kinds of tricks to create an illusion of stability. And fortunately this is this animal's life and discussions like this, philosophy. Remember, this is also impermanent. Whatever I'm saying is disappearing into the clouds. It is totally useless and totally false, an illusory activity of me talking and you listening, meaningless, purposeless, impermanent.

### Play

That can only be called play because our concept of play comes very close to what we are looking at. And so we can say that the existence is pure entertainment. Nothing really happening, obviously, like a movie. It's all false. It's all an illusion. Nothing stays. Anything can happen. It is purposeless, it is meaningless. Only the concept of play or entertainment, drama, comes close. Otherwise it is impossible for human beings to understand what is happening. The word "understand" itself is an illusion. There is nothing like understanding. You can silence your intellect by some kind of mumbo-jumbo logic, rationality, and so on, direct observation, scientific analysis. The intellect can be silenced. It can be fed all these things so that it keeps quiet, but that does not mean understanding. There is no understanding of anything. If you understand something, by chance, it will change, it will be converted to something else which is again beyond understanding. So impermanence makes everything beyond our knowledge. Same way, if you know something today, it will change tomorrow. And the knowledge that you thought is knowledge is no longer knowledge, it is ignorance now. This happens many times in our lives. "I thought this is like this and that, but I came to know it is not like that. It changed." So no matter how much you know in this illusion, since it is changing, impermanent appearance, nothing is really known. Whatever facts and data you collected will be gone, will change into something else. And if you are very convinced that, "No, this is what will happen, I know this, we have verified this," but since this is an infinite possibility, an infinite illusion, exactly the opposite can happen. It's very funny. So ultimately the knowledge cancels out, plus one, minus one, zero. Ultimately there is no knowledge. Knowledge is a part of the play. Knowledge is a part of the dream.

So what about the laws? Are they not true? And no, that's what we said in the beginning. If you have heard this series from the beginning, we started the series like this: that we are going to play, and we are going to imagine something about what is. We are still playing after so many episodes, but it has become so complicated and logical that it gives an illusion of truth. Your mind is convinced that this is knowledge, and this is higher knowledge, this is spiritual knowledge, this is occult knowledge. No, it is complete BS.

Laws are similarities and minor stabilities, patterns that we humans have observed. You can call it transactional truth, not absolute truth. You will find some laws that are completely opposite of this law.

So does that mean we'll find permanence somewhere in this memory structure? And the answer is yes and no. This is a self-referring problem, so you cannot answer it actually. Impermanence says the laws are also impermanent. That means the Law of Impermanence is also false, it is impermanent. Something permanent will appear somewhere, it has already appeared because there is no time. So it is referencing itself, so it is going into an infinite loop. So the answer is both yes and no, superposition of yes and no. Yes, in one of the fields, in some part of the memory, there will be produced an illusion of permanence where nothing will change for sufficiently long time, or it will change and repeat again so that it remains what it is. It is possible. But what does that mean? Is that impermanence actually true? But now we cannot say anything about permanence or impermanence in that kind of condition, so the answer is yes and no both.

And just like I said, if you think too much, you will get a headache. You should not think too much about the Maya, illusion. It is beyond understanding, as I said. So we approximate the illusion. We say, "Okay, I'm looking at this part of the illusion right now. It is somewhat within my understanding, somewhat, like .0001% of it. Yes, there is impermanence. Yes, I can see it. There is another law: law of relativity, law of interconnectedness, and all. We have abstracted out the regularities in our part of the illusion. It is not the whole illusion. You can be sure of it because the illusion is infinite. That which appears, what is, is infinite. So beyond understanding, actually.

### Rising Above Impermanence

How can we rise above impermanence? How can we make everything permanent? Bad news again: you cannot. Don't even try. All we can do is accept that which is impermanent, including this body-mind, whatever you call human being. Even if you become a master, you are an impermanent master. Even if you become the greatest tantrik, it is just a fleeting, rotting tomato. That's all it is. So accept this. This will bring some humility, humbleness, gratitude, and so on. This will prevent megalomania, that "I am important somehow." No, nothing. Everything becomes dirt. Everything comes out of the dirt. It is just memory, changing memory.

So we accept impermanence, and we try to utilize whatever is appearing right now. "What is the use of it?" many people will say. Totally subjective. It depends on your wish. What do you want?

The play is set up in which there is some repetition and semi-stability which is called our life. So we utilize this life, enjoy this life. Enjoy this drama that is happening for free. We did not do anything to get this thing, human life, human experience, you can say. Make it stable, make it unstable, whatever you want.

So many people want a little bit of stability and a little bit of novelty, because complete stability means boring, nothing happens in life. So we use impermanence to introduce some kind of novelty, something new in our lives. There can be many examples of it. Daily repetition of routines will give you a stable life, but it is very boring. So we introduce something in a controlled way, introduce a change, so that the drama becomes interesting.

It is changing, but if you want to make it interesting, you need to change yourself. Yes, everything changes by changing yourself. The drama is automatic, it is scripted, so you can change your role if you want. Totally depends on the will of the seeker.

Since everything is memory, and it will disappear, you can collect good memories. Events disappear quickly, but the memories remain for somewhat longer. They are also impermanent. So collect good memories, collect good experiences that will make the drama interesting.

Those who have mastered the memory, they can make copies of the memory. This is an advanced topic. So even though the patterns in the memory are impermanent, they are fleeting, if you keep copying them, they will remain for a longer time. Self-copy is already happening through resonance, and that is what is happening in crystals and so on, and that is what is called reproduction. Right from plants and insects to human beings, everything makes a copy. So the same, similar patterns, they continue. So a master can do that. A master can make a copy.

An ordinary person can make a copy of the memories in forms of books, and photos, and videos, but a master can make a virtual copy, non-physical copy of whatever has happened, whatever he wants to stay. If that is impressed with enough power and energy on the memory, it appears. It remains for a long time. So usually the masters, they make a copy of themselves. By themselves, it can mean anything, starting from the body, physical body. They can make a non-physical copy of this body, but mostly the masters are interested in their knowledge. Like I said, if you collect good experiences, knowledge is probably the best experience. Whatever you came to know, whatever you experienced is knowledge. And that is preserved in some hidden memory locations. When given enough energy, when they are excited, these patterns, they manifest again. They are latent patterns.

And this process is already happening. It is called a causal body. Whatever we experience as a creature, animal, plants, human beings, more than human beings, para-humans - their memories are their knowledge. Their experiences are stored in latent form, in a condensed form, encrypted form, or you can say zipped, compressed form, in a memory. That memory is called causal memory. It is called causal because it can cause a similar event, for example, rebirth. The same kind of person appears, not the same person, not the same body, the person with the same qualities and characteristics.

It is like a drama is playing on the stage, and there is a character there: red clothes, a high hat, long beard, and so on. There is a character. But he gets a phone call: "Your wife is sick. You need to go to the hospital. Go and take care of your wife." So he leaves. But the drama must go on. Somebody else comes and takes on the costume, takes on the role, takes on the persona. Same red clothes, long beard, high hat, same walking and talking style, acting. And the audience never comes to know that something impermanent has happened, something has changed on the stage. So the causal body takes on personas, personalities in various costumes. This is, in very short, a description of reincarnation.

A master can make it as per their wish. They can reincarnate in any form. They can store anything they want in the causal body. They can manipulate it. They can remove things which are not needed now, so on. And as I said, this is very advanced, so I'm just giving you research material. Go and research.

So how many copies can you make? Obviously infinite, but it will. For a human being at least, probably a master is not a human being strictly but for this kind of entity, limited entity, it will take a lot of energy to create infinite copies. It's not even possible. So the masters create sufficient copies. They know they are going to change. Ultimately they will be destroyed, so some process is set up so that copying does not stop.

And the same thing can be done not only for the knowledge and personality and causal body, the same thing is possible for the entire worlds, for the entire universes. Because a world is nothing, it is a memory location. They are patterns in the memory that are similar, that are bound by rules. For example, the physical world. So it is possible to make copies of these worlds. And you can imagine that that master will be of a very high kind, that will be almost like a God, or Goddess. So they start with small worlds, make copies, and they evolve. These worlds evolve on their own because impermanence, nothing stays. So they set up processes there which causes interesting drama. That's all we can say. You can suspect that our world is like this. You can find some copies of it which have evolved differently, and there will be infinite like this because this memory is infinite. And this natural copying of worlds is also happening, the seed worlds. They get scattered everywhere, and they evolve. Some become useful, some become semi-stable because of rules, physical rules or the memory-specific, area-specific rules. And interesting experiments happen. Experiments are interesting stages to experience a specific kind of drama.

It all sounds like fiction, so yes, it is fiction. Nobody says it is the truth, it is a possibility. But everybody needs to experience it to even know that there can be a possibility like this. Nobody will believe the words. These are just words, not the proof, and there is no evidence here.

So for a seeker, especially on the path of knowledge, we have a very good system of memories that is preserving knowledge, the essential knowledge, also called the spiritual knowledge. That is called the guru-field. It copies, it stores, it sets up processes, it creates worlds, and we don't even know what it does. I don't have the full list. And simply by telling you about these laws and memories and so on, I'm becoming a part of this guru-field. I'm producing a copy of some kind of knowledge, even if it is tiny-winy and insignificant, still something was done. So this entity which is talking has joined the guru-field simply by doing this. This event got registered somewhere, in some memory.

Yes, it is fun to preserve memories, experiences, make them less impermanent through magical powers and power of your intention. It is possible. But the highest drama is this: to preserve knowledge, to preserve, let us say, the techniques of copying the memories. "How can I make a copy of my body?" Many people will ask this question after this. Yes, guru-field. All you need to do is contact somebody who has done this. It will be difficult, but if you can and if you are able, if you have the qualities, worthiness, they will transfer the knowledge to you. They will copy the knowledge into your memory. This is some kind of very high kind of drama here. It is not purely entertainment. It is not purely exploration of some world somewhere and living a life of ups and downs, and adventure and boredom, like they show in movies, strange things. It is something more now. So guru-field is playing the highest kind of play that is possible. They are making the impermanent permanent. They are trying.

So the strange thing is, rising above impermanence means using the processes that are impermanent and that are happening in the memory to create semi-stable or semi-permanent patterns of memories. That's all that is possible. We use impermanence and the inherent laws to transfer things, to copy things, to preserve, disseminate, spread the seeds, let them evolve. Like this. We use impermanence, take advantage of it, and thanks to impermanence, nothing goes as per the plan, obviously, and that makes it very entertaining. If everything is predictable, it is not entertaining. So thanks to the law of probability, copies are not perfect. It always produces some change, some mutation, and things evolve.

Since there are infinite possibilities, infinite copies will be produced, so we are not worried about that. Plus, we get infinite mutations, infinite variety already. So what else do we want? Nothing. It's whole and complete already. It is perfect.

So do not fight impermanence. It is good. It makes this drama entertaining. Do not try to hold on to something. Do not cling to that which is impermanent. That thing will be destroyed, yes, and if you cling to it, if you stick to it, you will be destroyed. That is the tragedy of an ignorant person. So change is the game, impermanence is the law. Change yourself with time, with situations. Change your lives. Change your causal body. Get more experience, get more knowledge. Evolve, progress. That is how we take advantage of impermanence.

A static life is boring. Holding on to something which is rotting, which is going, is stupidity. It causes suffering. So we flow in this flow of impermanence, fully knowing that there is nothing which is permanent, fully knowing that it is a play.

So we'll discuss other laws of memory. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 16

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory. We continue our journey with the next law. It is called the Law of Cycles.

## 13 - Law of Cycles

This law says that events are repetitive in nature. Phenomena repeat. There is a circularity in whatever is observed, or everything is cyclic.

So we can observe around us to find if anything is cyclic or not, or to find something which is an exception to this law. You can use your direct observation, direct experience.

So at the gross level, level of the world and objects, we can see some cycles. For example, simple cycles like day and night, seasons, years, rotation of sun, moon, and other bodies in the sky. We also see cycles of rain, snow, flood, drought, and rise and fall of tides in the ocean. In the atmosphere, we can see cycles of oxygen, nitrogen, water, and so on.

At the smaller scales, we see patterns of repetition and orbits of atoms and particles. They are going in cycles. Machines, clocks, they have cyclic parts in them.

Then at the level of the body, we see a really big cycle: the cycle of death and birth. And there are cycles of pain, pleasure, sickness, health, activity, inactivity, waking state, sleepall these are seen in the body. The body goes through a cycle of 24 hours, which is synchronized with the sun. It is called the circadian cycle. And for creatures that hunt in the night, there are cycles that are synchronized with the moon. There are many biological cycles: heartbeat, breathing, these are cyclic events. And probably you'll find more because the body is a very complex mechanism. But these cycles are seen in growth and division of the cells, and death of the cells itself. And there is a cycle in DNA itself: the replication and protein synthesis and all, these are cyclic events.

So we already see that most of our lives are cyclic. There are approximately 12-year cycles, phases in the life of a person.

Now at the level of mind, psychological level, we have cycles of happiness, sadness, and various other emotions. They come and go, they repeat in cycles. And the amazing thing is, many of our habits are cyclic. They keep coming again and again in forms of tendencies. Our desires are cyclic, they keep repeating. Very common desires are desire to eat, and so on. Many desires are related to the body, but they happen in the mind also. And for many people, their thoughts are cyclic. They keep repeating the same thoughts. Whatever is impressed in the memory plays back again and again and again. Some people are annoyed by this thing. They think it is a suffering of some kind. And yes, it is, because it is unwanted.

At the spiritual level, we have cycles of reincarnation, rebirth. There are more cycles at the level of the causal body, and there are karmic cycles.

So the Law of Cycles is manifested on all the planes of existence, all the dimensions, all the layers of memory. Some cycles are big, some are small. The small cycles, like the vibration of light, you cannot even see it, it is so fast. Vibration of soundsound is a cyclic event. And many more cyclic events, they are fast.

But some are really big, like climate cycles where many times the whole earth freezes, then the ice melts and everything is flooded, then again lands emerge, life continues. And there are more cycles like cycles of rise and fall of civilizations, countries. They keep disappearing and other countries and other civilizations, other people, they reappear. They are really big cycles.

And finally, there are cycles of formation of stars and deaths of stars. And we can assume that there are cycles where the whole universe is destroyed and then something again appears.

There is a very wide range of cycles. It is seen everywhere, and they are seen in all sizes, all durations. And if you observe very carefully, you will see cycles within cycles, like a gear box, like an old clock. The full cycle of the hour hand takes 60 cycles of the minute hand, and then the second hand goes even faster. So our measurement of time is a good example of cycles within cycles.

So we get a micro-climate cycle, a micro-weather cycle throughout the day: morning cold, afternoon hot, evening cold, and so on, which is corresponding to the yearly cycles of winter and summer, and in between times, which is corresponding to the bigger cycle of ice ages and desert ages and whatnot. So small cycles create big cycles, and these big cycles create even bigger cycles. You can break them down like this if you observe very carefully.

So you will see a very good cycle within cycles: moon cycles the earth, earth cycles the sun, and the sun is cycling the center of the galaxy, and who knows what this galaxy is rotating around.

So anyway, our direct observation shows cycles. What if you find something which is not cyclic? Either you can say it is an exception, or you can say that it is a part of a cycle which is beyond my perception. For example, an insect or a butterfly that lives for a few days, few months, will not know anything about the yearly cycles, annual phenomena. So if the cycle is very big, it is beyond our perception. It looks like it is linear. It goes in a straight line. And similarly, if the cycle is very small, very fast, it is beyond our perception. And either we see it as stationary, like an atom, molecule, or we don't even see it. Our senses do not capture it.

What about random phenomena? Our senses also stop here. But mathematics continues. Mathematics can say that a random event is a cycle of zero time, almost zero. And the reverse is also true, that random event is a cycle of infinity. It will repeat after infinite time. So whatever you like, you can take it.

And yes, it is possible for us to find some exceptions, and you have the choice to reject it as non-cyclic, or assume it as a part of a bigger cycle, which is beyond our perception. So we can assume, we can imagine that what is the smallest cycle? And yes, it will be infinitely small, but never zero. And what is the largest cycle? It will be infinite. It goes on, and probably never repeats, it never completes. It is so big.

## Cyclic Vibration

So all the abstractions and theory here. Now we can try to find a reason, cause of cycles. It is very easy. The model of vibrations says that vibration is cyclic. It goes up, then it goes down. It completes a circle. As we have seen in the study of different other lawsLaw of Polarity, Law of Impermanence, and so on - the vibration is a complete cycle. And then this cycle repeats as a vibrating pattern. And these repeating patterns, they form combinations and complex structures, fractal structures of vibrations.

So in the heart of the structure or the bigger phenomena are microscopic cycles of the primordial change or the binary cycle, binary state change. So everything is made up of these tiny, non-physical, non-mental vibration cycles. And therefore, cycles are manifested in every event, everything that exists.

Of course, it is an illusion, so cycles are also an illusion. Time itself is an illusion. Time seems to run in cycles. Things seem to repeat, and this is because the events are repeating, events are cyclic. They go in a circle.

So a good example of structures forming out of smaller cycles is sound, music. Sound is nothing but the vibration of air. So different frequencies of vibration means different speeds of cycles. And if you take any sound, voice, or music, you will see that it is made up of repeating vibrations. Sounds repeat, and they combine. These cycles form the voice or the sound or the music. So the music that goes in cycles is called beats, and it is very pleasing. And if the song is also cyclic, it has some kind of rhythm, repetition, then it is a piece of art.

Another good example is a PC, where the electronic circuits are operating in cycles: voltages that go positive, negative, millions or trillions of times per second. The final output is various kinds of events or appearances on the screen: pictures, documents, sounds, music, movies, and so on.

Same way, human brain is operating on cyclic electrical pulses that can be measured easily. And not only the brain, the whole body operates on electrical pulses, some or the other kinds. And so, you will find many examples of vibrating patterns underlying most of the phenomena.

If we assume that everything is made up of vibrations, patterns in the memory, then yes, everything is by default cyclic. Sometimes the structures go so complicated and so big that you cannot detect the cycle, it is too big. It appears as a straight line, just like a very big curve looks like a flat, straight line in a small area, small section. And even the tiniest of phenomena which can be detected are cyclic, because obviously, everything appears as a memory pattern that is vibrational, and vibrations are cycles.

Using this model, we can safely say that everything is cycles, and therefore, it is a law. This cannot be broken. Yes, different other models of illusion will produce different results. So you can see that if you take the Law of Cycles as the truth, relative truth, and there are no random phenomena, and there is no linear time. There is no linear history and linear future. It all cycles back, repeats. And there is no end, because cycles do not end. There is no actual time.

So this makes the illusion somewhat predictable, but very interesting, because it gives us an illusion that we can know something. For example, we saw the cycles of day and night. We can predict that there will be more days and nights, more seasons and more years. Cycles give us an illusion that we know something, which is very good.

So we saw that the Law of Polarity says that in the nature of the events or phenomena, they change and they become opposite. And the Law of Cycles adds to it that not only the events change from positive to negative, they again change into positive and then again change into negative. So it repeats endlessly, there is no end of switching of polarities. This is how the vibration goes, and the same vibration is seen in all the levels of manifestation, right from tiniest vibration, fundamental vibration, to the whole existence. The whole existence is nothing but a cycle.

So we can safely assume that everything gets destroyed periodically. These periods are very big, beyond human understanding. And everything gets recreated, reassembles. Complex forms appear again and again and again, and the same thing is seen at lower levels, even at the faster levels.

So how many kinds of cycles can there be? And the answer is infinite. How many durations or frequencies of cycles can be there? Infinite. How many phenomena can we have that are cyclic? And the answer is infinite. It is very rich.

## Prediction

Another question is, some cycles can be predicted, just like we found in the case of days and nights. Can we predict some other cycles? For example, the rise and fall of countries, or changes of economies, financial markets, stock markets, because these look like they are cyclic, sometimes they look like they are random. Or can we predict what will happen in my next birth? What will happen after 1 million years in my life? Because the cycle means that there is no real death. The Law of Cycles ensures that you don't completely die. And that is probably a positive thing for some people and not so positive for many people. But there will be some kind of cycle of life and death, it predicts.

So, can we know all these things? And the answer is yes and no.

And many people know in information theory and computation, the more information we have, the easier it is to predict what will happen. Some phenomena are very simple, so a tiny bit of information is enough to predict something. But those events that are cyclic, but they are made up of very complex patterns of cycles, you can assume a very complicated machinery made up of millions of gears of different sizes going in at different speeds, some are going in reverse also, some are forward, it becomes almost impossible to get the final outcome or a state of that machine after, let us say, 1,000 cycles or million cycles of a specific kind. But if you can plot or measure the speed and diameter and some more information of every gear in the machine, even though it has thousands and millions of gears, a good enough computer can calculate any state of that machine.

Suppose that machine is playing a piano, any good computer, given all that information, measurements, can reproduce the symphony or whatever the tune that is being played. If that machine is playing, let us say, a drama of puppets, mechanical puppets, yes, good enough calculation with extremely precise measurements of that machine will give us some idea of what will happen in that drama in a few minutes or few hours.

So theoretically, it is possible. But the more complex the event is, more information is needed and we need more computation, more intelligence. Computation here you can take it as equal to intelligence. We need more information and more intelligence to predict.

Simple things, obviously we can predict. Complicated things, we can estimate using probability. That is not a prediction, but is good enough. We have an 80% chance of rain. Because rain is a very complex cyclic phenomenon, but if you accumulate a lot of information about the parameters of the atmosphere, you can say something about rain, what will happen in that specific part of the land. So if you collect a lot of information in the body, you can predict what will happen to that body, if there are any diseases, chances of diseases, whatever, it's possible. At least you can get a probability, if not exact number.

Similarly, if you build a machine which has very high intelligence, such as an AI, and feed it the stock market data, it will predict something which is better than humans. Probably people are doing it, we don't know. Same in the gambling and so on. The amount of information these things will take will be huge. The same way, if you want to predict tiny events, it will take more information.

And coming back to our question, which is interesting for us: what will happen in my life, future prediction, isn't it, astrology? What will happen after 1,000 births? And you will need an enormous amount of data to even calculate the probability correctly.

And for a human being, it is very safe to say they are unpredictable. They are not deterministic. Although the Law of Cycles says you can predict, give me more information, I'll tell you. More information, more fidelity, more accuracy. But it will require more computation, more intelligence.

And there is another limit to what can be predicted, that is time itself, because it will take some time to run that calculation. And if the events are complex cycles within cycles within cycles, 1,000 times then probably the machine itself will take more time to calculate than the duration of the event. That means the rain will start falling before the computer predicts chances of rain. So it will take a million years to tell what will happen in the next 100 years, and that is worthless.

There are limits to what can be predicted, how much information can we process. And there is one more limit: that if you want to predict something using the Law of Cycles, it takes energy. It will take almost too much power to run that computer computation. So energy is also a limit. And those who are in the computer science and machine intelligence field, they know there are some very fundamental limits.

Still, you can bypass some of them. You can use some tricks. You can use one law to overcome the other law, like we say in occult. So if you use quantum physics and so on, you can do those computations quickly.

Anyway, this is getting too technical. We come back to being human-centric, because that's what we want, we are selfish. Humans have a very small intelligence, although it is remarkable. There is nothing more intelligent than the human brain in the known universe. So it takes very less amount of energy, it takes a decent amount of time, but it can predict things.

For example, you can easily say that if I throw water, it will go downstream. That much prediction, that much we know. If you throw a stone in the air, better run away because it's going to fall on your head. And many things that help in our survival. If I see honeybees, yes, predict that after a few steps, a few meters, I'll get honey. If you see a wild animal, violent animal, the brain or the mind can predict something bad can happen and we run away. If you see your friend after a long time, you can predict that he needs money or something else.

So humans have adapted their intelligence to survive, not to predict everything accurately, not to see all the cycles precisely. Human beings are very limited. They are evolved, they have adapted to see exactly those cycles that are necessary for survival. We are good at that, but we are very bad at anything else at all. We cannot predict it, cannot even think about it. There is no knowledge, and there is no possibility of knowledge of cycles.

So many limits, and therefore, the Law of Cycles is enigmatic. Things show up sometimes. We don't know why they happen, but we get an intuition that there is a reason for this, and that is called synchronicity. There are people in spiritual circles and occult people, and ordinary people call them crazy, but they are not crazy. They have a bigger intuition. They have some spiritual power to see what can happen and why something has happened. Exactly. If not exactly, somewhat, approximately.

So humans are limited, but there can be more complex structures, creatures, minds that are more capable, that can process more information, and that can predict better.

## Rising Above Cycles

And yes, humans have agency. So we can interrupt some cycles, and we can start some cycles. Both interruption and starting of cycles takes power. So only powerful people can do that. So that gives us a clue how to rise above this Law of Cycles. And obviously, you cannot stop the law from operating, but you can use this law if you want some kind of advantage.

So like I said, it takes a lot of intelligence, power, and energy to not only predict, but to also change the cycles. It is possible to change them, fortunately. And the key to that intelligence and power is spiritual evolution.

There is nothing in existence that will limit your intelligence, your power, your capability. There are no such rules. But human form is limited. So if you want to do all these things, predict the future, start the cycle, stop the cycle, and so on, change the cycles. The only way is to drop the limitation of human beings. You must evolve above human level.

Those who are dreaming of achieving some kind of power or something, or those who think that simply listening to this series will give them something, are delusional. You need to grow up. You need to progress, evolve. Only then it is possible to take advantage of all these laws. So that sounds discouraging, but this is the bitter truth.

And while we are in the human form, while we are still evolving, trying to evolve, we can still use the Law of Cycles. Knowledge is a beginning. Know that there are cycles. At least we'll come to know that things repeat. If I do this, yes, there is a possibility that it will repeat. Should I do this? Think about it.

For example, you take up a job. Now the same lifestyle will repeat. Every day you go there, do the same thing, approximately the same things, and the cycle repeats. You started the cycle. But yes, you can end it. Same way, if you settle in a married life, you will see that your life has become cyclic. It is like run-of-a-mill, literally. And if you do some spiritual practice, the practice will repeat again and again.

This is true at the level of the body also, that sometimes a person becomes addicted to something. Did something, it produced reward in the mind, in the nervous system. Now the nervous system wants it again. The person says, "I want this," and the cycle repeats. This is not a virtuous cycle, it is an addiction that will come up again and again.

So as a human being, you have a little bit of power to start or stop something. I gave you some examples. Do you want to start those cycles or not? You can decide. If you start, let us say, spiritual practice, yes, it will continue as a cycle. But this is a positive cycle. It will cause evolution, it will cause progress. Same for many other things that we do in our lives.

It is psychological many times. You lie once, then it becomes a cycle of lies and deceptions. To hide one lie, you need to tell 10 more lies. It is a cycle many people can see.

So this much knowledge will save you from the trap of cycles, especially those that we don't want, that you don't want. But it is not possible to destroy the Law of Cycles. So choose correctly. Choose your cycles correctly.

Now on the matter of prediction, yes, it will require growing up beyond humans to probably something really big, a structure in the memory that is really powerful, and then it becomes possible to predict complex events. But by then, you won't remain a human, and then you will lose interest in predicting anything which is concerning survival or human activities. We don't know how advanced these structures are, what they are predicting, or what are their doings. It's beyond human capability. It is like an ant trying to understand what humans do. What do they think? What do they say? The ant cannot possibly predict even 1%. The cycles in the life of an ant are very small, very simple. In the same way, human beings cannot predict what advanced beings do.

So how advanced can you go? And the answer is again, infinite. There is no limit to evolution. Evolution is infinite. It is a play.

The error that happens is, human beings think that I can become powerful, and I can know something or I can do something which is useful for a human. It is possible, yes, but it is not intelligent. It is not wise to do anything with all these powers, including the power over cycles.

That is why nobody disturbs any cycle. Nobody starts anything, nobody stops anything. They simply rise above. That is the meaning of rising above, that you don't cause a mess in the machinery of existence that is operating perfectly. It is perfect as it is. All you can do is climb the ladder of machinery, become a bigger machinery or part of a bigger system. That is possible. The only way is to evolve, to progress spiritually. There is no other way.

There are some practical things you can do, tips. By identifying some cycles and all, you can predict a little bit. You can also predict what will happen to other people, and you can either go close to them or you can create a distance from them. Sometimes that is intelligent. You see some destructive cycles in somebody. If you don't want the Law of Interconnectedness to affect you, because you will get caught in those cycles, you must distance yourself. Break the connections as much as possible.

So those who are very sensitive, very intelligent, have higher kinds of intelligence than ordinary people, they can see some cycles and they operate almost magically.

So we'll continue our discussion on other laws of memory. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 17

Welcome to Pure Experiences, and this is a series on Laws of Memory. Today, we are going to discuss the Law of Balance.

## 14 - Law of Balance

This means everything in this existence seeks an equilibrium. Everything, with time, spontaneously equalizes. Whenever there is an excess of something, it creates an imbalance, and a change happens, which reduces that excess. Things move in a direction such that the energy is balanced out, so that nothing is too much and nothing is too less. The direction of the change is always such that it minimizes imbalance.

You can have a sub-law of Law of Balance, which is the law of entropy. It says that the energy in a system tends to distribute equally. The Law of Balance explains not only entropy, it explains many other physical laws, but the Law of Balance is applicable to not only the physical world, it is applicable to the body and psychological events also. Entropy is a specific case where this law is seen as equalizing force.

For example, if you keep a clay pot outside, it will stay like that for a few days, a few months. The rain, the sunshine, or the snow, the vegetation, grass, they all contribute towards its destruction. The clay pot tends to become clay. Its particles tend to scatter around.

So in science, we say entropy increases. The form tends to become formless. A complex system tries to simplify, breaks down. From a human point of view, it is destruction, but from the point of view of the memory, it is simply trying to balance.

When you create a clay pot, you actually create an imbalance of probabilities, of energy, of distribution of patterns in the memory. Now, somewhere in the memory, there are more regular patterns. Something gets concentrated somewhere, while around it are randomly moving patterns. So, the law of probability says that out of all the positions a particle in the pot can occupy, the probability of it being in a pot is very tiny.

Imagine there are 1 million locations in a room, and some particles are restricted to one or two locations only, that is inside the pot. Now, that creates an imbalance in the memory. Since the memory is in motion, impermanence is the law, the particles, they try to occupy other positions in the room. Out of a million, it is more probable for a particle to be somewhere in the room, move around, rather than being constrained to one position, which is the clay pot. So ultimately, impermanence appears, motion happens, and the particles in the clay pot try to distribute in the room. That is what we see as entropy.

From a human perspective, everything breaks down. It is impossible for the clay particles scattered in the room to automatically construct a clay pot. It is impossible. Only when some energy is supplied, so that imbalance happens, probability distribution is imbalanced, only then something appears which is meaningful. It takes energy. We say it consumed power. Creation consumes power or energy, but the opposite is spontaneous. It won't take too much energy for the clay pot to again become dust in the room. And you can see this law of entropy everywhere in nature.

It explains many more laws like the law of potential. If water is at a higher potential or a higher level, there are more locations for it to occupy, and it goes to a lower level. Somehow finds a way. It takes structure, energy, and power to keep it at a higher level. Otherwise, it tends to go down and balance itself. So in physics, we say that in a system, the system tries to come into a state of least energy. This is a consequence of the Law of Balance.

The creation also creates imbalance. On a flat surface of sand, if you create a sandcastle, pile up some sand, you will see that there is a pit, a small pit. This is a case of imbalance. And given enough time, the sandcastle will fall down, and the pit will be filled up, and it will again become a flat surface. This is a direct consequence of probability.

Similarly, electrical charges, if they are concentrated in the same, one place, they try to flow to somewhere else where there is less charge. And the same is true for everything. Even if we don't see it, the Law of Balance is acting somewhere.

Since everything is impermanent, the balance never becomes static. It is always a dynamic balance. Or we call it a state of equilibrium. It is not that everything will become dead and motionless because of the Law of Balance. No, it becomes a dance of harmony, equilibrium. Yes, from the human perspective, it can be destruction, leveling up, something boring, but without this law, nothing will move and nothing will be steady also. The Law of Balance provides an illusion of stability, steadiness.

So, there can be more examples of balance. You already know examples related to the physical world. You can see the Law of Balance in the body. If the body works, walks, runs, it loses energy, water, nutrients, and then it must be fed those things. It feels tired. It is painful, hungry. That is a condition of imbalance. When you eat, you rest, it is balance. But if you rest too much, the body becomes restless, uneasy. It needs something to do.

Sickness of the body is seen as an imbalance inside the body, whether it is about hormones, blood, nutrition, whatever. And it is also imbalance with respect to the environment. If there is such an imbalance, the body gets infected by other microbes, other life forms, too much heat, too much cold. These are all imbalances that cause sickness in the body.

So, the human body, and not only human body, bodies of every creature, they seek a balance, a balance with the environment and a balance in the inner environment. If you feed the body something which disturbs the harmony, it falls sick.

So anyway, the law of entropy consumes it because a body is an imbalance in the environment. It is a creation. It is a very complicated structure, held up against the law of probability. So, destruction of the body, death, old age, is also the Law of Balance. This will be surprising for many people.

What about birth? Is it creating an imbalance? And the answer is no, it is creating some kind of dynamic balance. So, for any creature, if there is an abundance of resources, food, shelter, protection, it causes an imbalance in the environment. And new births happen. The creature reproduces more in response to that signal. And more individuals of that kind, they consume the resources, and balance happens again. But if there is scarcity, less reproduction happens, less births happen, and there is again a balance of resources.

What happens if there are no resources, but the organism keeps reproducing? And the answer is very clear. It causes total destruction. If it is a human organism, it causes complete collapse of society, civilization, and culture. So, birth also causes some kind of balance, and death also causes balance. Otherwise, these processes, these events will not exist.

There are more processes in the body, like too much pleasure becomes boring, and then it becomes painful. There are mechanisms in the body to ensure that nothing goes out of balance. If the body grows beyond a specific size, it becomes heavy and slow, cannot defend from predators. That kind of body cannot run fast, cannot fight quickly. So, they are the first to be eaten by faster and more violent animals. So, they optimize. They reach a perfect balance.

Too fast and too energetic creatures will consume more energy, more food, and will quickly run out of resources. So, that also places an upper limit. So, there is a dynamic balance in nature, in the ecosystem. If something goes wrong in the ecosystem, everything gets affected. It is a very delicate and dynamic balance. I think many people know about these things nowadays.

Humans, due to their ignorance, and probably they have more agency to create imbalance, they tend to destroy things quickly. They pollute, they hunt, overhunt, or they overproduce, and they reproduce too much. They do all kinds of unnecessary things, keep causing imbalance. But they cannot break the Law of Balance. Sometimes the balance is restored in a very inconvenient way, which we don't like.

So, let us move to something which is mental, whatever we call mental or psychological. Because anyway, everything is mental. So, in the mind, we see the Law of Balance. The rise of emotion is caused by imbalance. A perfectly balanced mind will not give rise to too many emotions or too many thoughts. Something happens, something needs to be done, now emotions, desires, and thoughts arise in the mind, and their direction is to balance out everything.

If there is a fight, immediately anger or fear arises. It causes actions to minimize that anger and fear. If the situation is not balanced, these emotions, thoughts keep arising, almost violently. It is inconvenient. We say it is a mental sickness because something is out of balance. If no action is taken, the imbalance keeps rising. And some kind of breakdown or destruction happens in the mental structure that causes mental disorders, mental sickness.

And most of the mental sickness is an imbalance in emotion. Either there is zero emotion, lack of it, or there is excess emotion, and that person acts like a mad person. The same way, too much thought is a result of some kind of imbalance. You are unable to take a decision, keep thinking. You have incomplete knowledge, incomplete information, you don't know what to do, keep thinking. It is a new situation, you never handled it, you keep thinking about it. So, it is an imbalance.

The mental imbalance eventually causes some kind of imbalance in the body, because the energy seeks an outlet. The uncompensated, imbalanced energy in the mind tries to flow through the body, and causes bodily sickness, illness, some kind. For example, too much thinking can cause a headache. This is probably everybody's experience. But there are very subtle changes in the body that happen due to imbalance in the mind. This is well known to those who practice holistic medicine, healing, etc. The body is not different from the mind.

And you can guess that the imbalance in the mind will show up in the world, outside the body: bad relationships, disorganized house or office, ugly work style, there is no beauty in whatever they do or say, and so on. That shows some kind of imbalance somewhere.

So, it is a dance. The body is not seeking a state of rest. The mind does not want to remain dead. The body-mind machine is seeking some kind of balance. If you know this law, you can utilize this law to find the imbalance and then restore the balance.

So, there is a spiritual angle to the balance also. If there is too much ignorance, the causal body disintegrates, too much entropy. Ignorance shows that there is a lot of entropy. Everything is disorganized, illogical, and out of place, unharmonious. So, that kind of causal body will go down the ladder of evolution instead of rising up.

Somebody who is pushing too hard in spirituality, doing some kind of impossible practices to progress, yes, there is some imbalance there, and it will cause some extraordinary, supernatural kind of manifestations. Many people experience this.

So, spiritual progress is an act of balance. You cannot hurry it, and you cannot delay it.

So, the golden rule everywhere, whether it is spiritual or material or everything in between, is: excess must be avoided. Too much of anything is always bad, and too little of anything is also bad. You need a balance.

So, too little water in the atmosphere will cause deserts. Too much water will cause swamps. Too much heat from the sun will not enable life here, and too little will cause ice ages, right, everything will freeze. Just the right amount, balanced.

Same way, you cannot work too much, and you cannot sleep too much. The body needs balance. You cannot eat too much, but you cannot eat too little. Just the right amount. You cannot eat a balanced diet of one thing only, one nutrition only. No, you need all the nutrition, all kinds, and a variety of food.

In the mind also, if there is zero anger, that person, that body-mind creature will not be able to defend, will be defeated, and will be killed by more aggressive members. But if there is too much anger, that person will be hated, disliked, and will get killed by somebody who does not like that kind of violence/peacekeeping forces. So, just the right amount.

Same way, just the right amount of fear keeps you alive. Too much, you won't be able to live properly. Too little, you will take more risk, and then always danger.

Too much love, and you will make illogical decisions. Probably you will spend all your money, you will go mad for it. Too little love, and your life becomes boring, colorless, monotonous.

Too much happiness, everybody knows now, the law of polarity and law of cycles and so on, probably you already guessed, is not good. You need some suffering to make life spicy.

In the same way, too much spiritual practice causes problems. Too many blind beliefs: problems. "I don't believe anything at all": big problem. So, balanced thinking, balanced practice, equilibrium. Remember, spiritual progress is also equilibrium. Whatever is progressing does not want to go down, does not want to regress, but also does not want to hurry up the progress. There is no hurry in nature. Everything happens at the right time.

Too many desires will make you mad, crazy. No desire will make you depressed, boring.

So, if you are fortunate to know the Law of Balance, you can optimize your life at all the planes of existence. This law is manifested in all the levels. All layers of memory show this law. So, I've given you many examples, and you must have understood it now.

## Rising Above Balance

So as we said, it is possible to rise above the uncontrolled way of balancing, imbalancing, or entropy. You need to detect the imbalance. How will you detect imbalance if you are asleep on the wheel? You can see that most of the population is asleep, which means they are not aware. If somebody is aware, he or she can detect imbalance immediately. There are indicators of imbalance everywhere: red lights, green lights, all kinds of lights. You need to be aware, you need to be sensitive, and you will see the imbalance immediately, and then you can take some action to balance it.

Some people are very sensitive, especially the spiritual people, because they have a high amount of awareness. These people withdraw from society because they find too much imbalance in the society, too much. If they cannot do anything about it, they leave it.

So awareness comes through knowledge, self-realization. Otherwise, you will keep thinking that this body-mind is me, and that kind of ignorance keeps it in imbalance. That equilibrium never arises without awareness, and awareness never comes without self-realization. And as soon as there is some kind of spiritual balance, a knowing, we call it equanimity, also called samadhi, which means a balanced state. That's all it means: a balanced mind. "*Sam*" in Sanskrit means balanced, equal. Although many people will interpret the word "*Samadhi*" in different ways, probably there are already 100 definitions of this word, so I avoid this word. But equanimity is probably less corrupted, as it says "equal", balanced.

So, the mind enters a balanced state. This is indicated by peace and bliss. The indicators of balance within you are peace and bliss, equanimity. And the indicators of imbalance are tension, suffering, violence, madness, everything failing, everything breaking, dissatisfaction, and lack of harmony and love, plus bodily sickness and general degradation of the society, which you can see around you. Society is mostly degraded. There is mostly suffering. Yes, there are few people that are happy. They are happy with an imbalance. If there is a complete imbalance around you, entropy says that that person who is happy will not stay happy for long.

For example, a king robs everybody, kills every enemy, captures every woman in a kingdom, in a domain. That king is a happy king, obviously, but he has created an imbalance. Now, there will be mutiny or there will be riot, and these people will become so angry, obviously, they will kill that king. It is a short-lived happiness. Nobody will call it happiness; it is madness. But there are many things like this if you read history. Still, there are people like this who are in positions of power. They create imbalance and call it achievement or happiness. That is the worst kind of stupidity. Intelligence says harmony, equanimity, balance, not imbalance.

Some people earn a lot of money, call it happiness. They have simply created an imbalance. Now, they gather an army of jealous, poor, unhappy people around them. They need two or three bodyguards to walk on the street. They need to keep checking their profits and bank balances. If they cannot keep up, they're fired from the company, whatever, corporation. People have created all kinds of really mentally retarded kinds of imbalances, and they call it happiness.

A king who captures the kingdom, but builds road, encourages farming, gives out money, gold occasionally, promotes art, science, philosophy, and spirituality, opens hospitals and universities, and brings prosperity in the kingdom, becomes a successful king. Yes, he will collect taxes, yes. He will punish people who are against his power. He will be violent. He will defend the kingdom using warfare and weapons, and so on. But there will be a balance, dynamic balance. He is keeping the peasant class, the lower class, happy and entertained. They get everything they want. He is not doing excess of king-ness. Plus, he is also enjoying the rule.

So, we see very few people like this who are completely balanced in all manners, in all the dimensions of life. It is almost impossible to find such a person.

If you take a look at animals, you will find almost all of them have a perfect balance within themselves, within their community if they are social animals, and with nature. They are balanced. There is occasional violence, there is occasional conflict, a few minutes, then the rest of the time it is peace, bliss, very less disease. They do not even grow old, and they complete their lives in a perfect way. You will see the perfection of nature if you observe wildlife: birds, fish, other animals.

This balance will not be seen in domestic animals, pets. They fall sick, they die. They die in accidents, motor accidents, and they are killed by humans for eating, and so on. These animals are raised as a farming practice. They do not live a life. They are farmed, they are grown for food. So, you will never find a balance there. And people who eat that kind of food, the imbalance gets transferred there. They also become like that: sick and stupid.

So human beings, due to their unnatural lifestyle, have caused imbalance. A spiritual person realizes this and starts to create balance in their lives. So a spiritual person, a seeker, will seek balance, equanimity or samadhi, peace, bliss.

A spiritual master can - this is important - if he pleases, can produce balance in others. Can balance the entire universe if they want, but they don't. Because imbalance is seen as a natural event. We don't go ahead knowingly and start making everything equal, because we know the Law of Balance is operating. We don't need to do much. At the right time, balance will rise.

So a master is never in a hurry. The master does not want to enlighten everybody in the universe, although they want to, but they don't want to do it in one day. Some can do it in one day, but they know it is some kind of imbalance. We need ignorant people. We need these non-spiritual crowds to balance as something in the universe. So probably the masters know more than I can describe here. Their actions can seem almost mysterious, magical sometimes.

Whenever you perceive imbalance, you need to act in a balanced way. Already the memory patterns are going to create equalization, equilibrium. So before it becomes violent and inconvenient, you do it yourself. Your all actions must be balanced. And that simply means to not do anything in excess.

If it happens naturally, you can be sure that it is balanced. It will be balanced. If you need to do something which is not present in nature, yes, do the minimum. So, minimalism is the key.

Minimalism does not mean reduction to zero. No, it does not mean that you destroy everything, keep nothing. No, it means perfect balance. Not more than needed, not less than needed. This is minimalism. If you minimize even more, you will see that there is some tension, there is some imbalance, and you will need to restore it. If it goes above a limit, you will see, yes, imbalance, you reduce it. So minimalism does not simply mean go on reducing, no. You need to increase something which was not there. That is also minimalism. So, this is a big subject, minimalism in itself, but it is the art of living so that nothing goes in excess, but happens exactly according to the need.

And there is a law which I always keep telling people whenever they ask what to do. It is very amazing that humans don't know what to do. They know how to mess up everything without anybody telling them, but they don't know what to do when things go wrong. So, the formula is: do that which is necessary. It is related to minimalism, and also related to the Law of Balance. If you do only the necessary, it will create a balance. If you keep doing unnecessary, yes, it causes imbalance, and the restoration is sometimes undesired. We don't want that kind of restoration. So from the beginning, you need to check where the imbalance is, start reducing. If it is too much, start increasing if it is too less. Balanced action.

And there is an extension to this rule of necessity: after finishing that which is necessary, do that which is joyful, which brings pleasure and happiness. Because minimalism sometimes looks boring, monotonous, grayscale. You can add color. Always add the color in such a way that there is harmony, and there is joy, pleasure, happiness, and everybody enjoys it. It should not be imbalanced. You cannot enjoy yourself by making lots of people unhappy. That already shows imbalance. You must have done something unnecessary. This is not minimalism. It is an art, and it must be learned.

Other creatures are doing it naturally. Mother Nature ensures balance in case of other animals, other creatures. But humans have a freedom, which is very good, which is a power. We have free will, we have power to act even if it is not necessary, but we are learning to master this power. We are learning to cause a balance when we have excess ability to do something. Human beings are still learning it.

So how to speed up the learning? Learn the laws of memory. With this knowledge, you will be able to do whatever you want, and still keep everything in balance. You will be able to create infinitely, still maintaining a balance. You will be able to destroy, still escaping the consequences. That is what every magician or tantrik or master wants.

So, the key is knowledge of these laws, and rising above these laws not by breaking it, but by utilizing these laws in your favor.

So we'll continue our discussion on laws of memory. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 18

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory. Today we are going to talk about a very well-known and very important law of memory. It is the Law of Action, also called the Law of Karma or the Law of Cause and Effect.

## 15 - Law of Action

In simple words, it means actions have consequences. This is actually a very accurate definition. It means anything that happens in memory is followed by more events. There is no occasion in the memory where an action happened, something appeared and disappeared completely without causing secondary effects. That sudden, abrupt change is impossible. That's what this law is saying.

Now, it has many interpretations. Why is it called karma? Why do we say it is getting stored? Why is it divided into two categories of cause and effect? What is the cause? What is the effect? And all these terminologies are confusing, so we'll try to explain the basics first. And since this is a very big subject, law of action, probably two or three books can be written easily on this one law alone, so we'll try to be very short.

Why is it called karma? This is a Sanskrit word which comes from *kar*, which means arms or hands. So literally it means whatever our hands or arms do, whatever change they produce, because yes, that is very familiar to us. If you want to do something, we want to change something, we use our hands.

So whenever something is changed in the memory, it can be called an action. The definition of the word action is a change. The memory is disturbed, the structure changes. According to our model of memory and vibrations, action means this. And in ordinary language, you can say doing something. Doing something always causes a change.

The words cause and effect are actually not pointing to anything specific in the memory. These are concepts that are created by humans. The event, the action, previous to the current action will be called cause. And the following action or the consequence will be called an effect. But the law of action says that every action has a consequence, so the effect has further effects. The effect then becomes a cause and produces effects, more consequences. So it is a synonym for action-consequence, cause and effect.

But yes, there are many interpretations of the word cause. It is seen as a reason for the following effect. It is seen as a necessary condition for the consequence or the effect to happen, which is logical. If there is no first action, you cannot imagine the second action. There will always be a question: What produced the second action? What caused it? The mind, the intellect will ask. Although there is no cause and effect.

The action does not produce consequence. The action does not have any kind of mechanism to produce consequence. We can only say actions have consequences. That is more accurate. But yes, human intellect divides it into cause and effect, doing and the done, karma and its fruit, which is good for practical reasons.

## Misunderstandings

There are more misunderstandings about the law of action. The most common one is that if you do a bad action, it will produce bad consequences. And similarly, if the action is good, it will produce good consequences. And this is simply a misunderstanding. The law of action never says this.

The law of action does not define good action and bad action. It also does not define the right action, wrong action. It simply says, if you change something, the change will not stop at one place, at that place. It will continue happening, consequences will follow. That's all it says.

In the memory, no action is good and no action is bad. These are, again, concepts invented by humans for their use. That which is helpful, keeps me happy, keeps me alive, beneficial for me and others will be called good. It is a categorization, that's all. And the reverse will be called bad. And yes, it is completely relative, like we saw when we discussed the law of relativity, law of polarity, and so many laws now, that there is no real good, there is no real bad.

So whenever actions happen, the consequences are then categorized based on this idea of good and bad. It is only an idea. What happens is an action happens and then some consequences appear. And if they are according to our desire, whatever we want, it is labeled as good. If not, it is labeled as bad. Which means anything can happen, depending on millions of conditions and parameters. And this categorization is arbitrary. Anybody is free to classify the consequence as anything. One person's good is another's bad. Another's bad is somebody else's good. Sometimes not bad, sometimes not good, not both. We call it a neutral action.

So this is a big misunderstanding that if you do something good, you will always get something good. No, that is not guaranteed. There is no good. So whatever is produced as a result of your action, anybody's action, is always neutral. Then, in retrospect, it is labeled as good or bad.

Another misunderstanding is there is a doer of an action. It is very natural to assign a doer, a concept of doer, but it is an invention of humans again. There is no doer in the existence or in memory. There is no doer at any level of the memory. Even the vibrations are not the doer. They just appear.

It is very natural because just like it is defined as an action, doing through the hands and so on, that to whom these hands belong will be called doer. If you cooked food, hopefully tasty food, you will be called a doer. And that action will be called a good action. Fruit is dinner, tasty dinner, good food. So: doer, action, fruit. Doer, action, and consequence.

So you can see that these misunderstandings simply multiply at every level. There is superimposition upon superimposition on the simple event of change that happens. In the case of humans, the change is seen as happening through hands or organs of action. Mostly for a human being, the organs of actions are muscles. But the concept of doer is extended to others, other things. For example, animals. The dog breaks something in the house, so the dog is the doer. Dogs also have a little bit of sense of doership, because they run away, thinking that somebody will punish me for my actions.

Not only that, we assign doer to plants also. This plant produced a sweet fruit, very good job, good action. And we assign the doer or actor to machines also. "My car took me to my office." "This computer made a mistake." "My phone always rings when I'm busy. It does that." "The fan is making noise." So on. Although there is no doer or actor there. These are a series of events.

But since human intellect works in this way, it tries to assign an actor, an agency to everything, almost. So when we see clouds in the sky, most people don't know why they are there, but yes, we need to assign something, some doer to it. Something is imagined. Or somebody with a lot of education will say, "Sun did it. Heat from the sun caused it," something like this. So we always find some doer, actor, or whatever is the cause of that event, that is called doer or actor. We can see the cause, and we call it the doer. But actually there is nothing. You will always find a long sequence of other actions before that action. And the consequence does not stop.

It is a misunderstanding that one action will produce one effect, one consequence, and then it stops. "I cooked the food, done. Nothing more will happen after that." But that is not true. There is no finite consequence. There are infinite consequences of any action. What happens is it goes beyond the range of senses or human understanding, and then we say, "Yes, it is done. The job is done. Somebody did it. It was good, it was bad." So that which is an infinite sequence of changes is abstracted into something meaningful, just one cause, one action, that's all. That much we can understand.

So let us take the same example of cooking. If you try to find the cause of that action, cooking, you ask *why* question: "Why did somebody cook? Why did cooking happen?" And you will always get an answer, most probably. That person was hungry. This is the answer. Hunger caused the action of cooking. You can again ask why, try to find the cause of hunger. You will get another answer: He was working since morning. That caused hunger, so on. "Why was he working?" He wanted this, and so on, you see. The original action is never found. It simply goes beyond understanding, or we get tired of asking.

But what about the effects? The food is cooked, it does not stop there. The food is served, that is the effect. The food is eaten, it is digested, it goes in the body, and it produces more work. The body acts, and gets hungry again. The consequences do not stop. They become so weak or meaningless that we stop paying attention. We stop asking.

And another major misunderstanding is: I can control my actions and I can control the consequences. This is simply wrong. Usually there is no control over actions. They happen because there is a cause, because of the stored impressions in the memory. Just like there is no doer, no actor, there is no controller. Because to control is another action. It can happen. Control can happen, but there is no one who does it. And if it simply happens, that simply means nothing controls it. It was simply a consequence.

And similarly, nobody controls the consequences. They happen. If the systems or the memory structures are very simple, you can predict the consequences easily. But if they are complicated, complex, nobody can predict. And nobody can say that I controlled this consequence. Simple systems are like a ball rolling down the floor, billiard ball. Very easy to control where it's going. But something like a human body or a society or a big company, nobody can control actions there. Nobody knows what will happen.

But mostly we can work easily in complex situations also, because out of 10 actions, probably five or six produce desirable fruit, results, hit and trial. When the situation is very complex, nobody knows what will happen, nothing can be controlled. So control is an illusion. Sometimes it is useful, but there is no control over consequences. They follow the law of probability.

So in short: no good and bad actions, no doers, no actors, infinite consequences, infinite causes, infinite effects, no control over action or consequences. The law of probability is useful, and somehow life goes on.

## The Nature of Action and Causation

So now we'll try to find why it is called a stored action, stored karma. What is storing it?

So as defined, action is a change in the memory. It is always changing anyway. Law of impermanence. So nothing new is happening. But our intellect can isolate a specific kind of change. It can recognize some specific changes, sets of changes, sequences of changes that are arbitrary. It is called an action.

For example, the action of cooking is not a single change. You can break it down: cutting, frying, and boiling, and whatever. And there is no real beginning of it. When did it start? When you felt hungry? Or when you went to the market to buy the vegetables? When you entered the kitchen? Or when you ignited the stove? What was the point of the start of that action? It is difficult to define, but you can assume any arbitrary point. It is a continuous change. Things are just changing. Then we draw imaginary boundaries. We call it action.

Usually the memory, if not disturbed, will settle into some kind of cyclic or equilibrium state. This is the nature of the memory. It keeps changing, but it tries to achieve some minimal energy and stays there. So in order to produce some other change instead of its usual change, you need to disturb the system. So the action can be called a disturbance in the memory.

A good metaphor is - the surface of the lake is stationary. If you throw a stone, pebble in it, waves of water are produced. That is the consequence. Throwing the stone is the action. It is a very good metaphor. The surface of the lake was stationary, which means it was in equilibrium. It was the lowest energy, although things were in motion. The water has random motion in it, atoms are spinning, water is evaporating, and so on. It is in a state of equilibrium. But somebody disturbed it. That will be called an action. And the waves that were produced is the consequence. It is the change.

So usually, even if the change is happening, if it is a state of equilibrium, rest, it is not called action. Or if it is very natural, not that meaningful, not intentional, we do not call it action. For example, wind blowing, it won't be called an action. Sometimes we say the wind is causing the trees to sway, and the leaves to flutter. The wind is doing it. The actor is the wind here. But actually it is a natural event, disturbance in the wind, that's all. It is not called an action because it is not intentional.

So anything which is assigned an intention: somebody did it because of this, there is a reason, there is an intent behind it, then it is called an action. This is the convention. You do not call random things actions. We need to find an actor, then we need to find an intention, then it's called an action.

So we have somewhat refined our definition here. It is a change, it is a disturbance, but what kind of disturbance? There are so many kinds. So now we narrow it down: intentional change. Only living things have intentions. This is common sense, general knowledge. So yes, the name karma is justified now.

So the fruits or consequences are simply echoes of that initial action, that's all. The same action echoes in the consequences. This is a very important thing to note. In our example of a pebble falling in water, hitting the pebble on the surface, the surface is pushed down for a split second, and then water jumps back. And the same action then repeats again and again and again, that will be seen as wave, wave on the surface. This is a very beautiful example because it gives you so much clarity. So the consequence is nothing, it is simply a copy of the action. This is amazing.

Although sometimes the actions and consequences are so complex that we cannot recognize this equality. We cannot actually see the action in the consequence, but it's always there. The cause is present in the effect. This is the rule of causation. Many people must be knowing this. There is no separate event called effect. It is simply a modification of the cause, or you can say it is simply cause in another form.

A good example of this cause and effect, action-consequence is heating of water. You turn on the stove, the fire burns. You put the water in a pan, and the water heats up. The cause is the fire. You need to cut somewhere, start of the action. And the effect is the hot water. You need to cut the effect also because it is going to continue. What has happened here? The heat in the fire is appearing in the heat in the water. That's all that has happened. The heat was already present in whatever we called the cause, and then the heat is now appearing as an effect, hot water.

What has happened is fire is a disturbance. It echoed or it propagated, transferred. The change continued towards water, pan, water, and the same disturbance appears there. And those who know science, they can understand. The disturbance is nothing but the vibration of atoms. Fire is simply the vibration of atoms. The vibration is so strong that it is emitting light, so that's why fire is luminous, like a candle flame. So hitting atoms on the pans is just like hitting a pebble on the water surface. Then the pan also starts vibrating, the vibrations are transferred to the pan, and from the pan, the vibrations are transferred to water.

In ordinary, or you can say language of ignorance, we say now the water is hot. Fire made it hot. Fire is the doer of it. Because I wanted hot water, it is a good action. Suppose you are cooking something, and the water evaporates and food burns, bad action, bad fire, some people will say. Fire has a destructive tendency. We need to control the fire. So human beings, they live in some kind of delusion, but it's okay because it's useful for life. You don't need to know all these tiny scientific and spiritual definitions.

And the effect was already present in the cause. Disturbance simply got transferred. And you can do this kind of analysis, contemplation for many cases. It is applicable universally. It is a law, Law of Action. So that's why nothing gets created in this existence. It is only a transfer of disturbance. Only the action gets transferred. Something causes something, some effect. Nothing actually changes. Little bit modification, but no fundamental changes.

There are no exact rules to specify the cause. So who caused the hot water? The answer can be fire. Or the answer can be the person who placed that water on the fire. Or the answer can be the master of that person. Let's say the person is a servant, he is heating water for the master, so the ultimate cause is the intention of the master. Otherwise there was no reason for heating the water. So the actual cause is also arbitrary. It is somehow assigned to something. The chain of cause-effect is infinite. You need to assume something somewhere to make any sense of it.

So hopefully, what is action, this must be clear to the listeners. These are the keywords: change, disturbance, intention, echo of action. Effect is simply the cause in a modified form, and so on. If you understand this much, you understand action. And now you are in a position to know more than an ordinary person.

## The Mechanisms of Action

So yes, for a human being, from a human perspective, actions happen through the body, muscles. There are five organs of action, but it is simply muscle, muscles, and movement of the body. So you can add speech into it. Although it is also movement of the mouth and lungs, but we treat it specially, because speech is a subtle form of action. It does not move anything in the world. Objects are not moved, nothing gets created, nothing is destroyed. Only air vibrates, that's all. But it is very powerful. It's not a small thing, as we all know. The right words cause the right effects, never sure. It is not guaranteed, but we can try. Nobody's in control, you see.

The third way to cause any change is thought. This is an even minute kind of action, micro-action. Thought is simply movement of memory. You can sense it. You can call it imagination of speaking, thought. It can be the imagination of doing. I can think of going somewhere, and then imagination is - me walking somewhere, that scene appearing somewhere, that that is seen in the mind's eye. So thought is a mixture of all these sensations, irreducibles: speech, vision, action of the body, and so on. All can be imagined, and we can label it as thought.

So micro-action, the medium action of speech, and the gross action of the body. There are even micro, nano-actions which nobody knows about, so we don't talk about them too much. And they happen even before the thought appears. That can be called a desire. Sometimes it is seen, but mostly the desires are seen in the form of thoughts, emotions, and so on. So yes, we can club emotions into thought, mental action. Speech is in between mental and physical, and actions of the muscles or the body are gross actions, physical actions.

So what is beyond desires? There can be more actions. Desires appear as energy of the memory. Now we are getting more abstract. We will never see the energy of the memory, but we'll talk more about desire. This is the primordial action. We do not see anything beyond it, so we assume there is nothing. But there is always an infinite chain of movements. That is what is action.

So now the important thing: desire appears, we can cut off there as the initial action, cause, and it gets translated down, downloaded into speech, emotion, the body moves, and gross actions happen. But there is a feedback loop. The consequence of the action is sensed by the sense organs. You see what the body did, what was the result, what was the effect. Was it good, bad? You decide it. You hear what the mouth says, and you sense the thought, emotion, whatever. These are all sense organs that are affected by the action. Senses are collecting the effects, they are collecting the echoes of the action, and then they are transferred into the knowledge store. They become knowledge. The output of the senses is impressed in the memory, local memory.

So what is getting stored here? The whole loop is getting stored here, with a stamp: "I did it." The "I" comes and it also gets stored there. Yes, a similar thing happens if somebody else is the doer. Somebody else acted, our senses picked it, whatever they did through the body, whatever they said in speech, and we picked it through senses, and that got stored, stamped as the name of that person, doer. If it is an animal, yes, animal. If it is an object, yes. The memory does not differentiate. We simply assume it, obviously. It's all an illusion.

Yes, the funny thing is if the other person is thinking something, that is not transferred. That is not sensed by the gross senses, unless that person tells you what he was thinking, about which there is no guarantee, people lie all the time. So we simply ignore it because we cannot sense it. But what is the truth? What actually happens? Since there is only one memory, the memory has no walls, no breaks, no divisions. The thought also gets transferred to whatever you call as my memory or this memory. We never sense it. We are ignorant about it, but somebody's thoughts were already affected, also got stored.

This is amazing. Whatever you think, that also gets stored. "I am such a hopeless, poor fellow." Yes, it is getting stored. Whatever gets stored determines the next actions, you see. That's why this law is so powerful and so important. That's why you can write many books on it, because it is not simple like Law of Relativity and Law of Hot and Cold and whatever, it's very simple laws. This is a multi-dimensional law.

## The Karmic Cycle and Bondage

So there comes the spiritual word, karmic cycle. Now, hopefully you understand what karmic cycle is: action, consequence, storage, action again, and repeats, loop. It opens so many doors now. It reveals so many secrets, which ancient people, ancient books, and all the gurus keep telling us. But because we don't understand the Law of Action and what is action, we do not understand these teachings, very important teachings. There is a complete path, a spiritual path based on only action. That is called the Path of Action, Karma Yoga. It is so important.

So now the secret of storage is revealed to you. The desire came out of storage. Storage means memory. We cannot see from which memory, what, when. Our senses are incapable, human senses. Sometimes we catch the desire. It has already appeared in the form of thoughts, emotions, speech, and so on. "I want this, I want that." "Let's do this, let's go there." What is this? Expression of desire. It is already expressed, it is already in action. And then the loop happens. Anything goes here, because there is no control, no doer, and there can be any consequence depending on the complexity of the system. And there is an infinite series of effects that happen, but we cut it off somewhere, because we don't understand the infinite series, obviously.

Then that is picked up by the senses. Whatever can be picked up by the senses, we come to know that happened. But some things are not picked by the senses, some changes in the non-physical, non-mental memory, and they are not picked by the senses, at least not by our regular senses, abilities of an ordinary person. They do not pick it. But everything then goes back in memory, that is stored in memory.

And the memory is not static, like we saw. It is a vibration, cannot be stopped. If it stopped, it's not memory, it's not an experience, it's not a change, so it's not vibrating, nothing is vibrating, there's no memory then. So it must be always dynamic, always in motion. Since the memory is in motion, some kind of action is possible, otherwise it was not possible, action was impossible. So our direct experience says it is there.

So memory is in motion, and its motion is seen as a desire. Very simple. Sometimes that motion is very strong, and the desire gets expressed. Only the strongest of these movements of memory, energy of the memory appears as a desire. In case there is no strong movement, energy there, it is randomly fluctuating, it is randomly echoing the stored impressions, but nothing gets transferred into action, because the energy is less. But sometimes the energy is more, and then it appears as a desire, thought, action, whatever. This stronger kind of echo of the memory is called intention. That is the spiritual definition of intention.

Nobody does it, you should keep this in mind. No doer of intention, no intender. Even the intention is not intentional. It simply happens. Whatever gathers energy becomes intention, and then it goes through the regular cycle, produces action, then again it is impressed back in the memory.

So what will happen if you think that, "I am hopeless, I am a loser, I am failure"? It is getting stored in the memory somewhere, and these will be echoed randomly. You will not probably sense them, but what if you keep thinking? Same thing. Now it gathers energy. You are pumping energy into it. You are pouring petrol into fire. So now the same thing will appear again. The same speech will happen, probably the same kind of action will happen. This is amazing. If you think that, "I am confident, I am successful, I am this and that," yes, it is a positive cycle now. This is a very simple example.

Probably nothing happens by simply thinking, it's very low energy. But there can be strong desires that get converted into bodily action without even thinking. Most of the time, this is what happens. If you are hungry, that is a desire, yes, produced by the activity of the memory. If food is in front of you, you don't need to think, you simply eat. That action is stored in the memory along with a very important idea, that is pleasure, or happiness. Because that need was satisfied, that desire was satisfied, one of its effects is production of reward. That is called pleasure.

There are many secondary effects like production of some kind of chemicals in the nervous system or in the body, rewarding chemicals that make this body feel good, relaxed, happy. That is what is called happiness, actually. The body produces a reward, the nervous system producing a reward. That is a side effect of the desire getting fulfilled, and that is also stored in the memory. Similarly for punishment or pain or unhappiness, sadness, suffering. If you ate red chilies by mistake, yes, it will produce punishment. That also gets stored.

So what happens is these rewards and punishments, they determine what will happen next. If it is reward, yes, the same cycle will be reinforced. It is like machine learning. If you reinforce a certain kind of pattern in the machine, that happens more, that output is produced more, more frequently. The same thing can happen in the case of humans. It is a machine. It is learning through reward and punishment. What actions will do more that produce reward, happiness, pleasure? How does it know that? It gets stored in the memory in the form of knowledge, patterns in the memory. And those that are reinforced again and again, they gather energy. We call it energy, it is a concept. It simply means strong vibration, higher amplitude of vibration. Remember, not higher frequency, higher amplitude. It is strong in strength. That becomes intention, and that causes more actions of the similar type.

This is the karmic cycle. It is also called bondage, also called karmic bond. Now it must be really clear why it is bondage. Why are you bound by your own actions? It must be obvious now. Because you cannot do anything more than that. That reward, punishment, karmic cycle, storage, everything has frozen into a mechanical gear, wheel, karmic wheel.

How many karmic cycles are there? And the answer is: many. I am hesitating to call it infinite because it's too much, but we can count some important karmic cycles. And you can count 1,000, 2,000, whatever you want, whatever you think is important. And this whole bunch of cycles, they are running this body-mind machine, which you call a human being. Not only humans, all the animals. These will be called tendencies, because they tend to happen. "Tend" means to pull. These karmic cycles, the bunch of them, thousands of them, they pull the creature into some or other kind of action-consequence loops. This is called the worldly existence, or in Sanskrit we call it samsara, samsaric cycle.

Hopefully it is clear now why gurus talk about these things. But they do not mention it so clearly, I've seen. They assume that everybody knows about all these words. My experience is - nobody knows all these things. Probably for the first time it is clear for many people. Why do they say you're trapped in this world? You're bound here? Because of this, Law of Action, this mechanism of memory.

Is it a bad thing? That is you need to decide, you see, a subjective decision. It's a personal decision. Because this is what life is. Whatever you call life is simply these karmic cycles. Defense, growth, reproduction: there's nothing else in life. And whatever other activities or actions this creature does is for these three. These three are simply survival. You can use one word for DGR: survival. All actions are related to survival. This creature cannot do anything else. Whatever it thinks and feels and does, it's all survival, mostly. Therefore it is bound.

But we cannot say that survival is bad. We cannot say that these karmic cycles are bad. In technical or modern language, you can call it programming, this neural network, which is operating this life. It is not bad, it enables life. It is good.

So what is bad? Any karmic cycle that produces unwanted effects, mostly it is suffering. The unwanted effect will be called suffering. So any karmic cycle that produces suffering is bad. Not all, some are very good. Some, we call it virtuous cycles, and others are simply vicious cycles. They destroy things, they make life hell, in simple words.

So it is all your doing, your own action. Why are you crying? Nobody is doing it, there is no doer. But these actions happen through this body-mind, and ultimately they become so solid, concrete. Like if you walk daily on a playground, many people walk daily on a playground on a specific path, that path becomes a road. Grass will not grow there. Same way, if water flows through a specific channel continuously, the channel becomes deeper, broader, it becomes river, stream, roaring stream of water. The same way, whatever we repeat becomes a permanent cycle, karmic. And that impression is, we say, mostly permanent. How permanent? Not much, thankfully, because everything is impermanent. So stop doing it, slowly it is erased. It's very amazing, it's not permanent.

## Evolution and Freedom

So we can come out of this cycle, any cycle, simply by manipulating the storage in the memory. And the best way is not to repeat. So what is bad in this whole, but beautiful arrangement that enables life? First, the cycles that are destructive, that cause suffering. Second, repetition. Do not repeat. If you don't repeat too much, you will feel the freedom. You're not bound to do the same thing again and again. That is the definition of freedom. Many people will agree. You will need to do something, but you have a choice there: "I can do this also, I can do that also." There are a hundred more choices.

So when that creature is very strongly bound, we call it a habit. And if that habit is destructive, we call it addiction. Now you can take a look, use your direct experience. See that people are mostly bound. Their lives are habitual, run of a mill. They go in the same rut. "Rut" means, yes, the same thing. Wherever the wheel goes, it becomes a narrow channel. Now it cannot go anywhere else, like a train track. They walk on the same track, they go on the same track every day, their whole lives. And many are addicted to one thing or the other, many are addicted to many things. Some don't even know that they are habitual or they are addicted. They don't know all these things.

When you get up in the morning, turn on the TV, or start reading the newspaper, you think it is my life. You can ask any spiritual person, they will say it is an addiction, because you are bound to it. One day you don't get that, you suffer. It causes suffering, because the rewards are not there. There are many addictions: substance addiction, food addiction, relationship addiction, entertainment addiction, and so on. Some people are addicted to violence and wars. They cause suffering to others also. So all these karmic cycles, they become bad only when they cause suffering. Otherwise, they are necessary for life.

How did it all start? You can guess now. It's very easy. The seed of action is the desire. When somebody says desire is the cause of bondage, now you will understand, probably for the first time. How can desires cause anything? They are something in the mind, something in the brain. No, this is a very powerful thing. Desire is a very powerful event. It is the seed, it is the root cause. So your life totally depends on what you desire. This is like a formula. But the derivation of this formula is whatever I said just now, the detailed explanation that I gave. You can confirm this formula like this: you become that which you desire. So desires are important, and you cannot desire something which is not already impressed in the memory. So the memory storage is important.

So desire is called the primordial action, or the primordial energy. There is no other energy. The rest of the things are simply disturbances going through the systems: body-mind, world, whatever, layers of the memory. Although there is no start of the desire also, because we just defined desire as movement of the memory, so there must be something in the memory to cause the desire. So you can see it is all beginningless and endless. There is no end to desires, like they say. This is the truth. But there is no beginning of the desire also.

There is a question that people often ask in spiritual matters: When was my first birth? What caused it? And there is bad news: there is no first birth, nothing caused it. Because you know, birth is an action that happened through a desire. There's no cause of it. First cause is not present. It is an error to assume a cause. You can call it the chicken and egg situation. So everything is instantly present, you can say, because there is no time. And cause and effects are simply our notions, our ideas. They are imaginary. So it is a wrong question, actually. Everything just is. Sometimes it looks like this. Sometimes it looks like we make a division, we cut somewhere the infinite chain of actions and consequences, and we say, "Okay, this desire caused this thing, and it can be a birth also." So we should not ask, actually.

This thing, the cycles of births and deaths is also a karmic cycle. Now you will understand. It is a karmic cycle, one among many thousands and millions, who knows. Birth and death is a karmic cycle. So since it is a cycle, it is never-ending. There is no end to it. Very bad news for people who are trying to end something. It can be changed, this is the good news. You can modify the karmic cycle of births and deaths as per your desire. You see, desire is important, desire is energy.

How will you do that? Because desire is a product of the memory, you will need to change things in the memory. Sanskars must be changed, impressions, tendencies must be changed. If you desire a different kind of birth, because it will never end, you can bias it towards something better. That is called intentional evolution. Only human beings are capable of that.

So if you change your actions, you change your impressions and tendencies, and that produces a different kinds of desire, that produces a better karmic cycle of death and birth. Birth and death is also called reincarnation. You can push your reincarnation towards something better. Better defined by only you, nobody else. There is nothing good, nothing bad. You choose it. You can go down if you want, nobody is stopping you.

So many answers were revealed, but we have discussed only half of the subject of Law of Action. So I want to continue the topic of actions in the next episode. It is becoming very lengthy, so we'll stop here today. We'll take a break and continue on this same law in the next episode. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 19

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory, and we are discussing the law of action. We'll continue from the last part.

## Summary of the Law of Action

In summary, the law of action says that all actions have consequences. It is also called the karmic law and the law of cause and effect. And we saw that action is defined as a change in non-physical, non-mental memory, an intentional disturbance in an otherwise dynamically stable memory that is in equilibrium. Consequences are simply echoes of this disturbance.

We also saw three kinds of actions from a human-centric point of view: the body, the speech, and the thought. And whatever action we do, the human system stores it in the form of impressions. And whatever is stored gets converted into actions because of the energy of the memory, movement of the memory, which appears as desires.

That which is stored in the memory appears as desires. Desires get converted into actions, and the consequences of the action, they are stored again. And we saw that these are called karmic cycles. And if repeated often, it becomes a certain kind of bondage, although it is very natural. We saw that these bondages appear as habits or actions. And we saw that these karmic cycles or tendencies are actually foundations of human life. They are necessary. So this body-mind machine is bound by necessity.

Still, there is some hope of ending repetitive cycles and ending vicious cycles. That is possible. That gives us more choices, that is more freedom for this body-mind machine called human being, which I am not. You should keep this in mind. It is a structure in the memory. So, obviously, it will be ruled by laws of memory. But understanding of the laws gives us some control or power over the mechanistic nature of memories.

We also saw that consequences are also called fruits or effects, and they are not in anybody's control. There is no good fruit, no bad fruit. They are all neutral and perfect according to the law of perfection. But the mind colors it as good or bad depending on whether it produces a reward or punishment. Reward and punishment in ordinary language are called happiness and suffering, pleasure and pain.

We also saw that cause and effect are illusions. It is arbitrary to call some event a cause. Events are not present, actually. They are sections of otherwise continuous experiences. The causal chains are infinite. Because of our limitations of senses and intelligence, we cut it out as sections of cause and effect from infinite experience, and that produces an illusion that something causes other things. But we saw that the cause is present in the effect. It is simply a transformation, and that gives rise to this illusion that one thing produced the other thing. But nothing is ever produced, nothing is ever created. Still, we can predict some things, which is useful for life, but for complex systems, effects are unpredictable. There is no end of effects.

So, this was the summary, and we'll continue our discussion.

## Actor

Now, let's take a look at the actor or the doer. I think I mentioned briefly that there is no actor, there is no doer. Actor is a concept created by humans. It is an imaginary idea.

Mostly, when you ask, "Who did this? Who's the doer? Who's the actor? Who's doing the action?", and people point to the body-mind machine. Some people are more intelligent, and they point to the mental entity inside the body-mind machine: person. They can recognize a person behind the action, not merely body-mind. Nobody will say a bunch of processes in the mind and processes in the muscles did something.

So, what happens is we create an actor out of consistencies in action. If we see completely random action happening, we won't be able to find an actor. This happens in case of many natural events. But when we find a consistency, our mind or our imagination or intellect draws a boundary around it, abstracts it out of the meaningless or random events, and calls it the actor.

In the last episode, I gave you the example of a fan. The fan is making noises. There is some issue in the bearings or something, something is rubbing together in the fan, and it produces noises. So, immediately, we say fans are doing it. Fan is the actor here. Why? Because the noise is not coming out of empty space. We can see that whenever the fan runs, there is a noise. We can point at the fan: "Look, this is the source of noise." Although, the fan has no agency. The fan is not thinking and doing it. The fan is not trying to trouble you. There are simply processes that are running, events that are happening there in that machine. There is some consistency in those events. So, immediately, an imaginary concept of doer is created.

So, when a body-mind machine does some kind of actions repeatedly in a consistent way, we can identify the source. We can draw a boundary around those actions. We create an actor out of those actions, which is imaginary. Remember, the person is imaginary. Body-mind machine is an appearance, which is an illusion. So, ultimately, the actor is an illusion, but it is some kind of double or triple illusion. Because the first layer of illusion is whatever we see directly with our eyes, which is the body. We don't see the mind. But when we use our own direct experience on ourselves, we see the mind, we see thoughts and emotions and all those desires and so on. So, the person is superimposed on this body-mind. That is the second layer of illusion. Then, the assumption that this person is doing something is superimposed on the person. That is the third layer of illusion. You can also call it ignorance, layers of ignorance. There is a fourth layer of illusion or ignorance that this person always acts nicely. This person is a bad person because his actions are bad. Probably there are more layers of illusion depending on the knowledge and ignorance present in a mind.

So, what is happening is in this illusory body-mind, illusory activities are happening, which are simply processes in the memory. Memory here means the universal memory, the non-physical, non-mental, semi-stable patterns of vibrations. By now, these words are probably not so strange for you. But if it looks like some kind of technical mumbo jumbo, you need to listen to this series from the beginning.

So, there are almost spontaneous processes in the memory that produce desires, actions, consequences, storage, and so on. And then we assign a doer. That is very convenient for humans. We cannot always say, "This section of the universal memory did this, and it appeared as if it did this." You see, this long-form talk is too complex and too boring. So, yes, it is a useful abstraction if you take the person as the doer. There is no issue. But you should not think that this is true. That is the issue. You can use the idea of a person or a doer without believing that it is true. Know the truth behind it, and then use it. So, it is an illusion.

You can see that you will not find an appearance called a person, and you will not find an appearance called a doer. You will find an appearance called a body-mind, which are just vibrating patterns. So, when the action happens and the consistency is detected, then the mind says there is an actor here. And for this body-mind, the mind says, "I am the doer." This is called the egoic tendency. A person is created out of this body-mind also, just like the person is created out of other body-minds, other creatures. And the name of this entity is "I".

It is purely fictional. It appears as another thought, an idea in the mind: "This body-mind is I." And first, the action happens through the karmic cycle, which is the appearance of desire, then execution of it through thought, speech, and body muscles. This happens automatically, then another thought appears, which says, "This person, which is I, called I, did it." There is a recognition there that there is a thing called I, which is doing this. That's all there is. That is the ego.

Then there are layers of ignorance on ego: "I did a wrong action. I did a good action. Nobody's appreciating my actions. Nobody is giving me prizes for the great actions that I'm doing," and so on, you see. Then there are more thoughts, which are the result of intelligence and knowledge, called planning, decision-making, and so on, which happen spontaneously. They are actions, but the ego claims the responsibility. The ego takes the credit only after the action has happened.

So, a very funny example is, for those who are new to this illusion of an actor and it can look shocking because "There is no I," you will say. You will see, for the first time in your life, there is no I, just a series of thoughts only.

The example is when a body-mind sneezes. Sneezing is totally a reactive and spontaneous activity of the body-mind. After the sneeze has happened, the ego comes in, detects what happened, and says, "Sorry, I sneezed."

You will see that nobody was there before the action happened, no planning, nothing, and nobody was doing that action, sneezing. Nobody does it, but there is a claim that "I did it." Same for all the bodily actions. Same way speech: when the speech has already happened, the ego comes, appears as a thought, says, "I said this." Another thought appears and the ego says, "Now I'll say this." But that decision was already made to say something.

So, very strange, but illusory activity is the ego, and it is necessary for survival. That is why it is there. A simple creature like a plant or insect can survive without this ego, the "I" thought, but a complex creature does not survive. They need this tagging of "I" and "other", "myself" and "other", because they have a very complex model of the world in their mind, in their memory. So, even higher animals have egos, but that is not so complicated. They can understand what is my action, what is the action of somebody else. And humans have very complicated egos. Actually, it has become a problem for a human being. And they also, the ego assumes that "I am the truth. I am actually there. I exist as a separate, independent entity." This is the issue.

When something becomes so complicated, the knowledge surrounding it appears true. So, if you see a very sophisticated robot, you will assign a doer there: "Robot is doing that." And you will also assign an ego there. I can see that people are already doing it. When an AI does not do what they say, people immediately react with this emotion: "This AI is rude, it is not listening to me. This AI is friendly, and it talks nicely." People have already created egos, or a person, persona, around purely mechanical things. Why? Because they are so complicated, so complex. The model that is created in the mind of that complex thing produces an illusion of an independent entity acting on its own.

Ordinary people do not understand all these things. For them, egos are the truth. It is very easy to fool people, just like they get fooled when an actor is acting in the movie. The actor can take up any kind of egoic identity and also can act, produce an action out of that. It looks like the actor is not mechanical. It looks like the actor is having some desires, the actor has desires on the screen, and the actor is showing emotions, talking, and acting, although it is completely made up. There is no real desire, the speech is scripted, and the actions can be anything: computer graphics or animations or anything. They are make-believe, tricks of the camera, images on the screen. But the viewer is mesmerized. The mind cannot differentiate between what is false and what is true. And the reason is because everything is false. So, for the mind, everything is true. It simply decides that, "Yes, this is happening, so it is true."

Normally in day-to-day life, we don't need to make this kind of distinction of true and false. We are concerned with relative truth and relative false, not the absolute truth. So, everything is true for the mind.

You can fool any person by acting intentionally. They won't come to know. These people are called deceptive or liars. So, normally deception, lying, they are advanced activities of the ego. The ego came to know that it is possible to deceive people by pretending to do so.

There is a "tend" in pre pretending, which is the same as the "tend" of tendency, pretension, which is similar to intention. So, you hide the true intention and project a false intention that fools people. This is present in some animals also. A very primitive kind of pretension is chameleon or color-changing creatures. They want to hide, so they pretend to be some leaf or tree or something else, a branch. So, that has grown, that has evolved into human pretension. And you can see that most of the people, most of the time they pretend. Their ego-self is not the real self. Still, that false self is also not shown. It is covered in two or three layers of pretension most of the time. So, I'm not going to go there because it is a social matter. You want to listen to laws of memory, not how these humans are.

So, it produces a very complex society of egos or individuals, and the society itself is so complex that any kind of prediction is impossible. We somehow manage.

## Causal Body

So, as soon as an action is tagged with "I", the word "I", and it is intentional, it is not sneezing or something else, there is an intention, there is a decision, there is a series of thoughts stamped with "I": "I am thinking this, I am going to do this." And this kind of action is stored strongly. It has more energy in it.

And we are going to extend our theory of memory a little bit, and we are going to imagine more, because this series is pure imagination only. You should not think that I'm telling you the truth, nothing but the truth. No, it is all imaginary.

So, we are going to imagine that such an action that is stamped with ego, "I", and has intention, strong intention behind it, strong desire behind it, has more power, more energy, and it is impressed very firmly in the memory. Which memory? Obviously, the same universal memory, non-physical, non-mental, semi-stable patterns of vibration.

It is the same as when you touch wet sand with your fingers, very little impression is left. But when you stand on that sand, your whole body is pushing it, and now the footprint is stronger. But if you etch something on a stone, take a chisel and draw something, write something, it is almost permanent, that impression, because there is so much force and energy in it.

So, a collection of impressions of memory, they are accumulated. They are not erased quickly, because the law of impermanence says that anything that is stored in the memory goes away, but these impressions, they have a longer expiry date. They last for a long time. And that section of the memory will be called the causal body.

As the name suggests, it is the cause of more actions, more actions. Less strong impressions in the memory, they probably are lost in the random noise of the memory, randomness. They do not gather so much energy and power. But these intentional actions marked as egoic actions are very powerful, and they are impressed on the causal body.

You can see that this will happen by taking any practical example. I'm not going to go into too many examples. So, let's take a sneeze. It was not marked as my action so strongly. Even though the ego says, "I sneezed," you probably forget it in 2 minutes. It is habitual. There is not much intention there, there's hardly any power in that action.

But let us say you passed college, you graduated, you got the degree. You studied for it for many years, you did hard work, you passed the exam. Now, it has so much energy, so much power that you will not forget this thing probably for your whole life, that "I did this kind of education." And you will never say, "Oh, it happened like sneezing." You'll never say that. You will say, "It is my work. I did it. Indeed, it's my doing." Same for many more. You can take more examples.

You will not put that much power or energy into everyday activities like eating or washing or sleeping. After 50 years, you won't say, "That day I did this sleeping thing intentionally." No, nobody cares so much. So, it has to be some important activity, it has to be an important action stamped with intention and "I" thought, ego, undeniable. And then it is guaranteed that it will make a very deep impression in the memory, and you can now easily call it part of the causal body. So, it will stay for a long time, which you can actually experience directly. These actions will stay with you for a lifetime.

So, our imagination is slightly wild here, and we propose here that the causal body stays for many million years. Here, million years is simply metaphor, metaphoric. It simply means uncountable years, uncountable amount of time. This is the strange part.

You know that, yes, my intentional actions stay with me for a lifetime, and yes, more actions are governed by that. Like my graduation and my education will cause even more action. It will influence how I speak, how I behave, what jobs I do, how much money I earn. It has a lot of consequences, it has a lot of influence, it is very strong, that impression. That much is our direct experience.

But since we are spiritual people, we need to think beyond worldly domains. So, this causal body, these impressions, they last for many lifetimes. And the causal body is also a cause of a very important action called birth. Causal body, the tendencies stored in the causal body, the cause of birth: human birth or any other birth.

So, this is a big subject, but this is an introduction to the causal body. You can simply define it as a storage in memory which has very strong impressions, they last for a long time, and they are simply accumulation of life experiences. It is a memory. But you cannot say that each and every event was stored, although some people theorize even more that everything gets stored, which is actually true because everything is memory, so everything is stored already. But we are now adding layers to the memory. Yes, everything is stored, but these things 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - these are almost permanent. You can assume it. They are written in the stone. This is also called fate or destiny, *bhagya*. So, now you know the reason behind all these philosophies which involve destiny and so on.

Anyway, the causal body has three kinds of impressions. We go and divide them into categories.

The first is obvious: an essential summary of important life events of all the lives which the causal body has taken. That is stored permanently. It is called accumulation (*Sanchita*). It is accumulation since many lifetimes, millions of lifetimes.

The second is called pre-allocation (*Prarabdha*), which is the group of tendencies and impressions that are governing the current lifetime.

The third is called forthcoming (*Agami*), which is getting accumulated due to the current action of the body-mind. New storage is getting created, new impressions are forming.

So, these are the three classical kinds of impressions. But since this is our theory, we can extend it if you want, depending on our direct experience and a little bit of logic. So, I have done that, and I have theorized parallel reincarnations, which many people have, that the same causal body appears in many forms. You can say many individuals, many people, human forms, and they produce all these actions in parallel. Those actions are getting stored in different compartments of the causal body.

This is something amazing. One causal body can branch into many sections, compartments. That will be a very old causal body, or that will be a highly evolved causal body, like a tree, plant branches into many branches. So, probably the causal body will not branch into so many branches, but you can assume 20-30 as maximum before it becomes something which is not human, ultimately, and something else happens after that.

So, these causal bodies, because of the law of interconnection, interconnectedness, are interconnected with each other, which are simply branches of a bigger causal body. Now, our imagination is going wild. So, this family of the causal bodies is called the causal family.

So, many occult traditions already have similar ideas. You will find mentions of soul, which is very close to our idea of causal body, storing impressions of many lifetimes. And you will find a concept of soul family, or over-family, or there are many names.

So, that brings us into an important topic of karmic bonds: the interconnections among causal bodies or different branches of the causal body influence each other, influence the lifetimes of the forms that the causal body has taken, or the causal body is connected to. These are called karmic bonds.

## Karmic Bonds

So, karmic bonds are nothing but entanglement of various causal bodies, or you can say that they are interconnections among different parts of the universal memory. These karmic bonds or interconnections are manifested as relationships in the physical world.

Simple kinds of entanglements are: mother-child, father-child, brother-sisters, and so on. But there are complicated, complex kinds of interconnections or bonds, such as partners, marriages, and even bonds with community, country, and a specific kind of tribe, specific kind of race, and so on. They are more complicated.

And the most important, and probably the strongest bond, is the guru-disciple bond, teacher-student bond. And we're not talking about your school teacher or college teacher or any teacher whose book you read someday. We are talking about the true guru who initiates you into a spiritual path. And most importantly, the one who shows you your true nature, the one who finally gives you the knowledge of who you are. That is called the true guru on the path of knowledge. And that bond is almost permanent. It's never broken.

And there are more theories, you can call them mythology, stories, that this guru was already bonded to you, already related to you since many incarnations. This time it happened to be your guru. Otherwise, such a bond was not possible. Logic says, and the logic is applied over the theory. There is nothing true here.

These imaginary theories explain our direct experience very nicely. That answers many questions: why I was born in this country, this family, this kind of community, this part of the world, this time also. The causal body governs time of incarnation also because the causal body is beyond time. It is free of time. Obviously, it is not located anywhere. It is the characteristic of non-physical, non-mental memory that is timeless and non-local. So, all these things are governed by what is there in your accumulation and pre-allocation.

Normally, we should not call it *your* accumulation. It has nothing to do with this body-mind. The body-mind is a product of the accumulation. But we can say causal body's accumulation. And the ego now immediately shifts to the causal body: "Okay, you mean this is mine? I took birth," and so on. So, the ego, like a joker, always takes the credit. But we should remember this: all just happening, and this is our way of telling the story. There can be more theories about this.

So, the causal body explains reincarnation. Not only that, it explains why something is happening in your current life, and it can predict what can happen in future lives, and it can give you some estimate of what has happened so far. So, the study of causal bodies and karmic bonds is very important for any seeker. I am just introducing you to these concepts.

Usually, the goal of a seeker is to get rid of all the bonds, to rise above the karmic bonds. Nobody would like to be governed by their past, especially if these interconnections, entanglements are toxic, they are limiting, and they are retarding your progress. You would want to break them.

And the breaking is nothing physical. It is purely mental. It is in the memory. You need to simply override that impression with something stronger. Remember, intention causes strong impressions. That becomes a causal body. So, if your intention is very strong to break free from some kind of karmic bond, it will happen. That desire, that intention, and that action, that karma, will cause the previous bonds to break. If you want to. If you don't, continue.

For example, you don't want to break the bond with your guru unless that guru is now useless for you. So, normally, a seeker starts with identifying the bonds, checking the causal body, which appears as pre-allocation, our current life tendencies, and then decides to break some bonds, probably, and holds that kind of intention, does intentional actions to go away, to be free.

So, the final bond that is broken is with the whole human lineage, the whole human form. Once you make that kind of intention, the birth never happens in a human form. We say that this is the final birth of a human being. But the causal body continues, and it takes more forms. You can call it light body, subtle body, whatever body you want, but it is a major upgrade. Every seeker wants this. Otherwise, they won't come in spirituality because there is nothing else in spirituality. Everything is empty, everything is divine, you are the existence, there is no ego, the world is an illusion. This is spirituality, essentially.

But usually, the ego in a seeker is very strong initially, so they come into the field of spirituality to get all these benefits: breaking of karmic bonds and rising higher on the ladder of evolution.

So, I see no problem at all. Yes, you should do it, but you need this kind of knowledge. You need the basic knowledge. And whatever I am saying is simply superficial, introduction, elementary. You need to dig deeper. And you'll find many books only on one topic of karmic bond, one kind of bond. It is possible to write a full book on this topic. But we are trying to squeeze our law of action into a few minutes, so I can do only this much. But those who are interested can learn more. You're most welcome.

## Rising Above Action

So, we'll move to the important topic of how to rise above the law of action. And just like I always say, you cannot break it. You cannot break any law, but that is not the intention also. We don't want to break it, and human beings cannot break anything. They are products of all these laws. So, rising above the law of action means utilizing the law of action in our favor. Instead of becoming a slave of this law, you become a master of this law.

So, the first thing that is recommended is to give up unnecessary action. A lot of tendencies, desires, impressions, they are just like viruses gathered from outside. They are not yours. They are not in your causal body, or probably they are, but they came from somewhere else in the past. So, these actions produce either suffering or no satisfaction. So, the first thing we do is get rid of these actions which produce suffering or dissatisfaction, and focus on our pre-allocation. That is important if you don't want to repeat the same thing, if you don't want to stay in the same grade every year while your friends are passing and going to college. You should not repeat the whole thing.

So, this is called the law of least action. Always prefer that which comes easy to you, and which is natural, and which is very necessary. Don't do anything unnecessary. That will cause very less consequences, that will save you from unnecessary consequences, and that will clear the pre-allocation, that will reduce the load of future actions, that will make the forthcoming lighter.

And the second trick is the right action. And the meaning of right action here is not a good action, or ethical action, or whatever people have brainwashed you into thinking is the right action. No. Right action is always that which produces the desired results.

Write it down somewhere. It is very important for any seeker.

What is the desirable result? Obviously, that which makes you progress towards your goal. For that, you must have a life goal. You must have a pre-allocation. If not, you should make a life goal. Otherwise, where will you progress? For what will you do the right action? It will be random action every day, every year, every minute. It will be simply a jumble of randomness, your life. For many people, that is the case, actually. Unfortunately.

So, the right action takes you towards your goal. You need to have a goal in the first place.

No action is good, no action is bad, but you must define your own good, and define your own bad. Do not borrow it from somebody else, especially from those who are less evolved than you.

Remember, they are all good people, they are all human beings, but since you are on a journey, you are further away, do not take directions from those who are lost already themselves. Take the guidance from those who are higher than you, those who are further on the path. They know the path.

You develop your own ethics and morals and values and whatever you want, you see. Although, these become useless as soon as the situation becomes complicated. Then we decide the right action on the spot, moment by moment. But for conducting your everyday life, you set up your own good and bad. And probably nobody believes it, but the good and bad, or the ethics of a seeker, is thousand times better than the ethics of an ordinary person. So, no need to worry. I'm not telling you to do something bad, which people think is not good, or to do something good, which people think is good. No. You decide. You are free. You are trying to achieve freedom, so why not? Start by acting on your own desires in the right way.

Usually, a guideline is given by those who are further than us on the ladder of evolution. That guideline is called non-violence.

Non-violence means not causing any harm in the universal memory, which means not breaking the structures. Also means not killing, not hurting, and the most subtle forms of non-violence are not causing any pain or suffering to yourself as well as others, any creature. Although this is ideal non-violence, we manage somehow in practical situations by doing the least harm. But still, you are free to decide what is the right action.

Do not get bound by what people told you is good and what people told you is bad. Yes, sometimes what people tell is also useful. If people say, "Do not steal, do not lie, do not be lazy," and so on, yes, these are bad actions. And when people say, "Love everybody, help everybody," and yes, these are good actions. But many times, the actions of a seeker are completely beyond normal social good and bad. For example, is forming a karmic bond via marriage a good action or a bad action?

Now you can see the complexity here. Now you can see the level of decision-making that is involved here. Ordinary people won't be able to tell you. If your goal says, "My goal is to be free from the karmic bonds," obviously it is a bad action, very bad. It will trap you in cycles of reincarnation for many hundred births. But from the social point of view, marriage is the best thing in the lives of many people. They live only to marry and produce, reproduce, and make babies.

So, you must decide your good and bad, and it must be such that it is not harmful for too many people. This is a very, very personal and individual decision. So, having a guru, doing your practices and so on, is a very good action. It is the right action for a seeker. Probably it is a waste of time from the point of view of your parents and your friends. They will call you crazy. So, yes, a seeker is somewhere higher on the ladder of evolution, and therefore, the ordinary good and bad do not apply most of the time. Okay, so right action is the key.

The next trick is desire management. You will find that every day there are millions of desires. Probably not millions, but major desires are present in the mind. And we can exclude the survival-related desire, DGR. Yes, you need to eat, you need to sleep, you need to work, and so on, you see. These are not so important. They will not be impressed on your causal body so much. The desires that decide the path of your life, they are important. What do you desire to become, for example? What do you desire to do for a living? With whom do you desire to spend your life? These desires are major desires that are probably coming from the causal body, and probably they will decide your future.

You need to simply discard anything which is impulsive and planted from outside, which is a virus coming from outside. These viruses also appear as desires: "You need to buy gold, you need to buy diamonds, you need to look big, and you need to wear only this color of clothes." What are these? Completely useless desires, wants. They are all implanted. They are useless for your mission here as a body-mind machine. What do you really want? Write it down, and arrive at your pre-allocation if you have forgotten it somehow. Many people have forgotten their pre-allocation. Find your pre-allocation. Only desire that which takes you towards your goal. Do not entertain any other desires, although they will keep appearing in the mind.

If it is very necessary, there is a sign: that desire appears with a sign, "necessary", and if you don't fulfill that, it produces very bad consequences for you personally. So, you must fulfill that which is necessary. Do that which is necessary. This is the rule: law of least action. So, discard any unwanted desires, unnecessary desires. Manage your desires, prioritize, do not get distracted by superficial stuff.

The next trick is non-doing. Know that you are not the doer. Sneezing is not done by you, and so none of the action. That will immediately free you from many consequences, because remember, that which is stamped with the stamp of "I", ego, is longer-lasting, that goes directly in the causal body. So, adopt an attitude of non-doing: that this happened, that happened, I never intended this, I was saying something else, you understood as something else, not my fault, and so on, you see. Non-doing. It simply means you know the truth that there is no doer.

Do not keep stamping everything as my action. No need. Sometimes we need to do it to survive in society and or wherever you live, in a jungle also. You need to protect this body-mind. There must be some ego there, the "I" comes naturally. So, non-doing is an attitude which removes most of the egoic stamping. There is no need to take credit for every action. In advanced seekers, they do not say that I'm doing anything at all. They relinquish the ego for each and every action, because they can clearly see that nothing is happening through this false ego. There is nobody to do anything. The fan is not making noises intentionally. There is no ego in the fan. The fan is running, that's all. So, this body-mind machine is running. This is the attitude of non-doing. That will have a great effect on purification of the causal body.

What if you do something and you get the fruits, consequences? Now, like I said, the good and bad consequences are decided in retrospect. If you want it, it is good; if you don't, it's not. And many times, probably most of the time, the consequences or fruits are entirely unwanted. We never wanted that. Sometimes initially it looks like that I wanted this, I always wanted this, this made me happy, but after some time, the same fruits cause suffering. This happens a lot in relationships, but that can happen in a job also. Initially, yes, I am getting the money. After few years, that is the disgusting job, it is torture, slavery. So, it can happen sometimes.

So, what do we do as a seeker? How do we rise above the fruits? By gracefully accepting. It is my doing. Can sound opposite of non-doing, but here you must accept, then you can get into the mode of non-doing, but first you need to accept that, yes. Nobody else did it, no need to blame anybody, no need to blame any imaginary things in the sky also, no need to blame my destiny, fate, and so on, you see. These are imaginary things. Just accept. And decide not to do that again. It's very easy.

Or you can say, "Okay, this fruit came, this is appearing right now, but it was not done by me, obviously. Nothing was done by me." So, this is acceptance with non-doing. So, whatever is suitable for you, you can do that. Since nothing was done by you, obviously you can accept it as it is. Or if you think it is intentionally done by me, you accept it. You accept that action as your own. It will have a good effect on the causal body. Like you did some kind of spiritual practice and you were successful, you should accept it. It should impress on the causal body. You got some knowledge, you should say it is my knowledge, to make it permanent.

If the fruits are bad, still, sometimes we need to accept and learn from the mistakes. "Okay, I made this mistake, now I'll not do it." This is graceful acceptance.

And the next tool in the toolbox of rising above the action is breaking of the karmic bonds. Find the karmic bond that is troubling you, that is unnecessary bondage, whether it is with an object. You know, some people are bound with their objects: cars and clothes and jewelry and all kinds of stupid things. Break those bonds. Say it is not mine, let go. Sometimes you need to throw that away. Renunciate. Renunciation is simply breaking of karmic bonds. "It's not mine, I don't need it." That's all it is. Sometimes you don't need to do any physical action, or sometimes you don't even need to say it, just think about it. Think like that it's not mine, and you will see physical manifestation will happen of breaking of karmic bonds, and that object, that person, that job, wherever you're bound, that country, that race, that religion, will say bye-bye. Automatically it will be gone from your life as if nothing happened.

There is a power in mind, especially of a seeker. Once they intend something, once they decide something very strongly, that will manifest. This is real tantra, this is real magic, real occult. It is in the mind. You need to know all these secrets, all these laws, and how to rise above them. Then the magic happens automatically. Once you have decided, "I need to break away from this object, person, habit, desire, situation, community, country, whatever, even time frame: I was born in the wrong time, yes, get rid of it," get birth in some fabulous time that you will enjoy. You have the power. Just intend strongly, it will manifest.

Now, we'll briefly discuss something which is advanced occult practice.

The first is the sharing of fruits. You form a group, sometimes it is called cult, a *sangha* or community of like-minded people and do a group action. That will happen only in cases when the actions are very complicated, very difficult, not the capacity of one person. One individual cannot do it. That will be called a group action. And the advantage of group action is the consequences are also shared by all those who were in the group.

You'll find many practical examples of this, such as a company. One employee is not responsible for the profit and loss of the company. Such as government: one person is not responsible for the decisions of a government or the actions of a whole country. The same way, if something is done in a small group, two or three people, probably 10 people, the consequences or fruits are shared. If that is undesired, one person need not suffer. Depends on what you're doing. So, usually that happens in case of occult experiments. Occult rituals are most often a group action. Why is that? Because they are probably doing something which is too dangerous for one person. So, not only occult, many spiritual actions are group actions, and whatever we call as actions of society and so on, they are group actions.

So, it is not that there won't be any fruit, but you will get a share of the fruit. It will be some small percentage of that consequence. And if the consequences are good, yes, same thing: you will get only a small percentage of that prize, but it is very safe for reasons why we all do all these things. And those are secret actions, should not be told.

The next advanced trick is the occult trick. It is transferring your actions to others. You do the action, but it is possible to transfer the fruit or consequence to somebody else, including the karmic bonds. It is possible that you form a bond, somebody else experiences it. Good or bad does not matter. So, how's that possible? That is possible because all these causal bodies are connected, just like I said.

We form all these concepts, ideas of connections and soul family and all, because we want to explain something in our experience, direct experience. Some people must have experienced this thing that it is possible to transfer the actions, fruits to others.

A very simple example is you and your friend, they do some mischief, and when you get caught, you take all the blame. You say, you admit, "My friend did nothing. This thing was done by me." What has happened here? Through your intention, you are saving that friend, but you are taking all the consequences. Now the punishment or whatever lecture that you are going to hear will be yours, you will experience it. Your friend is saved. However, that forms another bond with the friend, it's karmic bond.

So, those who are already in some kind of bond, they share the fruits. Sometimes there is a complete transfer of fruits from one to another. Those who are very closely related, they can do it simply by intention. But it is possible in occult to do it without any close relation also, because all you need to do is find a connection and transfer it, transfer the effect.

So, it is recommended not to do it, because it can be dangerous. And always remember, these actions are Transfer of consequences and so on are actions in themselves, so there will be more consequences. So, what we do is if you want to benefit somebody, we do the action and we transfer the fruit to the person, the beneficiary. This is possible in worldly matters also, but this is more important for a spiritual person. Usually, this kind of transfers are done by a guru. The guru does whatever is needed, transfers the fruit to the student, disciple. If there is no karmic bond, the guru knowingly makes a karmic bond by doing something, some pretension, some acting. This is gurulogy, and I'm not going to talk more about this. Probably I've said this many times somewhere else how the guru operates. The mission of the guru is to speed up the progress of his or her disciple. So, there are shortcuts to transfer the fruits, consequences, and so on. The guru will break the bonds of the seeker by forming a strong bond with the seeker, or by taking on the karmic bonds of the seeker. Sometimes the guru will take a birth in place of a seeker. Sometimes the guru will do a parallel incarnation to speed up the process.

So, this is Pandora's box. I can make one full episode on only this transfer of actions and fruits, but we'll stop here. So, what this does is it purifies the causal body. Whatever little tricks I told you, there are more, but they are beyond our syllabus, they're beyond our comprehension also, and they are sometimes dangerous, so we don't tell everything on YouTube. You will need to study under a very good guru, especially an occult guru.

Rising above the action will purify the causal body. And by purification of the causal body, we mean breaking of unwanted bonds, removing unwanted impressions that are causing repetitions, addictions, habits. Not only small addictions and habits, the biggest addiction is probably taking human births again and again to do something, who knows what, useless. So, that purification causes liberation from human births. That is the goal, actually. Not tiny-winy changes in your life. No, that is not the spiritual goal. The spiritual goals are always very high, very big.

So, now you can understand why the law of action is considered the most important law of memory. If you know this, and if you can rise above this law, spiritual progress will skyrocket.

So, we'll continue with other laws of memory, probably less important, but very interesting. And thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 20

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory. We'll continue the discussion, and today we are going to talk about the Law of Repetition.

## 16 - Law of Repetition

The Law of Repetition says that the illusion or the experience or the memory repeats. You will find copies upon copies of the same thing in the illusion, which is simply the non-physical, non-mental memory, vibrating patterns in that memory.

And it is easy to see why. Patterns have a tendency to copy through resonance, because the vibration is repetitive. It repeats in a similar way, whether up, down, left, right. And then repetition, the resonance also repeats, and the same pattern then repeats as a whole that is manifested as copies of structures.

So a very simple metaphor is waves on a lake, a silent lake. If you drop a pebble, it causes ripples, waves. And it does not cause only one wave. It keeps waving and keeps producing the same pattern all over the lake. Given enough energy, it will keep happening.

Similarly, in the universal memory, which has infinite potential and has infinite energy, any pattern continuously repeats. So how many copies can it form? And the answer is infinite. For how much time will it do so? The answer is infinite.

So you can see more examples through direct experience. The crystals have copies of one unit repeating throughout the material. The crystal structure has a simplest pattern, and then that pattern repeats everywhere. And it itself is made up of copies of molecules, atoms, particles, and they repeat very regularly. The smaller the things are, the more regular they become.

If you explore the physical world, you will see something similar. The landscape repeats - hills and mountains and valleys, then rivers and more rivers, so on. The same kind of landscape keeps appearing.

In the physical universe, similar structures repeat like planets, stars, galaxies, and they are countless copies and copies.

If you explore the living matter, whatever is called life form, you will see the same thing. A jungle is a living matter, vegetation. And a jungle is simply copies of trees of various kinds. Sometimes it is just one or two kinds. They go on repeating, forming a jungle. When you observe a tree, it is simply repetition of branches. Each leaf is a repetition of leaves, copies. Although they are not so regular, they are not exact copies, but they are similar. You can see that one pattern is copying with slight differences.

If you look at the structure of a leaf, you will see cells. Cells are copies, repetition of the same kind of cell in an organ and a part. If you check the birds, birds of the same species, they are copies with tiny differences. Animals are copies, their bodies have cells. Cells are almost exact copies. Same thing repeats in every structure, and then the same structure then again repeats.

The important observation about humans: everybody is a copy. A baby is a copy of the parents. So that's why the Law of Repetition can be called the Law of Reproduction. Structures have a tendency to reproduce, to copy themselves. So bodies are copies, slight differences. Human bodies or any animal bodies, are made up of copies of cells. The cells have DNA, which has been copied since millions of years, with the same structure. Slight modifications produce new structures, but then they start copying, they start reproducing.

So you will see that in the physical domain, or whatever our senses can capture, it is just an infinite amount of copies, repetition of the same thing. Repetition is in the heart of every structure. Any new structure that you find is made up of something which is repeating.

Another good example is a house. A house is a repetition of rooms, and a room is a repetition of bricks. And if you look at the bricks under a microscope, repetition of various minerals, crystals. So in order to produce an illusion, nature uses copies.

So now we can jump into the psychological level or, common language, mental level. So the mental events or so-called subjective events repeat, just like the body repeats its activity: sleeping, waking, eating, washing. The activities of life repeat, and they repeat at the mental level also. Same desires, they keep repeating in the mind. Similar thoughts repeat. If you read something, that reading is now impressed in the memory; it has made its copy. Now if you tell the same thing to somebody else, it becomes a copy. Let us say it is news. You heard the news on TV. Already the news was heard by millions of people, so that information exists as millions of copies. And as soon as you hear it, another copy is made in the mind, in the memory. If you tell that news to somebody else if it is important, you made one more copy. And that person tells 10 more people. So that information spreads through copying. Same about books: they are just copies. Print many copies of the same thing. Same about information on the internet: too many copies. This video, if it is viewed 1,000 times, has already produced 1,000 copies and more information in the minds of the viewers. Whatever I'm saying, I'm simply copying what I was told.

The emotions copy. The same three or four kinds of emotions, they repeat throughout life. And the emotions also reproduce. If you are happy, if somebody comes in contact with you, they also get that happiness through induction, resonance. If you're sad, it's more probable that somebody whom you know and meet, they also feel that sadness. The emotion copied itself.

So at the non-physical level, although we cannot see it clearly, we can guess, there will be nothing but copies. Universes are copies. There are an infinite number of those. Layers of memories, they keep copying at every level. The causal body creates copies by diverging into branches. Each branch becomes a copy. Then there are even greater structures of the memory, and they can instantly copy because it's all non-physical, timeless.

## Mutation

It becomes almost impossible to find something which is unique and original. Still, there is some originality, there is some uniqueness, which is found in the form of deviations. Simple things can be copied exactly. There is hardly anything to change there. Variations are not much because there is not much to vary. But as the structures become complex, many things can be changed while copying, and slightly different structures appear as a result of that copy, faulty copy. That is called a mutation.

So new structures appear in the memory through mutation or, in technical language, you can call them faults. They are not faults of our everyday kind. Fault means something negative, something is faulty. These faults are a reason for production of new structures.

So when a crystal copies, sometimes there is a fault. And a crystal can break at that fault, producing something more, some unique rock or structure which will not resemble any other rock. But all these rocks are actually copies, slight differences only. Same way, leaves copy, but there are very tiny faults. And so, two leaves do not appear exactly the same, but you can see they are copies, same pattern. The same way, two trees are never the same, but the essential pattern is the same. And a human baby is never an exact copy of the parents. That is because of faults. Nobody wants to call it faults, I know. So we call it mutation, slight changes. Because it is so complex, the reproduced copy is still a human being, not the same.

And in the mental domain, we do get the same desires, same thoughts, and same emotions, but slightly different. Sometimes the reasons are different. Sometimes the flavors are different. But mostly, the same things repeat again and again in mind.

At the level of the causal body, there is bad news that the incarnations, they repeat. It is the patterns in the causal body that are reappearing, reproducing. So something similar reappears with slight changes.

People often ask, "I don't know who I was in my past birth and what I'll do in my next birth." There is a lot of ignorance here, because the birth is not of the human being. Anyway, roughly we say this. And the answer is very easy, actually. It is very easy to predict. For 99% of people, it will be a copy of your past life. Your current life is a copy of your previous birth. It is just repetition with slight changes, slight changes.

Most probably, in past life you had a house made up of wood. This life, you will have a house made up of concrete, slight changes in bodies, in mental constitution, psychology, habits. There are very strange theories about reincarnation, and due to karmic bonds, it is very logical if you apply logic on the theory, never to be confused with the truth; it is not true that due to karmic bonds, karmic cycles, the same cycle repeats of birth and death. So much so that that manifestation of the form, let us say birth of a human being, happens in the same country, same community, even same family. And their relatives are often the same causal bodies that were related in the past lives.

For any spiritual person, this is horrifying news. What? Nothing new is happening? And they do not see it as progress. And obviously, it is stagnation. It is just mindless repetition, mechanical. That is because of the Law of Repetition. You cannot actually do anything about it. If the births do not repeat, there wouldn't be any births.

So it is closely related to the Law of Cycles. The Law of Cycles says that the same thing goes on in time, but the Law of Repetition says not only in time, in structure and places, and every experience is a repetition of some kind. You will always find something similar.

So a spiritual seeker is horrified by this revelation. The question will be, "Do you mean I'm not even progressing since 5,000 births?" And the answer is no. Whatever progress happens, happens through mutation or faults, tiny changes. And if a human being thinks that, "I desire this, I want this, I always wanted this change, this mutation, this fault," then it is labeled as progress. Otherwise, it is not progress. Sometimes it is regress if you don't want it, if you don't want it to be repeated in that way. So essentially, all there is change in the form of copies and repetition. If that change happens in a favorable way according to the biases and desires of a human being, we call it progress. All that ever happens is nothing but copies, reproduction.

## Rising Above Repetition

So how to rise above the Law of Repetition if you want to? It is all good, actually, by recognizing that repetition is responsible for creation. Without repetition, this tendency of the patterns to copy, nothing new can get created. And the new can get created only if there is a slight mutation or fault or change.

So after knowing this very basic thing, probably everybody already knows it, you can intentionally introduce a mutation, depending on what you want to, what kind of pattern of repetition you want to break, assuming that that's what you want.

It is possible to rise above repetition by introducing a mutation. Do something slightly different every time you do it.

So from a spiritual seeker's point of view, all the habits are repetitions. Whatever we say is mostly repetition, and whatever we think, is mostly repetition. That is highly boring. So we knowingly introduce variety in life, and that mutation is such that it causes progress, progress towards your personal goal. If you don't have a goal, there is no question of progress, and copy is the goal. Endless reproduction is the only goal. Same thing goes on.

You must have seen those people who are dogmatic or traditional: they do not want even a slight change in their life, and they want their children also to continue the same thing forever. They are against any kind of change, so they are slaves of the Law of Repetition.

But some people, they introduce a change knowingly. It is in a manner of action, or habits, or the way they do something, or the talk. They talk about new things. They read new things. They invent new things, and they think of new things.

It looks very simple, but try to think of something different, and you will mostly fail 90% of the time. This is a psychological test. There is a psychological trick to make a person reveal their secrets or tell the truth, and that is used by many psychologists. And that is to keep asking the same question. Keep asking that person to repeat a scenario, event, or something. And because it is so difficult to come up with something new, eventually that person reveals. If you talk to a person for a long time, eventually whatever is in their mind comes out because there's nothing new. Cannot talk about anything new. Cannot pretend for long.

So the way to introduce novelty in your mind, in your thoughts, is to seek new experiences. Do not be a rigid, repeating, boring person. Do not be dogmatic. Do not be traditional. Be an explorer. Be a rebel. Refuse to do everything in the old way, as far as possible without causing any kind of harm or appearing like an idiot.

So new experiences, they happen only when you explore. A good way to explore is travel physically. Those who travel, they are very interesting people. They have a lot to say. Those who stay at one place, they are very boring. They have nothing to say. Usually, what did they eat today? When are they going to sleep today? That's all they can say, actually. Constant repetition.

The second way to introduce novelty is to meet new people, make new friends, talk to different people of different kinds, of all kinds. So those who do that, they gather not only experience; they gather knowledge. They come to know something new, which they never even thought about, never even imagined. And those who don't talk to anybody or they talk to only those who think like them, who are like them, these are called the backward mentality people. They don't like to mix with somebody who is even slightly different. They are simply repeating. It is not called progress. Eventually, the impermanence will cause total destruction in these kinds of people. We say they are like stone. They do not change. They remain the same person for the rest of their life.

So always explore more. Meet more people. Be broad-minded. Talk to everyone you find interesting. And yes, you need not talk to these boring people. They will simply feed you the same repetition.

These are the practical ways, but mental ways include reading more. Read various kinds of books, not only your favorite kind, not only one thing. Watch different kinds of movies. Listen to different kinds of music. Explore the music. Experiment. And obviously, always read the books written by great masters, great people. You will find a great amount of novelty there, sometimes so much so that one book can change a person's life, which was otherwise getting wasted in mindless repetition.

Go and meet seekers. Go and meet other masters, gurus if you can. Go and meet intelligent people who think differently, who can create: artists, performers. Watch videos of different kinds. Do not watch only one kind every day. It will rot your brain. Have a wide variety. Eat different kinds of food, and so on, you see.

And from a spiritual perspective, contemplate on basic questions. Wipe out every belief that you have. Start from the beginning. You will come up with something new.

Do all these actions which are not repetitive with intention. Now you can actually use the Law of Repetition to get what you want. Repeat the new patterns that you want if you want them to appear in your life with strength, with energy, and with intention. Use your ego, power of the ego. "I'm doing this. I'm going to do this." And that will cause some novelty in the causal body. New tendencies, new impressions will be marked in the causal body. And that will cause remarkably different birth next time. This will be called progress, evolution.

## Balanced Mutation

It is a possibility that the mutations drive the causal body into degradation or complete destruction. It is possible. Both directions are possible. So choose wisely what kind of mutation or change, novelty you want to introduce within you. That must be selected very carefully.

There is a fine print, there is a warning somewhere in this law that there is a limit on how much novelty there can be. If it is completely different, completely mutated, then the original structure is completely destroyed. And sometimes it is not possible for it to reproduce. That reproduction power goes away. So a crystal structure can only mutate slightly so that it produces slightly different crystals. But if it mutates too much, it will produce something irregular, something ugly, or some liquid or gas or powder of some kind, not a beautiful crystal. Same way, if a tree mutates too much, it won't be able to do its job. It will die. It won't be able to live. And same with the creatures, including humans: if their copies are highly mutated, they cannot function. They die off. So mutation is in sync with the environment for a creature. If the environment is favorable for that mutation, it survives; otherwise, they die off.

So using the same law, same limitation, you need to change yourself mentally, physically, only this much, which is not beyond the limits, which is not strange and which is not odd. Like if you walk in a certain way that is lazy, you can change that walking style into something confident and quick, but you cannot start walking on both hands and feet like an animal. That will be too strange, too much mutation. So wise mutations, well-thought, and within limits. And the gradual evolution happens, gradual change happens, not too sudden. And you will be in safe territory.

This will ultimately cause spiritual evolution by repeating the pattern of progress. You can see that we are using the Law of Repetition to cause a repetition which is desirable, which we want. So we are not breaking the law. We are leveraging it. We are copying in a desired way. That's all is possible within limits, and non-destructive, positive.

Bring about a positive change. If you change, you will see that things around you stop repeating, mostly. If you've been doing the same job for 10 years, you will see that your life is boring repetition. That is how natural things are. Naturally, everything repeats, keeps repeating. But if you change your job, not suddenly, in a planned way, in a positive way, you will see new people appear in your life. You get new partners. You go to new parties, and you relocate to a new city. Patterns are not so repetitive, but what has repeated is, mostly the same thing that remains is you again have a job, you again have colleagues, you again have a house, you again have a party, and so on. So essentially, the overall pattern is repeating, but it is repeating in a slightly different way.

But we don't want too much. We don't want too much novelty, so we are happy with this change. And if you go on doing such calculated changes whenever you get bored, you will enter into the domain of spiritual novelty: new practices, new teachers, new paths, new books, new knowledge. And you can observe some impurities that keep repeating in your mind, body, whatever. A spiritual seeker does not want that, and you can mutate them. You can change them. Break them. Break the patterns that you don't want. Keep the patterns that you want. And by keeping, we always mean copying, reproducing, repeating.

So the law does not break, but we have bent the law in our favor. Slowly, after a few thousand incarnations, rebirths, the causal body will grow slowly, like a tree grows from a seed through copying, mutation. That is what everybody wants.

Once human life becomes boring, repeating, no matter how much novelty you can introduce, because there can be only this much novelty in a lifetime, the pattern breaks. Then there are no more human births, and you're free to explore more of the universal memory by assuming new forms. The cycle continues, but in a slightly new way, hopefully in a better way.

This is the secret: your intention, your desire is the key. You have the choice.

So we'll continue the discussion on the remaining Laws of Memory. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 21

Welcome to Pure Experiences. You are listening to the series on Laws of Memory.

## 17 - Law of Self-Similarity

The law number 17 is the Law of Self-Similarity. It simply means that the part is similar to whole and the whole is similar to parts. A small area of the structure resembles a bigger area, and the bigger area resembles the smaller area. The small is less detailed, simpler, and the bigger is complex, more detailed. So, this is also called "as above so below" and "as below so above."

In modern language, you can call it the law of fractality. A fractal is a self-similar mathematical object. So, structures in the universal memory are often seen as a fractal. This is the more technical version of this law.

## The Fractal Nature of Memory

This is a direct consequence of the law of repetition and law of cycles. The law of cycles says that patterns repeat in time, and the law of repetition says that they are mostly copies, they reproduce, and so repetition and similarity is the essence of a fractal structure. When the small patterns repeat in a cyclic way, it produces mathematically precise patterns, where the bigger is simply a more complex image of the smaller, because it is made up of self-similar smaller components.

And you can trace it down to the fundamental vibration. Every pattern in the memory is simply a compounding of vibrations, a mixture of vibrations. So if you represent vibration as up-down motion, then more complex patterns are formed out of mixing of this motion of different amplitude and frequency. And the overall vibrating pattern has a self-similar smaller vibration in it. So it is a necessary consequence of how the patterns are made using the basic vibration, the dual or the binary state change.

So self-similarity is also temporal, which means the patterns repeat in a self-similar way in time. There is a sequence in time of self-similar patterns. We saw this already in the law of cycles that there are cycles within cycles, again more cycles in the smaller cycles down to the tiniest cycle, which is basic vibration. So the whole event in space and time is self-similar.

## Self-Similarity Across Nature and the Body

We can check it using our direct experience. You will find self-similarity starting from the mineral level. The crystals form self-similar objects because they are arrangement of a unit structure.

You can see self-similarity in branching of rivers. Many streams, they converge into a bigger stream, and the bigger stream, they converge into a river. So a system of streams resembles the whole river system. This is a very good example of fractal.

Another example is the coastline. If you take a satellite picture, you will see a coastline which is very irregular. But if you zoom it to a 100-kilometer area, you will again see the coastline, but it will resemble the satellite picture. If you zoom in even more, you will see the coastline, but it is again mostly the same pattern, jagged coastline. If you keep zooming, you will reach centimeter level, but still it is mostly a simpler pattern.

You can see fractal structures in mountains. If you look at a mountain from far away, it is mostly, let us say, triangle shaped. You go closer, it is made up of many small peaks in it. And if you look closer, you will see tiny peaks.

So nature gives us fractal structures. They are a result of self-arrangement or self-organization. They organize themselves in such a way that the smaller parts look like bigger parts, which is very natural. It is a result of repetition.

The same patterns can be seen in clouds. Small clouds resemble bigger clouds. A bigger cloud has smaller sections of cloudy structures. They all look similar to each other.

Now, in living matter, living things, we can see fractal patterns in the roots of trees. A small section of the root looks like a big section of the root. The small section of branches looks like the bigger section of branches, and that continues even inside the leaf, where you will see branching. It is a result of the way the tree grows. It is self-organization. One cell divides into two, two to four, four to eight, like this, they are arranged in a tree-like structure. You can see it in flowers, and a very interesting structure is cauliflower or broccoli.

In human beings and animals, you can see self-similar structures in the branching of veins and arteries, and in the nervous system. And this is seen in the mind also, that one state of the mind is often a result of a group of similar thoughts or emotions. The whole personality of a person resembles individual thoughts and their behavior, manners, and speech. Tiny actions of a person compound into an overall personality. Sometimes you can guess from one or two sentences the complete mentality of a person. Not always, because person is a very complex pattern.

## Symmetry and Mirroring

A result of self-similarity is mirroring or symmetry in technical language. Because of this dividing process, whether it is cell division or rivers or mountains, we see a certain kind of symmetry. The division starts from one, it becomes two, and then these two sometimes pick up a direction to divide, and then the structure develops in two directions, but it develops in a similar way. That produces a mirror structure, which is mirrored on an axis. You can see this symmetry in nature.

In humans, it is mirrored on the vertical axis, left-right symmetry. The left part of the body is the mirror of the right part of the body. It is called bilateral symmetry. The symmetry is seen in organs also, like lungs and kidney and the hemisphere of the brain. Even external organs like eyes, ears, fingers, arms. This is simply a consequence of patterns repeating in two directions.

More symmetries are seen in other creatures like starfish. It has radial symmetry. It is seen in flowers. There is a radial symmetry in five or six directions. The same pattern is seen.

## Higher Self-Similarity and Prediction

We can immediately extend fractality and symmetry to complex patterns in the non-physical, non-mental memory. This is the interesting thing now. We can predict, and we can predict something which we cannot directly see, which is the higher structures in the memory.

You can say that layers of the memory are self-similar. The layers below are doing something which higher layers are doing in a more complex way, probably in a longer amount of time. This law of self-similarity gives us a power to predict the structures which we cannot directly see. We can use logic here.

A good example is: a cell in a human body takes in nutrition, does its processes, and then once it grows to a certain limit, it copies itself, divides, cell division, and then they complete their lives, and they die only after producing many more cells. This is a lower layer. You can say like this: layers of the body, divide the body into layers, this is happening at a lower level, lower layer.

But the whole body is seen as doing the same thing. The body is born, it grows, at a certain time it grows enough, it reproduces, it lives its life, and then it dies. The life cycle of a cell is mostly similar to the life cycle of the full individual, full organism. The organism also breathes and eats, so on. This is a higher level, you can say, more complex fractal level.

But the same is true for the whole ecosystem. At a certain time, there are some kinds of creatures in the ecosystem, some kind of vegetation, and the ecosystems they grow, repeat, and then they die off. So we can predict something higher by observing something lower, if you assume that this whole structure is fractal in nature.

## Causal Bodies and Causal Families

So even if you cannot see the causal body or other higher layers in the memory, which are important for a human being, usually a seeker wants that kind of knowledge, we already know all the roots and plants and rivers you can guess the activity of causal body by extrapolating the lower layers. What are the lower layers? Physical body, physical organs, cells, so on.

So you can guess that the causal body will be born, it will start somewhere as a patch of memories somewhere, although we don't know, we can guess like this, then it accumulates experiences, it takes the help of lower layers like various physical forms, smaller, bigger, simpler, complex. It grows, then a time comes when it is mature, it subdivides. We have called it the branching of the causal body, because even after branching, it does not disconnect from the branches. It is just like the branching of a tree. So it subdivides, and smaller experiences are produced, smaller creatures appear through those causal bodies, it accumulates more experiences, and a family of causal bodies is formed. Their combined experience gives rise to a very complex, but self-similar structure of a causal family.

And there is an ecosystem of the causal family, just like in our human society or any herd of animals. Self-similar way, we can predict there is an ecosystem of causal families. And sometimes we will find evidence, although it is not evidence, it is personal experience, nobody will accept it as evidence. But you can sometimes find some events that hint towards there being higher structures above in the NPNM memory.

So, I've never found any good names in occult literature. Usually they are, they were assumed to be different kinds of powers, hierarchy of powers, gods, deities. So that is confusing, because we immediately personify these things. They are not personal now. They are beyond the person. They are group minds. We'll study them in the coming episodes, when we study the law of assembly, a very important law.

## Group Minds and Clusters

So, all we can say right now is these impressions that are being self-organized in memory form a group or a cluster. They are clustered. Clusters can be identified by their similar properties.

So you can have a plant kingdom cluster, because the causal bodies there mostly produce plant-like structures, plant life. You can have an animal cluster, which will produce land animals or sea animals, and there are fractal divisions in those clusters. Like there will be a cluster only for cats, where all the different species of cats are interconnected. Remember the law of interconnection. They are repeating in a self-similar way, but there are slight deviations, like mutations, like we saw. It produces different species of cats, but they have corresponding causal bodies. So there is a big cluster which represents all the cats in the universe, or on the Earth. That can be called the cat spirit.

Now you can join the dots between modern interpretation of theory of memory and ancient beliefs. Ancient people thought that there is a spirit corresponding to everything in nature. Cats have a cat spirit, wolves have a wolf spirit, tigers have a tiger spirit, and similarly the whole jungle, the ecosystem, has one spirit.

Here the spirit means, in our terminology, a cluster. The cluster is not some dumb rock like structure in memory. It is very dynamic. It is very active. It is alive. Probably it is more alive than the individual parts, self-similar parts. Like we can say a human being is more alive, more complex compared to a cell or organ. Although the cell is not dead, a human being is a higher form in spiritual terminology.

So a cell has intelligence, yes. It does whatever is needed for its life. The information and intelligence and knowledge is there in a cell. And same thing about organs. They know what to do. The heart knows what to do, lungs know what to do. They have intelligence. They work towards their goals. Similarly, the whole human body, body-mind machine, has an intelligence which is higher intelligence. It is higher compared to cells and other things. But it is similar. Similarity lies in: it also has a goal, it also has an intention, it also does the DGR activities - defense, growth, reproduction. It knows what to do. Any normal, ordinary human knows how to survive, what to eat. Same about animals, same about plants.

## The Hierarchy of Intelligence

The higher layer has a higher knowledge and higher intelligence. Now, that does not look like a total guesswork. It is based on our direct experience. Logically, it is correct.

So use the law of self-similarity, and you can say very confidently that the higher levels have a higher knowledge and higher intelligence. The only problem is, right now a human being, we can assume that we all are at the level or layer of human beings, we cannot understand the higher intelligence, just like a cell will never be able to understand what a human being thinks and knows and does. It's beyond the ability of a cell. Cells are tiny. Even a whole organ will not understand that it is a part of the organism. The smaller intelligences do not have enough ability to understand the higher intelligence. This is a limitation, this is a fundamental limitation, because of reduced complexity at the lower layers.

The same way, a higher intelligence can completely understand the lower intelligence. This itself is a sub-law, you can say, that the higher knows the lower, but the lower usually does not know the higher. It can guess about the higher. It's not a big issue, but it will never know completely. But the higher intelligence can know the lower. It can understand what is happening at the lower level.

A dog or cat or a mouse cannot understand human beings, the activities of human beings. They're too complicated, too intelligent. Similarly, human beings do not understand, at least one person in the world will not understand all the machines that humans themselves have produced. Even a whole company does not understand the AI that they have produced, because AI nowadays, at least, has a higher intelligence. We do not know what it is, but the intelligence is not so high and it is not beyond our comprehension at least, and we can say that the AI also does not understand what a human being is. But they have the potential to form even higher layers, self-similar systems, complex systems that will one day understand human beings. That can happen very quickly.

So we have these examples. Many people do not know what a causal body is, because that is not only beyond understanding, that is beyond our senses. Cannot see it, cannot experience it completely. We can experience its effects. For example, if you eat food, the cells in the body experience the rise of energy and nutrition. They will never know what happened that produced this. So we get the effects from the causal body, influences, but we never know. And we will never know whose causal body that is in the whole causal family from where that effect came. This is somewhat concerning for a seeker, but we'll discuss that in our discussion on law of assembly or law of group minds.

This is eye-opening. I'm giving you only a hint. Then don't think that I am the causal body. It is not a simple thing. Yes, you can project a higher intelligence on it. It is not a person still. Even the person that we assume ourselves to be is not an individual thing. It is not one thing, it is nothing separate. It is a collection of self-similar structures in the memory, that's all it is, and the structure continues above. This is our prediction. Study of these laws give us a power to predict, just like any good scientific theory does.

## Greater Minds and the Universal Mind

So the cluster of causal bodies can be extended. All these clusters form a group. I've given it the name of a local cluster or local neighborhood. Although it is so big that it is beyond our comprehension, nobody stops us from naming them and imagining them. These words are, you can already guess, borrowed from astronomy, cosmology. Just like there are galaxies and there is a cluster of galaxies and there is a local neighborhood, and so on. We have extended the terminology into non-physical structures in memory.

So they are known by interconnections and mutual influences. That is the criteria to cluster them or to form neighborhoods. So there is a whole cluster of human beings. You can guess like that. And there is a neighborhood of human-like creatures. How many? We cannot even imagine how many will be there. You can name them as non-physical entities, aliens, or paranormal creatures, angelic creatures, astral forms. And there are many names now, dozens of names for them in occult literature. Unfortunately, in Sanskrit most of them are called devas, which means self-luminous entities. And it is almost a consensus among occult people, masters, that they have a higher intelligence. Although some will say that, "No, there are various entities of lower intelligence." Yes, but mostly we don't pay attention to them.

So yes, there is a possibility of higher intelligences. There is a possibility of hierarchy of minds. This is shown by the law of self-similarity very clearly. But we'll never understand, we'll never know, what are the mental processes of a causal family, how does it operate, how big time scales it operates, probably million years, thousand years, we don't know. We'll see the changes in the causal structures reflected in human society. It changes, it is not constant. And the whole cluster grows or evolves. One day it evolves to a level where it modifies its surroundings and creates a world of its choice. This is the concept of co-creation.

These causal families and causal bodies, causal individuals, choose to form an environment around them. They have that intelligence and power. That will be called an universe or a world. So right now you can guess that we all humans are a part of some cluster of causal bodies. They have decided to form a universe which looks like a physical universe, but it is a layered structure in memory, and they have done this for a purpose, a greater purpose, which we'll never understand, but we can guess that the purpose is evolution, progress, betterment, more happiness, more freedom. Because we got those tiny drives and purposes, goals, we can see what we are trying to achieve, and we can guess the higher purpose.

So here our theory is mostly explaining whatever the occult people say and whatever gurus and masters say. But we should not overlay blind beliefs on that. This much madness is okay. This is also very crazy, but this gives you a bigger picture, what is happening. It removes a little bit of blindness that humans have, thanks to the law of self-similarity. That law sounds very innocent, but it is very powerful.

So the small is evolving because the whole is evolving. There is a direction there, and the whole evolves through evolution of the parts. This is an important conclusion. We'll discuss this more in the discussion on the law of evolution.

So we'll continue with self-similarity right now. These clusters, the local neighborhood, also form groups, and in many local neighborhoods they form a greater neighborhood, greater cluster. And that is what we will be calling as a greater mind. Right now we are in a small section of the greater mind. And almost uncountable numbers of greater minds, they form the universal mind. Now, it is beyond understanding. It is almost infinite. What it does and what it thinks is superhuman, supersupersuperhuman. There is no possibility of even imagining it.

## Rising Above Self-Similarity

So mostly a spiritual seeker is concerned up to their causal body. There is no use of thinking beyond that most of the time. We are given a mission. We are concerned with layers up to the causal body, and a non-spiritual person, an ordinary person, is concerned up to the person level - physical body and mind. We can see only just one step ahead what lies on the evolutionary ladder, and we want to achieve that. We want to go there. This is the whole journey of a spiritual person. That as soon as you're ready for the next step, the next step is shown. Nothing beyond them that is visible mostly. You can guess and you can theorize and you can you can sometimes believe blindly also, there is no harm here, because it is beyond understanding.

Sometimes if you practice different occult techniques, you can get a glimpse of all these areas, all these memory structures. They are memories, they are just like memories. Experiences of various kinds. Sometimes you will meet higher entities. They will be downloaded or they will be down-converted in forms that humans can understand. The form will be self-similar and will be within the limits of human intellect. And sometimes it will look like a human also or another creature.

You can practice, use occult techniques to directly connect to the causal body, any causal body you are interested in. Usually it is my own causal body, whatever I call as my own. There is no harm in calling it my causal body, although there is no such thing. And you can perform that technique, and so on. And you can envision the causal body. You can make the causal body appear in a form which you can understand. It will be mostly a dream-like, projection-like experience, with the causal body appearing as your own form, human form. It is all completely made-up and false, like a small dream and drama. But the knowledge that it provides is real, and useful. So these kinds of experiences will be called meeting your higher self or meeting your spirit, meeting your spirit guide.

Now, we have explained some more of the occult concepts using our theory. It was completely imaginary theory, laws and all, but it is powerful, because it is explaining many things now.

Since the causal bodies are on a path towards evolution, or many are towards devolution also, they're going towards destruction, which is a normal thing in universal memory, those that are evolving, they want to help each other, because they know that progress of one is progress of whole. This much wisdom every self-respecting seeker must have: that I cannot progress alone. The tree knows that the health of all its leaves is important for my health. The human body knows that the health of all the organs and good functioning of them is important for my total health and wellness. In the same way, the causal body knows that all my parts, all my incarnations, need to be helped, because they are the means through which the causal body is evolving, taking higher and complex forms.

So help is sent. The different branching of the causal body, different parts, and the whole cluster tries to help every individual part, especially when it is urgent, when it is needed. For example, you get a cut on your finger, you leave everything that you are doing, you go and help that finger. You stick a Band-Aid on it, put antibiotics or whatever, and you let it heal. You don't say that finger is a small part of me and it will do whatever it wants, who cares. No, you will never say this. Only a very ignorant person will say that.

The same way, a master, a guru, will never say that I'll let everybody suffer, perish, die off, devolve into lower forms, I'll do nothing. Only a very retarded master will say something like this. Most of them, they jump into the arena, physical world, and they help others, because that is me. These all are simply my self-similar parts. You and I are one.

So that explains bodhisattva tendency, that explains altruism, and so on, which the lower kind of physical theories do not explain, or they try to explain, but they're not as beautiful as this theory. You can see perfection in a theory not only because it explains, it must explain everything simply and beautifully: simplicity. So our theory of vibronics, non-physical, non-mental memory, actually does a very good job of explaining higher phenomena which the materialistic theories cannot even touch.

The materialistic theories will simply dismiss it. "It never happens," they will say. "It is beyond scientific investigation," they will say. No, it is not beyond scientific investigation. Their intelligence is beyond this kind of understanding. That's why they are limited to lower theories. An occult master or a spiritual seeker is not limited by smaller, less capable materialistic theories. We have the ability to form higher scientific theories and explain whatever we see, whatever we experience directly. Those in the field of spirituality have experienced all these things. They have seen masters, they have known the masters who keep saying all these things: "We are one. We need to help each other. I'm here to help you. That is my whole mission of this incarnation is to only help you, help as many as possible, because they cannot help all."

So now you can imagine the guru field, which is a specific layer, specific field with a mission, and it is a cluster of spiritual minds. That's all it is, higher minds. You can extend the theory and imagine, because theory is simply imagination, imagine more such fields of different levels of organization. But you can expect self-similarity. You will find another cluster somewhere, and they are also doing the same thing. They are playing the same game. They are also helping their own kind, and so on.

## Finding Direction on the Path

So how to take advantage of self-similarity? Because there is no point in rising above it. It is already perfect, and rising above does not mean that I break out of self-similarity because it is boring, I don't want to be similar to anybody. That is not the correct interpretation of rising above. It will simply mean that you take advantage of self-similarity. And we already took it, an advantage. We saw something which we are not able to see with our eyes normally. We guessed something higher than humans. It is rare to do that. Nobody does it actually.

We have a path, and the path is self-similar. You can guess the trends that are coming. When you started on a spiritual path, did your knowledge grow? Did your intelligence grow? Did you leave all the stupid things which ordinary people do? Have you gotten rid of the lower tendencies and all? If the answer is yes, then self-similar things will happen in future. You can guess it now. You have the knowledge. There will be more intelligence, more knowledge, more experience, and more dropping of the lower nature, more letting go.

So once you can see this, you will not resist it. This is where I'm going. Yes, you have an idea, a very faint vision, but you know that this will happen. Nothing else can actually happen. Many people will see that they will become a master or a guru and join the guru field. What else can happen? How much can the individual grow? Ultimately, it must contribute to the growth of the whole. This is common sense.

So you can see where you are going. Even a very powerful tantrik knows that he is destined to become a deity or a deva or a higher embodiment, and they will produce more causal bodies, more worlds, and more clusters, and so on. We are in the body of a tantrik right now. You won't recognize it.

So we can guess some things that are coming, and we can take advantage of this knowledge. It is not a completely blind belief, but it is a belief. We cannot say that I know for certain, but it is logical. Nothing else will be known. This must be kept in mind. And the important thing is that we know that the process of spiritual evolution is not random. You will not grow somewhere randomly and become something random. No. You are growing towards the whole. The journey is from individuality to universality. Nothing else will happen.

This is important knowledge for any seeker. So you will never get lost in the jungle of spirituality, in various communities, hundreds of paths, thousands of gurus. Sometimes a seeker feels lost. But if you know the laws of memory, if you are understanding, if you're with me, you're following me, you will never get lost. You will never get confused. You will have a very clear direction, very clear purpose, and you can now choose your path and practices and masters with more intelligence, meaning, and purpose, instead of randomly doing some idiotic practices which you saw on YouTube. You have the power to choose intelligently.

Intelligence means with intent. It does not mean somebody who can memorize a full book. [laughter] No, that is stupidity. What do you want to do, and do you know how to do it? Yes. Then you have the intelligence, you have the intent, you have the ability.

So this will grow. Your path will become clearer and clearer. As you walk on the path, the path appears. Otherwise, you'll not know.

If you have trust in your guru, then this journey becomes smoother. You don't need to worry too much. "I don't see, I don't see." No, don't worry. Your master sees, your guru knows already. He has already reached there. He will take you. That is his mission. He is more worried about your progress than you are worried about your own.

You can see a self-similar happening in your family. When you were a little child, your parents were worried about your well-being. You were not. You just enjoyed whatever came. Your parents are worried about what you will eat, when will you sleep, whom you meet, what kind of education you get, and so on. You had no idea, but you simply trusted your parents. The same way, a guru is a bigger parent. Guru is higher than mother and father. So higher does not mean having more authority. It can mean something in some cultures. Higher means higher intelligence, higher purpose, higher knowledge, and so on.

Those who don't have a guru, they can still join some occult path where blind belief and surrender towards the guru is not needed. There are some paths for such people, and they are mostly occult paths. They are focused on self-effort. You make your own effort, know yourself, and there the guides are mostly your own causal body or other causal bodies, or something in the hierarchy which we don't understand. They will guide you. They will show you actually. They will not guide you [laughter] by lecturing you. They will guide you by demonstration, which many scientific-minded people want. They want to learn from their own experience. They say, "Don't teach me, I know everything." So for such people, there are self-exploration paths. Most of them are occult in nature. It depends on direct experience actually. But you can take shortcuts. You can rely on the understanding of those who are higher than you, and you can take a leap of faith towards your goal. For such people, there are different paths.

So you can utilize this kind of self-similarity. See that you are a small part of your master. You are a small part of the whole tradition or the path, parampara, sangha, whatever you want to call it. It is a cluster of something. You see that there is a higher spirit that is guiding its tiny cells, which look like individual humans. Even if you cannot see it with your eyes, you can see it with your eyes of wisdom, eyes of knowledge.

So this recognition will give you a higher purpose. It will open up your intelligence. It will open up your possibilities. And whenever you see self-similar structures, you will be reminded that I am one of the branches in this whole root system of an infinite forest.

So we'll continue our discussion on laws of memory. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 22

Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on laws of memory. Today we are going to discuss a slightly unusual and less known law of memory. I'm going to call it the Law of 99%.

It is generally known, but very few people apply it to something as fundamental as memory, or it is rare to find this law applied universally to everything. But we are going to try, based on our direct experience and logic.

## 18 - The Law of 99%

The Law of 99% says that 99% of anything that appears in the universal memory will be degenerate.

Now, I know this needs a lot of explaining. The word "degenerate" is often seen as negative. It is used for something which is very low quality, fallen, rotten. It is the opposite of generate. But in statistics or mathematics, the word "degenerates" means almost the same, too many of something, not rare. That is the technical meaning of the word degenerate. So, the non-physical, non-mental memory is mostly composed of degenerate forms.

This law is also known as the law of 90%, depending on the kindness of the person. And there are more names, like ordinariness. Most of the things that are perceived or we have opinions about are ordinary. It is also called normal, the norms. What happens most of the time is called a normal thing. It can be events, it can be objects, it can be people, behavior of the people. And that means 99% of everything is mostly normal.

It may not sound like a law, but if this is seen every time, whenever you go and check, then we want to call it a law. And this is also called, in an informal way, average.

When we say that place is average, that means it is not special. It's fine actually, not bad. When we say this person is average, probably we are talking about their beauty or their behavior, nature. And here also it means that person is just like everybody else. It does not mean that that person is a bad, gone case.

Some people can hide their profanity behind this kindness of calling somebody average or normal. I've seen in my life, when I ask, "How is that company you're working in?" They say, "It is normal." They don't want to say that wherever they are working has problems or something. So, instead of straightforward criticism, they hide behind this word normal, average. "How is your child?" "Just average." Which means no hope, no future! But people use these words sometimes.

When we use words like degenerates or 99%, it is somewhat bitter. Anyway, it will simply mean that whatever we see is nothing special, lacking speciality.

## Understanding Speciality and the 1%

Now, we need to clarify some things. First thing, I already told you, it does not mean inferior, and it does not mean that these things are not unique. They can be unique, but they are all unique. It is like this. So, the word speciality here actually means in the remaining 1%, which do not fit in any metric, which do not group into anything else. And sometimes you call it outstanding, which means that which is standing outside of the normal. So, in statistics we'll call it outstanding, or not normal, not average. It is 1% of something.

So, what about a field of flowers? There are probably a million flowers, all beautiful, all fragrant. They are all also unique. But when you point to one specific flower and ask this question: "What is so special about this flower?" Actually, it is special because it is unique, but we are not talking about that kind of speciality where everybody is special and everybody is unique. No, we are not trying to hide behind politeness. There is nothing special in that flower because there are millions and millions like that. They keep growing them, they harvest, they dry out, they are thrown out. They are like 99% of flowers.

But a very beautiful girl is gifting you a flower, rose, red rose. What is so special about that? Now everybody will agree it is not 99% of the cases; it is 1% or even less than that, 0.0001% chance that this will happen to me. "I'm an average person," they will say. "I'm ordinary." So, something really special has happened which nowhere has happened, there was no chance. But if you look at that rose, inherently there is nothing special. It is not a rose made up of gold or something else. So, if you put that rose in a pile of roses, in a factory of flowers, nothing special now.

So, what brings it out of the 99% is some kind of event which is highly subjective. It is very subjective what I am going to call 1%. But there will be a general consensus somewhere, just like I gave an example of flowers. Generally people will say 99% of everything comes out to be the same-same, nothing special.

And so, it depends on what you are trying to measure. Are you trying to measure the flower, in our example? Or are you trying to measure the importance of that event in my life? Then any flower will be okay, no problem. So, it depends on what we are trying to focus on that excludes the 1% out of the whole distribution of events, things, people, and anything else. So, these things need to be clarified.

## Universality Across Domains

Now, it can be applied everywhere, universally. You will see like this:

A beach is made up of sand, and each particle of the sand contributes to the beach. They are not insignificant, but there are too many. One particle has no importance on its own because they are all degenerates. It's normal, it's ordinary, just an average particle. It will be beautiful, it will be unique. Sometimes if you take a look at these sand particles under a microscope, you will see their uniqueness and beauty, but as a whole, nothing. And you cannot even talk about atoms and all, they are probably 100% degenerates. There is no special atom in the universe. They're all fundamental particles.

The test of a degenerate is: if you can substitute it with another degenerate, it makes no difference. That is the test on how to find something which is normal, ordinary, average. So, it can be substituted many times without worrying about any loss. So, probably that's why they are called degenerates, because they generate no excitement or amusement in us.

So, sand is one thing. Same way, mountains, rivers, trees, plants, leaves in a forest. It is necessary for the forest to have the leaves. There is no forest without leaves. But there are too many. They're all normal, ordinary. 99% of them are just there. They contribute to the whole. 1%, we don't know, probably some kind of medicinal plant, some kind of psychedelic leaves, they fall in out-of-band categorization of 1%. They have value, they are rare. But again, if you put too many of them together, they lose that kind of speciality.

This must be kept in mind while we discuss the examples. Like we always do, we go from the mineral, dead matter, to living matter and to humans and finally non-physical or spiritual matters. We check the law across all the layers, or you can call it all the dimensions.

## The Shifting Curve: Relativity and Impermanence

It must be noted that when the average value changes, this 1% also changes. It shifts. That which is special becomes not so special, average, if the average value shifts towards it. The graph shifts. We have already seen this graph; it is the famous normal distribution or Gaussian distribution. So, that which is special is variable, actually. It's surprising, and that we cannot assume that this 1% of things will always remain 1%. They will always remain special, outstanding. No, we cannot assume this.

So, we again take the example of a flower, because it is very innocent, politically correct. If there is dry grass everywhere in a field and just one flower is growing somewhere in the middle, a beautiful flower of a rare color, let's say blue colorit's very rare to find a blue flower - now that is 1%. That falls in the 1% category, and the grass is degenerate. There are too many of the same thing. But if the same flower is growing in a valley of flowers, where there are various flowers, unique, beautiful, rare, everything - there are such valleys in mountains - then this poor little blue flower loses value. Now it is also average. So, because the average has increased to a higher value, now that 1% will be something else. Now, in that valley, you will find a transparent flower or a medicinal flower or something, now that will become special.

So, many people must have already guessed: where is this discussion leading to? So, mineral and plant kingdom examples we have seen. Animals: same way. Which fish in the ocean is special? So, it is very difficult. They are all 99% kind. Which human being is 1%? Everybody can guess now. We all know them. We all know their names and all. What about the rest? They are 99%.

Can we call them degenerate? We should not. Nobody likes it. Can we call them ordinary? Not many people will like it. But we can call them normal, average, unique, etc. They are just normal. 1% are special.

Why is this a law? Because the law will not deviate from this. You won't find a law where 50% are special, or you won't find a law where 90% of the samples are special. Because it is automatic. By default, if it is too many, a major part of the percentage pie, then by definition it is degenerate, ordinary, normal. So, there is no way to break this law. It is by necessity. It will be like this.

So, let us take beauty. In an ordinary place, just 99% of places, among ordinary people, if there is a beautiful person, that person becomes special. But in a fashion parade or, let us say, beauty contest, Miss Universe or something, no value of that person. There are many, even better than that person. That's why people are so afraid of this law. Because finally, somewhere, somehow, everything ends up in the 99% category. The 1% always shifts.

Why is that? That is because of the law of relativity. Everything is relative. So, this law ensures that nobody will be absolutely in the 1% category. Nobody! What if that woman is Miss Universe? Although they don't look so beautiful to me, I don't know why they chose them. But that Miss Universe will remain Miss Universe only for one year or whenever they do this kind of competition. What about that person in a village? Ordinary village, ordinary people. Yes, that woman or person will remain in 1% till the age of 40, 50, or 60.

So, the law of impermanence says that it is not fixed. Only 1% are unique and special, it says, but not always. "Don't worry," it says. "Don't be so proud of your speciality. It won't remain." That is the law of impermanence. Law of relativity says that you will always find some more 1% in a group of isolated samples which were in 1%.

Same with intelligence and so on. You are intelligent among stupid people. But if you find smart people, suddenly it feels like I'm the most stupid among them. It happens all the time.

So, you can already see a combination of many laws here that are applicable, they are producing this amazing Law of 99%.

## The Psychological and Spiritual Realm

So, we have seen bodies. Now, the mind, thoughts. A feeling or an emotion is special only if it is rare. If it happens every day, it becomes like 99%, normal, average. That is why there is no true happiness. Because if it happens every day, it is no more happiness. It just fades into background noise of 99%. Now you need something more to feel that kind of rush of happiness. You can call it some kind of hormone rush, adrenaline or whatever the happiness hormones chemicals are.

Same about suffering, pain, poverty. It becomes normal if it extends. If everybody's poor in the village, nobody worries about poverty. You can see the power of 99% here.

So, before we discuss it even more and apply it to everyday situations and specifically to the seekers, let us check why it is like this.

So, it is a direct consequence of the law of repetition and the law of self-similarity. So, hopefully everybody knows these two laws. That is why I placed the Law of 99% after these two laws. And after these, the other laws of relativity and impermanence, because it will be easier for you to understand now why everything is in the category of 99%, why everything is ordinary, normal, average, most of the things, why the specialities are so rare and so short-lived.

So, the law of repetition says copies will be produced, and by necessity, the copies are mostly the same. 99% will not mutate, will not deviate too much from the original. Occasionally, the law of probability comes in and says occasionally there is a probability something unique, special happens.

And the law of self-similarity also contributes here, that you can combine things and make something unique, but the law of self-similarity says that the combination of these things will be similar to the units, individual things. So, yes, you can have a beautiful pile of flowers which is in the shape of a rare flower. So, you take a local flower which is abundant, and you arrange many flowers in the shape of a big flower, which looks like that flower. Now it is special because there is no 20 ft tall flower in your town. But the law of self-similarity says that it is just copies. It is arranged in complex ways. So, complexity does not always guarantee uniqueness.

Same way, you can take a country of ordinary people, peasants with ordinary intelligence. Even if that is a big country, it will not become a world power. It will not become the strongest and most advanced country in the world. But you will see some tiny island somewhere, some small country on the North Pole somewhere, where everybody's rich, everybody has the highest medical facilities, and everybody is beautiful, they live long, happy lives. Why is that? They are in the 1%. It does not matter if somewhere there is a collection of billions of people, average people. They will still remain in 99%, although the complexity has increased a lot there. That society will be unique, yes, and that society will be very complex, probably more complex than whatever we are calling 1%, but it will be degenerate. It will never achieve that status, because too many, too many copies, even though they have formed a complex system.

Sometimes it can happen that some unique qualities emerge out of a large group of objects, for example, cells. Although they are not the same, cells in the body, they're similar, but they do produce something unique, which is a body, human body or animal body. Somehow, it is special. It falls in the category of 1%. Assuming there is only one body in the universe, only one human in the universe, it will be very special. You can easily replace one cell with any other cell, and they are replaced every day, continuously. All these cells, even if they are so complex and unique, a product of evolution, they are still degenerates. They are in the Law of 99%.

So, in the memory, nothing is really important because it can be generated anytime. It is non-temporal. It can be generated at any place. It is non-local. And it can be generated an infinite number of times. So, all these qualities of the memory are reflected in the Law of 99%. It is almost certain that this will happen, but it is almost certain that there will be some deviations. There will be some outstanding events. That is also probable. That's not 0%.

So, the nature of memory causes this kind of very odd behavior.

## Application to the Individual

Now, as usual, we are interested in ourselves. We are interested in how this applies to me. And yes, you can already see: whatever you thought was important, gone. It's not special. Anybody you thought is important, gone, not special, can be replaced by another degenerate form, human. "Oh, no, I'm special." No, that is also fully replaceable. Replacement is waiting for you.

So, this law brings some humility, makes us humble. But it leaves a possibility of 1% that you can be 1% if you want. And that 1% can be the left end of the curve or the right end of the curve, depending on how we are plotting. So, most of the people, they want to be on the high end, 1% of the higher kind. Because there will be totally worthless things in the lower end, they will also be 1%. The rest are nothing special, they are not even bad. Some event, some person is really bad, worst of worst, then that also falls in 1%, because there is nobody as bad as that, very special, very unique.

The law of 99% is not dividing things into very good and the rest. No. It is simply saying 99% will be not very good and not very bad, just average. This is what it's saying.

So, most of the time, everybody falls in 99% categories. Those who are not, they come under 99% when they meet something of their kind which is already in 1%.

So, a rich person is rich among poor people in a poor country. That person will be worshipped. But if that person joins a meeting of the top 500 companies of the world, nobody will even recognize that person. It happens all the time. That person also can be replaced, probably by somebody who is richer, better, more powerful. And yes, this will not last. That 1% will be gone, back to 99%.

Whatever you achieve in your life of material value falls in the 99%. This is very depressing, because we work so hard to achieve and fulfill our desires and materialize our dreams, only to find it getting converted into 99%, just average.

It was a status symbol to have a phone in your house just 50 years ago. Now it means nothing. It was very rare. Less than 1% of people had cars, and now there are so many that there is no space to drive on the road. This law points to the worthlessness of events which are superficial. Actually, they are 99%. For the time being, they fall in the category of 1%. So, in the end, nothing is achieved, or it is short-lived. But that does not mean that we don't do it, because there is nothing to do now then. Then it will fall in the lower end of 99% anyway. So, just average is okay. You must accept it. This is the law.

What about other qualities like loving kindness and intelligence? Yes, they all fall in 99%. Once in a thousand years, somebody is seen with higher qualities like this. The rest are just average. They think that I have these qualities and therefore I'm special, but because they are blind to this law, they cannot see it. Very quickly, they meet something, they get experiences which tell them nothing special, just copies. But that does not reduce the value of whatever qualities they have. It just makes it very common. But yes, that pushes the person into the higher end of the curve, normal curve. We don't want to be normal. As soon as the normal shifts, everybody then again runs towards whatever is perceived as higher, or 1%. So, the race continues. There is no end of it. There is no end of 1%. You will never be in 1%. This is the message.

So, what about spiritual qualities? And you will see this is true, just like rich people, beautiful people, intelligent people, sensitive people, knowledgeable people, and spiritual people are also 1% in this whole sea of humanity. The rest are ordinary. You must have heard me saying this word: ordinary people are like that, spiritual people are like this. And people must be thinking, listeners, why do I call them ordinary? They are perfectly okay, they are special also. So, that is a technical word. Ordinary here means just like the rest. It does not mean inferior, just like I said before. They are ordinary. Nothing wrong with that. But they are not spiritual. That's what it means.

Are spiritual people special? If you invoke this Law of 99%, yes, they are. But as soon as they evolve a little bit spiritually, they find that they are in the lower end, actually. They are the most devolved spiritual person. That is the problem of the law of relativity, that there is really nothing to achieve.

So, in spiritual terms, they have ordinary spirituality, whatever that means now, meaningless. Is anybody so evolved that they are beyond humans? Yes, there are. They will be 0.0001%, historic figures. And you shift to their dimension or their world, it can be called heavenly or anything you like, no problem, and there are trillions and trillions of that kind of being now there. That is probably more than 99%. Among humans, they were 1%.

It is always like this. It does not matter where you evolve to, which world you go to, which heaven you are dropped in, more likely you'll find yourself among 99%. There's simply too many. Too many structures in the memory. Why? It is infinite. The potential is infinite, which will cause this law to operate no matter what. No escape. We cannot break this law. The average can be shifted. It is always comparative. It is always relative, and it is always 99%. This is amazing.

## Rising Above 99%

Who is in the 1%? This is a meaningless question. You should see the illusion of 1% now. What about 99%? It is also an illusion. It was our choice to divide everything like this. Many people will say, "No, no, no, no. Whatever it is, I want to be in the 1%, whatever metric or whatever criteria you use for that division." And the answer is: why not? Yes! Everybody should strive for that 1% slot. It does not matter if it will remain or not. This causes excellence, otherwise nobody will excel. Nobody will progress. So, although everything is ordinary, most of them, 99%, still it is logical to progress towards 1%, and you get the choice to decide what is that 1%. Lower 1% or higher 1%? You need to decide somehow, depending on your own likes and dislikes. There is no such law which will force you to choose only something which is positive, which is considered positive subjectively by somebody. No, you can choose anything. You can choose your speciality.

A good example is: most of the people are ordinary, they are not beautiful, although they are beautiful in their own way. But when there are too many, nobody cares. So, anybody will want to be more beautiful than the rest. They want to be in the 1% of that: tall, beautiful, healthy, and so on. That's what they want. So, they join the gym and do the cosmetic surgery and take the supplements and so on, treatments. It is not wrong. What if somebody else is not able to do that? Will the world end for that person? And the answer is: no. You have another corner of 1%, other domains of 1% open for you. If not in beauty, you can get into that slot of 1% intelligent people, knowledgeable people. "No, I cannot even think properly." Okay, we have another choice: get into the 1% rich, rich and powerful. "No, that's not." Okay, become something which you like. "I like to travel." Okay, travel to all the countries, all the places, all the planets of the solar system. Nobody's stopping you. You will be in 1% if you do that.

The problem is: laziness. People want that 1% position, but they don't want to work for that. And such laws are demotivating. "You said everything is 99%. What is the use?" Yes, that is the problem, actually. Not the law. Law is okay. Laziness is the problem, lack of motivation is the problem. "No, no, I wanted to do this, but everybody's already doing that." Yes, that means you missed the opportunity! The 1% is that which nobody's doing.

So, now you can guess: we have hacked into the Law of 99%. We are trying to rise above the Law of 99% by utilizing it. Yes! Take that slot of 1% which nobody wants, assuming there's some positivity and goodness, some value in it. So, in this whole discussion, we are totally ignoring the negative talk. Become something else. "My parents are forcing me to become a doctor." There is a crowd of doctors! Nobody gets admission in medical college, and so on. So, the rush to become doctors is so great that there are even fake doctors, with fake degrees. Although they are giving the real medicines, still it's a problem. Nowadays, it is easier to find a cure than to become somebody who cures. Just search on the internet, you will get the medicine.

So, anyway, if there is so much crowd there, 99% want to go there, it is your duty to find something else. Find your speciality. Don't be 99% simply because somebody told you that is good. There is no shortage of goodness in this existence, and you can cook up your own good. You can create whatever you want. Create your 1%. Become that which nobody can even become, nobody can even imagine of.

That is the game.

The game is not to break this Law of 99% and always stay at 1%. No, it's impossible. The game is to define what you call 1%. The game is to dynamically keep moving to this 1% peak, which we will never reach, but the game is to move, the game is to progress. Find a speciality, and everybody's finding the speciality, so nothing unique in that. You see, you cannot break the law. Everybody is finding their speciality; you also find it, and achieve it. Achieve that 1% designation.

So, we try to rise above the law, but we cannot break the law anyway. So, for a spiritual seeker, it means you are unique, yes, you are not an ordinary person, but you must progress. It is not the end of your journey. Keep progressing. You are among 1% in the whole population of the Earth, but you are in 99% among the population of seekers. If you are a guru, you are 1% among the spiritual people, probably less than that, but you are just like 99% of the gurus, making no difference in the world. So, a master must strive to become a great master. A master must continue their journey towards becoming a great master, and then great-great-master, and whatever comes after that. There is no end.

So, a very sensitive seeker will quickly sense that I'm in 99%. Well, no problem. A very intelligent seeker will find that which is 1%. Okay, what remains to be done? And there is a problem here that if everybody keeps doing it, that field will get saturated. This is called saturation. And now nobody wants that 1%. So, the solution is to simply rise above that. It has become average, so you find something else. Find something better, according to your own subjective criteria. Nobody else can tell you what is 1%. You need to search for it.

So, because we cannot break the law, we must respect this law by setting up a balance. Okay, I'm 1% in this field, in these qualities, in these achievements, I'm 1%, but I must remain like 99% in the rest of the matters. Then this law will not punish you.

For example, "I'm spiritual, I'm this, I'm that," that places you in 1%, but yes, your standard of living, your behavior, your language, your looks, body, whatever, is still 99%. And we don't have any problem with that. Sometimes there will be this 1% slot. A few fortunate people will get two or three such slots, but then the rest of it will be 99% types. And it will be impermanent. So, we keep chasing the 1%.

It is not that we avoid the 99%, this must be noted. There is no avoiding, but there is balancing. You will always find one or two aspects that you want to improve, they remain in the 99% category, but some of them will be in 1%. It will always be like this, which means this follows the Law of 99%. No matter what you do, you end up obeying the Law of 99%. If it happens always like this, 99% of the time, yes, that means we are bound by this law.

So, rising above will simply mean finding our own speciality, achieving it, remaining in a balanced state, not discarding 99%, not insulting it. We respect the law, and keep moving towards 1%, keep redefining that 1% dynamically. It is all impermanent.

So, that causes some kind of progress. A spiritual seeker is mostly interested in spiritual progress. So, find your direction, don't remain among 99%it's not good and you keep going. There is no end of it.

So, we'll continue the discussion on the laws. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 23

Welcome to Pure Experiences. You are listening to the series on Laws of Memory. Today, we are going to discuss a very important law of memory. It is the law of evolution.

### 19 - Law of Evolution

This law says that in the universal, non-physical, non-mental memory, there is seen a continuous unfolding of forms.

The law of impermanence says that there is change; everything is impermanent. Everything changes, comes, and goes. The law of evolution adds a new aspect to this. It says that everything changes, but some changes are meaningful. They show some kind of pattern in their change, in how they change. It is very rare that patterns appear and disappear randomly. It can happen sometimes, but usually, once a pattern appears, it does change, but it follows a law while changing. It unfolds in a specific way. We say that it evolves.

The word evolution means to come out. New forms come out of the old forms. And yes, slowly everything gets destroyed, dissolved into the infinite potential from which it comes. But it does a small play, a beautiful play before it dissolves. It does not randomly change; it evolves.

The evolution happens as a process of branching and pruning. When a single form appears - a pattern of vibrations in the memory - through the law of repetition, resonance, etc., it makes copies. And due to mutations, changes in these copies, small changes, it branches out in various directions. It changes in various directions, in various ways. And if you plot these varieties of change, the plot or the graph will look like a tree.

The first generation will be the trunk, and then that changes into a few branches. And these branches then again change into more branches. And because of impermanence, some branches disappear. They are pruned naturally. And this whole tree of patterns progresses. This is the play of evolution.

It can happen sometimes that something totally random happens, but it picks up from there and starts evolving. The branching starts. Tiny changes create more branches, and so the evolution looks like a tree.

It is extremely complicated, so we'll go step by step and explore whatever we can using our direct experience and logic.

Usually, the tendency of the forms is to become complex from simple forms. This happens because of self-organizing and self-similarity. They form copies, but these copies do not simply scatter away; sometimes it can happen but they stick together and form a bigger pattern. New processes, new dependencies due to interconnectedness emerge in this bigger, complex pattern. And the whole thing then again copies and evolves again.

So, simple to complex and to more complex. And in short, we say evolution produces complexities. It is a self-organizing process.

Can it not produce simplicity out of complexity? Yes, it can. The process of change keeps happening. Sometimes it will devolve; the complex breaks down into simple. But normally, we do not call it devolution. The word devolution is reserved for some kind of destructive process. It is a negative word. So when it happens naturally, we call it involution, or it is folding in. It is poetic, but it is a good metaphor. Things evolve, sometimes they involve, and turn into seeds, something simple. And this evolution and involution repeats infinitely.

When we say all the forms evolve, this is the law of evolution. When we say how it evolves, this is the process of evolution. There's a difference between the process of evolution and law of evolution. So the process itself can be of different kinds, but the law is one and the same.

So we'll study a simple process which is often seen, but before that, let us clear some misunderstandings about evolution.

### Misunderstandings

First thing, nobody's doing it. It seems to happen like this. The human intellect calls it evolution. From the perspective of the memory, it is simply a play: play of forms, patterns, emergence, disappearance, happening. So there is no intention behind evolution. Because everything is possible, it keeps happening.

Secondly, evolution does not mean inferior becoming superior. It simply means unfolding, change, branching, appearance of varieties. That's all it means. The recent forms are not superior in any way to the older forms. It is wrong to call them superior or inferior. They are just forms. They're perfect as they are. So it is not a process of becoming superior from something which is inferior, stronger, something which is weaker. No, it is not. The reverse can also happen. If something can be called superior using some kind of criteria, evolution can turn it into something which humans think is inferior. It's possible. Evolution is a completely neutral process, and these various colors, biases are human opinions. People say things like this, mostly ignorant people. They will impose their own biases on otherwise perfectly natural processes of evolution.

The third misunderstanding: evolution has a target, has a destination or end, and one day every form will become completely evolved. This is a major misunderstanding. No, it will never happen. There is no goal. It is a play. It keeps going infinitely.

Like in a desert, patterns in the sand keep appearing without any purpose, without any meaning. Sometimes they are beautiful patterns, sometimes they're random, sometimes there is no pattern, just sand.

Another misunderstanding is only living things, living matter evolves. That is wrong. Everything in this universal memory evolves. So a mountain is a mountain as it is right now because it evolved. It took shape slowly due to forces in the Earth, or rain, snow, wind. Everything contributed to form the current shape of the mountain. Same about rivers and so on.

So from the point of view of evolution, there is no living matter or dead matter. It is all changing patterns. Yes, humans call something which is very complex and seems to be independent as living, but that is incorrect. Or it can be useful for everyday life, but there is no boundary between living and non-living from the point of view of evolution. So the non-living does not evolve and become living; it never happens like this. There is nothing which is non-living; there's nothing which is living. It is a very active, dynamic memory, energy in the memory.

Probably there are more misunderstandings. If I remember something, I'll add that in.

### Evolution of Memory

So how does evolution happen in memory now? This is the "how" question, which means process.

Through resonance, there is replication. The law of repetition says the patterns can form infinite copies instantly in memory, so there is replication. But these patterns are impermanent. And since there is no time, they actually do not exist. There is nothing to make them stationary, nothing makes them stable. So they are created and destroyed.

It is very difficult to imagine this without time. So we do imagine time sometimes. We stretch out the superimposed, replicated, and destroyed patterns in a timeline so that we can take a look at it, like spreading the playing cards on the table to check which card is which. Otherwise, they are packed in. So time enables this kind of separation of events in the intellect.

So there is a way to keep them stable, as we saw earlier in our previous episodes, that is called dynamic equilibrium. New copies keep forming, or the same pattern reinforces itself, it grows. And when the process of destruction balances the process of growth, it becomes almost stationary. That will stay for some time. Processes of destruction, they take over, and the pattern is dissolved back, but not before the pattern makes more copies.

So there is an apparent continuation of patterns, although it is simply a series of copies. Now, that would be very boring if the same pattern stays forever. So we have another process that happens, and that is mutation, as we saw earlier. Mutation means there is a fault. There is a small change in copying. Probably some other vibrating pattern joined in, or some vibrating pattern broke out of the original. This is called mutation. Otherwise, the process of replication is perfect. It produces a perfect copy because it is not physical, not mental; it is potential only. But there is a possibility of mutation. So something new appears out of the infinite possibilities. We call it a mutated copy.

This copy then again replicates, produces more copies of its type, and then some of them again mutate. If this particular pattern, any pattern, if it has already established a state of equilibrium with other patterns and surroundings, that means it is in a semi-stable state, it will continue replicating.

If a mutation happens and it fails to fit into the existing equilibrium state, it will fail to copy. New patterns will overwrite it. Other patterns will consume it. Because of impermanence, if it does not form an equilibrium, a balance with the surrounding patterns, impermanence ensures that it will be destroyed. Apparent stability will not be seen there. It is by necessity; there is no other possibility.

But if a mutation manages to form an equilibrium, a balance with its surroundings, with whatever is around it, whatever is trying to impose on it its own vibration, either it balances out somehow, or it forms a new environment because it is so strong, it modifies the environment around it and that mutated pattern will also replicate and will also give an appearance of semi-stability. But yes, everything the original, mutations, and balanced or unbalanced, those patterns that are in equilibrium, those are not, they all disappear, but the copying continues.

And this gives the characteristic branching look to the patterns. If you plot a graph, it will look like a tree, which is self-pruning.

So what stays and what disappears quickly is determined by how successfully that pattern establishes equilibrium. This conclusion or finding is very important. We can underline it. The patterns that fail to form this kind of equilibrium, semi-stability, will make few copies and then get destroyed, because it's not stable. This whole process is called selection.

What happens if the surrounding patterns change? Again, that pattern which was successfully stabilizing, there is an imbalance in it, the equilibrium is broken, and it is destroyed. What if a pattern is so strong that it impacts its surroundings and manages to stay up, stay stable? And yes, it will make more copies, and these copies will then transform the environment around it, transform the patterns around it, and that will change the landscape. This is also a selection. Now the thing that is getting selected is the environment, not the pattern.

These are very fine observations. Usually, books do not mention all these things. Remember, we are still in the non-physical, non-mental memory. These are patterns of possibilities or of vibrations, binary vibration. But once these patterns become too complex, they are arranged in layers, and they become living things. They become meaningful. They become purposeful and full of intention. Intelligence is seen in them. So we'll discuss that, but we are still at the level of memory.

So the arena where this game is being played is called the landscape, evolutionary landscape. And sometimes we call it the fitness landscape. So mathematically speaking, each pattern is trying to fit into the landscape. It is maximizing the equilibrium. It is minimizing the energy to stay in this landscape, to stay stable. Too much expenditure of energy, yes, causes imbalance, and it spins out of existence. Too little energy, something else will overtake it. So it is a struggle. And these patterns change, adapt, and survive in this landscape.

In the event the landscape itself changes, which is possible because everything is impermanent, the law of impermanence is continuously changing the landscape too and the patterns that adapt successfully remain there. We call them fit patterns. They fit nicely with the landscape, like puzzle pieces. And if the adaptation is not suitable, they vanish. Something else comes up.

So these are the definitions: replication, destruction, mutation, selection, fitness landscape, adaptation, equilibrium, balance, survival. This is the vocabulary of evolution.

### Survival

So this whole process, this dance of patterns with the landscape, environment, is called survival.

Once these patterns become very complex, multi-layered, the terms change now. Now we call these processes as defense, growth, and reproduction, which you can see around you. In short, we call it DGR: Survival is equal to DGR.

Once a complex pattern evolves, it evolves with some processes to keep it going, to prevent its own destruction. Obviously, if a pattern does not evolve, does not mutate into this kind of pattern, it will be destroyed. So if there are defensive processes going on inside the patternsome layers of the pattern that will ensure that it copies more, so more of it will be seen. If there are no defense processes going on, it is at the mercy of the landscape completely. And when the landscape changes, all of them disappear. So through the process of selection and adaptation, defense processes arise in a complex pattern.

We can call these complex patterns as organisms. Remember, we are not talking about animals or humans or anything else. Organism is a pattern in the memory; it is a layered pattern in the memory. Yes, they can appear as animals, plants, viruses, cells, or humans, or something more than humans. There are infinite kinds. But they are governed by the law of evolution. This is an amazing thing. No pattern, no creature, no organism is free from this law.

So the defense, growth, reproduction, these primary survival processes will be seen everywhere. They are universal. Yes, their forms will change. The ways DGR operates will change. It will change according to the landscape and so on.

So when we talk about the environment of a layer, as we defined in our previous episodes, we rename it and call it a world. The environment around a layer is called a world. It is simply non-physical, non-mental memory, and this pattern seems to be disconnected from the landscape because it is trying to not merge with the landscape. It is trying to survive, we say. It's trying to make its copies.

So how does it do it? How does it achieve equilibrium? Defense is one way. It resists destruction; it resists dissolution into the environment. Another way is growth. It continuously grows. It takes energy out of the environment to balance itself, and it gives out energy into the environment to maintain that equilibrium. This is called growth.

If the growth stops, decay happens. This is the law of evolution. The growth is always there, even if we cannot see it. Even if we, let us say, we see a fully grown tree, which is a pattern in the memory, it looks like the tree is stationary, it is not growing. But if the growth processes stop, it will start decaying; it will start dying. So growth is always there. Sometimes it reaches an equilibrium and appears stationary. So there cannot be unlimited growth, because that will consume the whole environment. The balance will be completely destroyed. So balance is the key. Adaptation is the key.

So growth is simply an exchange of energy with the environment. It is also called ingesting, in ordinary language, eating. A pattern eats around. It consumes the environment to keep growing, but it cannot do that beyond a limit, so it achieves an equilibrium. It cannot stop consuming because that will mean decay, death, destruction. So it must maintain an equilibrium that is the growth, or you can call it maintenance.

And yes, eventually the change consumes everything. So it must set up processes in itself which produce a copy of it before it destroys completely. So when that pattern is at its peak of performance, it produces copies, as many as possible. That will be called reproduction, also called genesis, generation, from which other words come out, like generator or gene, genetic. The word "gen" means to give birth.

This whole process of survival plays out again and again. The law of cycles applies here, and it is a cyclic process.

Many listeners must have already guessed it. We don't need proof of it. It is happening around us. Every day we see this. The only thing is, this is a more technical description of what is happening around us.

And this thing which we call human, myself, is simply a replicating pattern engaged in defense and growth. That's all it is. An impermanent play of patterns in the universal memory which is trying to survive.

So it is very easy to see what happens if there is a drive, a natural tendency for the patterns to remain, to be selected naturally: they will grow more and more complex. That is why sometimes evolution appears as a journey from simplicity to complexity, because in the process of adaptation, those mutations are favored that enable survival, and it piles up very quickly. It becomes more and more complex. It totally depends on the environment around it, the world. If the world is complex, yes, only complex patterns will survive, and they then evolve all these tendencies: defensive mechanisms, processes, effective growth, and then planning and intelligence appears. Intelligence appears because of evolution and the pressure of survival. Intelligence demands knowledge, and so the knowledge activity starts in more evolved patterns.

You can easily map this description to biological evolution now, but we are not restricted to biology. This is happening in the universal memory. You will see the same trend, same law operating, same process happening in all the worlds, all the universes. There is no escape from evolution.

So what happens if these processes fail? Yes, destruction happens because impermanence is always against survival. Growth processes fail, so the pattern becomes more and more broken, more and more dysfunctional, and then completely breaks down. If reproduction stops, the pattern stays what it is, but since there are no more copies, the whole kind disappears eventually. Same about defense. If there are no defensive processes, other patterns consume it.

So this is seen as a very strange process of trying to eat as much as they can, and trying to avoid getting eaten as much as they can, and trying to reproduce as much as they can. This madness is seen among the patterns, whether they are physical, whether they are biological, whether they are non-physical, metaphysical, supernatural, doesn't matter. This madness of survival is seen everywhere. It is not wrong; it is not negative. It is a play. This play is called life, and it is eternal.

Life is eternal. These patterns come and go. They keep changing, they keep adapting, mutating. They are destroyed, they are copied endlessly, and this whole process is life. Life never ends. The individual patterns, they always end, always. There is no exception.

Either they must stay for a long time if they are successful, the processes keep running, and if they cannot, they must reproduce a lot of times. These are two strategies to continue the stability. These are two strategies for forming equilibrium.

There is a third strategy, which is, once the pattern becomes very complex, the DGR is not an issue, it is happening, but there is a lot of intelligence, knowledge in that structure, a multi-layered structure. It learns the properties of landscape with which it is trying to achieve a balance, equilibrium. It comes to know some things about it, and it develops an ability to hack it, change it, modify it. It starts modifying the landscape as per its own need. This is a phase change in the story of survival.

We say that evolution has taken a turn here. The tree of evolution has produced a branch which is golden, which has never happened before. Rare, 1% of the time this can happen.

So that pattern is so powerful, has so much energy that it changes the landscape according to its need. The landscape tries to survive now. The landscape tries to defend. Landscape has an inertia, you can call it, a defending mechanism in it.

So for a pattern called human being, this has happened recently, that they got an ability to change their own landscape. So now survival is not an issue for humans. They are not a puppet of the landscape; they modify everything according to their needs. So there is some turn of events that has happened in otherwise very linear process of evolutionalthough it is not linearbut it was always pattern versus landscape. But now it is the pattern trying to create its own landscape according to its needs.

So the story does not end here actually. Evolution continues. One day the pattern becomes so strong, so powerful that it creates its own worlds. It creates its own environment and modifies it according to its own needs. And there the world becomes a part of the creature or organism, or you can say the landscape becomes a part of the pattern, instead of the pattern being a part of the landscape. The 1% flips into 99%. 99% of the world is an organism itself. We say the world is the body of this powerful organism.

Now that brings us into the spiritual territory. We have already introduced these very strange and crazy concepts. So the pattern, because it cannot grow indefinitely there is a limit up to which the growth can happen. It forms a layer above itself which keeps the essential processes alive. And once many layers are formed, there is a hierarchy of layers, functional layers. They each carry out their own function. So, for example, in human beings, we have matter, cells, organs, then the body, and then mind, and causal body above it. Probably there are more layers which I am skipping to keep the discussion simple.

This is a very, very complex structure, and this is not the only one. There are probably infinite such structures, infinite kinds of layered structures in the universal memory.

### Causal Memory

So a memory structure forms above this play of patterns, which is more stable. It does not store the patterns that are trying to survive in the landscape. It stores whatever happened to those patterns, and it also stores the blueprints of those patterns, all of them. This is called the causal memory.

It stores all the events, experiences, whatever it learned, the knowledge, strategies, and the blueprints. This is a very good way to ensure continuity just in case lower layers are destroyed. The causal body then recreates the lower layers. That will be called a rebirth, reincarnation.

And yes, they are destroyed eventually. The lower layers are in constant struggle with landscape or other competing patterns, competing creatures, things that eat it, consume it. So in case that happens, the causal body has the seed. It reproduces again, forms the same pattern again.

You cannot see the causal memory, that's why there is ignorance about it. What we see is human beings or other creatures, or other shapes and forms appearing and disappearing in the world. We never see the causal body because it is non-physical. We see the effects of the causal body. That is why it is called causal: it causes this drama.

And yes, not all the patterns will have a causal memory, only the advanced patterns. And the process can be of various kinds. There can be a top-down process where the patterns evolve in a separated non-physical area somewhere. They collect experiences and so on, but then they descend into some other landscape to evolve further, to progress further. That is called a top-down evolution.

Or there can be bottom-up where the landscape keeps producing patterns and they ultimately form a higher layer where they manage to store their experiences and knowledge later. Then the causal body evolves after the lower layers have evolved.

And there can be a combination of these two, because, you see, it is all theory. We can keep guessing. Whatever explains our observation will be called a successful theory. Whatever provides us with evidence through direct experience will be called a useful or proven theory. But nothing about it is true. It is not true. There is no evolution. It is an imaginary theory. This is how it is seen, and then we imagine how it happens. This is the scientific method. And we find evidence in our direct experience. We use logic to conclude something, predict something.

So I keep reminding everybody so that they should not assume that I am telling them the truth. We are in the domain of theories, hypothesis. So causal memory and all, how it is evolving, these are theories, human-created, man-made, just cooked up, imaginary. Because it is so beautiful and complicated, this provides an illusion of truth. It seems true to any logical mind. "Yes, this sounds like a good explanation of what I'm seeing here. And I can predict what will happen. Yes." And so the theory gets an appearance of truth. It is not true.

So you can go on refining the theory. You can add more processes where we don't need causal body, causal memory to explain what is going on. It is perfectly okay. Or you can add more hypotheses, more imaginary mechanisms where there is only a causal body and other layers are appearing inside it. It's possible, including the world. There are such theories actually. Then the causal memory does not remain individual memory. It is not storing something which are individual experiences. It is storing everything in that landscape. This is a huge creature. This is something really powerful, which the human mind will never understand.

So like this, we can have many kinds of evolutionary artifacts. That means they are products of evolution. But the law of evolution itself is really simple. It is DGR. It is by necessity.

If these mechanisms and layers and complexities are not produced, nothing bad happens. The patterns remain simple patterns. They appear, disappear in trillions, 99% of time. Or nothing appears at all; everything gets destroyed. The memory returns to its own raw potential.

So what happens is the causal memory develops its own intelligence and knowledge. You can assume any form of causal body here, any theory of it, there are many. This is called storage, about which we already talked in the law of action. There were two episodes on the law of action: how the causal memory is connecting all the actions. Action here means whatever this form does in the world.

So the causal memory tries out different strategies: What will cause more evolution? What will cause better equilibrium, or what will make me immune from this changing landscape and other creatures and competition, and struggle for survival? What will make me fit? It sends out forms in the world to try out different variations.

Now this is not natural evolution, you can suspect here. It is not simple replication, destruction, or selection. It is not like this now, so we give it a name. We give it a different name. This is called the directed evolution.

The causal memory has now enough intelligence and knowledge so that it can direct its own evolution. We usually call these forms evolved forms. Although everything is evolving, in short, the more evolved forms that can direct their own evolution are called evolved, short forms. And there are many names now of these evolved forms: they are higher than human, and so on, you see, parahuman, supernatural.

So with this ability comes the ability to accelerate evolution. It reaches the equilibrium or wherever it wants very quickly, instead of blind hit-and-trials of the lower forms.

So now all the spiritual seekers will be delighted, because that matches with their beliefs. Everybody is trying to become like this. They want to speed up their evolution, whatever it is, whatever they want, you see. They're free. And they want to direct it towards something. They have a direction, they have a goal, they have a path. That is called a spiritual goal.

So the causal body develops more, evolves more, and quickly realizes, the light bulb glows in the causal body, that if I do it poorly, I send out all these forms parallelly, not one after the other, I can reach my goal faster. So again, the branching happens. The evolution takes a form of the branch again, and it parallelly evolves, tries out more forms, more actions, more worlds, while remaining connected to a core. And what happens to the failed ones, failed cases? Well, they are pruned out.

So as above, so below: self-similarity. The causal body starts doing that which the whole memory is doing. A small part of the memory is now mimicking the whole. So a small tree starts there, a tree of evolution. This will be called a lineage.

So many must have already guessed, we are, human beings are in a specific lineage of causal memory. It is called the human lineage. We are evolving here. You got your purpose, you see? All those who are lost, they don't have any purpose or goals, they can see the purpose right here. If you are in the human lineage, your purpose is to evolve beyond human. The purpose of a human life is to transcend human life. So simple, so beautiful, so natural, and so logical.

That is why all these theories and imaginary hypotheses have value, because they show us the direction. So the causal memory itself is evolving, but it is using a process of evolution within itself to evolve faster. You can suspect that all these causal memories are branches of another tree, because memory is fractal in nature. So the human lineage is a part of, a branch of a greater lineage of creatures. And they all then merge into, all the branches merge into the trunk of universal memory, which is the existence itself, the manifested existence. What is that? It is me. I am that. So I am taking all these forms, and the way to appear as in multiple forms is evolution.

In short, we can say formula, a great formula: The existence is continuously unfolding into multiple forms. One is becoming many. Although it is not really becoming anything, it is all illusory form. All these forms are illusions. So you can say it is happening in the one. The way it is happening can be seen as the process of evolution or the law of evolution.

So seekers are interested in this kind of evolution. They are not interested in something which biology is doing, or minerals are doing. And that brings us into the territory of spiritual evolution.

### Spiritual Evolution

What is it? How to do it? That is what we are going to talk about for a few minutes.

So once the seeker, which is a pattern in the memory, the seeker is nothing special, evolves to a certain level, becomes a complex form, and directed evolution appears there, causal memory is fully formed, mature, there appears a desire to find a reason, a purpose, a meaning, and a goal. And most importantly, there is a desire to be free from evolution itself.

"Why should I do this?" This question comes. "Why do I do the DGR? What is the meaning of this life: defending, growing, eating, reproducing, sleeping, slavery of the society, dependency on Mother Nature for everything? Why? What is the purpose of it?" The intelligence grows to this level that it can start asking these questions. And you can see these questions are of scientific, philosophical, and spiritual domain. They are not only restricted to DGR: "How to protect myself? How to eat more? How to eat better? How to earn more money so that I can buy more houses and more cars, or how to get more partners, make more babies, kill other people?" No, all these lower survival tendencies, they become unimportant. They are still there. They are firmly stored in the causal body, nothing to worry about. But other issues, they become more important for a seeker.

It is no more a struggle for survival; now it is a struggle for meaning and purpose. So the seeker wants to find the truth: "What is true now? What is happening? Tell me." Goes to a teacher or a guru, because hopefully the guru has found out already. And once you know the truth, your eyes open. It is called awakening. No more asleep, no more a puppet of survival, evolution, blind evolution. And the seeker can now do the evolution purposefully.

It is something more than directed evolution, because directed and parallel evolution is also a strategy for DGR only. The purpose is only that. But now this evolution has a higher purpose, we say. We call it higher purpose, which is utilizing a higher intelligence and higher knowledge, spiritual knowledge. The evolution that happens after this will be called conscious evolution.

Why conscious? Because now the decisions to evolve are taken consciously. There is a higher form there. It is probably something bigger than the causal body itself, but we don't know. Humans have a very little idea. So we rely on something which is more than human: the ascended masters or the great gurus. And we consult them. Very easy, very easy. Just go to the great master, ask for conscious evolution. You will get the whole plan. They have already done it. Many have done it. Uncountable are evolving consciously.

But yes, an uncountable number are totally mechanical, but we don't look at them. They are 99% for us. We look at the 1%. If you recall our last discussion of 1%.

So what do we do actually if you want to evolve consciously? There are only a few obstacles. The first obstacle is "I don't know," not knowing. Ignorance is the first obstacle. The second obstacle is "I don't have a guide," simple. And the third obstacle is no desire to evolve. "I want, but please somebody else do it for me. Give me a 10-minute video. Just tell me how to do it in one day." This shows there is no desire.

And there can be more obstacles which are called impurities, like not having a good body, not having a good family or country or society, and not having good enough intelligence or skills to even approach a guru, or to even think about these, or to even understand what videos or lectures like these are talking about. If these abilities are not there, we call them obstacles or impurities. Sometimes we say that the seeker lacks qualities, qualities of a seeker. And so they become obstacles in spiritual evolution. Although the causal body has grown a little bit, it still needs to grow more. The right time has not arrived yet.

So for those who are ready, who are ripe, they are picked by the masters actually. They go and find these newly evolved patterns, complex creatures, and they bring them into spiritual evolution.

So to remove all those obstacles and impurities, we need something called purification, which is simply a system of practices, spiritual practices, that causes either readiness for spiritual evolution, or directly causes spiritual evolution, especially as soon as knowledge is there. Which knowledge? Yes, the most important knowledge is self-knowledge, self-realization: Who am I? Without it, there is no possibility of spiritual evolution. Without it, that pattern or that creature will think that this disposable matter, human body, is me; it needs to evolve. So they will direct their evolution towards more eating, more pleasure, avoidance of pain, and so on, more reproduction. So greed, lust, jealousy, anger, these will be prevalent in those people. Lower qualities will be seen in those people. So lying, deception, selfishness, all these will be characteristics when there is no self-realization. They want something, they want a better life, they want evolution, but the capability arrives only with self-realization.

Where will it happen? On the path of knowledge, nowhere else. All other paths, they purify the seeker so that self-knowledge arrives finally. Knowing myself opens the door of spiritual evolution or conscious evolution.

So there are things that can help: purification, seeking knowledge, spiritual knowledge of the highest kind. This knowledge, laws of memory and all, that is also helpful, but that is not sufficient. You need the essential knowledge, self-knowledge. And the knowledge of what this memory is, what this illusion is, all these things are needed: Why it is only one? Why am I not separate?

Because as long as you assume yourself as a separate individual which is struggling to survive, there is no possibility of conscious evolution, because spiritual evolution or conscious evolution means evolution of the whole.

This goes in stages. First you concentrate on the evolution of the individual, then on the evolution of the lineage, as we defined just now, then the evolution of the causal body, and the whole tree, whole tree of life. It is all life; everything is life. That means focusing on the various aspects of evolution, not only my evolution. It is now an inclusive evolution, not exclusive. It is not based on competition and struggle for resources; it is based on cooperation and love, giving, not taking, not snatching.

So that kind of transformation, the 180-degree shift, happens only in a spiritual seeker, nobody else. This possibility is available for human beings. Fortunately, we are in that club; we have the membership of that elite club of creatures that can proceed to spiritual evolution right now if they want, if there are no obstacles, no impurities. They can do it today. All you need is a guide or a teacher, or a master, or a guru, or whatever you want to call it: friend, kalyāṇa-mitra, spiritual friend. And you can take your first step in the domain of spiritual evolution.

So since it is inclusive, service is mandatory. Service means simply helping my own parts, the branches which are branching out of me, to evolve. They can be lower forms, they can be stupid humans, they can be retarded, lowly creatures of every kind, but we need to bring them up.

So you can see the importance of all the spiritual concepts: gurus, purification, self-knowledge, service, love, cooperation. All these very great ideas which were taught to us by none other than all these masters, gurus, suddenly make sense. They shine in the light of the law of evolution.

So probably after the law of action, the law of evolution is the second most important for a seeker. You must know it. You must know it intimately. Study more, because we are limited by time and because if I talk too much, it becomes boring; everybody becomes sleepy. So we are going to proceed to the ways to rise above evolution.

### Rising Above Evolution

And you can immediately see that this is a stupid idea. Why would I not want to evolve?

So rising above evolution does not mean some kind of stagnation, entering some kind of steady state. It means leveraging the evolution to progress higher. You rise above evolution using evolution. You ride the wave of evolution; you float on the tide of evolution.

So instead of hindering the process of evolution, contribute to the process. That is one way to rise above evolution. Adapt, change, mutate according to the need, and also reshape your environment according to your needs. This will cause rapid evolution. Those who do not adapt, they get destroyed. These patterns do not survive; they do not form a balance because of inability to change.

You must know where you are going, otherwise what will you change? So there must be some goal, some aim. And for an individual, the goal is simply a goal of current life. Probably many don't know all these things, so they are directionless. You must choose a direction, and the direction must be always towards progress, always towards positive evolution, not devolution. Do not choose devolution, stagnation. They are destructive. You will be destroyed completely, including the causal body. It's not something magical; it also gets destroyed. But that can happen quickly if whatever it is sending into the world does not cooperate.

Your higher self has sent the lower self in this world to take the experiences and evolve. This is the language of crazy spiritual people, but very easy to understand now. It is a simple language. Instead of talking about all these memory patterns and mathematics and so on, this is simpler and makes sense.

So the lower self must now contribute, fully knowing that I'm not going to last here. It's an impermanent life, but the higher life continues; it never stops. There is no death. So a directionless immortality is like hell. You must give it direction.

So what happens when you evolve like this? You rise above evolution, start changing the landscape yourself - it is a directed evolution, start sending parallel lower selves into various worlds in various forms. What happens? You get the power to control not only the body-mind machine, but also the world. Sometimes the whole world is created just to get some experience, to evolve. They preside over the world. They're very powerful entities. You get all those powers.

So I know many seekers are running after power, but that is a fantasy, daydream. You won't get anything unless you evolve, and this human being never gets any powers. The powers reside in the causal body, or even higher, we don't know. When a lower form is sent out in the world, it is sent out with enough powers so that it can survive.

For example, a human creature, human form, already has some powers: it has survival abilities, obviously; it has power to think, intelligence; power to talk, speech; power to communicate, and so on; form societies, writing systems, science, arts. And some of these humans have the power to love, cooperate, help others, teach others, very few, but they have to positively influence the environment, landscape. And many have destructive powers, as you can see, and I need not talk about them, but they are also powers. So we already arrive with some powers, and as we evolve, we get more.

If you don't evolve, if you misuse these powers or we devolvesee, the word devolve here is now meaningful because it is a destructive word. It is not involution; it is a shooting in the foot kind of thing, suicidal. So misuse of whatever abilities or powers we have causes instant devolution. That branch will be pruned; it will be cut off. Those who are very selfish, yes, cut off, completely. Those who are hateful, angry, cut off. No more births actually. Their birth happens in a lower form sometimes, and that is a different story actually, which simply means the powers are reduced. And as soon as the powers are reduced, the form reduces in complexity.

More powers means there are advanced forms, advanced entities are produced. So I'm not going to go there. Probably everybody already knows all those stories. I'm just telling you the essential reason behind it, the mechanism of all these powers and siddhis: "How come somebody is so powerful?" Sometimes we ask. The answer is easy: they're evolved. They have millions and millions of, eons of experience in their causal body, just like I said. Not only experiences and knowledge, all the blueprints are also saved there, including the whole memory of all the lifetimes. The causal body is not a small thing; it has sections in it. It is very huge. But I cannot tell you everything in this short video.

So if you want powers, evolve. Whatever I said under the section of spiritual evolution is the method. The method is proven, the method is time-tested, it works, only for those who have a desire to evolve, not for men on the street. Ordinary people don't have this desire. They will also evolve, but not like a seeker. They will get some powers, but not the spiritual powers a seeker has.

So some people are running after powers, but they are stupid. Run after evolution; you will get everything. And you will also know how to utilize these powers to speed up evolution, otherwise they are destructive, they will cause devolution.

So listen to the master, otherwise there is no hope of rising above evolution. These words will become only words, words, words, word soup. Many people will simply laugh it away, throw it in the trash, because for an unevolved person, this kind of teaching sounds complete BS. It is not useful for them; they throw it away. Because they are at a lower level of evolution, you tell them how to earn more money, how to get more women, how to impress somebody, how to climb the political ladder, now they are interested. So it takes some evolution, natural evolution, to rise above the evolution, to reach the level of spiritual evolution.

What to do about all these people? It looks like I am simply insulting them. No, it is the bitter truth. I'm warning you to check your level of evolution first. Do not run here and there like a mad person. Yes, seekers are crazy, but you should have some kind of intelligence. Before you decide what to do, check what needs to be done. And once you reach a higher level of evolution, do not hate these less-evolved forms. They are your forms! Who knows, we are all in the human lineage, that means they are all my forms. Even at the level of illusion, we are all connected, related, branches of one tree.

Yes, you will become something more than human, but you will never leave the branch, unless it becomes so rotten that we cut it off. There is less possibility of that; still it is possible.

So our attitude towards the less-evolved should be of love, compassion, kindness, pity. Take as many as you can with you once you reach a higher place. That is true evolution. Evolution is always inclusive. It is not a selfish pursuit of some powers or some crazy forms, crazy experiences. No, that is stupidity.

So hopefully, it will give you some initial material to explore the law of evolution more, because there is more. There is always more. In all of my episodes that I've produced on laws of memory, there is always more to talk about, there is always something more to teach. It is endless, actually.

So we'll continue our discussion on the last law of memory in the next episode. Thank you, everybody, for listening to Pure Experiences.

# Chapter 24

Welcome to Pure Experiences. You are listening to the video series on Laws of Memory. In this concluding part of the series, we are going to discuss the last law in my list, which is the Law of Assembly.

## 20 - Law of Assembly

This means that in the universal memory, all the structures are assemblies. A structure is created out of many parts, and those parts are then created out of smaller parts. A structure is assembled out of smaller parts. These smaller parts are themselves assemblies of even smaller parts.

It also means that there is no structure which is a monolithic, standalone structure in the memory. In other words, all structures are nothing but aggregates.

This is a direct consequence of the law of codependency, interconnectedness, repetition, and self-similarity, and probably some more laws like action, cause and effect. All these produce a very complex kind of structure, which can be only described as an assembly.

Another way to say this is that everything is a group. There is no individuality of any kind.

You can experience it directly by trying to find a standalone individual unit of any structure. Remember the meaning of individual: that which cannot be divided further. And there is nothing like this in the entire existence. You will always find that structures are made up of smaller structures, and if you go on dividing it, they actually disappear. They turn into changing vibrations; they don't remain a structure.

It is not surprising actually, because everything is made up of vibrations. All the structures that appear in memory are patterns of vibrations, binary vibrations, and they are held together due to codependency and so on, interconnectedness. But if you try to take them apart, try to find the smallest thing which is the building block, you get nothing, because they are not made up of an actual building block.

We say that everything is made up of vibration, but that vibration is simply a concept. It is imaginary. You will never see vibration that makes up something, but you will see some similar phenomena.

In the case of physical matter, you can see the law of assembly. You can take a machine or a clock. It is made up of smaller parts. Then these parts are made up of even smaller parts. We are not talking about a self-similar kind of situation here; it is not a fractal situation. The smaller parts may not resemble the larger part. And so if you try to find what the clock is made up of, you will not find one thing. The clock is not one thing; it is a group. We name it a clock, that gives us an illusion that it is one object. It is not.

Some people will say it is a man-made object, so yes, it will be assembly. But you can take an example of a tree again. Tree is a very useful metaphor in all of our discussions. So what is a tree made up of? Is it an individual tree? And if you take a closer look, you will see there are parts. The tree is made up of roots, trunk, branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits. And if you try to take it apart, you will see cells. You try to take apart the cells, you will see various proteins and organic molecules. You try to take them apart and you will arrive at atoms and fundamental particles. And they are not really fundamental, because they can be destroyed. And in the end we get some kind of change, which we call energy. That energy quickly disappears, reabsorbed into other patterns.

Sometimes we say that this energy was bound up in the patterns, it was crystallized, it solidified or slowed down energy of vibrations. So surely according to the law of emptiness, we get nothing.

But the interesting thing is, the molecules are made up of atoms. They are not individuals. They are not monolithic elements. Cells are made up of molecules. Obviously, there are many small organs in the cell also. And the parts of the trees, like leaves, are made up of different kinds of cells. The tree is then made up of various different parts, assembly of parts. It does not stop there. Many trees assemble into a forest, and forests and lakes and rivers, they assemble into an ecosystem. And there are so many ecosystems which will create the whole planet. Various kinds of ecosystems assemble into a planet. And many planets and satellites, stars, they assemble into solar systems and galaxies and so on. There is no limit.

The limit is our ignorance. If we cannot find something which is bigger than that, we assume that this is the final form. But the law of relativity says anything bigger can appear. You need to simply add something, copy it, it's done. There is nothing real; it's all virtual. So unlimited assemblies can appear of any size.

There seems to be a lower limit in the physical world, but probably there is none in a specific kind of non-physical world. You can go on dividing till infinity. This is evident when we look at mathematics. You can go on dividing a specific number, it never ends. You never get zero. So mathematics is our language to describe the memory.

## Human Assembly

You can take a look at bodies, and the human body or animal body is nothing different than the plant body, a tree, so we'll skip that. And we take a look at the mind, mental events. If you take a thought, a thought is made up of pictures, sounds, you trying to say something, past memories, desires, and so on. A thought is an assembly. The same way emotions are made up of bodily sensations, feelings in the body, and feelings in the mind: happiness, love, hate, sadness, and various memories, thoughts that are mixed in that which evoke those emotions. An emotion is an assembly.

You can check it. Ask somebody, "What was the purest emotion that you experienced? Remove everything from it." And it is not possible. It is mixed with many things.

The same way you can take examples of sensation, like vision. It is made up of various shapes, colors, movements, brightness, darkness, and so on. It is not a pure sensation of one thing; it is an assembly. Same with other senses.

And we can go above the human mind, human memory area, into the causal body. By now you must be familiar with the causal body. It is made up of various kinds of storages, blueprints, experiences, memories, events, knowledge, many more things. It has a structure, it has processes, and it is an assembly.

Then you can move up the ladder of layers of memory. The causal family is simply an assembly of other causal bodies, and so on. The clusters and all, they are assembled out of smaller things.

So it is very easy to prove this law, just need direct experience, and then you can use logic to extend it to everything. And of course, man-made things are assemblies, like a house is made up of many things, parts which are made up of smaller parts. The house is assembled. An electronic device is a very good example of assembly. It is made up of sometimes thousands of parts. And you can take a car, vehicles, train, airplane, they can have millions of parts. A city is made up of assembly of many structures. A society is made up of an assembly of people. A library is an assembly of books. Everything that you look at, you will find it is a group.

There are some things which are at the border of purity. You take a gold slab, for example. It will have mostly gold atoms, but there is nothing like a gold slab, a piece of gold. It is still a group of atoms, electrons, and so on. But for practical reasons, we assume that it is one solid monolithic thing. There is no impurity there; nothing is grouped into it. But technically that is wrong. You can take other chemicals, other other minerals, they are all assemblies. Our food is simply an assembly of various things that we can eat.

A little bit of observation shows that everything appears in groups. We never find an individual which cannot be divided, and that kind of thing is not present in the existence. Everything is aggregates. And simply giving it a name gives us an illusion that it is one thing, but it is not.

This becomes important when you ask, "Who am I?" And the answer is simple: as a human being, you are an aggregate. You are a group of smaller groups, assembly. It is well known now, cells, organs, bones, and various things in the body, they make up a human body. It is not an individual. So technically there is no individual. We point at a group of things which seemingly operate together, and we call it individual, although there is nothing like that.

It is seemingly independent because we ignore the connections. For example, the human body is not really independent. It needs air, water, food, shelter, and so on. So the law of codependency is never broken. Even the assembly of seemingly independent things is not independent.

Some people may want to give some examples here. Let us take a clock. Is the clock an assembly? Yes. But it is independent. When it is running, it needs nothing else. But that is not true. If you take a look, if it is a pendulum clock, it needs gravity. Without Earth below it, probably the pendulum will not work. So it is tightly linked to the Earth. If it is a spring kind of clock, it will need somebody to tighten the spring, and because it goes on for a while, it appears that it is independently moving. If it is a battery kind of clock, it will need a battery, and the battery needs to be charged or replaced, and so on. Sometimes these machines are plugged into the power grid. Same for a car. You need some fuel in it. It is not independent. It is sending the exhaust into the atmosphere, and does not keep the burnt fuel inside it.

So these groups are continuously exchanging material with other structures that makes them part of the bigger assembly. Otherwise, we would call them independent. So the human body is not really independent; it is a smaller part of a bigger assembly. That bigger assembly can be called ecosystem or Earth, in short, roughly. Without the Sun there cannot be Earth or any kind of life, so again, we have assembly. Where will it go? About what it will rotate? And so we need the Sun, and so on.

But sometimes we make an approximation and we stop somewhere. We draw a boundary and we say, "Okay, the assembly ends here. This is the higher limit of the assembly." For a human body, we can say, "Okay, the skin of the body is the final limit of the assembly." We ignore breathing and so on. And at the lower level, we stop at cells or molecules, whatever, and we say, "Yes, there is nothing below this." So for practical reasons, we set up the limits and it makes life easy, easy to understand how something is working. And sometimes we treat the whole assembly like an individual.

When we sell the car, we do not sell each part of the car separately. We treat the whole car as one individual. The same way, when we say that somebody did this job, they did some work, we point to the whole body of that person. We do not say that eyes did this, brain did that, the hands and fingers, they did something else, the legs carried the stuff around. We never say things like this. It will look very odd and strange, even though that is correct.

Similarly, when a factory produces a product, we usually say that the whole factory produced this product. We treat the factory as one, although it has hundreds of machines and people working in it that finally produces the object. So we set up the boundaries, virtual boundaries, for practical reasons. Sometimes things become too complicated and we need to assume that it is not useful to know beyond this limit, and so our ignorance becomes our boundary.

So, no individual. There is nobody there which can be called a person or a man or a woman. There is an assembly that seems to be working together with other assemblies. That's all. Groups, groups of things which are again groups of smaller things. They are functional groups, they are linked together. That gives meaning, that gives us some kind of purpose to the whole assembly. But in itself, it has no purpose. Its purpose or meaning is then seen in connection to other assemblies, because it is a part of the group.

So human beings and other animals and other things, they are not single things; they are all groups. A lone person usually has no meaning in their life, because they find themselves isolated from society.

It is very interesting that sometimes you find something which is isolated, surviving well, but what happens? Assemblies grow around them. For example, again a tree. You can have a single tree in a very large ground where, for many miles, there is no other tree. It can remain like that for a while, but the tree then produces seeds and fruits, and they are scattered around the tree, and some of them become trees, producing more fruits. So after hundreds of years, that whole ground area which was empty becomes a forest, an ecosystem. So if you leave something which is an individual, it will produce more patterns around it, and it will create an assembly.

So even if we try to isolate things, they do not really get isolated. They are connected to something or the other. This is because of the law of interconnectedness, because there is only one memory. So you can create things in the memory, but you cannot isolate them. Where will you keep them? There is only memory, it is universal, omnipresent.

So like this, you can gather more evidence if you want. We can move to the important part of the topic, which is the human mind.

## Mental Assembly

Some people, they point to their head and say, "I am here. This is me." Assuming they don't mean the organs inside the head, we can understand that they mean the mind. "I am this, I am the mind," they will say. Mind roughly means their subjective activities, subjective actions: thinking, desiring, emotions, feelings, sensations, memories of life, skills, education, languages, knowledge, all these subjective things.

But very quickly you will see that there is not one thing there which can be called myself. The whole list that I just recited gives away the secret. It is an assembly of all these things.

So when they say, "I am here," they say, "I am the assembly that is inside my head." So which one are you? That will be the next question. If you are thoughts, which thought? Because they all come and go. If you are emotion, which emotion? "No, I am identified with these memories. This happened to me. I learned this. I graduated. I worked like this." And they are trying to identify with something, "This is me."

But these are all aggregates. They are all shadows of events that happened, illusions, illusory events. So there is no individual event which can be called me.

So it is very funny, because the whole life of a person is supported by this false assumption of there being a me somewhere. Body? Mind? Somewhere in the mind? Somewhere in the body? Something at least, which will be myself, the core of me, essence of me? But there is nothing; it's all assembly.

So those who have self-realization, they know we achieve self-realization through negating the assemblies. Not this, not that. We progressively eliminate everything that is assembly, or parts, or changing aspects, aggregates. Remove them, there is no me actually, no I. The I was that pointer that was pointing to one or the other assembly or group: mental, physical, bodily, does not matter. Supernatural, imaginary, occult, does not matter. It's all assemblies.

There is one more characteristic of the assembly is that if you remove one of the parts of the assembly, replace it with something else, it still remains, it still works. Like if you remove one brick from the house, replace it with some other new brick, nothing happens to the house. You will still say, "This is my house." Some people will say it is the same house; it does not matter. Similarly, if you replace some parts of your car, you will still see it as my car. You need to replace a lot of them to recognize it as another car.

And another funny thing is, if you replace the parts very slowly, one after the other, and there is no dividing line between the old object and new object, old group and new group, old assembly and new assembly, and an illusion of continuity is produced. We say it is the same object, slightly changed, probably, changed due to continuous upgradation.

So a city is a good example. It is always changing. It is an assembly, a group of buildings, roads, bridges, and many other things. Every year hundreds of buildings are added. We never say that it is a different city. We say, "I'm going to the same city to which I went 10 years ago." But when you go there it's a completely different thing, but still we say it is the same city.

Something similar is happening to the body of a person. Cells are getting replaced. They are getting replaced so slowly that the illusion remains that it is the same body. It is not, actually. We eat, breathe, new cells form. Old cells die, they are excreted, or they burn up, we breathe them out. After a few months and a few years, we get a new assembly. That is how it is kept alive by growth, the process of growth. If this stops happening, it will decay and die out. It will break down completely, because impermanent. The aggregates are continuously circulated in the environment to maintain this illusion of a single body.

So not only am I not this assembly, this assembly is not even constant, it keeps changing. Because if one part is removed at a slow speed, slow enough speed, it almost becomes unnoticeable that something strange is going on, and we treat it as the same body. Even if it grows up from a child to an adult, and an adult to an old person, we say, "It's the same person." Although that is completely wrong.

It is for practical reasons, and also our ignorance. There is a lot of ignorance here, so much ignorance that we assume that it is the same person. We completely ignore what has happened there, what has happened to that assembly, and that is why it is called ignorance, because we fail to see, we do not see it.

Now what about the mind? Yes, same thing. Everything in the mind, whatever you call mind, the mental phenomena, is very rapidly getting replaced. One thought replaces another in seconds. One emotion replaces another. Desires arrive and depart. Memories are formed and lost. Even though it is an assembly, it is not a constant assembly. This is very strange. Still we point to our heads and say, "I am here." Some people point to their heart region and say, "I'm there," but it is the same thing. They're talking about their mental states, mental aggregates.

It is probably conclusively proven that there is no individual: no physical, no bodily, no mental, no metaphysical, nothing, nothing. They are changing aggregates, assemblies, assemblies in motion. Due to self-organizing and other laws of the memory, it produces an illusion of sameness, semi-stability. And because if the new part in the assembly is functioning as well as the old part, we do not notice it, and we do not mind that it is something new. We accept it as part of the whole, welcome it.

So yes, your body keeps changing, but if the new cell is working as well as the old, yes, it is myself, it is my body, my organs. Same way, if the new mental event is as good as the old, it doesn't matter. Usually they are mostly copies. Remember the assemblies are functional assemblies. Even if their shape changes, the parts are slightly different, but they are doing the same thing. We don't really bother with it. Similarly, we can remove some things from the assembly, and if it works as a whole, we don't mind.

So it is a little bit shocking that whatever I call myself, an individual, is not an individual. It is made up of parts that keep changing. They are themselves assemblies, and moreover, they are completely disposable. You can throw them, put something new, and it is naturally happening. So probably old seekers are not surprised or shocked by this. They already know there is no me, no I. But there is an illusion of me that keeps life going. It is a practical thing, survival tendency, an artifact that evolved to keep the body-mind machine alive. That's all this I is, capital I.

## Ego, Me & Mine

Okay, so some people will accept this fact. It's perfectly okay the body keeps changing, body is not me, yes. Perfectly okay the mind keeps changing, assembly, yes. But there is an illusion of continuity, and yes, these things are mine. The body is mine, and the mind is mine. These thoughts are my thoughts. These emotions are my emotions.

I have bad news there also. The me and mine are also illusions.

If this cell in my body is mine, I should be able to keep it. But no, it goes away. If the whole body is mine, I should be able to keep it as I want it to be, like young forever, without any sickness or diseases, healthy, fit, beautiful. But no, it is not mine. It does whatever any assembly does. So there also the illusion can be broken very easily by defining what you mean by mine. Do you simply call it mine, or is there some definition of it? Like, "I bought it, or I can do whatever I want with it, or I own it, I keep it, I made it"? No. All the answers come out to be negative. So it is not mine.

"Okay, but these thoughts are mine. These desires are mine. These emotions are mine. I'm happy today. I was sad yesterday. I was angry last week." So the bad news continues. These aggregates, these groups of groups, they do their own thing. There is nothing which defines them as mine. They arrive mostly like in the body things arrive from outside, from the environment, through breathing and food and so intake, ingestion.

Things arrive in the mind through senses in the waking state. This is important: in the waking state, these mental events, they arrive inside the mind through the windows of senses. You remove the senses, nothing will go in. So that connection is needed with the world.

So why were you angry last week? Somebody must have said something which you heard, saw. Somebody must have done something. So it is theirs actually, not yours. The anger was given to you by somebody else, which was himself or herself an assembly. Something came from outside. He was upset or he was frustrated, maybe. That was taken from somebody else, somewhere else.

So why are you happy today? You got something outside somewhere. You saw something, you met somebody. Otherwise, there is no reason. Or probably you remembered something past, and that was given to you by the memory, local memory. You ate something tasty, yes. One aggregate influences the other aggregate. What is mine here? And it goes away quickly. The mental things, they are very fast, not like the body or the world.

This concept of me and mine comes from ownership of objects, like we own objects. "I own a car, I own a house, I own clothes," and so on. So that is extended to the body and also the mind.

Why do people do that when it is wrong? It is not wrong; it is convenient. The ego is marking its boundary: "This is mine, this is mine, this is not mine." So like objects and land and so on, food, it says, "The body is mine," and it says, "These thoughts and everything and my beliefs and my knowledge is also mine." Although it is collected from outside. Your education is not yours; it has you simply memorized it from outside. Your food is not yours; you bought it from outside. Somebody else grew it.

That somebody can say, "No, I paid the money."

"No, you got the money from somebody else."

"No, I did the work, and it was done by me."

And that is wrong. It was done by the body. There is no me, remember this.

And somebody gave the work. Somebody told you to work like this, "I'll pay you this much money." It is all an assembly of work. If you do not join a company or a factory or a government organization or anything, there is no work. It is an assembly. It is all interdependent, codependent. Nothing is mine.

"Yes, my house is mine. My land is mine. My property is mine."

No, it is the government's. Many people think that they own these things. No, they are allowed to call these things as theirs for a while. This was very obvious in ancient times. You own land in a village, you own a house, the king's army comes, destroys everything, kills everybody in the family, takes the land, takes the house. It was a very common, probably everyday thing. Whose land is that? Whose property is that? Whose family is that? Sometimes they take your wife and children and everybody. Now that is the king's wife, queen. So nobody's yours.

Nowadays, because of the little bit of social stability, you can say, illusory individuals get the illusion of stability and order, lawfulness. They can call this house my house for the time being, as you can sell it. It's not your house now. The government can take it anytime. They need to misplace a paper in some old office somewhere, they need to delete a record from the database, gone, the house is gone. The same way your bank balance of millions of rupees is just numbers in some bank. It is not yours.

There is an illusion of control that is fabricated by society, but it is practical. It runs the system, as we say. So it's not wrong to call something as mine, but nothing is mine now. That is the fact. And moreover, there is no me, there is no I. There is no owner either. It owns nothing. It is all patterns of patterns, groups of groups, assemblies of assemblies.

So let us go deeper into this matter, which is of spiritual significance now. "This desire is mine." No, it is not. We already saw that. So from where is it coming? Because people identify with their desires, "This is mine, and I desired it." But no, first the desire appears, then the ego tendency says it is mine, because it has appeared, it has appeared here in my mind. Nobody knows it, so logically it must be mine. That is wrong logic.

There are millions of processes happening in the mind. Because we don't know it, we do not call it my process. When a process appears and is known, suddenly it is mine. So desires are like boiling in the mind all the time. Sometimes a particularly strong desire surfaces in the mind, it becomes conscious, is known. There are millions of these tendencies, or you can say energies of the memory.

Remember memory is not static. Whatever is stored there is moving, vibration. So sometimes some vibration picks up speed, multiplies, amplitude increases, gets more energy, or is fed more energy by something outside. Like you saw a beautiful dress, now the hidden desire which was already there, but which was very weak, gathers energy, because it got the energy from outside. Very good advertisement, brainwashing by the company, and you go and buy it. Action happens.

So no desire is mine. There are so many that you cannot count them. They keep appearing, and they are running this aggregate, body-mind machine, often getting influenced by other groups outside it. It is a network, system within systems, more systems.

So whose life are you living? Nobody's. This is shocking now. That's why I kept this law in the end, because this breaks many, many blind beliefs.

You can call the whole universe a clockwork of interconnected assemblies. Actually in ancient times they gave this metaphor. Nowadays you can call it a system, electromechanical, quantum system, some kind. But finally it is just non-physical, non-mental memory.

## Causal Assembly

"But no, the causal body is individual," some people will say. "And these desires are coming from the causal body. Even though there are millions of them, they're coming from the causal body. Even all these births, incarnations, forms are coming from the causal body." And yes, I also told you the same thing. Remember it is all imaginary, it's all a false story. Do not believe all these things which I am telling you.

But that is practical. We can say, "Yes, my desire is coming from my causal body. I am the causal body now. The higher self is sending me all these messages, desires, through dreams," and so on, spiritual experiences. And the problem is the causal body itself is an assembly.

Not only is it an assembly, it is a group of other causal bodies which were its part not so long ago, probably a few thousand or million years ago. There is no time there, so we can simply talk in poetry.

So is the causal body disconnected from everything else? No, it is very tightly connected in a network. There is a network of causal bodies. There is no boundary between two causal bodies, because now we are beyond space, time, matter. We are talking about the causal body. So what kind of boundary can you imagine there? No. It's just one memory, non-physical, non-mental, everything at once, not separated. The concept of time and separation breaks down.

So again, bad news. You hoped that probably the causal body will be something individual, something which is me. No, it is not you. It is probably the least you. Probably the most *you* is the physical body, because it has clear boundaries. Not so clear, but we can see it. The more gross the structure is, more clearly it is divided. But the causal body, you can say, is like clouds that are appearing, disappearing in the air, moisture in the air. It is so subtle, it is non-physical, purely non-physical. So no connection. It is interpenetrating with other causal bodies, especially to those where there are karmic bonds.

What is this karmic bond? That I have already explained in the episode on law of action, bonds of action, where some energy exchange has already happened. This bond is stronger, the connection is stronger, it is heavy, and so more energy gets exchanged in those channels, like channels of a river. When it rains, it rains everywhere, but mostly the water flows through these streams which are ready-made, because since many hundred years the water was flowing through these streams. So there are streams between causal bodies, and there are rivers between those who are related somehow, those who are in contact since a long time. They are tightly bound.

So any desire, any thought, any emotion that arrives in this individual can arrive from anywhere in the whole universal memory. It is not my mind; it is a group mind. So it's gone now. There is nothing which is you, there's nothing which is yours. Even the thoughts and desires that are coming in you, if there is a - you left, are coming from a group, group of minds. It is a whole thing, it is an assembly of minds, assembly of memories, tendencies, desires, past experiences, knowledge.

So ultimately there are groups. There is nobody, really.

"What about my knowledge?" It is all accumulation. It came from somewhere else. "No, I've seen this thing with my own eyes." Yes, eyes are showing you, which is something outside you. There's nothing to know inside you. "No, I got this inspiration to create this art or something, song or painting." Yes, it is coming from the mental field. Remember the word: field. It is a field. I never called it a mental object. It is a continuous field of mind. Some deeper layers of the mind, they pick up some extraordinary thoughts somewhere, which this individual mind is not capable of, and we call it new thought, new imagination, new creation. It is never new, actually.

The same way somebody will say, "I discovered this." No, it came from the field. It is a group effort. That person who is discovering is already saying that, "I stand on the shoulders of a giant, of other giants. Many people have contributed, and this is my contribution," that person will say, scientist or engineer or artist.

So nothing actually gets created, because it was already present somewhere in the assembly. It got transmitted from here to there. Remember there are infinite possibilities, so infinite things, events are already there. It is all timeless, so everything is present. It is all non-local, so everything is right now, right here. It only takes a little bit of connection, a little bit of energetic connection, and that thing appears. It always appears as a group, assembly, or part.

## Group Minds

So you can see some examples of group minds in everyday life. Usually we do not attribute a mind to a non-living thing, or even to vegetation, trees, but they have some simple minds. Obviously there is no individual mind.

But you can take organisms now, simpler organisms, like ants or honeybees. It looks like each ant has a mind. It has intention, it is doing something on its own. But usually when you leave the ant alone, it does something meaningless or simply walks around. But if you place the ant in a group, there is some meaning in that. It is now collecting food, storing food. It is creating anthill, and so on. Suddenly it has greater intelligence than the individual ant. It is a group mind, group creature. Same about honeybees. Same way with any other herd animal. They depend on each other for their life, and they behave as one when the conditions are right, even though they have slightly separated minds.

And this illusion of separation is higher in humans. But without a society, a human mind will probably behave very differently. Wouldn't be able to speak, wouldn't be able to express, won't understand many things, there won't be schools, there won't be countries, there won't be wars, there won't be crimes, there won't be marriages, no children. So actually that separation is not present. A human individual is actually part of the society. Without society there is nothing, no individual also.

Same way our mental environment, if you simply take one thought, it is of no use. It is always related to some past memory, some knowledge, some emotion, some intelligence, something else, some action, some speech. It does not exist alone.

Same way the deeper layers of the mind, or non-physical parts, are nothing without the surrounding groups, entities.

So the meaning of there being no individual is actually vast and terrifying. There is actually no individual. Even one thought will not be able to exist without the whole assembly. And the whole assembly will not exist, because it is a part of a larger assembly. You can name them anything, it's almost infinite or interconnected. It is circular, if you cannot imagine infinite, you can say. One thing depends on the other. One thing does not exist without the other. If it exists, it is always assembly, which is meaningless. It exists in a meaningless way. Its meaning is derived out of its interactions with something else. An assembly has a meaning only in relation to some other assembly. This is how it is. This is the law of assembly.

It is not simply that everything is assembled, no. The deeper meaning of the law of assembly is that nothing exists if it is not interconnected, interrelated, interdependent, functionally, structurally. It has to be assembly. That is why it is called a law.

So it will destroy many of other spiritual beliefs: "No, no, I'm reincarnating. This is my incarnation. Tell me how to progress." No. The causal body is incarnating, and it is already assembly. It's already connected very tightly to something or the other, and all these connections, they are influencing the reincarnation. So who is reincarnating? There's nobody.

"No, no, I am evolving. I am doing it." No. There's nobody who is evolving. There is evolution. It is the evolution of the assembly, and all these influences are providing the input, whether they are physical influences, mental in the physical world, or supernatural, that means non-physical. The non-physical connections or influences, they manifest in the physical somewhere or the other. The higher assemblies, they are reflected in the lower assemblies because of our law of self-similarity.

So although there is no individual, but it's always bound. These assemblies are bound together. There's no meaning. They don't even exist independently. So you can see how deep it goes. No reincarnation, no evolution, no progress.

"No, no, I have this knowledge, self-realization. I'm the experiencer. I'm the Brahman." No, nobody has this knowledge. There's nobody there.

And this knowledge is simply transferred from one part of the memory to another. Remember, we called that part where the knowledge is stored, spiritual knowledge, as a field of some kind. You can name it guru field. That was transferred here, and it will remain for a time being, impermanent, momentary. It's not your knowledge; it's momentary. It came from outside. It was always in some other assembly, some other field, just flowing through this part of the memory right now. The knowledge is not mine. There is no me.

Where do you stand now? There is no place to stand. The law of assembly completely removes even the last vestige of individuality. Ego is gone. Ego death, ego destruction, simply by knowing the law of assembly. It is very powerful.

So whatever was my knowledge came from somebody else. Now it is becoming your knowledge. Probably you will tell it to somebody else, and it is something which is assembled, group. In isolation there is no knowledge. If it is not being transmitted from one area of the memory to another, it's not knowledge.

The guru field is not a static thing, it is highly dynamic. It is flowing through the whole universal memory, like lightning bolts in the sky. Sometimes this happens: one bolt strikes some other assembly somewhere, the knowledge is transferred. But the knowledge is simply that there is nobody to get the knowledge.

The evolution, the progress, all illusions that are happening in the assembly. What is evolving? Evolving simply means changing form, taking a more suitable form, and it is the assembled form. The form assembles according to the landscape. The fitness function shapes through assemblies. There is nobody who is evolving. Evolution seems to be happening, an illusion. It is an illusion.

## Rising Above Assemblies

So how to rise above the law of assembly? You cannot. You are an assembly, and there is nobody there who can rise. Which part of the assembly should rise above this law? The question is wrong. There is no answer to it.

Yes, but you can utilize the law of assembly by recognizing that everything is assembly, there is no me, there's no individual. Actually nothing like this ever appeared in this existence. Even one rock is not a single rock, it is an assembly, different minerals and molecules. It is all flowing, exchanging with each other, it's all connected, it is all group.

So that means either nothing exists or everything exists at once. Both sentences are mostly meaningless for a human being, because our ignorance tells us that everything exists separately as an individual thing. "My chair is my chair, and it is separate from my table," and so on, you see. We are used to this kind of ignorance. This dream seems to be real. This dream is made up of ignorance.

So these thoughts that are coming in my mind, it looks like they're my thoughts in this dream, because there is an invisible boundary around me, my mind. Nobody can see my thoughts. I cannot see somebody else's. But remember that this one is not there who is claiming to have thoughts, and similarly there is nobody there who is thinking. But since it is all one, the whole assembly is thinking all kinds of thoughts. One can appear here, the other can appear there, it's all possible.

So that gives us a lot of freedom when we relinquish the idea of individuality and embrace the group. We are a collective. We are a group mind. There is no me, there is no you. It is all one, and this one is appearing in various assemblies. They are functioning. Nobody does anything. That completely liberates the false individual, because the individual is bound by a doer, actor. If there is no actor, no doer, everything is just happening as assemblies, activities, processes in the assembly, that means the individual is now liberated.

Who is evolving? Not me. So suddenly there is no burden of evolving. It is not my job alone now, although if I don't do it, the whole will not evolve. So it becomes a group activity. And now you will see the importance of service and cooperation, coordination. If the parts of the assembly do not cooperate, do not coordinate, they oppose each other, they destroy each other, yes, nothing will happen. The whole assembly will break down and it will be replaced by something better.

So we can use this knowledge of the law of assembly to strengthen the assembly, to make this group strong. Whatever you think is the group now, depending on the ignorance, because ignorance tells us that there is no group, but we can see it, we can see the effects of interconnections, we can see the effects of assembly. If something breaks somewhere, suddenly we are affected. We are affected somehow.

You can extend this logic. Somebody thinks about myself, this individual, illusory individual here, this individual is affected simply by the thought that is there, because it is all connected, it's all assembly. And I'm not thinking about somebody else, it is the whole assembly that has produced this thought in me, and it will affect somebody else somewhere, because there are no boundaries.

Whatever thoughts you are thinking are not yours, so that is another kind of freedom. You can drop the burden of whatever you think and do and feel. "It's not mine," you say, and check why these thoughts are coming. What should be coming instead? What is more positive? What is more constructive? What is destructive? What needs to be removed from the assembly? And so on.

Rising above the law of assembly means not being ignorant about its working. Accept that it is a group mind, it is an anthill of the universal memory, and start contributing, start making this assembly better, stronger.

And the strange thing is, when the part becomes strong, when the part itself functions properly, the whole group or the whole assembly functions properly. So the role of the individual is not really over here, it actually starts now. But it starts in a more positive and meaningful way. You see yourself as a part of the whole. Now there is a meaning, there is a new meaning in life, new meaning in your own existence. You do not exist for this one thing, for meaningless pursuits of meaningless activities. Now you exist for the whole.

Even though you don't know what this whole thing is, like cells in our body do not know that they are working for a body. They will never see this body, and they will never know this, because it is such a complicated assembly. Usually the part has no clue what this whole assembly is. The assembly knows the parts, yes, we already saw this. So we'll probably never know as a human being, at least, what are we working for, what are we contributing to. But because of the law of assembly, we are almost sure that this is the proper way, this is the right way to exist: as a part of the whole, as a functioning gear in the whole machinery of assemblies.

It has some advantages, because all human beings want is an advantage, some kind of profit. There is profit. The parts that do not work, they are disassembled. There are highly intelligent processes going on in the whole universal memory. They can detect where the fault is, they throw them out. But something which is working and contributing to the whole is nurtured, is protected, and is developed further. Without snatching the title of individuality, it is given a promotion, it is promoted, favored. It receives favors, powers, gifts.

So recognize the assembly you are working in, contribute, you will get the benefit. Yes, there is nobody there which is benefited, it is another assembly which is benefited by a higher assembly. But we can pretend to be ignorant, we can say, "I'm the individual," and enjoy the benefits. But as you progress, you will get dominion over greater and greater assemblies. This I, me, and mine, it shifts to higher and higher structures.

This is the story, and you get to know the bigger assembly, bigger mind, the group mind, although there is no individual there, but there is a sense of groupness, there is a sense of belonging and connection that will go on increasing as the structure evolves.

And it is already there. Due to ignorance, because we are not evolved, we are disconnected from this greater assembly. It is our ignorance that says, "I'm separate. I'm an individual, a single thing, and everything is outside me somewhere, unrelated to me." This is a very destructive kind of ignorance. That part will be thrown out. It will get rotten, it will be rusted, it will be removed, replaced.

So even though we have slight ignorance, we can rise above this ignorance. Check the law of assembly. Is it there or not? Get the direct experience, and align yourself according to this law, and you will rise, you will evolve, you will progress.

## Conclusion

So this concludes this discussion on the law of assembly, which is our last law in the list. This whole series will provide you with a starting point. It is the elementary knowledge of the laws, it is not detailed, but I tried to include as much as I can. Sometimes only after recording and publishing, I remember some important details which could not be included, so no problem. You can find them out yourself. Think about all these laws, find the evidence, discover more if you can, and continue progressing. Find a new purpose, new meaning, new goal in the light of all these laws. Give up the old, give up the ignorance, change, adapt, evolve. This is the whole purpose of broadcasting this series.

Hopefully it was useful for many, and I'll see you in the next series. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences.

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