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Speaker A [00:00:00]:

How can we take control of our destinies? How can we actually live the life that we truly want to live? Can we take control of these various situations and circumstances of our lives? Whether it comes to health, wealth, relationships, abundance, and so on. And if we can take Control of our life and our destiny, how can we do it? And what is the spiritual science behind all this? Let us look at all this today. Before we dive into this topic, first of all, you need to Understand the nature of reality. You need to understand what this world actually is. The teachings of Advaita tell us that This world is not how it seems to us. This world, the way we perceive it is an illusion. It is Maya. And there is an absolute reality, an independent reality, and everything else is depending on that reality to exist.

Speaker A [00:01:11]:

And that absolute reality can be called by many names. It can be called God or consciousness or pure awareness and so on. But the nature of that absolute reality is that it is infinite, it is abundant, it is All powerful and it is all pervading. Now what Advaita tells us is that we are that ultimate reality. We are that pure awareness or consciousness. And what we need to also understand is that we do not Exist in this universe. This entire universe exists within our infinite awareness. But we have right now identified ourselves with this body and mind, and we have limited that infinite awareness into our body and mind.

Speaker A [00:02:05]:

And hence, we are struggling to live our lives in this material realm. But technically, there is nothing called as the material realm. Everything is spiritual. Everything is awareness itself. Just being modulated in infinite number of ways. And this universe is just a simulation or A projection within that one pure awareness. Now since we identify That infinite awareness with our body and mind, we experience the limitations of this body and mind as though they are true. Our mind, the way it is, has various limitations to it.

Speaker A [00:02:51]:

And the 3 primary limitations or parameters of our minds are time, space, and causation. Our mind can never go beyond time. It can never go beyond space or it can never go beyond causation. We can only operate and experience and live as a body mind unit Within the parameters or within the boundaries of time, space, and causation. Because for any experience to happen, Any interaction to happen, any activity to happen, there needs to be time and space and causation or causality. Now let us keep time space causation aside, and let us focus on the mind itself because this is key to understanding Destiny. Now our mind within itself has various tendencies to it. And these tendencies occur because of our past karma.

Speaker A [00:03:51]:

And in order to understand karma, you can look at one of our previous So where I had thoroughly covered the subject of karma. But because of various factors including Karma and the karmic memory, we have a certain kind of a mind today. And our minds within itself has various thoughts, emotions, tendencies, and belief systems to it. And the personality that we have, The attitude that we have right now, and it is because of the mind that I have, I have a certain kind of personality today. And this personality thinks certain kinds of thoughts, feel certain kinds of emotions, and holds Certain belief systems at the deepest level. Now the key here that we need to understand is that personality creates Personal reality. The way a person's personality is, it creates a certain kind of a reality for itself. And this universe, since it is all a projection in awareness, is just reflecting back Our own personalities and our own belief systems and our own limitations.

Speaker A [00:05:14]:

Now we are not only limiting that Infinite awareness or consciousness into a body mind unit, but we are also further