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Speaker A [00:00:00]:

Whether it is health, wealth, or relationships, we all have different desires and different goals and different intentions with our lives. So it is important for us to understand the mechanics of life and understand the nature of existence in order to systematically craft our lives the way we desire. So we will start with step 1, which is the definitions. So before we start, we need to establish some definitions, and we need to understand some concepts. So the 1st concept that we need to look at is karma. What is karma? The word karma is derived from the Sanskrit word, which stands for action. So whatever actions that we perform is karma. The physical actions that we perform, the mental actions, our thoughts, our emotions, our feelings.

Speaker A [00:00:56]:

So all of these different things constitute karma, and it will in turn create a data and a momentum for each of us. There are different aspects within karma starting from evolutionary karma, which means the data that we have gathered from the process of evolution and, the process of natural selection. And, also, there is genetic karma, which comes from our parents and our ancestors, and also, there has come up from our previous lifetimes. So our soul passes through different bodies and will have different experiences within its lifetime, and all the actions and all the impressions that has been performed and that has been impressed upon that soul is collected as karma. And through all this, each of us have memory, which is embedded within us. And this memory is controlling us unconsciously. It is prompting us to take certain decisions and behave in a certain way without us being aware of it. So this is the power of karma.

Speaker A [00:02:08]:

Karma dictates our lives, and it is responsible for what we experience in this life. The second concept is destiny. Some of us think that our destinies are fixed and cannot be changed, whereas some say that our destinies are in our own control, and we can change our destiny. But the right way to understand it is in this way. For for those of us who are unconscious, who do not take account of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions, the destiny for us is fixed because of the karmic data that we have. The overall data or the memory that we have because of karma has created a certain personality for us. And this personality is dictating the way we behave, the way we act and the way we perceive this world. Because of this, we are attracting different events and situations and experiences in this life.

Speaker A [00:03:05]:

So all of these things are happening unconsciously. The karmic data has created a set destination for our lives, and this destination is destiny. So for all of us who are unconscious about this knowledge and who are unconsciously going through life, The destiny for us is fixed. But for those who wake up and those who become conscious of their personalities, who become conscious of their thoughts and feelings and emotions and consciously turn them to a different direction, the destiny can be changed. So the destiny can be changed for a person who is conscious. For an unconscious person, the destiny is fixed. This is how we need to understand the nature of reality. Then we need to understand consciousness.

Speaker A [00:03:57]:

Consciousness is the fundamental reality of this existence. It is the principal substance in which everything arises and onto which everything subsides. It is the very substance with which this entire universe is created. So consciousness is the most powerful, the most subtle, and the most fundamental element in creation. The 4th and the last concept that we need to understand is individual subtle bodies. Our subtle bodies are nothing but our minds. Our mind is a product of our karma. So whatever karmic data and karmic memory we have from the past, that has created certain kind of a subtle body or a certain kind o