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00:00How do we understand the union of Shiva and Shakti from non-dual Vedanta perspective?
00:13And the second question is, how to surrender to Guru consciously?
00:18These are symbols.
00:22Shakti represents everything in motion, everything that can be experienced.
00:29Everything that you can think of, Shakti represents the totality of that.
00:37If Shakti represents everything in motion, one feels like asking, why is everything in
00:45motion in the first place?
00:48Why is everything moving?
00:54Let's begin with ourselves.
00:56Why does the mind move so much?
01:00Why does the individual never rest anywhere?
01:05Why are you always thinking?
01:08Why do we always want to reach somewhere?
01:12What is this quest for attainment, achievement?
01:19What is desire that fuels all our movements?
01:27We move.
01:29It seems commonsensical.
01:32So that we may come to a point where there is no further need for movement.
01:37Is that not so?
01:41No one moves to remain moving.
01:45No one walks to remain walking.
01:48No one begins a journey with no end.
01:54So if we are constantly in motion, both physically and mentally, that tells us something about who
02:03we are, we are entities deeply in desire of something.
02:13And that's why we are constantly in motion.
02:19Otherwise who wants to move?
02:22Otherwise why would there be such unrest and disquiet within?
02:30You would never find any person, even a non-human organism, that is perfectly still, whether physically
02:44or mentally.
02:50Consciousness moves.
02:53Consciousness moves.
02:55And it moves in search of a final destination, a place where there is no movement at all,
03:04a place where there is no experience at all.
03:11The clock keeps ticking so that you can come to a certain and ultimate timelessness.
03:19We value experiences so much, we want experiences of all kinds so that we may come to a point
03:28where there is no further need for experience, where we are beyond experience.
03:34We keep looking at faces, we keep meeting people, we keep entering into relationships.
03:42Because we want to come to a point where there is no further need to look at any face or form.
03:48Where there is no need to further remember any names.
03:56That point is symbolically represented by Shiv.
04:01Shakti is movement, Shiv is destination.
04:08Those who are inclined towards having the right kind of movement, worship Shakti.
04:20Those who are inclined towards the destination, those who have fallen in love with the destination
04:26itself, worship Shiv.
04:30The fact is that the two are inseparable.
04:36Are you getting it?
04:39Shakti is the totality of all our experiences.
04:43Everything that is in space-time is contained in Shakti.
04:51And space-time does not exist for itself.
04:54It exists for the sake of its dissolution.
04:58Had it existed for its own sake, you would have succeeded in somehow at any point finding
05:06contentment in it.
05:09But we do not know of any person who has managed to find ultimate contentment in anything in
05:16the field of space-time.
05:19Is there anything in the entire universe that can perfectly satisfy you?
05:25No.
05:26What does that tell you about your own consciousness?
05:30It is looking for something beyond, something transcendental.
05:35Now that something transcendental is not an object of thought.
05:43It is not something you can think of, ideate or conceptualize or imagine.
05:49That which is beyond imagination, formless, nirakar, nirgund, attribute-less, that is called as Shiv.
06:01To give a form to Shiv is not a very proper thing.
06:07It is some kind of human compulsion to always search for forms, you know?
06:20Because we cannot think without forms.
06:22We cannot think without names.
06:24So even to the formless, we assign a form.
06:28Even to the nameless, we give a name.
06:31Irrespective of what we do, you must understand that Shiv is the name of the final nameless, formless,
06:48attribute-less, shapeless, timeless truth.
06:52Why are we calling Shiva's truth?
06:58Because by definition, that which is changing, that which does not remain what it appears to be, has to be called as false.
07:08There is nothing in the world that remains what it appears to be.
07:14In fact, since things are changing every moment, and it takes time for you to perceive anything,
07:27therefore, by the time you perceive anything, it has already changed.
07:30Has it not?
07:32That's the reason why the world is called as false.
07:36It is not what it appears to be.
07:38Even stuff that we call as factual is actually not factual.
07:49Because of the gap between the observed phenomena and the observer's perception, there is a lag.
07:59And that lag is sufficient for the observed entity to change.
08:03Therefore, what is the truth?
08:07Only something that which cannot be experienced.
08:11If it can be experienced, it is false.
08:15You can understand it further to mean that the experiencer itself is false.
08:21Why?
08:22Because the experiencer places so much trust in his experience.
08:26He says, it is the truth because I am experiencing it.
08:29It exists because I am seeing it.
08:32It was said because I heard it.
08:37Because you heard it, it becomes the truth.
08:39Seriously?
08:41There are so many of you here, and I suppose I am one person saying one thing,
08:47but I am so sure that no less than 200 versions of what I am saying are being heard here, right now.
08:56The experiencer is false.
08:58But the experiencer is just too self-confident.
09:01The experiencer says, because I am testifying through my ears that such and such thing has been said.
09:10Therefore, it has been said.
09:12I am the proof.
09:13No, you are not the proof.
09:15Ask your neighbor.
09:17He has not heard the same things as you have, even in the last 15 minutes.
09:23The experience is true.
09:26Are you getting it?
09:26That is the reason why Satyam Shivam Sundaram.
09:30Shiv is called the truth.
09:33Because anything that is within the purview of experience cannot be fully trusted.
09:39Hello, sir.
09:42Sir, I want to ask a question that what is consciousness?
09:48So, how can we say that a system is conscious or not?
09:54So, whenever I try to find an answer to this question, so people explain it very abstractly.
10:04So, I don't find any scientific explanation.
10:08So, how can we say like there is a stone lying on a footpath?
10:14Is it conscious or not?
10:17So, mostly people say that living beings are conscious, whereas non-living beings are not.
10:26It is flow of energy.
10:29It is flow of energy through space and time.
10:32As Albert Einstein also said.
10:35So, sir, I want you to explain it in a scientific way.
10:48Anything that experiences is conscious.
10:54Consciousness is the entire domain of your happiness, sorrow, likes, dislikes.
11:00Everything that is rising is in the domain of consciousness.
11:06Everything that is falling is in the domain of consciousness.
11:09Who is the conscious one?
11:11The one who experiences.
11:15How do you define experience?
11:20The urge to not remain who you are.
11:25That's what makes an entity conscious.
11:30And the process of consciousness is via duality.
11:35I do not want to remain who I am using what I am perceiving.
11:41I want to change, so I want to use this to change.
11:45This is the process of consciousness.
11:48The conscious entity is the one that's experiencing this.
11:53Experiencing this in order to change.
11:56Does the stone have a quest for liberation?
12:05It's a far-fetched thing to say.
12:09So, even if you want to say that every particle in the universe is conscious,
12:15then the level of consciousness is extremely low.
12:18Who then is a highly conscious entity?
12:24The one who has a strong urge for liberation.
12:30What is liberation?
12:32Everything that limits your experience.
12:34Mind you, unconscious entity is an experiencing entity.
12:38Everything that limits your experience is a bondage.
12:42The one who realizes that bondage feels suffocated and rebels against it is a conscious entity.
12:52There is no complication, no abstraction in it.
13:01When you want to rise higher, when you just cannot remain the one you are,
13:08when you have a choice unlike a stone, then you are conscious.
13:13You are lying somewhere, you are pushed aside.
13:22You have a choice.
13:26The stone is pushed aside.
13:28The stone does not have a choice.
13:29Or even if it has a choice, it is lying very, very latent within the stone.
13:33The stone will one day become soil.
13:38The soil will one day become a fetus.
13:44Before that, it will become food.
13:48And the fetus will then turn into a human being.
13:51And that's when the stone will develop choice.
13:55So, even if you want to assert that the stone too is conscious,
13:59it's consciousness is lying greatly dormant within itself.
14:08So, the stone will have to go through a lot, undertake a long journey
14:13to come to a point where it can say it has an active choice.
14:18Till then, nothing.
14:29until then, nothing.
14:32Then the stone will have to go through a lot later.
14:34May God cover it.
14:36Sometimes, since you cannot be the final one...
14:36Have the Pisces, they'll have to go through a lot that I take away.
14:39Thanks Chase.
14:40Whenever you want people to learn.
14:42Feel it выпalmates.
14:44get hold of me too,
14:46I'm willing to mistake them.
14:48There will not go through a lot,
14:49There may be oneikutus.
14:50There may be one month tutte.
14:52The мяс NY身 is lying.
14:52There is BOYFARIS.
14:55AND STASTERS
14:56in the Spanish,
14:57Though time you breathe.