Hello! Welcome! Today we have a very interesting news for you! Let's comment on an Indian sacred classic called "Uttara Gita". Just so you know, Gita means song, chant, and Uttara is the last chant, the final chant. It is part of a sequenced works, which are called Gitas, called chants, generally excerpts from larger works. You may have already heard about "Bhagavad Gita", which is an excerpt from "The Mahabharata", the quintessential epic of India. We have other Gitas that are part of the "Mahabharata" itself, Such as the "Anu Gita" and others. Great works like "Ramayana" itself have
their Gita. But, curiously, this "Uttara Gita" is not part of any work. It is a work in itself. It has an interesting feature, because it is also a dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna. Arjuna, representing man in evolution, and Krishna, representing divinity. For those who know the "Bhagavad Gita", it is the first dialogue between them, which has Arjuna as head of the Pandava princes, fighting against their Kurava princes. In fact this fight is symbolic, it is happening inside him. It is the fight of wisdom against ignorance. He is guided in this fight by Krishna, who is
instructing and showing him the reality behind the shadows of the world. After that, in the "Mahabharata" itself there is the continuation, the "Anu Gita", which will talk about what happened after this war. The "Uttara Gita" is not part of the "Mahabharata" it is a separate work. Gaudapada, who is a great Hindu teacher from the 6th century after Christ, is said that he already commented on the "Uttara Gita", Therefore, the "Uttara Gita" predates this, predates even Shankara Sharia, that is, it is from a time up to the fifth century or so. Reminding you that these works
are often oral tradition until one day they are written. This makes them have an even greater antiquity that we cannot say for sure. So the name "Uttara Gita" refers to the last chant, which follows the same idea: a dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna. But this last chant takes place at a time when Arjuna is already mature. He has lived all his life, all his experience in the world, and returns to the presence of Krishna with a question: How can he, once dead, free himself from reincarnation and join Brahma, join the great mystery of the Universe,
to the One. And this entire text, which is a small text, is the development of this idea. It is Krishna explaining to a mature Arjuna, who has already done his work on Earth, how to now face another war, another great test, which is to overcome death. Overcoming this passage, which generates unconsciousness, and then brings us back - according to the Indian tradition, which is reincarnationist. He wanted to understand this mystery: how to no longer need to return to the world? The entire dialogue revolves around that. I'm working with the Spanish version, by Federico Climent Terrer.
It's a translated version from English, and I found it more interesting than others. This one seemed soberer, a little more complete. Just to add to your curiosity, like Gita, there are only these three works that I know of, - because my knowledge of Indian literature is small compared to the whole Indian literature that is enormous - I won't go into details, just about it I would give a lecture. But there is another work, which is not a Gita, called Dnyaneshwari, which was written by a Master, now considered a saint, Dnyaneshwar Maharaj. This young man wrote
this beautiful dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna and dies at the age of 21. And this dialogue, which is even mentioned by Helena Blavatsky, in the introduction to the Voice of Silence, He writes when he was still a teenager. He writes a work of this size, a special dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, still in his adolescence. And dies at 21 years old. It's another work. He would have been born around 1275 AD, living only 21 years. He was a figure that is now considered exceptional. Exceptional for the size of what he was able to do with
such a short lifespan. Just so you don't say: "I know one more dialogue." Yes, I know this other one. Maybe there are others, but I don't know them. Dialogues between Arjuna and Krishna. The "Uttara Gita" is known as the chant of initiation. Arjuna is the man who has overcome the trials of life And now has to face the trials of death. This forgetting, this shadow that is produced, because man is attached to everything that will die along with his body. His desires are all deadly. So his consciousness suffers a shadow, because it is not immortal
at all. Nothing it can attach to, to stay awake when the body stays here, since all its interests departed from the body. So, this doubt, this questioning, which is not only Arjuna's, who among us does not experience great anxiety in front of the passenger, who among us does not have a great hunger for eternity within us? Arjuna, far more prepared than any of us, asks Krishna to clear up this mystery. The book is made up of three instances, or chapters, tiny, it's a little book. Complex, for those who do not know a little bit of
Indian nomenclature, the Sanskrit nomenclature of many elements of the tradition of Indian philosophy. It might seem a little complex because of this. Again, I don't want to bring you anything that is exotic, I want to bring you basic moral knowledge, an alert to what is important for life, that a Western person is able to understand. There are very deep knowledges in this "Uttara Gita". There is, for example, a very interesting description of the Nadis, which are the energy channels. I won't go into that point. It is important and interesting, but too complex for Western man.
I wanted to bring a palatable synthesis that we can experience. I call your attention because this care has to be taken with everything that is today called esoteric. I even don't like people saying that what I do is esoteric, because the esoteric, originally, is the essence of things. The external would be exoteric. But today esoteric has become exotic, as I've seen a joke once: the schisoteric, Full of strange phrases and nonsense, being taken seriously and, sometimes, there is a certain reason in this prejudice that was formed. Sometimes they become post-concept. In other words, they abused
this concept a lot. I try to bring you something that is transmissible to Western man, that is an essence, that has a moral character. There is much more on "Uttara Gita", I brought a small sample of it. Well, let's talk about the search and conquest of the unit. If I could summarize - you know I love summarizing - I teach a course in study techniques which is pretty much about knowing how to make a good summary. And the summary of this book I would say to you: It is the search and the achievement of unity
- it is the most important thing. And now let’s go to it. Let's talk a little about the first instance. I remind you: this is not ordinary literature. It is a sacred literature, from a people extremely important to the history of mankind. And one of the criteria of humanity that I call everyone's attention is: what is sacred to one man must be taken with respect by all humanity. Who does not know how to do this, who profanes what is sacred to a single human being, disrespects his own essence. For the sacred is a way for
man to address his essence. And anyone who does not respect this is profaning not the essence of the other, but his own. It must be known that even one stone placed on another, that a very primitive man represented God there, deserves respect. So let's get into it with great care and affection. Here we have a sacred work. Well, the first instance focuses on Arjuna's first question, which obviously is: how to know Brahma, who is One? In other words, how to get to know the Unit? We are in a world of multiplicities, of dualities, Things go
against each other all the time. Everything is divided. How do we get to know Unity, if we have a practical, concrete mind that is unable to see Unity? It knows things by their attributes, and the attributes of things are divisions. That's small, that's big, so they're different, they're separate. Hardly our mind could understand - I think it's even impossible - a being that gathers all the attributes in itself. And that is Brahma. It is the One. The mind is confused, it has to take it out to understand. If that's small, it can't be big. If
that's soft, it can't be tough. If it's round, it can't be square... So it starts breaking, dividing, dissecting, to understand. So Arjuna proposes to Krishna: how do I understand the One? How can I understand Brahma itself? And Krishna starts talking about the steps, in a didactic way, - within Indian literature, using all the proper terms, I substitute a lot of things - he starts to explain that, in the first place, you have to know and master the qualities of matter, disidentifying with it, And finding the inner life, which is identical to Brahma. Sounds complex, right?
If you know the scientific principle called Ceteris paribus, which means: all other things (ceteris) are stable, so that you have only one variable and you can analyze it, you can see a parallel with this idea. That is, I want to analyze the temperature of a compound. Everything else around you is stable, and only that varies. What is an unknown in an equation. Everything else is quiet, it's known. Just an unknown, and you work and appreciate the variations of it and you can understand it. Is something like that Krishna is teaching Arjuna. Look, take a break,
know a little about the laws of the world, so you know what might affect you. Learn, through the concentration of a higher mind, not to be a slave, a toy in the hand of the appeals of matter, so that you can withdraw into an inner environment, where you are not bothered, where you have an environment with an acoustic seal, that the voices of the world don't reach there with their appeals. By concentration you build it. And inside you start to appreciate your mental forms, your feelings, You start to want to appreciate your true identity. Who
am I in all this? I have already said in several lectures that this is the etymology of intelligence: "intelegere", to choose among. Choose among the many noises you have internalized, who are you in there. What is your thinking, what is your feeling, what is your identity, what you came to say to the world. Find yourself in the middle of what you are not. I often say that the greatest of all intelligences is identity. It's finding yourself, building your own identity. And he says: master the qualities of matter and disidentify yourself, so that its appeals do
not reach you. Find inner life! You, after a lot of training and accompanying yourself in your deepest reflections, soon you realize a very pure nature within you. One day, after a lot of insisting, with perseverance and constancy, without giving up, you will notice something very pure, which is behind those eyes that see the world. Those eyes that see the world, at 10 years old, they see one thing, at 20, another, at 30... the scenario changes. But there is an observer deep inside, behind these changes of scenery, who is always the same! It doesn't change anything!
The silent observer that lives inside of you. When you learn, after much effort (it is not a simple journey), to find that observer within you, you will get to know a little about Brahma. As Helena Blavatsky says, in a very beautiful way: "Whoever knows a drop of water, knows the nature of the ocean. Whoever knows a man, knows the nature of God". Do you understand? It is the same Being, only one limited in space and time, and the other unlimited, free, present in all things. But from the moment I know this drop of Brahma, trapped
inside my vessel, which they call Jivatma, I can find Brahma itself everywhere. He will give this example later on. It's like a bowl of water that you compare it to a big river. The only difference is that bowl, which is isolating the water from the large water that runs all over the place. One day this bowl will cease to exist and this water will merge in this river. At this point, it is necessary to find an identity that is not based only on the bowl, but on the water that the bowl differentiates us from. A
round, square, yellow, blue bowl... it sets us apart. While water unites us, being the deep essence, and makes us kinship with the identity of the entire Universe. Basically, the book will develop this operation. Then he goes on to say that consciousness must discover that immortal essence within itself: this is the Supreme Knowledge. What an interesting idea! This work is very strong in the critique of mere intellectual knowledge, which is horizontal, quantitative. Many phrases are placed in this sense. As long as you don't place the vertical dimension, you only have the horizontal dimension, you don't have
the depth to go deep within yourself, Nor to touch the highest of the heavens. You do not transcend to mere quantitative information You do not acquire training or transformation, which is what is necessary. He will say that true knowledge is just that, discovering that immortal essence within you, discovering the water within that bowl. This water, which is identical to rivers and lakes, to the ocean itself. "Domain of objective thinking" - Krishna replies that it is one of the most important things - but what does it mean? Having control over what you think. This is extremely
complicated for people like us, Who were not educated for this and always understood that thought is your essence. That, therefore, to repress it would be repressing itself. And today, when they come into an age group like mine, they get mad because they can't concentrate on anything. That habit has not been acquired. And thought spins all the time, in a thousand things, and it can't take the reins of thought. It can't elevate it. It gets addicted to thinking about trivial things. At any age, you can start this training in taking the reins of your thinking, Because
it's the laser that will allow you to penetrate deeply into things. But if scattered, you don't have a laser beam. You have a light that spreads to every corner. You have to concentrate it in a single point, because then it has the ability to entry. So, the possibility of training one's mind with concentration exercises, with the habit of reflection, is one of the strong elements here. "Denial of material living conditions:" It is not a definitive denial of no longer living. No. But when I reserve, for a dialogue with my soul, - there is a lot
of talk about this in Plato, the so-called divine idleness - That moment is with me. May I be able to know all the tricks that the material world uses to call me out, and say no. I am able to control the calls of the world. I know the tools of the world, - they call it tattvas - I know the tattvas, I know how the world holds me, to attract me. He's not talking about exotic things. He's talking about yourself! You must know. When you start doing a deeper study, you want to understand something, it
makes you thirsty, makes you hungry, makes you sleepy, makes you want to see what's going on in the street, Reminds you of a lot of things you forgot. These are the tattvas, the calls of the circumstances of the world, that keep you from entering this fundamental point. It's as if there were a series of tests to be overcome there. You are totally at the mercy of these tattvas, you are a pawn in the hand of these circumstances, which keep attracting you, back and forth, and do not let you go to one place: inside. They pull
you in all directions, to polarities, to keep you from going to one place: inside. So when you decide to concentrate and try to find that inner point, it's heavy artillery. And if you don't learn to deal with these things, knowing how to say no and support, you will also have difficulties. But I tell you: everyone starts like this. And keep walking. I'm not going to tell you that I've accomplished great things; almost nothing. And keep walking... today it didn't work, tomorrow it did, it could be 30 seconds tomorrow; the day after tomorrow 35, he's struggling
with circumstances. It's like gymnastics for a person who has always been idle. Building muscle takes time, and requires perseverance and constancy. But know how to toast each little deceive Today I got ten seconds of concentration... Excellent! Be patient with yourself. It's training and it's a type of musculature. Anyone who has left total idleness and started to train in some kind of physical discipline knows that it is not easy. Then he says: "Domain of objective thinking, denial of material living conditions:" - this allows you to reach Samadhi - Samadhi, a state of superconsciousness, beyond that banal
awareness that, when it focuses on observing a point, seeks to understand the Unity, seeks to understand the Spirit. The state of Samadhi is such a heightened awareness that you, the observer, and the observed thing merge into one thing! It's like I want to understand this screen. When looking at it from the outside, - just imagine the situation where I could feel myself and this screen as one thing - then I start to think of myself as the screen. Feel the discomfort perhaps of the dust on top, feel the discomfort of not being treated as well
as you would like. That is, you see the other through himself, which is the apex of empathy, almost transcendent. You see the other from within. That is, Samadhi, to a certain extent, Overcomes the heresy of separateness. You perceive you and the other as one, as two cells of God, of Unity, that have joined together and formed a single molecule. It is a superconsciousness, which can penetrate deep into the heart of things. Many of the books I've read to you, the books that we've reviewed, came from exactly that observation. I was sad to see, for example,
"The Prophet" by Khalil Gibran, because almost everyone I asked had read it... and almost everyone I asked didn't understand... Then they said: "Well, is very difficult". I don't believe, I don't find "The Prophet" difficult. What's missing is for people, when they see an intellectual difficulty, to say: I'm going to dedicate myself to this and I'm going to go deeper, to find the depth of this work. If I don't dive into myself I don't find the depth of it. As the medieval alchemists said: the alchemical operation, which transforms lead into gold, cannot take place just inside
the crucible of the athanor's laboratory. It has to be happening within the alchemist himself. If things don't happen in both worlds, They don't happen in either world. That's why it was said that very few were successful. So, if you want to understand something complex, you have to look for the depth of it looking for depth in itself, too. A person who has the habit of reflection, who has the spirit of a learner, who is curious about the mysteries of life, he insists until the doors open. I'm a little afraid of this inertia that people have
towards everything that is profound. I do try to simplify to encourage you to take the next step. But an effort has to be made, even Helena Blavatsky herself, At some point, she makes a work that simplified her own ideas. She says: look, mental development karma is also a burden, it takes effort. Well, going on then... He will say that when man manages to reach Samadhi, he plants within his heart the object of his knowledge. That is, it seeks to understand the spirit. A state of superconsciousness, which, for us, is very far from Samadhi. But everything
above is below, as the Caibalion says. A little of this we can achieve through a good concentration He says that some of that knowledge Comes to live in the heart of man, when he reaches Samadhi. That is, a little of the Spirit now makes up my own essence. Always composed, but now I launched light on it. Some of what I wanted to understand is no longer simply an intellectual understanding; it's a piece of my identity. A piece of my identity is "The Prophet", it is the "Uttara Gita", it is the "Bhagavad Gita". Why? Because I
found them inside me, I casted light. Otherwise I would not have understood them outside. I doubt that you will find a person who is deep in something if he is superficial in relation to himself. It's a matter of parallelism. So one must launch light outside and inside at the same time. It comes to live inside your heart, it becomes a part of you, when it comes to something deep, of course. "To cross a river, you need a barge, but when you reach the other bank, you don't need a barge anymore." This is very interesting. It
is an introduction to the reasoning that I will develop further on. Pay attention to this next one: "As the farmer casts away the husk when he sows the grain in the ground, the discerning man casts back the study of books when he acquires knowledge of books." "The Vedas are unnecessary to the man who already knows the supreme deity." The Vedas, the most sacred books for the Hindu tradition. When man reaches the heart of things, the vehicles that took him there are no longer needed. When you reach the other side of the river, the ferry is
no longer needed - you will not be able to carry it on your back. It's interesting because he realizes that the intellectual process of knowing things, the process that knows only the letter, knows only the form of things. When you take the essence, that form is no longer needed. It would not be right for a man to say of himself: "I know" simply because he has read several books, but because of how many of these books he has made part of his own heart. How much of these books, of the essence of these books, awakened
in him the knowledge of his own identity. How much light he brought into himself and, consequently, to the world by reading these books. Otherwise, it is simply a man who has a boat. And he'll never want to give up that boat because that's all he has. He didn't become a good traveler, he didn't learn to cross rivers, he only has the boat. Anything you ask him will say, "I read in such a book". And you ask, "But what did you experience from it? What did it transform your life? What did it bring out of you?
What made you a more complete being?" And there is no answer for that. So, knowledge becomes, in this way, more of an impediment to the evolution of man than a proper help. How many books have you read? How many books have you penetrated their mystery and awakened something in you? That would be the correct question. Continuing, he will say: "Three times happy is the Yogi who has placated his thirst with the nectar of knowledge. He will no longer be subject to karma and becomes knowledgeable about the tattvas. Look at that. Imagine, we have a mentality
in the West of that karma, cause and effect, that is basically it is the cause and effect law, at various levels, it is a punishment for the wrong things we make and in fact, karma is not punitive, it is educational. it makes the man go suffering to be able to walk, so he can let go of their blindness, so he can let go of their ignorance. from the moment you have seen, there is no reason to keep pushing you. From the moment you learned, there is no longer any reason to pressure you to go through
tests again, to suffer, as the fruit of the whole journey is already in your hands. So, the man who sees the mystery of life, finds this duality between essence and appearance, understands the need for both, lives in these two worlds, but don't be fooled, knows that this essence is permeated through all appearances, that everything has a divine essence, knows the need for this illusory world, the world of Maya, the mayavico world, according to tradition Indian. knows how to get around both worlds well, but he doesn't lose his sense of reality. This man saw, learned and
lived. For this one, karma is extinguished. This is what is called karmic redemption. There's nothing left to learn. What for? What would karma bring more? For the great educator, which is karma, has already educated, his disciple is already awake. "The real meaning of the Vedas is understood by one who recognizes the ineffable Pranava as the ceaseless sound of the Great Cymbal." I thought this phrase was beautiful and I'll explain it so you can find it too. Pranava is a type of praise. Pranava is a type of devotion, it is even praise, In recognition of the
Divine. From the moment a man understands the meaning of the Vedas, from the moment he understands the essence of things, that he is a good knower, a great knower, he perceives this constant sound of the Cymbal, which hits the Universe. He perceives the sound that expresses itself through all his vehicles, all his earthly instruments. He realizes that behind all the voices, which are really voices and not just noises, there is a single voice expressing itself there. That is, this Pranava, which is praise, He puts himself in front of the mystery that is yet to be
perceived and, as he believes that there is a Unity, speaking several languages, through many mouths, he comes to understand this language, he even hear it. And then, that one of the essences of the Vedas, took the essence of all knowledge. I had an interesting experience a few years ago and it reminded me a lot of it today. I brought, as always, very simple little experiences, because philosophers of our size what we have are little experiences, which I like to share to show you that it is something perfectly possible for anyone to experience. There is a
philosopher I really like, who is Sri Ram, and there is a passage from a book of his, which I even commented at youtube: "In Search of Wisdom", in which he says that at any time a man who notices or at least is predisposed to realize that there is eternity, that there is Unity, at any point in time that he concentrates, he can open a crack and see eternity. For even a second, it gives you a conception that you no longer perceive, you no longer become a plaything in the hand of time traps. In the hand
of things that pass, no longer suffers for the things that pass, which is the main factor of man's suffering. How much things are fleeting, the things he loves, what he himself is. A second when you notice eternity, but first you have to give her a vote of confidence, focus on time and see where the gap opens. I remember that I had won a beautiful record, which I still keep with me, by Palestrina, a very talented Renaissance musician. And I listened to "Missa Brevis". It was an apartment building, in which I lived at the time, it
was here in Brasília, at Asa Sul, and the place where I lived was very busy. There in the street, a boy passed by shouting: "look at the mush". And it had rained the night before and the cars went by and they made that peculiar noise that cars make when they go down a wet road, and that bump of the windbreaks and noises of people talking down there, children and, for a second, I don't know, maybe because I wanted it so much, for a second I started to notice Palestrina's music. Palestrina's music is like you penetrate,
like you were a paparazzi in the world of angels. I felt that way. In "Missa Brevis" you are a paparazzi in the world of angels. You walked in and you're seeing them gathered there, totally ignoring you, and maybe you're thrown out if they see you , which is to say, it's a heavenly thing. And I started to feel those noises coming into Palestrina's music and composing. It's as if the music were expanding and the sound of the man shouting: "look at the mush, look at the mush" rhymed with the voice of one of those angels.
And the noise of cars in the street, that noise of water vibrating with the passing of the car's wheel, added it all up perfectly, the voices of people and the honking of a distant car. That was all coming in and being absorbed by the music. Absorbed in such a way that that music, everything could fit in there. And that scared me, of course, because it feels weird. Phew! And I awoke from this little dream of mine, But it was an interval, sought with Pranava, with a desire to see, which allowed me to catch a glimpse.
Well, things are like that too. There is a state of consciousness that is like this song by Palestrina. It extends your vision in such a way that everything fits in there, without any disharmony. A simple experience that anyone can have, as long as you take it as a possibility and want to see this other aspect of life. We are so interested in so many things, everyone wants to be up to date with the news of the day. And those things that are so much more important remain there, outside our interests. Pay attention. Is it possible
to open this gap in time And see a point where all things come together? Who knows? If you look at nature, and this even gave an article, I wrote about it at the time, you look at nature and you are dazzled by those little birds that look crazy in the morning, it seems that they are living a great show, that you are not realizing because is sleeping. And leaves swaying and a whole array of morning noises. If you stop to concentrate there, Maybe you realize that that there It is merely a follow-up, an orchestral accompaniment
for a voice, A solo voice, which is behind it. It is that perhaps, by alienation, we do not realize. But you realize that this accompaniment is very well tuned, That he integrates, all he, among himself. There is no dissonance When a bird screams and When the trees shaft, While the rooster awakens. It's like a very well rehearsed follow-up For a voice, the life song, as the book On the way to the light, says: we did not learn to realize it. Who knows? The birds and the trees noticed. If we try a little bit, who knows?
This is the song of life. We have to know how to stop, get and realize, but, before anything, give a possibility for these things to be real, Otherwise our practical and intellectual mind will say: You've gone crazy. " And has nothing serious and does not have contraindications, You try to observe, silently, a little, The sounds of nature around you, Trying to stop your mind a little, trying to silence the tattavas a little, The appeals of material life. It's a good experience. At the very least, it will give you an excellent Morning relaxation. Continuing, still in
the first instance, chant number one. There is this phrase that I found very beautiful too: Who makes his own Atma, an Arani (Arani is a piece of wood, which flexion causes the fire, you must have seen those two small pieces of wood who rub up to produce fire), and Pranava (praise), does another Arani, rubbing them very constantly, Soon he sees the fire. Likewise, hidden fire arises inside the Arani. " Atma, for the Hindu tradition, It is what you have of more divine, more sublime, And Pranava is this perception, this inclination to realize the UNO. It's
like you get the divine who has inside you, a little bit that you have of his conscience, their highest virtues, their noblest thoughts, your most pure feelings and started rubbing it with this slope to see the divine as a whole, This inclination to see God in all things. And says this, at a certain moment, will cause fire And fire is pure knowledge, that is, know how to dominate the influences of the environment, plunge into itself, find some of your identity, At one point, through it, as a channel, Find a bit of the unit in the
universe. The path goes in the direction that this unity and the whole become one, But it starts around there. You're talking about a great wise, Of course this is spoken to great wise, which are in a dedication of a lifetime, But remember, what there is above there is below. On our level is also applied. Try to find your highest and deep identity And at the same time generate a silent praise At all harmony you see your return, as if you leaned on this And I wanted to see what there is beyond. At certain point these
two things connect And then he says that the process of wisdom begins, it begins to open ways to it. Contrast generates consciousness. There is a theory, called "Impact Theory" And then we have the two aranis, The two pieces of wood that rubbes and awaken consciousness, that is, the perception of God in the whole and the perception of God in me rubbs and generates fire. You will realize that this issue of the two woods, the two aranis intercourse, rubbing one with the other, making the divine boy born, is very present in India, So Agne is born,
the fire. Two crossed logs and there is born the divine boy. This is very strong, this divine boy also represents, between many other symbolisms, the birth of the divine in us, a symbol that comes from far away. Another phrase, still from chapter 1: "While the man does not see inside himself a sublime shape, pure as purity itself must pursue his meditations, fixing his thoughts in that way.” Did you understand? As long as you do not see inside you a way, which is pure than purity itself, you should continue to seek, because, by definition, it is
there. It's interesting because he says: imagine this shape, it's still a shape, it is inside our body, it is inside our mind, it is a shape. You have to believe that it exists. That reminds Pranava. Presume that it is there, imagine how it is, and work to see it. Imagination and will together, you get to see it. It is not a coincidence that Plato spoke so much that we had a hero to look up for exactly for us to imagine The greatest perfection that a human being can reach someday so that we could later find
him inside ourselves. He said, "Well, the one who does not cultivate the memory of heroes will cultivate what?" will start to grow models, because we have to have models for the construction of ourselves, otherwise, we'll start cultivating vulgar models. So, this need to work with imagination and will, imagine something like a pure diamond, raw, sturdy, inexorable, nothing can affect him, he exists within me and fixing as a goal: I'll see, I'll see, I'll see. Getting ready to see it. Until, little by little, you begin to realize your attributes. It is logical that divine attributes are
present in all its creation. Why not inside us? From the moment you find inside yourself, it begins the possibility of perceiving it in all things. When I have depth inside me, I see depth in everything. Through the vision of myself, I see God in all things. Continuing, he will say: “Thus, the Jivatma - that is the spirit individualized in us, this spirit that is inside the body, it is able to penetrate the whole universe. This great spirit, it also penetrates our body, it’s also in here, we’re not an empty bowl. So the Atma, a resident
of the Caves of Manu, invisible and invislumbrable, it becomes its own manifestant and diffuses by the box of the human heart. “ Atma, is this divine essence in us, is stuck in Manu's cave: the world of illusions. This world manifested with its illusions, at a certain moment is introduced to us, it comes before the eyes of our consciousness after this, man can see God in everything. We see God in everything when Wisdom reveals God in us. Through this, we can see Him in everything. “After purifying the mind those who contemplate the pure Paramatman (which is
God in all, while the ATMA or Jivatma is God alone within the man), and look inside of your own being as a vastly and undivided set of the manifest Universe, It gets happy for Brahma's knowledge." You realize yourself as a perfect cell in the world, it’s like the drop of water realizing it is a perfect part of the ocean. You are able to realize this identity between the individual and the great self, without limits, realizes that they belong to the same nature. Let’s think about what we like and what we are induced to like, it
is not natural that we have this tendency to raise our consciousness, our conscience is very low for itself, it's something I'd like you to realize. This is not just about tendencies, or lack of education and training, we have this trend. We live in a cultural moment where this is very induced. Sometimes I awake in the morning and I feel it in me as an intoxication. Because it is such a big bombing of information, even if I run away from them, they persecute us everywhere, most of the time disastrous, vulgar, and violent. There is a certain
moment when you no longer have control of your mind. It can only look down. It gets a morbid addiction, you can only look at garbage and violence in everything. When you try to raise it, it shows a rejection to it. Pay attention to your relationships: When you're going to talk about one of your defects for someone, They laugh, find it funny: "Oh I'm like this too, I have this too." Try to talk about a little virtue that you are cultivating, people will twist their noses, saying: "Oh you're vain. you weirdo, you're showing yourself off." That
is, it is almost prohibitive to speak of the luminous, about the somber ok! We are still bombarded by the somber. How will you raise your awareness so it can awaken your mind, find yourself inside and then through this essence, see God, see the other, unify the universe and overcome separability? How will you do this, if your conscience has an addiction to keep falling? If you have an addiction to the theory of the gravity of psychological plans, you drop it all the time. Be more attentive in relation to things that pull our conscience down, including some
traps from the moment we live. How often people ask me: Are you a well-informed person? I have my way of being well informed. For me, the news that interests me is the one that is somehow relevant, or because I can help, or because I can learn something with that, to become a better human being, or because I can interfere in a way to improve that. Not simply a disastrous, morbid thing, that has happened and about which I can not do anything, and a knowledge that will only contaminate my mind. You see that the so-called "well-informed",
nowadays becomes almost a trap to make you look permanently for garbage. “Ah if I stop reading the newspaper of the day I do not know what happened in politics." Between us, I do not like to discuss politics, really, there are a few things that really awakens my attention. I call your attencion to this chapter of the book: The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, - the autor Machado de Assis was a great philosopher. - The chapter says: "The old dialogue of Adam and Eve". That was a dialogue between Brás Cubas and the woman of his life,
Eugenia. He makes a chapter that is all of the dots and dashes. Dot, dot, dot… question mark. Dot, dot, dot… ellipsis. Dot, dot, dot… exclamation. He meant that is obvious what is being said. You fill these empty sentences the way you want Because it's obvious what is being said. This is curious, the vast majority of political news In Brazil or from every corner of the world looks like this old dialogue between Adam and Eve. Predictable. Turned into a big gossip, where is always someone accusing others, there is nothing relevant or constructive this rarely occurs. In
such a way that you spend a month without reading political news and when you do the topic that was brought on, speaking good or bad about it, it's just a little bit different but the subject is exactly the same. I think that if I left the planet for 30 years, I would go back and be updated with political news, Because the old dialogue between Adam and Eve continues. Think about what you consider what is to be truly well informed. If I called you to sit with me on a bench to discuss how the unit fits
within the "Mass Brevis" of Palestrina. Would you have time for this, would you be interested? If we talk about how to win these barriers which holds us, who pull our conscience down, would you got interested? Try to cultivate more this type of interest because this is a truly well-informed person. Knows what is good, necessary and useful. This is a story that is attributed to Socrates: is the history of the three sieves. You know what's worth knowing. Beware of this great bluff of the well-informed man, because it ends that our conscience is totally dependent on banalities,
we may think as an important thing, but deep inside it has nothing important. The important thing is what: bring me a good reflection, bring me growth and to somebody else. Something that is relevant, knowing that learning this I get to know better how to understand life. Mere gossip, of all kinds, looking like serious things, beware of it! Beware of these balances that secure your consciousness, these anchors that pull it down. We have to climb, we came here to rise, there's a lot to see on the next floors. This is a book for anyone who wants
to climb on the next floors. “Where did the virtues and vices go when the man dies? And who accompanies him?” Arjuna asks. All that I built and I did not build, the virtues conquered, the vices I couldn’t deer to, where did it go? And Krishna responds: “Accompany the Jiva (which is the individual spirit), while he remains in ignorance of the Tattas." While man does not have a total knowledge of the appeals of the world and cannot overcome them, this person cannot see the spiritual world as it is, when facing this world he doesn’t recognize it.
When consciousness is despaired from the material world leaving its body, all it knows is matter. It only recognized through this body, going to another plan where it does not recognize anything. It's as if it were asleep, according to this tradition, becoming aggregated this asleep conscience. Like snow white surrounded by her dwarfs, their defects and their virtues, hoping she wakes up again to continue walking in the direction of harmonizing all this, in and out. And she just wakes up in the material world. This consciousness doesn’t know how to awaken in the spiritual plane, it cannot see
it, still has this need to walk more on Earth. This is Krishna's response. “No one can meet Brahma who does not become as pure as Brahma himself." When you find inside something that is so pure that may give you such a peace of mind That you can say: "I am that. I am Brahma”. Therefore, there is nothing or no one who can take or add anything to me, there is no reason to run, there is no reason to be anxious, it is simply to reveal this nature to the world. We’re here for this. And time
is nothing more than an opportunity over and over to conquer it and then reveal it to the world. Life gets extremely simple and a state of peace of spirit that no one can take from you, it's found. This is the moment of supreme realization of the human being. I brought another sentence here from another book that I have already commented, which is "the Light of the way". This context recalled me a lot: “Keeps yourself alone and isolated, in a way that nothing that is not eternal could reach you." At certain point you have to do
this, create a capsule, where you stay alone and isolated and nothing that is not Eternal can come to you. The things that relate you to It: beauty, goodness, truth, justice. These will help you find yourself, these are eternal. Banalities will not enter this capsule of yours. Am I going to live forever alone and isolated? No, I came to the world. To be able to distribute these human gifts that have been given to me. But first, I need to find them or both in parallel. While I find it, I distribute it. Because if you wait to
find everything to give you does nothing. The more I find in the way, I gave at the same time. But you have to take this time of divine idleness, inner life, where nothing that is not Eternal can come to you. These days I lived an very especial experience. An old friend asked me to write a few word for another person who was in the last days of life. Write this small letter it was a terrible philosophical experience, but at the same time, very rich. It was clear that the only thing that could bring consolation to
a man in that circumstance as this it's some drop of eternity. If I didn’t have, I’ll have nothing to give him. And then you are forced to find eternity within your life. You start searching: Is true love eternal? Yes. Is Good eternal? Yes. Is the Fraternity eternal? Yes. But how much of all of this I find inside me? When searching memories of your life experiences you will realize how contaminated they are by desires of being recognized by other person or by God, desires to pay some errors of the past. This is selfishness, to get rid
of my responsibilities on what I did. All this is full contaminated from other interests, while the true good you do for itself, simply by this feeling of coincide with its own nature, Feeling that your job it’s done there, it only kindness gives you. When you realize this it's like a very rare jewel in your life, this is your precious stone. If you have a little of the Eternal inside you, time will not be able to take from you. You have things that nothing nor anyone can touch. Find elements of Eternity within the man, search, and
even if didn’t find much it's already a good step on building ourselves. So this was a very strong experience that I loved sharing with you, that fits perfectly with this sacred book we’re studying. One of man's goals should be to find some Eternity within himself, as the "Uttara Gita" says, find it’s own essence, which is of the same nature as good, justice, love.. is Eternal. Find some valid episodes of these attributes within you, without second intentions. Those are signals for who is your true identity. A moment of legitimate love it was your real self who
had it. If you had a legitimate moment of goodness, it was your real self who had it. Those are signals to find your Real self. Second instance. We're already finishing. “The one in whom always shines the light of knowledge, (…) with the fire of wisdom, it is able to burn karma's bandages. " Is Karma unstoppable? Sort of. Karma could surrender too. Whoever could saw doesn’t have to deal with karma again, as we talked back there. “Wherever fade (dies) a dnanin (connoisseur), whatever the type of his death, he gets to the Unit as the same way
as the water of a bowl unites with the Universal ocean when the bowl breaks no matter when or how it breaks." That's what we're talking back: Any knower when comes his death, he is not lost. He finds his place within everything. From the moment he discover his own light, on what he really is, the essence finds your peers. Not in vain Heraclitus said that those who watch over has a common world; Those who sleep return to their many individuals. Whose found within himself the divine essence even when the vases are broken, This essence will find
its place, it is not lost. “Who was able to land for an instant his thought at a simple point (the unit) get rid of the guilt of his numerous past births.” Do you understand that? If for a second I realize that there is a unit, which I am part of it and coming back does make sense discriminate and mistreat things around? It makes sense to disregard them since they are part of you? Imagine if my hand began to mistreat my foot, doesn’t make any sense. It does all part of a single body. So if I
see for a single time, my body as a Unit there can be no war between the members of this body. There can be no disunity, strangeness. A second viewing this point and deeply understanding the nature of this point, Returning to the world there is no longer any more separateness and the dramas in the world. “(…) and get rid of the guilt of your numerous births.” The book "The Voice of Silence" talks about this heresy of separateness, it says that when overcome it, when realizes that we are all one, there is no more need for experiences
in the world. We overcome the need to be here. And we will only be if it is to illuminate the others, because now we have the real light. “Those who incessantly sing the four Vedas and read other sacred books, but gets discouraged in the realization of the 'I am Brahma', those look like the shells used in the stews which do not taste the food they prepare." Is almost identical to Dhammapada, that says: that the spoon doesn’t perceive anything from the soup while the gets everything from the soup, and that our knowledge must be like the
tongue and not like the spoon. This one is about the Vedas that is the most sacred of Indian books, It's no use reciting it a thousand times it will be like this spoon that experiences the stew, it doesn’t know anything about it though it’s in touch. “Like the donkey that carry it’s sandalwood truck feeling only the weight of the load on it’s back, and not the perfume of the wood. Those who constantly read the sacred texts and do not understand their real meaning, they take you in their minds as cargo beasts. " How strong is
it? It's a sacred book. Those who do not feel the aroma of the sacred books, but memorize it, walk with it, they take it in their minds as cargo beasts. They do not enjoy the smell of sandalwood, they are simply wood logs, heavy, non-aromatic. “Like the milk of all cows is the same color even they’re of distinct coat, similarly - in the case of Jiva - the bodies may be different, But in all of them resides the atma uno and identical.” Even though our appearances are differentiated, because we live in a world of differentiations, the
essence is only one. It's like the wire passing through the accounts of a necklace. It’s one, although the accounts are many. “Food, sleep, fear and sexual desire, man has it in common with gross. The faculty of discerner is in Bhudi the superior intelligence, it's the only thing that makes a truly man”. Food, sleep, fear and sexual desire he has it in common with the gross. A superior intelligence and intuitive, which is Bhudi, it's the only thing that humanizes us. “Therefore, if you disrupted this capability, of this superior intelligence, it will become identical to the brutes.
" If he did not arouse this superior intelligence, never stopped being equal to the gross. Is a human packaging, with human potential, But within lays the true human asleep, it's alive only the brutal where he commands. It is necessary to look from above and explore what exists within us, with eyes of human consciousness, with eyes of wisdom. “When that state of advaita arises…” Advaita is one of the characteristics of the Indian Vedanta School, where is not permitted divisions, it’s monist, works with the unit. “When that state of advaita arises, (which is the overcoming of duality)
where everything sits in the UNO and the UNO in all, it’s when you live in the supreme feet of Brahma.” You're already on the feet of Brahma, when you see God in all things and within all things, you are able to realize God, The Unit is to overcame the dualistic view of the world. And, finally, the third instance. “The sacred rivers are nothing but water, and the idols who are worshiped are nothing but stone, metal or earth. Fire is the God of the initiates who offer sacrifices; The Munis call his God to the Atma who
lives within them; The vulgo loves images, but the knower also sees God on fire, in his being, in idols, everywhere.” The knower sees God in all things, including in himself. “The blind of understanding and spirit cannot perceive omnipresence and the eternal peace that involves the entire universe.” No use realizing that it exists in us or believe that there is divine in us, if we are not aware of it. It's like you're hungry, with money in your pocket, but he do not knowing about this money. For nothing serves that money, you will remain hungry. Of nothing
is to have terms in us the attribute of the Supreme Peace, if we are not aware of it. Living in supreme conflict, is more or less what we live in our days. “The thought of spirituality for a brief moment it’s more effective than a billion sacrifices. " The amount is not becoming more true or deeper as you extend it, quality, depth, one millimeter already gives you something that quantity doesn’t. The one who sees and truly comprises has a much larger spiritual depth than the one who has read all the sacred works and all the books
in the world and nothing did with it. Is merely the cargo animal with the weight of the logs on it’s back. Once, I brought you this phrase of Leonardo da Vinci, because I think fits here perfectly, - attributed to Leonardo, I don’t know if it belongs to the Atlantic Codex - anyway, it's beautiful and fits very well here. “Once you have tried to fly, you will walk through the earth with your eyes facing the sky, because there you've been and there you'll want to go back." (Leonardo da Vinci) Do you realize this? What is more
or less the same idea of a genius? If you have seen for a second a little of depth when you return to this world you are no longer an ordinary person, you are a person who is sure of depth, you are sure of eternity and the existence of the UNO. You get back into the world but looking forever to the place where you were even for a second, knowing that life is more than that you are a man who pulled Maya's veils. Finally, it ends in this third book saying: “Oh Arjuna! the one who doesn’t
covetize material goods, he would never returns to be reborn in this world.” The one who does not covet anything that comes of the Tattas, the gifts of the earth, there is no reason to live in the world, that no longer has anything to offer you. The one who longs for being, who aims to find the essence of being, naturally reaches the fraternity, overcomes all separateness and finds its divine essence in all beings as the tradition of sutratma, about the wire passing through the paste's accounts. A necklace contained, when it finds his essence soon after it
will find the wire, will realize that your essence has in common with all the necklace stones of the universe. Therefore, it is natural for this person to dedicate herself to what is part of her. You see, wisdom allows the true fraternity, the true union, which is the perception of the unity as the only reality of this world, the only reality of the manifested universe. As I said, it's a small excerpt I got some elements and explained trying to bring to a more understandable language, is a very strong call for the awakening of human consciousness, for
what we came to do here what we should know. Where to walk our life to put us the possibility, to position ourselves for this. An old treaty with truths still so new, unpublished. That we still have to work hard to understand. I hope this has some value for you. Thanks!
