Video Information: 18.07.2022, BITS Pilani, Goa
Context:
~ What is spiritual energy?
~ Is spiritual energy real?
~ What is consciousness?
~ What is Cosmic Energy?
~ What is Bala and Atibala?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant
Context:
~ What is spiritual energy?
~ Is spiritual energy real?
~ What is consciousness?
~ What is Cosmic Energy?
~ What is Bala and Atibala?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#acharyaprashant
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LearningTranscript
00:00My question is that I heard that there are two cosmic energies, these two cosmic energies
00:16will take out all the sufferings of the people, which I heard from Tretayuga of Lord Sri
00:28Ram and Lakshman get received the cosmic energies from sage Vishwamitra, those are called some
00:38Bala and Atibala, these are the two cosmic energies he can, if he gets that cosmic energies
00:46he can even will be out of hungry, the person can cannot fight for the food and the person
00:57can live blissfully, this blissful cannot be seen in our education system I feel because
01:04we are studying about the objects, materialistic lives, but we cannot, we are not possible
01:10to enjoy every time, but if that things were there, we will be enjoyed.
01:15How do you know any of that?
01:19How these things can be achieved, is it possible in today's world?
01:23I tell you to go and achieve A B C square D, how do you achieve that?
01:33How do you achieve that?
01:35Do you know what A B C or D are or are we just dealing in imaginations?
01:45Is A greater than 1, please raise your hands.
01:50Is A smaller than 1, please raise your hands.
01:55How do you answer?
01:56How do I answer?
01:57I do not know what A is, how do I say anything about it?
02:01And without knowing it, if I still insist on saying something, isn't that superstition?
02:07Is that not the very definition of superstition, to not know yet believe?
02:15What do I know?
02:17How do I know?
02:23Enlightenment is a fancy word, but actually the thing is quite simple.
02:30Enlightenment simply means to know.
02:32There are areas of darkness in the mind, you throw light on them, that is enlightenment.
02:41That's all.
02:43Enlightenment is no magical or fancy thing.
02:47So right now, I can enlighten you a bit, you too can enlighten me a bit.
02:53To really know something is to be enlightened about it.
02:56Kindly do not associate metaphysical notions with it.
03:02Enlightenment is not some divine event in which flowers rain from the sky and strange
03:09impossible metanatural things start happening on the earth, no nothing.
03:18Enlightenment is a very simple thing and the other kind of enlightenment that you hear,
03:24in which magical things happen, incredible stuff, people start flying and flowers start
03:35talking, animals transform into human beings, all that is nice entertainment, nothing beyond
03:46that, right?
03:49Soul, you said, that the soul has to be enlightened.
03:54We talked of three words and we said that they are approx synonyms.
04:00Which three words?
04:02Consciousness, mind and ego.
04:04Take the soul as just the mind, nothing more than that.
04:08When you say my soul is suffering, it's actually nothing but the mind because nothing apart
04:14from the mind ever suffers.
04:17So that which has been in a very ornamental way called as the soul is nothing but the
04:24mind.
04:27Just the mind, okay?
04:30Energies, are really there two types of energies?
04:34I know of only one energy that is denoted in Joules.
04:38How many do you know of?
04:43Is there another kind of energy denoted by something else?
04:48At least in SI, it is just Joules.
04:52What other kind of energy can be there?
04:54There can be forms of energy, I understand, there can be 40 forms of energy.
05:00But energy is just one, right?
05:03Energy is just one.
05:06That which can cause change in matter is called energy.
05:09Is that not the basic definition?
05:13That which can cause any kind of change in matter is defined as energy, full stop.
05:21Energy causes change in matter and change in matter produces energy.
05:25The two are interlinked.
05:32So what is this paranormal kind of energy?
05:37The word energy used in a spiritual sense is mere superstition.
05:49You understand the word ethereal?
05:52What is ethereal?
05:54You know, cosmic, blurred, hazy, beyond real, surreal, mystical.
06:01If ever in any of these contexts you hear the word energy being uttered, run away.
06:10Somebody says, you know, some energy is rising from my navel point and it's coming upwards,
06:16it has reached my lungs, now it will hit my throat and then the brain and then there will
06:22be a great fountain of energy bursting out from my skull.
06:28Please watch out.
06:33Sheer nonsense.
06:35Energy is physical.
06:37Consciousness is not.
06:38When you talk of energy, you are talking of the material world, full stop.
06:45Anything material has energy associated with it, full stop.
06:51Energy has no meaning in the spiritual sense, no meaning at all.
06:56If you hear someone saying, you know, I can move this mug using my mental energy, nonsense.
07:07There is solar energy, there is tidal energy, there is nothing called mental energy.
07:14Nothing called mental energy.
07:15And if you insist that there is something called mental energy, it is just the food
07:20that you take in.
07:23And that food becomes stuff of the brain and obviously in the brain there are electronic
07:30processes going on, there are neurons that fire, so some energy is involved.
07:36There are very subtle electrical circuits all over in the brain, so obviously there
07:40is movement of energy.
07:43Even with respect to the brain, you can just fully use the word energy, but with respect
07:53to the mind, the word energy is meaningless.
07:58Are you getting it?
08:05But there is a lot of spiritual haziness.
08:09So we start using words that belong to the objective universe in the subjective sense
08:16as well.
08:18Keep these two apart, that's the fundamental thing.
08:24The objective world is one thing and the inner world where you have dissatisfaction or love
08:33or curiosity or identification, that is another thing.
08:40These two are related to each other yet very separate.
08:46Are you getting it?