The Greater Force Is Running This Life - 4th January 2018

The greater force is running this life. We have no way how to do it; we have no idea. When we consider ourselves to be an individual, then we come up with various ideas and conceptual frameworks as to how this life functions for the individual. We can define a law of karma, do all kinds of astrology, but all these are from an individual perspective. Consciousness is bound by all our souls; all of this is the play of consciousness. So, as our perspective becomes broader, we start to forget about cause and effect. What is the only cause? Consciousness. Life will become so much lighter once you start to see this. All this blame, every resentment and guilt, grievances—they start to fall away when you see the only cause is consciousness. And who is experiencing the effect of the cause? Consciousness. That is why in the Ramacharitmanas there is a chaupai: 'Tum karta, tum bhokta'—You are the doer and You are the experiencer. As long as the sense of me and you is there, can you see that there are no two? All doership drops away. All of this shows increasingly if for a few moments you can rely on what the Sages say about what is real and what is unreal. That which comes and goes never really existed. The real always is.