In that way you can restructure your reality. Not only do you diffuse your karma, but you also restructure it. There are mantras to burn your karma first and that helps to create more awareness. And then the restructuring process is done through mantras, which are just creative sounds that create.

So my message is not just one of despair. You can change your karma. You can diffuse your karma. Incorporate the Buddhist model as well; you have to develop attention. You have to create more awareness, more attention.

People would come to the Buddha and tell him, "I want to change my life, what do you want me to do?"

"Are you really serious?"

"Yes, I am serious."

"You don't want to live life the way you did yesterday and the day before and in the past? You want tomorrow to be different?"

"Absolutely".

"Then you do one thing. Sit here with me. Don't go home. Don't tell me, I just want to go and pay these bills and come back. You will never be able to come back once you go. You have to do it right now. Then you will not allow tomorrow to happen. You are allowing tomorrow to happen because you have a bunch of things for tomorrow lined up. Or you know exactly where you will be. Not only for tomorrow, perhaps for the next few months. You have created the reality, and you are going to go through that. So what you need to change is courage."

In the case of the Buddha, his father told him, "You have a new-born son. You have a responsibility to him." He went and looked at the son for a moment and then said goodbye. He had a choice.

Other princes in his place would have celebrated the birth of the son, but to him it looked to be stupid and a shameful thing. He felt it was something done is unawareness, done in ignorance. And he didn't want to repeat it. He wanted to end it.

So the most important thing is to become more aware to diffuse karma. Maintain awareness.

I'll give you some examples of how to become aware. When you answer a phone, whenever you hear the phone, become aware. When you say "good morning" to this person, become aware. Tell yourself inside, "I am aware", and then say "good morning" to the person. Don't do it in a robot way.

Or when you are shaking hands with someone, become aware. What you usually do is you become so overwhelmed with seeing the other person that you begin to lose your consciousness.

Most of the time our social behavior has been to please others. I see someone else, and I begin to say things that the other person would like to hear. Because I am afraid that if I don't say things that this person will like, I will lose this person.

So I just speak some nonsense which the person will enjoy. We don't ask why do we do this crap--just in order to become socially acceptable.

We can't keep our own awareness. Most of the time, that's how our friendship is. So you have to start with creating more awareness.

And then the next step, as I said, is to diffuse it through the practice of mantras. There are certain mantras that can clean up your consciousness, diffusing your karma. There are also mantras to restructure the new reality that you wanted to create.

It is easier to work with energy rather than with matter. Working with mantras is working with the energy principle. A mantra may appear to be a very high-sounding word, but just treat them like sounds. They are sounds.

The mind is only sounds. It’s a mechanistic model. We are going to change the sounds of the mind. And what is the proof? The proof is to find out if it has really changed your life or your life has remained the same. The yogis say these mantras make changes at the very deepest level-at the root level-at the causal level. Everything is caused. Cause is the energy. Effect is the matter.

You have to go to the cause. You should not treat the symptoms. You have to treat the cause of all of this. The mind is a symptom. The sound is a cause.

There is no use watering the tree at the top, the trunk, the leaves---you have to water the roots. So the root cause is at the level of the sounds. Then you can make lasting changes in your consciousness. Then you can really diffuse karma.

I can put one more light on the mantras, particularly the one to diffuse karma. The most powerful mantra to clean up karma and make your consciousness pure is the mantra “Om.”

How can “Om” clean up consciousness? “Om” as a constituent of consciousness has four sounds combined together which create four levels of consciousness. Human consciousness is made up of our waking state, our dreaming state, our sleeping state and our superconscious state.

You are now in a waking state, so the mind functions in a certain way. Now you go to sleep ---that’s another form of consciousness, because the mind turns off and then you begin to dream. That is another level of consciousness because the dream reality is different from the sleep reality or the waking reality.

These states of waking, dreaming and sleeping are all common to everyone. And then there is the fourth level of consciousness which we are not aware of and that is superconsciousness - that is emptiness. That creates infinite intelligence.

Now “Om” is the sum total of all these consciousnesses. The sound “Ah” corresponds to the waking state, “Ooh” to the dreaming state, “Mm” to the sleeping state.

And once you have recited “Om”, there is a silent sound which immediately follows every recitation of “Om”. It is called the silent sound which corresponds to the superconsciousness.

So when one practices “Om” consistently, one enlivens all these layers of consciousness. And when more awareness is created on all these levels, you are challenging the contents of consciousness. You have picked up the contents of consciousness over many years of your lifetime.

All identities are limiting. All of them, even if you can become the President or Prime Minister of the country, these are also limiting. Unlimited life is gaining unlimited awareness, unlimited consciousness in which you will understand the entire universe.

Everything is there inside you. But right now you are on a particular channel, the mind channel. You need to know how to access other channels. You need to know where is the remote control that will help you to flip the channels.

Now I am talking to you. I have to be in the mind channel, otherwise I cannot talk to you. If I have to communicate to you in another plane, which I do by remaining silent, then I have to switch my awareness to the other plane.

Similarly, there are innumerable levels of awareness that you can master. Working with your own higher self, with your own consciousness, you can work miracles.

Nothing is outside. Everything is inside. But unfortunately, we are given the wrong kind of understanding that there is a cause, there is an effect, and that life is so difficult. It takes a tremendous amount of courage for one to walk out from the social norms, from the conventional knowledge.

It happened to all the great beings like Jesus, the Mohammed and the Buddha, who went beyond human consciousness and declared that the kingdom is within and not without.

So one has to work on one’s own consciousness. Then you will feel life unfolding itself. The time that you spend in meditation is the time that you are getting more intelligence into the system. If you are more intelligent, what will happen? You will commit less and less mistakes.

You will have a farsighted vision which comes not through the mind, but through another form of consciousness. You will be naturally prevented from doing wrong things. You don’t have to check it out over trial and error. Trial and error is something that belongs to the mind, because the mind can only operate on the basis of committing mistakes and rectifying the mistakes and then moving on to another place.

But absolute wisdom is something which is very different, and we have all had access to that at the very beginning of creation. That is what Christianity calls a sin. Sin is falling into limited awareness. That is what has happened in our fall from Eden to the earth plane.

In Eden, there was unlimited understanding, unlimited knowledge. It was heaven. But then God said, “Don’t eat from the fruit of knowledge, because that’s going to cost you heavenly consciousness. You will lose your heavenly consciousness of Eden if you eat the fruit of knowledge.”

Adam and Eve ate the fruit of knowledge, and then they brought limitation into existence. So the first experience that Adam and Eve had when they fell was that they “knew”. Before then, they did not know. That is why people have to be trained to go back to the heavenly consciousness. And what is this heavenly consciousness? It is a consciousness in which there is no restrictions whatsoever.

In Sanskrit, there is a word for it, Hridaya Vidya, or heart knowledge. This is the knowledge of the heart. The heart always knows the truth, not the head. How does the heart know? Through intuition. Intuition is located in the heart, not in the physical heart, but in the center of your being. That is the seed of your soul. It is just like the seed of a grain, a rice grain.

It is immensely brilliant. Brilliant like a million suns. And it is from there that your brain gets the energy to think. It is from there that your eyes get the energy to see. It is from there that your ears get the energy to hear.

In an unenlightened condition, we are unaware of this spot. During the process of enlightenment, the heart unfolds. There is immense light. And then you begin to understand not by the brain, but through a different form of understanding.

This concludes this particular discussion for now. I will be doing more writing this year, so the newsletter may sometimes come out more than once a week. Take all of the newsletters to heart. Re-read them. Share this information with interested people.