Stop Expecting Too Much of People

Just say one would subscribe to reincarnation and to simply define reincarnation where soul living in the physical body, when the physical body dies, the soul continues to exist in a more subtle plane of existence, till it's time to reincarnate into another human body and continue its evolution. So, this is your philosophy on life after that.

Yeah, so there's a lot of Eastern religions believe in it, you know, I'm a Hindu, do Hindus believe in that? Buddhism believes in that. Jainism, you know, Sikhism, there's a lot of religions that do believe in reincarnation. So there's these souls evolving over time. And over time, some souls learn quicker and are much more mature. And those mature souls,

growing up in an abusive family or growing up around things that they don't quite like or align with, as they grow up, have the ability to pivot, like you're saying, basically. I I grew up in a home where I don't like how my dad talked to me. And because I don't like that, I'm going to change it.

I'm going to talk to my children in a different, much more positive, uplifting, kind of gentler way. Those mature souls have the ability to, first of all, like you said earlier, to be observant and then put the effort in to adjust patterns and pivot and go in a different direction and have clarity of where they want to go.

Younger souls don't have that ability just because they're just not mature enough. through an abusive childhood and then that's the impression in the subconscious and then as they go through life that's the only way they know how to do things. So when they have kids they go like hey you know you don't drink the glass of milk I'm gonna slap you in the face because that's

what they know and they don't have the maturity to make a different decision. So for me it's always it's important to try and ascertain early on where is someone in their informant or in their maturity. Because once you understand that, you understand their capacity to make

decisions, to handle experiences and how they act and react to everything in life. And then you don't place expectations beyond their ability to handle, because they're not capable of it. Well, this is good.

But if you had a company, sorry Dave, if you had a company with a thousand employees, you may not take someone who's working in the filing room to be your COO because they just don't have the maturity. And they need to grow into that position.

They have the potential to be, but they just right now do not have the maturity for that. This is going exactly the direction I wanted to go in because my intent with this episode, because I'm looking for a book I read recently. I wish I could remember the name of it, but it was actually it was a fascinating book so good

I'm gonna try to find it before we end this podcast. It was a novel. It was not a educational book. It was a novel about reincarnation and a person that had been reincarnated in the philosophy here is that they had to live 10,000 lives and the thing where they had up to 10,000 lives and at 10,000 lives if they haven't hit perfection

perfection, whatever perfection is, I mean, it's enlightenment. If they haven't hit enlightenment, then they just disappear into the everything. And if they have hit enlightenment, then they become essentially, they become like a God. And so this guy discovers this at 9,992 lives that he only has eight more to go.

And he's like, oh, dang, I didn't realize that I had 10,000. So now his next eight lives are focused on trying to find enlightenment and trying to find that perfection. And it's an entertaining and interesting book.

Is there any validity to that philosophy in what you believe? Yeah, I would say not, you know, the end goals that the book talked about where you disappear, you become a god, you know, the, and a lot of Eastern religions subscribe to a, the theory of reincarnation, where they differ is what happens to the end of that cycle.

So you're evolving, evolving, evolving, what happens at the end, you know? So in the philosophy that I subscribe to within Hinduism, the soul merges with God at the end of its evolution and becomes one with God. And let's define God because God means different things to different people.

And again, Dave, you know, there's no right or wrong philosophy. They're just distinctly different. And that's a critical point that I want to nail, you know, into everybody's mind, is that these philosophies are distinctly different and they contradict each other vastly.

You know, a common saying that I hear people say is like, oh, they all religions say the same thing. They absolutely do not. They completely contradict each other.

So in Hinduism, one simplified definition of God is that it's pure energy that permeates everything. So energy inside of me, you, the trees, the stones, the water, your boat. This one energy that permeates everything in the universe is collective. The collective energy, yes.

Because if law of thermodynamics says that energy cannot be created or destroyed, means energy has always existed. And this essence of this energy is divinity. Hinduism goes beyond that to say that's one aspect of God.

The aspect beyond that is God is timeless, formless and spaceless beyond time, beyond form, beyond space. You know, it's in the English word used to describe that as self, hence the concept of self-realization. Through deep meditation, I experience divinity as timeless, formless, and spaceless.

I have the experience of self-realization. So that's the definition of God, and the cycle at the end of this birth of what we're striving for. All we can even experience in this life through the practice of meditation.