A New Model of Karma, Deep Sleep and Death

[@NadiaFranke]

Rupert is a treasure to those who are able to grasp his explanation ! I'm grateful I've found him on YT.

[@pattylevesque2601]

very very cerebral

[@AnastaciaMary]

This concept of the reversal of the three states of perception is delightful: it allows us to look around at our waking reality and to see it as the dream that it actually is. This brings to mind the endlessly wise childhood ditty that we all know: Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily: life is but a dream. There are so many of us who know this, but do we think deeply on it? The ditty admonishes us: don't take the outer world of your waking mind too seriously, and, whatever you do, be happy in your daily experience, and live life gently, never forcing, always allowing.

[@fouad4172]

Beautiful! Thank you 🙏🏼

[@newearthpouya]

12:08 Rupert is referring to this quote of the Bhagavadgita "What all beings consider as day is the night of ignorance for the wise, and what all creatures see as night is the day for the introspective sage."

[@bacobill]

I find no empty holes in your talks.. no threaded beads missed.. I love it.. 25 years with ACIM and one would think I need nothing more or less but your words strike me like notes of a wonderful melody that has been playing for all eternity.. Much love brother.. I am well pleased ;)

[@anbukkarasimanoharan775]

AWESOME EXPLANATION. EVERY WORD IS TRUE WHEN WE CONTEMPLATE DEEPLY.

[@TheGeetha1950]

I fully agree ,,such solace and comfort ...to know there is a larger pattern out there beautifully organised

[@davidmeyers580]

I too came through ACIM but only 3 years and found Rupert. Changed my thinking...

[@BestInGlass360]

I’ve been referring to Rupert material for some years now. I grasp something new each time I sit and listen. Does anyone else find it really lonely when the people in Your life just do not seem to grasp the material in the same way?

[@lindaj71]

Rupert’s words are golden. So helpful. I couldn’t be happier.

[@moseva]

the profoundness and subtlety of the explanation is mind-blowing, yet it is so clear and straight. I"m bowled over, this guy is a gem

[@piehound]

I very much like Mr. Spira's non - dogmatic approach to these questions. Phrasing the ideas of consciousness, dream state, and waking as a better model . . . rather than claiming he has arrived at the definitive truth for all time. Bravo !!!

[@gwenelbro3719]

Gratitude for your crystal clear explanation of our true position; it is so obvious. Nothing is born and nothing dies. Om Shanti.

[@haricharansharnagat]

In this discussion, its is very important to bring out the role of what ancient Indian texts call "Suskhma Sharira" which means miniscule body. It is exactly what you have referred to as residual energy (of thoughts and emotions - add memories of all karma to that). It has a defined structure to it like our living bodies. It is what manifests dream state, and our alive state , and death as we know is just when it abandons the physical body for good (due to damage from natural withering or accident, or disease). It then manifests another body by entering into another womb. The wombs are like pre created templates , and depending on Karma and residual energy stored in Suskhma Sharira , a womb is picked. It could be of human, or animal etc etc. And Sukshma sharira is not the pure consciousness. It is a memory store having all all experiences and karma.

[@QuantyG]

Rupert and teachers like him say exactly what the new sciences show about consciousness, oneness and all that, I love this combo!!!!

[@gameone6597]

Gail Hodgson Yes these are not only interesting ideas but point one towards the ultimate truth. But FYI, these are not new, nor are they Rupert's own. They are Hindu philosophies & 'beliefs' that have been there for several thousands of years. Rupert and other such teachers (including Alan Watts, J.Krishna in the past) discuss the Hindu philosophy of Advaita (non-duality). Incidentally, modern science is indeed just beginning to start on this level of understanding of the consciousness. So far they have been object / material focused which the Hindu/Advaita teachers explain is not the ultimate reality. There are many other videos on the KZbin, some directly by the Hindu/Indian teachers who are coming from rich traditional schools of these ideas, and have been living them. You might like to check out.

[@chinthus9267]

To add on to GameOne, the Advaita text that deals particularly on the topic of 3 states (waking, dream, deep sleep) and the Turiya (pure consciousness ) that is common across all the states is the Mandukya Upanishad.

[@blablblaaaaaaaaa]

Rupert for the moment i never met you but your videos changed my life forever,your simple and clear way to express things is really something else and helped me so much,thank you thank you .

[@robertrobson5900]

With out doubt Rupert's teaching, message is so important and true. Thank you Rupert

[@onlyonerombo]

I love this talk and what it points to. Once you see deep sleep as the true state and the waking state as the temporary one it starts to become normal and make more sense. In support of this is also the fact that True deep sleep is always the same...Nothing experienced, Dreams are sometimes experienced and always different, and the awake state is always experienced and different. If the Truth is defined as that which never changes then surely deep sleep is Reality and the awake state is the dream.

[@mathrodite]

If you take the deep sleep state as the "true" state, you have a problem. It's not self-aware.

[@mrsbethaniesmith]

It's almost like we hold our breath and go down into the pool of the temporal world, the waking and dreaming states, and every night we have to come up for air.

[@Babysteps1000]

I am a person who has never or rarely had vivid dreams. I always feel like I’m entering into a black hole, of emptiness. A void. A nothing. Like formless form. And people think I’m not sleeping well because I don’t have vivid dreams, and I feel quite the opposite. It feels very restful there. I hear nothing and I see nothing and then as I wake up I feel like I’m exiting this black hole of empty form. Sleep experts say I should be dreaming or that I’m dreaming and I can’t remember. But I don’t even have the recollection of possibly even having a dream or waking up thinking wow that was a weird dream but I just don’t remember it. I just go into a void. It’s quite restful.

[@MattyLiam333]

I've actually started dreaming about myself meditating. Most pure meditations I've ever experienced. That has never happened until I listened to Rupert's dissertations. I'm grateful.

[@phillipadams6735]

Brilliant! This matches almost exactly to some shamanic teachings that I have studied and experienced over many years. I really enjoy how well he puts his intellect and use of language into his conversations.

[@pablograncanaria]

Thank you, Rupert, for this extraordinary perspective on the nature of reality and experience.

[@rajendrannair7981]

Beautiful..nobody in my opinion has explained the three states so clearly..the great sages said the world is an illusion and left it at that ..that the majority of us trying to understand non duality cannot come to terms with because it is not our experience. Thank you Sir for your effort

[@truthnfreedomseeker]

I love it when someone offers a new way of looking at things! In this case, the perspective that consciousness came first and that everything is contained within consciousness. I find this reversal somehow liberating as well as a comforting. Thank you. I also appreciate your views on beliefs, and forward to hearing more of what you have to share.

[@jamesvanderhoorn1117]

"a new way of looking at things" It's as least as old as the Upanishads :)

[@doodlesnoodles5581]

It's ancient wisdom- the "perennial philosophy"- but Rupert sure does elucidate it well

[@johnburman966]

Rupert you are a truly great teacher. As boundaries collapse and memories of experiences that were not fully understood come back, you help to integrate being. My deepest respect.

[@michaelclaridge492]

Love you Rupert :) - Its a pleasure to hear and then reflect on your explanations/concepts of reality. They make a great deal of sense to my experience and offer peace.

[@ProlificDecibel]

Rupert is so clear and concise. amazing!

[@JThomasP]

Beautiful perspective The beauty seems to be in the realization that the real is whole of the experience… both the ‘deep sleep and the waking.’ Well said, that all experience is “equally real.”

[@giantleaps]

I am a student of ACIM and I am delighted to find you. There were concepts in ACIM that were challenging. Your words connect the dots for some of these ideas. When the student is ready, the teacher will come. I am ready and captivated. Thank you Rupert for your videos. Much love and gratitude to you.

[@DouglasVairon]

The dream is an absolute perfect metaphor

[@namratadevale4238]

Oh my God! So simply explained. Thank you Rupert for sharing your knowledge.

[@CrouchingTigerHiddenHogan]

This is simply brilliant! In Rupert's talks I see love (non-discriminated compassion), truth (profound knowledge) and beauty (quality of expression). Love, Truth and Beauty ...the manifest attributes of the Enlightened One.

[@syna3469]

deep sleep itself, pure consciousness, vibrates within itself and takes the shape of mind, and appear as dream

[@ElanSunStarPhotographyHawaii]

I am so deeply impressed by this work..it means everything to us in this "Matrix" of imposed belief systems..

[@krasimirnevenov4201]

Karma depends on our mode of thinking .Think of it more as a theme of thinking .If it is negative you get negative experience and if it's positive you get a positive experience.That's why in order to get positive karma you need positive theme of thinking ..the best way to do that is to do good things.So that you learn to associate your self whit positive "stuff".Get the experience you want to have and fall back to the self .Never lose sight of who you are .

[@kavithaogh2120]

Brilliant, as always. Can't be enough thankful for this description of reincarnation based on 3 stage model.... amazing understanding. 🙏🙏🙏

[@martin-hall-northern-soul]

This is one of the most profound dialogues I've ever had the pleasure to experience.

[@robertroberts6901]

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi speaks of seven separate states of consciousness each having distinct and identifiable conditions that can be measured, quantified and verified: Waking State, Dreaming State, Deep Sleep, Transcendental Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, God Consciousness and Unity Consciousness or Brahman. Each has its own physiological and experiential quality that influences perception of reality.

[@sandraekhoff8937]

I m just wanted to say, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, INFINITELY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR TEACHINGS!!!!!! Love you Rupert!!

[@dominiquehouseaux2951]

Thank You for opening challenging new perspectives on karma! So interesting!

[@onetwozeroyt]

I was trying to understand the real meaning of those verses of Bhagavat Gita. Ruper maded it so clear. Also the model of reincarnation is well explained using the three states of experiences (and no experiences). Thanks

[@Queenie-the-genie]

Thank you Rupert. For me, as a lucid dreamer, the waking state fear is totally gone and everything is beautiful or at least very interesting and non-harmful, I fly from dream to dream and I can dissipate fearful occurances in various ways. Is this because my teacher introduced me to this? He died a while back but he is still my teacher. When I asked him about reincarnation he said - "Do you think you are a ghost going in and out of bodies?" He was a Tamil Indian man with the title of Swami. He has a large following in India I'm told and a very small one here but he would come here and teach sometimes. I was lucky enough to have met him. You have probably never heard of him. I love him dearly.

[@rexblogger8452]

Where do yuu live?

[@rafaelg6104]

Incredibly insightful video. Thank you.

[@Shane7492]

Near Death Experiences confirm this. When the body dies, our consciousness transitions to a different dimension of reality. It's not much different than dying in a dream. When you die in a dream, your consciousness transitions to the waking state. Our consciousness is eternally transitioning between different dimensions of reality.

[@AutumnleafMind]

Dayam.....finally breaking thousands of years of holding us in false self perpetuating belief systems.....

[@abby999]

dayum indeed

[@shilpa6795]

Brilliant explanation of Karma in the context of waking, dreaming and deep sleep. I was listening to B. Kastrup’s and he gave an example of a dream of a person with multiple alters and their actions impacting each other in a common dream state. 🙇🏻‍♀️🙏

[@CY-sf2fv]

Fascinating! The most convincing model before realizing by experience.

[@DLBurggraf]

The Kingdom of Heaven is within.

[@devendrapurohit7300]

Present Living Buddha. One thing is noticeable , he has not left the society and become a monk , he lives IN SOCIETY , and hence the rebellion of a Buddha is not against anyone. He simply plies a knife through a butter. I am from India and I know that HE is a Buddha. Pity I can't go there and sit at his feets for enlightenment. Great thing it's available on net , great only because it's a compromise . My heartiest love .

[@kwaminaroberts514]

thank you rupert. it makes total sense (the 3 states) from a human perspective. iam experiencing my inner being for quiet some time and gained a lot of additional knowledge from it.. our inner being has kinda communicaiton or language (well.. sort of) but it cannot be understood in thoughts. this energie is part of a larger sysetem which is kinda incompatible with thoughts and all things physical. that‘s why we cannot perceive it. from the perspective of my being - there is more to it then just the 3 states. the 3 states waking, dreaming and being is merely one way.. all related to the direction of physical realm. our inner being itself is experiencing much more. 🙏🌼

[@I-Am-Aware]

Incredible, insightful, well put!

[@mariagabrielabottiglieri972]

Magnificent explanation. Thank you.

[@jacqueminekeersmaekers8524]

Thank you Rupert ❤️

[@johnnywlittle]

Rupert continues to blow my mind and up-end the world I thought I knew or believed in

[@glynemartin]

The most Real State must be that state which lasts the "longest". From our experience death is THE most final state and apparently continues to eternity. If deep sleep,(where we lose all awareness of body,mind and environment),is indeed closest to the "Death State",then it follows that we experience our truest reality when we are in deep sleep!.. This is precisely why going to stillness (mentally) is like a "conscious" rehearsal of getting familiar with Deep Sleep and Death.You are trying to marry the Deep Sleep state with the Waking State...."Death" therefore is being experienced regularly and becoming more familiar with it makes you less uncomfortable!!...Thank you a hundred billion times Rupert...you are THE BOMB!!!....

[@lindaross783]

Thank you. I was ready to hear that just the way you said it.

[@tomfool43]

Would this make the experience of 'waking up' in a lucid dream akin to the experience of enlightenment in waking life? Perhaps it is easier to start lucid dreaming than it is to achieve enlightenment because the dream state is one step closer to pure consciousness? Very neat :)

[@Raffael_Armwrestling]

Yes! Very, very similar in fact! I've been practicing lucid dreaming for a few years and had a spiritual awakening a few months ago. I don't know if the lucid dreaming helped, but the experience of becoming lucid in a dream -waking up from your 'dream person' - feels very much like waking up from your 'real' person, from your ego.

[@JumpingTurtle77]

@@Raffael_Armwrestling i know this is a late reply but how did you learn to lucid dream?

[@dr.susheelkhemariya8966]

Adbhut wonderful understanding. DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad Thanks

[@OpenMind3000]

Awesome🚀

[@joham8179]

dude du bist ja überall :D

[@maximaler]

Dickkaaaa

[@maximaler]

@Brantley Drake why would I do this?

[@zatara11]

I very much appreciate your grounded approach to all topics you disucss. Thank you

[@user-lu9hq6jv4v]

Very clear; thank you!

[@AutumnleafMind]

thank you Rupert for this..thank you.

[@edwardrussell7168]

RS has stated something which needs careful reflection... I will work on it. Creating a higher consciousness which encompasses all else of our body and mind and its death? Is it possible to achieve in this life i.e. being aware of our death consciously and then moving to the hereafter? Brilliant...

[@greensleeves7165]

A lucid talk in many ways and I agree with quite a lot of it...with one important exception. I don't experience anything in deep sleep. No awareness. No experience. Nothing. Literally, nothing. Therefore it cannot possibly be "pure consciousness" but rather a precursor to consciousness which requires observation or experience to complete itself. Deep sleep is to me entirely indistinguishable in any practical way from the materialist's concept of brute nonexistence. I therefore question the existence of anything called "pure consciousness." If consciousness could exist as a purity, it would have no need of phenomena and none of us would be here. Consciousness is the process of the Absolute reflecting itself.

[@perothing]

Excactly! Awareness is prior to consciuousness.

[@SumiOccult]

Hey Rupert, I suggest you to check Dr. I Stevenson's study about reincarnation.

[@lynnebailey6528]

And Shropshire is beautiful...full of beautiful people. Xx

[@gireeshneroth7127]

During wake and deep sleep the mind lets you synchronize with the world but at death it detaches you with the world and you flow with the mind until the synchronization is restored in a different birth.

[@baptm727]

Sorry to break it to you but there is no such thing as a soul. It's all a show, when you die nothing goes, the only thing that goes is that idea YOU have of YOURSELF, which in itself, doesn't exist. So nothing goes. It's all a show. Better realize it before death does it for you.

[@ManicMage1]

Best explanation I ever heard about Karma and it rings absolutely true to me. It's how I always suspected it to be. :)

[@redrawkblue]

If you're interested in models you could check out Siddharameshwar Maharaj who explains the "bodies" quite simply or the Tripura Rahasya or several of the books by Jaideva Singh regarding Kashmir Shaivism.

[@humanoid8344]

commenting so I can come back

[@humanoid8344]

fuck you BITCH btw if you never have you should check out that sidd guy he looks pretty cool love

[@ceeebeee11]

I've been reading Neville Goddard books and he says that conciousness is the only reality. What you are concious/aware of, will be your reality. This 3D reality/waking state is malleable.

[@jonnyplat8117]

two worlds view- 1. i am body in the universe. 2. I AM the centre of my universe. 1 percieves 2 as ego through ego-fear, 2 knows 1 as ego seeking loving awareness, in percieving 1 through pure loving awareness, egoless fearlessness, 2 is clearly responsible in reality. A 2 view is 'the circle with no diameter has many centres, always the same view, expressed different ways.

[@macbeavers6938]

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." Rumi

[@sgkathy]

Wonderful presentation , thank you so much

[@bpsyked1627]

very profound and illuminating.

[@AndreasDelleske]

I would call it a belief that human consciousness exists while deep sleep. And I reject all beliefs unless there is proof. Then only it’s true. I haven’t seen proof yet. Why can’t we let go and accept that we don’t know what consciousness is besides what happens in or around humans and to a lesser degree in animals?

[@studentofspacetime]

Great explanation. But it actually perfectly corresponds to the Tibetan model, when understood deeply. The whole analogy with waking, dream and deep sleep states is built into the concept of bardos. That’s why Tibetans have “dream yoga” and “sleep yoga”.

[@albundy9597]

but in the least real state, awake, I get a bullet through the heart, everything stops, in the dream state, a more real state, I get a bullet through the heart, nothing changes.

[@cat_lover007]

The real dreamer never gets hurt..

[@dilipm79]

Beautifully explained!

[@GraverFILMS]

The model of Karma that parallels our true experience, free of dogma, doesn't conflict with this model in any way. They integrate seamlessly. All descends from consciousness and Karma is just another self balancing principle, manifesting the environment around us in the same way you mentioned the fear manifesting the environment in a dream. Karma is simply a ying to the yang

[@beyethedoor]

Rupert takes the idea of dreaming, sleep, and karma, and turns it inside out. A very clear explanation of the states of dreaming, deep sleep, waking, and karma. And how this relates to cause and effect.

[@skemsen]

I liked the turning it inside out but didn't find it a clear explanation in relation to karma/cause-effect. So what is "karma" then? How does his explanation offer any understanding on what the point is to our human existence/our suffering/challenges?

[@anbukkarasimanoharan775]

If we take our body and the world as real we register everything in our mind and the mind continues to exist. We take birth again to exhaust the vasanas thus we accumulate in the previous birth. The cycle continues. Here is the importance of Self Realisation. When the Self realise its true nature Vasanas cease to attach our mind and we are liberated in this birth itself and there will no need for another one(birth).

[@katkat092009]

Thanks for that. I have issues with the previous life theory. In my mind I see a black plane on which energy bubble emerges and I am this ever shifting ball of energy. It seems to me that's all things can ever be. Also in my experience I believe that whatever people dream up with manifest like karma and previous life and those things are in a way real. I am not into the life is a test and the host of explanations for suffering. I feel they are grasping for meaning we need. Or is that the desire of consciousness to have meaning of existance. Bottom line of my experience is energy vibration of things and that is the one common constant and dissipating into nothing.

[@psychologicalsuccess3476]

I called this flipped realisation "looping" physicality forms mind centers consciousness consciousness imagines mind into physicality and there for this loop seems to exist in our examination of ourselves and examination of biological process.

[@prasannabhat6047]

Was finding difficult to comprehend the English translation of Shankara and Gaudapada with outdated technical Sanskrit terms. Really love to hear the contemporary English version of the ancient but ever new philosophy of Be-ing, the one without beginning or end.Cleared some concepts I was feeling difficult to understand in Bhagavadgita alsoIncredible clarity of explanation. Thank you very much.

[@buddachile]

How about if instead of "deep sleep is most real and waking state is least real" saying "the state of deep sleep is closest to fundamental reality while the waking state is furthest removed from fundamental reality, but experiences in all states of consciousness are equally real in so far as they are all realized... equally"?

[@constipatedbowels3473]

Dere z a dimension of awareness which z present in all the 3 states of waking,sleeping ,dreaming....itz called Turiya or the Fourth,as per Vedanta....we dismiss the states of deep sleep and dreaming as less real compared to waking states because we spend most of our time in waking state...but datz not justification enough........Turiya z best experienced when the thought process of da person comes completely to a standstill. ....but wid time,the person becomes aware of the presence of Turiya in all the 3 states....thus concluding,dat all the 3 states keep changing but Turiya z the only changeless constant.....hence all the state of consciousness even life and death are ephemeral events in comparison to Turiya which neither born ,nor dead....

[@Flower-v8w]

I was not reincarnated in California, I was reincarnated in Hungary, but I have lived in Southern California most of my life. Either way, I feel I'm pretty lucky 😆. I'd prefer Maui though 😉. In my lifetime immediately prior to this one, I was one of the bad guys you referred to. In this lifetime, I'm the opposite, partly to atone for my karma in my last lifetime. I've also experienced in this lifetime being on the receiving end of others behaving toward me as I behaved toward others in that last lifetime. And what's amazing is that I have a twin flame, and he is the person I was being in my immediately prior lifetime. I am in no contact with him, we both must ascend before we can be together. And what's even more amazing is that my parents were also twin flames, and that's a story in itself. But in meditation, I have seen clearly how I have used karma, which is simply cause and effect, it's just a manifestation of Newton's third law of motion. Yes, mind continues, thank you. ❤❤

[@AlejandroGarcia-ek3uy]

But Sarvapriyananda says deep sleep is also ignorance. Turya, the fourth state, is Awarness itself.

[@JimmyGray]

The waking state has the same characteristics as the dream state.

[@THEUNDERCOVERMONK]

Very apt explanation..!!

[@sandraekhoff8937]

It is a COMPLICATED TOPIC that I need to investigate more!!!

[@anastasiacosmicastrologer1508]

deep, profound and soulful...

[@bergspot]

Cristal clear! Thank you!

[@HH-du4rc]

I know I'm listening to this many years later but I just recently discovered you Rupert and I really love how you explain things. At about the 15-16 min mark you explain what happens to us after we 'die'. I have so many questions about this: 1) people that are not as aware and think they are going to see a white light tunnel - will they see that because that is what they believe? 2) is the point of no more mind/thought, a 'void' like darkness - in other words what does 'consciousness' feel like? 3) you said at some point thought conceptualizes a new body and a new world for us - can we stop that process and not come back? if so, any thoughts on what other possibilities there are? (maybe no one knows) and if not, is it a completely different world (not Earth) we come back to or do we just get a different body? Well I'll stop there I guess, ha ha..

[@NadiaFranke]

Rupert is a gift to those who have "ears to listen". He is objective and clear.

[@HH-du4rc]

@@NadiaFranke Thanks for writing because I watched it again just now and glad I did. Yes Rupert is a gift and he explained things very well and I have more understanding and knowledge of things than I did 10 months ago (better "ears to listen" with I guess). Still, this mind we have, is not ours, and my question about whether we can stop conceptualizing a new world and body to come to after this one, stands. "What" is doing the conceptualizing? The mind. And the mind is matter.

[@NadiaFranke]

@@HH-du4rc Brain is matter. Mind is what is stored to keep going from body to body. Each mind stores everything creating another physical body everytime we lose it through physical death. At least that's what I understood

[@baltimorecastallano1]

Nobody knows til u gone...💯%

[@pinkifloyd7867]

As far as understand, better to graduate this life term so I don't have to repeat this kind. Makes sense, wish me luck 😅🤣

[@o.karaca8335]

This is an amazing talk. Everytime I listen to Rupert Spira, I feel a bit low in intellect. I need to watch his teachings more than one or two times to actually understand what he means. Maybe it could be because English is not my first tongue, bit I hardly experience this with other (English speaking) spiritual teachers. Maybe it could be because I experience his teachings (or answers) not composed in a linear, easy to comprehend manner. I would be curious if there are other people who have a similar experience.

[@simonc772]

He's a very good talker

[@mathrodite]

How is deep sleep pure consciousness? Isn't awareness meant to be aware of itself in nonduality?

[@cal.5081]

"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful." -George Box, in "Robustness in the Strategy of Scientific Model Building."

[@dianad3001]

This was helpful. Thank you

[@gerardgrimardia3274]

17: matter,mind,consciousness = waking,dream,consciousness

[@igorkovpak1280]

That model looks like "Planet (matter) - Atmosphere (Noosphere/Mind) - Space (Pure Consciousness)". Remember "Noosphere" by russian professor Vernadskiy?

[@gitaarmanad3048]

This makes perfect sense to me. What is missing here, is an explanation of why all other people are also here. Because I am separated from all of them and I don't think I am making them up. Our individual consciousness must be part of a bigger conscious containing numerous of individual consciousnesses. I think I see this huge consciousness as God. This is also acknowledged in the Bhagavat-Gita with the presence of God in the centre of every individual soul, as the super-soul called Paramatma. People may not realize this, but in Christianity this is also beautifully illustrated in the Last Supper, where the bread (This is my body) is broken in pieces and devided among the apostles. Amen.

[@billyoumans1784]

According to Shankara, the consciousness is the 4th state,, turiah- But the dream model of reincarnation is fascinating. Thanks

[@santhoshgopinath816]

' A good video by RS to explain the intricate matters of karma, and 3-states. The non duality view of consciousness being the vastest, in which mind is experienced, in which matter / world is experienced is nicely explained here. However, what I have heard about the dreamless deep sleep state is different from how RS has explained here. In that original view, which has authority from masters and seems to explain better, deep sleep (sushupti) is not quite consciousness. It is said to be a “blankness”, where consciousness appears impacted by ignorance. When you come out of deep sleep you say “I didn’t know anything”. But your mind is shut down, so who is testifying to this blankness ? RS has mentioned a word “Turiya” but did not go into the details. Most probably time constraint. IMHO, he should have explained it for clarity. The word Turiya means “The Fourth”. Means it is a fourth that is identified by Advaita in addition to the conventional 3 states of waking / dream / deep sleep. This fourth (Turiya) is the one that is witnessing and giving testimony to the blankness as “I didn’t know anything”. The witness here has no agency, it is pure witnessing per se. This is The Pure Subject, Consciousness. In what light is it witnessing ? In “swaprakasha”, its own light. This light is the one shining on all 3 states of deep sleep, dream and waking. It is not really a fourth like 3 plus. It is The One that is common to all 3 and testifying to all 3. It is an indestructible unchanging presence, which is the consciousness, which witnesses, Hence it is called Witness-Consciousness (Sakshi Chaitanyam). IMHO Namaste! .

[@michaelfinch1829]

There is the understanding of karma and then there is the understanding of karma mixed with the understanding of emptiness! Just like the view of karma mixed with the view of emptiness takes it to another level, so too when all the minds of compassion, wisdom realizing emptiness, and wisdom realizing dependent relationships and all other Buddha minds come together one then attains the ultimate view of full enlightenment. The consciousness you refer to is called emptiness in Buddhism. I see your understanding is the same as this. As Avolokitesvara said in the Heart of Wisdom Sutra, on the second profundity, 'Emptiness is form!' This is what your saying.

[@karinlease6355]

How compassionate.

[@saidas108]

Another way of saying this is that karma & reincarnation are relatively real not absolutely real. Until we are fully Awakened, we are still subject to the laws and experiences of relative planes of existence e.g. waking state, dream state and other planes of existence apart from those needing a body. I think one should listen carefully and not surmise that there is no such thing as karma and reincarnation and that they are just belief systems. If you require proof, just hold your and over a flame and say to yourself the experience is unreal. I will differ with Rupert, for the first time I might add, with his statement that our thoughts/beliefs about karma are somehow unsatisfying e.g. concentration camps, etc. I find that they explain things quite nicely; cause and effect. We aren't aware of the back story for what we see so it often makes little or no sense or just plain baffling. I'm not sure what Rupert was offering as something more "satisfying" other than the inversion of the order of matter/mind/consciousness to Consciousness/mind/matter. How is that more satisfying exactly?

[@skemsen]

I think I agree with you. It frustrates me that Rupert often seems impatient and not really listening to the follow up questions but merely going on and on. In this video I was still left with the burning question of what IS karma then? What is the point of our human existence, our suffering?

[@mukeshdesai2862]

skemsen The inner intent/bhaav I decided in previous life manifests in the present at the appropriate time of fruition

[@cbmcbm2845]

@@skemsen Human sufferings!! You find any relationship with Desires of the individuals? Karma is to Action (physical/psychological). When my actions had no Desires, I bothered least for whatsoever be the results, but just enjoyed. With Desires my actions/services were paid/taxed or both were applied in terms of emotions/economy/recognition. I extended this (Sakaami/nishkaam Karma- phala) Desires- Action - Results to become what I am today and going through. Just for your kind information, I misunderstood/forgot who really is that the 'I'. (I even forget most of the dreams within couple of seconds after wakeup - changing/change of state- not realising that a Deep sleep is unavoidable at the end of the day again) As such I have a lot of plans for all the next hours, days, months, years, which may cancel/change as for some of them I have no idea of HOW TO ?? Am I not a cause of my next birth, if at all I get reincarnated? Not my qualities be the cause of my choices? Now I am thinking of NISHkaam karma or else no karma!!!! Inertia effects will continue anyways, otherwise resistance may cause Sakaam karma and cycle of rebirths (someone else to take birth, grow, meet, mate, care, deliver tearing herself, feed, educate amidst HOT globe... homework again !!!! Strong memory with next wakeup is MUST to be alive in the name/game of Desires. Love All, Be happy. Om Namah Shivaya.

[@skemsen]

C B M CBM - ??? Is English your native language?

[@cbmcbm2845]

@@skemsen No, sorry for mistakes, if any. Thanks

[@philippugsley1045]

No real death, yes the body dies but the mind is ever active, I like it.

[@harcbright6928]

The body mind dies as I understand it and what is left is infinite awareness.