Session 1

   DISCOVER
INNER SELF
One eternal truth, that can change your vision.
 The Inner Self - Introduction
As a driver drives a car, Matter is dead, while soul is
soul drives conscious; thus soul is
a living body; superior to matter.
Scientific researches have
proved it.

The knowledge of relationship between matter, soul and God can bring a great
positive change in this world.
 DIVINE ASSETS for FREEDOM
Why should from
I study about the DEMONIAC
SOUL?
NATURE
Before After

na vepathuś
Arjuna hadca: śarīre
ca śaknomy me
avasthātuṁ
roma-harṣaś
bhramatīva ca jāyate
ca me manaḥ HeBUT
heard
• Lack of Confidence
gāṇḍīvaṁ
nimittānisraṁsate hastāt
• Anxiety tvak
ca paśyāmi
caiva paridahyate
viparītāni keśava “The knowledge
Arjuna emerged of
I• amDemoralized
My
nowwhole body
unable
standing on
is trembling,
to stand
end, and
my bow
here any
Gāṇḍīva
my hair isI am
longer.
is slipping
victoriousfrom
the SOUL”
•forgetting
Stress myself, my mind is reeling. I see
from
onlymy
• Depression
hand,
causes of and my skin O
misfortune,
(Bhagavad Gita
(Bhagavad
is Kṛṣṇa.
Gita 1.30)
1.29)
burning.
HOW?
Lord Krishna
DISCOVER Inner Self - Contents
Am I Matter? or Am I Spirit?

Scientific Proofs for existence

of Spirit Soul

Difference between Living person & Robot

Mechanism of Mind

Practical Benefits of knowledge of soul in

everyday life
 ? ?
Who Who
AreIf I ask you a question…Are
You You
? ?
 “Most of the human body is water.
In a 60 pound person, there are about…..
• 5 pounds of
Dr. Harry Calcium,
• 1 ½ pounds of
Monsen, Phosphate,
Professor of • 9 ounces of
Anatomy, Potassium,
Illinois • 6 ounces each
College of of sulfur and
Medicine sodium,
says…. • 1 ounce of
magnesium,
and
• less than an
ounce each of
iron, copper
and iodine.”
 “Most of the human body is water.
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is our real
magnesium, and
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identity?
ounce each of
iron, copper and
iodine.”
 Living Beauty
After Death
Chemicals are the same
No Feelings
No Thinking
No Desires
No Movement
Same body but…
No Consciousness
The soul is gone
 na jāyate mriyate vā kadāchin
“ For the soul there is
nāyaṁ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ
ajo nityaḥ śhāśhvato ’yaṁ purāṇo
neither birth nor death
na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre
at any time.

Bhagavad Gita 2.20

Body Soul
 You are not
the body that
you see in the
mirror
You are ‘atma’
(soul), the real
driver of the
bodily car.
 SpiritualView
Material View Point
Weare
We arenot
bodies made up
the material of ofmatter
body flesh and bones.
We
Weare
arespirit soul, encaged
no more in the material
than a chemical body.
bundle.
We do not dieiswhen
Everything material
finished body
at the stops
time oftodeath.
function.
 Justknowing
Not as the their
bird
real
is identity as
trapped in the
the
soul, the people
cage, the soul
spend all their life
is
trapped inthe
in polishing the
bodypampering
cage made upthe of
body,
five without –
elements
feeding the soul.
earth, water,
Can you say how?
fire, air, ether.
 DISCOVER Inner Self
Am I Matter? or Am I Spirit?

Scientific Proofs for existence of

Spirit Soul

Difference between Living Person & Robot

Mechanism of Mind

Practical Benefits of knowledge of soul in

everyday life
 Scientific Proofs for existence
of Spirit Soul

1. Common Sense
2. Consciousness
3. Near Death Experience (NDE), Out
of Body Experience (OBE) studies
4. Reincarnation Research
 1. Common Sense When a person dies, we say,
“He/She has passed away.”

Who has passed away?

The body is still there.

Actually,
THE SOUL
has passed away.
 2. Consciousness
Consciousness means to
be aware, thinking, feeling,
willing and intentionality

I see red
light

Living Being Dead Matter

– conscious – not conscious
 3. Near Death Experience (NDE), Out of Body Experience (OBE) studies

11% to 14% of the average

Research on “Eternal Soul”
30 yrs... Surgeon Dr. Bigelow
American population who are
mentally and physically healthy
have had OBE
Medical Journal of
Current Problems in Pediatrics

Enough research in NDE with

impeccable scientific credentials
Dr. Michael Sabom, Cardiologist & Professor,
Emory University Medical School
4. Reincarnation Research

PA S T L I F E M E M O R I E S

Ian Stevenson, Carlson

Professor of Psychiatry,
University of Virginia has
extensively investigated
over 3000 cases of
spontaneous
reincarnation memories.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stevenson
www.iisis.net/index.php?page=semkiw-ian-
stevenson-reincarnation-past-lives-research
4. Reincarnation Research
 4. Reincarnation Research

PHOBIAS COME FROM

PA S T L I F E
Phobias are… related to the
mode of death of the person
whose life is being remembered.
- Dr. Ian Stevenson

Forit
If theexample,
ended
previous
in shooting,
iflife
the ended
previous
there
in a
would
life
stabbing,
ended
be there
ainphobia
drowning,
would
of fire-arms
bethere
a
would
phobia
and so be
on.
of abladed
phobiaweapons.
of water.
- Dr. Ian Stevenson
 4. Reincarnation Research

DIFFERENCE IN
TEMPERAMENT OF
TWINS PROVES SOUL
Even though identical twins are
physically born by the splitting of a
single egg, from the same genetic
material, they may have striking
contrasts in temperament. The
difference in temperaments is
because of two different souls
reincarnated in two different
bodies that are genetically
identical.
- Dr. Ian Stevenson
4. Reincarnation Research
4. Reincarnation Research
4. Reincarnation Research

A CASE STUDY
BY
DR. IAN
STEVENSON

Sukla Gupta
remembering
her past life
 4. Reincarnation Research

Sukla was a little more than five, Shri Sen Gupta and five other members of his
family journeyed with her to Bhatpara. When they arrived, Sukla took the lead.
Avoiding various possible wrong turns, she brought them straight to the house of
Shri Amritalal Chakravarty, allegedly her father-in-law in her past life……
4. Reincarnation Research
Sukla recognized
- her previous lifetime house
- her mother-in-law, brothers-in-law, husband & daughter
- indicated Shri Haridhana Chakravarty as her husband
- the nicknames as well as real names of her brother-in-
laws
4. Reincarnation Research Famous Scientists believe in
Reincarnation

Benjamin Franklin John Adams Socrates

“Finding myself “Those souls who “I am confident

to exist in the revolted against that there truly
world, I believe I God were placed is such a thing as
shall in some here to living again and
shape or other transmigrate the living spring
always exist.” through various from the dead.”
species of animals,
 DISCOVER Inner Self
Am I Matter? or Am I Spirit?
Scientific Proofs for existence of
Spirit Soul
Difference between Living Person & Robot

Mechanism of Mind

Practical Benefits of knowledge of soul in

everyday life
 Lens in the Camera Eyes of Judges
Is Man not just a Powerful Computer
No “Experience” or Robot?
“Experience”
No “Emotions” “Elation, sorrow, anger, etc”
No “Consciousness” “Conscious”
Drama recorded by Camera
No “Judging” Drama
“Able toobserved
judge” by Judges

Swamiji, I think our body is
just a complex machine that
gets worn out and crashes.
Why should we bother about
some ‘soul’ powering the
body?
Does your Car (or Computer)
grow? Do you have a male
and female car that can unite
and produce a baby car? A
living body undergoes six
changes, whereas matter just
depreciates. It is the soul that
makes living body alive.
Three Major Differences between
a Living Body and a Robot
1. A living body undergoes 6 CHANGES, while matter
only dwindles

2. A male and female living body can MULTIPLY SIMILAR

SPECIE, machines can’t reproduce by union

3. Living body has CONSCIOUSNESS – thinking, feeling,

willing, while matter has no consciousness.
 Every living body undergoes six changes

of
c e o n n g
a n t i ts l i t h
t h n u c c d a
t h w t e d od u i n D e
i r r o i n r o w 6 .
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1. 2
3 . M 4 y-
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5
 DISCOVER Inner Self
Am I Matter? or Am I Spirit?
Scientific Proofs for existence of
Spirit Soul

Difference between Living Person & Robot

Mechanism of Mind

Practical Benefits of knowledge of soul in

everyday life
The Soul is Covered by Gross and Subtle Coverings
Constituents

• Eternity (sat)
Soul SUBTLE
• Knowledge (cit)
• Bliss (Ananda)

• Mind
Subtle • Intelligence
Body • False Ego

• Earth
Water
Gross •
• Fire
GROSS

• Air
Body • Ether
 Mechanism of the Mind
Intelligence Mind Five Senses

EARS

EYES

TONGUE
NOSE

The Decision Storehouse Of SKIN

Maker Thoughts,
Unfulfilled Desires,
Previous Experiences
 CHARIOT OF THE BODY
INTELLIGENCE

I MIND
(soul)

FIVE SENSES
Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad-Gita 6.6
bandhur
For him whoätmätmanas
has conqueredtasya
the
mind, the mind is the best of
yenätmaivätmanä jitaù
friends; but for one who has failed
toanätmanas
do so, his mindtuwillçatrutve
remain the
vartetätmaiva çatru-vat
greatest enemy.
 NATURE OF THE MIND
IN A CHARIOT
CONTROLLED UNCONTROLLED

IT WILL BE YOUR IT WILL BE YOUR

BEST FRIEND GREATEST ENEMY
 Can the Mind be Controlled?
MIND IS COMPARED
IS THE KNIFE GOODTO
ORA BAD?
KNIFE
In a Surgeon’s Hand :
It Can Save Life !

In a Miscreant’s Hand: He
Can Kill With It !!
GIGO Principle
Where do we get our scripts?
Books we read Movies we watch

Music we hear Friends we keep

 Mental Dialogues
Smoking habit
MIND feels INTELLIGENCE
I’m an Engineer;
thinks
I should know But that’s a bad
how to hold a habit, not good for
cigar at least. you.

Smoking Your parents

makes me won’t like to see
feel you doing this.
You may become
cool… addicted to it.
Don’t get into
wrong track.
 DISCOVER Inner Self
Am I Matter? or Am I Spirit?
Scientific Proofs for existence of
Spirit Soul

Difference between Living Person & Robot

Mechanism of Mind

Practical Benefits of knowledge of soul in

everyday life
 Universal Brotherhood
What DIVIDES us? UNITES us?
What
HINDUEUROPEANS
vs MUSLIM
WHITE vsCHINESE
BLACK
Bodily SOUL
RICH vs POOR
Consciousness Consciousness
EDUCATED
WHITE
People
vs ILLITERATE
from all walks of life coming
together for a higher cause
knowing that we are not these
BEAUTIFUL vs UGLY
superficial bodies, but spirit souls,
BLACK
like the driver is different from the
car!
Rising above inferiority complex
I am black, short, ugly. Will anybody
look at me too? I hardly get a good
rank. I’ve no talent in sports. I come
from a poor family. I don’t know
whether I’ll earn my degree and pass
out of the college! Life doesn’t seem
worth living, Because I’m not like
any of the great heroes!
Bodily
Consciousness
I am not this body but a pure soul,
with abundant potential. My
defects are superficial appearing
in the body but not a part of
happy and healthy soul. My heart
is full of Love, Joy, Serenity,
Compassion for others.
SOUL
Consciousness
Positive outlook and Attitude to life
Everybody is selfish. Just see,
how he is not co-operating with
me. I feel lonely and cornered. I
think I also should learn to
become selfish, harsh and
Arrogant to survive and grow in
life. Then I will show others, who
I am!
No wisdom that
everyone is
originally a part
and parcel of
Supreme, but now
they’re covered up
Instead of blaming my friend for
not being co-operative, let me
learn to help him and be more
kind and courteous with him.
Then, hopefully he’ll change.
Unless I set a good example,
what’s the point demanding the
samefrom others?
Tolerance,
Patience,
Considering
everyone to be
potentially
good
 Right use of Resources
Look at the Cows! They’re Suffering without
food. Let me Arrange some grass for her.
Every living being is like my brother and
sister; every creature deserves to live.
If I can preach to a few rich men of my
country. I will teach them the culture of
sharing all resources of the Supreme
intelligence, amongst all His creatures;
Then there’ll be no poverty in our Country.

I’ve put
100,000,000 US$
In the Swiss bank Account so that
even my Son cannot touch my
money! Now whether I am behind
bars or moving around in cars,
I’ve no worry! Its all MY money !!!
Ha Ha Ha!!!
 Summary
Our body is worth Am Body
I Matter
vs soul
or Material Spirit? Unseen driver of the
Am vsI Spiritual
Rs. 110. viewpoint bodily car

Scientific proofs
Common Sense: He/She for
Consciousness: existence
Camera ofof Spirit
Near Death & Out Soul
Reincarnation Studies
has passed away vs Living person Body Experiences

Difference
Camera vs Judges
Between Living
3 Major Differences Person
Living body & Robot
Birth, growth, maintenance, by
& Robot products, dwindling, death

Mechanism
Gross body, Subtle body & Soul
Mind Intelligence &of
FalseMind
ego: Controlled vs Uncontrolled mind
Chariot analogy : GIGO principle

Practical benefits of knowledge of soul

Rising above inferiority Positive outlook and
Universal brotherhood Right use of resources
complex attitude in life
Discover Your Self
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