Hi everyone,
Welcome,
Let's first settle in,
Take one slow breath in,
And gently exhale.
Today we begin with a question that even modern science is asking.
Physicists speak about the multiverse,
Many parallel worlds,
Multiple timelines,
Different versions of reality existing at the same time.
For science,
This is a new and exciting idea.
But in the ancient yogic tradition,
This insight is very old.
For thousands of years,
Sages said something simple.
Consciousness is vast.
Life moves through many forms.
Birth and death are like doorways.
World appear and dissolve inside awareness.
The journey of the soul is long and reality is far bigger than what thy see.
One beautiful story that explores this comes from the Yoga Vasishta.
It is a story of Queen Leela.
Long ago,
There was a queen named Leela.
She lived in a grand palace with her husband,
The king.
They loved each other deeply,
Not just as rulers but as companions.
They ate together,
Walked in the gardens together,
Spoke late into the night.
Her world was him and slowly a fear began to grow inside her.
One day he will die.
A thought disturbed her.
How can something so precious disappear?
So she prayed,
She meditated,
She performed intense spiritual practices.
Finally,
The Goddess of Wisdom,
Goddess Saraswati appeared before her.
Leela folded her hands and said,
I don't ask for wealth or power.
I only want one blessing.
When my husband leaves this body,
Let me still be able to see him.
Let me understand where he goes.
The Goddess smiled and said,
So be it.
Years passed and one day the king's body grew weak.
His breath slowed and quietly he died.
The palace filled with grief but Leela remembered the blessing.
She closed her eyes and prayed,
Show me where he is.
Suddenly something strange happened.
Her surroundings softened,
The palace walls seemed lighter,
Almost transparent and there in the same room she saw another space overlapping this one.
Another world and in that world her husband was alive again.
But not as her king,
He was born somewhere else living another life with different parents,
Different circumstances.
She was astounded.
How is this possible?
The Goddess spoke gently,
The universe you know is only one layer.
There are countless worlds,
Countless lifetimes.
Consciousness moves through them like a traveler changing clothes.
Then something even more astonishing happened.
Leela saw another reality within that one and another inside that.
Worlds within worlds,
Lives within lives.
Some shorter,
Some longer,
Some joyful,
Some difficult.
Time behaved strangely.
What felt like years in one world was only moments in another.
It was like dreams nested inside dreams.
He realized what we call one life is only one scene in an endless play of consciousness.
Her husband had never truly disappeared.
He had simply moved like a wave returning to the ocean and rising again somewhere else.
Her grief began to soften because nothing was actually lost.
Forms changed,
The essence continued.
Later the great sage Vashishta explained,
This world is experienced through the mind.
Mind creates space.
Mind creates time.
Mind creates birth and death.
When awareness identifies with one body,
It feels small and effort.
When awareness recognizes its vastness,
Life feels continuous like changing houses,
Like moving from one room to another.
Yoga is this recognition,
Remembering I am more than this one story.
When this understanding deepens,
Something beautiful happens.
Fear reduces.
Clinging softens.
Love becomes lighter and freer and even grief changes its flavor because when someone we love leaves,
We understand they haven't vanished.
They have simply continued their journey just as we will.
So today if you remember someone you miss,
Someone who has moved on,
Close your eyes gently and instead of gone,
Feel traveling.
Instead of lost,
Feel transformed.
Life flows.
Consciousness continues.
Nothing real ever disappears.
Let's take one slow breath.
You are part of something vast,
Timeless,
Beautiful and this moment is just one small wave in an endless ocean.
Thank you for listening.
God bless you and have a great day.
