00:00 A lot of old religious scriptures, they talk about the animal, the animal.
00:17 The animal could be talked of as a horse, as a goat, as a lion, as a snake and the animal
00:28 is to be defeated, won over, conquered or sometimes even slaughtered.
00:37 What is this animal?
00:40 This, you could call it the metaphor of the animal or the archetype of the animal.
00:45 What is the animal?
00:48 This animal is not the poor goat walking on the street.
00:53 We are dealing in symbolism here.
00:57 This animal is our own physical nature.
01:04 That is ignorance, that which we have inherited from our evolutionary past, that which is
01:14 a carry forward from the times we spent in the jungle, that is the animal and that animal
01:24 we all carry within us, that animal is present in our bodily cells, in every tissue of our
01:32 body that animal is present.
01:33 What is that animal?
01:35 The animal that is to be slayed or conquered or slaughtered, what is that animal?
01:41 That animal is the entity that knows no consciousness and is driven purely by biology.
01:50 What does biology want you to do?
01:52 Biology wants you to eat, sleep, make merry, procreate, have kids, have territorial occupation,
02:02 chase one male or one female and all these things.
02:07 That's the animal and that's what you find happening all the time in the jungle and that
02:13 is what separates man from the jungle.
02:17 That man's life has a purpose beyond eating, sleeping and procreating.
02:24 And a man who, when I say man, I mean mankind, man and woman both.
02:30 So and a man who lives in much the same ways as the creatures of the jungle do, is wasting
02:38 his life because he has not risen above the jungle.
02:43 He has not really allowed his consciousness to be elevated and that's the entire purpose
02:51 of religion and spirituality, to raise your consciousness to the highest level possible.
02:57 The animal aspect of you drags your consciousness down to just food and sex.
03:05 The human aspect or the human responsibility is to lift yourself up and away from the demands,
03:14 the physical demands of the bodily animal.
03:17 Therefore the scriptures take the symbol of the animal and then they say that this animal
03:23 is to be one.
03:26 But unfortunately people in their ignorance think of the animal as the poor goat or the
03:33 cow or the buffalo or the chicken and they keep slaughtering the physical animal which
03:38 is all so foolish, absolutely absurd.
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